Post by TedT on Jan 21, 2023 16:55:56 GMT -8
Please consider:
2 Corinthians 5:7 We live by faith, not by sight, ie proof.
FAITH IS AN UNPROVEN HOPE:
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things HOPED for, the conviction of things ie, , unproven...
Things not seen means they are unproven but someone has claimed them to be true. We believe them to be true without proof because we hope they are true. Those who demand proof that these things are true before they will believe in them have no faith.
Faith is our ability to believe on all the evidence but without actual proof that something is true and all scripture is understood by faith, not proof...faith in the interpretation we have learned from an authority, earthly or in our spirit, which we accept.
Why is faith so important to GOD?
Faith has the unique characteristic of allowing us to define who we are and what we want that can't be duplicated by any other method.
Our hope and the depth of our faith / conviction in that hope separates us all in our relationship with GOD by a spectrum of self definition ranging from:
- those who quickly and fully hoped deeply that GOD is who HE claims to be,
- to those who accepted because they hoped only to miss damnation,
- to those who refused to have faith (hope) in HIM at all, putting their faith and hopes in their own person, plans and desires. Thus OUR HOPES SELF DEFINE US PERFECTLY AND FULLY...and inform our faith.
Proof of YHWH's divinity and power would destroy our hopes into knowledge because as Romans 8:4 puts it: For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
The gospel of salvation is only meaningful if it includes the claims that the source of the gospel is Divine, that HE desires a marriage with us, and is teaching the truth of the legal and natural consequences of sin and that He is the only saviour from sin so that without HIM one ends banished from HIS presence for eternity.
Therefore when GOD proclaimed the gospel to every creature under heaven, Colossians 1:23, it cannot have been with a display of the proof of these claims or AFTER any proof of these claim had been given or there could be no faith, no exposing of our deepest hopes that HIS claims were true or that HE was a liar....
Proof after the choice would metaphorically "freeze" everyone's choice at that stage because with that proof would come the end of faith...faith proven is knowledge, not anymore faith. Thus there would be no introspection about HIS claims, no free will decision to accept them or to reject them, no Satanic fall with the contrasting decision to choose faith unto holiness by the holy angels...free will is abrogated by proof so no true marriage, no true holiness which depends upon our free will, could come into existence.
Therefore faith, not proof, defines the self, the deepest desires of the heart, what you want if you were in charge, (or some better way of saying it), while leaving the hope based faith totally free, without coercion, and limited only by our imagination.
That is why faith based choices with no proof with options from a reality without god, to many gods, to ONE TRUE GOD, to we are god, have all developed.
That is why faith is so important to GOD in HIS search for a loving communion with a created spirit. GOD let everyone choose by faith, ie a hope without proof, by a true free will choice, their future reality with HIM and we all self chose our own destiny by faith, proving the importance faith has in the free will process and to life.
Peace, Ted
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Light cannot create darkness.
A good tree cannot put forth rotten fruit.
A stream of life giving water cannot put forth salt or brackish water.
Psalm 5:4 You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil; with you the wicked cannot dwell.
2 Corinthians 5:7 We live by faith, not by sight, ie proof.
FAITH IS AN UNPROVEN HOPE:
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things HOPED for, the conviction of things ie, , unproven...
Things not seen means they are unproven but someone has claimed them to be true. We believe them to be true without proof because we hope they are true. Those who demand proof that these things are true before they will believe in them have no faith.
Faith is our ability to believe on all the evidence but without actual proof that something is true and all scripture is understood by faith, not proof...faith in the interpretation we have learned from an authority, earthly or in our spirit, which we accept.
Why is faith so important to GOD?
Faith has the unique characteristic of allowing us to define who we are and what we want that can't be duplicated by any other method.
Our hope and the depth of our faith / conviction in that hope separates us all in our relationship with GOD by a spectrum of self definition ranging from:
- those who quickly and fully hoped deeply that GOD is who HE claims to be,
- to those who accepted because they hoped only to miss damnation,
- to those who refused to have faith (hope) in HIM at all, putting their faith and hopes in their own person, plans and desires. Thus OUR HOPES SELF DEFINE US PERFECTLY AND FULLY...and inform our faith.
Proof of YHWH's divinity and power would destroy our hopes into knowledge because as Romans 8:4 puts it: For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
The gospel of salvation is only meaningful if it includes the claims that the source of the gospel is Divine, that HE desires a marriage with us, and is teaching the truth of the legal and natural consequences of sin and that He is the only saviour from sin so that without HIM one ends banished from HIS presence for eternity.
Therefore when GOD proclaimed the gospel to every creature under heaven, Colossians 1:23, it cannot have been with a display of the proof of these claims or AFTER any proof of these claim had been given or there could be no faith, no exposing of our deepest hopes that HIS claims were true or that HE was a liar....
Proof after the choice would metaphorically "freeze" everyone's choice at that stage because with that proof would come the end of faith...faith proven is knowledge, not anymore faith. Thus there would be no introspection about HIS claims, no free will decision to accept them or to reject them, no Satanic fall with the contrasting decision to choose faith unto holiness by the holy angels...free will is abrogated by proof so no true marriage, no true holiness which depends upon our free will, could come into existence.
Therefore faith, not proof, defines the self, the deepest desires of the heart, what you want if you were in charge, (or some better way of saying it), while leaving the hope based faith totally free, without coercion, and limited only by our imagination.
That is why faith based choices with no proof with options from a reality without god, to many gods, to ONE TRUE GOD, to we are god, have all developed.
That is why faith is so important to GOD in HIS search for a loving communion with a created spirit. GOD let everyone choose by faith, ie a hope without proof, by a true free will choice, their future reality with HIM and we all self chose our own destiny by faith, proving the importance faith has in the free will process and to life.
Peace, Ted
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Light cannot create darkness.
A good tree cannot put forth rotten fruit.
A stream of life giving water cannot put forth salt or brackish water.
Psalm 5:4 You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil; with you the wicked cannot dwell.
