Saturday, 31 December 2011
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Does He exists?
Did Stalin exist, or Lenin or Hitler? Some say Jesus did not exist, but than they forget that there are more writings on Jesus from Nazareth then about Nero, Euripides, Charlemagne, Napoleon or other historical figures.
God, the Creator of all things is a totally different matter. A lot is written about Him, but that would not be a proof He really exists.
With that special figure which got a lot of interest all over the world you can question if any supernatural does exist.
There was in old times as today in certain religions the practice to offer meat on pagan altars, burnt in honour of the god. No idol is anything in the world. The idol was a mere picture or symbol of a god. If the god has no existence, the idol is a non-entity.
"So then, concerning the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol is no matter at all in the world, and that there is no other Elohim but one. For even if there are so-called mighty ones, whether in heaven or on earth – as there are many mighty ones and many masters – for us there is one Elohim, the Father, from whom all came and for whom we live, and one Master יהושע Messiah, through whom all came and through whom we live." (1 Corinthians 8:4-6 The Scriptures 1998+)
There is no other God, not two, not three or more. 'No heathen god exists' but does there exist an other god or God?
Can there be an image of that God who is said off that He cannot be seen other while the person who will see Him would die? The ghost being spoken of said: But He said, “You are unable to see My face, for no man does see Me and live.” (Exodus 33:20 The Scriptures 1998+) How did people manage to get pictures of Him? do those images means images of false gods, since there is no image of God?
“You do not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of that which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth, " (Exodus 20:4 The Scriptures 1998+)
God would not have any symbols before his people, but have them worship him in spirit and in truth.
When we may not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for ourselves, why is it that so many Christians do pray in front of crosses or pictures? In several churches we do find images of saints and gods, and put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in their land, to give worship to it.
"Do not turn to idols, and do not make for yourselves moulded mighty ones. I am יהוה your Elohim." (Leviticus 19:4 The Scriptures 1998+)
"‘Do not make idols for yourselves, and do not set up a carved image or a pillar for yourselves, and do not place a stone image in your land, to bow down to it. For I am יהוה your Elohim. " (Leviticus 26:1 The Scriptures 1998+)
Are there forms of any living thing, male or female,that can be the god? A beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air, or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the earth? Or is the god that beautiful star some look at and praise it? And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, are you the one who let yourself be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Almighty Creator has given equally to all peoples under heaven?
“Therefore, diligently guard yourselves, for you saw no form when יהוה spoke to you at Ḥorĕḇ out of the midst of the fire, lest you should do corruptly and shall make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure – the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the heavens, the likeness of any creature that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; and lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and shall see the sun, and the moon, and the stars – all the host of the heavens – and you be drawn away into bowing down to them and serving them, which יהוה your Elohim has allotted to all the peoples under all the heavens.
(Deuteronomy 4:15-19 The Scriptures 1998+)
Is there not the one who says "I Am" who is "the one who is" who curses the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to Him, the work of man’s hands, and puts it up in secret?
"‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved or moulded image, an abomination to יהוה, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amĕn!’ " (Deuteronomy 27:15 The Scriptures 1998+)
This "god" can look a jealous god and a difficult one to comprehend.
When we look around us we can see many things. Lots of things we do understand but also lots of things, not to say more things, we do not understand.
What sort of thing could have caused the universe to come into being?
Was there something that started it all off? If it is something that also had a beginning then we would need to find yet another cause to explain how that came into being. However if it is something that is eternal (i.e. has no beginning) then it does not need a cause.
Whatever your explanation for the origins of the universe, at some point you need some eternal thing, some uncaused thing, to set everything going.
We cannot perceive God directly. It is true we cannot be sure that there exist that only One superior being. Though if we look carefully we shall be able to see enough proof of His existence. Though we may never have the same surety about the existence of God that we might have about the existence of trees or chairs we could feel to our inner-feeling or guts and listen to our instinct.
But that doesn’t mean we cannot reach a firm conclusion about whether God exists or not.
People can agree that there has to be a First Cause. To have that there should be a form or something of "no beginning" (i.e. something eternal) and being able to cause everything else.
This First Cause, is the "thing" we call God and could not be matter because matter is inanimate — you need something else to move it. The First Cause could be a Mind, because minds can organise and arrange matter. We call that Mind or spirit: “God”.
The things we see around us have a design and once should have started to be designed. Design requires a Designer. We call that Designer “God”.
That Designer was before everybody and before any construction or organization. So to get to know Him you better can forget all those worldly organizations. Lots of those religious organizations do have a lot of dogmatic ideas which their believers have just to accept them, because they are beyond human understanding.
But real faith along the line of the One and Only god does not need dogmas. Except the one dogma, namely that you have to accept that there is a God, who created the heavens and the earth.
"Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near when you say, “I have no pleasure in them”: " (Ecclesiastes 12:1 The Scriptures 1998+)
"In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth. And the earth came to be formless and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim was moving on the face of the waters." (Genesis 1:1-2 The Scriptures 1998+)
You do not to believe everything people say, but this Creator has said quite a lot over a period of many centuries. And the Words He had spoken are written down for the generations to come. For a long time many words were added and prophesies made. People were instructed, guided, but also reprimanded.
