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41 | Can i hate chickens and love JC? mt23:37 | John 3:14 | Giam | 46448 | ||
Hi Steve! U asked: Who said God used a snake to represent Satan? Revelation 12 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Who said God loves Satan? Based on the Golden Rule, matthew 7:12 when God tells us to love our adversaries/enemies, does He love His enemy? 1 John 2:9-11 speaks of loving and hating people. The original question concerned snakes. It had nothing to do with people. But principle is the same for all of everything, doesn't it? Can we hate lambs and love the Lamb of God? Can we hate lions without hating the Lion of the Tribe of Judah? Can we hate snakes and love the snake God held up for healing as a symbol of Christ in Numbers and in John 3:14? See what I mean? Now here is John 3 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: and Numbers 21 6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. And of course, Jesus in Love of snakes He Himself created called the Pharisees snakes among other things: Matthew 23 29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Anf of course in Love of foxes he createdcalled Herod a fox: Luke 13 31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. 32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected. and in love of dogs called the woman a dog: Matthew 15 26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. 28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith WHICH WORKS BY LOVE GALATIANS 5:6 WHICH MEANS SHE LOVED DOGS TOO AND SO WAS NOT OFFENDED BY BEING CALLED WHAT SHE LOVED HERSELF AS!: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. Sorry to be so longwinded, but so i am not genuinely misunderstood, smile, i wanted to be sure that u knew that I am being honest and sincere and genuine and noble in love of course for the dishonest and for the insincere and for the ingenuine and for the ignoble. smile l and r, giam |
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42 | Is God really I am who or what I am? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46449 | ||
Thanks Makarios! I hear u! But can I be as wise/subtle as a serpent while hating them, and be as harmless as a dove while loving them? See waht I am saying? And what about this? Proverbs 30 18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. Am I really learning the core about going to ants if I hate them? See what I mean? And since to u, subtle means crafty, what about this? 2 Corinthians 12 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. Can I hate the serpent or Satan for being crafty while loving the apostle Paul for being crafty with guile? Wd I not tend to also hate Paula for being like the serpent and snake I hate? See? And when u say this: I do not believe that such a close comparison or analogy between Christ, love, and snakes is in any way accurate, how do u explain Romans 8:35-39 where Hate for any of the creation separates us from the Love of Christ? Romans 8 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, IN ALL these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, NOR ANY OTHER CREATION/CREATURE, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Can we really hate any creature God created and still totally love the Creator of what we hate? See? Looking fwd to your comments. All Love and Respect to u, Giam |
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43 | Is the Formula for sin to hate anything? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46453 | ||
Steve! Thanks for your reply! So: If i were to call u name of an animal, wd u get offended? I wd bet u wd! But because I lvoe myself as all the words there are, nothing can offend me becaue i can't be offended by what words i lvoe me as! Steve, we can only be offended by what words we already sinfully hate ourselves as! Wd u call yourself the names Christ called them? Wd u be offended by any name He called u? Steve, if i hated me as poor and loved me as rich, and loved on ekind of pet out of hate for all others, I wd have set my mind on being rich and on that one pet because i wd be a love-hate double-minded person as described here: James 1 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. It is only the person who loves himself as God loves him, which is as HImself, 1 John 4:18, john 15:9 that then has the Love-pure or pure-Love mind of Titus 1:15 and who is therefore like these persons: Psalm 119 165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and NOTHING shall offend them. And of course wd recall this: Proverbs 12 10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. and this: Numbers 22 22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an Adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his Ass, and his two servants were with him. 23 And the Ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the Ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the Ass, to turn her into the way. 24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. 25 And when the Ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again. 26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. 27 And when the Ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the Ass with a staff. 28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the Ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? 29 And Balaam said unto the Ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee. 30 And the Ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine Ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? and he said, Nay. 31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face. 32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine Ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me: 33 And the Ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless She had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive. 34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again. See what I mean? Love and Respect, Giam |
