DDNA Contents: ["You, in Me!" table]  [Isaiah 53:10-12, this page]  [Introduction, this page]  [A Production to Love, this page]  [God's Soliloquy]  [First Aspect: What DDNA is & 'sires']  [King's Body, King's Riches]  [King's Riches, King's Love]  [King's Love, King's Riches: On Trial!]  [King's Victory, King's Beloved Booty]  [First Aspect, Summary]  [Second Aspect: DDNA isn't Bulimia, but Balance]  [Third Aspect: how DDNA blesses others, forever]  [4th Aspect: So we inherit His Isaiah 53:10-12 Contract]  [DDNA, the True Grail]  [Exodus 6:20 and Jochebed]  [About Bible Mistranslation] 

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"Grail" Contents:[True Salvation 'Grail', His Thinking] [Satan's Religious Grail: Magical Blood] [Satan's Revelation 12-17 Grail Plan to unite Fake Church and Fake Christ] [vs. God's Grail Plan: DDNA Marital Unity in Son's Thinking] [Satan's out to Substitute the Groom] [So Satan sponsors mere DNA, to counter DDNA] [Satan's DNA+Political Power, completes Fake Groom] [So mankind battles over the Fake Groom, thus missing the Real One] 

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Related Mistranslation links: [Isaiah 53, whole chapter] [Romans 10:10] [Ephesians 4:12-16] [Hebrews 10:15-17] [Hebrews 11:1] [1 John 2:5] [Bible "Badly Translated" summary]

Related Youtube video playlist on Mistranslation: click here.

For a Text-to-Speech rendition of this webpage, see the audio player below:

Synopsis of the series: God is Truth. Truth is first and foremost an INSTRUCTION SET. God is indissoluble (aka "one", meaning united-in-Essence); so in God, Truth is not merely an attribute but a DESIRE, Absolute. Will is never divorced from Truth, though being God, Will is always Free to Divorce. But never Wants to divorce. So in God -- Each God, Father, Son, Spirit -- His Will and Truth are mutual flanks, as it were. Hence Desired: what is true, what should be true. What is false, what should be false. What therefore is true, is good. What is false, is bad. Think of Truth like math formulas.. or, like DNA. God's 'DNA', which here we'll call "DDNA", is God's Instruction set -- by Ever-Free Will's Choice. Secular counterpart like biological DNA, like the math formulas of physics, is an instruction set also: telling your cells how to be. So too, in your soul: what truths you believe become your relative instruction set; so too, falsehoods you believe, since your body can't tell truth apart from falsehood, so obeys whatever 'instructions' it gets. So you make your own 'soul DNA', which likewise instructs your body's DNA, by what you believe. This is why people get sick, and others: illness is not merely a product of bad DNA interactions or physical lifestyles.

Obviously, then, the sin nature being what it is, we need God's Instruction Set of Truth to replace the instruction set in our souls. That's why we have a Cross: to make that substitution. This is by contract, Hebrew of Isaiah 53:10: "If you will give your soul as a substitute for sin" (im tasim asham naphesho). So this series is about how that substitution which first was effected in HIM, gets effected in us. It begins with salvation, and it is a true transmutation of nature. Thus we have a Bible, so His Thinking -- His Soul DNA put in writing so it can be built in us -- so His Thinking can replace our own. Obviously this requires continued, repeated consent. Salvation sets up the DDNA structure, and learning Bible under God's System sets up the DDNA function. This building process takes a lifetime. It is fraught with conflict, since Satan & Co. also lose in the Angelic Appeal Trial when enough believers are 'built' via God's System in God's DDNA to a Royal Family Level, aka "Body of Christ".

Major Bible DDNA chapters and books -- all of which have been overlooked by theology -- are Isaiah 52:14 through all of Chap 55, which detail the DDNA contract and its effects, in the inspired original-language texts; John 14-17 ("mansion" in Jn14:2 refers to a DDNA 'house', royal family of God, not buildings); all of 1 John; all of Romans (especially Romans 5-8) and Ephesians (really, all Paul writes); and especially, Philippians. Philippians concentrates on the interpersonal effect of DDNA on soul and body, using the "μεγαλύνω" theme (term is in Philippians 1:20); the DDNA series is not yet upgraded to properly reference that massive effect. It will take a good year to fix the series for Philippians. Frankly, "μεγαλύνω" covers what really you 'do' in the body, and it blows me away: it's a transmutation, not even remotely.. works. What you become due to what the Holy Spirit does TO you. I learned of its meaning obliquely through something my pastor said about "magnetism" in connection with μεγαλύνω. His query was, how the heck can a sin-nature body, glorify God? Sure isn't works! My life hasn't been the same since that February 2006 day. About a year prior, something else he said tipped me off to the DDNA meaning in the first place, as you'll see later on. This is mammoth stuff. I don't live one second without this knowledge, anymore. Everything else is too small.

As you review the DDNA material in Bible -- and there's plenty of it, we just haven't been looking at Bible as a DDNA manual, for crying out loud -- you can see DDNA transmutation has basically Four Aspects: first, intrapersonal, the transmutation of your thinking from sin-nature thinking to Divine Thinking; second, intrapersonal, the transmutation of how you live in your body; third, the effect on other bodies in your periphery, both now and in the eternal state; fourth, all this is by contract, extending Isaiah 53:10-12 into the Body of Christ (and all believers, but via the Body of Christ).

Click here for the "You, in Me!" table of Part 3's Third Reason for Royalty if you want a succinct explanation of this DDNA meaning, to justify reading further.

Of course, there's zippo on the internet of this nature. But when you think of GOD's Nature, and a whole lot of very familiar Bible verses in LIGHT of DDNA -- you smack yourself, Why didn't I see this before? Especially, when going over the Hebrew and Greek of Isaiah 53:10-12. Whole new -- yet very old -- way to look at Bible. Explains everything, a complete theology we've missed for centuries.. without excuse. Can't see what you're not seeking, huh. We've been seeking ways to feel good about ourselves, hence our πανουργία for the πλανάω of works (terms used in Ephesians 4:14). But God's been seeking to give us His Own Son's Spiritual Dendrites, "You.. in Me!" -- see the short table by that name in the red-table links of LordvSatan3b.htm.

Most Important Thing to Know: as you learn and live on Bible in God's System, you are being transmuted into Christ's Own Soul's Thinking. This in turn transmutes how you live in the body, and blesses others in ways you cannot now begin to imagine or see. For example, it's the most patriotic thing you can do for your home nation, to learn and live on Bible, for God will bless your home country SOLELY because you are learning His Son. Paul goes so far as to say you are a traitor if you don't do this, in passages like Romans 13 and 1 Timothy 2; John says the same thing rather dramatically, in the anarthrous constructions in the Greek of 1 John 3:18; also, in Revelation 17 (macro depiction of politicized Christianity as a harlot of SATAN's invention). You don't (and should not ever) politick or crusade: most evil thing a Christian can do is get involved in politics, sorry. For your seemingly-menial body life is instead used to make the soul-body coordination transmute, such that when you inherit your final (post-death) body, all the proper soul-body connections in it will be like Christ's own. Because, you are in training to inherit YOUR OWN kingdom, in order to honor HIM. So, that kingdom will be kitted to YOU, since you are like Christ once you finish the training (aka "the course", in Bible). It's a functional change built atop the same structural change we all inherited at salvation (i.e., 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, all of Romans 8 in the Greek). But since not all believers in Christ will alike choose to learn and live on Bible in God's System -- in fact, 99.9% will opt out -- there will be only a few functionally-developed kings. So the rest have to be kitted out for those kings who did grow up to "Pleroma" (Bible Greek keyword found in Ephesians 3:19 and elsewhere). So you are a whole POLITY in the making, if you are willing to keep on keeping on in God's System to Pleroma completion. Clearly, this is something only God can do to you, so you don't need to feel either arrogant or intimidated by this massive GIFT. For you are a gift to Christ, even as He Chose to be made a Gift for you (theme in last half of Romans 5).

Obviously this is a big topic, and will take a lot of explaining. Please use 1 John 1:9 as you read, so any deficiencies in the text will be corrected by the Holy Spirit as you read. Better still, just start reading those Bible DDNA chapters and books mentioned three paragraphs back, breathing 1 John 1:9 as needed, constantly asking Father to have Spirit point out to you the DDNA meanings. This DDNA doctrine is so very real. Funny we all missed it for so long.

If you're not already familiar with the "God's System", you might want to read it before reading this page, as that System is the reason for this page (what God does TO you as a result of you living in His System). If you've not got the time, a too-brief recap of that link follows below. Living in His System is characterized by Five (very simple) Elements. The first Element is a one-time event; the others are eventually supposed to be 'living' in you, 24/7. It is up to you whether you want to take advantage of these Elements. You will never be coerced.

1. Believe Jesus the Christ paid for your sins, John 3:16. That buys you eternal salvation which can never be rescinded, courtesy of Jesus Christ, John 10:28, Titus 3:5. You are now a spiritual being, and have God's Own Righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21) as well as His Own Life. So you are Alive With God, 24/7, forever and ever. He lives IN you, so wherever you are, awake or asleep, He is closer to you than your own soul. This gives you the privilege of Intimate Relationship with Him, and your life is forever after in His Hands. You cannot be lonely, anymore. God the Father is your Ultimate Dad, God the Son (Who is humanly also Jesus Christ, dual-natured) is your 'husband' (believers have a wifely role, and it's fabulous), and the Holy Spirit plays 'Mom' (births you and grows you up spiritually). So you can talk with Father 24/7, aloud or in your thinking (i.e., when people are around). The Holy Spirit answers through Scripture, and you'll come to see how the Son 'talks' through the circumstances in your life.

This is not religion, but Intimate Relationship with very God (Each of Them), 2 Corinthians 13:14. Forever. God doesn't want and didn't invent religion: Satan did (Genesis 3:5). God invented RELATIONSHIP, which is why there was a Cross to BUY it: so you are a "son of God in Christ Jesus", Galatians 3:26. So it's a 'brand new ballgame', now. Whatever you seem to be in the world's eyes is NOT what you really are, and when your physical body ends, you do NOT die: 1 Corinthians 15. That's why you need the next four Elements, so you can learn your new life and what you really are. Best of all, you can learn how to enjoy the Intimate Relationship with God forever. Nothing this world has to offer is so wonderful, as knowing God. And you'll come to see that fact for yourself, as you progressively 'live' in the next four Elements.

2. Use 1 John 1:9, therefore, whenever you remember you've sinned. This restores the FELLOWSHIP (enjoyment of togetherness) in the relationship with God. Sin is like one person having an argument with another, so the relationship is strained until the sin is admitted. Because the sin was already paid for on the Cross 2000 years ago, there is no such thing as penance; so you needn't feel sorry about anything. The issue isn't paying for the sin, but RESTORING FELLOWSHIP with God. 'Dad' must order you be 'spanked' if you don't do this, since it harms you to refuse 1 John 1:9 as needed (sin slashes, scars, and eventually shrinks the soul, which is why God is 'against' sin). All Divine Discipline is ONLY designed to bless, Hebrews 12:5-11. So if you feel as though you're being punished, use 1 John 1:9.

Try to make use of 1 John 1:9 an instinctive habit, because you aren't breathing spiritually if you are in a state of sin. The Holy Spirit EMPOWERS the spiritual life, so it's spiritual 'apnea', when you sin. Start breathing again by using 1 John 1:9 whenever you need it. I use 1 John 1:9 maybe a thousand times a day, even if only tempted, for it's often hard to know if a temptation became a thought sin (thought-sins are many, like guilt, worry, anxiety, implacability, jealousy, anger; physical sins are few and much easier to detect). So if you aren't sure if you sinned or what it is, just think "I confess my arrogance", or something like that phrase; any further identification training you need, the Holy Spirit will make happen, so you don't need to get 'anal' about it (God is no bureaucrat). What you do need is to Get Breathing Again.

3.&4. Learn Bible under a pastor God has appointed for YOU personally; preferably, daily. (Use 1 John 1:9 and ask Father in Son's Name for the Holy Spirit to direct you to that person, whoever he (never 'she') may be. No one but God knows who that person is.) You don't need religion, you don't need to 'attend' church, you don't need 'Christian fellowship', you need FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD. So you need to LEARN God. So learning Bible is necessary, to learn God's thinking. This webpage will explain what learning God's Thinking via Bible does to your own soul. Basically, your thinking will change to become like His, so (eventually) every second of every day you will come to share His Thoughts. This makes for the most fantastic rapport in the relationship with Him, 24/7. You can take what you're learning in Bible class and apply it to anything in life; you can talk with God about what you're learning, and learn even better how He thinks; you can practice living out what you learn, no matter what you are or what you have, and there are NO RITUALS to restrict your creativity.

5. In short, you get to live TOWARD FATHER as a Royal Priest to Him, 1 Peter 2:5,9, Revelation 1:6, 5:10, as a King-in-Training (ibid), so you have the luxury of no longer having to live for yourself. So there is a lot of thinking to learn, practice, enjoy! No matter what you 'seem' to be, in the eyes of the world down here. So this living toward Father is called "prayer" (which has a wider meaning than people normally assign). Prayer isn't merely asking for stuff, but conversation (see how David is always thinking toward Father, just to BE together); prayer is RELATIONSHIP. God hears your every thought: don't you want those thoughts to be beautiful for Him? So you get the privilege of trying to think well, 24/7. Whether a grocery clerk or the Grand Marshall. This is the best part of the spiritual life, more fulfilling even when hurting than all the world's goodies. Moreover, billions of people actually NEED you to live it, if the welfare of others is a concern (which it will be, since this life is so fantastic you'll often be tempted to think you are cheating others of some good deed you can do for them).

We Christians generally have no idea how powerful is this Royal Spiritual Life, for the sake FATHER FIRST, and then for all mankind: what is the "surpassing" power and privilege of the spiritual inheritance God hath wrought in Christ and for the SAKE of Christ, Ephesians 1. So: if you think you understand the above text on God's System well enough to read further, then strap on your seatbelt, for...

An Introduction to Love

Man doesn't know Love. So man needs to be introduced TO Love. For, man always wins the war, and loses the peace. That, because Adam lost peace when he distrusted God, and ate the stupid fruit. So we've been warring, ever since. Worse, when the Eden couple ate that fruit, they went from being mature adults (which is how God made them), to being perennially childish. So we have been, ever since. Our religions, our politics, our philosophy and other 'wisdom' are just so many bleating babes in the sandbox, each one trying to one-up someone else; each one trying to regain that lost peace. We were not created that way. But we have been that way, ever since Genesis 3; when the first two souled humans, genius, mature, cultured, civilized, engaged in scientific research of flora and fauna, decided that some stupid fruit would make them as smart as God, Genesis 3:5. And so we've been fruitful, alright -- with childish, warring notions! Ever since.

When you're five years old, you need "commandments" to teach you the difference between true good, and what your child's mind considers 'good' -- the good of that evil tree, the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Satan's tree. Satan is childish -- though compared to us he's of godlike maturity -- and would like it very much if we all stayed childish, too. So when you're 50 years old, you STILL don't know the difference between true good and that stupid tree -- but GIVE commandments, demanding they be obeyed. Hence we don't know Love at all, and instead we war in the name of a Love we don't know anything about, everyone telling everyone else what to do: aka, religion, Genesis 3:5 and Genesis 3:11. "Who denounced you for being naked?" the Lord rhetorically asked Adam. [Corrected translation. See "About Bible Mistranslation" for more details.] Well, it was Satan who denounced him. Adam knew that, but wouldn't admit it. For, children can't stand being naked, they feel vulnerable. So the Word has been covered up, ever since; so we have been WARRING over it, ever since.

Time to look at the naked truth: God didn't make our souls and biological DNA, for childish warring. He made us to be ADULTS, and for PEACE. "Peace", Hebrew shalom and Greek εἰρήνη, really first mean PROSPERITY -- which comes from first HAVING a state of peace. "Reconciliation" is how one GETS a state of peace; which the Bible stresses, e.g., Job 22:21, Luke 12:58, 1 Corinthians 7:11, 2 Corinthians 5:20. [Greek and Hebrew wordplay is Divorce Trial, husband-wife, metaphorically depicting God-creation: phenomenal! TSK database in BibleWorks (for Luke 12:58) did a great job collecting related verses, so you see the vast scope of meaning.] "Reconciliation", of course, requires a DESIRE to make peace, and a REASON to do so. Which means, you have to ACCOUNT the pro's and con's; which means you need to be SUFFICIENTLY INFORMED. Hence we have a Bible, God's Due Diligence Love Contract to mankind. So Man Can Find Reason To MAKE Peace.

Of course, you can't even get peace in reconciling your checkbook until you can account for every last penny. You can't get peace with God until you can ACCOUNT how He is. You can't ACCOUNT how He is, if you are at war with Him, but you should account that whatever bothers you, would 'bother' Him MORE -- so He must have RECONCILED a PEACEFUL SOLUTION. Because, God has to see it forever, whereas you will forget. So God's Accounting must be PERFECT and INFINITE. Ours, of course, is not. So we war. God doesn't: He doesn't have to war. He mimics our warring by 'warring' with us, but that's only to bless us, Hebrews 12:5-11, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5-7. Hmmm. Wait a minute! If God doesn't war, then there is an answer we don't know about, which if we did know about it, we would be reconciled, peaceful, prosperous. But Religion never accounts for anything. So knows nothing. Hence childishly wars with everything.. in the name of God, of course!

But due to Adam's fall, religion is all we know. So we have a Catch-22: we are totally incapable of learning shalom and εἰρήνη, until and unless, we get Replacing DNA. For when Adam sinned, he perpetuated those sin urges on biological material, since the body is imprinted with the soul's thinking, Genesis 2:17 + Romans 5:12 + 1 Corinthians 15:22 + "flesh" verses. Paul sketches out this problem and its solution, throughout the Book of Romans. So the soul HAS a reason to make peace with God, John 3:16. "For God loved the world SO MUCH that He gave His Uniquely-Born Son, with the result that whosoever ONCE believes in Him, shall NEVER perish, but have [God's Own] Eternal Life." God didn't make Adam and the woman to trash them up, but to build them up. Sin didn't stop His Plan to build man up, either. Religion can't account for all that, but the Bible can. And, does. To anyone who wants to make peace with God, the Bible is an open book. Just ask Him to guide you in your reading of it. You don't even need a cellphone. But you do need to at least suspect that God just might have TOTAL REASON for what He's allowing and doing. And, you need to WANT to know His Reasons. He'll do the rest...

For the only cure for our deaths, warring, and childishness.. is DDNA, Divine DNA -- to replace the corrupted, soul-enacted DNA we acquire during our lives. Only the naked truth is, God's Divine DNA does way more than merely restore us to the pre-Fall status. OH NO. That's not enough for God, Who by the way, never intended that we even STAY in the same state as Adam was created. Hence the Last Adam, Who got filled up with All DDNA, especially during the Cross. So that we become the Very DDNA Of God, 2 Corinthians 5:17 + 2 Corinthians 5:21, aka "sons of God in Christ Jesus", Galatians 3:26 -- which we become, that very first nanosecond we FIRST believed in Christ as the Sole Payor of our salvation, John 3:16.

So we can stop warring, Romans 6-8. So we can grow UP, 2 Peter 3:18, Ephesians 3:15-19, Ephesians 4:11-16. So we can see God's naked Love Contract in all its glory, a contract which we also get for OUR future, Isaiah 53:10-12 & John 17. What follows will outline some of the salient features of this contract and what it's designed to do TO us. Wholly run, by God Himself. So we can HAVE peace from our incessant, childish, warring urges that we can or should 'do' something: aka, religion. Stand still and watch the deliverance of the Lord...

DDNA's Divine Physics Transmutation Formula:
By Divine Design per Isaiah 53:10 through 12, + John 17 + 2 Peter 3:18 + John 3:16 yields
2 Corinthians 5:17 + 2 Corinthians 5:21 + Titus 3:5 + Galatians 3:26 yields
Ephesians 1:19 + Ephesians 1:20, + 2 Peter 1:3 (διὰ τῆς ἐπιγνώσεως) + Revelation 1:6 + 1 Peter 2:5 + 1 Peter 2:9 yields
1 John 1:9 + Ephesians 5:18 + Ephesians 4:11-16 yields
1 Peter 5:5 through 7, + 2 Peter 3:18 (as thinking pattern) yields
1 Corinthians 1:5 + 1 Corinthians 1:10 + 1 Corinthians 12:31 through 1 Corinthians 13:13 yields
Romans 12:1 through 3, + Galatians 4:19 + 1 Corinthians 13:10a through 12, + Colossians 3:16 yields
Romans 5:5 + Ephesians 3:15-19, + 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 (as thinking pattern) yields
EQUALS: 1 Corinthians 2:16 + 1Philippians 1:20 + 21 + Colossians 1:27 + Luke 8:8 + Luke 5:10 + Revelation 5:10. Forever.

