Obedience is a surrender of the heart to the sovereignty of love.
True holiness [ wholeness ] is the all consuming active selfless love of God incrementally re-infused [ implanted ] into each wiling individual heart.
The foundation, the raison d’eter, the focus for human worship is our peerless Creator who due to our following fall freely chose to become our Redeemer, our Atoning Sacrifice, known on earth as the Anointed One, Christ the Jesus who came to save us from our sin(s).
Bible prophecy is not based on the nation of Israel with its synonyms given less than 3000 times but on Divinity {GOD, LORD, JESUS, CHRIST, CREATOR, MAKER} & referred to greater than 40,400 times! That’s 13 times + more frequent! The current common focus on the nation of Israel is but another bypass meadows of J. Bunyan’s PP.
Law is to protect general safety, ensure rights & provide order in pursuit of the highest good of the individual where danger exists. God’s spoken, written & preserved law was kept encased in mercy as & in a temporary structure existing until the basis, the foundation of the law – selfless [other-centered} love is re-installed, re-implanted, re-infused into the hearts of all willing individuals.
Let the melting mercy of the love of God into your heart, & the quickening influence on His Holy Spirit into your mind.
Neither Life nor judgement is about how people treat or treated you, but about how you treat people. Is your attitude one of deference or defense? Do you revel God’s re-infused character or your fallen one?
Chose your weapons: Love, mercy, gentleness, long-suffering, kindness, forgiveness, truthfulness, compassion, prayer… Or human bitterness, anger, annoyance, irritation, jealousy – we are in a war of values – values if condensed are: the Selflessness of other centered love verses the Selfishness of self love.
When God calls us to rest: it means to honor, respect, celebrate, & relate in acknowledged other-centered love.
God saved & saves not by nations nor denominations but by individuals given and accomplishing, in love, their given task of witnessing.
To bring Peace literally means to destroy the authority attached to chaos.
Heart is emphasized 700 times in the old testament & 100 times in the new.
The 3 CCC”s of Christianity: Creation, Cross, Coming. Of Salvation: convinced, convicted, converted.
Sanctified afflictions become spiritual promotions.
Ideally we do not teach our children that we don’s steal / lie / fornicate / kill, because it’s wrong. We teach them it is wrong because harming someone, something, including self is detestably antithetical to the loving selfless kindness of God & godliness.
Attitude is more important then belief
Motivation is more important than action
And experience is more important than knowledge
The question is not: “Am I saved?” nor “Are you saved?” but “Is Christ in me – in You – today?” If He is then you have Him – Eternal Life now in you & if you do not turn Him out you are assured to being with Him eternally. John 6:54; 1 Jn 5:20; Jn 17:3, 1 Jn 5;11,13. Know, like Paul, each new day that you have died to self and invited Christ in. 1 Cor 15:31; Gal 2:20
In our search to know God better through His revelatory Word, let us never become antagonistic nor argumentative, nor accusatory, nor puffed up, but allow each to be fully convinced in their own minds through study, prayer, experimental application, respectful collegiality, affability and humble service.
Evolution at its foundation demands that there is no intelligent Creator, Thus is unscientific by it’s foundational definition since science by definition looks at all options. – thus as a religion, evolution has destroyed greater than 100 million humans physically as the foundation of the French Revolution, Marxism, Communism, Nazism & hedonistic secularism.
Genesis 1:1-28 condensed: In the beginning GOD brought into existence the heavens & the earth….and asked us to maintain calmness under a self-government of other-centered love with the acknowledgement of Celestial rulership.
The true prosperity gospel is found in Genesis 2:2-3. Under the word “Blessed” God conferred prosperity & happiness on and from the Seventh Day of the week. And also made It “holy” thus setting it morally apart by and with His repetitive special presence – that is true prosperity. A week is the week that the world still keeps.
We are saved by grace through faith {trust} and our faith is measured by His character growing in us, revealed by His works thus seen through us.
Abrahams’ repeated failure of trust in God with Pharaoh, Abimelech, and Hagar led to a closer test entailing a typology and affirming the prophecy of Gen 3:15, a revelation of the reality of the ensuing Atonement Sacrifice.
Christian Music style is individual yet for each piece of music the driving force, the propulsive strength should be approximately 70/30 x2. 70 % message – 30% accompaniment; 70% message – 30% emotion.
