Friday, February 25, 2022

DEATH: THE DAY OF RECKONING

 This has been shared before but has been revised for my latest book, To Die is Gain. Everybody surely understands that they will suffer mortal death, but only a few understand that spiritual death can be avoided. A day of reckoning shall come! Now is the time to understand both death and salvation from it.

DEATH

 

Continuing with the idea of life and death from the key verse, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21), alive is animated, but just not biologically but spiritually. After Adam and Eve sinned, they seemed to remain alive, but inside much was happening — their DNA was slowly changing who they were. The psalmist wrote of the old creature; the one more like the Serpent than God:

 

5 O Lord, how great are thy works! And thy thoughts are very deep. 6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever.” (Psalm 92:5-7)

 

The psalmist questions the knowledge of the brutish man. They are the “tares” that snuff out God’s “Garden of Living Souls.”

Just who is the brute? A person whose mind is bovine, like the cattle that God created without ever breathing life ( as soul) unto them. Cattle were animated by God but endowed with neither knowledge nor spirit. They are instinctive, and their instincts can be changed only by conditioning.

Temptation conditions sinners from infancy. Even young babies respond instinctively like young lambs and even puppies. They seek the mother’s milk for nourishment and even mother cows instinctively offer their teats to satisfy the needs of the heifer.

Heifers are stupid creatures; they will suck the nipple of a bottle not even detecting that it is not the mother’s nipple from which nourishment comes.

In like manner, brutish people suck whatever the world dishes out and never realizes that it is God who provides! That is brutish, and the psalmist calls them “fools.”

The Tree of Knowledge had the knowledge of both good and evil. Good was the “warm” and evil the “twisting from the warming,” which ironically is the literal meaning translated as “day” and “night” in Genesis. In this case, it would mean the Tree of Light and Darkness, or Deception.

Brutes are easily deceived. They instinctively think that the bottle is the mother’s teats, and it doesn’t matter so long as the heifer is nourished. The same goes for babies, even babes in Christ. (1 Cor 3:1). They perceive that they are new creatures, but all the while, until they understand the Word, they are so often fooled. They are much like baby calves.

Like a baby calf, God sanctifies them and separates them from the flock that may just steal their nourishment if left in union with the world. There the babes in Christ mature, and become grown “cattle,” so to speak.

Domesticated cattle will go to the person who nourishes them. On my friend’s farm, the cattle will go to him, and not me, because they know that my friend is their master. The problem is that the heifers must learn who their master is and that is by conditioning. They follow the mother and wherever she goes, the heifer goes until the heifer goes on her own.

With sin, Adam and Eve became bovine in their understanding. The Tree from which they ate had truth in it, but with it came misunderstanding. Something made them a little different than what they had been. The serpentine nature of Lucifer was imputed to them, perhaps from the “fiery darts” from his “bowels’ as scripture suggests. They became less humane and their flesh, or modality, changed.

Eve had been made from the literal “curved side” of Adam, and in sin, Eve was surely remade from the “side” of Lucifer, and he perhaps gave her carnal knowledge of the “Serpent” in him. Each provided their DNA to Eve in some manner — Adam by the “silver cord” from God that was taut, and Lucifer somehow loosed the silver cord (Ecc 12:6), literally the “pale twisted thread,” which very well describes DNA. Then Eve died. (Would the serpent inside Lucifer be his serpent-like sperm, the singled-celled organism with a tale and head in which organ the DNA of Lucifer was transported to Eve?)

If that is true, then Eve became brutish and died from an injection, however it was done, from Lucifer who appeared to her as not only “good” but brilliant! Jesus told His disciples, “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven” (Luke 10:18), and Paul wrote, “For even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2 Cor 11:15).

Satan was in disguise at the forbidden tree. Outside, he was the angel of light; and that was his Persona. Inside was a Shadow called “Satan” who was the Adversarial Angel of God. His role was to make righteous creatures turn against God. That remains is M.O. to this time and that modus changes the modality of the theretofore innocent creature.

So, the “death” of the person is turning brutish and becoming merely instinctive and not understanding like the humans they were. The greatest instincts are to suck and to reproduce. For those things, sinners depend on the world and nature.