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44 | Is the Formula for sin to hate anything? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46474 | ||
Thanks Steve for your reply. U asked me to elaborate: Here is waht I believe: Based on Matthew 22:36-40 and 7:12, when God tells me to love him all the way, He must be also be already loving me all the way. i John 4:19 and John 15:9. And when God tells me to love my neybas as myself, he must be loving me as my neighbor and he must be loving my neigbor as me, by first loving himself as me and loving himself as my neighbor! See? I know u may have to think about that a bit. smile But once u have the premise of Love as in Matthew 22:36-40, the logic of Matthew 7:12 will show u all the rest! So it is clear to me that when God tells me to lvoe my neighbor as my self, I must, like Him, first love my self as my neyba in order to love my neyba as myself! So Steve, before we can love others, we have to lvoe ourselves. So if I hate u, who do I hate? Myself! When I hate u, u are NOT my problem! I am my own problem! To be specific, my attitude of hate for myself is my problem. I have a problem attitude and an attitude problem! And since our brains work by words, and all words have opposites, whatever I love u as or hate us as is always as the same word I love to hate me as! So: if I hate u as a fool, who do I hate? Myself. And who do i hate me as? As a fool! Try it out: it words for all words! That is why as kids we knew and said: it takes one to know one! As adults we say: before we can love others, we have to lvoe ourselves! So sure enuff, it was because I hated me as fool before i ever met u that when I ran into u and saw u as myself, that I hated u because i already also hated me a fool! See? So? Whatever words i hate me as are the words that i will hate all my neybas as! And, whatever words I hate me as wd be the words that i wd get offended when u call me by those names! So: Since God loves me as all words and their opposites, I am to lvoe me as God loves me: as all words and their oppisites. And since God loves me as all words and their opposites, to hate me as any word is the first sin, the first spiritual sin, the first sin in my thinking!! For to hate me as any words will be to hate God and my neighbor as myself as those very words! matthew 25:35-45, 1 John 4:20. In fact since Christ is the Word, to hate any word is to hate HIM as that word! See? That is why matthew 12:34-37: By your words u shall be justified and by your words u shall be condemned! So then it is very easy to see that if i hate myself as a dog or snake or u name it, when Christ calls me one or implies that i am one, I wd get offended! So Steve, if I told u waht words i hate, those wd be the very words I hate myself as, the very words i wd hate my neighbor as, and wd be the same words I wd hate God as! So to love my self as certain words and at the same time hate myself as the the opposites of those words is to have the double-minded attitude of Love and Hate to all things and persons! So waht u wrote here is perfect: "You speak of double-minded as hating one thing in opposition to loving another. Double-minded is trying to hold THE two opposite views of LOVE AND HATE FOR a single thing or idea or command. If you were to try to love and hate the same thing at the same time--that would be double-minded." Yes! So to apply Love and Hate to the same ONE set of things called words IS to be double-minded! God's righteousness is to apply Love ONLY to all words, and to apply hate ONLY to the sin of hating any word! Do u see? And now here is the perfect example of James 1:8: 2 Samuel 13 15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone. Your comments and questions wd be appreciated. L and R, giam |
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45 | Did God make snakes? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46497 | ||
Mommapbs! Thanks for your input! Your bottom line is waht I agree with: "Feel free to love snakes . . .in a herpetorium or in a handbag!" But God also says we are to love our enemies, Matthew 5:43-48, and our enemies include Satan, that ole serpent and that wicked spirit in high places, Rev 12:9 and ephesians 6:10-12, whom we are to resist with Love. James 4:7, 1 peter 5:8-9. So based on matthew 7:12: when God commands us to lvoe our enmies, matthew 5:43-48, God must also lvoe his enemy Satan, who also happens to be our enemy too! So we have a common enemy! So as u quoted, God loves without the hypocrisy of telling us to love whom he hates! His Love is genuine for he loves who he tells us to love. To me, the crawling on the belly part of gen 3:14 has to do with Love and Hate: When we hate what we are to lvoe, we are dragging Love on its belly, we are making Love crawl on its belly, and so dragging ourselves and God down! So a hater is crawling even when standing! So to hate who or what we are to lvoe is to spiritually make Love crawl with the maggots of hate when Love shd always be standing and flying high, SoS 2:4 just as to hate who or what God lvoes is to kill love with hate, and so is to murder love, which is why Hatred is the spirit of murder! This is why to hate anyone and then to kill