Wednesday, August 30, 2023

OUR THOUGHTS - Our Hearts

It is all about what we think!

Theologians give much homage to the Holy Trinity, especially Jesus and the Holy Spirit, but neglect the Mind of God. The Body of God is material substance, or Jesus, and the Spirit of God the non-material substance of God, but what is His Mind?

The Mind of God always existed and was there before the foundation of anything, according to “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1). The “beginning” is literally rank one from the Hebrew, or the first order of things. Following rank comes order; the English version calls the order ‘days.’

In that there was no order before, but afterwards there was, order means that there was a Supreme Intelligence that resulted in order since for all effects there must be a cause.

Science dismisses the physics by saying that the Big Bang was a ‘discontinuity;’ that it disobeyed the orders. Whose orders? are not said because science investigates things that are sensed either by man or instruments. The problem with science is that it neglects God even though ‘god’ is in the ‘god equation’ — E=mc2 — noting that Energy taken from the speed of light squared is the cause and ‘mass’ the effect.

Essentially, evolutionary science is ‘alchemy,’ something from nothing, or an effect without a cause. Early scientists scoffed at that idea.

Because there was nothing at first, then there was order, means something organized things, but before there were order, there must have been things to order.

Rank one was time (the beginning as the starting point), heaven (space), and earth (matter). At the start, God created space and then added atomic components that became matter. Since this commentary is not about creation, but Mind, for the moment, the creation processes will not be discussed. The point is that there was a scientific process in the creation, or generation, of things. Time measured processes then as it does now. Even such common processes as cooking a meal involves time and is itself a process.

English translators called time, ‘days.’ It is written, “And in process of time it came to pass…” yada, yada, yada. (Gen 4:3). The root word for Hebrew ‘process’ is ‘to cut asunder.’ Asunder what? Time and ‘hotness’ (Strong 2006). Hence, a process, in the Lexicon of God, is just like any thermodynamic process. The point herein is that God made the science, and scientists endeavor to reveal the processes without crediting God.

Einstein is still the synonym for brilliance. He finally realized the truth; that there is no effect without a cause. He was wise enough to give credit to God but only for the cause. He never gave God the credit for either the effect nor the affect! Michao Kaku, the most renowned astrophysicist today, made the same deduction because for all things there must be a cause. Different religions call the ‘Cause’ by different names, but the “Cause” named ‘Itself’ a very significant name, ‘Ya Preserves’ which is the meaning of the Name, ‘Jesus.’

So not only does the True God Create, He preserves as well. Preserving is a technique for maintaining processes.

For instance, maintaining a car extends its life. Genesis 1-2 is about creating all things and the rest of the Bible is about preserving them. Intermingled among those things is saving, or regenerating, the things that were made. All that takes much thought and planning. The Big Bang was not God’s ‘First Thought’ but the ‘first order’ of His Plan for us.

Whether the Big Bang was Higgs Boson or not can never be proven beyond a doubt, but it indeed was God’s Glorious Thought that caused the heavens and the Earth, or things unseen and things seen. The Cosmos is the latter, but science ignores things beyond the Cosmos. It was revealed to Enoch that the Holy Thing beyond the Cosmos and the Tenth Heaven was God and that God is ‘Light’ (2 Enoch).

John wrote, “This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).

Phosphorus, of course, emits light, but that is a synonym for ‘Lucifer.’ In the Greek, the Light of God would be ‘Theophos,’ combining ‘God’ with ‘Light.”

The Greek word, ‘phos’ means different things; among them are, “that which is exposed to the view of all, openly, publicly;” and secondly, “reason, mind” (ibid). That God is ‘Light,” therefore means that He has a brilliant Mind; one with reason.

Reason is “the power of comprehending, inferring, or thinking especially, in orderly rational ways — INTELLIGENCE” (Merriam-Webster 2023).

Therefore, mythology is thinking irrationally and theology rational thought because logically, “I think, therefore I am” (Rene’ Discartes).

Because there was a plan, or process, a grand one at that, by God, God is the ‘I AM’ (Exod 3-14) because He revealed His Thoughts, or Light (Gen 1:3) at the beginning of the Creation.

(If you have failed to notice, the first two chapters of Genesis reveal an orderly process that makes sense. It is a very rational account of generating all things from the Thoughts of God. It corresponds very well with quantum theory that can be studied in my book, Adoil Come Down: Arkhas Came Undone.)