Genesis 32:28 reveals the divine etiology and definition of “Israel.” Meaning in Hebrew “to let God prevail”, thus “overcomer” [Bible in Basic English] per God’s definition in the last of vs 28. a name to inspire, innervate, actuate, motivate & encourage. Overcomer of: self pride, self infatuation, self protection, self righteousness, self reliance – all in God’s strength. Taking as does the Greek “Nike” meaning of victory; a victory though that depends solely on choice, motivation, effort & rules, but likewise ends with a prize.
If God is non-coercive and He is as life proves – there is no demand in His command, only pleas for your welfare.
Punish / punished / punishment means to impose the payment (wages) of banishment. (Strongs, Roget’s Thesaurus) Ro 6:23.
Nomological: expressing basic physical laws (for life) and rules of reasoning making a fact (eternal life) intelligible (M. Webster) God’s instructions once understood as such, full obedience to God & duty, dissolve into grateful response. Dt 10:12-13
The 7th Day of Creation & of the 4th instruction speaks not of a law / rule or code but of Christology. The 7th Day anchors His identity as our Creator -“ I am” – He is God because I / HE created 67 times in 24 books of the Bible (ex. Job 38-40 & Lk 3:38. Our Divine Parent always desiring that which is best & desiring to meet with us on “THE YOM” Gen 2:2-3; 3:8; Mk 1:21-32; 1 Jn 1:3.
Christ came to further teach and demonstrate the realities of the laws of life & provide the way of salvation for all who will chose.
The ”Moral Law” = Honor to our Divine Parentage 1-4, our temporal parentage 5 & our neighbor as ourselves 6-10. Repeated three times in the New Testament in Mt 22: 37-39; Mk 12: 30-31; Lk 10:27.
Resting {to honor, to respect, to celebrate in acknowledgment of & with God on His 7th Day of Ge 2:1-3 speaks of:
HONOR NOT LAW
GRATITUDE NOT NECESSITY
RELATIONSHIP NOT OBLIGATION
ORDER NOT CHAOS
PURPOSE NOT PURPOSELESSNESS
BELONGING NOT ALONENESS
INTENTION NOT CHANCE
NASCENCY NOT ORPHANCY
LOVE NOT DUTY
CELEBRATION NOT DRUDGERY
ACCEPTANCE NOT ASSERTIVENESS
FREEDOM NOT LEGALISM
JESUS THE CREATOR NOT THE JEWS
The Creators signature in & of time
BLOOD = LIFE IN THE EXCHANGE OF THE SANCTUARY: The shed blood in the courtyard represented imputed righteousness, forgiveness, justification. The sprinkled blood in the Holy Place represented imparted righteousness, sanctification, The blood sacrifice ministered by the High Priest in the Most Holy Place once a year represented consummated rightness & the cleansing of the temporal / spiritual temple 1 Cor 3:11 & the divine Heb 4; Rev 11:19..
New Testament: The expanded commandments according to Jesus the Christ x 6: (the numbering as per Exodus 20).
A: “For out of the heart come evil thoughts” {‘morally oppositional doubts about God’ Strongs Conc.} instructions 1-5; “Murder” 6; “Adultery” 7; “sexual immorality”7,8; “false witness” 9; “slander” 10 Mt :19-20.
B: “For from within, out of the heart of man, come harmful thoughts” { ‘morally oppositional thoughts about God” Strong’s Conc.} 1-5; “sexual immorality” 7, 10; “theft” 8; “murder” 6; “coveting”10; “deceit” 9; “sensuality”7; “envy, slander”10. All these evil {‘harmful’ Strongs Conc.) things come from within, and defile a person” Mk 7:20-23.
C: And behold a man came up to Him, saying, “Teacher what good deed must I do to have eternal life?” ….”You shall not murder” 6;….”commit adultery” 7; …”steal” 8; “not bear false witness”9, “honor your father and mother” 5, “ and your neighbor as yourself” 6-10…If you would be perfect, go sell what you possess”10; and give to the poor…and come and follow me” 1-4 Mt 19:16-22.
D: Mt chapter 5 reveals the internal foundations of the Ten Instructions, Prescriptions (Strong’s C.) = Advisories
E: Mt 22:37-39, Mk 12:30-31, Lk 10:27 All these NT references condense the TEN to “Love the LORD your God and your neighbor as yourself”. Which also is but a repeat of Dt 6:5
F: One will also find all 10 in Rev. chapters 13-14.
