This is a rough version (unedited) from my latest book in progress about the Church. It is about "states" because the true Church is not a building but the mental state of groups of like-minded people, all focused on God, whether it be God now, then, or later.
STATES
To become Christians, sinners
must be born again, not of the flesh, but of the Spirit. How that is operationalized
is a mystery, but it is not an emotional event, and neither is it by carnal knowledge.
Nobody… sorry my Roman Catholic friends… are born into the universal
Church.
Of course, “universal” means
inside or outside, or anywhere. Church is wherever people assemble in the
Presence of God, whether the “Presence” is any one of the three states of God. To
make a Church, the congregants must be in homeostasis with the Godhead
regardless of which state you find Him. Some found Yahweh, others found
Jesus, and now the acceptable Presence is the Holy Ghost. It must be remembered
that the Holy Ghost is as much God as Jesus because either is the Presence and
Power of Yahweh in different states.
“States” are important in both physics and theology. The Holy Trinity are the Three States of the one same God.
In physics, a state of
matter or phase of matter is one of the I distinct forms in which matter can
exist. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid,
gas, and plasma.
First off states refer to matter,
commonly called “material.” Just because something is not obvious does not mean
that it is not material, as even atomic particles that are solid material, but
only appear solid and in a state that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
That Adam and Eve were originally
naked and were not ashamed indicates that they were glorious beings in the
manner of Yahweh.
Now for laughs, let’s compare Adam
to the atom. First off, Adam was meant to be
closed as the highest form of creature that would remain who he is. The “Serpent”
broke down Adam to a lower state that could be seen. Adam was always a “firm”
thing as the Hebrew word for “tree” indicates. Albeit he was in a firm state
the “nakedness” was that his soul was outstanding or stood out. Glorious Adam,
perhaps, was his soul in a transparent shell, or husk, that was perfect.
Sin made glorious Adam imperfect within,
and if my insight is true, his close encounter with Lucifer stained his “husk”
and it was changed. In scientific terms, Adam’s kind were mutated just as
elements mutate by losing electrons in their shells.
Original Adam would be dynamic as
God is dynamic. Just as electrons are both dynamic and firm at the same time,
so may have been the glorious flesh of Adam.
Think of a bicycle wheel for a
moment. [1] At rest, if a person
sticks his fingers into the spokes, the spokes are penetrable. Some of us have
learned from experience that a spinning wheel is dynamic as our fingers hurt
when we poke at the wheel at slower speeds. Ouch!
However, when dynamic enough, the
spokes almost disappear. Go even faster and as they totally disappear, they
seem to become one hard surface. That is true of the atom. They are invisible
because of their dynamics and the dynamics make them seem like a hard surface.
Since Yahweh was invisible, He stopped when time began. If there was no time in the creation as some now
say, and I concur, the entire cosmos was dynamic, going from nothing to
everything in just one moment — the twinkling of the eye” as some call it.
Everything existed before the
Creation, but it was unseen. What happened? Just like the bicycle wheel, God provided
“spin” (dynamics) and out came firm things. The state of things changed
in an instant. God always existed — “I AM THAT I AM” — but He changed states.
As Paul wrote the Romans, “For 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). As such, God is understood by
created things. Albeit “Father God” (Yahweh) is like the Hebrew letter Yod
that is in everything, God was both infinite and real at the same time.
God’s ”First State” was Virtue or
Goodness. That was revealed by Jesus; when He lost virtue, the Greek word is “dynamos.”
Virtue, or goodness, is positive and desired dynamics.
Virtue cannot be seen, yet it can
be material as well. Material things can be either seen or measured. That the woman
with the issue of the blood was “made whole” indicates dynamics. She got her “groove”
back and returned to a normal state (Mat 9; Mark 5; Luke 8).
The woman ceased bleeding. Her
state when from bleeding to not bleeding. Her dynamics changed and the Power of
Jesus, albeit invisible, could be measured. All dynamics can be measured, so
even though unseen, dynamic is a “state” as well.
