Faith is a
variable. Its units extend from no faith 197 to perfect faith
existing only with God! 198 Since faith is a gift of God, His faith
is ample for all humankind. 199 In between are those of a little
faith, faith the size of a mustard seed, great faith, the faith of Abraham, up
to the faith of God. Thanks to God’s grace, those even with a little faith
shall be saved. Satan attacks those of little faith because they are easy
targets. Job demonstrated that Satan’s job is made most difficult by great
faith, and Abraham was the epitome of faith because he was willing to sacrfice
his only remaining son, Isaac, since Ishmael had been emancipated. He was set
free to wander in the wilderness similar to Adam after he sinned.
With Ishmael’s migration, the
stage was set for a never-ending war – a battle between good and what Jews
believe is evil – Islam – since Mohammadans claim Ishmael is their ancestor, 200
wherein it is claimed that Mohammad descended from Ishmael. On a personal note,
defining one religion “good” and the other “evil” is from whose perspective it
is! Christians believe that Islam is of the devil since Isa – their Jesus – is
not the Messiah, and Islam believe Christians are devils because of the
rejection of Mohammad. Thus, from a Christian perspective Islam is evil. Its
just the difference between beliefs, and the conceal doctrinal differences
would be untruthful. Although Christianity considers Islam evil, Christians
also believe that salvation includes Muslims in that “none should perish”.
(This quote is used so often that its source should be evident by now.) Why so?
Because “God so loved the world, that whosoever”. That includes Muslims.
Muslims too can be saved. It’s
not on their terms but God’s. In order for that to be, all must accept the one
and only way – the sacrificial death and resurrection of God. Allah didn’t die;
Jehovah did, at least His Name. The gate to Paradise is still guarded by
faithful cherubim and the true and only Password must be used; it is
“Jesus”! 201 That is Jesus as
the Messiah, not as a mere prophet. All those who shall be saved must believe
on the propitiation of God’s own blood. For the entire world 202
Because “God so loves” the Muslims, Christians must as well! To not love the
Muslims plays into Satan’s deception. Haters cannot enter through the gateway
to Paradise – Christians nor Muslims. Because Christians also desire that “none
should perish” that dictates love for the Muslim, and all other pagan
religions.
Pagans are non-Christians in the
Christian lexicon. That term is not hateful because it’s just the truth from
the Christian perspective. Those who espouse what they believe is truth are merely
exercising their belief, not hatred. Mankind is diverse, and diversity is in
vogue. Recognizing theological differences is not hatred but dogmatic.
Christians and Muslims, as well as Buddhists and other religions are indeed
different ideas about God. Diversity in religion is not of Jehovah – the
Judeo-Christian God. Religious diversity, and the corresponding notions of who
God Is, is a divisive tactic in the
arsenal of Satan! This is a tactic to undermine God. God is not Allah because
Allah never took on flesh and died!
Allah, from the perspective of
the Christian, is not even alive because he never lived. On the other hand,
Jehovah God is alive although He died. Because of the differences in belief
concerning God, Allah is allied with principalities to kill off Jehovah God.
The war goes on, and name-calling fuels the fire! In this writing, there is no
hatred involved. From my own perspective, based on the Word of God, this is
truthful. But what is truth?
That is the question asked by
philosophers of all ages. It is the antidote for death! 203 What is
“truth”? God’s Word. 204 Who is the Word? God’s glorified flesh – what Jesus said before, during, and after God
died. 205 If truth sets one free, then deception enslaves. Slaves do
their master’s bidding. What is it that the master desires? Irreverance of God,
hatred, and more lies. More on truth later.
Doubt is the lack of faith in
God. Unless a person has perfect faith, that person has no doubt. Doubt is the
inverse of faith. Little faith means great doubt, and great faith means little
doubt. Since mankind is not God, everyone has a degree of doubt. Satan uses any
of the doubt that he can arouse to minimize God. When enough people minimize
God, then for all practical purposes, God is dead to the world. That has
happened before. When the earth became corrupt, there was no longer faith in
the world excepting eight persons – Noah, his wife, and his three sons and
their wives. 206 Even righteous Seth’s line looked down from the
Holy Mountain – Mt. Herman – and saw all the pleasure and succumbed. 207
Imagine a really wild rock concert with all the hard-rock bands, exotic
dancing, nudity, open fornication, and beast-like behavior. That’s what the
writer of that time saw. Truly, as Solomon said, “there is nothing new under
the sun”.
Before the antediluvian crowd
killed God, he killed them, and washed away their sins with a world-wide
baptism of sorts. God refuses to die. He can’t die, being an impossibility but
yet, people still try to kill God! Not being able to be real murderers they
kill God vicariously by removing all thoughts of Him from mortal minds. Doubt
is how Satan erases thoughts of God. How can anyone seriously consider the
Existence if they doubt His Existence. Rather than God being “I AM”, those with
total doubt express “HE IS NOT”. Those with lesser doubt may think, possibly He IS NOT while those with
great faith may still at times question, IS HE REALLY? Satan uses doubt to kill
the thought of God.