A] “It (Ge 2:1) is finished” 1) End of Creation week Ge 2:1: 2) End of work on the Tabernacle Ex 40:33: 3) End of work on Solomon’s temple 1 Kings 7:5.
B] “IT” (Ge 3:15) ”is done” 1) Cross Jn 19:30: 2) Investigative/Vindictive judgement of humans Daniel 7:25; 12:17 3) those to be saved, saved & safe in the ark of Gen cha. 7 – & those saved by being “in” the Ark of the covent Rev. 12:17. 4) The final judgement of the wicked – the summary vindication of God. Rev 21:6
Offerings: Burnt = gratitude for the LORD’S providing
Peace= gratitude for the LORD’S destroying of chaos
Repentance is a Hebrew verb that is – past, present and future.
Jesus came to expiate, wipe clean, erase, to extinguish our guilt and not to appease or regain the favor of God: “For God so loved the world….” Jn 3:16.
Hate is based in fear: fear of rejection, abandonment, mortality, of not understanding and is a way (though poor) to restore a sense of power & exhibited in going an opposite way.
The essence between the old and new covenants is: “we will … ” – verses asking Christ in, to be our hope of glory.
To paraphrase Dt 22:5 into a parable: A chicken should not try to swim like a duck, and a duck roost like a chicken.
The 7 epochs, eras of human earthly history:
1. Eden ~1450 years
2. Antedeluvians ~1450 years
3. Postdeluvians ~1450 years
4. Israelite nation ~ 1450 years
5. Catholic Christianity ~ 1450 years
6. Protestant Christianity ~ 2000 years Mt 24:48; 2 Pe 3:9
7. Second coming – heaven …Eternity
WHAT – no – WHO is the Bible about?
The Hebrews / Jews / Israel who’s names appear ~ 3000 times in Scripture? Or: GOD / LORD / JESUS / CHRIST / CREATOR / CREATED / MAKER appearing greater than 40,400 times. That’s greater than 13 times more frequent! ( if one adds the personal pronouns – He, I – following the nouns, it makes the references greater than 60,600 times) Don’t get caught on the minors such as the nation of Israel! – Major on THE MAJOR – the WHO of scripture. JOHN 5:39 “THESE ARE THEY THAT TESTIFY OF ME” Genesis 1:1 ”In the beginning God….” Revelation 22:21 ‘The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all…”
Job was hit from 21 + different angles, yet though not understanding remained faithful – Job 19:25-27 – even while confused about the source of his troubles Job 9:24 – see Job 1:12 & 2:6.
The one double pinnacle of the Scriptures occurs at Psalms 118 & 119. The first focusing on God’s love for us & the second on His gracious instructions for life and life more abundantly. Get the view from the top!
The riches of righteousness.
Martin Luther: “WE should learn to view our death as a fine, sweet & brief sleep which brings release from …all misfortune of this life & we shall be secure and without care, rest sweetly and gently for a brief moment, as on a sofa, until the time when He shall call and awaken us together with all His dear children to His eternal glory and joy.” And again: “that soul immortality is a heathen doctrine and among the monstrous fables that form the Roman dunghill of decretals.” {Works of Martin Luther 6:287-288; Luther’s Words, vol 32, Career of the Reformer,II}
Tyndale: “The concept of the immortal soul, separate from the body entered Christianity in the late second century AD as early Christians thinkers, Tertullian, Origin, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo integrated Greek platonic philosophy into their theology – termed dualism. Departing from the Hebrew Bible’s view of the person as an integrated, indivisible whole.”
Soul = life in Hebrew & Spirit = Breath. { Burns, Christian Moralism 101; / Froom, Conditionalist Faith 2:94}
The Biblical words Anger & Wrath are translated from 10 Hebrew & Greek words together used ~ 450 times with equal concentration OT / NT. Anger: meaning a strong feeling of displeasure. Wrath: meaning retributive [meaning “dispensing wages”] punishment. In other words the allowing of the distribution of the full wages earned. Man’s anger/wrath is born out of envy, greed, loss. God’s anger is born out of compassionate love and granted freedom rejected resulting in man’s & His loss of their companionship forever. Ge 1:27; Isa 5:4; Isa 28:21; James 1:20. His strange act of Isa 28:21 speaks of an act / deed – not attitude, emotion, feeling – but a foreign, alien act (S) with an attitude of unfailing love affirmed greater than 77 times in Scriptures such as 2 Chron 7:3.