God’s first state was dynamic. It
is known that Yahweh is real because the “world” was once not there and now it
is. The “world” is the universe (material) but before it was Power, Power is
energy working. God was creating and the Power was El-Shaday (Almighty
God).
Thus, Yahweh is the “First
State” of God and like Paul indicated, although invisible He was real and the evidence
of that are the things that He made.
Jesus made the woman whole. His
dynamic proved that Yahweh was in Him because the state of the woman
changed. The crucifixion was essentially revealing the truth to mankind. God
revealed all His three States as He was crucified. Crucify means to hold still,
ostensibly by driving stakes into a material object. Jesus was the object of
God.
The crucifixion was scientific in
search of Pilate’s desire for truth. For instance in quantum mechanics, matter
always exists in one form of the other. To see its true form, it must be
stopped.
As John wrote about Jesus, He
always existed but was in a different state. In the process of time (Gen
4:3) God changed states. His First State was as Yahweh and his Identity was
Power, signified by “El” or the Hebrew letter aleph. Lucifer, also
unseen, had power as well but only God is good, as Jesus reminded His followers
(Mark 10:18), thus implying that He is the same Yahweh that created all
things.
After His dynamics (creating) God
rested (Gen 2:2). Like quantum power, the unseen Almighty God, came to rest and
revealed Himself. He was the same God but in a different state.
While in the Garden, the man and
woman, so said Eve, had bright eyes and could see all states of God all at the
same time; that is “homeostasis” — steadiness
between the states. What was is and remains so during changes of states. God is said to be “immutable,” always being the same, albeit in different but equal
states: (1) “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Heb
13:8), and (2) “I am the Lord, I change not…” (Mal 3:6).
God never changes (mutates); He
was, is, and always will be. That too is the First Law of Thermodynamics, “energy
cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed from one form to
another”
“Form” therein is the different states:
solid, liquid, gas, or plasma. Plasma in physics is an ionized state. The Light
of God could be the ionized state, or “plasma” of God — the so-called “waters”
that God divided from itself (Gen 1:6). Could it be that since “the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters” (Gen 1:2) that the First State of God
was Light or Divine Plasma?
Don’t worry about physics and
theology being in congruence because God is the Cause of the Physics. Physics
is the dynamics and statics of things and God did both!
God was never a “Liquid” even
though the term waters is translated into the English. It could as well have
been called “piss”
Let’s say that the First State called
“Yahweh” is plasmatic. Plasmas give off radiation, or light at different
frequencies, most of which cannot be seen without special “eyes.” Adam’s kind
surely had those eyes and other kinds did not. They could see God because they
were made in the Image of God and since God is all-knowing, glorious them
would have been as well.
The Second State of God is Him
walking in the cool of the day (Gen 3:8) as the dusk was coming upon the Garden,
although no longer bright-eyed, they still had a dim view of Yahweh.
Because God was walking and not seen, His state had changed. He was the same
God but plasma, or light, in the shape of a man walking. Note that the figure
that was walking remained God, but His form had changed. His state went from
everywhere to there at the same time. That was Jesus walking, but only His
Ghost was revealed. Now time had been initiated for the mankind, at the
beginning of time (time zero; at rest), the State of God had changed but He was
the same God that they could see because of the sound He made walking. Again,
the objects moving were the evidence of some Holy Thing moving them.
During the course of human events, God revealed Himself differently at different times. Each time, God stopped long enough to show Himself in different states.
Atop the Ark of the
Covenant, God often showed His plasmatic state. For Jacob , God revealed Himself
alternately in all three states during the course of the day. Missed by about
everyone is that translated “wrestled” Jacob entangled himself with a “vapor”
At the “birth” of Jesus, He was
not born naturally. God overshadowed Him with Light. A shadow is still light
but less intense light. In the darkness of the womb, God changed states; He went from a plasmatic state to a solid state. Jesus was not “born” but was God
manifesting Himself as a man. John the Baptist said about The Word, “I knew Him
not: but that He should be made manifest to Israel” (John 1:14).