Christians are most familiar with the material Substance of God, called ‘Jesus.’ He was not created but came To Be, another way of saying ‘I AM.’ John revealed Jesus as the ‘Word’ of scripture. The Hebrew root verb, ‘Dabar’ (the ‘Word’), means “to arrange.” (Strong 2006). Arranging knowledge is the thought process. In that Jesus is the ‘Word’ (John 1:1-14), makes the Thoughts of Jesus as the Light (John 8:12) and the Truth (John 14:6). ‘I AM’ — Jesus said those things!

The Word is what Jesus Thought before He was made flesh. Before Jesus came, He was the Mind of God and His Thoughts the plan that was operationalized, according to John 1.

God, the ‘Mind” said to mankind: 

7 “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. 8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” saith the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. (Isa 55:7-9)

 Man was made in the Image of God. His Thoughts was the Image given to the first man. The image was altered with Eve’s encounter with the so-called, ‘Serpent.’

Because mankind is just a partial image of God, then we are not God, and our thoughts are much less than God’s. Our thoughts are just a shadow, or remnant, of God’s Thoughts, and is much of our thinking since sin entered into our minds.

That extraterrestrial thought is ‘darkness.’

What was Eve’s thought after sinning? She revealed it to Adam… “I have gotten a man” (Gen 4:1); not Adam had begotten, nor even God… she had! And it was not even an ‘Adam’ man, but a ‘whososever’ — an extant being, or another kind of existence (Strong 2006).

Its name was Cain (Quyan). It was another ‘people,’ (‘wanderer’), or kind, that Eve thought that she had made. She thought that she was a god and had the power to create. She thought wrongly! Eve used her faculty of thought to deceive Adam, making him think that the child was his from the Lord, failing to mention that she did the will of another being, and that ‘it’ was her new ‘lord.’

The point therein is that our thoughts are what betrays us being of Cain and of the Wicked One. We think differently than God planned for us to think.

Adam and his kind were to be homo sapiens, both upright and wise men. Rather, our image with sin — our natures — became cunning and creeping like the ‘Beast.’

Eve’s first act was conceiving a creature on her own, and rather than turning to God, she did so herself, with Adam watching; he ‘knew” her. He knew from whom Cain really came!

Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12) but Eve pretended that Cain was of Adam and God. Pretending did not change the truth. Adam had been deceived again, and like before, he was surely aware of it!

Us human beings now think of ourselves as humane and children of God. Many carelessly say, “We are all God’s children.” That is our thoughts, but it is a fantasy that has existed since the birth of Cain.

The ‘father’ of all is the ‘Devil’ (John 8:44); not that the Devil impregnated our mothers, but that the Devil ‘Serpent’ is our progenitor, and it is “the lusts of your father you will do.” We think like the Devil because our genes are his genes. The ‘Serpent’ is the archetype of everyone, the ‘first form.’

David admitted that he himself was “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). He was born depraved and so is everyone else. Our thoughts are the lusts of our genetic father, the Devil.

In the Greek, ‘lusts’ are epithyma — cravings. (Strong 2006). 

14 Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (Jas 1:14-15)

 James described a process, not a thermodynamic process, but a thought process. Whereas, if it was thermodynamic and could be measured, thinking is not work; it is in the Greek, katergazomai — to think out your salvation.

Hence, lust is to think out your damnation. Enticement is the cause and sin the effect. It is the law of Satan that we do if we think on things of the flesh (lusts).

Sinners think as the Serpent thinks rather than God. Our thoughts are not God’s Thoughts, but like the Wicked One’s. Since it is from that original process of degeneration (‘original sin’) our thoughts are genetic. Why can we not change our thoughts? Because lusts instinctual (genetic) like the beasts, and the image of mankind is brutish like the original ‘Beast.’

That is how our minds work, but how can they be fixed? Our thoughts must be the Thoughts of God, or as nearly so as possible.

Salvation is not of the water but of Thoughts. Our thoughts are the ‘waters’ that are soterial. Just as the Spirit of God can neither be seen nor measure, neither can His Thoughts. Paul referred to things seen as evidence of things unseen when he wrote to the Romans. The Thoughts of God are as unknown to lost men as His Spirit.

How to know the Thoughts of God. Know the ‘Word’ of God. Not only does the Word persuade the lost to become Christians, like Jesus did for Pilate, the centurion, and the repentant thief, but that works for us as well. How did God persuade them? He revealed Himself in all His Substances during the crucifixion.

They heard Jesus ask an unseen Being why He had forsaken Him, and then he showed them the Spirit of God that was leaving Him. He convinced them that He was who He said He was. There was no baptism, there was no work done by others, and there was no devil there to deceive them (He was away in Judas.) There, the thoughts of some of them became the Thoughts of God. God was challenging their minds. They did nothing but think.