What do brutes do? They couple instinctively. They have no knowledge of life or death or that God created them to multiply as well as Adam (Gen 1:22). After intercourse with Lucifer, whether carnal or spiritual, the nature of Eve changed. She died as a human being and became brutish. Something inside her changed horrifically.

She changed genetically because Adam would not be the father of all living, but Eve “the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20). The DNA of Eve from Adam was the paternal haplogroup since she was the seed, or genes, of Adam.

After encountering Lucifer, something got into her cytoplasm — the fluid surrounding the nucleus of her cells that are her own. It is her own DNA and not inherited DNA! It is something that women have that is not handed down from man. Medline Plus describes mitochondrial DNA as:

 

Thirteen of these (37) genes provide instructions for making enzymes involved in oxidative phosphorylation. Oxidative phosphorylation is a process that uses oxygen and simple sugars to create adenosine triphosphate. [i]

 

First note the word, “adenosine.” Is it coincidental that God breathed life via the nostrils of Adam through the adenoids? Nothing in the Word is coincidence!

Phosphorylation is a biochemical process that adds phosphate to an organism. Organelles are the organisms to which phosphate has been added. Eve would have had phosphorus added to her chromosomes and her DNA was altered. Phosphorus means that the element is “light bringing.” Lucifer, meaning “light bringing” for he would bring his own independent DNA and implant it in Eve, if this is true!

Men do not have their own mitochondrial DNA. It is handed down by the mothers. Is that why Eve is the mother of all living and Adam not the father? Is mitochondrial DNA an addition to the woman as it is separate from the primary DNA? Did God write about DNA using different words? Was mitochondrial DNA the “seed” that Lucifer planted in Eve?  It appears so!

The Bible is a genesis (gene-ology) for a reason! And sin is inherited for a reason. Sin is in the DNA of mankind, and it was delivered there by Lucifer to change the very identity of God’s innocent creatures.

It appears that this is all true because before Eve was of Adam and afterward of Lucifer with new mitochondrial-DNA of her own that did not belong to Adam! Lucifer added “phosphorus” to Eve to regulate her vital functions, and not by coincidence, that is what the element phosphorus does in the human organism!

Lucifer, thereafter, regulated Eve, rather than God regulating, and since she was mother of all living, then the mitochondrial-DNA with its phosphorus hidden in the phosphates, all living creatures are regulated to this day by the serpentine nature in Lucifer; and everyone, beginning with Cain are of the Wicked One.

Adam “knew” Eve and Cain resulted, not from God nor Adam but from Eve and her “lord.” Lucifer had just made Eve brutish and put his DNA in Eve.

He was her new “lord” because her good DNA from God via Adam was injected with evil. Her new “lord” had endowed her with “light bringing” (mitochondrial DNA) to control her nature. She had become obedient unto him as the “Luciferin” in her was his regulation.

Eve “died” because her DNA was altered. Her DNA was cut and had the DNA of Lucifer spliced into the DNA from God that came from Adam. That was much like the biogenetics of Bill Gates, whose $120,000,000 dollars financed gate-RNA (CRISPR-cas9) that cuts and splices in synthetic DNA that changes the nature of the person injected with gate-RNA.

Already brutish, gate-RNA would widen those exposed to it. The likely intention of the wicked ones is for Christians, innocent of sin like Eve had been, to become like sinful Eve.

Sin was imputed unto mankind by Lucifer into Eve (Rom 5:13), and likewise, righteousness is imputed by God as it was for Abraham (Jas 2:23). The Blood of Jesus has been imputed into the Christian, and gate-RNA is to decode the Blood of Jesus, however minute, and encode it with the DNA, not of the chemical Luciferin, but the thoughts and nature of Lucifer!

“Imputed” in scripture is from the Greek, logizomai. Note the similarity to mental work accomplished from the Greek word, katergazmai. Imputed is without work but an accomplishment. It is recognizing the truth and born again is a day of reckoning. That is why Paul used persuasion for conversion. God plants into the minds of sinners that Jesus is God, and that Jesus is Salvation.

