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We come to these places to enlighten one another with the wisdom given to us from above. Not everyone is on the same level of learning, we are all in different stages of learning, some are ahead of us while other are behind us. Instead of trying to put down others just because they do not agree with us, we should be edifying one another.
(1 Thessalonians 5:11-13) "11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. 12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;. 13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves." Much love and respect to all!
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God Yahuah is dwelling too. ~William Blake~
(Romans 12:1,2) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
(James 4:4) ...whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
(John 7:14-21) 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
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(Matthew 5:43-46) "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?"
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THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS
(John 14:26) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
The Holy Spirit is in you, It is not a person, but a burning fire that resides inside a persons soul. It's the power of God that cleanses you from the inside and out and refines you like pure silver and gold.
(1 Peter 4:12-13) 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
(Zachariah 13:9) 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
In the Old Testament God's Holy Spirit fell upon those whom God chose to speak for Him and do miracles and wonders which God did through them. In the New Testament God's Holy Spirit dwells in you when you are born again from above. It is the ultimate free gift from God.
A word spoken from the Spirit requires you to hear what the Spirit says to you. Only words you receive from God's Holy Spirit are to be spoken." Jesus said: "whatever I speak unto you is just as the Father has told me to speak. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him, that man is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him." (John 12:50, John 7:18).
(1 Corinthians 2:13) Which things we speak, not in the words, which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit instructs; 14 combining spiritual truths with spiritual words.
(Acts 2:22) Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, WHICH GOD DID BY HIM in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Jesus Christ is the Embodiment of God
(John 4:24 ) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit
(John 12:49) For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, He gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
(John 14:10) Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works.
(John 7:16) Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me.
(John 5:19) Then Jesus answered them and said, "Truly, truly, I say to you; the Son can do nothing of himself [by his own will], but only does what he sees the Father do. For whatever things he [the Father] does, these are also likewise done by the Son.
THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT:
(1 Samuel 10:6) The Spirit of the LORD will come UPON YOU in power, and you will prophesy with them; AND YOU WILL BE CHANGED INTO A DIFFERENT PERSON.
(Judges 3:10). The Spirit of the Lord CAME UPON HIM and he judged Israel.
(1 Samuel 10:10). When they came to there to the hill, there was a group of prophets to meet him; then the Spirit of God CAME UPON HIM, and he prophesied among them.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: (Exodus 31:1-3) "See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. And I HAVE FILLED HIM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship".
(2 Chron.15:1) The Spirit of God CAME UPON AZARIAH, son of Oded. 2 He went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
(Psalms 51:11) 11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT:
We are no longer servants. We are now family, but you don't want to aim to the be the mad relative living in the attic – be a healthy member of the family
So let’s be NT temples of the Holy Spirit, not OT servants waiting for guidance, expecting the extraordinary, but working as partners with God in the ordinary, and all the time, listening for that still small voice of God’s Holy Spirit.
(1 Corinthians 6:19-20) What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost WHICH IS IN YOU, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
(Heb. 3:1:22) And when He [Jesus] had said this, He BREATHED ON THEM, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
THE THREE MAIN RELIGIOUS CULTS OF BABYLON THE GREAT!
(Revelation:18:1) And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
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The Holy Spirit Is Not a Man
(1Corinthians 6:19) Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
The teaching of the Trinity originated well after the New Testament was written rather than with the Bible writers themselves. How, then, do we define the Holy Spirit if it is not a person?
Rather than describing the Holy Spirit as a distinct person or entity, the Bible most often refers to it as and connects it with God’s divine power (Zechariah 4:6; Micah 3:8). Jewish scholars, examining the references to it in the Old Testament Scriptures, have never defined the Holy Spirit as anything but the power of God.
In the New Testament, Paul referred to it as the spirit of power, love and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). Informing Mary that Jesus would be supernaturally conceived in her womb, an angel told her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you …,” and he defined this as “the power of the Highest,” which “will overshadow you” (Luke 1:35).
Jesus began His ministry “in the power of the Spirit” (Luke 4:14). He told His followers, “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you” (Acts 1:8). Peter relates that “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power” (Acts 10:38). This was the same power that enabled Christ to perform many mighty miracles during His ministry. Likewise, Jesus worked through the apostle Paul “in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God” (Romans 15:19).
The Holy Spirit is the very nature, presence, and expression of God’s power actively working in His servants
(2 Peter 1:4; Galatians 2:20). Indeed, it is through His Spirit that God is able to be present everywhere at once throughout the universe and affect it at will (Psalms 139:7-10).