Notice how the above verses form Royal Serving Stem of goblet, or dining plate; that Royal Stem design is classic, and you'll find it used from ancient through modern times. Heh. The 'fingers' to hold the stem elegantly, fit around the third-for-Trinity line, which is the Trinity Corporation's Divine Design making you a Son of God in Christ Jesus. That's what holds everything IN the goblet or dining plate. Double-heh. [For more on why I coined the moniker "Trinity Corporation", which is actually what 2 Corinthians 13:14 says in the Greek via the deft placement of Greek monadic articles. When you load the page, click on the link "Hupostasis, in Trinity". Nerd Note: in math and chemistry, an arrow is used to mean "yields", to show how a group of variable values "yield" a result. So what follows the "->", is the RESULT of what happened prior. Problem is, I don't know how to make that arrow sign look good in html. So remember "yields" above means the arrow. There are more verses than these completing the formula, obviously.]

Biology has its own 'physics', just as quarks do. Frankly, there's a whole lot of similarity between the nature and behavior of a cell, compared to an atom. But do you have to become a biologist or physicist, to understand God? Well, Adam was being trained in biology for just that reason, but Christ is the last Adam, so -- heck YES! So, you gotta become expert WITHIN God's System, with THE Expert Holy Spirit, teaching you 24/7 so to become LIKE the Last Adam, theme of 2 Corinthians 5, Romans 6-8, 12 (especially Chapters 8 and 12), Hebrews 5-10, all of Ephesians (especially Ephesians 3:15-21, Ephesians 4:11-16).

So if you already happen to have any knowledge of math, biology and/or physics (etc.), use them when you learn Bible; for everything spiritual, there is a secular counterpart, and ALL parts fit together in one seamless Whole. Hence there are, enfin, no mixed metaphors -- everything is paradigmal of everything else, whether you're talking the structure of a galaxy, or the structure of a hurricane; or the structure of the polity God Wants To Gift You For All Eternity ("inherit the kingdom" and "true riches" verses in NT). So, then: look for the underlying PATTERNS, especially when learning Bible.

So here are physics-related links in some of my other websites, in case you want to pursue the physics metaphor before reading further.

• Fixes.htm, first four bullets.
• SatStrat.htm, the three "Utterly Divine Physics" tables (search on that term: three of the four search results will take you to each of the three tables). Those tables are in particular contexts about Satan's DIOS plan versus God's, which you may or may not want to read also.
• Evolshort.htm compares God's Transmuting Plan with the errant version science spouts; but what's wrong with the science version, is nothing like what 'Christians' say. In the "Key to Fix Evolution" section of that webpage you'll find physics relates to evolution (for the science problems in physics are the same as the science problems with respect to evolution, problems of tautological definition). And then, how God's answer compares. It's a thorny page, but given all the stupid politics, well.. it has to be thorny (and hence needs always more editing).

Now, let's return to the DDNA metaphor, since DDNA really IS what happens to us, in God's System. By Divine Design. So Why Why Why? If you want to do proper science, you must begin with the WHY. Else, you chase your tail.

If you could dramatize God's message to the human race in a movie soliloquy, His message would go something like this.. click here for God's Soliloquy.

So the Bible Truth is, God WANTS to make free beings with His Own DDNA. So let's examine more closely HOW His Goal works to solve our limitations. You've probably noticed that a lot of structures in life look alike: triangular, square, etc. These happen in nature, too, and whether crystalline or animal, you've got basic types of structures which are very similar in shape or some other critical factor. A guy recently on Charlie Rose was talking about his new book, which shows the elegance of human anatomy, from the skeletal structure, to nerve endings, to cardiovascular system: he posited that there are basically Seven Designs In All Of Nature, which keep repeating themselves. Seven, the Divine Promise Number. Yeah, Elegantissimo.

So God's Basic Design for all life is very similar, and MODULAR. Which makes both mutation and correction, structurally elegant. Just like He is. Genes, for example, are between 80%-90% or more alike among very disparate life forms. So it's likewise elegant to remember that "DNA" is an INSTRUCTION SET (in your genes) which is responsible for making every cell in your body. The "DNA" isn't just of one type, either. In all events, each type of DNA in you is a living architectural manual; and if there were even one 'typo' in that manual, You Would Be Different. Much more about biological DNA is said in the "Production to Love" section, following this one.

Your Very Biology, Just Like Your SOUL, Depends Entirely On Instruction. So You Are Made Due To Instruction. So You Are Engineered Or Changed Based On Instruction. Change the instruction, and you change the nature. So if you have a sin nature (and we all do from birth, Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:22), then if God changes that DNA to 'His' DDNA, then your very nature changes, too. It already happens in biology. But here, we're talking 'DNA' of the soul. The instructions YOU have programmed into your soul. You know, all those temptations given into, the ignorance still present, the prejudices, weaknesses, works-pride strengths. Lots of reprogramming needed, in all of us.

Each time you tread on new grass, it depresses; after you've left, it slowly or quickly rises again, until you can't tell where you've walked. But the more often you tread on the same spot, the more it depresses; it doesn't recover so quickly, the more you walk in the same spots. The more water drips on a rock (say, in the mile-deep Grand Canyon of Arizona), the more deeply it cuts a cleft into that rock. Until, it hits bottom. Until, no more grass grows. Until, you've been so addicted to the same decision over and over again, you have no idea HOW to change your mind. So if someone nags at you, you wouldn't even SEE the problem, much less know how to fix it. Even far less, would you desire to fix it...

Addictive, depressing, eroding, bare, blind. Those are all the effects of sin and its like-rabbits cousins of the Bad Decision Families, which we'll here call "BDFs". Such addictions are FAR harder to reverse than cigarrettes, alcohol, you-name-the-narcotic. Self-righteousness is well nigh incurable, absent some cataclysmic wakeup call (which has no lasting effect, even so). Gross sins tend to be more curable, because the person sinning them falls apart more obviously, and sooner. But the self-righteous BDFs are insidious, are compatible with productive societal structures (so seem like virtues); so kinda like hidden cancer or AIDS, these more-popular BDFs show up only when it's (usually) too late. We all know of someone thus afflicted, and usually try to avoid that person's tongue as much as we can. Because, these BDFs are also highly contagious. Just you try to avoid getting snotty in reply when someone is snotty to you...

In short, it takes years to reprogram the soul from BDFs and their common sin parents. Years. And the reprogramming is NOT humanly possible. All a human can do is cross-addict (go from one type of sin+BDFs to another group which 'seems' of opposite nature). So if you've got some sin habits which trouble you, get in God's System and stay there. Forget all other solutions, for they all pick pimples and then your WHOLE face will become infected, not just that nasty splotch in the corner. Man's 'cure' is always far worse than the disease. Remember those fig leaves? At least BEFORE Adam started sewing, he only had a sin problem. But now Adam's WORKS URGE is driving us crazy, too!

God can do all the reprogramming our souls need. He doesn't want us to try to do it, because His Goal is way HIGHER than our puny idea of what needs fixing (and we'd botch it, anyhow). For He made a contract with God the Son to MAKE SONS, in Isaiah 53:11. No amount of sin can stop Him from His DDNA plan being realized, since the very contract uses sin to ACHIEVE the Goal of making sons from the Son! I tell you, the day I saw Isaiah 53:11 in the LXX and was able to prove its import all over the New Testament, I died and went to heaven, so to speak. Have been living there, ever since. Paul was talking about Isaiah 53:11, for example, when exulting in the last half of Romans 5 and beginning of Romans 6. Specifically, by comparing the two 'gifts' (Adam's fall versus Christ's Rise), he ties Isaiah 53:11's contract to Isaiah 53:12's result, so then starts Chapter 6 with, what, shall we sin so Grace may abound the more? Heh. (I can't wait to meet Paul in heaven. Well, everyone who wrote Scripture. What Wit!)

Some people spend 30 years in the Arizona desert looking for one or another 'lost' goldmine. Some people spend 30 years on lottery tickets, hoping for that one big 'win'. Some people spend 30 years writing a book (Herodotus). Me, I spent 30 years looking for a verse like this Isaiah 53:11 in the LXX, though I didn't know it. I can die happy, now. It's no exaggeration to say the whole Bible runs through it and all God's Word is communicated IN it. Yet this is one of the verses translators reject so you can't find it in translated Bibles. (You also find it in the early writings, even in likes of Clement I. The verse was pretty popular among early Christians, too.) My goldmine, no longer lost. Hope they will find out some day, that you shouldn't restrict your 'map' of the uses of the dative and accusative of autos to 1st-year seminary Greek. (Oh, thank you FATHER for giving me a good pastor who taught us more than that! Or I'd STILL be looking!) Ok: end commercial-message and whooping. Well, just one more: Whoooopeee! Heuriskw!!!! Baruch ataw Adonoi! Shemah Yisroel! Adonoi Elohenu Adonoi Echad, Echad!

And now hear this! Any sins, any shortfall, can't but be MUTATIONS of the initial state of the soul when He created it at birth (thus making at that moment, a human being, same process and order as Genesis 2:7). So if mutations from an initial state, then Those Mutations Can Be Reversed Or Even Improved -- i.e., converted into DDNA. Again, this already happens in biology, and is called "genetic engineering". So if biological mutations can be reversed, how much more, a soul mutation? And then from there, convert to DDNA? God Alone can do this. But which way? Forcibly, or.. by creature choice? Well, we know Love doesn't love forcing anything. So Omnipotent Love wants to CONVERT everything to DDNA, but.. at our option, since we have free will, and hence can refuse. So we can choose as much or as little DDNA as we want. Sure, we can't do anything with it when we have it: it's Divine, get it? God CAN do with it. Our choice, the Spirit's Power in God's System. Whew! [One of the big surprises of the later spiritual life is that you are full of Doctrine, but really just as helpless as when you were a nubie. Your body is a living proof of Romans 8, unable to respond to the spiritual knowledge, and you live on sheer Holy Spirit power.. Alone. Very ironic. When you are weak, you finally are strong!]

So the first reason why God's DDNA plan works is due to the nature of 'soul DNA' being a Volitionally-Created Instruction Set Which Can Be Volitionally Reprogrammed. Now, to the second reason why God's DDNA plan works: the nature of God's Own 'DDNA'. And all of His DDNA, is based on God's Nature being LOVE. His Love is His Integrity, as my pastor frequently explains: all other Attributes are Characteristics of His Love. It's not hard to see why. God being Infinite, has no needs which can ever interfere with Love; but if He chose to stop Loving, then even if all needs were met, life would not be worth living. Hatred destroys -- the nature of hatred depends on destruction, for its own survival. By contrast, Love builds (i.e., 1 Corinthians 13:4ff): God BEING Love, doesn't even need an object, to express Love. As per 1 Corinthians 13:4ff, Love by nature Preserves, Restores, Propagates. And most of all, supports Truth. No room for hatred, then, if God is Omniscient. Wow, what a Divine Genome!

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So because God is Love and Omniscient, God cannot in any way become unhappy. So is at all times, Absolutely Happy. It's His Natural Status Quo. Infinitely sinless, therefore (sin is motivated by a seeking of happiness in all events). He can't be tempted to sin, because being Infinite, He infinitely knows what sin would be, so finds it always totally unattractive, always UNenjoyable. Righteousness is Glorious, Enjoyable. Sin, is not. So God would never enjoy sin, doesn't find it pleasant, and can't be tempted in any way. Because, there's no possible permutation of Truth which could be tempting; and all lies of any kind are forever unattractive.

So: note how all these "cannots" never impinge on Omnipotence, even a whit. God can technically sin, but because He is Omniscient, there is no such thing as an unknown Truth, which would make sin attractive to Him. Moreover, it's clearly TRUTH which LOVE LOVES, even if we didn't know about verses like Psalm 89:14-15, Psalm 138:2b. Because, if God didn't Love the Truth, He'd have 'need' to change it. Hatred can only exist where at least some small portion of the Truth is either hated, or unknown. So again, nothing can interfere with God's Integrity, due to Love. Not even, with His Power of Choice to sin. Being Omnipotent necessarily means He IS able to sin; but Due To The Truth Being Infinitely Known, He Never Has Motive To Sin.

In his 2000 revised explanation of God's Integrity, my pastor recasts his diagrams as follows: "LOVE" is depicted as a circle (subjective and objective genitive), and 'inside' it are ALL the other Attributes, but four of them are listed: Omniscience, Righteousness, Justice, Grace. These four are thus highlighted as the principal 'operators' (reference points) WITHIN. Now you can see why. How could Love be competent, else? Truth is a subset of Omniscience, and rightly so: for even with all Truth known, Omniscience would have to know all the facts extrinsic to God, else how could Truth be used? Same for Righteousness and Justice. Grace is the most important of all, in a way: for Grace is Love's exhale.

Of course, since God is Infinite, Truth is one of His Characteristics, not merely something He knows -- Truth therefore must be infinite, and hence FULL-SPECTRUM. Truths, in short, are like math formulas, the REALITY of relationships, in whatever permutation of variable value would or could or wouldn't or couldn't, exist. So Truth is THOUGHT in which All Potential Or Actual Variables Are Valued Correctly. Since valued correctly, nothing is too good, nothing is too bad; nothing is too big, and nothing too little, either. So also, Truths about what would be bad, aren't unpleasant, because they ARE Truths. Same, for Truths about what would be good. Truths about what works well. Truths about what doesn't. So God would be Infinitely Happy with the Truth, even if the content of the Truth wasn't always itself a pleasant thing. So God wouldn't WANT to ever sin no matter what hellish truths there would be. And Would Never Want To Gerrymander Truth. Because to gerrymander truth, God would have to hate the Truth. Sin is always a hatred of the Truth in some form, and remains forever unattractive to God.

Hence, God has Infinite Love FOR Truth, no exceptions. Love in God, is a Characteristic He Always Chooses. Although God is uncreated, He is Personhood, and hence has Will. Love is a perennial Attitude of His Will, timeless: "God is Love". But note how, God could NOT be Love, if not Infinite. But since Infinite, therefore Infinite Love. Never changes, always CHOSEN, never influenced by anything or anyone else. So Absolute, and Undentable. Hence, Infinitely Happy. So that happiness is likewise a characteristic, and undentable.

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So here's the DDNA dilemma -- but also (how richly ironic!) its Permanent Solution: What's Not Infinite, Cannot Be Happy. So if God creates, whatever He creates, would not be Infinite. That's a truth, for Finity Is The Opposite Of Infinity, So Finity Cannot Be Happy alone. Moreover, since God is Infinite and hence FREE, Then It's Unhappiness To Not Be Free. So, then: how can God create a finite soul which is happy? Only if, That Soul Is Designed To Be Connected To God Via Shared Thinking in such a way that, without compromising freedom, That Soul Itself Would Never Also Want To Sin. Wouldn't matter that the soul was less powerful, wouldn't matter how many souls there were; wouldn't matter what kind of outer environment the soul had, so long as the INNER environment was sufficiently SHARED with God. For then, the happiness which is Infinity can be shared -- cycling, so to speak, in the soul thus enabled. Freely.

So let's recap, to see the SOLUTION to this dilemma. God's DDNA plan works on our soul DNA, because the nature of our soul DNA, is volitional. So deciding to get in and stay in God's System, is also volitional, hence what we learn under the Spirit can be used to re-engineer our souls to make us DDNA-compatible. Second, the plan works because of the nature of God's Own DDNA: it's LOVE in a 'composite' structure characterized by His Other Attributes, such that each 'dot' of Truth learned is a 'dot' of ALL His Attributes. So: above all His DDNA plan works, because Love is inviolate; therefore Happiness is inviolate; and Happiness is due to Infinity, and Truth.

So The More Truth We Learn, The More We TRANSMUTE: Romans 12:1-3, Greek (especially the clause "as God has assigned to each one (under a pastor), a standard of thinking From Doctrine"). Because, the more Truth we learn, the more Love is built in us (1 Corinthians 13, Romans 5:5), so the more Free we become (Galatians 5:1), so the HAPPIER we become. Freely. [Whenever you see the word "blessed" in English Bibles, just retranslate it to the correct term, "happiness" -- usually, in the plural. Happinesses. God's Happinesses in you. This happiness is also likened to booty, the booty of His Thinking. For example, Isaiah 53:12 (LXX) uses the term μερίζω, and Paul references it in Ephesians 4:16 and in Romans 12:3. The latter epistle was earlier, so you can see from Ephesians 4:16 what was meant in Romans 12:3. You only get your share through a pastor, a "ἁφή" (Ephesians 4:16's Greek): who is matched to a congregation. "Ἁφή" in Greek means joints in the body (i.e., your knees) -- concept that certain ligaments only go with certain joints. So a pastor is matched to his sheep who hear his voice. Personally matched, part of the spiritual giftset each individual receives at salvation. People who think the doctrine of Right Pastor is some kind of cultic invention wouldn't know their Bible if it bit them. Very sad, because they miss out on the greatest spiritual life ever granted to the human race by refusing to sit under whomever God Appointed For Them As A Gift To Them! You don't even have to know the Bible to realize this doctrine is valid: when you get saved, one of the first thoughts occurring to you is Who Will Teach Me? That thought happened to me when I was an incredibly STUPID freshman in college, which was the first year I knowingly believed the Gospel. Many other believers can tell you the same kind of story. God Causes You To Know You Need A Teacher. So a person must reject God, to come up with the wacky idea he doesn't need a particular teacher. Oh well. We all have our sticking points. See 1 Peter 5:5-7 for a more blatant statement that you need to be under your own God-appointed pastor. Right and wrong teaching is surely an obvious issue: so you would naturally want to find the right teacher for you, and would naturally want to ASK GOD who that person should be. Even without Bible backup to tell you these facts. Oh well.]

In short, creation can only be happy, to the extent that God 'clones' His Truth into it. Which cloning process, is you living in God's "ἑνότης" -- His System, as Ephesians 4:11-16 deftly outlines in the Greek. So: Truth means creation must be free, hence this 'cloning' "ἑνότης" (System) must be CHOSEN by that creation. Which itself, can't make the cloning happen, can't make it cycle, can't make it achieve anything -- only God at all times would be able to do that, since finity wouldn't even begin to know HOW to do anything which is opposite to its own nature.

But wait! He won't gerrymander either Truth or Freedom, so how can He make a forever-sinless, soul? The sinlessness is a necessary base for compatibility to SHARE God's Truth Thinking. Even if sinless, one needs to grow up spiritually, since God is not finite, so is Infinite Spirituality. Which you know for a fact, since Christ was always sinless, yet He had to grow up. The Last Adam, He. Just like the first Adam, there is a need to Grow Toward Infinity. So here's the problem sin created for the first Adam and his progeny: sin severs the needed spiritual connection TO grow, Genesis 2:17 (Hebrew -- English translations are bad). So if severed, the rapport with God can't be had: Adam Died Spiritually, which is why we die physically. Hence the two-pronged problem deftly written in Romans 3:23: "for all have sinned, AND COME SHORT of the Glory of God." God is Infinite, therefore infinitely Happy, therefore Infinitely Glorious. We can't share the Glory of Him, being finite; and being sinners at birth (it's a genetic defect, which is why we are prone to sin), we are cut off from God (theme of Ephesians 2) -- so we have no way to GET a relationship with Infinite God.

Alternatively, making sinless automatons is easy, but not glorious, since an automaton has no (or truncated) free will. To make free creatures who will of course use that freedom to harm themselves is also easy; but not glorious either, for then sin severs the connection. So how to CURE the problem, such that AFTER the cure, there can be a forever-happy because forever-sinless, Connected-To-God, soul? Especially, how can one effect such a Permanent Cure, in a soul which HAS already sinned? For sin means disease, and the soul lasts forever; having free will, and having sinned, that soul is addicted to sin forever. What harms, God would never do: so God would never COERCE such a soul, since then God would be sinning. And what soul having not yet sinned, wouldn't? For if one is not God, one wouldn't necessarily BELIEVE what God says. Hence sin is a prohibition for our sakes -- because it harms. Ok, but now that we are diseased, what cure, since we are forever addicted? And can this cure really result in a forever status of not sinning, yet free? The same SOUL lasts forever.