Isa 9:6 “the government shall be upon His shoulders” (S). We were given dominion under His rulership in Ge ch 1 & we traded it for an “apple” in Ge ch 3. Now He has regained it (our dominion) for us by His selfless love revealed again in His Atoning Sacrifice as the Son of Man on Calvary.
“For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice….Jer 7:22-23. Ex 19:4-8 & 16:4; Jer 7:23,24,28; 1 Sam 15:22; Isa 1:11
Visible religion has remarkably increased world wide. We’re now finding ourselves adrift in a gallery of bowed heads, stooped, staring statues, peeping through windows in the palms of our hands or enlarged screens beckoning us on.
The book of Daniel: Allusions, images of Christ: Chapters
1 Christ as Lord of Daniel
2 Christ as King of kings
3-6 Christ as Lord of lords
7 Christ as Judge
8 Christ as High Priest
9 Christ -the Anointed One as victor via becoming on time the perfect Passover Lamb thus our Atonement
10-11 Evidence of Christs omniscience
12 Christ will end all evil
Michael: In Hebrew = a rhetorical question: Who is like God? or Gift from God. And in Greek = Who is like God.
All Christians need not be praying for a revival as much as praying to be the revival, uprooting and supplanting evil first in our hearts then homes – planting the seeds of humility, loving kindness and truth while praying the revival will grow and spread under the care of the Master Gardener. May this be the day of new beginnings!
“Esau I hated” meaning I found as distasteful, was repelled by (Strongs, Oxford dictionaries) Mal 1:2-3.
“Christ was the end of the law” meaning He was the ultimate purpose of the law is Christ in you the hope of glory Col 1:27 is the law fulfilled in us. Fulfilled like one fulfills the requirements for a high school diploma or college degree while never subtracting from the path. Upholding the law leads us to Christ Rom 3:31, Gal 5:22 3:24.
CHRIST’S
C rucifixion Gal 2:20; Mt 16:24
R esurrection Rom 6:15; Jn 3
O bedience 2 Thess 1:7-9; 2 Cor 10:5
S acrifice 1Jn 3:16; of self through-
S ervice Mt 10:25 = worship
Sin is demonstrated in that we suffer – Christ is demonstrated in how we suffer!
Contrary to the Elihu of Job’s fame or St Augustine of Hippo, or Martin Luther or Karl Barth – the sovereignty of God is scrutable, eternally loving, & never arbitrary, and is thrown open in invitation by God to full transparency for our comprehension, yet veiled from the shallow or non-committed or just curious.
Mt 5:19 of Christ’s inaugural address paraphrased via Strong’s and Oxford’s dictionaries: “Anyone who breaks / unties / dismisses that which one believes to be most trivial of these Ten Words / commandments / instructions / prescriptions and teaches others to do the same, will be called zero in the kingdom of heaven”
True Christianity:
By looking at the love of God, which is brilliantly displayed in Creation and in the Creators incarnation as Jesus the Christ, we see and confess our feculence. Desiring to be like Him, yet recognizing our inability too. We thus, via our free choice, in joy, submit to His freely offered ability. Then in continued looking too and at Him, we grow in Him and He in us, obtaining His internal motivations thus rectitude. Christianity is the natural outworking of the internal affirming & verifying the reality of the Eternal.
Some equate Gehena to the valley of Hinnon outside Jerusalem with fabricated tales of burning trash and corpses. Archeology has not supported this fabrication noting no evidence of major fires but positive findings of many broken urns with infant bones revealing the ancient Israelite pagan practice of child sacrifice as recorded in places such as Jer 7:31; 19:2-6; 32:35 & 2 Ki 23:10. That archeologic fact brought to light the sham originating with Rabbi David Kinchi ~1200AD. Hinnon was really a valley of pagan rites necessitating a re-adjustment of current concepts of an ever-burning hell.
Mt 16:24-25 Since we live in a materialistic, mammonistic society allow me, if you will, to exchange two closely related words of inverse value. Words who’s interchange becomes more real the further one travels from an agrarian society. “Then Jesus told His disciples, “ If anyone would come after me, let him deny his money and take up his cross and follow me. For whosoever would save his money will loose it, but whosoever loses his money for my sake will find it.”