“The Word” is hidden in the first
verse of the Bible. [2] The Word is in the Greek, “alpha
and omega” (Rev 22:13). In the Hebrew that is the aleph and
the tav. The Word first appears
but is unspoken in Genesis 1:1, “et” — the letters aleph and
tav. Et has no direct meaning in the Hebrew but to Christians Et is
Jesus (John 1:1-14). Aleph-tav is not pronounced as a word but as
letters only. It may sound like “ate” but it is no Hebrew Word. Hebrews fail to
recognize The Word, albeit it has always been there since the beginning.
The Word is not just a word
but an alphabet. It is the written sounds in consonants that describes
all things. It is the “plasma” that gives light as Truth because the truth is real
objective things. The Word does shed Light (Truth) does it not? The alphabet
reveals the truth with objects. The Word is the First State of gaining knowledge
and it was only good knowledge before deception was encountered. Hence lies are
philosophically “darkness” because they are not truth. Mankind was mutated and
now we live more in a dense fog than either light or darkness. Everything for the
depraved is always shades of gray wherein there is both darkness and light. That
is now the state of the mutant creatures that we still call “mankind.”
Now, study the crucifixion from the
beginning to the ending. What was it all about? God was revealing all three of His
states in one “Godhead” (Steadiness).
Pilate asked, “What is truth? and
Jesus said nothing. God revealed the truth to him; that God is always the same
but people see Him differently. Since Jesus is the most obvious to the human
eye, before we can see Yahweh or the Holy Ghost, we must recognize
Jesus.
How can we see what cannot be
seen? By the things God has done. You must see God as the Creator and Savior
and to recognize His “face” as the countenance of Jesus. Now His countenance is
enough with the Body of the Christ not gone, but just beyond our sense of
vision.
Christians seem to look the same
but they should be able to be revealed by their state. Doing what Jesus did is
the Christian State. Of course, our body remains with us, but inwardly, the
countenance should be much different than before.
The change of states for Christians is our countenance: mostly how we think. Christ is in us, not in our bodies, but in our hearts, souls, minds, and strenghts (or dynamics). Jesus indicated the new state of Christians:
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment” (Mark 12:30)
The “heart” seems to be the only
object listed by Jesus, but neither is it an object. It is the countenance, or
inner person. Conversion, or rebirth, is basically a change in mindset.
Persuasion is how to be born again; hence rebirth is not born a second time but
a renewal of the mind of God that was once in our kind.
That we were meant to have
dominion over the other kinds (Gen 1:26) was that we were “crumbles” off the
Image of God and His Thoughts were to be our thoughts.
Hence, becoming a Christian is a change of state as well — a change in mental state. We are the same persons but are to think like God would think. Jesus must be exemplified in His new creatures. We may look the same but inside we become Jews inwardly (Rom 2:29).
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock. (1 Pet 5:1-3)
The “flock” is the assembly of
God’s people — the “Church.” We must not, but should be willing to be different, than the non-flock: no filthy acting or speaking, but a change of mind and to
be examples (like Christ) to others. Note that a change of mind is a change of
heart, or countenance improvement. The modern church now has about the
same countenance as before because so many Christians are Christians in name
only. We say “Christians” and we call our calling “Church” but it seems so much
like the world.
My friend Phil was in the mafia
when he was young. He became a Christian when he had a change of heart. Eventually
he encountered his old mafia family and he said, “They were friendlier than the
people at church.” That is so often
true. How many friends do you have in your church organization compared to those
who are obvious sinners. I am ashamed to say that few in my church organization
reveal friendship at all; they are merely a group of acquaintances.
Are you a changed person? If not,
will you fit into the true Church building? Is your form and function so
different than God intended, that you just
don’t fit in?
Well, for the condition the Church
is in today, maybe it is not a good thing to fit in.
Church is a state of being.
It is of the mind. The mind should go where God is present. Can you sense the
Presence of the Lord where you go? If God is with you, where you are, He will
be. We are not to go to church but go unto the world. That need not be to
physically go there but carry The Word as you go unto the world. That is “The
Great Commission” and The Word is like waters that can flood the Earth, but not
with you just sitting there acting the good Christian like Judas was wont to
do.
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