People can neglect those many words given in the previous millennia or they can take some time to listen to them and think about them.
Though it's almost too much to comprehend to have such a force in the universe to which we have good reasons to listen to, we should take note and be alert ...
After all, God -- like the Loch Ness Monster or that Canadian girl the New Yorker Gladstone lost his virginity to junior year can neither be proven nor disproven.But when you would take up that Word of that God, which is written down in the Book of Books, called the Bible, you would come to the conclusion who is who and would come to a better understanding why everything turns out this or the other way.
Naturally you can wonder if it is possible to get so much knowledge by reading such an ancient book. Are you so impressed with yourself or so intellectually uncurious that you think you perfectly understand the will of God just by reading a book?
Given how much we suck, why shut the door completely on the possibility of something in this universe being better, stronger and wiser? Something we could strive to be more like?
Who is at the beginning of everything? Who is He or She?
What do you think?
What do you feel?And to be honest, perhaps you have to feel more than to understand. Often we cannot really understand it very well, but we do accept that it is like that or that it works. Not everything is explainable for the human person. Our brains are limited. But should we not listen to someone whose brain is not limited and whosse time is also not restricted?
Yes, we talk about this Spirit whom we call the Only One God, the Elohim Hashem, Allah, whose Name is Jehovah.
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Please do find to read and to get to know more:
How are we sure God exists?
What does God look like
4 Things Both Atheists and Believers Need to Stop Saying
4 Things Both Atheists and Believers Need to Stop Saying p2
God of gods
Only one God
God is One (Video)
Hashem השם, Hebrew for "the Name"
Use of /Gebruik van Jehovah or/of Yahweh in Bible Translations/Bijbel vertalingen
Names And Titles Of The Deity
I Will Cause Your Name To Be Remembered
Yahushua, Yehoshua, Yeshua, Jehoshua of Jeshua
Lord or Yahuwah, Yeshua or Yahushua (Video)
Jehovah Yahweh Gods Name (Video)
Experiencing God
Jesus and his God
Scriptures That Show That Jesus (Yahshua) Is Not Yahweh (Jehovah)
Waarom wij in de Bijbel moeten geloven or Why believe the Bible (Video)
Power in the life of certain
Bible word of God, inspired and infallible
Bible power to change
Bible basic intro
Without God no purpose, no goal, no hope
Only worhsip the Creator of all things
Stick to one God
Believing in God the rewarder
God does not change
Call unto God so that He can answer you
Fearing the right person
With God All Things Are Possible
Praise the God with His Name
Thursday, 27 October 2011
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Some one or something to fear #7 Not afraid for Gods Name
Fear to use a name of a ghost, person or group
13. Not afraid for Gods Name
It is notable that a lot of priests or preachers do not dare to use God’s Name or even do not talk much about His person nor His works. In a lot of schools the religious instruction has not much to do with God but in fact concerns more general moral ethics or moral philosophy. Often there is more philosophy than studying the Word of God. Bible study is more often little sleeping baby than the popular theologians.
One does not dare to speak too much about God, because one is frightened to fail then.One thinks that people will pull out or that they (as preacher or as person)will be less popular. The own popularity is more on their mind than the popularity of their God. They are more concerned with what others might think about them. They prefer concealing God rather than to be unpopular in this world.
They have a worldly fear of failure which is still less to gloss over than the children their fear of not succeeding for a house task or test. It should not be our priority to succeed in this world or to become acknowledged and popular. We as Christians should aim to follow Christ, listen to him and accordingly honour his Father. Our aim should further be to succeed to become approved by God.
To be able to dare to come before the eyes of God we must dare to omit our fear. Though the world may look frightening we should be strengthened by the Force of our God. The world may not frighten us. We should dare to speak out the Name of our beloved Father, the Creator of us all. And we should know that to be able to be recognized and to be accepted by the God of gods, we shall have to accept His position and have to dare to speak out His Name which He loves to hear. We should have no excuses not to dare to pronounce His divine name and also to address Him with that Name that He has given to Him and us and also wants to hear.
“Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,”(Exodus 20:4-5 ASV)
“Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold,or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.” (Acts 17:29 ASV)
“Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not; They have ears, but they hear not;Noses have they, but they smell not; They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.”(Psalms 115:4-8 ASV)
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24ASV)
“I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.” (Isaiah 42:8 ASV)
“And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” (John 14:13 ASV)
Saturday, 22 October 2011
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Some one or something to fear #6 Faith in the Most High
Fear to use a name of a ghost, person or group
12. Have faith in the Most High
During our training we must have trust in the Highest Teacher of them all, so that This One can form or blend us to His liking. He is the one who can knead us and puts us to His hand if we want to deliver ourselves to him. For this we must dare to recognise Him fully.