Pilate was the first to think, being Platonian, and quickly his thoughts harmonized with who Jesus thought Himself TO BE.

The thief was nailed and could not move. The only thing that he could do was think — katergazomai. His mind became one with Jesus!

The centurion made sure that Jesus was dead. He, however, did not kill Jesus. He only saw Jesus at peace, as if only asleep, and he was persuaded that Jesus was who he said He was!

The point in this entire commentary is it is not what we do, but what we think. We must think things that harmonized with the Word in scripture.

I have noticed something that makes much sense — the more I am in the Word, the less lustful thoughts that I have.

If I study in the morning, during the day, I consider the things of God and all the while my mind is on Him, then it is not on me! Thereafter the less I think of the things of the flesh (lusts) the less I sin. Since my flesh is still of the Wicked One, it is still his will that my flesh desires to do. Our flesh is the weakness of man, as Paul wrote, but the Spirit is willing.

The human will is the basis, or faculty, of thought. We were endowed with ‘free will’ to do whatever it is that we want to do. Preservation is a change of nature; to consider the Will of God and harmonize with His Thoughts; to be like Jesus, and our genes like the Image of God — Jesus.

Now think on these things. If you come to understand that you cannot  save yourself, but Jesus can, and trust Him to do that; then you shall be saved.


ON THOUGHTS OF GOD AND OF DEMONS:


Several hours have gone by. I could not shut off the thoughts of God, so now I am back!

Adam was made in the Image of God. His ‘Image’ was the Mind of God because it is presumed that the breath that He blew into Adam was His Spirit. Foremost, people are primarily mind; they are ‘sapiens.’

 Most people think all the time, even when asleep. When the mind shuts down, cognition (thinking) ceases. Death is when the mind stops,, but spiritually, when man’s mind ceases to be the Mind of God. That occurred with original sin. Both the male and the female of the species of Adam no longer thought the Thoughts of God, but the thoughts of the Serpent which they perceived as their own thoughts.

Thus, God’s Thoughts are higher than our thoughts, speaking of the lost.

Calvary is not ‘calvariae locus’ (Latin) for nothing. It is not the ‘place of the skull’ but literally the ‘the shield for the center of activity’ as Mr. Webster would have it. Calvary was the ‘Shield;’ no wonder the name Abraham means ‘The Shield.” It was the gens of Abraham, in his bosom, that was the Shield until Cavalry came along. That points toward the Mind as the center of activity, and its Power, the Holy Ghost.

The ‘virtue’ that left Jesus when he healed was dynamos in the Greek. It was the Power of the Mind of Jesus and when He thought, it happened. When Christians pray, their mind shares virtue and their Spirit is virtuous, or dynamic, as well.

Now for demons. Since our thoughts are not the Thoughts of God and the dynamics of God is Thought, then are soul has a Spirit within and a mind of one of two kinds: good or evil.

Since Yahweh is mind, and filled with the Spirit, is with the Thoughts of God, then ‘in Christ’ is with the Thoughts of God. Therefore, demon possession is not necessarily the spirit of demons in mankind but the thoughts of demons (i.e., demonic dynamics or evil thoughts.)

Angels are messengers that transmit thoughts from one being or another to mankind. Thoughts in the Greek is ‘dialogismos.’  That is merely having discussions with yourselves, not between people, necessarily, but inaudible self-talk.

Basically, thinking is an individual reasoning with himself! Our genetic disposition from original sin short-circuits rational thought, perhaps asking, Is this sin worth dying for? Then the mind argues, Yes it is, and voila, lust begets sin, meaning that it is the mind that sins, not the body which only complies with thought.

Since God is Mind, then so is Lucifer. His mind is evil, even serpent-like. How does Lucifer get into you? Through your mind.

How did Satan enter Judas? For the love of money. He got into Judas via his mind. Thereafter, the mind of Judas belonged to Satan and then the mind of Judas killed his person. Was it guilt, or was it demon possession? Scripture indicates that Judas was possessed.

So, when it is said, “That man has his demons,” it does not mean that there is an evil spirit in him, ala Satan in Judas, but the thoughts of demons transmitted unto his mind.

Demons are evil messengers from another realm. They can be only one place at a time. There are a limited number of dark angels, so how would they move about among so many sinners? By messages transmitted by their minds. Angels are not confined such as we are. Our tongue confines mankind but angels speak the language of God — Thoughts.

Just as God speaks to mankind in their thoughts, so do demons. Just as ‘in Christ’ is ‘in the Word,’ demon possession is thinking evil thoughts.