Again and again the Scriptures depict the Holy Spirit as the power of God. Furthermore, it is also shown to be the mind of God and the very essence and life force through which the Father begets human beings as His spiritual children. The Holy Spirit is not God, but is rather a vital aspect of God—the divine substance of the Father and Christ as well as the agency through which They work.
Divine inspiration and life through the Spirit
Repeatedly the Scriptures reveal that God imparted divine inspiration to His prophets and servants through the Holy Spirit. Peter noted that “prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21).
Paul wrote that God’s plan for humanity had been “revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets”
(Ephesians 3:5) and that his own teachings were inspired by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:13). Paul further explains that it is through His Spirit that God has revealed to true Christians the things He has prepared for those who love Him. (1 Corinthians 2:9-16). Working through the Spirit, God the Father is the revealer of truth to those who serve Him.
Jesus told His followers that the Holy Spirit, which the Father would send, “will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you” (John 14:26). It is through God’s Spirit within us that we gain spiritual insight and understanding. Indeed, we come to receive the very “mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16)—also referred to as the “mind of the Spirit” (Romans 8:27).
Christ had this spiritual comprehension in abundance. As the Messiah, He was prophesied to have “the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord” (Isaiah 11:2).
As the Son of Man on earth, Christ portrayed in His personal conduct the divine attributes of Almighty God through completely living by His Father’s biblical standards through the power of the Holy Spirit (compare 1 Timothy 3:16).
Now returned to the spirit realm, Christ wields the omnipotent power of the Holy Spirit along with the Father. The Holy Spirit, we should understand, is not only the Spirit of God the Father, for the Bible also calls it the “Spirit of Christ” (Romans 8:9; Philippians 1:19). By either designation, it is the same Spirit, as there is only one Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:4).
The Father imparts the same Spirit to true Christians through Christ (John 14:26; John 15:26; Titus 3:5-6), leading and enabling them to be His children and “partakers of the divine nature” (Romans 8:14; 2 Peter 1:4). God, who has eternal life in Himself, gives that life to others through the Spirit (John 5:26; John 6:63; Romans 8:11).
Impersonal attributes of the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is spoken of in many ways that demonstrate that it is not a divine person. For example, it is referred to as a gift (Acts 10:45; 1 Timothy 4:14). We are told that the Holy Spirit can be quenched (1 Thessalonians 5:19), that it can be poured out (Acts 2:17, Acts 2:33), and that we are baptized with it (Matthew 3:11).
People can drink of it (John 7:37-39), partake of it (Hebrews 6:4) and be filled with it (Acts 2:4; Ephesians 5:18). The Holy Spirit also renews us (Titus 3:5) and must be stirred up within us (2 Timothy 1:6). These impersonal characteristics are certainly not attributes of a person.
It is also called “the Holy Spirit of promise,” “the guarantee of our inheritance” and “the spirit of wisdom and revelation” (Ephesians 1:13-14, Ephesians 1:17).
In contrast to God the Father and Jesus Christ, who are consistently compared to human beings in Their form and shape, the Holy Spirit is consistently represented, by various symbols and manifestations, in a completely different manner—such as wind (Acts 2:2), fire (Acts 2:3), water (John 4:14; John 7:37-39), oil (Psalms 45:7; compare Acts 10:38; Matthew 25:1-10), a dove (Matthew 3:16) and an “earnest,” or down payment, on eternal life (2 Corinthians 1:22; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 1:13-14, KJV). These depictions are difficult to understand, to say the least, if the Holy Spirit is a person.
In Matthew 1:20 we find further evidence that the Holy Spirit is not a distinct entity, but God’s divine power. Here we read that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit. However, Jesus continually prayed to and addressed God the Father as His Father and not the Holy Spirit (Matthew 10:32-33; Matthew 11:25-27; Matthew 12:50). He never represented the Holy Spirit as His Father. Clearly, the Holy Spirit was the agency or power through which the Father begot Jesus as His Son.
Paul’s example and teaching
If God were a Trinity, surely Paul, who recorded much of the theological underpinnings of the early Church, would have comprehended and taught this concept. Yet we find no such teaching in His writings.
Moreover, Paul’s standard greeting in his letter to the churches, as well as individuals to whom he wrote, is “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Yet in each of his greetings he never mentions the Holy Spirit. (The same can also be said of Peter in the salutations of both his epistles.)