During our life we can become regularly confronted by difficulties. As a result of which we feel sometimes ourselves being pushed in the corner. We not only can feel even cumbersome, but we can also suffer from such pressing and stressing situations. But we must realise that this suffering will only be of a short time. Because, if we believe in God and want to live and work for Him, He shall not neglect us. He shall take into account how our hearth is feeling. He knows our inner feelings. (1 Samuel 16:7;Proverbs 21:2; Jeremiah 17:10) He shall not abandon us but shall come to help us.After we have suffered a short time, the God of all unmerited goodness, which has you called to its eternal holiness in unity with the Christos (Christus = Christ), He will finish your training, he will make you firm, and He will make you strong.
“And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.” (1 Peter 5:10 ASV)
“Behold,God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Jehovah, even Jehovah, is my strength and song; and he is become my salvation.” (Isaiah 12:2ASV)
“«For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song.» God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.” (Psalms 46:1 ASV)
“He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:29-31 ASV)
“Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee: He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.” (Psalms 55:22 ASV)
“For Jehovah will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.”(Psalms 94:14 ASV)
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.” (1Corinthians 10:13 ASV)
Therefore it’s undeservedly that passing men who would like to proclaim the Word of יהוה our God do not dare to use want the Tittles and the Name of this one of which they say they love Him. When we dearly love somebody we are not too afraid to talk about her or him, and we would not mind calling her or him by her or his name. Why are so many Christians than afraid to talk about their heroes without using their proper names?
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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Some one or something to fear #5 Not afraid
Fear to use a name of a ghost, person or group
10. Not frightened for other people
Many go burdened under humiliation which they must undergo from their fellow-citizens. They sometimes become ‘deathly-frightened‘ people. But they must humiliate themselves under the powerful hand of Jehovah God, so that He might raise them in due time, (1Peter 5:6)
“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;” (1 Peter 5:6 ASV)
We must dare to give ourselves in the hands of others so that they can come along to help us build up. Even if we must make many efforts to be able to progress in this life we should be ready for others to help them by correcting and guiding them in the right way. But together we can help each other there in.
“confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.” (Acts 14:22ASV)
“Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy,and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.” (Hebrews 13:17 ASV)
11. Be not afraid to share your faith
Those who belong to a non-Trinitarian group of believers should not be afraid for the intimidation of different believers. In case they are willing to read and discuss the Bible with several believers and follow their Bible studies in trust that God shall guide them, even sometimes with the help of those in the community, than when they always keep an open mind they shall be able to grow by the Light of the Bible and by the inspiration brought by the brothers and sisters.
Therefore it is very important to go to meetings and to join activities of the faithgroup to which one wants to belong.
“Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge; and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control patience; and in your patience godliness;” (2 Peter 1:5-6ASV)
“But thou,O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness,faith, love, patience, meekness.” (1 Timothy 6:11 ASV)
“Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.”(Revelation 2:10 ASV)
“And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matthew10:28 ASV)
“not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.” (Hebrews10:25 ASV)
Thursday, 13 October 2011
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Some one or something to fear #4 Families and Competition
Previously: Some one or something to fear #3 Cases, folks and outing
Fear to usea name of a ghost, person or group
8. Broken families
It is apity we had to come to the conclusion that some families got broken up, but wemust agree that Jesus also warns us for this fact that how closer we shall cometo the End Times how more families shall be broken up by the choices themembers of those families want to take. It is because certain people want toprefer to hold fast onto the world, while those who want to give hands to Godgrow away from the popular things of the world. Though they do not have toalienate from it. Good Christians also can enjoy a lot of good things of theworld. We do not have to become strangers or hermits or anchorites. We betterbecome whistle-blowers. By ringing the bell and calling the people to look forthemselves we should try to open their eyes. And those sayings are probably tohurt some people and at first certain people are going to be hurt but it is upto the loving Christian to bring in the softening cream to heal the wounds madeby the necessary changes. People may withdraw from situations where unpleasanteffects of anxiety have been experienced in the past[1]and lots of sayings are spread into the world. Some real but also a lot cookedup. Concocted stories are send in the world to discredit those and othernon-Trinitarian thinkers. Wrongful accusations are triggered to many believerswho do not want to accept the Trinity. Unreasonable things are being said aboutthem and erroneously they are all set in one box. It seems very difficult forpeople not to generalize. And that is what they mostly do about people who notthink and handle as themselves.
9. Competition
The unjust‘competition’ brings in a violating action. Undeserved reproaches are made tothe non-Trinitarian communities and the adversaries use the biggest and mostwell known group to hit the others as well. This makes the fear of failure growby those smaller communities. Believers fear that they shall not be favourablefor a good performance by the common world. The danger occurs that they losesight of the most important things to hold on and lose sight of the main Personwho can give them the necessary things to succeed in this life on earth. Theyoften forget who it is who can make them better and more productive members ofthe society.
It wouldnot be honourable to Him who provide to hide Him and to be afraid to mentionHis Name.
[1] Barker, P. (2003) Psychiatricand Mental Health Nursing: The Craft of Care. Edward Arnold, London.
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