So if there is a cure, it must come from INSIDE. No outside stuff can heal what's INTERNALLY wrong. All the world's works and wishes can't fix what the world can't even detect, the immaterial soul. But God can.

Now you know why there was a Cross: the Son is the prototype Soul. God the Son Added Humanity to Himself, known to history as Jesus the Christ; but instead of using His Deity or His Humanity to stay sinless, RECEIVED TRUTH from the Holy Spirit, Who Developed and Connected It All IN the Humanity of Christ. Who then Bore All Sin Merely By Thinking that Truth (covered at length in the Four Aspects, later on). So now you have a Forever Sinless Soul Which Can Be Replicated Into Any Other Soul Who Wants His Thinking. Takes a lifetime, of course, to learn this Thinking. So, it's a re-engineering, a cloning of thought, for purposes of rapport: which Jesus the Christ prayed for on behalf of all the world, in John 17. When you first believe in Christ, the "born from above" statement in John 3:7 is a real thing. At that moment, you have a DDNA Structure on which the DDNA Function is to be built, theme of Romans 8:1-10. [It's not born again, but born from above. John 3:7 isn't translated properly. So I'll use "born again" often in my sites because it gets tiresome to keep typing the correct translation, "born from above".]

The Cross therefore accomplished FAR more than simply paying for all mankind's sins. Since He first BECAME the Truth and then due to His Love for Father (and us) Went Through the Cross, both Love and Truth Fully Wedded In His Humanity. Therefore, Truth and Love can be wedded in US. That is the Primary Message in the New Testament. The enormity of this DDNA accomplishment cannot be overstated. Now you know why Paul and other New Testament writers use "Love" as a metaphor for "Word" as a metaphor for "Christ". Why "Christ in you" verses are actually Depicting His Thinking in you -- blatant statement of HOW the John 17 prayer would be fulfilled ("Sanctify them in..Word" clause in John 17). So, His Soul's Thinking, which we can learn, means we can learn both Truth and Love HIGHER than any other group of believers in history. That Church has the highest spiritual life legated from Him is clear from Ephesians and Hebrews, and of course I've been learning about it under my pastor for over 30 years. That you can document why this is true, occupies the bulk of Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan. Hence the Wedding demonstration of LOVE for Trial purposes (the topic of 1 John 4:12-16) via Church, means we are also the biggest targets for Satan & Co. For with us, God's side in the Trial effectively ends, and the Rapture follows: of course, no one knows when (nor can anyone know, it's spiritual-growth dependent).

God always does the impossible, and He always outdoes Himself. It was impossible enough, to give the angels a baby version of the spiritual life we have: they saw the Son face to face, they had the highest possible creature nature, they had all knowledge binged! into them in that first nanosecond they were simultaneously created, they were full adult angels that very second. Shoulda been a slam-dunk to not sin, to grow in knowing God. Grow, because even when you know something, until your volition VALUES it, you haven't BELIEVED it. But they didn't have to learn it, just play with it and decide HOW they valued it. So many libraries automatically online in their heads. But one-third of them rejected God, anyway, on the grounds that it was impossible to go through the process. Satan argued that something must be wrong with God's Motive, then: that somehow God didn't really Love them, and was instead asking for sacrifice to make them grovel. (LordvSatan.htm, SatStrat.htm and Paradox.htm cover his arguments in much more detail.)

Ok, so Satan & Co. rebelled. After all arguments were answered and then the sentence was passed, Satan appealed. So Adam and the woman were created for a new reason, level the playing field so Satan could make his appeal arguments. And then things got more impossible. Lower creatures, likewise binged with knowledge, but being lower, the 'perfect' level was far lower. Creatures subject to hunger and thirst; creatures who couldn't just pop off to Pluto by means of willing it, like the angels could. Creatures who were earthbound, dependent in every way. Creatures who knew the angels existed, what the Trial was, and who God was. Who knew what would happen if they ate from that prohibited Tree. Wouldn't YOU feel the pressure?

Then, even more impossible, post-Fall. Every corpuscle in fallen man's being is naturally anti-God and also FAR more needy than ever. Psychological defense mechanisms thus run amok, native to man's convoluted sin-nature wiring. And yet God can prove His Arguments with such DEFECTIVE beings? LordvSatan2.htm takes you through the mind-boggling soul devastation, and how with each passing successful witness, God just makes the next 'covenant' harder to execute than what obtained prior. Culminating, with that hardest-of-all covenants, the Salvation Covenant pertaining ONLY to the Christ. Who executed it anyway. And then, to give That Same Spiritual Life Which He Needed For The Cross -- to Sin-Nature Believers? Whoa: no one would want it. So Satan concluded.

Yeah, and the more impossible it gets, the more the Absoluteness of God's Love, is proved TRUE in the Trial. To understand this, you have to go back to the Garden. The first marriage, failed. Marriage always depicts the relationship between God and creation. That is why it was sacrosanct, in any covenant/Dispensation/"Age" (latter is the Biblical term for what is called a "Dispensation" in theology). Love has many levels, depending upon the relationship. Mild love based on attraction; friendship love, which can be shallow or profound; marital love, Which Is Designed To Be Total. The husband doesn't belong to himself, but to the wife; the wife doesn't belong to herself, but to the husband. Paul explained this in great detail, throughout 1 Corinthians, and Ephesians.

For Christ Bought A Spiritual Life Of Intimacy Which Is Most Analogous Yet Higher Than, MARITAL Love. That couldn't be done, pre-Cross. Christ Threw His Life Away The Entire Time He Was Here. Philippians 2:5-10's Greek tells you all that. We in Church do not have the same Love Covenant as the OT. They had what was a besidedness, friendship spiritual life, vis · vis God. We have a Marital Intimacy Love Level available to us: John 17. Christ did what a wife would do, so to speak: He threw away His Whole LIFE, For Father. So for Church, unlike any other covenanted group, our own marriages are no longer merely secular: see Ephesians 5. So for us, everything is a throwaway: we are Bride, and we have NO life of our own. The Old Testament believers had a life with God, primarily, but ALSO a life of their own. Not true, for Church. For Church, we have a 100% life FOR Him. 0%, on any laterals, like people and things. Like the New Testament says, we are NOT our own. We were bought with the BridePrice, on the Cross.

You will never be happy until you love Christ so much, you want to throw away your life on Him; and you will never reach that attitude unless and until you have been grown up in God's System. Works aren't even remotely related to this. It's an ATTITUDE. Notice how no one is neutral, on the topic of "God". Now you know why. Works have zippo to do with attitude, and attitude has zippo to do with works. Same, for morality. You can hate God and be moral; you can hate God and do good deeds; you can love God while in those states, too. And the person who values his deeds and his morality hates God, theme of Romans 2-4.

See, the ALTITUDE of the ATTITUDE is the ongoing upgrade of God's Covenants, starting with the angels. The "Lord vs. Satan", beginning with Part 1, walks you through those altitudinal, attitudinal, upgrades. DDNA is still DDNA, but the way it gets built, depended on Christ Being Built. That's why a good 50% of Old Testament Bible text focuses on the Temple. He is the Temple being built. But we are post-Temple, His Crucifixion, He is Built, and Seated at the Right Hand. That's as high an altitude as can be. The Jews were the intended Bride before Church was even announced (in Matthew 16:18), and they would be 'Church' instead of us, had they not rejected Christ when He came. And they STILL can be 'Church' NOW -- "now" being a Bible term for the Church Age -- by doing what Abraham did before there was any such thing as the Law, Genesis 15:6, upgraded now to John 3:16. God is consistent: it's always the Altitude of the Attitude=DDNA, built by the Holy Spirit. Buildable now, to the topmost Altitude, the Spiritual Pleroma of Christ Himself, per the Greek in Ephesians 4:13 (in context) and Ephesians 3:15-21.

So of course, Satan & Co. would want to obfuscate this dramatic post-Cross upgrade to "Church". So most Christians cast the spiritual life as if the Old Testament spiritual life were still "on". But Hebrews 7:18, Romans 10:4 tell us that the Law died IN Christ, Because He Fulfilled The Law. Now you know why Christ said what He did in Matthew 5:18 -- HE is the Law, and when HE got accomplished on the Cross, then nothing passes from the Law, but INTO, Him. Whole Book of Hebrews is dedicated to explaining that changeover, and what we get now. We are ROYAL PRIESTS. We have NO life of our own. Historically, this fact has gone UNtaught. But it's in the Bible, and it takes very little searching, to find it: 2 Corinthians 10:5, all of Ephesians 5, Philippians 2:5 (command to throw away as He did), Romans 8, Romans 6:13, and all the ὑπό- words (like ὑποτάσσω, ὑπομένω, big New Testament keywords). The list could go on and on. Point is, we have a Wifely Role, since we are Wedded to Christ. Israel was supposed to be the Bride, but at the First Advent, she rejected Him. So we get that role instead. So It's A Far Higher Love Level, Requiring A Far Higher Truth Level. Which our Ἀρχηγός, Who became the "Way, the Truth and the Life" legated to us. ["Ἀρχηγός" is Greek for Founder/Grantor/Leader/Pioneer, and is used most famously in Hebrews 12:2.]

It's utterly impossible that the Life of Christ should be our life, too. But it is. And the Marital Nature Of Our Spiritual Life with God, hardly anyone will even want, let alone be able to discover. There is no excuse for Christianity to have missed this changeover, but it has. I can't find anyone BUT my pastor, who's even taught it. But the Bible is very plain.

Hence ours is the Highest Potential and the Most Impossible Spiritual Life. Going largely unused, historically.

Ask God to explain this to you, point you to the verses you need to see. For I'm sure you've not been taught it, unless you are under my own pastor. LordvSatan3.htm and all of Part 4's subpages explain what can be explained using BibleWorks (for I try to write these webpages as if I weren't taught by my pastor, proving what I can from Bible ONLY, so to prove no bias, and do my own due diligence before My Own God). You need God's Witness to this, as always. Don't not ask -- it's the most important doctrine you can learn. Else, you'll never orient to God's System, and you won't persist, in it. More words from me won't help you. Do your own homework. All I can do is be used as a brainstorming tool via these pages.

Again, the Love Level Christ Bought For Us, The Level Of Eternal Rapport We Can Have With Him, Is The Highest Of All The Covenanted Groups. Don't miss learning about it! End commercial message.

But how can God make what in essence, are 'sons' from this Son? Well, look: you are reading the words on this page. They remain on the page, yet have REPLICATED in your head, as well. So now 'sons' of those words are playing in your head as you ponder them, muse them: you are MIXING your own soul's being with the words, and a MUTATION is occurring. More properly, a Birthing Of New Thoughts, which reflect and hence are 'sons' of both 1) the thoughts in you prior to reading, and 2) the thoughts on the page. So the two parents have birthed children, which are some mix of the two parents. DNA, the instruction set itself, is a MIX from those parents. So DDNA, The Divine Instruction set, 'mixes' in your soul, run by the Holy Spirit for as long as you are in God's System, thus realizing the "transformation" Paul explains in Romans 12:1-3 (Greek: English is badly mistranslated). Transmutation, actually: the only kind of 'evolution' which can ever exist, since no set ever contains itself, and nothing can ever contain God. So the longer and the more you grow in God's System, the bigger you will become as a spiritual being, with the Truth changing your thinking to become more and more like His. Conversely, the more and longer you REJECT growing in God's System, the SMALLER you will become as a spiritual being. Forever. There is no middle ground, but so long as you are breathing you can change your mind and get IN God's System.

Aha. Now you know why we have a BIBLE. And now you know why the Bible, is ATTACKED. God's Truth is in WRITING. So, it mixes with your soul when you learn it in God's System, parenting Christ in you, the confident expectation of Glory, Colossians 1:25-27, which is a climactic statement of how the believer being DDNA-transmuted, beats Satan & Co. in the Angelic Trial. God's Truth, DDNA: all those math relationships of REALITY, can get into our heads, main theme of 1 Corinthians. Which we choose, but cannot produce: we are His Production, for only God can make gold, silver, precious stones (main point in 1 Corinthians 2 and 3).

Which production we can't even choose, until we first choose to believe in Him Whose Thinking Paid for all mankind's sins, John 3:16, Isaiah 53:10-12. The Isaiah passage is covered extensively in the Fourth Aspect. But for now know this: the very mechanism which paid for sins, getting Divine Thinking into the Humanity of Christ, is exactly the mechanism used to make sons, and Isaiah uses very graphic terminology in the inspired-original-language texts, to leave no doubt that mechanism is real. Sadly, religious people have so adulterated the translation of the Bible, you can't tell what it really says IN translation. But you don't need to settle for translation, thanks to God preserving the original-language texts; which after about 18 centuries of being pretty much 'kidnapped' and sequestered by religion, even the common man can learn them. Which after all was God's initial intention, when the Bible was first completely circulated, in the first century AD. It wasn't meant to be sequestered; It Was Meant To Be Widely Taught And Widely Lived On, 1 John 2. The BIBLE being taught. Not, religion.

Even a brief review of Acts in translation shows you how God originally intended the spiritual life to progress.

• You got the Word.
• You learned the Word. YOU learned it.
• You had a teacher, but You Learned The Word.
• It wasn't about buildings, institutions, hierarchies which put themselves between you and the Word.
• The teacher taught.. the WORD.
• Then, You Did What You Did With That Word. James explained that process, in James 1.
• The teachers would travel; the Word was read, just as it used to be, in the OT.
• Then people went home.
• There was no religion, and Paul in fact was persecuted by the Jerusalem church because he wouldn't BECOME religious.

So then, as now, Learning the Word was the spiritual life. Not, religion. YOU Learn. It's private, it's personal, and any social intercourse with other humans, well.. that was optional. Religion of course would usurp all that, which the Lord warned about, in Revelation 17. Which usurpation began in the very year He warned about it. Which usurpation broke up completely, about 150 years ago with the rollout of the original-language Bible texts, so people were no longer shackled to the religious Bible translations (which even today are not corrected). So about 50 years ago, pastors started Teaching Bible from those inspired original-language texts. [Divine Inspiration went to a person, the original writer of a Bible book; hence only the original-language texts are "God-breathed". Humans don't prove this, God does. But you have to study the text, in God's System, to get that proof.] Just as was happening, in the first century AD. Only now, you have fabulous study aids you can use to get more out of the teaching, such as the texts themselves (free on the internet, or purchasable as software like the one I use, BibleWorks).

As noted in the sidebar corollaries related to God's Love as Integrity above, now history has come full circle, which is why the 21st century is an apex in human history. If you were trying to date the Rapture -- and you should never do that, see Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan -- this 'full circle' quality of our century, is light-years more important, than what salivators hallucinate happening in the European Union. History has turned back to where God originally intended it. And since God runs God's System, it doesn't matter what brains you have -- they are of no use to you, for God's Brains Are To Replace Your Own (hence the need to breathe 1 John 1:9). God's Brains. Not, religion's.

Of course, religion, and in particular Christianity, has also begun turning back to what was bad about the end of the 1st century AD: Revelation 17. All those calls for unity you hear today, happened then. And we know how badly it turned out then. We learn from history that we learn nothing from history, so we'll repeat the same ol' lies yet again, this century. Because, Scripture is so available. Just as it was, by the end of the first century, when it was finally completed (the last book was Revelation, written about 96AD).

By the end of the first century, popery began with Clement 1: the concept of "pope" wasn't even Clement's, but started after him, and by him. By the end of the 21st century, it's real likely the Bible will be deep-sixed, again. Every 200 years or so the Bible breaks out, harvests those who learn Him, then goes back in the closet. But this time, the Bible has never been more available since the 1st century. So this time when it gets kidnapped again, will be the darkest of times. Again, you should never try to predict the Rapture, but if you were betting on when it would occur, then bet on it happening in the next 50 years or so. And be FRIGHTENED of not growing up.

Since we have a Completed New Testament to get His Humanity's DDNA FULLY built in us (Greek keyword "Pleroma", Ephesians 4:13, 3:19); since we can prove historically that religion kidnapped it, pretended it wasn't completed, and did everything to destroy the Whole Bible -- but it's freed up, now; expect Satan & Co. to play political football, lest you become serious about Scripture.

For the real spiritual life, is not a soundbyte. Bible is not a soundbyte. Not some tedious memorizations and incantations to avoid damnation or get brownie points for the week. Not flashcard knowledge nor undiscerning accumulations of facts and figures which you can use to preen in paper or pulpit. Oh no. This Is A Real Relationship With Real God. And Bible is His Thinking. In writing, so you can come to share it, by God 'cloning' that Thinking into your very own soul. So to be IN Him, even as He indwells you (true for every believer). So to be in His Thinking, Having Rapport.

For the true meaning of "born again" (John 3:16ff) is that You Become A New Spiritual Being That First Nanosecond You Believe In Christ (Titus 3:5, Greek of 2 Corinthians 5:17). It's a SPIRITUAL CONVERSION, kinda like a touchdown conversion in football. So the elect angels in the unseen stadium above us, cheer, craning their necks (Luke 2 and Luke 15:10, 1 Peter 1:12, 1 Corinthians 4:9). Or, it's like having been a pauper, yet suddenly inheriting the world owing to a fluke of birth. Only this is no fluke, but the very plan of God! for your life. Ok, so now, what? If you inherited a bazillion dollars but couldn't access the money, it's as if you got bupkis. If you got the money but didn't know how to use it, you'd end up with bupkis, for misused wealth never remains wealth of yours, for very long. Cleverer minds than yours, will part you from your money. Well, spiritual wealth requires even more learning prior to use; requires even more protection, from cleverer minds than your own (seed and talents parables in Gospels). So you need to Learn What God Has Already Made You, That First Second You Believed In Christ. You are absolutely not who you think you are. Ignorance is not bliss, but a death-warrant. Learning Him, by contrast, is Light and happiness. That's not nice Sunday hyperbole, but 1 John's hard-headed, heart-hitting, due-diligence disclosure. As you'll see, in the First Aspect.

Sunday American football bores people who don't understand it was developed as a form of WAR, even like chess was. You have two teams. They are trying to BEAT each other. The goals at either end of the football field grant 'points' to the team (who faces OPPOSITE its own goal) who can RUN THE BALL into the 'end zone' (place where the goal post is). You run the ball to your OWN end zone, and the enemy tries to GRAB that ball and run to ITS own end zone. Of course, if you are truly stupid, you will run the ball YOU have to the ENEMY'S end zone, and thus become the laughingstock of the stadium. For, by doing that, you just gave the ENEMY, a touchdown! [The official term is called "touchback".]

We Christians are in just such a game, and we are quite the laughingstock, all the time. Actually, the whole world is. We all are initially on Satan's team, at birth. But the very nanosecond we 'obey' John 3:16, we are OUT of Satan's kingdom, and IN God's. So, on God's team. That's like a pass conversion which results in a touchdown for the ENEMY team. Satan's not pleased. All the angels in heaven though are cheering, Luke 15:7. We Are Being Watched. Peter talks about how the angels crane their necks to watch; Paul talks about us being gladiators in a Roman-style stadium. Some obvious verses on this are 1 Corinthians 4:9, Ephesians 3:10, 1 Timothy 5:21, 1 Peter 1:12, and of course the beginnings of Job 1 and 2. Revelation 4 onward shows how Heaven Watches The Earth, so if you just scan Revelation, it should be pretty obvious, in any translation. Then there's Hebrews 1, showing that angels serve man due TO Christ's Trial Victory (read through Chapter 2). Terms like "powers" and "authorities" refer to demons, generally, but if you read the context you'll notice it's in a Testimony Connection -- Testimony God Makes To Them. Paul uses these terms a lot.