The same greeting, with only minor variations, appears in every epistle that bears Paul’s name (see Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 1:2; etc.) The Holy Spirit is always left out of these greetings—an unbelievable and inexplicable oversight if the Spirit were indeed a person or entity coequal with God the Father and Christ.
This is even more surprising when we consider that the congregations to which Paul wrote had many gentile members from polytheistic backgrounds who had formerly worshipped numerous gods. Paul’s epistles record no attempt on his part to explain the Trinity or Holy Spirit as a divine person equal with God the Father and Jesus Christ.
In all of Paul’s writings, only in 2 Corinthians 13:14 is the Holy Spirit mentioned along with the Father and Christ, and there only in connection with the “fellowship of the Holy Spirit” (NIV) in which believers share—not in any sort of theological statement on the nature of God. God’s Spirit, says Paul, is the unifying agent that brings us together in godly, righteous fellowship, not only with one another but with the Father and Son.
Yet here, too, God’s Spirit is not spoken of as a person. Notice that our fellowship is of the Holy Spirit, not with the Holy Spirit. As 1 John 1:3 tells us, “Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.” The Holy Spirit is not mentioned.
Paul states that “there is one God, the Father, … and one Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 8:6). He makes no mention of the Holy Spirit as a divine person.
Other biblical perspectives
Jesus likewise never spoke of the Holy Spirit as a divine third person. Instead, in numerous passages He spoke only of the relationship between God the Father and Himself (Matthew 26:39; Mark 13:32; 15:34; John 5:18; John 5:22; etc.). The Holy Spirit as a person is conspicuously absent from Christ’s teaching in general. Of particular interest in this regard are His many statements about Himself and the Father, especially when He never makes similar statements about Himself and the Holy Spirit.
We should also consider that, in visions of God’s throne recorded in the Bible, although the Father and Christ are seen, the Holy Spirit is never seen (Acts 7:55-56; Daniel 7:9-14; Revelation 4-5; Revelation 7:10). Jesus is repeatedly mentioned as being at the right hand of God, but no one is mentioned as being at the Father’s left hand. Nowhere are three divine persons pictured together in the Scriptures.
Even in the final book of the Bible (and the last to be written), the Holy Spirit as a divine person is absent from its pages. The book describes “a new heaven and new earth” (Revelation 21:1) wherein “the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them” (Revelation 21:3). Christ, the Lamb of God, is also present (verse Revelation 21:22). The Holy Spirit, however, is again absent—another inexplicable oversight if this Spirit is the third person of a triune God.
Clearly, the Holy Spirit, from the evidence found in the Bible, is not a person in a supposed Trinity. Regrettably, the unbiblical doctrine of the Trinity obscures the scriptural teaching that God is a family—a family which, as we will see, is our ultimate destiny!
WHAT HEAVEN MEANS TO ME
To me, heaven means having a clear conscience. Not allowing fear to take control over you, love unconditionally, help those in need without expecting anything in return, having an open mind to give room to expand knowledge and wisdom, have patience, recognizing and admitting your mistakes by accepting correction, forgive and forget by not allowing the seed of hate take root in your soul, do not judge others if you are not perfect yourself. And most importantly, separate yourself from the corrupt ways of this world.
By Mercy Chanter
(John 17:14) I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Dr. Harrison Kleiner lectures on Plato's Allegory of a Cave for USU 1010.
There are many levels of interpretation.
One, is to see the chained prisoners in the cave as the people that get their education from those who rule over them, and the one who was freed from being chained into the dark cave represents one who acquired higher knowledge by the regeneration of the spirit in him, as one who is "Born Again from Above" and was given wisdom that only comes from above. When the "Born Again" freed soul tries to bring this "Higher Knowledge" to the ones who are still chained in the cave and are still being ruled by the deceivers of this world, they make fun of him because they can only see him as someone who is brainwashed, delusional, and a fool.
Another, is mystical and it symbolizes what happens after death. In that mystical interpretation the dark cave is life on earth, the prisoners are souls that are still stuck in their bodies because they can only observe what they see what the rulers of this world want them to see, and the free guy is a 'freed soul' that has departed from the body. The one who leads the soul to the Light is Christ. The Light itself is God, the one commonly called simply 'One' by Plato and Neoplatonists.
The 'real' world is the realm were the souls and gods live, the spiritual realm. It's basically a 'vision' that ancient people experienced in the Eleusinian Mysteries, and these days some get similar experiences on the so called 'near death' experiences. Perhaps one might have heard this common vision people near death have said they saw: "I saw myself moving upwards through the darkness to the Bright Light".