It is accredited to a sincere
but naïve tele-evangelist that she said, “I know that I know that I know I am
saved”. 208 Although she is certainly assured of her salvation, that confidence requires the faith of God
which mankind can never exhibit, not even Abraham! Furthermore, although she
certainly is born-again, only death can “save” her. 209 This is the
Arminian viewpoint to be honest, and that doctrine seems to be the truth for
which honest people seek.
Satan relies on mankind doubting
to accomplish his motives. To be honest, Joyce Meyers is confident in her faith
although she doesn’t really know that
she is saved. Her certainty is highly confident. Most genuine Christians have
some degree of confidence that they shall be saved. There is an “if” there.
That “if” is if what God is alleged to have
said is truthful. (John 3:16 again). The “if” is also dependent on whether
there is a God! Therefore, to have a high degree of confidence that one shall
be saved, requires a high confidence that there is a God, and that He has the Power
to save!
One statement accredited to God answers
those two questions, and is the first Words accredited to God:
In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. 210
If that claim is analyzed it
means two things: (1) there is a God, and (2) He had the Power to create all
that exists. That “existence” is shown in Fig. #1 with one exception: although
mankind is show thereon, his soul is not. In order to know God, the soul must be filled. Just as God created Himself in
the flesh, His Holy Spirit knew Mary. There was no coitus other than the Holy
Spirit imbuing Mary with His Power. Again, God’s power created Himself as man. Mary
was, elementary speaking, of dust because the flesh is material. God created within
Mary the second Adam. 211 Hence, God in the Flesh was created in the
same manner as the first man. Christians
must believe that God created the heavens, the earth, mankind, and brought
forth God who called Himself Immanuel – God with us! 212 If God
could not create Adam, then the Savior would be an impossibility.
Mankind kills God by denying His
ability to create. They deny that God created everything in existence and deny
that Jesus is God! If that is not true, then Jesus cannot “save” since he is
not God. Denying God’s Power is killing God. A weapon is not thrust in His side
but communion with God dies when people deny His Power. In Scripture, God’s
Power is the Holy Ghost and denying Him is blasphemy. 213 To create existence,
God willed it, the Word spoke it, and the Holy Spirit made it happen. These
three are God’s aspects: Creator, Mediator, and Comforter who are the Holy Trinity
which Christians refer to as the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 214
Because of God’s supra-natural
nature, when anyone denies his “personality”, it kills God. For instance, believing in God is not efficacious. One must believe that God died, and it was for
the sins of mankind! 215 If that is disbelieved or even doubted,
then there was no one who died for the reader or anyone else! Thus, God is
killed-off by unbelieve.
Likewise, those who deny that
God created the heavens and the earth, doubt God’s Power or even Existence. How
can one have faith? It is manifested in the creation – the material things
which can be seen. 216 The converse of that is that if one cannot
see that God did the creating, then one does not know God. Not knowing God is
denying His Existence and killing the very idea that there is a God!
Science raises doubts about God
by denying the creation. Since existence merely happened by chance, then God was
killed off by His rival god – Chance. Thus, that “unknown god” of which Paul
spoke murders God. 217 Unknown gods are God’s demise. Faith in the
unknown or the inexplicable denies God’s Existence. Rather than believing the
hypotheses of scientists whose intelligence is limited and whose wisdom is
questionable, it is more pragmatic to believe in God who if He Exists, and He
does, He is Almighty God! Almighty God
is an always alive God who cannot be killed because He is invulnerable. He is
our Supergod and has no Kryptonite although Satan as Lex Luthar is always
seeking the non-existent chunk which will kill Him. In His wisdom, God never
made kryptonite 218 because there is no way to kill him. He was, is,
and always will be – all different tenses of “being”. And, by the way, Lex
Luthar will be killed off before the ending of the program!
197 ibid; Mark 4:40
198 ibid; Rom 3:3
199 ibid; Acts 8:20
200 Wikipedia; “Ishmael in Islam”
201 Holy Bible; Acts 4:12
202 ibid; 1 John 2:2
203 ibid; John 8:32
204 ibid; John 17:17
205 ibid; John 1-2, 14
206 ibid; Gen 6-9
207 2 Adam and Eve 20:1—38
208 Joyce Meyer televised quote; place
and time unknown
209 Holy Bible; Rom 13:9
210 ibid; Gen 1:1
211 ibid; 1 Cor 15:45-49
212 ibid; Mat 1:23
213 ibid; Mat 12:31
214 ibid; Mat 28:19
215 ibid; 1 John 2:2
216 ibid; Rom 1:20
217 ibid; Rom 1:23
218 Wikipedia; “Kryptonite”
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