The problem in America, as elsewhere in the world, is that mankind seeks not the truth but are more comfortable living with lies.
Take for instance the story or
Adam and Eve. Many Christians do not accept the idea that there were intelligent
beings in primordial history. They believe that there is not a prime order of
existence and that the first intelligent being had to evolve from some lower
form of life. The idea that species were original, to them, is mythology.
Science is the study of the physical
and natural world; it tests theories, using only physical evidence and
therefore must ignore the harder to obtain evidence that may confound their
conclusions. As such, God is an invisible God that cannot be measured, so God
has not utility for scientists. Jesus solved that mystery because God became tangible
to mankind, not just by touch but by all the senses.
When Jesus, portending to be God, was crucified, God in essence came apart for all to see:
·
At the ninth hour, Jesus asked, “My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mat 27:46) and immediately,
· “When the centurion, which stood over against Him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God’” (Mark 15:39)
The hypothesis was that Jesus was
not the gens, or nature or image, of God.
The “brilliant” Jews proposed that
Jesus is not who He said He was, but just a man. Their test for truth was
evidentiary — a true immortal God (Existence) would always exist and could not
die. The evidence that would satisfy them would be to kill this man who claimed
to be God. You must admit that they were very scientific!
Pontius Pilate revealed that he
was scientific; he asked, of Jesus, “What is truth?” Even before the execution
of Jesus, Pilate accepted the truth, “I find in him no fault at all” (John
18:38). Pilate would need not to destroy
the test Subject to know the truth.
So, what is truth? Greek was the
ordinary, or common language of the day, even after the Romans took charge.
Most certainly Pilate spoke “koine Greek” — the common language of that
day and time.
Pilate asked, “Tis esti aletheia?”
Pilate estimated Jesus, or appraised the man, and concluded that He was who He
said He was. Pilate looked at the evidence with an open mind, himself seeking
the truth, and somehow, God revealed the truth to Pilate even before He showed
Himself, so to speak.
The Jewish hypothesis was that Jesus
was not who He claimed to be — God in the flesh, meaning that He was the very Image
of God. To them, excepting the prophets who could see the invisible Image of
Jesus, most Hebrews could not see God. They were skeptics and despite their own
scripture, concluded that humble Jesus could neither Be King of kings nor LORD
of lords.
That Jesus was not who He said He
was, was the “null hypothesis.” In other words, the crucifixion was a
very scientific test. It was to reveal the truth — aletheia — the reality, the fact, or certainty. It was to
test whether God was objectively right there and could be sensed very in a very
scientific experiment.
If Jesus died; then of course, He
would not be God. However, their methodology was again quite wrong; they had a
wrong perception of death just like Adam.
Speaking of the forbidden tree,
God had told Adam, “For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die” (Gen 2:17). Obviously, the body of the first man, did not die right then,
but His soul — Adam’s invisible being — did die.
The correct methodology for the
crucifixion would not be whether the Body of Christ died, but whether His soul
would die. As it turned out, the Body of God slept but would arise shortly and His
soul escaped to another realm until it was safe for Him in the world. The “scientific”
Jews failed to test the unseen and believed only what they could see in their
cruel experiment!
Pilate saw the soul of Jesus even
before it was revealed. The writers of the gospel saw the soul of Jesus alive
and well, even as His Body seemed to die. They wrote about what they saw
— Jesus gave up His Holy Ghost and that was God coming apart to reveal all
His substances: (1) His Existence in heaven, (2) His Body on Earth, and (3) His
Spirit overcoming the world and death.
The null hypothesis could
not be rejected, yet the Jews remained unpersuaded. God did not die, inferring
that Jesus was indeed God in the flesh. He was who He said He was. Pilate saw
that, his wife saw that, the repentant thief saw that, the centurion who
pierced Jesus saw that, and the writers of the gospels saw that; they all saw God
come apart and be separated into His three substances. That fact made them all
free. They were no longer bound by the physical laws but saw that there was a
Law mightier than what the others could perceive. That Law is the Law of God,
and it is outside the bounds of the physical laws.
Jesus had said to those who
followed Him, “If ye continue in my Word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and
ye shall know the truth (aletheia), and the truth shall make you free.
(John 8:31:32). Again, they shall know the reality, the fact, or certainty that
the Word is truth. The Word was pre-incarnate Jesus — the Spirit of God before
God took on flesh.
Ironically, the non-Jew Pilate
saw the truth without the need to tear God apart to test a theory. The destructive
test killed their Messiah, or who they thought He might be, and revealed the
real Messiah who would never perish. The Messiah that they had in mind was not who
they thought He was, not royalty nor even a chief priest, but a servant full of
grace and a priest on the order of Melchizedek and not of the Levitical priesthood
as they supposed.
Science has the minds of people
in a box. They do not think outside the box of what is perceptible physically.
The truth lies beyond the “box” and is real as what is in the scientific box.
The real “free-thinkers” are those who think outside the box that Satan has
them in. Jesus frees the thoughts of men from the scientific.
However, at times, science has
revealed God in their clumsy endeavors to kill Him off. The harder they attack
God; the more He is revealed. For instance, astrophysics reveals God who is
Existence. They look toward God but fail to see Him just like the “scientific”
Jews who crucified their own God just to prove that He did not exist!
