GOD. It is who God desires to live in; and this is the man or woman that is willing to obey and conform to I Am; God. The who is the creature of the Creator, God; and the who is also the temple that will house the Spirit of God, which is where God desires to make His abode and become one with you by being one in you.
God is His own dwelling place; hence He cannot and will not live outside of Himself. Understanding that God does not live anywhere except within Himself is one thing, but comprehending the vast revelation of it is more challenging; baffling one’s mind. God will not live anywhere but within Himself! Most people cannot relate to this, so they tend to subconsciously make God common in their mind. This act of denial I call: “spiritual delusion through man’s carnal conclusion.” It is here that man attempts to put God on his level. Man, thinking that God may have somehow originated from somewhere or was sustained outside of Himself is commonly categorizing. For one to say or think that God comes from somewhere is to confine our Creator to their realm of reality and/or the reality of what the unregenerate mind of man can conceive.
*The Bible states that “God is not a man”. This also indicates that His thoughts are not like the thoughts of man. One must realize that God would never restrict nor confine Himself to think on the level of man. If man is to understand who God is, he must be willing to submit and conform to God’s ordinance, and in so doing he will then begin to think on the Father’s level of thought. Note: this is only after the individual has willingly complied with the governmental order of the heavenly realm which God has ordained by the commandment of His Word.
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...things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.’.
People have read this Scripture oftentimes and never stopped to examine what Jesus meant? Many have read this very Scripture and never asked, “What all things”? When you read this Scripture you should wonder, “What all things will the Holy Ghost teach me? What all things did he exactly mean?” Yeshuah/Jesus said, “All things that he (the Holy Ghost) would teach you concerning I and the Father.” The Holy Ghost will teach you all things concerning the Father and the Son; things that abide in the realm of the spirit which is God’s dwelling place. He will teach you those things which are of truth, and of the revelation of the counsel, and of the mind of the will of the Lord; these are the very things the Spirit of the Lord will teach you as His anointing abides in you.
'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
The idea of God is something that would not just come natural. It is not living ordinarily and just thinking of God. The idea of God as a whole must be created by God. If humans are finite, and God is infinite, how could one possible have the thought of such an infinite being.
• Personal – where God is represented as a human being. Christians believe this because it means they can directly relate to Him through one-to-one means. There are variations within this also: Some say that this Personal God is one human being that is always there for everyone, others believe that He is a different being for each person.
The Old Testament and the Bible itself has been studied extensively for centuries. Archeologists and Scholars have labored and pondered over texts trying to decipher its clues. It does not matter how many times the Old Testament has been studied there will always be something new to learn about it or the history surrounding it. In the book Reading the Old Testament: an Introduction, the author Lawrence Boadt presents us with a few different authors of the Old Testament that used different names for God and had a unique insight into the texts. These four sources are titled P for priests, E for Elohim, J for Jehovah, and Y for Yahweh (95). These four unique sources help us realize that there is more than one author of the Pentateuch. These authors took the text and adapted for their culture. This independent source is used by scholars to help gain insight into what was behind the texts of the bible so we are not left with an incomplete picture of what went into the creation of the bible. Julius Wellhausen used these four sources to publish a book to able us to better understand the sources and to give it credibility with the Protestant scholars at the time (Boadt 94). These sources that is independent of the bible as in the DVD Who Wrote the Bible? and the Nova website aide in shedding light on the history that surrounded the writers who wrote the text and what inspired them to write it in the first place. The DVD shows the discovery of The Dead Sea Scrolls and the extensive history of the texts and all its sources in an effort to try to find exactly who wrote the bible (Who Wrote). These scrolls have aided scholars immensely by giving us some of the oldest known manuscripts of the bible in the world today. It shows that the bible w...