them by killing their life is double murder: the killing of Love by Hate and the killing of life by hate! So too to hate any snake who crawls is to make it doubly crawl: on its belly and on its belly of hate! Is like humiliating someone we hate: make em crawl and hate em too! So as a Serpent, Satan doubly crawls on his belly by hating himself as a creepy-crawler: he is a crawler who is crawling with the ceepy crawling attitude of Hate! But because God curses in Love who/what he loves and blesses in Love who/waht he loves, Levit 26 and deut 28, then when God in Love cursed the serpent, whom he designed to crawl anyway, he was trying to get him to crawl with Love rather than crawl with hate! To crawl with love is to have Love standing even while crawling! So there is big differnce between crawling in Love and crawling in Hate! Because we love babies, we see their crawling with Love! So let us keep that Love standing strong whether we are crawling or sitting or lying down or walking! Hope that helps! Another thing i lvoe about all the people on this forum is that every one seems to be genuinely Bible-based! smile Look fwd to your comments! L and r, giam |
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46 | Is God really I am who or what I am? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46498 | ||
Thanks Makarios! Yes, I love snakes and in love stay far away from them! So too, I love Satan and with Love resist him and want to be in Love far away from him! See? My point was/is that to hate snakes or to hate Satan or to hate anyone or anything is the same Hate misapplied! Satan is also compared to a lion. 1 peter 5:8-9. So the same premise and logic in love applies: it is wrong to hate lions and wrong to hate satan! Satan is only Lucifer in hate! Lucifer was Satan in Love! Do u follow? Hate must only be applied to sin, and sin is the hating of anything God loves! Satan is only evil because of the evil attitide of sin of him hating himself and so trying to get us to hate him so to get us to disobey God who commands us to lvoe our worse and number one enemy, our spiritual enemy: Satan. So if we hate Satan, we are dissing God and obeying Satan, and if we love Satan, we are obeying God and disobeying satan! Matthew 5:43-48 and Ephesians 6:10-12. Since Satan hates us, when we hate him back,, when we resend hate to him, we are just like him who hates his enemies, and we are not like God who loves His enemies! see? Your comments please! l and r, giam |
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47 | Did God make snakes? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46508 | ||
Thanks Mommapbs! So waht do u think God is saying here? Jude 1 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, DESPISE dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the Devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst/DARED NOT bring against him a railing/DESPISING accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. Looking fwd to your input! l and r, giam |
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48 | How to get perfect like God is perfect? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46598 | ||
Mommapbs! Thanks for your input and prayers in Christ's PERFECT Love! I second that attitude! smile It must be inspiring me by providing me with a perfect seg-way: Isn't God's Love perfect and whole because he loves both the just and the unjust, the perfect and the imperfect? Matthew 5:43-48 If he loved just the just and only the perfect, wd not His Love be half-perfect or partial or half-whole or imperfect or half-just? See what I mean? Therefore, is not God's Love made strong in weakness and perfect in imperfection and whole in unwholesomeness and healthy in sickness and rich in poverty and etc in its opposite-etc, so that when He is foolish, then He is wise, when He is weak, then He is strong, when He is etc, then He is the opposite-etc? smile Here are the scriptures: 2 Corinthians 12 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM STRONG. 1 Corinthians 1 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For after that in THE WISDOM OF GOD the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the FOOLISHNESS of preaching to save them that believe. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a STUMBLINGBLOCK, and unto the Greeks FOOLISHNESS; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ THE POWER OF GOD, and THE WISDOM OF GOD. 25 Because the FOOLISHNESS OF GOD is wiser than men; and THE WEAKNESS OF GOD is stronger than men. 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God hath chosen THE FOOLISH things/PEOPLE of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen THE WEAK things/PEOPLE of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And BASE/UNPEDIGREED things/PEOPLE of the world, and things/PEOPLE which/WHO ARE DESPISED, hath God chosen, yea, and things/PEOPLE which are NOTHING/NOBODIES, to bring to nought things that are: What do u think? smile In Perfect Love for u as right and as wrong! giam Love and respect, giam |
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49 | Is the Formula for sin to hate anything? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46667 | ||