As the Holy Spirit begat, by her permission to enter the physical Mary, so the Holy Spirit begets, by our invitation, to entertain the spiritual Christ in us. Jn 3:5; Gal 5:22; Rev 3: 20; Col 1:27.
The gifts, the worship, of service fall flat without the greatest gift of righteousness via the fruits of the spirit — who’s greatest talent, gift, is not worship nor service – but love. 1 Cor 13 :3-4.
Jerusalem was often used in reference to the nation of Hebrews (Jews, Israel) as in Mt 23: 37-38. Here stating the final rejection of this “stiff-necked” people. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophet and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! See your house is left to you desolate” House meaning family, lineage. Desolate meaning forsaken or renounced as something once cherished with-out intent recover – abandon. (meanings from Strong”Conc. Webster Dict..) This is but the final with the predictions including Mal 4;6; Lev 25:23; Gal 3:28; Dt 9:24; 11:10-17; 28:45; 1 Ki 6:13; 13:34; 2 Ki 14:27; 17:18-23; 2 Chr 7:16; Acts 13:46; Jn 4:21-24; Lev 26 & Dt 28 ; Jer 3:8 & Hosea 4:6,17 & ch 11. The nation was rejected as His witness in this world, yet as individuals, all remained and remain savable by their individual choices like those from every nationality and walk of life. This nation as a witnessing nation became defunct. And in Christ’s words He originated it’s replacement as the “Church” in Mt 16:18. Quit looking at the nation of Israel, yet pray for each Jewish individual.as you do for your neighbor.
Punish / Punished / Punishing / Punishment means to impose the payment (wages) of banishment (Strong’s & R. Thesaurus) 2 Thes 1:9; Mt 25:46; Jude 1:7
The wine offered to Jesus in Mt 27: 34 was yanin meyushwshan or very old wine that had gone bad as a sour vinegar, paint thinner, with nail polish remover smell, burning the nasal passageways similar to horseradish.
To paraphrase Jesus’ words in Mark 2:27-28 concerning the Sabbath: ‘It is the LORD”S Day & I am the LORD!’
The kingdom of Christ is established by the implanting of Christ’s nature in willing humanity through the work of the Holy Spirit.
The difference I find between the common confused Protestant theology & Seventh-day Adventist theology is like the difference between a Yugo and a Bugatti. Yet the benefit of that difference is nearly lost in its journey from the SDA mind to the SDA heart! See Luke 18:18
THE 7 ASPECTS OF THE GOSPEL:
1 The actions: Began at Creation revealing God’s love Rom 1:19, then faith in His promise of Ge 3:15, then centralized in Christ’s condensation, life, death, resurrection & continuing ministry for fallen man. Heb 7:25; 9:15; Zech 3; Dan 7
2. The Persons: El & Elohim {singular & pleural}
3. The effects: Forgiveness & Christ in us – via the Holy Spirit 2 Cor 6:16 { “in” x 2}
4. The power: Selfless Love = True Love
5. The application: Beholding – a feasting with the eyes, the mind, the ears, the heart, the body
6. The message: God loves the world Jn 3:16
God loves you Mt 16:15
God loves me Mk 10:21
7. The result: An unfathomable metamorphosis in character, then environment.
A good marriage partnership consists of a man & a woman being acutely, humbly aware of, and owning & repenting of their own failings, errors, short comings & sins while focusing on their partners fruitions, long-comings & virtues. This is made available by inviting our Creator to be the third partner.