Gerald Bray shares, “The Christian doctrine of God contains two distinct, though obviously related aspects. The first…what is God like? The second…who is God?” These questions impact the way I view God personally and practically, and the impact it has on my ministry application. The nature of God and how He is viewed from human beings’ perspective could have grave implications. More than often, our view of God limits His overall splendor, glory, and His association with the universe. From a personal standpoint, I have always viewed God as omnipotent, omnipresence, and omniscience. My limited mind cannot fully comprehend all there is to know about Him. However, when I open my mind to understand certain aspects of Him, His purpose and plans
all. Jesus explains this to mean that God is the only Lord we have so
Taylor then describes God as soft, gentle, feminine and has an eye for beautiful things and great designs. Taylor imagines that God is both male and female, and that he or she resides in all human endeavors and not only found in heaven, but in all objects of nature and of human construction. This evidence shows of a twofold consciousness. Taylor sees God through the interplay of the masculine and the feminine, the sacred and the profane, the temporal and the eternal, and the conscious and the unconscious
When you think of God, you jump straight to the immortal God of the Christianity faith where they are not physically present; they are omnipresent (ReligionFacts, 2004). In relationship
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The concept of God can be a difficult one to grasp especially in today's world - a world in which anyone that believes in God is trying to define exactly what God is. To even attempt to grasp such a concept, one must first recognize his own beliefs in respect to the following questions: Is God our creator? Is God omnipotent (all-powerful) or omniscient (all-knowing) or both? Does God care? Is God with us? Does God interfere with life on earth? These questions should be asked and carefully answered if one should truly wish to identify his specific beliefs in God's existence and persistence.
...ed a part to him. First we see God as omnipotent then we see God asking where Adam and Eve are hiding (Not being omnipotent). With the creation of mankind God loses some part of his Godliness and he gains some humanity. God has a little human in himself and we have a little God in us. But the main point still is the same, God is the authority over man and will remain this way. I also feel that the God in the bible is truly no different than the Gods of Greece for example. The God of ancient Greece acted just like humans, the only difference was that they were immortal. The God of the bible seems to act just like humans, shows love, anger, regret, learns from mistakes and so forth. So in the end God shows flaws and learns from mistakes. God is like humans, maybe this is why we don?t understand God sometimes because we can?t understand other people and their actions.
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them (ESV).” The Bible is extremely powerful text, both for its redemptive message and its abounding insight and wisdom. Within its pages are written counsel and knowledge pertinent to every area of life. This remains true in the case of psychology: the study of the human mind. The verse above from the book of Genesis reveals that we as humans are made in the image of God, the most perfect and yet most imperfect manifestations of his existence. Therefore it stands to reason that perhaps the most accurate information we can gather concerning our minds can be found in God’s revelation to us through scripture. Though not a psychology textbook, the Bible has much to say about broader behavioral concepts, answering questions pivotal to the human condition. Amongst the discord and speculation comes a distinctly psychological aspect to these problems, and not only does the Bible give us a better understanding of our world, but also a better understanding of ourselves.
can possibly think of. When Anselm states this, it essentially means that it is not possible to think of a being greater than God. Anselm also states that if God is the greatest thinkable being, he is referring to the fact that it would be impossible to imagine or to create in ones mind someone or something being better than God. Therefore, it would be impossible to say that God only exists in ones mind because it is much greater to exist in reality than it is to exist only in ones mind. Anselm then suggests that God has many attributes which describe him. Among these being: self-existent, a necessary being, omnipotent, omniscient, completely just and timelessly eternal. After reading the Proslogion by Anselm, it gave me a greater understanding of these attributes listed above. Although, they are all of equal importance, I feel the most prominent of God's attributes is the fact that he is self existent. In essence, that means that God depends on nothing else for his existence, he is uncaused. Therefore, his existence is timelessly-eternal. This means that God cannot stop existing. On the other hand, contingent beings (such as ourselves) depend on something else for their existence. One example of this is, that as a child we utterly depended on our parents for food, clothing, and shelter. Contingent beings therefore can begin to be or cease to be at anytime. They can, unlike God, be here today and gone tomorrow.
Piecing through the puzzle work of theologians' and philosophers' expressions of God yields few pieces that fit together. God is not a distant star whose light can be studied over time. God's nature cannot be revealed through any physical reality, for physical reality does not capture God. Unlike man's need for God, God's need for worship cannot be analyzed. And how uninspiring worship would be if it were reduced to some formula! Pieces of a puzzle it is not.
Believe it or not, interpreters cannot fully grasp its mysteries without the assistance of the Holy Spirit. For the sake of clarity, the Bible states, “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17), for it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them (2 Peter