Steve! I used to think the ssame thing: "We naturally love ourselves too much." So I know how u must think: I am sure u will let me know if i am wrong! So u must just wish u cd love others with as much love as u love yourself, right? So when u don't like others, u must blame them for u not liking them, and say so like this: Boy, if my wife or whoever wd just be good and or right, then i cd love them like I love me! Right? So u must also have a problem identifying what sin vanity is: Is vanity self-Love or self-hate? U must think the sin of vanity is self-love! So since vanity is the sin of self-Love, and since I love me too much already, then of course, i must trying to hate me some to get that self-Love down to normal levels! Then however, it wd a sin for my neighbor to hate who it is a sin for me to love! Me! And since my neyba must also hate himself, it wd be a sin for me to hate who it is ok fro him to hate! Him! Right? So u must have lots of family problems in your church! For how can it be a sin for me to lvoe what my wife must love? Me! And how cd it be a sin for her to lvoe who it wd be a sin for me to hate? Her! Plus of course, if self-Love is a sin, then that sin of self-Love must be in opposition to the Law of love for my neighbor as I love myself! Steve, do u see? It is because we assumed that we loved each other TOO much that we cd NOT figure out WHY then we cd not love our neybas as we loved ourselves, why we cd not love our neybas to the extent we thot we loved ourselves! Since Love is God's greatest law, only God cd teach us HOW to love in the first palce! So our assumption that we loved ourselves too much on the preseumption that we had been properly already taught to lvoe ourselves by our parents was the WRONG assumption! For we had not yet had God teach us how to love ourselves! John 6:45: God will teach us! 1 John 4:19: We love God only becaue he first loved us! So the real truth is: if u love u too much, u must be able to lvoe me too much! But U can't give away what u don't have! So the reason why u find it so hard to give love to me MUST mean u have too little for yourself! Ah! So if at the same time u think u love u too much, u also don't like me as much as u love u, then which is it? Then it MUST mean that u also HATE YOURSELF! Ah! And if u are sure u lvoe u, then u must also love ME to the SAME extent! See? Ah! So which is it? It is both! To the extent to love U MUST be a little since u hate me so much! So? So to the extent of the lot of hate u hate me with, U must be also hating U! And to the little extent u love me with, u MUST also be also lving u a little! Ah! Now, i am thinking clearly! The reason I have such a hard time loving my neighbors is because i Love me little! And to the extent i find it so easy to hate my neighbors is becaue i hate me a lot! Ah! Now this makes sense! God never taught me how to lvoe me, so no wonder i love/d me too little and so cdn't/can't love my neigbor all that much! Ah! Plus if i loved me too much, why wd i need God's Love? Ah! It is because I lvoe me too litttle that I need God's agape love! Plus since Love is keepings God's laws, 1 john 5:3 and since sin is the trasnsgression of the Law, 1 john 3:4, then vanity MUST be self-hate, not self-love! Ah! makes perfect sense! Sigh Steve, hope that helps u, man! I mean it! T b continued. Loving u all the way as myself by loving myself all the way as u, giam |
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50 | Is the Formula for sin to hate anything? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46668 | ||
Steve, To continue: Then on that premise, my logic wd make more sense to u: God is Love because His law is Love, and His law is Love because he is Love! All proper premises are circular, are in parallel!... so that the straight-line logical logic can tie back in to the beginning! see? So when God was by himself with everything IN HIM, BEFORE he created anything, God loved himself as et and so loved et as himself! Then he decided that because he loved himself all the way, never too much, just enough from moment to moment, he wd create et out of himself, he wd create himself into everything TO CONTINUE loving et as himself outside of Himself! That is why colossinas 1:17: all things consist OF HIM! So of all things he crated, he gave man a mind like his: So it is clear that when God continued to lvoe Himself as Man in order to lvoe Man as Himself, the very first thing God wanted man to do was to lvoe man himself as God in order to lvoe God as himself! 1 john 4:19. See? Please see that! Then Man's love for God wd be genuine! For Man wd know that he WAS just giving God back the Love that God had first given him to give to himself and so give it back to God! And Because man wd be loving himself as God to lvoe God as himself, God wd know that man knew that God loved him, and that man was loving God because man was loving himself! Then there wd no faking it nor hypocrisy of saying something like: God I hate me that u made, and by the me u made i that i hate, i am now loving u and thanking u for u! See? God wd then say: Giam, do u know who made U? I amde u! And do u know who I amde u out of? I made u out of me! So how can u hate u that I made out me and still have the hypocrisy to say u love me while u hate the u that is who empowers U to say u love me? Giam! U can't hate u and genuinely love me: for I am U! and u are Me! So Giam, when i lvoe u as myself, that is HOW u are are to love U! so u can love me back as U! I don't need your Love! I am already loving me: that is why I made U out of me! So I want your Love not for my sake but for yours: For when I hear u loving Me out of Love for U, what do i know? U must be loving U too! Giam, don't u see? Go and love u as me so u can love me as u automatically! And btw, also add in loving u as all your neybas so u can lvoe them as u automatically! Just do it, Giam! Sigh Steve, I lvoe u as myself and so lvoe u as me! I love u as God and so love God as u! I love u as