To undo rebirth requires one thing, and that is illogic. That anyone is “saved” when they are perturbed by the spirit of Satan is illogical; they are most vulnerable to his wiles than ever before. To think that one is already saved when one is not, is just the reckoning that is the modality of Satan!

Thus, just as scripture says, “For wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat” (Mat 7:13).

Just how literal must it be that to have synthetic instructions (RNA) injected into the flesh is a widening of the gate to destruction, and even given the hint of Bill Gates, whose “love of money is the root of all evil?” (1 Tim 6:10). Just how clear does God need to be?

What is in it for Bill Gates? (1) To make a name for himself, and (2) for the love of money, not for money’s sake but to master the world with his concoctions.

If any Christian is ever persuaded to impute Gates’ logic unto their minds, that is illogical, and death shall ensue. That Christians are raptured before the Great Tribulation may be a ruse. After all, Paul faced great tribulation and was rewarded for it at his death. For him, it was an honor to shed his blood for the One who shed His Blood for him!

Therefore, death is not cessation of animation, but a genetic change in the flesh of mankind that reaches into the soul. The “Yahweh” in the DNA is overshadowed by the Lucifer that comes after, and “born again” is a restoration of sorts; the Shadow of Lucifer is overcome by Jesus who overcomes what the world has imbued. The DNA of the “beasts” are regenerated by removing the “Luciferin” in the brutish old creatures and they are made new creatures, not like Lucifer, but like Adam was generated.

Eve was first changed in thoughts, then deeds, then the flesh, and soon the spirit.

Spiritual death was when Lucifer became her “lord” (Gen 4:1) of which scripture, breathed by God, informs: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Mat 6:24).

Eve did not abandon God, she did begin to serve two “lords” and credited, it seems, her new “lord” — the angel bearing “Light” that was truly darkness. Eve was syncretic as she served two masters. The Name “Eve” has several meanings, one being symbiosis: “Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association” (Oxford Language Dictionary).

Lucifer and Eve interacted, and the result was Cain. Symbiosis is “typically to the advantage of both” (ibid). The advantage to Eve was that she pleasured, and the advantage to Lucifer is that he cunningly got into her flesh. He had become part of her. They had become one flesh and Eve was a spiritual adulteress. A transformation occurred as Luciferin was imbued into Eve. The flesh is the weakness of even Christians because it is of the DNA of the Wicked One who introduced weakness in that strong woman.

When the Bible says, “filled with the Spirit,” a literal translation is “imbued” (Strong’s Dictionary). Eve was imbued with the spirit of Satan, and it was revealed in the mitochondrial-DNA of Eve.

Eve confessed to all her descendants how evil became genetic: “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord” (Gen 4:1).

Perhaps Adam did intercourse with Eve, but regardless, Eve had conceived and perceived Cain, not Adam and not God. She had perhaps provided mitochondrial-DNA to Cain that came only from her. None of her own DNA with which she had been imbued belonged to Adam! She became the “goddess” and Lucifer the “god.”

The Serpent had deceived her again when he said, “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:5).

Lucifer had perceived himself as God (Isa 14:14). However, he was truly no more than a worm (Isa 14:11). As I wrote in the book, The Omega Variant, the bristle worm has purple blood, and the color purple is associated with royalty. His “royalty” was not in truth but the “worm” inside him. The Serpent had become demoted to a worm when Jesus “crucified” the Serpent (John 3:14).

Death was more the change in DNA with the addition of mitochondrial-DNA. The sacred (possibly YY-DNA) of God had been overwritten by Lucifer if this insight is correct. Only Jesus can overcome what Lucifer had wrought.

Eve had not died; only her nature had been transformed in thoughts, actions, in spirit, and genetically. Her “pale twisted thread” of DNA had been loosened by Satan. He had not cut and snipped but overlaid his contribution over God’s. He had become the new master, and his DNA was the bond that must be loosed.