So: Satan & Co. are one 'team', and "God" is the other. Both 'use' humans to prove Trial arguments, and never is a human used who isn't consenting to being so used. Of course, at God's End, we got a Bible to tell us His Playbook, because we are in this Trial. Which is a contest, a grand football game of games, a NASCAR race. Paradox.htm is rather more legally-oriented, focusing more on the arguments themselves; DueDisclosure.htm is on the politics of it. Here, though, we're talking biology; yet the 'game' role of this DDNA conversion, which is a pass conversion of an enemy thought (DDNA grabs the ball of thought, as it were), is Exactly How Sins Got Paid For On The Cross: Matthew 4:4, Romans 5:8, all of Isaiah 52:13-55. So of course DDNA conversion is the most important 'service' to God. Again, "works" aren't even on the playing field -- except on SATAN'S team!

So Satan & Co. try to USE the Christian to make touchdowns in the wrong end zone. Church history shows how extremely successful, they have been. Such is the history of Churchinanity, from its founding, forward. Satan & Co. have racked up a lot of points!

Yet God doesn't need numbers, but QUALITY, to win. Chief Witness? Christ, Hebrews Chap1-10. So what 'plays' He made in His Thinking, we get to have. He converted every pass of sin into DDNA, ON the Cross (theme of the First Aspect). So as Peter writes, He is our PlayBook/Copybook (Greek term "ὑπογραμμός"). We imitate Him, and thus win, Philippians 2:5-10. Not on OUR power, of course -- but on His (Philippians 2:10-17, Philippians 3:8-14, Ephesians 2:10, all translations are mangled). So we instead, though few in number, can (only under the Spirit while IN God's System!) GRAB all the enemy flak (which is eons worse against the few in God's System), and be caused to run into the RIGHT end zone, God's. After all, it doesn't matter how many make the touchdowns, but the number of touchdowns, capisce? That's the point of 1 John. That's the result of DDNA building in you, in God's System. That's precisely what happened ON the Cross, per Isaiah 52:13-53:12, in the original, God-breathed Bible texts.

God began the touchdown conversion, with the angels. One-third of them, didn't agree God won the game, 🤣. So God 'lingered' in the making of mankind; He started by restoring the earth (literal, hovering, mother-hen-brooding-her-chicks verb, in Genesis 1:2); for Satan & Co. had trashed it up. The same God lingers over us to remake us into the image of His Son; "grieving" Him means you are saying NO to that desire, 1 John 1:8 or 1 John 1:10. So obviously They love us. So much so, Each Member of the Godhead Indwell us. [For a short list, see SalvAttribs.htm and search on "Indwellings", in LordvSatan1.htm. There are many of these verses in the NT; you classify them by the rhetorical style used, and many are multiple-entendre wordplays (i.e., all the "in you" verses). New Testament basically plays on John 15's "Vine and Branches" explanation to make distinction between Him being in you (Indwelling, His Perfect Rapport) and you being 'in' Him (position in Him via the Spirit; but functionally, being Filled with the Spirit; functionally, How Much Your Thinking has developed compatibly with His Own, Romans 12:1-3 in Greek). So you have to parse out all the meaning layers in those hundreds of verses, alone! And that's only one rhetorical category! Obviously, I've not done all that.]

So for mankind, the touchdown conversion begins with salvation. But it doesn't stop there. If anything, life intensifies greatly post-salvation, because the Rapture Occurs When Enough Believers Grow To Pleroma Maturity. (LvS4a.htm and LvS4b.htm explain the bodies-requirement in great detail.) Hence, to get there, you go through a life of soul surgery, which only God does TO you. Each such moment is a pass conversion, and gives you DDNA: even if you are but sitting in a chair, filled with the Spirit, watching your favorite sitcom. For Hebrews 4:12 is a surgical change, post-salvation, our spiritual re-engineering, "Mechanism #4" in God's Soliloquy, the DDNA building program, Romans 8:4. It has an obvious learning component, being under your pastor. But that's only one hour a day. The other 23 hours You Live On Whatever Doctrine You Know, Using It To Think Toward Father, Solve Problems, Make Decisions, Resist Temptation. It's a very intense, Personal Inner Life, which (hopefully) those around you cannot see. (Spiritual immaturity needs to be loud. Keep on keeping on in God's System: you will outgrow that phase.)

For, Divine Love is on Trial. Satan wants to argue God is unable to fulfill His Promise of growing enough believers to Pleroma (=NT term for fullness of Christ, playing on the Greek impregnated-by-a-god connotation). Hence, on God's part, the process requires a long period of lingering, delicate operations on the soul in accordance with its free-will consent. That's Love, baby. DDNA Love. Question is, Will We Grow To Love God?

Satan wants to argue that this spiritual life doesn't make man any happier than Satan's own plan for mankind. Satan, above all, wants to make the Christian QUIT this process, if he ever gets in it. Satan's reasoning in the Trial turns everything into an accusation. Hence Christians are disproportionately accused, even when genuinely wrong, to make "Christian" and "crazy", equivalents. For Satan's big strategic goal is to prevent people from WANTING God's System. So any number of feel-good substitutes are offered to entice us. All in the name of God, of course! And if we take those alternatives, we score touchdowns for Satan, not God. So we look crazy or just like any other religious person, so then Christianity is but another religion, or.. worse than every other religion. If you leaf through history's pages, you'll see this strategy has enjoyed a remarkable success. Never mind, that billions of people go to hell for liking the idea that Christians are crazy (blaming us gives them a nice excuse to not believe in Christ, see).

As just noted, the Trial concerns whether the believer can come to love God. Implicit in that question is the deeper Trial issue about whether God Himself is Loving, or are His claims a sham. So again, the question turns partly on What Is Love. For Loving God isn't the human attribute of Love, but God's Own Attribute Of Love. That's why we need DDNA built in us. Bible Greek verb "αγαπάω" is usually mistranslated [to] "Love", but should be translated "Divine Love", because that's the ONLY meaning of the word. (Greek uses different words for human love.) So we're talking about a Divine Attribute Being Built Via Bible Learning In God's System. Since Infinity is antithetical to finity, and even more antithetical to sin-nature mankind (see Romans 8), the more you grow in God's System, the more you are essentially at war with yourself. So to add to this Growing Dichotomy a series of Trial testings, is too much for the human to handle.

The 'play' of this Trial in the believer's life as he grows in God's System, is thus amazingly political and lawyerly. Trick is to stay out of the political and lawyerly, but you end up having to think like a politician and a lawyer, to avoid those very traps. DueDisclosure.htm takes you through the issues you'll face. LordvSatan3.htm (Part 3 of the Lord vs. Satan) outlines the structure of the spiritual life (very long); especially, the "First Reason for Invisibility". See, because you are a king-in-training ("inherit the kingdom" means kingship, capisce?) you have to learn subtlety. Babies don't 'get' subtlety, such as why the temptations in Matthew 4 are works temptations (so yes, good deeds can be and often are SINS). So Satan & Co. can really score big, if they hit you before you are able to discern.

So, when you're spiritually young, you are basically tempted to run around doing drooling works. As a result of which, you'll wet your spiritual diapers and then those already disbelieving Christ will add you to their list of excuses for disbelief. Or, you'll get grosser temptations which have particular appeal to whatever prurient interests you have. In all cases, The Temptation Neatly Manages To Make You Slack Off On Bible Class Or Bible Living. A common tactic is to make Bible Study itself a kind of badge thing, hence turning it into a religion of its own -- at which point, you are winning points on Satan's team. If you find yourself bored in Bible class or doing it because of peer pressure, a desire to get a blessing from God 'in return', or for any other reason than simple desire to know God better, You're Playing On The Wrong Team. This attitude is, frankly, unavoidable: just keep on breathing 1 John 1:9 when you are aware of it, and remember why you want to study Scripture. Repetition of that remembrance will be strengthened by the Holy Spirit, for He always strengthens right motives. Eventually He'll grow you past the wrong motives.

Notice the cruel, lawyerly, political game. Spiritual babies shouldn't be so abused. But since Love Is On Trial, And Even A Newborn Christian Realizes He Needs To Know Bible, well.. even the spiritual newborn doesn't have excuse. God provides plenty of time to regroup and grow up, orchestrates your life despite your own gaffes, so you can wake up to the truth. Just turn on any Christian TV or radio station, walk into most any church or 'Christian' chatroom, see the babies parade. Spiritual growth takes time. So God provides time. When God grows you up, He causes you to literally BUY time. Even while you are yet too young, your potential buys the world time. Salt of the earth, not yet saltless due to excessive, self-willed rejection of His Implanted Word (Matthew 5:16, elaborated on throughout the book of James).

But after 10+ years of your not responding, well.. now you become bitter. All that talk of "backsliding" among believers is really due to people not being interested in God; if you're interested in Him, you have less and less time to be thinking about those nasty ol' temptations. You're too busy trying to use what you're learning in Bible class! But if you're not interested in Him, well.. everything else is totally boring, so after about 10 years you're jaded from it all, always thinking the next purchase, the next vacation, the next retreat, the next church will bring you spiritual nirvana. And you're instead busy with social life, good deeds, running other people's lives.. making lots of points for Satan's team. And getting all the ennui you can eat! Why else do you think pastors have to resort to emotion-filled rhetoric in their sermons? It's no different from drug addiction. In fact, drug addiction is easier to overcome. Emotionally-hooked Christians flock to places which make them feel good by emotion, ritual, etc. Because, their lives are empty of BIBLE, His Thinking. There is no substitute for DDNA. But there is all the ennui and touchdowns for Satan you'll ever want!

Your big hint about Satan's counterfeit is to note what's popular. Works are popular. Ritual is popular. People thinking well of you is popular. How you appear is popular. Shallow is popular. But study of Bible under your right pastor daily, living on what you learn daily; staying away from visible Churchinanity, works and 'Christian fellowship' is NEVER popular, historically. Hint hint, as to what God really wants. Hint hint, as to what Real Love is. After all, we know nothing about The First 30 Years Of Christ's Own Life. Hint hint!

Hence God's Love and therefore Bible His Word, is feared, reviled, attacked. In the minds of men, in the arguments of Satan. For "God is Love". IS, not has or acquired or grew to or learned. IS, not 'feels'. So does He really Love His Creation, or is He using "love" like a weapon, to dominate (same argument as Genesis 3:5)? Is the Bible a bludgeoning instrument, or the very means of healing, making you INTO the Most High, Himself?

"The Most High" is the name for God the Son, which angels prehistorically have used. The demon who invented the Koran proves its demonic origin by picking the name "Allah", which is taken from Satan's claim of RISING to take over God, in Isaiah 14:13-14. So too, in the Trial against Christ, this claim of who's-really-high, is constantly raised derisively. After all, if God is so loving and wonderful yet consigns millions of unbelievers to the flames, well.. !

We can't see Satan, but we can see many people who claim God is evil to send anyone to hell. Hmmm. And for what do they go to hell? Because they do not believe in Me, said the Lord (John 16:9, 3:16-36). Think about that for a moment. What human being would ever give you a farthing for simply believing in him, huh? If you believed in me, and expected me to gift you for that.. well, don't hold your breath! So would I be evil and wrong, to not give you something for believing in me? Of course not. So if I offered you a bazillion dollars (how do you put a price on eternal salvation?) if you simply BELIEVED in me -- would I be UNfair to you? No, I'd more likely be unfair to myself. So if I made that offer, and you refused it, who is the stupid person? Who is the bad person? Who is the mean-spirited, masochistic, sadistic person? Not me. Worst you could say about me was that I was cheating myself. But the one who turned that offer down, well.. what would YOU say if your spouse or sibling turned down a wealthy inheritance?

So what gets proved, that so few believers take God up on either the salvation offer, or the post-salvation offer to grow up in His Son, Both Offers Being Wholly Funded, run, and guaranteed by God? And since He IS God, well.. to reject God's offer, reflects evilly on the rejector. So what kind of soul would reject the FREE OFFER worth easily a bazillion dollars, not to mention the bazillions atop it if one grows spiritually, post-salvation? An evil soul, to be sure. And we all were that evil, theme of Ephesians 2. So the only reason we stop being like the people who reject forever, is that God saved us when we first believed in Christ.

Now just where should an evil soul live, if it rejects living with God? The Prosecution rests. Yes, there are few qualified witnesses on the Prosecution's side to witness to His Grace.. but the Billions Of Rejectors Prove Him The More Loving, than all those witnessing for Him on His Team, eh?

It really isn't possible to be more arrogant, than to accuse God. People who claim God can't be God if He judges people are so sick with arrogance, the kindest thing you can do is to avoid them. Alternatively, people who are addicted to maligning and judging others, are just as sick with arrogance. Arrogance is a sickness. It requires drastic SURGERY. Hell is a type of surgery, and the goal is always that the patient RECOVER, 2 Timothy 2:26-3:7. (That passage shows the believer's sickness, called the "sin unto death" in 1 John 5:16. But God doesn't love the unbeliever less. For with reference to unbelievers, 2 Peter 3:9's "me boulomenos" looks like it's in the gnomic present, which indicates even those in hell, can BELIEVE to get out: see last link (section) in LordvSatanV.htm for a longer discussion of that idea. I find nothing in Bible which says Hell is ever 'imposed' by God with no recourse. It benefits God to grant recourse, ALL sin had to be paid on the Cross or else God is cheated, so people (and angels, even) who are in hell are there by Continuing Choice: here, the choice to refuse to believe. Peter is using the Greek negative "me" here, not "ouk", so God is denying the IDEA of ever being willing. So there must be a recourse which is continually refused, forever.)

God of course has always 'seen' the future simultaneously with the past, so all those accusations perennially against Him are forever in His 'ears'. Yet, He doesn't zap anyone. Why? Well, as noted earlier, Omniscience Knows The Whole Truth, And Infinitely. And still Loves. So there's no 'cause' which 'motivates' or 'generates' His Love, really. Any object, no object. Transitive, or intransitive. Because, God is Absolute. Infinity is Absoluteness, not spatial. Each God. You can 'anthropopathize' a statement of 'motive', to better understand why God wills as He does, but technically, He Just Loves.

For Absolute Love Means There Are Always Reasons for His Love Attitude; further, that No Reason Can Ever Be Sufficient To Warrant Not Loving. Hence nothing He knows -- and He knows Everything, whether real or potential, impossible or possible -- Nothing He Knows, Argues Against This Love.

Love is still love without fellowship. Every one among us has a problem with another person in our daily lives. It's a fellowship problem, the two minds not connecting, or connecting only shallowly -- or, in hostility. Even if the two people like or even love each other, they can't have rapport. Something BLOCKS it. And that "something", is lack of SHARED THINKING. So God loves, but we don't share His Thinking. DDNA solves that fellowship problem, hence the need for 1 John 1:9 to GET in fellowship; hence the need to learn and live on Bible in God's System, to complete the function of that fellowship. Forever.

Have you ever tried to have adult fellowship with a baby? With a dog? A plant? The baby, dog, plant CANNOT RESPOND at your level. It's positively heartbreaking to watch a person degrade; parents see their children turn out badly; children see their parents devolve into babies; husbands see wives, wives see husbands, and everyone is miserable. Lack of shared thinking, degrading in the thinking, retarding in the thinking, is what makes all misery, Isaiah 53:3. True grief is to watch someone else be or become lower than you. That's why Christ yearned for the Cross, Luke 22:15-19.

God's DDNA Goal Is For Us To Think As He Does, At HIS LEVEL, John 10:34, quoting Psalm 82:2ff -- for God wants FELLOWSHIP. It's His Nature. More Intimate Love, thus: not less. For our sakes. He doesn't need to be One with Us, since He already is. But in our souls, we are not united with Him. So: our testimony in the Trial at the Pleroma level is that nothing unseats the Love.

Meaning, the Love Is Unconditional. Doesn't mean we don't sin. Does mean that Standard remains always "on". (It's a test of the STANDARD, not so much whether you can be knocked down. True failure is if you Permanently Quit the Standard. The person at the Pleroma level who completes the course, never gives up. Falls down, gets back up. Every time.) This was Christ's Standard, which of course He perfectly executed. We don't execute it perfectly, of course: but as humans, it should be impossible for us to even believe that strongly. Which we couldn't do, if we didn't Know Enough Bible Doctrine Thoroughly in God's System. So the efficacy of His Love is thus proven. Even in us earthen vessels.

See, humans always leave things "off the table" -- love is always conditional, in the human race. God's Love is the opposite of that. So if nothing is off the table in your mind, and that keeps on being true, then it's GOD'S Love demonstrated. Which happened Perfectly in Christ, and as a result Can Happen, in you. The entire Trial is about this Love. Never, about works. (Not even Satan & Co. care about works -- they use works arguments to entice people away from learning Bible. See Matthew 4 to get the strategy and tactics of the works ploy.)

Ponder that for a minute. The inevitable conclusions could begin as follows. No sin or shortfall in you or me, is enough reason to not create us. Not all of what Hitler did, was enough reason to not create him. Not all of what Christian activists do -- far worse than Hitler even dreamed of, since they massacre the Word by their horrible crusading! -- is enough reason to not create them. Nothing is enough reason to not create, but instead, the Very Reason To Create.

Because Love, loves Truth. Truth, to BE Truth, must be Free. God is also Truth. God is also Free. So all truths, must be free to exist. Good truths, bad truths, any truths, because truths. So anything that exists, is thereby, sufficient reason!

Which existence requires, a Cross -- you realize this. A Cross which always exists, playing 'live' before Omniscience, since God is One Big Nowness (Absoluteness means no time element, either). So even all the horror and sins being imputed and judged on His Own Son -- which Father Himself would do! -- was not enough reason, to not create! Do you see? The truth is so good, so gorgeous, even all the bad truths, can be caught and Converted to DDNA, to touchdown conversions, even benefitting the very enemy who was running the wrong way! So this touchdown conversion happened in eternity past, and God was so impressed by the TRUTH of it, He Decreed to Create!

So nothing that happens to you, is absent reason. No matter how bad, or how good. It's impossible for there to ever BE no reason, insufficient reason, or wrong reason. No matter what happens to anyone. Period. Because whatever happens, first happens 'to' God, since He knows everything since forever past-future, nontime. So Christ is the Reason for Everything, which is part of what the Greek term "Ho Logos", means. Ponder that. Take a hotel room for solitude, think it over. Will blow you away, as you think over the implications!

Now perhaps you can see why God's Love truly is Integrity: the most powerful force in the universe. So He has Every Reason to linger lovingly over us, no matter what we've done or not done or thought. Shocking! So He has Every Reason to make us as Righteous as He is, that first nanosecond we first believe in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:21! More shocking! And He has Every Reason, To Clone His Son's Thinking Into Us Precisely Because We Are As Righteous As God, Romans 8 (especially verse 4, the theme)! Most Shocking!

My pastor has spent the better part of 50 years analysing the role of Love in God. It's wonderful to hear how he experiments with first one description, then the next, as he via the Spirit passed on his own learning to us. In the beginning, he wanted to make clear that Divine Love isn't like human love, so he stressed Divine Righteousness as the "principle" of God's Integrity, and His Justice, as the functional 'point of contact' (where we need to be 'connected'). But by the end of his ministry (he retired in 2003), he'd realized that "LOVE IS THE INTEGRITY OF GOD!" (class tape on 5/7/2000). Meaning -- but I'd urge you hear him in his own words -- that all the other Divine Attributes, are 'run' by LOVE. Not that God needs to 'manage' Himself, but that His Love is First. [DueDisclosure.htm has that conclusion, as well; but the webpage is based on earlier classes by my pastor (1997-1999 years). My pastor has his own system of teaching, so you should hear it 'his' way, if you are interested. First rule of due diligence is stick with the source. Any other 'witness', is but ancillary.]

As in, First Commandment. After all, God will never command what He Himself, doesn't first Wholly Choose. Which makes sense logically, even if we can't understand how God can just BE, since if one doesn't love, how can one happily live? And we know God is Infinitely Happy: Greek word Χαρά, literal "unalloyed happiness", as my pastor puts it. Term is used in Hebrews 12:2 and many other verses; my pastor likes to call it "+H, the Happiness of God". Which you get, as you get DDNA from the Holy Spirit in God's System, via Him depositing Happiness in you, which is the Thinking of Christ.

Absoluteness means God has no beginning, wasn't caused by anything, doesn't 'make' Himself stay God, etc. So Love is just THERE. But never, absent reason. So God Chooses to Subordinate Himself At All Times, to Righteousness and Justice, which of course Omniscience, thoroughly knows.. which is super shocking, since the 'printouts' from those attributes re whether it's right to create, are SOLID YES! So "hell" is right to have.. for Love?