God and so see God in u! I lvoe God as u and so see U in God! Is that so bad an idea" I think it is the most wonderful gift God has ever given to me, and so I share it with u and with all! Ok? That is why God says: 1 John 3 1 Behold, what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. or as He wd say in direct speech: When I shall appear u shall be like me, For you shall see me as I am! 3 And every man that hath this hope of Love in him purifieth himself in love even as in Love he is pure! So Steve, "The whole idea of following Christ is to deny HATE TO ourselves and lose HATE FOR our lives so that He might have His perfect way OF LOVE in us (Matt 16:24-26). Sigh Matthew 16 24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself in Love, and take up his cross of Love, and follow me in Love. 25 For whosoever will save his life in hate of death shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life in Love of death for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world in hate of himself having nothing and in hate of himself as a loser, and so lose his own soul of love fro himself? or what shall/can a man give in exchange for his soul of Love when Love is waht makes life worth living? Look fwd to your thot ful comments! Loving myself as u and so loving u as myself, giam |
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51 | Is God really I am who or what I am? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46679 | ||
Makarios! Thank u! I HEAR u! smile We agree to disagree in Love and Respect, right? smile So where did u get that name? I love it! L and r, Giam |
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52 | How to get perfect like God is perfect? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46681 | ||
Mommapbs! U r so good! Thanks! L and r, Giam |
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53 | How to get perfect like God is perfect? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46716 | ||
mommapbs! In all the humility of Love for being proud, I re-maintain that ONLY GOD IS GOOD LOVE AND GOOD HATE, and He wants us to be perfect like Him and His Father!! matthew 5:48. In the name of Jesus in Love of all other names! giam |
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54 | Is the Formula for sin to hate anything? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46777 | ||
Sorry Steve! I do see your point, based on Rev 22:18-19, why anyone cd think so! No disrespect meant, but since it is disrespect to u, I will stop in Love and in Respect! Once again, it was done to save time and space! So rather than having to write/paste the verse then write what i think the verse means in Love, I cd just do it in one! But in love and in respect of myself as disrespectful, I accept yout categorization of me as disrespectful even when I KNOW I was not, and so will comply in Love and Respect! smile No problem! Like that? Love does work! As to the word 'as,': it means both of the meanings u thot of, and more: 3.as much as, 4.all the time as 5.as if u were, 6.as the same name as, 7.as every word as. 8. as is. Plus more i am sure! Believe it or not, they all are equal in meaning as to Love: So for God to love man as Himself is for God to love man as is man were God, is to love man in the same way God loves Himself, is to love man as much as God lvoes Himself, is to lvoe man as if God were man, is to love man all the time as or while God loves Himself, is to love man as the name God is to love man as all the names and words God lvoes Himself as, is to love Man as is! See? All the above each prove one thing: That man is another name for God! And that God is another name for Man! John 10:34-35 and Psalms 82:6 and Genesis 1:26. 'As' is the most important 2 letter word in all the Bible! and its use is so elegant: It can mean at least 10 other meanings, and so enables God and us to be concise and yet say it all in one word! The only 'bad' thing about that is that all the truth then lies hidden IN the words! Which is also 'good' since God wanted to hide the truth in Love! Proverbs 25:2.. so we cd dig it out! And of course having dug it out, i love to spread it out like butter! which may offend others, present company excepted of course!, who are not there yet! smile Of course when we love 'as' as all other words, not only does 'as' mean all words but also all other words mean 'as'! The principle is in Love itself: When we love all words, Love means all words and all words mean Love! Then that overall general principle applies to each word: So when I love Steve as all words, Steve means all words to me and all words mean Steve to me! Which Love is why someone has said to u: Steve, u mean everything to me! meaning Steve, all words mean u to me! Of course that cd only be actully true all the way if the person who said so DID love all words! And see how circular it is! That's because Love is the Circle of God and so of all words and so of all life! Looking fwd to hearing from u in Love and in Respect! smile giam |
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55 | Is the Formula for sin to hate anything? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46779 | ||