Finally, exasperated by their
unbelief, Jesus told His disciples — those who said they followed Him — “Now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told
you the truth” (John 8:40).
Jesus was killed for telling the
truth. The unadulterated truth was that Jesus was and still is God who came to
this realm in flesh to show mankind the very face of God. People still kill God
in the sense that they deny Jesus who died to prove who He was!
Because you do not believe the
truth does not make it untruthful. Truth is absolute and devoid of what you
think or even feel. You cannot reach out and touch God but because you can’t
does not make God less real. He no longer needs to prove Himself to mankind
because He has already done that by overcoming death and the world by the Resurrection
and Ascension. How many times does He need to do that for you to accept the
truth?
Pilate was not willing to kill
the man, Jesus, for merely expressing objective truth. He trusted the science
and would not need a destructive test to satisfy his inquisitive mind!
The “science” is that the objective
man, Jesus, was God in the flesh and He died to reveal that to mankind. He has
already proven His real identity without a doubt, for the grave remains empty.
That is the science!
Preachers must preach the truth.
Neither can they create a false perception of the truth. Preachers lie all the
time, not with the intention of lying, but in an ineffective way to magnify
God.
“Do you know beyond the shadow of
a doubt that you are saved?” If you answer “yes” to that, then you too are a
liar. You trust that you will be, but right now the devil pursues you, to wit: “Be
sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh
about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).
Christian… that is you who the
Devil seeks to destroy. Sobriety and
vigilance are that you consider the truth — that the Devil pursues you —
and that you are no match for him. You may be safe with the Holy Ghost
of Jesus in you, but your destiny still depends on you to trust in the Jesus; not
your perception of Jesus, but the real Ghost of Jesus who overcame the
world so that you need not!
The truth is not always obvious.
It must be revealed by God by a serious searching of the Word. That baptism saves
makes it a mysterious water, but it is the Living Water, the Holy Ghost, that
provides safety you in this world.
That you felt guilty one time,
even as a child — trusting Jesus one time for a few minutes — is salvation — is
wishful thinking. Faith is trusting Jesus all the time until death parts
you from doubt. That you know that you know that you know that you are
saved, is positive assurance and is noble, but may very well make you easy
pickings for the Devil because your guard may be let down. Why? Faith is just
that — “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen” (Heb 11:1).
God already showed His Substance
to the world, and you must take that as truth. You can no longer see Jesus, but
He remains with us. Jesus promised and came through with it, “I will pray the
Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever”
(John 14:16).
The ”Comforter” therein is the
Holy Ghost of Jesus, and neither water nor anything else, but the Invisible Substance
of God Himself, the substance that the Cross revealed.
How to know the truth? “Prove all
things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thes 5:21). To do that requires you to
expose the things that you doubt.
For me, the doubt was in the six-day
creation. God, being God, could have done that, but did He? Like it or not, Christian,
the text does not say “day” but “to be hot.”
I strongly believe the original
text; that the world — the cosmos — was created hot for a period measured
by time. That is taking the Bible literally. Whenever a preacher says, “When it
says a ‘day’ that means it was a day!” is not the truth. It was, however,
some period in time. To insist that it was a twenty-four-hour day is not
absolute truth. If so, then when were the angels created, know God, and rebel?
Those events imply times in excess of a conventional day.
The truth is not to side with science
because their versions of truth are dynamic and change with time. However,
the process was always by “hotness” for “periods” in time if scripture is taken
literally. I believe, not the science, but the Word of God. That science is
discovering how God did it just increases my faith.
No matter how many times someone says
it is a “day,” multiple repetitions do not make a truth! The truth is that it
was hot — the beginnings of a process which comes to equilibrium upon cooling
over a given period. That is not the “First Law of Thermodynamics” but the
primordial “Law of God.” He created the processes, and it is Him that is the
Light that was used to separate the darkness (unseen) from the visible (Gen
1:4). Only those are the primordial processes that God used to generate all
things.
“Something from nothing” is the characteristic
of alchemy. That all things came from no Thing is magical thinking and
is sorcery. Let us give Jesus as God who made all things, as John revealed it
(John 1:3). Let’s not steal time from God. He would not tire in six days as “Almighty
God” and would need rest only after losing His tremendous amounts of Virtue (Dynamos
in the Greek). Power is “Dynamics” and emanates from the Spirit of God. Let us
give God the credit and time for all things.
Accepting the science where it
agrees with scripture is not trusting the science but exposing
God as Jesus was the “Science” that God presented to persuade mankind of the truth.
As such, Pilate saw the science and perceived God in it. On the other hand, the
Jews saw the science and failed to believe what they were seeing right before
their own eyes.
Jesus coming apart to display all
three of His Substances was the “Science” that we should need to trust Jesus as
the Way to eternal life. Doubting Jesus is as crucifying Him once again (Heb
6:6). Doubting is “falling away” from Jesus as the Way; once having affection
for Him, then defecting from that first love.
My quest is for the truth. I am
in search of the One True God and His mysterious ways. To know the truth, I do
not let science stand in my way and block the truth. Because science has discovered
some things does not make it less of the truth. Because they err in many
things does not mean they err in all things. The scientific method of the Roman
times revealed the truth — Jesus is God in the flesh.
(picture credit; Marlena Graves)
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