When you don't understand the Absoluteness of God, your ideas of Righteousness will be tainted. Relative (to your ideas). Puny. Kinda like getting morality rules as a child, until you Grow In That Knowledge To See Their Foundation Of Grace, you'll misuse whatever moralities you've learned. Kinda like getting any kind of wealth, you need to learn while having whatever you do have, in order to learn how to have it. At which point, you can have more. Parable of the talents.

Well, knowing God is like having money, since knowing Him is the greatest of all forms of wealth: until you know Him enough and long enough and you know how to use what you know of Him, you don't really know how to have the knowledge, and won't be thus comfortable IN that knowledge. But God knows everything: all the experience of hell is 'in' His 'Mind' at ONCE, so He Is Experiencing It All As One Big Now. Even though, the eternal version of hell, hasn't even come into existence. And Love is still Right? For Him To Have So Much Suffering-Knowledge, More Than All Creation Put Together Forever? Ok, now you need a week in a hotel room, to quietly ponder that one!

Think of God's Integrity like a circle of love (as demonstrated by the subjective and objective genitive in verses like Romans 5:5's agape tou Theou). So there is no gap, no way for it to be broken. No sharp corners. Total Flow. Now, Love Is The Generator, Constantly On (unmotivated, Always On). The Love cycles THROUGH His Other Attributes, as a function of WILL. He's not a computer, k? (Technically there's no movement, either, but this is just a metaphorical description.) Now: Attributes like Righteousness and Justice, have standards; Truth Attribute has facts and formulas of relationship (the latter being the Structure of Truth, no matter what the variables might be, which is DDNA). As the LOVE cycles through, any objects which are in view will have 'printouts', as it were, of what should or should not be, Divine Attitude and response. WILL wills that these 'printouts' be complied with, because LOVE loves doing that. So God's Relationship to Any Object, Will Willingly And At All 'Times' Be Faithful To Those Printouts.

So you cannot ever, no matter what you do or are, change/nullify/alter God's Love for YOU. Technically, you could run out tomorrow and massacre half the planet, and God's Love wouldn't even experience a blip of change toward YOU. Even though He would have seen that massacre since forever past and future. Because, His Love is Unmotivated, so "you" don't cause it. So "you" can't lose it, or change it, either.

This doesn't mean God is somehow aloof from you. God -- being Infinite -- is never aloof or apart from anything. He doesn't WANT to be apart. It's not just that He is Omnipresent, but He WILLS to be intimate with all things and beings. Period. Everything about God is absolute, so no object 'changes' Him or His Attitude, ever. The only 'changes' are the EXPRESSIONS due to the object's NEED or other characteristics of the object.

People are motivated from emotion, as well as from whatever they believe true and good, bad, etc. God is not emotional -- Infinity (aka Absoluteness) doesn't 'move' or change. Emotion is a body function which may or may not be stimulated by the soul. People are marionetted by their emotions, and rationalize them to justify giving into their emotions.

God is not like that. Love is not like that. Love is a stasis. Humans are anything but stable, so real love, no human can do. Hence our spiritual life, in which DDNA, aka Bible aka the Thinking of Christ, self-builds God's Own Love, in you. And when you come to have enough DDNA, your love by then becomes real and stable, 1 John 4:19! Note that verse: no one is able to love, without knowing God. Hence the need for Bible in you, the DDNA which makes your soul, forever Happy.

And what's the PRODUCT of His Love Deposits of Bible, Christ's Thinking in believers, especially those privileged few in Church? Do we Church believers really BECOME Like The Most High?

In the Pleroma phase of your spiritual life, this stasis is proven. In the human, the suffering is side-by-side with the Love. The Pleroma person is a Joe Palooka doll, based so firmly that he can be knocked down, but not defeated (2 Corinthians 4:7-10, 2 Corinthians 12:10ff, 1 Timothy 1:18, 1 Timothy 6:12, 2 Timothy 4:7). No matter how much you hurt, the love for God remains. You don't curse God and die... though being human, you should. When you love God, nothing you are or do is enough, so there's a kind of constant grief at being puny. But the DDNA in you, is also constantly there, and all your puniness can't defeat it. So you bob up again, just like that popular Joe Palooka doll in the American 1950's. [Cultural note: the doll was about the height of a five-year old child, had a heavy sand base, and was inflatable. So you blew it up, and it would be the size of the child, so the child would hit it. The doll would bob, and then right itself. The sand base, kept it from toppling. Bible grows like sand in you, one precept at a time (smile here).]

Conclusion: God Who Loves that much, either has Total Reason, And Nothing Can Ever Impinge On His Love, or.. God is crazy beyond measure. God's self-styled adversaries think God is crazy. So, God is portrayed as being crazy, by every movie, most every remark, every popular faith ever on this planet, ever since time began. Insulting and deprecating, are our 'normal' attitudes toward God. Reflecting our demonic handlers' teaching (1Tim4:1, 2 Timothy 2:3-4), who sell Him that way. [See godnotmag.htm for a list of religious insanities. Then, presuming you don't have a month to spend in a hotel room, I already did something like that, which might speed thus your own brainstorming: results are in the "God's Paradox". That link focuses on God's REASONS. Of all the webpages, that section is among the most shocking.]

By sad contrast, Religion plays the world's tune: all do do do do do, doo-doo. For which, you get brownie points. For which if you don't conform to its strictures, you get demerits. These standards are drilled into you at all points of your day, and are in everyone's mouth, for all the world's thinking is Just Like Religion. Only difference is, the latter slaps "God" on as a label, to garner votes and money. So you learn to hate God, see. For, no one can long live in this world of petty insanities, without learning to hate it. So one seeks the next car, the next house, the next spouse to get relief. And, since there is NO pea under any of the promised walnut shells, you never get any relief; for, this whole world is just one big disappointment.

Or, lalalalala λάλέω (Greek verb for gossip or demon-controlling-your mind and speech).. a looney bin. Like, the latest United Notions religious idea that a BELL ringing on International Earth Day (March 20), made from children's coins from 60 countries(!).. actually honors the Earth? But how holy, people who expend travelling effort to hear that bell, will account themselves! Oh, we're sending a message! Yeah, and to whom? Couldn't you have spent the millions of dollars it took to collect all those coins and cast the stupid bell, on cleaning UP something in the environment? Oh, I took part! Yeah, you took part in WASTING MONEY. So what did that do FOR the earth? Oh, did you help CONTRIBUTE to that bell? Well, yes I did (preen preen). Never mind, that in the aftermath of that holy convocation, there will be so much litter on the street, thousands of dollars of taxpayer money will be required, for cleanup.

Japan, a nation made up of some of the smartest people on earth, actually sponsored this project and made the bell. Japan, is big on the environment. It has to be, with so little land. Notice how "coins" and "children" and "bell" and "ringing" are all emotional words. So the RATIONAL question of exactly what does this DO for the planet? needn't be answered, and needn't make sense, either.

Tell me: how will world pollution ever be addressed sanely, if the SOUL pollution, is this wacko?

Classic satanic ploy, that bell thingy. To make reason, and hence God Himself, foreign to us. Substituting, emotion. Buzzwords. And no one DARE speak against them. Hence tyranny. So the bell tolls for us: ringing out how Satan's "DIOS" plan works quite well, thank-you-very-much. Stealing and preventing, DDNA production. Replacing it with a foreign body in our souls, infecting us with the devil's DNA, instead. Just like he did, in Genesis 3. Ah, what a message we will send on March 20! ["D-I-O-S" is an acronym developed to explain Satan's strategy.]

Everything a soul touches then, turns to doo-doo. As a man thinks in his heart, so he is, Proverbs 23:7. And his thinking is doo-doo, defiling everything, Matthew 15:11, Mark 7:20, James 3:6. God gives, we wreck. Satan helps.

So sooner or later you realize we've all gone down the rabbit hole with Alice, so if God is part of religion, well.. then He's crazy, too.

Of course, that's what you're supposed to conclude, if you, unlike most of the world, still have a functioning brain. For the brains above our brains have this grudge against God, so don't want you to get interested in Him. So then everything down here has to be religified and insane. So to make you feel hopeless like Winston did in George Orwell's dark novel about tyranny, 1984. As a result of which hopelessness, you finally give up and chuck your brain in the trash; then, like so many before and after you, shuffling along with the mindless bell-ringing crowd. Crying in your teacup how you love Big Brother Satan & Co. For whom the bell, tolls.

Kinda stark choice then: heavenly happiness, means learning God. Hell means NOT doing so. Ergo you either learn God, or become like the crazy people, fancying yourself holy, ringing meaningless bells, trashing the planet while doing so. But thank God we get the Cross, to RESCUE us (first meaning of sozw, usually mistranslated "save"). Rescue us from the garbage life moral demands make on us. From the garbage life immoral demands make on us. Above all, to Rescue Us From Having Puny Lives -- which can instead, look UP. "Turn and be healed." And from that brass-serpent cure, to grow in grace and in the DDNA of Him, to see Him. And enjoy Him, glory in Him, 1 Peter 1:7-8, 2 Peter 3:18ff, Ephesians 3:15-21. Him, not mindless, warring, above all CHILDISH.. religion.

A Production to Love

Thus far we've seen the big picture: man is constantly childish and warring; God has a solution to that, with the Purpose of Actually Making Sons Out From His Son; that this very mechanic was used on the Cross, so is legated to us to MAKE us like the Son. We've seen how our soul DNA and DDNA can in fact be engineered, because both are volitionally-based. We've seen that the characteristics of DDNA are Love, hence Truth, hence Omniscience of Truth being Loved, means Happiness. That happiness can be deposited via life in God's System, learning Bible quietly, living on it daily. And God runs the whole thing, line upon line, precept on precept, depositing 'dots' of His Son's Thinking in our souls at each discrete freewill consent we make. We've also seen that Satan & Co. attack this DDNA plan, substituting religion; that religion is tyranny, but attracts the warring and childish, human race; that if instead the believer just keeps on keeping on in God's System, he'll outgrow the childish warring.. and Actually Prove Why God's DDNA plan is superior, in the Trial.

Thus armed with the big-picture, spiritual 'macrobiology', it's time to get into the spiritual 'microbiology'. For this, we start again with our metaphor of biological DNA.

Every cell in your body came into existence and remains as it is or changes, due to an INSTRUCTION SET, which we call 'genes'. See, your cells need to be TOLD how to live; they need to be TOLD how to function. Your spiritual life needs to be taught. Everything depends on INSTRUCTION, and instruction, on the Word of God. God, Who CREATED all the universe, and all the micro-universe: the atoms and hence the cells which make up your very body, as well as all atoms and all bodies.

This instruction set for our cells, resides in the "DNA" of our genes. According to Watson and Crick, the two scientists who discovered DNA and built a model of it, each of these DNA instruction chains looks like a long twisted staircase that can be broken apart in the middle, for purposes of replicating itself. Ironically, that's the vivid picture you get, from the original-language text of Isaiah 53; especially, from the action of the five CHAINED infinitives in the LXX text of verses 10-11.

In short, your very biology, like your so-great salvation and spiritual life, is wholly dependent on CLONING. When this DNA splits apart, it resembles a mouth, with the halved 'stairs' looking like teeth. Then in tandem with RNA, one of the sets of 'stairs' makes a new half-strand, and then another. So an exact replica of the first strand of DNA, is made via RNA, and a new cell can be made from it. Mutation and disease occur when either the RNA acting on the DNA during this replication, or the DNA itself, has anomalies within the instruction set. Cancer is one kind of anomaly (though biologists don't all agree it's viral in nature). Viruses INVADE the DNA of normal cells, and genetically engineer them (viral RNA does this) to instead produce new cells like the virus itself. Which is why AIDS acts the way it does.

Biologically (and spiritually), we depend on protein synthesis, in order to MAKE and RUN our cells; the DNA, is the instruction set on WHAT and HOW and WHEN and HOW OFTEN to make these proteins. And also, when to DIE. Absent sufficient protein synthesis, you'd be dead. Protein is the building block, carbohydrate is the responder, fat is the reserve responder. But it all begins and ends, with the proteins (Bible class under your right pastor, Ephesians 4:16). Which need to be MADE IN YOU; or you have no new cells to replace the old ones which, per the INSTRUCTIONS they got, will die. Which need to be made in YOU, to fight any BAD cells you have, which (wouldn't ya know) don't die as easily, as normal cells do. For, bad cells have ERRORS in their instruction sets, so they are more 'disobedient'. Really, they are very obedient -- to the ERRORS.

Notice how the cells are like computers, needing a user (get it?) to tell them what to do. They have NO discernment on their own (hint hint). So WHATEVER instructions they receive, they follow: so if they get BAD instruction, they won't know it's bad, and will happily kill themselves per the instructions. That's what a virus essentially does. Like Satan's bad instructions do to our souls when we ring his bells, when our cells get viral instructions, the cells obey them. Mindlessly.

Notice also how the cells are like little footballs, being carried wherever by volition. Good volition, bad volition. marionetted volition, is still volition. So when these footballs are running the wrong way, and there is a GOD to 'catch' the ball and turn it AROUND, well.. you have a Cross. The Cross is the ultimate pass conversion resulting in all touchdowns: sins come into Christ's head, hitting Him. Instead of them running through His Volition and making Him sin, He instead 'catches' EACH of them with the living Bible in His Head, so a pass conversion occurred, and no fumble, either; then, He 'runs' the thought, which is now converted into Compatible Thinking (i.e., a sin of anger is turned into a Reason for More Love), so He makes the 'touchdown' on an enemy 'pass' ('enemy' being whoever originally thought the sin). So see: we each have sin thoughts during our lives. The actual sin value was 'reserved' in eternity past, like football plays of an enemy, and then the whole 'team' of them was used against Christ on the Cross. He made touchdowns! with each one. For God's 'team'. Of which, happy believer, you became a part, that first nanosecond you believed in Christ. God gives to us the victory, 1 Corinthians 15.

For, at the other end of the spectrum, Thought Behaves Exactly As DNA-RNA Interactions Do. God is Pure Thought. Infinitely Alive Thought. Hence at any 'time' HE wants, He but merely THINKS, and bing, it exists! That's why Matthew 4:3 was a temptation: had Christ even imagined making stones into bread, it would have immediately occurred exactly that way! Satan tempted His Humanity to use His Godness to do "works". For however God wills a thing be, it will be: exactly. And This God-Man, was the One Who With But One Thought, instantaneously birthed the universe, Genesis 1:1. Light, BE! the Holy Spirit said in Genesis 1, when he remade our trashed-up Earth. [Literal Hebrew. Earth had no light. Stars were put out, then, for quite a distance. Not sure how far out into the universe that happened. Angels' bodies are made of light, so obviously they can wreck havoc with stars.]

So of course, even in man, thought is therefore the strongest virus. You just 'caught' a virus from the words on this page, and They Replicated In Your Mind As You 'Ate' Them. Yet, the words remain ON the page. For thought is immaterial, even as God is Immaterial. Hence you are influenced by, and will influence, all the Thought Around You. Question is, What Kind Of Thought? Thought which makes you sicker, or thought which makes you well?

But at the uppermost-truth level, how do you 'catch' Thought which makes you think like God does? Well, in order for that to happen, Someone Human had to be developed to think like God does; as a result, since we are human, that Thinking can act as a virus inside our own heads. A Good Virus: God's DNA, God's RNA, can be produced. Unlike a regular virus, however, to get THIS 'virus', you must want God. Himself. For Himself. Which you freely do, if you want to know Him. Thus our salvation, thus our post-salvation life, is His Reply. Which is based on a contract with Son, since forever past, before the universe began, Isaiah 53:10-12.

So the Reason why DDNA works, is that God the Son, the Reason, Ho Logos, Added Humanity to Himself. So that now DDNA can be added in you. Delivering you from the insane thinking of the world now, and delivering you over to Heaven with Him, forever. Because, when He added Humanity to Himself (aka "the Incarnation", Hebrews 10:5), God Set Up a Compatibility, because He is ONE Person with TWO natures. So now, the inherent incompatibility between Infinity and Finity, can be solved! So the Human Nature, could compatibly develop: a spiritual developing unavailable to all humans before Him (John 7:39). As a result, His Thinking Quality was so high, He Was Able With It To Pay For All The Sins Of The Human Race In Only Three Hours On The Cross. Thus Fulfilling His End of the Eternity-Past Contract with Father.

Isaiah 53 gives you a blow-by-blow description of this contract and its completion mechanics ON the Cross, so you have no doubt as to how our sins were paid. Isaiah 53:11 is most graphic, and exactly tells you the purpose of the Cross was to develop His Thinking -- that selfsame thinking which paid for sins! -- in us. Which alone God 'sculpts'; which alone, makes us Righteous; which alone makes you (potentially, if you stay the course of His remaking you) a "great one" -- Pleroma. All the New Testament look at this one verse and expatiate on it. Pay close attention to the five astounding infinitives (in caps). Please take time to think them over while breathing 1 John 1:9, to get the spiritual equivalent of a bazillion dollars. [The prejudice against the LXX amazes me. Sure, just like the Masoretic text has problems, so does the LXX. But you can see when the LXX has been adulterated by someone. And you'll find another copy which doesn't have that adulteration. Any adulterations of Bible are detectable. That's why you can confidently say the Word is infallible and inerrant, for every verse is SOMEWHERE properly recorded. We have thousands of texts, so the ability to audit them, is assured. God knows how to preserve His Word, and He didn't preserve it in translation, but in the languages of the original writers. THAT's what "verbal plenary inspiration" means. The LXX can be considered "quasi-inspired" because the Lord used it for transformative additions when quoting it. So did the writers of the NT. You can tell when they are translating from the Hebrew text into Greek, and when they are quoting the LXX. They use LXX keywords often, so really we should give serious attention to the LXX. But translated Bibles you can buy, IGNORE it. Pity.]

Isaiah 53:11, the additive LXX portion:
"So the LORD delights to PURIFY by wounding Him [based on the contract], 'If You will give as a substitute for sin, Your [plural, God-Man in One Person!] Soul [singular] will see long-lived seed.' Then the LORD delights to PLUNDER, birthing/carrying out from His Soul's [pregnancy] Labor, to DISPLAY/ POINT OUT/ MAKE KNOWN/ EXHIBIT via Him, the Light. Then to SCULPT, via His Mastery-of-Thinking, so to MAKE RIGHTEOUS/JUSTIFY."

In short, like all our Bible books, we have manuscripts in pieces, because the Bible has always been persecuted and torn up, so its larger hoarded original-language manuscripts have only been widely available since about 1850+; because of them, we can cross-check the many pieces with far more accuracy, and even see the original-language texts, ourselves. So there's a huge patchwork of text to fit together: among all the 'patches', you really do have an Infallible and Inerrant original-language Word God preserved. Provably. But no translation is God-breathed (including the one above). Frankly, God's Word is too Genius, to be properly translated.

This genius shows up beautifully, here. In Isaiah 53:11, you can't translate the rhetorical style: it's native to the Greek. This rhetorical style, you'll notice, has no direct objects mentioned in the text; the direct objects are all mankind, as verses before and after this one, make clear. This omission of direct objects intentionally hits you in the face, like the sun coming out from the clouds: it's a frequent rhetorical style in Bible (both in Hebrew and in Greek). Here, it's an Attic Greek Drama method to display Absolute Scope: the climax of a play, where God saves. For the same reason, there are no prepositions where you expect them, a type of wordplay: meaning, and others, that ANY preposition of appropriate case you put in the text, would be too limiting -- again, Absolute Scope. (It's a Hebraism that everything is to God, for God, because of God, etc. You'll see Paul use this Hebraism in Colossians 1:16. So leaving OUT prepositions, accomplishes the same thought.) [Oddly, it's due to the lack of prepositions, that translators don't even consider this verse Biblical! Which is why you don't find its text in your English Bible. In Isaiah 53:11, the words αὐτοί and αὐτόν bug the scholar, given their placement in the text. When it's okay to insult and treat God's Word dismissively but NOT okay to say other mere people are wrong, then you know evil holds sway. Bible scholarship/translation generally insults God, cutting off His Head all the time, especially in overlooking how the Greek article is used. Especially, here in the disdain of Isaiah 53:11 in the LXX. No one is more constrained by political correctness and pressure, than the Bible scholar. It's heartbreaking.]

