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Doctrines of the Bible made to understand (Part1)
Introduction:
The amazing thing about the Bible is, is its simplicity. I do not think that God ever intended the Bible to be complicated. As with everything in life, man has been successful enough to mess things up, yes and we understand that there would be a force: 1 Pe 5:8 behind it all that would encourage this mess up. It all started at the beginning of the creation of man.
In the early stages.
It was in the beginning when God had said, Gen 1:26 things were already set in place to go wrong. God in His fore knowledge had it all planned out. He knew that His enemy the Devil, Satan . . or call him just what you want, would be out to destroy and to corrupt everything that He (God) had made or will be making and will create, and so it was Gen 3:4 (Here is the Satan’s contradiction, God said you will die … Satan says you will not die…) Gen 3:5 Lucifer corrupted everything. He tempted man to be disobedient with a half a truth and yes, it has never ever stopped because all the good things God has made Satan took it and made it so enjoyable for man that man fell in the trap of forgetting God and loving the things of the world more. 2 Ti 3:1,2,3 and 2 Ti 3:4,5 (*1),
Man became a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God. Man seems to enjoy the gory and the filth more than to be clean and holy. Man seems to strive for the independence and to rule himself and to love himself and please himself more than he would love and please God and that is exactly what the Devil intended man to believe that man even today are living in pride, jealousy, envy, bitterness, hate and self-pity. Wow, what a contrast to what God intended man to be like. If the a summary is made of what God looks like and to what the man He created looks like, there is a vast difference. There is no, I say but No …. likeness in the actions of man. Man is destructive and God is creative; Man is cruel and unkind and God is merciful gracious and loving; Man is dirty and in his thoughts and always scheming and plotting and yet God is always pure in His thoughts and righteous in His ways. He is a just God. You would find the lawyer of today to justify the righteous and the unrighteous. They would be in defense of the criminal and call it justice ….. Oh, my! may God have mercy upon us as man.
Man would even argue that …. and try and throw it into Gods face by calling Him cruel, as many die in the onslaught of the weather or even die in sickness, crime and heart attacks. It has always made me to wonder why men would blame God and the devil does not even get mentioned or accused. Oh yes God could perform miracles and save many …. but why should He when men have turned their backs on Him, loving themselves bowing before idols believing devilish lies! But when things go wrong then suddenly it is all Gods fault. Has it not been brought to the mind of the selfish brain of man that God said He is a Jealous God and that only He must be served; (Exo 20:1-7) OHHH NO . . . , man knows better!! and Satan said so in Genesis to Eve. You will have knowledge but how man was fooled into believing the lie more than the truth. Nothing has changed even today. Tell man about God and His love for mankind or about Jesus or about the Holy Spirit and see the anger and the anguish upon their faces as they would answer and say there are many ways to heaven or even deny the very fact of His existence. Oh the foolish man that still even today listens to the voice that first led man astray. I don’t know if you the reader have noticed the Words that God speaks …. “HIS NAME IN VAIN” ….. “BOW BEFORE OTHER GODS” ….. “KEEP GODS COMMANDMENTS” etc... It should ring a bell in every common persons mind that there is something to these instruction or these demands that God makes. Man will pay a fatal price for paying homage to Satan’s lies and contradictions.
Understanding God
God is not difficult to understand. God says about Himself, Exod. 3:14 In reading this, we realizes that God does not change and that He is always the same. Isa 41:4 God is the same yesterday today and forever. He does not change. In the Bible God pin points His life story and the future there of. We buy books and we listen to their theories and there quotes and we believe in all the books. Men believe Darwin and the big bang theory; they believe in aliens and such like. But when Gods auto biography is read people love to call it farfetched or even unbelievable. Yet we have to understand God is the creator, how could His creation even for a moment doubt Him. He has spoken and things had come into being. God is awesome and He is far beyond the reasoning of man. Isa.55:6-9 The understanding of God is not intellectual. God is Holy and He is Spirit. (Not difficult to understand) No man has ever seen God, but through Jesus, God has revealed Himself. Jesus said if you have seen me you have seen the Father. Jesus is in every way the representative of His Father. There is absolutely no difference in Him. It is in this that the confusion lies. Man need to see before he believes. John 20:28-31 In seeing man says I believe. Gods expectation is that man would accept who He is and through that acceptance man’s faith grows and he becomes more susceptible and receptive to Gods Almighty presence. I think man has too many questions which confuse the brain. To end the confusion one should believe Gods statements about Himself. There is absolutely nothing in all creation that is not effected by His presence. His presence and energy binds everything that exists. Without Him nothing can exist. He is not bound by time as He is eternal. Exodus 15:18 The Scripture is totally self explanatory. God is omnipotent or all- powerful, invincible, and unstoppable, supreme ….. name it and the expression of God becomes greater and greater as there is none like Him. If need be follow-up on the other verses that are written up in Gods autobiography Deut.3:24; Matt.19:26; Rev.15:3; Rev.19:6. God is omnipresent, ubiquitous and all-pervading. It means that God is not limited by space. So when we speak about the fact that God is everywhere it is meant literally. It is not a figurative and it is not symbolically. God is everywhere. Acts 17:27; Acts 7:48-50 God sees all things He is all knowing He is Omniscient. That means God is perfect in His knowledge and in wisdom He cannot be counseled. That is so awesome as to know that God actually knows our very detail of life. The beauty of it all is that God understands you. He knows of your decisions and he knows about your comings and goings. H e knows how your will works and if one would serve Him and love Him. In doing so God knows the future of every creature that He has created. Rom 8:27-30 Understand this: God is Holy sacred, sanctified, make sacred, Eze.36:23 and Eze 38:23. God is faithful trust worthy and His Words will never fail. God will bring every promise that He has made come to pass. Should we not be weary, knowing that all though we cannot see God in all His Glory we do become aware that He is true to His Word? In times of the Bible when God spoke to Israel things did happen as He said it would. Yes, we need to understand that God does not change; He is the same yesterday, today and forever. In the Bible God gave man a book to read and too heed!!! Never will we have the right to say I did not know. Ignorance would not be an excuse as God would say….. We have the Word, we have the preachers, we have the media, we have technology and God had made sure that all men would be able to understand the meaning of life. God made us for His pleasure and not our own.
Conclusion:
Never ever, in all History has a book like the Bible been written? The Bible is unique in every sense. Prophesies have come to pass and many have experienced Gods great mercy. It has made great predictions and all have so far transpired. Men do not want to accept it. Religions rise up against the Bible and many men have given their lives for the Bible. Yet the most amazing fact is that man is a religious being right from the concept of his existence. If he was not there would never be a query about God or His existence. We need to be honest with our self. When God created man He made him God conscience as man has a spirit and he is very much aware of God. The world may blind him but Gods presence is ever before him and that is why man always seeks after the things of God. When God send Jesus to this earth He reminded all mankind that there is eternal salvation for those who would believe on Jesus Christ. John 3:16-18
(*1) - railers : to denounce, protest against, or attack somebody or something in bitter or harsh language
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