CDBJ! Sorry! et is everything, u is you, wd is would, neybas is neighbors, lvoe is a typo for Love!,smile fwd is forward, thot is thought, ful is full? smile Then I write all my words in Love! i.e., that is, smile I write all my words in the code of Love! What's that? I love myself as all words and so love all words as myself! uh oh Never heard of that before? That's ok. It is simplicity simplified! The code of Love is an open code! That is, In something written in English, the words 'in Love' and 'in Hate' are either implicitly understood or explicitly written in! You see, that is how God originally wrote the Bible: in Love! Ephesians 4:15, and how He has always done, is doing and will do everything: in Love for all things and In hate only for the sin of hating any word! See? So even those who are not consciously informed about this Code of Love can still read it and understand it to the extent of what Love they already have in their attitudes. But because it is all written in Love, those into Hate for any certain words can't help but misunderstand! See? So that is why I am not alarmed when you say that I don't make any sense to u or that I am senseless to you! smile For example, I love myself as sensible and as senseless! So even when I am senseless, I am sill loving in attitude, see, still in Love. And so whenever i am senseless to you, even when i am perfectly sen-se-full [new word!] to me, I can easily accept your evaluation of me in Love as not making any sense at all ... to you! Make sense? smile It helps me to always have an openminded approach to everytinga nd to every one even while being most closeminded about ONE thing: Love for all words! smile Interesting, eh? Looking forward to hearing from u now that hopefully you can make more sense out of me! smile Loving you as sensible, Loving me as insensible and senseless, Giam |
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56 | Is the Formula for sin to hate anything? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46798 | ||
Hi Hank! Thank you for your post! Ok, let's see if you have an earthly idea of what I am trying to say here in the following: 'You do understand plain English written in a loving attitude,' right? smile So far, so good? Well THAT is THIS: 'You do understand the plain English I write in Love!' Still on Earth with me? smile What I have been trying to resist saying up to now is that I think what is hindering you or anyone from understanding what i write in Love is HOW, in what attitude of mind, the manner in which you are mostly reading most of what I write! For example: When I write the word 'horror,' I am writing and reading that word in Love! But I am sure that when you read the word 'horror' that I have written, you read that word in hate! So right off, we are in opposite worlds! See? We are even more separated than the English and the Americans are separated by a common language! We are separated by the gulf of different attitudes! See? That is the funda-mental divide that can only be bridged by Love of all words! Solution: Now suppose I say 2 plus 2 is 5. I could only confuse you by saying that IF you are already not sure what 2 and 2 is! Right? But if you are already sure in yourself as to what 2 and 2 is, then you would write me back saying: Giam, u are wrong: 2 and 2 is NOT 5. It is 4! So? So let me implore you: please be like Christ The Word is in Love by loving all your English words! So Hank that is what i have done with God's help: And so if I ever don't understand what you are saying, I will always first blame me! Oh, I don't understand, I am confused! Hank understands what he is writing! Let me ask him a question! I never would blame you for me being confused! By my approach of taking responsiblity for my own confusion, I simply ask you another polite question! without imputing any confusion on your part! See? In that way, I never abdicate my power and give you the power to confuse me by saying, 'Hank, you are confusing me! or 'Hank, you are making no sense at all to me!' or 'Hank, no one on this forum has any earthly idea of what you may be trying to say! So you may as well stop posting!' See? Forgetting that someone DOES have an earthly idea of what he is saying: Hank! I would simply say and ask something like this: 'Hank, help! I am so dumb that I can't make sense of what you are saying. Please tell me what you mean when you say such and such. It is clear that YOU DO understand what I am saying, AND it is clear that YOU Hank also understand waht YOU are saying! So since I only understand what I am saying AND do NOT understand what YOU are saying, then it is also clear you Hank have MORE understanding than me! You do see more than I am seeing! So Hank, please lend me some of the insight in your mind, man!' Then in all honest and humility, if I wanted to say more, I would say to you and so sound like Mark Twain when he said about the Bible: "Hank, it is not what I don't understand about what you write that bothers me. It is what I DO understand! So Hank, please keep posting and explaining! You have a lot of explaining to do!' smile Aaah! Those words would be music to the ears of Hank's mind! So guess what? The ears of my mind work just like yours! They would be music to mine! Here are some quotes to encourage you: "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is Love, the only survival, the only meaning." Thorton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey The only difference between stumbling blocks [walls] and steppingstones [bridges] is the way in which we use them. Anonymous James 1 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. Loving you as outstandingly understanding! Loving me as confoundingly confusing! Giam |
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57 | Is the Formula for sin to hate anything? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46811 | ||