God is Pure Thought and God wants SONS: this is baldly obvious in Isaiah 53:11. So.. to become a son of God, duh: you have to get His DDNA. Which means, the Word as your "SEED" (namely, Gospel Seed parables, Galatians 3 and all over the OT). Which Seed you GET, that first second you believed in Christ, but.. just the processing structure for Getting Implanted Word (term in James 1), a human spirit (Titus 3:5+Hebrews 4:12-13). So right after you got saved, you got God's Genes, so to speak. But not, the Function Of Those Genes. Function requires planting more Word in you than just the Gospel. So, you get in and STAY IN God's System (theme of Romans 8 and 1 John, Galatians, Cor -- really, the whole NT). Takes DDNA, to make DDNA. You are not a single-celled organism. But if you never learn Word after salvation, you may as well BE a single-celled organism, infantile!

Due to His Eternity-past contract (i.e., the 'if You will give' clause in Isaiah 53:10ff), anyone can be "Born again" via John 3:16. At that point, you instantly become a New Spiritual Species (Greek of 2 Corinthians 5:17). That is an Entirely New Instruction Set, as part of your nature: God's Instruction Set. Hence you are truly a "son of God"; God Thinks, so His 'DNA' is DDNA, Divine DNA, Thinking. At the new birth (John 3:16, Titus 3:5), you get a human spirit which is Exactly Like Christ's (2 Corinthians 5:17, but see context). The role of a human spirit, is to be the DDNA processor. Holy Spirit runs the human spirit, and while you are in God's System, you can make 'calls' to it as well (which He then processes). With your SOUL, you accept or reject His handling, via 1 John 1:9. 1 John 1:8 and 1 John 1:10 are rejection examples. (If you reject, you can't process spiritual information, but will fantasize that you are. Big mistake.) [Nerd Note: salvation is always the same, belief in Christ -- but in the Old Testament, His Names were variantly known, as He was progressively revealed. See Genesis 15:6, which is in accounting language.]

For the human spirit of Christ, was Compatible with His Divine Nature, and the Holy Spirit ran the former, with Jesus' continuing, never flagging consent. That's how He could get DIVINE Thinking into His Human Soul, without being required to 'tap' His Own Godness. So, we who are not God, get the same processor. From which, the Holy Spirit makes DDNA, and builds that in your soul. Not, your human spirit. Because You Think with Your Soul.

Scripture on DDNA abounds, as God's two primary DDNA themes are sons-building and Temple-building: for, THE SON is THE LIVING TEMPLE. Explaining the Scriptural documentation will take too long. To track this DDNA theme yourself, read chronologically (based on when SAID, not when written) in

• Isaiah 53; then, read
• John 3 (all of John's Gospel is on this Begetting, and he weaves Temple as Living like a DDNA matrix, using Temple keywords pointedly to talk of LIVING Temple; so John NEVER mentions Matthew 24-type content, as it had already been fulfilled when he wrote); so next,
• John 14-17 (Greek wordplay: "house" is 'Royal bloodline' meaning, so God's 'bloodline', in John 14:2, hence the circulation of His THINKING, with "monai" meaning RANKS, not apartments; then focus on Vine (as bloodline, again) and Branches and John 17 prayer); then,
• James 1, the patience (ὑπομονή, endurance, like labor) and implanted Word and how-sin-born and mirror 'threads'; then
• 1 and 2 Corinthians, each about the building and uniting of Head and Body (Greek is clear, English is not), especially 1 Corinthians 1:5, 1 Corinthians 1:10, 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Corinthians 12 (especially 1 Corinthians 12:31), 1 Corinthians 13 (Head = Christ = Love = Canon completion), 1 Corinthians 15 (spiritual body is the body of His Thinking); 2 Corinthians 5 (the whole DDNA scheme is summarized there);
• Romans 8:11ff (previous text is setup to Chap8, and 8:1-10 is on the need for DDNA conversion, and 11ff is on historical 'pregnancy' of life down here being used to produce DDNA conversion, with God as the Hero converting it all in Romans 8:28ff).
• DDNA is Paul's recurrent thesis in his letters, but Ephesians is wholly dedicated to it; he uses Euripedes' play "Ion" to craft God's Play, so follows the "Ion" plot line 'underneath', as it were: to weave together, the Begetting and Temple analogies of God's Begetting Plan. Very witty. (LvS4b.htm elaborates on this theme in Ephesians, for it's the blueprint for when and how God 'decides' to 'call' the Rapture.)
• 1 John 3. Really, all of 1 John takes ALL the previous Canon and threads it through that epistle. Most deftly written, in the Word of God. At the time John wrote, all of what we know as Canon (the KJV collection of books) was written except for John's own letters. By the way John uses Greek keywords, he weaves in literally ALL the rest of Bible: in legal terminology this is called "incorporation by reference", and it's a major hermeneutical tool all Bible writers use. (Except for the Lord Himself, John uses this Biblical practice of incorporation by reference more deftly than anyone else, so far as I can tell.) So his "from the beginning" keyphrase ties in this DDNA begetting plan as the Completion of God's Initial Purpose for the Eden couple (and by extrapolation backwards, the plan for advancing the angels, too). Because, Church is the wife of the Last Adam, and we are being made Reproductive For All Eternity.

  That's a lot of reading and pondering, sorry. Would take years to write out the explanation! [Every verse in Scripture has many 'threads' running through it. Usually we only notice one or two threads. So the above text has many threaded themes, but this DDNA theme is one of them. So if you look in the above passages for that thread, you'll probably run across the same DDNA thread in a bazillion other passages. So to limit the search to the easiest passages, I just list the ones above. God's Word is endlessly threaded, gorgeous in the extreme...]

Again, God is Pure Thought: hence you are, too. The real you, is your soul. So God's Goal is to put the Christ's 'body of Thinking', as it were, IN your soul. Since your soul, is the real you. NOT your body. Your body is but a training device, as it was for Him: "Sacrifices and offerings you did NOT desire, but/and so a BODY you prepared for Me!" Hebrews 10:5, proving the fulfillment of Psalm 40 (which is interpretatively quoted in Hebrews 10:5). And, "He learned to-stand-under-instruction through what He suffered", Hebrews 5:8, which in the Greek is very punny (ἔμαθεν = He learned, and ἔπαθεν = He suffered). Hence Hebrews 5:9, which in corrected translation goes something like this: "In fact, having been BROUGHT TO COMPLETION [at the Cross], He became to those hearing-Gospel-and-believing-it, the Cause/Source of Eternal Salvation." [Re Hebrews 5:8, it's sometimes better to translate a word by its literal etymology, when wordplay is thus evidenced. Greek ὑπακοή is in both verses 8 and 9, and is used in parallelism between His staying under the Spirit on the Cross, believing -- and our staying under the Gospel, believing (v.9). Even more importantly, writer of Hebrews is using a Hebraism when he chooses ὑπακούω, because Hebrew "shemah", the most famous command in Judaism both then and now, means the exact same thing: see Deuteronomy 30:11ff. Sadly, all this God-Breathed Genius wordplay goes unnoticed, in translation; ὑπακοή/ὑπακούω is usually rendered "obedience"; but in English that's actually misleading, for there are other Greek words for the term, each one stressing a HOW the obedience is accomplished. Hence the literal rendering here. By the way, "ὑπακοή" means to stand under what you HEAR. It comes to mean compliance with what you hear, but the focus is on believing in and hearing. Bible uses this ironic verb a lot, and it's mistranslated to look like something YOU do, rather than what you HEAR (so the Speaker is the Meritorious One, not the hearer). Re the term in Hebrews 5:9, "Brought to Completion" is Greek verb τελειόω, and it means to complete/perfect A Contract, to Finish/Accomplish; obviously the Lord was already perfect, so "having been made perfect" actually maligns Him. Verb τελειόω is in the passive voice, because the Holy Spirit carried Him: He didn't use His Own Power to successfully complete the Cross. Verb is also used in the famous "It is finished", which Christ said on the Cross: way too tame! My pastor likes to translate that term (τετέλεσται! in Greek) as "It [payment for salvation] is finished with results that go on forever!" And, as you can see, Hebrews 5:8-9 directly reference the action in Isaiah 53:11, with wordplay on how we should be doing the same thing: Shema, Yisroel!]

So because DDNA is Divine Thinking, THINKING is how it propagates, and how it develops. To mix metaphors, think of dendrites and axons in the brain. Without them, thought can't travel. The more connections you have (and we start out with billions, never adding any), the more you can think. So the Holy Spirit, Who runs the whole thing, uses DDNA as first building the dendrites, and then running them from the human spirit to and IN the soul, to connect spiritual processing with soul thinking.

Bible terms for the mission-critical nature of this process, are "mind" and "heart", in both Old Testament and NT. In fact, the PROMISE in the Old Testament was that this Word would be WRITTEN in our minds and hearts (both 'lobes' of the soul), Jeremiah 31:31-34, which itself is playing on Isaiah 53:11. Best-loved promise in the Bible, was this one, as David reveals, in his breathless Psalm 138:2b (and Psalm 139:16-17, a Psalm on how David had no life until born, but since born, he has thoughts so to see God's Precious thoughts). [Psalm 139 is reverse-translated to lie against Bible's teaching that there is NO soul life in womb.]

Another mission-critical Bible term is "breath" (ruach, pneuma), which is why the Holy Spirit, is really the Holy Breath. You can't spiritually breathe without Him, so you have spiritual apnea in a state of sin (Psalm 32:5, 66:18, 1 John 1:9, other passages). In short, you're dead with a flat EEG (no mind working), a flat EKG (no heart working) a flat breath (no breathing working). Clinical death is estimated at about seven minutes, for a non-functioning brain, but you can get significant brain damage in as little as 30 seconds' non-function. It's even more true for the spiritual life, but God the Holy Spirit purifies you if you use 1 John 1:9, so keep breathing it!

If you're not even remotely familiar with dendrites and axons, think of Two Disparate Circles 'connected' by a Growing Number Of Lines, such that every 'point' in one circle, is to eventually 'connect' by a twisted-staircase, double-helix 'line' into every 'point' of the other circle. First circle is the human spirit; second, is the soul. Every 'point' of connection in the soul circle is geometrically speaking, a Potential 'Coordinate' for Reposing Truth.

For Truth is like math, a set of formulas on which all life operates. God's Attribute of Truth is first the True Relationships For All Data (whether potential, impossible, actual, etc). For example, the Truth is that Infinity and finity cannot have a direct relationship unless Infinity solves that problem, and thereafter continually runs 'inside' the finity. Notice how you can put in any variable combination you like (substituting for "finity", "angels", "humans", "sinners"), and that truth will never alter. There are billions of such formulaic truths. DDNA Builds Those Formulas In You, so that all the lines connecting to all the points, makes you INTO the Truth. Which is what the Holy Spirit, did to Christ. Therefore Every Thought He Had, Was The Truth. Hence His True Statement in Gospels, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father except through Me." Do you begin to see the potential granted to us, if we get in and stay in God's System? What would it be like, to be So Connected In Thought, to Your Savior? Well, that's His Legacy to us (main theme of Book of Hebrews, especially between Hebrews 8:8-12 and Hebrews 10:15-17).

When you are Filled with the Spirit, those 'lines' are the DDNA, being built; DDNA lines already built, function with thought going back-and-forth; which thought, is also DDNA. They all eventually interconnect horizontally, as well: so that thought zips along in Multiple Connecting Ways, All At Once. The more you grow in the spiritual life, then, the more you see of God's Meaning in far less time, and simultaneously in more Layers Of Meaning, than prior. You are being made into a spiritual genius. For, God is INFINITE Genius, so you have to be made like Him. Bible coming into your soul re-engineers with thought you already have, to make faster and better, these many connections.

In fact, the type of DNA which is most like DDNA, is brain DNA; moreoever, DDNA (or the lack thereof) affects how your brain DNA, works. You really do change, as you learn Bible in God's System. You really do change for the WORSE, if you do not. Because, the first second you became a believer (John 3:16 believed the FIRST time), you lost your own brains, so you could get RE-KITTED (Greek: καταρτίζω) with His Brains, per Ephesians 4:11-16's Greek & Romans 12:1-3's Greek.

Brain DNA is significantly different from regular DNA in that brain DNA has its own SALT Generators. "Salt", of course, is a major metaphor for Word in you, in Scripture. Which is why Christ laid so much stress on not becoming saltless (leaving off being in God's System, so the 'water' of worldly thinking leaches out your Word sodium). You'd not be able to live 5 minutes or think one second without salt in your system -- especially, in your BRAIN. Hence Brain DNA has these little salt processing systems to put salt in, or take it out. Moreover, brain cells never replicate. You can only get them from birth, and they gradually die: so, analogous to the spiritual life, you are constantly in need of using them, to keep them going. Cute biological reminder of the need to Live Depending On The Spirit, in God's System. Now you know why that other 90% or so of your brain is not needed for secular life: it's reserved for the spiritual.

So, if you are IN God's System, then the Holy Spirit is doing the impossible: replicating Christ's thinking INTO your soul, which thus affects your brain DNA. You will become smarter over time (which is a biological impossibility, I hope you know), because your brain needs it in order to hold its residual instruction set from what your soul learned. So DDNA is added, more and more as you learn and Grow in God's System. Which the Holy Spirit, hence must run at all times, since you can't even produce more mere biological brain DNA, let alone God's DNA.

All those falsehoods and misconceptions and lies and goofy ideas are RE-ENGINEERED by the Holy Spirit, into DDNA! As noted above for DNA-RNA interactions, RNA acts on any kind of DNA to remake a new DNA strand in the very image of either an RNA virus, or the previous DNA itself. So: you got 'virus thinking' inherited from all your past sins, which upon Learning God's Thinking, act like a 'counter virus' RNA on all that old, messy DNA in your soul. So the parts which are bad, don't get replicated, but what is either neutral or compatible, well.. they get re-engineered into more DDNA! Talk about the Ultimate Recycler, the Same Holy Spirit Who redid the earth, in Genesis 1:2! Think this paragraph over. It's worth a bazillion dollars' comfort. [Nerd Note: previously, it was explained that thought is immaterial, and God is Pure thought, so the soul is immaterial. So "DNA" is just a metaphor for a very real process which acts just like biological DNA. But the soul is not -- repeat, not -- biological. Because, God is not biological. That's why we aren't evolved: God created and imputed a soul to the exiting body At Birth, see Genesis 2:7.]

Of course, if you aren't in God's System, nothing is happening, and your brain is atrophying. That is not good. Long-term effects of not being in God's System are varying types of mental illnesses, frankly. Inability to read, hear, comprehend, and the growing tendency to irritability over ever-smaller things, accompanies spiritual absence from His System: 2 Peter 1:9 flatly says that absence from His System comes from FORGETTING to "grab" (λαβὼν, in Greek) what we know as 1 John 1:9 (καθαρισμός in 2 Peter 1:9, cognate of καθαρίζω in 1 John 1:9). Better to have been an Auschwitz victim, than to live outside God's System. [TrueSpirituality.htm goes over the 2 Peter 1:9 passage, and the corrected translation of that verse is in the same page -- for the trans, search "forgot to TAKE", or just page down to the first set of medium-blue, centered text.]

So you will remain a spiritual baby, if you don't grow UP in that System. Because it's the Body Of Thinking God wants. Nothing else. That oughta be obvious: if you have to PEE, then what the heck can God use, of your stupid body? It's even an annoyance to us, so.. how much more, to God? If we are thrilled to just do nothing after a week of hassles at the office or with the kids.. um, how much more are we a hassle to God? So what else is potentially enjoyable, but THINKING?

As 1 Corinthians 2 and Romans 8 explain, there is a real antagonism between non-spiritual (sin nature) thinking and spiritual thinking. The same soul can do both, but in the latter case, it takes some years to build UP in God's Thinking. Which is really hard to want to do, because of the antagonism between your 'natural' (aka 'soulish') mind, and the way your mind operates when Filled with His Thinking. You'd never see all the lip service and bad Bible translation and insulting-to-God religious practices, if people had the Word in them.

On the other hand, the more Word you get in you, the more alien to this life you yourself become: Paul describes this increasing tug-of-war beginning in Romans Chapter 7, and how you spiritually triumph if you Stay In God's System Through The End Of Your Life, by the end of Chapter 8. So while it's disaster to be outside God's System, it's an ever-harder (yet infinitely more rewarding) battle if you remain in His System. Due diligence disclosure, baby: it's an occupational hazard, this increasing war, if you want to know God, so think hard whether you really want to stay in God's System. If no, then believe Christ died for all your sins, so you won't ever go to hell. If yes, then expect to catch hell from the world and Satan & Co. for choosing to know His Son. It makes no sense that you'd be hated for that choice, but you are. People won't hate you exactly; you will just be an odd bird, and to those few who know you are addicted to Bible, well.. you'll be odder still. Nothing you say about Bible will sound to others, the way you mean it. Their soul connections, are too different from your own. Again, that's a decision you should ponder: "count the cost", the Lord warned the disciples. Good advice.

Romans 8 summarizes the problem. The flesh is about itself. The Spirit is about Him. The two are at war, and the flesh is utterly incapable of obeying -- and is unremittingly hostile to -- the Spirit. Nowhere does this ineptitude and hostility show itself more clearly, than in religiosity. Religious people are sick beyond measure. Moral crusaders all, they wouldn't be able to read the Bible if it bit them. Sin is above all a hostility to God, and no soul is more hostile than the one which accounts itself good (or makes an issue of how bad it is, same thing). For the flesh is about itself. Itself, not God. Hence all the people-stress in religion, pretending that's 'holy', reveals the greatest evil. People about themselves, make people their god -- in the very name of God. No greater evil, than that.

So it's a miracle, that we all who inevitably start out this way -- immorality is always on the fringes, really -- that we who are so MORALLY CORRUPT with our substitutions of people as our god -- it's a miracle, that we ever learn to want Him at all. And it must BE a miracle, as Romans 8 explains. Our volition has no merit. It's there, it's free, but it can't make DDNA, for crying out loud. What it can make, is doo-doo. But the Holy Spirit can make doo-doo into Diamonds, Isaiah 54:1! Due to, that Eternity-Past Contract to make the Son, Isaiah 53:10-12!

So your life is Exactly Parallel to Christ's. (Hebrews 9:15 & Hebrews 10:9 "first... second" clauses, + Hebrews 12:2, 1 John 4:17, Hebrews 11:1 in Greek, many others.) Isaiah 53:11 is all about that: What Happened To Him, Is To Happen To You. So if you don't learn what He learned, your life will be the worse. So all this life you have, is Bible Class In His Thinking. He spent His Life learning the Word, which is why you don't hear much of anything about Him in the Gospels, until He's tempted by Satan (i.e., Matthew 4). And then when He is tempted, it's on the Word that He is tempted. He's tempted to do works, with Satan playing lawyer's games with the Word, to motivate Jesus the Christ to misuse the Word, in order to DO those works. So therefore you have the same life. Learn the Word, or get trapped in the world's abuse of it.

For Satan owns this world. Satan wants you to go public, to do works. Christ had to go public for a few years, because He's the Messiah, but Christians are to be INVISIBLE, since Christ Is Risen Now, Invisible To The World. And even when He was public, He didn't do anything flashy (which Satan and everyone else in the world wanted Him to do, and excoriated Him when He didn't, see the Gospels). He didn't change the political landscape (i.e., He turned down the Zealots, didn't accept any crown on Palm Sunday). He didn't contribute to charity. He didn't speak nicely to people. And they all hated Him for that. So we emulate Him, not the world. And the world, with zero reason since we ARE invisible, will hate us for it. So all Christian visibility, is an index of Satan's success at snaring them.