What did Jesus do? Peter revealed the secret to Simon the sorcerer in whom there was much guile:

 

 22 “Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. 23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. (Acts 8:22-23)

 

If the reader remembers, the DNA of people has four bonds that spell out God’s Name (Yahweh or JHWH). Eve’s own mitochondrial-DNA, surely DNA created from the iniquity of Satan, overshadowed the DNA of God, and just as with David, who was “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5), all her kind are shapen in iniquity because all have mitochondrial-DNA.

Paternal-DNA traces people back to their “Adam” — to the person of whom their haplogroup originated. The mitochondrial-DNA traces people back to their mother and their mother’s mother back to their “Eve.”

Paul wrote to Titus, who like most Jews, would have researched his genealogy: “Avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain” (Tit 3:9).

Genealogy is vanity because everyone living is of Eve and inherited sin. All have sinned and to find anyone who has not was a worthless search because all have the DNA of Lucifer in them… and only the Blood of Jesus can overcome that genetic defect!

Death, therefore, entails many things. Death is encoded in the DNA of people. Everyone was preordained to live, and everyone is preordained to die. That entails only the flesh. The Spirit can be revived because Jesus has overcome what the world has imbued within the flesh of Adam’s kind. “Be of good cheer; I (Jesus) have overcome the world” (John 16:33).

Jesus overcame the fiery darts that Satan injected with His own perfect blood from, not only the Son of Man (Adam), but the Son of God (Jesus). He is the Son of Adam through his flesh and Mary’s mitochondrial-DNA, but the Son of God through the perfect, perhaps YY-DNA, of God.

If the findings of archeologist Ron Wyatt are true, then the blood found in Jeremiah’s Grotto (aka Gordon’s Calvary) belongs to Jesus, then it identifies Jesus as the “Son of Man” and the “Son of God” because only complete mitochondrial-DNA was in that dried Blood, but only the Y-chromosome from His paternal-DNA. If true, then that blood was from both the Son of Man and the Son of God.  Jesus was both Man and God and that dried blood revealed that through genetic testing. For once believe the science!

(picture credit; NPR; "ISIS extremist who beheaded prisoners is identified")

ISIS Extremist Who Beheaded Prisoners Is Identified As Man From London :  The Two-Way : NPR



[i] https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/chromosome/mitochondrial-dna/

Friday, February 18, 2022

GROWING AND HARVESTING GOD'S CROP Part 20 (final)

  Earlier in the book (because now it is), I mentioned that if water baptism is saving (soterial), then water is the “god” and rather than Jesus, it is the worship of Poseidon. Albeit water baptism is not the Covenant of Grace, it is the “signature” of that Covenant. Regarding, “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved” is certainly true. The question is which baptism?

  Scripture relates two: the baptism of John which is for repentance and the baptism of the Holy Ghost that is for “Comfort,” meaning safety.

  “Wearing” the Holy Ghost as a Garment is as effective as Adam’s Comforter. As any southerner knows, a “comforter” is a heavy quilt for warmth during the cold season. Well, the darkness of the world is the “cold season,” and the Comforter is to be worn all the time.

  In Adam’s day, the coat of skin was the whole armor of God to serve the purpose of protecting Adam from the fiery darts of the Wicked One. Most assuredly that Coat could be taken off when having carnal knowledge and logic would have it that the Holy Ghost, as the “Garment of Christians,” can never be ripped off but can be taken off. That is blasphemy of the Holy Ghost.

  Just what is blasphemy? A dictionary could be used but scripture reveals it, speaking about the claim of Jesus, the Jews said, “For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God” (John 10:33). Jesus was killed for the sin of blasphemy as He claimed to be God in the Flesh. The Jews thought that Jesus was only a man who made Himself out to be God.

  With that thought, blasphemy is diminishing God and exalting oneself. As such, that whole armor of God, be it the Garment of Adam or the Holy Ghost, is considered by many to be a burden. Blasphemy is rejecting the invisible Garment that Jesus wore, because man makes himself to be God!

  Wearing the protective apparel is essential because rejecting it exposes the person to the fiery darts of Satan. Blasphemy means that the Holy Ghost can be rejected whenever anyone defects from God. When God is rejected, they are on their own and whomever becomes the “god,” just as the “Serpent” warned Eve.