Warnings recorded about sun worship:
Job 31:26 ~1800BC Patriarchs
Ex 32:4,20,35 ~1445BC Israelites – golden calf = Ra = Egyptian sun god
EX 38:13 ~ 1445BC Israelites – entrance to worship with back to the sun
Deut 4:19 ~1445BC Israelites – do not be enticed to worship the sun
Deut 17:3 ~1445BC Israelites – “bowing to the sun”
2 Chr 33:3,5 ~ 680BC Israelites – “stary hosts”
2 Kings 17:16 ~630BC Israelites – “stary hosts”
2 Kings 23:5,11 ~630 BC Israelites- “stary hosts”
2 Kings 23:11 ~630 BC Israelites – “sun & moon”
Jer 8:2 ~ 600BC Israelites – “sun & moon…they have worshiped”
Neh 9:6 ~ 530BC Israelites – “You alone are LORD.You made..the start hosts
Ez 8:16,17 ~575 BC Israelites – “back to the temple..bowing to the sun”
Mt 16:23 ~34AD Christian Church – “Get thee behind me Satan” KJV
Mk 8:33 ~34AD Christian Church – “out of my sight Satan” NIV see: Ex 38:13; Ez 8:16,17 above
Jn 8:12 ~34AD Christian Church – Jesus – “I am the light of the world”
Acts 7:42 ~34 AD Christian Church – “God turned away..& gave them over to the worship of heavenly bodies”
Ro 1:25 ~60 AD Christian Church – “worshiped and served things made…”
Rev 14:7 ~60AD Christian Church – “Worship Him who made the heavens” See Ge 1:16
Rev 21:23 Heaven All who have chosen – “no sun..God gives it’s light.”
Rev 22: 5 Heaven All who have chosen – “… needs no.. sun..for the Lord God will be their light” ESV
Current days of the week in English are named after Germanic / Norse gods.
God’s desire for humans & this earth are the synonyms of peace & rest. 1) At creation He began each day with rest – “& the evening and the morning were” …Ge ch. 1; 2) the first day of human life – rest & the peace of His presence – six days are for labor but the 7th Ge 2:2-3; 3) The first desire for the Hebrew slaves – Israel – Ex chs. 5 – 11 & 16 – rest & peace; 4) There remains a rest Heb chs 4, Rev 21:4. If there is one thing that I have learned from reading God’s word, is that His bottom line desire for us is happiness, peace and joy with unnumbered blessings waiting for us. Mt 11:28’29; Rev 22:17.
Atonement spoken of > 112 times in OT {first in Ge 3:15} & 5 times in NT is not about extinguishing the law – but extinguishing the guilt incurred by intentional {iniquity}, rebellious {transgression}, & inadvertent – sin. Nor has It anything to do with appeasing our God who”so loves the world that He gave His Son…” Jn 3:16
Is your assurance of salvation founded in your choice or action past, present or future or is it founded in your trust in /of His steadfast love?
Christ fulfilled the law: meaning: to make full, to put into effect; to develop the full potentialities of ; to convert into reality – in you
“Once saved always saved?” Adam? Eve? King Saul? King David? Jer 18? Ez 18? Mt 26:33? Mk 14? Lk 22:32? Gal 2:20? 1 Cor 15:31? Php1:21? Salvation is daily assured in & by your daily granted freedom of choice: “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve” Joshua 24:15
The delectables at the banquet were prepared at infinite cost are the fruits of the Spirit.
THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF 3 DIFFERENT DEATHS!
The first and last are based on our freedom of choice. The middle death was decided by our forerunners. The first is the given option that by our free choice, to humbly die daily to the other wise unstoppable harms of selfishness.
The second death was determined both by our first parents and by our succumbing to our propensities to sin. The third and eternal cessation may be avoided by our choice of & acceptance of Christ’s selfless life of love to exist in us thus dyeing daily to self as did the apostle Paul 1 Cor 15:31.
The apostle Paul speaks to young Timothy in 1 Timothy 1:8 telling him, ”Now we know that the law is excellent,..” {Strong”s Conc.}. Excellent indicates it goes far beyond standards, being extremely good, superior, exceptional and is one on the strongest compliments available {Oxford dict.] ! So Paul charged Timothy in 6:14 “to keep the commandments unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ” …”who alone has immortality…” Immortality is a word used 5 times in scriptures and is always either an attribute or gift of divinity given at Christ’s second coming. Be wary of attempts to claim it earlier via pagan greek platonic dualism.
Ton-hesed meaning: mercy, compassion, grace, love, faithfulness, eternal & limitless that comes to life in actions is used 250 times in the Old Testament. Yes, the Bible is one whole – in speaking of the OT Jesus said, “these are they that testify of me.” Jn 5:39
The Bible is about God, referred to 32 times in Genesis 1 and again 32 times in Revelations 22. God separates light and darkness in Genesis 1:3 and again in Revelation 22:14.
“God is light,” so “walk in the light” 1Jn 1:5-7, & Jesus said: “I am the light of the world” Jn 8:12. Will your future be light or darkness?
(S) = Strong’s Strongest Concordance
LIFE EXCOGITATIONS 