As the Fourth Aspect of this webpage will show in more detail, YOU ARE PART OF HIM; Romans 6 explains why. Romans 5:12-end Chapter 8 is therefore on the design and vicissitudes of the spiritual life, so you can see you are here to become 'pregnant' with His Thinking. (Greek term Pleroma, usually fuzzed over in translation to "fullness" -- but guess what kind of 'fullness', if the Seed is in you, Luke 8?) Ephesians is much more sexually graphic in Greek (whole book is a tweak on a famous Greek play, "Ion").. as the design of Father to Gift Son since eternity past. So don't expect Ephesians to be properly translated, either (especially the mangling of the very graphic Ephesians 4:11-16). All this, a "system" (Greek term "ἑνότης", usually mistranslated "unity") for producing "sons of God". (Book of Hebrews is on the exact same topic, but from the aspect of New King-Priesthood He won due to the Cross.) 1 Corinthians 6 and 12 are also graphic. [Paul, the only virgin apostle, was the most graphic of the writers, and thus is the most fuzzed over, in translation. Romans 8 proves the sin nature cannot stand under God's orders; hence God uses the sin nature as a kind of womb to birth out DDNA, which results in a life down here of struggle, which Paul epically depicts as creation being in pregnant labor, beginning in Romans 8:11ff. Another analogy: We're the blind-and-deaf guys the Lord cured (Mark 7:33, 8:23) by spitting on His Hands, inserting His Fingers, etc. Notice how He warned the second guy to never return to Bethesaida. Another analogy: Old wineskins, the world's thinking, has no fellowship with God: no matter how often "Lord, Lord" is proclaimed. We spit on God, so God has to spit on us to cure us. So we spit up as babies, until we graduate from milk, to the meat of the Word.]

This Body being built, is invisible. It is built by Learning The Word. It is built no other way, and has no political or official religious structure. All this is quite clear in the original-language texts. Revelation 17 makes it clear that Fake Christianity is all about religion and politics and visibility. Harlotry is always depicted in Bible as religion; the Old Testament has so many scathing passages on it (i.e., Hosea and Ezekiel 16), you almost can't read the text, it is so graphic. So life is Bible class, invisible, going on in your head. Just as happened to THE Head, Whose Head received the imputation and judgement of sin thinking, thus paying for all mankind. Invisibly.

So, just as happened to Christ Himself when He was down here, when you are Filled with the Spirit (for us, 1 John 1:9 being breathed as needed): incoming spiritual information FROM the human spirit goes to the soul 'dendrites', i.e., while listening to your pastor, John 14:26 functions, turning over previous learning, etc. From there, the soul acts within itself, so the axons connect within the soul, only. The Holy Spirit runs the spiritual information in the soul, as well. My pastor classifies this spiritual 'brain' (soul, really) as having two lobes, the left one for staging, and the right one for information believed; within the latter, there are eight types of storage and processing areas, which basically work in a looped fashion, kinda like an circular assembly line, where every cycling of the information, increases its value and sophistication. Obviously the assembly line had better not stop, or a whole lot of damage will occur (kinda like rolling steel mills).

Which is why we have a New Testament: that is His Humanity's Thinking, codified into other human beings (the writers) so it can be transmitted into us. The New Testament is the highest-level DDNA instruction set, with the result that it also vastly INCREASES the DDNA power of the OT. So you need ALL the Bible, but replicated in you via the NT. Hence, we believers of Church don't use the Old Testament the same way the Old Testament folks used it, i.e., with rituals. Christ fulfilled the Law, and "the Law of Christ" uses the Old Testament material to replicate God's Thinking at the highest levels. Because, that's what Christ did with the OT. [Nerd Note: yes, He did the rituals, too -- but He pioneered also a brand new way of thinking, because He (unlike the Old Testament folks) was Filled with the Spirit "without measure" (no limit). So now there is no limit on how WELL we can learn God. So the Old Testament rituals are obsolete, Hebrews 7:18 (whole book is on that topic). LvS4a.htm goes into how His Precedence Completely Authored The Same Spiritual Life For Us. He is the Precedence for Church. Christendom has historically failed to use 1 John 1:9, so can't read the adamant message about this change, which is in every New Testament epistle after the Gospels. Tragic flaw!]

My pastor describes all this DDNA processing, via a rubric he calls "Operation Z", the letter designating the 'flow' of the process. Left-top of "Z", the Holy Spirit feeding you the information, i.e., from your pastor as you hear him teach, or while Filled (Ephesians 5:18) when you turn over what you learn or think. Right-top of "Z", the information is Translated by the Holy Spirit using your human spirit, into a format your SOUL can understand. Left-bottom of "Z", you Consider Whether You Believe The Information. Right-bottom of "Z": if You Believe it, the Holy Spirit Transfers That Believed Information to your believing "lobe" (my pastor's term) of the soul. You Can Only Operate On Information You Believe, whether it is the name of the capital of Texas, astrophysics theory, or what to eat for lunch. So too, with spiritual information. Notice how if you sin at any time during this process, it fails. If you reject or don't believe what is true, if you believe a lie, the Holy Spirit doesn't process that. You still can process whatever in your own soul, but you won't be online with Him, and thus are NOT processing spiritual information. That sets up a potential for Satan's bells to start ringing in your head. Live on 1 John 1:9 -- it's your lifeline.

Carnality is evidenced primarily by progressive focus on body stuff. The body is already hard-wired with the sin nature, so the more you grow spiritually, the more you'll battle your body. By contrast, carnality is the body WINNING over your soul. So you become more obsessed with its urges. It's like drug addiction. People long carnal become smaller and smaller in their thinking, more and more body-preoccupied, more and more delusional, thinking that politics are important, that flashcard knowledge means something, that human opinion and greatness ideas are valid. Poppycock. But if you aren't online with the Holy Spirit, you don't know any better. That's how the world lives, carnal. Again, Romans 8: the flesh is about itself. And when you're carnal, the longer you stay in it, the more body-preoccupied you become. So if you notice yourself being body-preoccupied, just breathe 1 John 1:9, and keep on Z-using whatever Bible you know. It's your lifeline.

Intellectuality is among the worst of body preoccupations. Spirituality, by contrast, is occupation with Christ. So if you're thinking of Him, your intellectual powers skyrocket. That sets up the temptation to become instead occupied with yourself, how high your thinking. It takes a lot of time in God's System, to learn to disregard how powerful God makes your thinking. Along the way, every time you get impressed with yourself (and of course sin), you'll get spanked. Paul got into this problem, as an unbeliever. As a believer, he went overboard with the success in evangelizing the Gentiles -- he wanted to use that success as an entreÈ into evangelizing his fellow Jews. Because, he was so GOOD at explaining! Hence he went to Jerusalem when the Spirit kept on telling him NO: Acts 15-22 records this story. So love of the information traps into a body-preoccupation, too, even and especially when you start growing spiritually. Very subtle.

Hence the advice in Hebrews 12:2: keep looking at HIM. Hence the "Operation Z" function is critical to building the spiritual DDNA dendrites so you CAN eventually come to see HIM. Spiritual growth is essentially a shifting in FOCUS, away from people and things, and onto.. Him. Just Him. The freedom thus gained is amazing. Misery comes from being stuck on anything but God. Paradoxically, the more your focus shifts, the more you come to enjoy people and things.. because, they aren't important, anymore. Only He is important. John 8:32 and Galatians 5:1 are real, but they take time to develop; and they only develop, in God's System.

So the capacity for spiritual living with God, depends on how many DDNA dendrites; any existing DDNA axons produced will atrophy, absent dendrite function to 'fuel' them. So your Capacity For Enjoyment Depends On Your Capacity For Spiritual Living. Atrophy spiritually, and you'll atrophy mentally and physically. Just as God predicted, back in Genesis 2:17. So every enjoyment in all life, depends on the many DDNA dendrites, and where they branch throughout the soul. Which, like the brain itself, are designed to be in the billions, so that every soul thought can fluently connect with every spiritual one. So the believer who doesn't grow up in God's System, is retarded. Few thoughts, few connections, not well 'feathered', narrow, constantly needing recharge. Kinda like a 64K RAM capacity, versus the needed bazillion gigabytes. Forever.

Man's soul is hooked up to the brain hardware interface, just like the analogy above about the two circles being connected by many 'lines' at each 'coordinate'. So you have TWO sets of hardware and software, for thinking: the physical set is for physical needs, so you can coordinate thought with body activity. Remember, angels are made of light, so the 'physical' presence of finite thought, will be electro-chemical in nature. So your brain depends on properly-running electro-chemical impulses: a stroke means some portion of brain tissue has died and hence can't process any electrochemical charges. So whatever part of the brain that was, the other part(s) of your brain and body dependent on it, won't work well.. or, not at all.

The spiritual-soul connections are similarly structured. Bible terms for their malfunctions are therefore not surprisingly used in medical science today: "hardening" (sclerosis, from Bible Greek term σκληρός, aka "scar tissue"), and "darkening" (medical terms for "darkening" vary; Greek terms in Bible are cognates of σκότος and ματαιότης -- latter is a resultant VACUUM of thinking, into which demon doctrines go). So when you see word versions of "hard" and "dark" in Bible, you're looking at some type of spiritual pathology being explained, whether God uses them metaphorically of the universe (as in Genesis 1), or of the person (i.e., Pharaoh, or Romans 9 folks).

So it's Spirit => human spirit => soul => brain. Brain stores the impulses in its own language, and the brain retains the sin-nature DNA, so the interaction between soul and brain is always glitchy. Doctrine Eaten in God's System eventually Reformats These Connections, so that Coordination Between Brain And Soul via the Spirit's Running your soul in the System, will be much smoother and better, because DDNA has made new and superceding connections. You Literally Are Re-Programmed, And Never Apart From Your Consent.

This transmutation process takes some years (more likely, a lifetime), especially since the soul itself begins reformation in God's System in a trashed ("tohu wa bohu") state. ["tohu wa bohu" is in Genesis 1:2; elsewhere in Hebrew Old Testament, just "tohu" is used as shorthand, looks like. Depending on the meaning, Greek uses variantly σκότος, μάταιος, or even οὐθέν (Attic Greek, very strong) to show the devastation meant by "tohu".] You won't necessarily notice much conflict until you've been eating Bible in His System for some time. Then begins a long period of conflict, as His Standards have begun to take over in your soul -- because You Have Been Grown Enough to Love Him (1 John 4:17-19, Romans 7).

If you hang on in God's System -- and of the few who even get into that phase, fewer still, stay -- you will reach a reconciliation phase which my pastor calls Occupation with Christ. At that point, everything in you starts reconciling to the Doctrine you have come to love. It's a big fight, yet is very satisfying: Isaiah 53:11 is your life, and you know it, and you want it. When that process completes, you have completed the Pleroma phase (called that because the goal is to get filled up with Him), and like Paul you can say you'll get the crowns, etc. of the full King-Priest inheritance which is available to every believer who completes the course of training (2 Timothy 4:7-8). You WILL know if you passed (generally your actual death soon follows), and you will be relieved and happy, not self-praising. All concepts of self-praise died in you long prior: you won't even find them interesting.

So at the point of salvation and for a long while afterwards, You Can't Detect The Real Change In You, via your human understanding or your body. However, the more you use 1 John 1:9 and stay in God's System; especially, if you develop the Three Habits in #5 of the "God's System", you will come to spiritually discern the change relatively quickly (there are no cookie-cutter rules in God's Plan, so one can't predict the timing).

Of course, the converse is also true: it takes a long time before the deleterious effects of refusing to live in God's System, manifest. By then, it is usually too late. That's why we have the blessing of Divine Discipline, Hebrews 12:5ff. Without its warning purpose, we'd likely never wake up. So take seriously a) any unusual lack of problems in your life, and b) any unusual problems in your life. God uses everything to communicate. Always seek His Input. If you haven't been, start. Please take that warning seriously. [An unusual lack of problems is as serious as a lack of symptoms, when there is a serious physical disease. If you are growing in God's System, life is supposed to get more complex, overall, but you have distinctive rest periods. If you are not growing, then Satan & Co. will maybe send you nice circumstances to lull you into thinking you are being spiritual. So ask God, always. And don't fool yourself about the answer, either.]

SpirPath.htm sketches out how spiritual pathology creates mental and physical pathologies, chiefly as God's warning system which mimics the spiritual problem one has, with some mental/physical counterpart, playing Matthew 7:1-2. Satan & Co. administer this, so far as I can tell (I can't see any verse in Scripture saying God directly sent a malady, except for the imputation and judgement of sins on the Cross). Also, LordvSatan2.htm goes through the main pathologies resulting from the "religious transmutation fantasy" which was that forbidden Tree (search on the quote, in that page). [Nerd Note: This pathology and punishment mimicking is only true if you are not living in God's System, which only you can know. Don't use it to diagnose other people, since you can't tell if they are breathing 1 John 1:9 or not. Further, believers in the advanced Pleroma stage get tested with maladies, to prove that nothing God does to them, will make them quit the spiritual life, so maladies may be a promotion -- still, with a mimicking quality -- not discipline. Never judge another believer's bad fortune. Matthew 7:1-2 is a warning that those who do, will get the very judgement they render.]

However, a bigger danger is the SOUL SHRINKAGE which will become a permanent condition, even in the eternal state, if one doesn't grow spiritually. Rejection of God shrinks the soul. It's not God being 'nasty'. You can't reject Infinite Beauty and not get exponentially smaller as a consequence. So whatever the interim pathologies (all of which are correctible by entry and residence in God's System), the ultimate shrinkage problem should be enough to scare anyone to stay in God's System, at all costs.

You know what a small soul looks like: a child who shouldn't be a child, anymore (Hebrews 5:11-6:6, Hebrews 11-13, Ephesians 4:14). That's most Christians beyond (chronological) age 40, today. Since the spiritual state of the Christian is always the bellwether for the mental state of the nation in which he resides, our world is SMALL-MINDED and in a heap o' trouble. Fortunately, it takes only a small number of believers to completely save a country (i.e., for a long time it was only Moses who justified Israel's continuance, see the end of LordvSatan3.htm for the verses). So you have a far greater potential impact on your nation, to save it, than all those you might see on TV. Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan is devoted to this topic (very long).

Post-death, no believer will want to think like he does now: he'll look back on his puny pettiness and shudder. Then, everyone will be 100% compatible with God, no matter what a scallywag one was, down here. Question is, How Connected Will You Be? For the only thing you take with you post-death, is your DDNA. So the less DDNA ("true riches") you have acquired by death, the fewer and more narrow your connections in thought, the 'smaller' will be what constitutes "100%" of you; but even the babiest baby, will be 100% compatible with God. So the down-here human needs and competitive values trashing around in our souls (tohu wa bohu, Genesis 1:2, mistranslated "formless and void"), will ALL be gone, the second you leave this stupid body. God can take you home right this second. But doesn't, only because you get to CHOOSE if you want training (or more training). But there is an end-date for each of us, solely at GOD's Choosing. Which, for any of us, can be five minutes from now, for all we know. Which, for all of us, can be 1000 years from now, depending on what configuration of the Body of Christ Father wants for Son (aka the Rapture, see Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan).

So how should you think of yourself.. As You Really Are, a "son of God in Christ Jesus" as Paul explains in Galatians 3; or, how you think you are, based on all this temporary, can-end-in-a-nanosecond, blind-and-deaf, human perception? Peter puts the question this way (my pastor's translation), in 2 Peter 3:11b: "what sort of persons must you become, in a dedicated-to-God lifestyle?" Keyword "εὐσέβεια", usually mistranslated "godliness", is pronounced "you-seh-BYE-ahh". Long ago I shortened it to "eus" (pronounced "use"). So, this thought keeps hitting my head: "what use to make of the eus?" To remember how we are, is not how we will be: 1 John 3. To remember not to mistake what you see in the mirror, for reality. Exchange the mirror for His Mirror and see His reflection, James 1:23 and 1 Corinthians 13:12 ("mirror" is another metaphor referencing Christ's Thinking, aka Bible).

So the real you, is what got saved on the Cross, pending your first belief in Christ. If you never believe (John 3:16), then your salvation remains in 'escrow'; which by never believing, you refuse to have delivered to you ("delivered" is another meaning of "saved" in Greek). Hence John 3:36 -- either salvation is delivered to you that first second you believe in Christ; or, the 'wrath of God' is delivered, an anthropopathism of Divine pending and future Judgement (see Revelation 20:11-15, KJV or Greek).

God never loses anything. But you can. But Once You Do Believe, You Cannot Lose What God Delivers. Because, GOD does it. His Thought Cannot Be Undone by any of yours, see. And His Thought, is based on that eternity-past contract, with Son. Who created that universe with but a thought, Genesis 1:1 (and other verses in Bible explaining it). So look at the power of a thought! Life, or death. Forever. In an instant of time, One Thought of belief you have, Is Made Into The Very Power Of Salvation, Through God in Christ Jesus, 1 Corinthians 1:18. [In context of verse 17-21, very clever wordplay on Ho Logos, in 1 Corinthians 1:5 (Word-in-their-words) and :10 (His Oneness System, not schism in their thinking evidenced by their words), always mistranslated, sigh. What a genius way to introduce His Head Ruling Body, in the last clause of verse 10! See how he uses καταρτίζω in his other letters.. fantastic!]

Since you cannot lose what God delivers, then if you get in and STAY in God's System, you cannot lose, period. For then, God will be delivering to you, all the time! That's the Contract of Isaiah 53:11! God committed Himself, so you cannot lose! Paul exults about this fact, playing on the pregnancy metaphor in Isaiah 53:11 at the end of Romans 8 (beginning at Romans 8:11). Check it out, even in translation!

Furthermore, DDNA, like DNA, is only 'compatible' with certain elements. Bonding and synthesis won't occur except in precise mixes and pairings. Hupostasis, or pairing of opposites, displays the God-man, so everything else in the universe does as well. So in biological DNA, the molecule is made up of a sugar-phosphate compound, and four "bases" which are protein building blocks (five, including the "U" in RNA). They COMBINE in long chains to tell the cell how to make particular proteins. DNA bases amazingly form ALL proteins exactly from the way they combine: and yet, they only PAIR in certain ways. In short, it's precise. Without the sugar-phosphate group, the bases fall apart. So the cell atrophies. Without the bases, the cell doesn't come into existence, or just dies (or maybe mutates, depending on the exact problem with the bases). In short, as my pastor liked to say back in 1985, "protocol..coupled with precisely correct procedure". You bet.

First Pairing Issue, POSITIVE VOLITION: seems like "volition" plays the role of the sugar-phosphate group, in DDNA. The four bases seem roughly analogous to the structure of the last 4 Elements in God's System. DNA's 'ladder' structure crumbles, absent sufficient sugar-phosphate, so that fits real well with how your spiritual life unravels when volition says "no". The four bases, have to be exactly put together, so anomalies in the set would correspond to false beliefs or information you have, which has not yet been replaced by the Truth. We all have DDNA anomalies, just as we all have DNA anomalies.

Second Pairing Issue, SPIRIT-SOUL SYNC: soul life and spiritual life are designed to be Precisely Paired to be Integrated, but the two 'lives' are not the same. The goal is, to get enough DDNA so that the two are in SYNC, fully Integrated, Romans 8:4 (really, whole chapter), and Ephesians 3:15-19. Ergo, you have a spiritual life in order to spiritually DEVELOP down here; rather than, die immediately after you first believe in Christ. Your soul life is the real you. But God is not a soul, because God is not limited. See, Infinity and finity are not naturally compatible, from finity's 'end'. So God did something about that, by creating a spiritual life.

Note Well: You needed a different type of life, to have a relationship with God, as well. So you can think about God in your soul, but the "dimensions" of your relationship with Him are only as big, as you grow spiritually. Forever. In short, the amount of DDNA you acquire While Living Down Here, determines the 'size' of your relationship with Him both Now and Forever. So take advantage of the time you have! For you can only develop those dimensions, while you are in THIS body, by living in God's System. First Aspect explains the dimensions as 1 John 4 records them. Parallel passage is Ephesians 3:15-19.

You do live your spiritual life IN your soul, and nowhere else. But your soul BY ITSELF cannot process spiritual information, 1 Corinthians 2. DDNA is spiritual information translated Into An Instruction Set Which Progressively Links Spirit And Soul Together, as described above via the "Operation Z" process. So DDNA is designed FOR the soul, not for the human spirit. So over time, the idea is to build so strong a connection between them, and so strong a function INSIDE your "inner man" (as Paul puts it), that it becomes difficult or impossible to get you to quit the spiritual life. "Winner" status in Revelation means those who couldn't be induced to quit the spiritual life by Satan & Co. So the more you grow, the more you are a target. But the more DDNA you have, the more 'connected' you are, so the more motivated you are, to keep going. Law of momentum has its origin, in the spiritual life.