  Blasphemy is spiritual death, and it occurs before mortal death. The individual is as dead because the protection of God is rejected. Thus, the baptism of the Holy Ghost is in safety (sozos), whereas water quickly runs off.

  Throughout scripture, water imperials mankind; with the people in Noah’s day, with the turbulence of the Red Sea, and with the swells of the Jordan River. With baby Moses, it was not the water that preserved his life but the little Ark. On the Holy Mountain, it was not water that changed Moses, but the Spirit from God.

  As is written:

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Eph 4:4-6)

  Choose wisely; which baptism has the efficacy; the one by water or the One by the Living Water from the Belly of Jesus? (John 7:38).

  There is One God as well who baptizes one way. That God is not Poseidon but Jesus! It is not a Poseidon Adventure in the water, but a Covenant of Grace wherein God puts His own “Garment” on the believer.

  God is not a Dictator but a loving God. He never forced Adam and Eve to wear His Garments but as they wore their aprons of fig leaves, He showed them His Garments. Adam and Eve put off their useless aprons and allowed God to clothe them.

  It is implied in scripture, that Eve took off her Garment for whatever “intercourse” it was that she had with Lucifer (Gen 4:1) because she provided for Adam a man, not Adam and not God, but she did it and not all by herself! The implication is that the armor of God can be taken off and can even remain off.

  Paul warned the Christian, not as an afterthought, but as imperative:

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His Might. 11 Put on the Whole Armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil. (Eph 6:10-11)

  Why wear the Holy Ghost, God’s “Armor” as His Mighty Power? Paul was speaking to brothers in Christ, to other Christians. Paul wore the Whole Armor of God, or he would not have recommended it to others. Why should a Christian wear armor? Paul answered that as well… to enable the brothers in Christ to withstand the wiles off the Devil.

  The Devil was dressed appropriately for warfare. In my book, The Omega Variant, I wrote of an epiphany: The “Serpent” was wearing a “coat” as well. His “coat” was the spirit of Lucifer. The “Serpent” was not a viper but the innermost countenance of Lucifer, and the “Bringer of Light” was his Persona. The Shadow and Personal together is the Devil, Satan.

  The wiles of the Devil is that he presents himself as a good image but all the while, he is thoroughly evil inwardly.

  Adam and Eve, in the Book of Adam and Eve and Their Conflicts With Satan, were continually deceived by Satan, who changed his outward appearance to suit the occasion. Indeed, Satan morphs into whatever he needs to be, sometimes by changing his appearance and at other times robbing the flesh of fools, as he did with Judas and will do with the Antichrist.

  The wiles of the Devil can fool even the elect (Mark 13:22). Election takes place not in a divine lottery but by God who foreknows the forthcoming change of heart of His creatures. (Rom 8:29).

  Comparing the marriage of people to Himself, “Then saith He to his servants, “The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy’” (Mat 22:8). It seems that even the unworthy, those who would not come, were called (bidden). Jesus clarified that when He added, “For many are called, but few are chosen” (Mat 22:14).

  Therefore, many are “elected” but few are selected because they are unworthy. They are not in Christ and are not wearing the “wedding cloths” — His “Garment of Spirit.”

  Many who God elects never wear His Apparel, and some that do, are free to take it off.

  That raises the question? Who does God “elect”? He elects all those that He created. There is a storehouse of immortal souls in another realm and God chooses which ones to create as living beings in this realm. They are the “whosoever” in John 3:16. In fact, that one verse is a refutation of Calvinistic election. Consider it in context:

15 That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 15-17)

  “Whosoever” is the population, and the subjects are those who believe. Belief is pisteuo in the Greek and means those who are persuaded. Persuaded of what? That Jesus is God in the Flesh and that God sacrificed His only Son to defeat Satan as Jesus revealed in John 3:14.

  Belief is not baptism. It is persuasion. Those who are persuaded have been “born again” (John 3:7). After some were persuaded to continue in the grace of God (Acts 13:43), those who were worthy (persuaded) became disciples of Jesus, “And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost” (Acts 13:52).