Oh Steve! U are giving up so easily! Are you not going to be like the Good Shepherd and come to save me, this lost sheep of a Heretical Pantheist[HP] or a Pantheistic Heretic[PH], as u called me? Thanks for having so honest a conclusion IN THE NAME OF LOVE: SMILE: AT LEAST U GOT THAT LOVE RIGHT! So in Love of me, u have to love who I am, right? So u love me as a pantheist and as a heretic? So u do love pantheists and heretics? So u do love yourself as a PH or HP? That is so good! Congrats! U are so good! Well thank u! What? I'm wrong? Uh oh. U don't love nor respect yourself as a pan. nor a heretic? Oh I am so sorry! So how can you explain how u know that i am a PH or a HP? For u are right: I do love me as a pantheist and as a nonpantheist! So I can love pantheists and nonpnatheists as myself! So I am an honorary pantheist: I am a person who loves God and so who lives and moves and has his being in God everywhere, Acts 17:28-29, and I do love me as a heretic and as a non-heretic, so I can love heretics as and nonheretics as myself. I am a heretic of Love, a heretic in Love, a heretic against the sin of Hate just like Christ and Paul were, and I am an unheretic in Love! Thanks for putting me in such great company! So u r right: so you must KNOW what that means, right? It takes one to know one! So there must be some heretical pantheism in you for u agreed with me as to how we get meaning out of the what The Word of God says! Hmmmm so your only problem is IF u hate pantheists and heretics! So let me ask u again, like The Good Shepherd would, in order to try to save you who, in my conclusion in the name of Love, are being lost: Do you love yourself as a heretic and as a pantheist so u can love me as who u called me? Do you me as one of each? Uh oh! Do I hear a No? Again? I hope not! Tell me it ain't so, Steve! Do you think that saving someone who is being lost is such frivolous activity and a WOT, a Waste Of Time? frown Come on, Steve! Don't give up on yourself nor on me so easily! Now I would never give up on you nor on me so easily! Why? I love u as myself by loving me as you, that's why! Okay? Still love and Respect you as myself and as God! Now how bad could that be? If that is pantheism and heresy and a crime, then I want to be a pantheist and a heretic and guilty of Love to the nth degree! And guess what? U'd better get on board God's Train of Love: it keeps your thoughts on Christ's track! For remember: Proverbs 11 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise. Are you going to write me or not? smile Is that how YOU treat Strangers? Hint: U can properly refuse to write me ONLY IF u still Love me as a PH! So remember, Steve: Hebrews 13 1 Let brotherly Love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain STRANGERS: for thereby some have entertained ANGELS unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds, AS bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, AS being yourselves also in the body. Now, IN THE NAME OF LOVE, and so In Love for all of who you are as myself, I remain your secret friend, Giam |
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58 | Is the Formula for sin to hate anything? | John 3:14 | Giam | 46813 | ||
CDBJ! This is so good! "Dear little Giam, try this out. Hote emem nepios elaloun hos nepios elogizomen hos nepios hote gegona aner katergeka ta tou nepiou This is Koine Greek for what you should be doing, and this is how it reads. When I was a child I used to speak like a child, I used to think like a child, I used to reason like a child, but when I had become a man, I abolished the things of a child. En phileo, CDBJ" Thanks for the parallel translations! And thanks especially for the 'little Giam' and 'En Phileo!' Now based on this: 1 Corinthians 14 20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit IN MALICE BE YE CHILDREN, but in understanding be men. here is what that 1 Corinthians 13:11 means: When I was a child filled with Love and having no Malice nor Hatred, I used to speak like a child speaks, childishly, but in Love having NO Malice, I used to think like a child , I used to reason like a child thinks, childishly, but in Love having no Malice, but when I had become a man, I began thinking and speaking like a man BUT with the same Love having NO Malice AS the child I used to be, I abolished the things that a child does in speaking and in thinking, BUT I NEVER ABOLISHED THE LOVE HAVING NO MALICE that A LITTLE CHILD HAS. Got that in Agape-Love? smile That is WHY Christ said what He said in matthew 18:1-3, 10! And this is what He meant in Love: At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called A LITTLE CHILD [a little giam!] unto him, and set that little child in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted FROM HATE WITH NO LOVE, and FROM HATE MIXED WITH SOME LOVE TO LOVE WITH NO HATE/NO MALICE as in I Corinthians 14:20, and become AS little children are, [like Giam!]BEFORE THEY ARE POISONED WITH HATE, ye shall NOT enter into the kingdom of heaven. And is why He went on to say what He said in verse 10, which means: Take heed that ye DESPISE NOT nor HATE NOT nor HAVE MALICE FOR nor LOATH one of these little ones like little giam; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. And for those who do DESPISE AND HATE AND RESENT, God says: Ezekiel 16 44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. 45 Thou art thy mother's daughter that LOATHETH her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which LOATHED their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. and says this: Ezekiel 23 28 For thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou HATEST, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is ALIENATED: 29 And they shall deal with thee HATEFULLY, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. So CDBJ, I will assume that you NOW do LOVE liitle giam and have NO MALICE for little ones. So BIG CDBJ, try understanding this out: Quis enim despexit dies parvos et laetabuntur et videbunt lapidem stagneum in manu Zorobabel septem isti oculi Domini qui discurrunt in universa terra U don't? That is the Latin for what ATTITUDE YOU SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE for adults and little ones, and here is how it reads: Zechariah 4 10 For WHO hath DESPISED the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth. Looking fwd to hearing from you EN AGAPE FOR MIKROS! Loving u as an adult, Loving me as a little child, En Agape e en epi- e apo-blepo, mikros giam |
