What people say about God and what God says about GOD
God's take on HIS work.
It is an obvious thing, as obvious as the noonday sun, that The Bible is unlike any other book in that it is the only book ever written that, when dealing with the issue of God's statements to His creation, does so as an authority, not an apologist's interpretation like "The Great Controversy" by Ellen G.White nor does it appear based on false premises (which can be proved..and will be) like the Qu'araan or other 'religious' books.
If I said this was not an attack on other religions I would be lying, because that is exactly what this is, but it is not meant as a personal attack on anyone. Or maybe it is, because I firmly believe that one should hold on to the truth and not hide behind lies and so if anyone is offended by my work then that someone does not love having the truth exposed to begin with. Why live a lie? Why hold on to something that is untrue?
I am not dealing with the scientific take this time; science deals with (...or is supposed to, but someone forgot to tell the hypothetising theorists to stick to facts) things we come into contact with, and uses sense-data to analyse what is there.
At best, the scientist can have an educated guess as to what MAY have caused something to happen, if the scientist was not present at the event, but all those guesses are just that, guesses.
So, set aside scientific hypothetical assumptions on things like Evolution, and The Age of the Earth, and look at the one and only book that states point blank what God did, and WHEN He did it.
It is an interesting book, the Bible, because it contains a lot of books..OK, it IS a lot of books, hence the name. But some books are really contradictory.
My intent is to show just where the difference is between what God says about Himself, what man say about God, and when a person is just blabbing thinking God is in his corner.
For starters, God usually chose a person for a specific task and empowered the person, through His Spirit, to do the task. That meant that, when the person is performing the task, it is God who is connecting the dots and causing events to happen.
The task may be to tell people something so that they stop doing things that would drive a wedge between Him and people, but once the task was accomplished, then even that person would have to be answerable to God, because according to a particular Psalm, "All things are His servants". It did not mean that there were some who were above the law, or whom God gave a special dispensation to be MORE than others. Think, arguably the most famous of The Old testament "servants" of God, Moses. He was meant to lead the people of Israel from captivity to God, and he did only part of the first task, and then, together with the children of Israel, rejected the same God in favour of appearances, and that caused God to withdraw for them and give them into the hands of the Angel. The "people of God" got what they wanted; the 'appearance of having God with them' but not God Himself. They rejected HIM, so HE, in turn rejected them.
Moses himself also rejected God in favour of the mantle of superhuman appearance. When told to merely speak to a rock so that water would come out [because God is a God Who lays emphasis on speech over actions, for anyone can act but only the really STRONG speak first then carry out their actions] Moses, because he wanted to be 'seen' to have some great power and thus cement his hold over the children of Israel; something that was God's sole prerogative; - well he decided to STRIKE the rock!
His body was worm-food in the desert, because, as is written, "God is not a respecter of persons", and "Obedience is better than sacrifice".
Yet nowadays people still idolise the same Moses, turning a blind eye to his ignominous death, and wanting to make the crossing of the Red Sea the story of Moses, when we all know that NO ONE can spread his hands over water and have water part. The supernatural is GOD's, so why take what is due to God and give it to man?
Moses was a mere man, and he died as a mere man. There is NOTHING special about him, and if he had obeyed God then he would have been some one worthy of note, but only as an example of how God rewards those who do AS HE INSTRUCTS.
Think again of Elijah, the one who did not die as others did. Is he in heaven? Hell, no, because, as I pointed out, God is not impressed by appearances. The guy had been told, (when all his confidence in himself was undermined and he fled for his life because he was told he would be killed by Jezebel, and he realised he was "no better than other men"); to do three things, crown someone as king of an alien nation, crown someone else as king of Israel ( as opposed to Judah, showing that God had decided to end the union of the two nations) and annoint Elisha as his successor. Did he do any of those things? No.
He was fixated on the superiority of the children of Israel, so much so that to him even God had no right to intervene. He took God's being in charge of His creation as a personal slight and disobeyed Him. No wonder God brought both him and Moses as well as the disciples Peter, James and John to show them all, "My Son, My Beloved, in Whom I am well pleased";- Jesus, The Annointed, The Son of The Living God
15-Jan-2013:- Well, about christ and his kingship:- let us call that a learning curve I was on, right?