When God speaks, it is a Divine Spark. The ‘God Particle’ is transmitted from another realm to here. The particle is not a material particle but Light. Thoughts may be a continuous array of Virtue from God to mankind which can be received by all who would hear. To hear means listening, and God cannot be heard if the mind is shut off or pre-occupied.

The concept of a divine spark is not necessarily Gnosticism. Why do people think certain thoughts. Call it what you like, but God inspires people by accessing the mind. When God calls, or ‘knocks,’ as it says, that knocking is not a sound but a spark from God. That “Spark” is a convincing perception of the truth.

Pilate got the Divine Spark when he realized that Jesus was who He said He was. Immediately, Pilate sought baptism. Apparently not trusting the priests, like many 17th century Baptists, he baptized himself by pouring water onto his hands, representing the cleansing of his flesh. Yes, priests baptized; there was a molten sea in the Temple for ritual cleansing. That is baptism!

The Divine Spark is God calling. Our minds intercept the Thoughts of God that is relayed to all who would hear it.

The ‘Sublime Spark’ (my words) is a sudden evil inclination. She’s there and beautiful; why not lust? Then our mind has a discussion with itself and decides to go ahead and lust; then lust leads to sin because the body only obeys the mind. That is why the sin of adultery is in the heart (Mat 5:28), or better said, “the mind.”

Demon possession may or may not be how it is thought to be. Demons get into mankind through our minds. It is not that some evil substance gets unto us, but that the mind of Satan interferes with the transmissions of God. Of course, the ‘Transmitter’ is God Himself, but it is His Thoughts that are in the Word, Jesus — the ‘Angel of God’ and the Messenger of God’s Thoughts.

Thus, having demons is coexisting with good thoughts and evil thoughts (symbiosis). Our minds are not on evil all the time because, although depraved, sinners are not totally depraved like the hybrid beings of the days of Noah.

Paranoia is essentially constant self-discussion which alternates between, Are they out to get me? and, No they are not. That by itself kills the soul of the person because, as they perceive it, God cannot be trusted because they think that their demons are for real! 

Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell. (Mat 10:28) 

Demons can kill the soul. They destroy the mind, and the mind suffocates the soul to death. Those with demon possession cannot shut off destructive thoughts while those who are possessed by God cannot get Thoughts of God out of their minds. The best way to solve that inner conflict is to disregard the evil thoughts within the mind and focus on the truth and how the death of Jesus shielded it on Calvary from evil alien (to God) thoughts.

Christians feel safe because they trust God to come through. Trust is cognition. Given the choice of whether to doubt or believe, the mind dispels doubt and focuses on belief. Those of great faith have little doubt because they think rationally… those demons in their mind might destroy their flesh, but they are unable to destroy the soul.

Whereas most focus their thinking on their bodies, those with utmost fear focus on the destruction of the soul. Like it or not, the fear of God is greater than the fear of demons because God has the power to make you “die, die” as the words “surely die” mean literally.

Those out to get your mind can kill the body (die), but God can kill the body and soul (die, die). So, why are people so afraid to die? Because they do not trust the inspired Words of God. The solution to the demons in your mind is simply to trust God in all things.

Calvary was the ‘shield’ over the mind. Those who trust Jesus have a Divine Shield, called the ‘Shield of Faith’ (Ephes 6:16) which is part of the ‘whole armor of God.’ The ‘helmet’ of salvation is dependence on Jesus Himself who had no sin, however, he died on your behalf. He died, died for you; both His Flesh and Spirit were removed from the world for a time!

Your inner person — your mind — does not really fear its adversaries or even demons. It fears God. Those who are paranoid do not fear dying so much as being dead, dead in both body and spirit; so afraid that they will no longer exist but become only a soul lost in Hell.

My point is to get the mind right and fear will be allayed. Nobody will be out to get you, not even your own mind. Why? Because God protects the mind from the knowledge of evil.

Adam was not afraid of God until he knew evil. Never communicate with your demons; never listen to their thoughts or you’ll be gone with them.

How do demons appear in this realm? In your mind and in the mind of others. Some know they have demons within because of their evil thoughts, and they are not comfortable in the world until you share their demons, perhaps to take part of the load off their minds.

Demon possession is real, but science prefers to call it other things. They don’t want to be perceived as fools, so they just accept as truth that demons do not exist all the while facing people with demonic thoughts nearly every day. Is it really paranoia or schizophrenia or is it demons that are in people?

(picture credit; Acuity Coaching)

 


 

 

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