  Nothing is said therein about water baptism. They were, however, baptized with the Holy Ghost. And during the ministry of Paul, he only baptized a few (Acts 19). God baptized all the others in “Living Water.” They were worshiping God, not Poseidon. The “Way” is walking with Jesus in Christ, not any other way!

  Paul explained the gain of the key verse: “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil 3:14). The “prize” is Jesus the Christ, and theretofore, Paul had seen only the Ghost of Jesus. Where would he see Jesus? In Paradise in heaven.

  Does “whosoever” obtain the same prize. God is not as liberal as liberals but is graceful: “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain” (1 Cor 9:24).

  Paul likened Christianity to a race. A race is distance over time. Scripture likens faith to the race, and the “prize” is the “gain” of which Paul wrote in the key verse. To “run the race” is persuaded to follow Jesus which Jesus calls “born again.” The entry to the “race” is persuaded to follow Jesus. Everyone who is born again enters the race for the prize ahead.

  The prize is not awarded before the race but for those who endure to the end. Not mentioned by Paul are the many hurdles that must be overcome; hurdles that are cunningly erected by the Devil. Why else would so many never finish? Weakness in the flesh is one of the obstacles to gain the prize (Mat 26:41). The “hurdles” are temptations, and usually they are those listed in Galatians chapter five.

  To obtain the prize — to realize the gain of function — one must run. When Paul said that only one receives the prize; that would be discouraging.

  Some will receive the prize, but it is not a group thing; each one must run themselves without any dependence on others. It is not a relay race but an individual finish to the end! Anyone is to run as if they are the only runner.

  That is how Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile; he never looked back! Lot’s wife did and look where that got her. She was chosen by God for salvation, but she looked back. No others did but her! The prize was ahead but to her it was behind her. She did not see Jesus ahead in the Promise Land but “shiny objects” behind in “Hedon” (Greek; hÄ“donismos, “pleasure” in English).

  It is worth repeating: The Serpent convinced Adam and Eve that they were safe and would not die (Gen 3:4). Lucifer knew death because he had experienced it when he of his own volition he defected from God. He also had free will and was much more than an automaton.

 The doctrine of eternal security is a repetition of that falsehood; that if you are generated again, you will not die; that if you believe in Jesus at one time, that is sufficient. Scripture, however, is all about enduring and steadfast faith to the end. The end comes with death when Jesus decides where each immortal soul will abide.

  Jesus forewarned, “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned” (John 15:6). In Christ is more than a Sunday visitation. It is abiding in Him every day of the week until death severs life on Earth, when the “silver cord is loosed” (Ecc 12:6). That “cord” is the lifeline to God, and since it is literally a “pale twisted thread” it may be either the double-helix of DNA or the brain’s gray matter. Either way, mortal death ensues.

  Born again is coming to Jesus; by answering His call. In Christ is abiding in Him as Christ, or Christlike.

  Since Jesus warned that those who are reborn must abide in Him, then it stands to reason that they can defect from him. That is the meaning of “apostasy.”

  Persuasion is given two choices and selecting one or the other. That is also the definition of free will. The only “work” that a Christian need to do is exercise his or her own will. In the Greek, that is katergazamai, or to “work out” your own salvation (Phil 2:42) — to accomplish safety with no physical work involved. It is exercising the will to choose one thing or another.

  This concludes the expository exploration of the key verse, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). However, knowing the stubbornness of Christians, they may refuse to believe the truth because falsehoods are so much easier.

  Is not Christianity much easier if the Ten Commandments are thrown away? That is what sola gratia and eternal security does! It is indeed by “grace alone” but grace must be found and kept on and encompassing the Christian entirely to protect them from the wiles of the Devil.

   Paul was all wrapped up in Christ to the extent that he considered himself to be as Christ. For him, it was a lifetime event, and so it is for everyone else. You may be chosen, but you are not special, and neither was Paul. What applies to him, applies to all. You too must lose your “head” for Christ, but Paul did it for real, and for you, it is only  to give to God your thoughts.

(picture credit: Reddit; "Continuity error")

 

Continuity error: how does a spirit make coats of skins? Jehovah, who is  Jesus without a body, is instructed in the temple to make "coats of skins"  for Adam and Eve. :