It is an obvious thing, as obvious as the noonday sun, that The Bible is unlike any other book in that it is the only book ever written that, when dealing with the issue of God's statements to His creation, does so as an authority, not an apologist's interpretation like "The Great Controversy" by Ellen G.White nor does it appear based on false premises (which can be proved..and will be) like the Qu'araan or other 'religious' books.
If I said this was not an attack on other religions I would be lying, because that is exactly what this is, but it is not meant as a personal attack on anyone. Or maybe it is, because I firmly believe that one should hold on to the truth and not hide behind lies and so if anyone is offended by my work then that someone does not love having the truth exposed to begin with. Why live a lie? Why hold on to something that is untrue?
I am not dealing with the scientific take this time; science deals with (...or is supposed to, but someone forgot to tell the hypothetising theorists to stick to facts) things we come into contact with, and uses sense-data to analyse what is there.
At best, the scientist can have an educated guess as to what MAY have caused something to happen, if the scientist was not present at the event, but all those guesses are just that, guesses.
So, set aside scientific hypothetical assumptions on things like Evolution, and The Age of the Earth, and look at the one and only book that states point blank what God did, and WHEN He did it.
It is an interesting book, the Bible, because it contains a lot of books..OK, it IS a lot of books, hence the name. But some books are really contradictory.
My intent is to show just where the difference is between what God says about Himself, what man say about God, and when a person is just blabbing thinking God is in his corner.
For starters, God usually chose a person for a specific task and empowered the person, through His Spirit, to do the task. That meant that, when the person is performing the task, it is God who is connecting the dots and causing events to happen.
The task may be to tell people something so that they stop doing things that would drive a wedge between Him and people, but once the task was accomplished, then even that person would have to be answerable to God, because according to a particular Psalm, "All things are His servants". It did not mean that there were some who were above the law, or whom God gave a special dispensation to be MORE than others. Think, arguably the most famous of The Old testament "servants" of God, Moses. He was meant to lead the people of Israel from captivity to God, and he did only part of the first task, and then, together with the children of Israel, rejected the same God in favour of appearances, and that caused God to withdraw for them and give them into the hands of the Angel. The "people of God" got what they wanted; the 'appearance of having God with them' but not God Himself. They rejected HIM, so HE, in turn rejected them.
Moses himself also rejected God in favour of the mantle of superhuman appearance. When told to merely speak to a rock so that water would come out [because God is a God Who lays emphasis on speech over actions, for anyone can act but only the really STRONG speak first then carry out their actions] Moses, because he wanted to be 'seen' to have some great power and thus cement his hold over the children of Israel; something that was God's sole prerogative; - well he decided to STRIKE the rock!
His body was worm-food in the desert, because, as is written, "God is not a respecter of persons", and "Obedience is better than sacrifice".
Yet nowadays people still idolise the same Moses, turning a blind eye to his ignominous death, and wanting to make the crossing of the Red Sea the story of Moses, when we all know that NO ONE can spread his hands over water and have water part. The supernatural is GOD's, so why take what is due to God and give it to man?
Moses was a mere man, and he died as a mere man. There is NOTHING special about him, and if he had obeyed God then he would have been some one worthy of note, but only as an example of how God rewards those who do AS HE INSTRUCTS.
Think again of Elijah, the one who did not die as others did. Is he in heaven? Hell, no, because, as I pointed out, God is not impressed by appearances. The guy had been told, (when all his confidence in himself was undermined and he fled for his life because he was told he would be killed by Jezebel, and he realised he was "no better than other men"); to do three things, crown someone as king of an alien nation, crown someone else as king of Israel ( as opposed to Judah, showing that God had decided to end the union of the two nations) and annoint Elisha as his successor. Did he do any of those things? No.
He was fixated on the superiority of the children of Israel, so much so that to him even God had no right to intervene. He took God's being in charge of His creation as a personal slight and disobeyed Him. No wonder God brought both him and Moses as well as the disciples Peter, James and John to show them all, "My Son, My Beloved, in Whom I am well pleased";- Jesus, The Annointed, The Son of The Living God
15-Jan-2013:- Well, about christ and his kingship:- let us call that a learning curve I was on, right?