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59 | jme, is the person in Jam 2:14 saved? | John 10:28 | Giam | 45745 | ||
Dear Searcher, James 2:14 says: What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? God's first two great commands about Love are the basis of everything else: Matthew 22:36-40. So true enough: Faith works by Love: Galatians 5:6 and Works work by Love: 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 So whether I have faith or no faith, works or no works, I am supposed to have Love or Faith in Love. See? Then with constant faith in Love, there is a time to have faith, and there is a time to have no faith. See Daniel 3:17-18 for an example of each. Then with constant faith in Love, there is a time to work, and a time to not work. Se Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. Then with constant faith in Love, we can integrate faith and works: there is a time to have faith and works, like when it is time to work: Exodus 20:9, and there is a time to have faith and no works, like when it is time to rest: Exodus 20:8, and there is a time to have no faith and no works, like the disciples who stayed in the boat while Peter went on the water, Matthew 14:25-31 and there is a time to have no faith and works, like Thomas in John 20:26-29. So under all conditions, we are to have faith in God by having faith in Love. Philippians 4:11-13. So the person in James 2:14 is saved if he has Love, and is not saved if he has no Love, no matter what other combination of faith and works he has! See? James just happened to use the one permutation of the person having faith and no works and apparently having no Love! The perfect time to have faith in Love and in Love to have no works is when God says: Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord! Exodus 14:13-14. But even if I had all faith and all works but had NO LOVE, all my faith and all my works profit me nothing! See? Please also see Matthew 7:21-23. So claiming that I have faith means I have real faith only IF i have faith in Love! Why? Because there is a time to not have faith, but there is never a time to not have faith in Love!! So to sum up: Neither any faith without Love or no faith without Love works, and neither any works without Love or no works without Love works! See? Please see 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. Hope that helps. Love and Respect, Godfrey |
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60 | Recognize Christ? | John 15:16 | Giam | 46128 | ||
Hi Arnie, That is a great q! The answer is based on this: God is Love, 1 John 4:8, and so His 2 great laws are about Love of God and neighbor as self by frist loving self as God and as neighbor, Matthew 22:36-40 and 7:12, on which ALL the Law and the Prophets hang. Thsi means that God loves us as all words and their opposites: Matthew 5:43-48, and that the first sin is to hate myself as any word! The formula for spiritual sin is: To love myself as any word and hate myself as the opposite word, like this: To love me as good and hate me as bad, to love me as just and hate me as unjust, to love me as strong and hate me as weak, to lvoe me as a freind and hate me as an enemy/opposite. So suppose I came preaching to you that Christ was good person or that He was/is The Son of God or that He was God, which wd all be all right, but I told u that we are to hate bad people and to hate Satan, God's adversary or opposite or enemy. That is HOW I cd come preaching that Christ was Christ and still deceive u! For I wd be preaching the right thing about Christ but in the wrong sinful attitude of hate for all the sinners God lvoes, and preaching the OPPOSITE of WHAT Christ taught about Love for the good as well as the bad!! See? And guess waht? That is the ONLY way to preach Christ and still decieve people! So for instance, to preach that we are to Love God and to love Satan and then in Love resist Satan is Godly! James 4:7. Satan only flees from Love! James 4:8 That wd be preaching Christ and doing so in Love for God's enemies! But to preach that we are to lvoe God but hate Aatan and then resist Satan in Hate is to preach Christ and still deceive u: For to resist Satan with hate for Satan is to lock him in in Hate in our minds when we think we are locking him out! For Satan never flees from hate: he is into that attitude of mind: so he pretends to flee to lull us into a false sense of security! See? So that is why Jesus reveals "one thing to one group, then reveals the OPPOSITE to another group": TO SEE IF WE WD ALSO LOVE THE OPPOSITE, THE ENEMY POINT OF VIEW TOO! For only by loving friends and enemies can we understand the whole truth of WHO God is: Love for both friends and enemies, for saints and for sinners, for all words and their opposites! See? Hope that helps. Love and respect, Giam |
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