A really scary corollary suggests itself. The person who doesn't grow up in God's System, not only remains a BABY forever, spiritually speaking (by comparison to the Pleroma of eternity). But also, the amount and method of spiritual processing, will be forever VERY limited. Because, the connections between soul and human spirit, are created only by the DDNA you acquire while down here in this body. This creates a fluency, and depth.. well, the First Aspect will cover those results. Suffice it to say here, the person who grows up in God's System, has many varied and broad connections in the relationship. But the one who doesn't grow up, has only a few limited connections. Forever. And this horrible result is by choice, not imposed!

Because only God's Power births and runs the spiritual life, human limitations can't inhibit learning Bible (even in the original languages). But VOLITION, can. The degree to which a person is unwilling to learn will arrest, temporarily or permanently, DDNA growth. (We had two brain-damaged persons in our congregation who learned exegesis and isagogics right along with everyone else; so I don't believe even most brain damage is a hindrance.) So the person BY CHOICE ends up in heaven, alright, but with comparatively few spiritual connections (everyone gets some de minimis, no matter what). So those connections will LIMIT how he processes spiritual information (i.e., fellowship with God) forever. Better to be boiled in oil, than to miss out on the fabulous width length height depth Paul explains, in Ephesians 3! We are meant to grow to the fullness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13)! So many branching dendrites and axons! Missed!

We all know someone who is 'slow' compared to us. They have to repeat the same information over and over, can't concentrate for very long, can't hear much without their eyes glazing over. This is a soul with limited processing (maybe due to limited brainpower, maybe due to negative volition persisting for too long). Who of us, wants to be like that person? Especially, if it's avoidable?

Surely there is someone in your periphery with whom you must deal, with whom you have very little in common. After about five minutes' conversation, you both have nothing to say to each other. Why? Because the 'dendrites' you both have in common, are LIMITED. It's a strain to have a relationship with someone whose thinking is minuscule compared to your own.

That's why in eternity, there are kingdoms: so everyone is connected to someone else, most like himself. But that also means the masses will be LIMITED in their appreciation of God, relative to those Pleroma Rulers. Who wants to be limited, especially since the ONE place where only volition controls the result, is the spiritual life? We are all limited down here, and a lot of the limitation is due to circumstances beyond our control. But your spiritual life is totally up to you. God does all the work, you say yes or no to Him. So in eternity, the masses of SPIRITUAL BABIES are entirely self-willed. Pity. But, they will be happy. And, of course, 'baby' then is light-years bigger than all the world's geniuses in history, put together. Still, one could have much more. Forever.

Notice how it doesn't matter what sin you sin, how sparkling your personality, your achievements or looks or what you own. All that matters is, How Much You Want To Know GOD. Gonna be a whole lot of very smart and moral folks who are spiritually retarded forever, because they were more interested in their own abilities, than in God. Gonna be a whole lot of really dumb stoops who are spiritual geniuses.

All it takes, is WANTING. God speaks, and a thing comes into existence. So you get to have that right, too: you 'speak' to Him about wanting to know Him, and then 'eat' what He gives you.. and baby, you won't be a baby very long! One of the brain-damaged persons in my pastor's congregation always wanted a better brain; apparently (per other people telling her story, not her), she was mercilessly teased during most of her life for her complicated disability. Well, she's dead now, having a great time in heaven; and I hope she can out-think all of us put together, forever! [Notice if Wanting is the Criterion, and Matthew 7:1-2 being true, then what you wanted down here, you get forever. So it's not whether you can do, but what you WANT. Notice also that if you can do but don't, then you didn't want. So Matthew 7:1-2 play, but.. not happily. Finally, notice how this means no handicapped person is denied anything, but rather, blessed the more; whereas all those who eschewed study in the name of it being too hard for the handicapped (hence it must not be spiritual to study) -- will be trumped BY the handicapped, who didn't or couldn't make that objection. Matthew 7:1-2 is relentless. Not good, to be on the wrong side of it.]

Third Pairing Issue: DDNA, like DNA, can't replicate without RNA. So call this Third Pairing Issue, "UNGUENT". Biological RNA is structured similar to DNA, but RNA uniquely has a fifth "base", which in microbiology, is designated "U". For the spiritual life, we'll call this same "U", "Unguent", for the Holy Spirit's Filling Ministry (empowering you to be FILLED with perception, etc). Bible in Old Testament and New uses "oil" to designate His Filling Ministry (LXX verb πίμπλημι, in Old Testament; πληρόω, in New Testament). Hence the need for 1 John 1:9, else there will be no replication: and your spiritual life, atrophies.

RNA here, is RIGHTEOUS NOURISHMENT ADDED, Romans 8:4. You gotta get FILLED UP in your SOUL with Righteous Truth, to 'match' the Divine Righteousness you have imputed to you, that first moment of salvation. It's like money: you are an heir, but you can't USE your wealth, if you aren't getting it DELIVERED to you. And as you get it delivered, having been a pauper, You Must First Learn How To Have Wealth. It sounds funny, but you can't be happy with anything, even wealth, if you aren't successfully trained in its use. This is even more critical for the Christian: because you lost your brains at the new birth, you will never be happy, until you've got enough of the Lord's Brains replacing the useless ones in your head. Hence the need for the Holy Spirit's brains, at all times!

Isaiah 53:11, which was quoted in translation above, shows exactly the same process as the interaction between DNA and RNA. Taken together with its surrounding verses in the whole Chapter, you get a very vivid movie of Father 'opening' Son's soul to send in all those horrid sin thinkings of the human race, saved up since Adam's through the end of time; they hit in waves, like javelin stabs, but His Own Thinking 'mates' with them, with the result that THEY mutate into beauty -- More DDNA, for and in Him. True spiritual re-engineering. True conversion of poison, into delicious potable water. So a true conversion happens, in His Soul. As a result, this conversion ENLARGES His Own Human Soul for total rapport with Father. At this point, Son is (on behalf of us) "purified", "plundered", so now "exhibits" Light fully. [Nerd note: the way to handle sin is to hold it. Works-based Reaction (i.e., taking offense) is the heart of ALL sin. So NOT reacting, but holding the temptation with an Alternative Thought of Divine Beauty, is a kind of mating. Hence the temptation mutates into the character of the alternative thought which 'embraced' it. Ascetics who sin by claiming a right/duty to react, will never understand this very process of their own salvation.]

Which then sets up the potential for us to be "sculpted" with that "Light" of Word, so we can be "made righteous" (Romans 8:4, post-salvation). We are justified that first second we believed in Christ (Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 5:1), but getting the LIGHT to FUNCTION in the new beings we are, well.. that's the next step, and why we still step upon this earth. As a result, the Same Process As Happened To Him, Happens To Us (Fourth Aspect will explain this in more detail). So we Grow Up And Reflect Him. Light reflects light. So we are Justified to be called "great ones" in Isaiah 53:12, the Pleroma. ("Pleroma" is the highest level of development, for Church (covenant/Age)-period believers only -- other covenants' "great ones" are named differently.)

Notice how opposite our expectations, is real spiritual greatness. You Do Nothing. Christ didn't do one work the whole time He was here, but instead was CARRIED by the Spirit into and through the Cross. This is the hardest thing to 'do', nothing. For as you grow in Word, you come to love God (theme of 1 John). Which means you ache to 'do' something FOR God. But you are MISMATCHED between your puny human nature, and your Divine Thinking. It's the Same Problem, only far worse, for Christ. His Perfection made the Ache Incredibly Worse: heheli is used to describe it in the Hebrew of Isaiah 53:10 ("grief" is way too tame a word). See, we humans are deadened by our sin-in-Adam bodies, plus more deadened by the ones we commit. But Christ, being Perfect, was Totally Alive, so Totally Loving. So the ache was worse. Even worse than that, was His Superior Awareness of how even Perfect Humanity was MISMATCHED to the Infinite Quality of Divine Thinking poured into Him to the max -- such that He BECAME the Truth. How He lived even one nanosecond and didn't tap His Own Deity for relief, amazes me forever.

Think about how, if you broke your leg, just because that one leg isn't working, you can do nothing. The rest of you is fine, but your leg, well.. it can't move. Well, that's a too-mild comparison to the mismatch between our human natures (which sin only complicates by trashing ALL our thinking), and the Infinite Quality of Divine Thinking. So the more of it you get, the more dangerous you become, because not only does your sin nature ache to do something to gain a moment's pride, but a Real Love due to the DDNA in you aches much much more to reciprocate to God. But you reciprocate by doing nothing, just as Christ did. Because, it's Too Big, that Divine Thinking, for your human nature to properly use. It's like having a billion dollars. A smart person won't spend it. A dumb person, will. It's like having a loaded nuclear weapon. A smart person won't fire it. A dumb person, will. If you go through Parts III and IV of the Lord vs. Satan, you'll understand Only God can 'do' something with you, and you'll have to 'work' (heh) at doing nothing. It's the hardest thing you can ever do, light-years more valuable to your family, the world -- and especially to God -- than having a billion dollars or a whole arsenal of nukes properly aimed at the terrorists, k?

For, you really did change into a new person that first second you believed in Christ. It's not hyperbole. You then became as Righteous as God (2 Corinthians 5:21), and you do have eternal life (i.e., John 3, 1 John). But both of these Divine Attributes just SIT there in your human spirit. So now the Holy Spirit running Bible in your head, enables you to use your new nature which otherwise just sits there, vaulted. So: Christ BECAME Human, and His Soul's Thinking can be learned and Thus Replicated In Us, which is the intended use of your "eus", your spiritual life (full Greek word is εὐσέβεια). So, Royally-Replicating Nourishment Added. Really Royal Nourishment Added, Matthew 4:4, and "I found your Words and I did eat them," said Jeremiah.

As mentioned earlier, you are thus in the same position as God: you 'speak' to God about something you want (aka "prayer"), and "if you ask anything in My Name, I will do it", said Our Lord. So, in the same manner, if you are hearing your pastor, turning over doctrine under the Spirit, you will have countless Desires to Thank Him -- none of which, you can do yourself (who can properly thank, Infinite God)? That urge to 'do' something yourself, is what Satan Wants To Tap. Because the Word in you really IS powerful. So that's another reason why you Do Nothing. Wrong hands for the weapon, Satan's. Which is why Christianity's sordid history, has proven Satan's handiwork. Everyone out to do for the Lord -- yeah, lots of murder, lots of tyranny, Scripture being kidnapped for nearly 18 centuries (barring some breakouts here and there) -- ooooohhh, what a lot of good deeds, too. None of which, God wanted. All of which, Satan wants. So Be Carried, not ferried by Satan&Co, 2 Timothy 2:26-3:7, 1 John 2, Philippians 3:18-19, Pharisee verses, etc.

As a believer, you are a Royal Priest and King-in-Training. So, you get the same rights and privileges. So, you get the same responsibilities. Every little thing a "king" thinks, is front-page news, because he's a RULER. Well, so are you. So if you want the wrong things, go after the wrong things, golly -- you wreck havoc more than you can imagine. Because the ruler gets his way, since that's his office, get it? Sure, God can and often does override our choices, but.. Satan will pick among what we do and argue that God should not override. Which is why the United States is in such trouble, today. Churchinanity is ruining the United States, period. We wouldn't know the Bible if it bit us. But we are rulers, the real ones, and so.. well, as my pastor likes to warn, "as goes the believer, so goes the client nation to God". Of which, the United States is one. Dying, slowly... If you are a citizen of beloved America like me, then do your country the one thing that can save it.. Stay In God's System.

Since You Are To Do Nothing But Learn And Try To Live On the DDNA You Get; since You Are In The Same Position As God Due To The Righteousness Imputation You Got At Salvation, 2 Corinthians 5:21, then How Do You Find An Outlet For That Growing Urge To 'Do Something' For God? Well first, you Recognize That Learning Is What Does For God, because Only What God Does For God, Does Anything For God. Peter has a really cool way of saying this, in 1 Peter 5:5-7. It's not well-translated, and cannot be, because so much Greek wordplay can't be translated into equivalent English. Basically, Peter shows that humility which promotes you is being under your right pastor, not bucking his teaching (hence the importance of being sure you are under the right guy, by asking God). Peter thus states the entire meaning of the spiritual life, that succinctly. So, you can cast all your worries on the Holy Spirit as if He were a pack animal (very witty verse), and that is how "you allow yourselves to be humbled" (my pastor's corrected translation) so you can Keep Learning.

Notice how to cast all your worries on God, requires Thinking And Prayer. So I can pray over and over (which I do, constantly) that DDNA is being made out of whatever I'm required to do, since what 'I' do of myself, obviously doesn't do squat for God. So, now that care is cast on the Holy Spirit, Whose Specialty is DDNA conversion ex nihilo out from garbage, just like Genesis 1:2. So now, I can relax, knowing God is Pleased To Do this, so It Really Works so He Is Really Getting The Thank You He Wants. Whew. So far more than anything I could even fantasize doing for God, God Does For God. Just because, I wanted it to. Light Be, baby! I think that a bazillion times a day. Also: He's making DDNA out of this! Whatever 'this' it is, like a telemarketer call, a stubbed toe, traffic, one of my many stupid thoughts, etc. Everything is DDNA-convertible. For Father. Ahhhh...

So the RNA keeps growing, Run By The Only Person Who Knows How To Do It. And this little lamb lies in those green pastures, with the cup overflowing, just like David explained in Psalm 23, a psalm about the efficacy of Being carried, Shepherded, by God, Living in His System. Not, by one's own ideas or by the world. So not, by Satan & Co.

Paul spends a lot of time explaining all this. Philippians is a witty summary of propagation. Greek word "μεγαλύνω", usually mistranslated "magnify" really means PROPAGATE. It's that type of "magnifying". Paul loves stressing the pregnancy nature of getting the Word in you, propagating Divine Good. Which is, Isaiah 54:1, gold silver and precious stones. So here's the thing: God makes even your dead-in-Adam BODY propagate, if you live in God's System. Which then propagates into other bodies (spiritual thinking is contagious, even as all thinking is contagious), and they propagate to others, and so on. God births, we benefit, and even the body is made reproductive ("unpresentable parts", as Paul wittily phrases it in 1 Corinthians 12:23). So that's the body-stuff GOD wants to make of you. I can't live five seconds without this knowledge, anymore. [Wow, the English Standard Version dared to properly translate the phrase in 1 Corinthians 12:23, "unpresentable parts"! Paul's witty euphemism for guess WHAT parts? Mary wittily used it also, in Luke 1:26. Wry, since she was given to 'propagate' the Savior. Who said the Bible was dull?]

So, unlike regular DNA and RNA which you cannot control or even understand, DDNA and RRNA require your consent. Because God never coerces. Hence You Had To Choose To Believe in Christ (doesn't matter your choice has no power, God never coerces). So you must choose to eat. You can ONLY choose. God does all the rest. Your choosing doesn't make anything happen. God Chose To Make What He Does To You Go By What You Choose. That's how HE wants it. Question is, do you?

Notice two types of choices affect how DDNA replicates. First, you have to keep on choosing 1 John 1:9, else you go nowhere, even if you are utterly faithful in going to Bible class, etc. It's all hot air, not DDNA. Which hot air, Satan & Co. waste NO time, infecting with their own brand of viral RNA: count on it.

Second, the obverse: even if you breathe 1 John 1:9 all day long, but don't learn under your pastor teacher; or do learn, but don't think out what you learn (5th item in God's System link), you'll also go nowhere. Here, the problem will take longer to detect, because you are doing some, but not all, of the God's System elements which are the protein bases for DDNA manufacture. Basically, this is a problem of religifying your activity in the System. A subtle increase of disinterest grows, for whatever motive. So "class" under your pastor, becomes more and more a thing you do, rather than a thing you enjoy all day long (i.e., using what you learned just because you want to, during the rest of your day). Probably only about 5% of Christians, even get into "class" that much; but among them over time, 99% of that group, will end up religifying the study. Because, interest eventually pales, if you aren't increasing in motive, as you keep up study. My pastor warned about this problem in his "mutual flanks" classes, in case you're interested. Second Aspect will cover the "mutual flanks" issue in more detail.

Failure in either of these scenarios has two effects: failure of volition, begins to disintegrate whatever you had learned under God's System. It depends on how much you'd already learned, how strongly you were functioning, etc. Like in DNA, many cells have to die without replication before you really have a problem. But don't wait long between uses of 1 John 1:9. The second effect is a result of the first: mutating viral ideas will enter and proliferate. In short, you are a walking petri dish, when not in God's System. Any bad thing can grow in you. It's no accident that we lost our brains when we gained Christ. Again, it's not immediate (don't panic if you forgot 1 John 1:9 all day), but.. who wants to delay the growth in DDNA, and who wants to clean UP any viral mess which happens the meanwhile?

There's a third failure, which only applies if one stays out of God's System or never gets in it: spiritual coma.. due to starvation. Biologically (depicting the spiritual truth), starvation's final stages are lethargy, even coma. The starving person at some point no longer feels hunger, and his body parts gradually shut down, conserving energy. So if you never knew what eating God's Food was like, you won't even know the hunger for it, so you will just slip away, becoming in effect a zombie. Go to a grocery store, a mall, anywhere there are lots of people. Ask yourself if they don't look like zombies. For man wasn't made to live apart from God; so when he does, he becomes a zombie. It takes a long time, to starve spiritually, but oh!

Well, just try eating after a prolonged period of not eating, see how sick you get. So it's very difficult to recover. Possible, but difficult.

Cells need nourishment to live. So does your spiritual life. You can't die spiritually, once born, but you can be comatose the rest of your life. You can arrest in growth, never growing beyond a certain babyish soul 'size': that's what 99.98% of believers do, going by the history of Christendom. They believe in Christ, and then get goofy or religious. Never getting Word. But they still go to heaven when they die. But, as babies. Sure, the babiest baby in heaven will be light-years smarter and more beautiful than all the geniuses of the world down here, put together -- but those who grow UP in God's System, will be a bazillion light years ahead of even those babies. The difference? Getting More DDNA, baby. On top of your baby spiritual life. Romans 8, 1 John, show the mechanics. [Nerd note: "baby" means the thinking is childish. No one who dies, whether baby physically OR spiritually, will have a baby body, in heaven. So forget all those beautifully-painted, but highly-insulting-of-God babies with wings. Angels don't look like that, and neither will you. The term "baby" is used metaphorically, not literally. Bible calls us "adult sons" (term is huios, and it means an adopted son old enough to be an heir); unfortunately, the term is often truncated in translation to the fuzzy English, "sons". By the way, almost 100% of religious art mocks God; the ignorant-of-Bible people who paint that stuff, can't even discern that fact! Christ didn't have long hair, wasn't skinny, etc. Pitiful.]

There are many scary failures, but their root causes are the above three, so they lead to Three Disintegrations In The 'Bonding' And 'Synthesis' Functions of DDNA:

1. First Pairing Issue, POSITIVE VOLITION, failed;
2. Second Pairing Issue, SPIRIT-SOUL SYNC, failed;
3. Third Pairing Issue, UNGUENT, failed because 1 John 1:9 wasn't used; or, WAS used, but no/insufficient learning went on. Frankly, the learning is supposed to keep increasing in content, sophistication, and pace. If it doesn't, there comes a day when the believer stops using even 1 John 1:9. Devastating, when that happens.

   Better to be boiled in oil, than to suffer prolonged failure, so that 1 John 5:16's capital punishment and Forever Retarded Connections, apply to you.

   Spiritual pathogens are many, but all variations of these three. And all these three, come from Volition. Yours.

So in the final analysis, you get in and stay in, because you want to do so. You leave, because you want to do so. God has provided every ability (Holy Spirit's Power is Unlimited, so you don't have a power problem, ever). So failure inevitably and only means we puny brainouts, got distracted or disgusted or disgruntled with God's System, and quit. No other cause, but many coverups.

So let's list Three Common Spiritual Personality Disorders, so you can see how delightful it is, to buck God's System:

1. If you are born-again, you will end up nutso if you 'divorce' the Word. Sorry, someone should have warned you before you first believed in Christ. Just look around you at Christians, see how nutso they are. Even crazier than the United Notions people in Dag Hammerskold Plaza. Insanity takes many forms, and like cancer, can be dormant for years. I know someone who was completely normal and then the person just flipped out. Sits in a chair, now. And sits and sits and sits. Lots of stories like that one. All good churchgoers, too. Church, not Word. Church, not God's System. 'Christian fellowship', not fellowship with God. Some things you'd rather not know.

   Other Christians behave more as you'd expect "crazy" to describe, but some of the craziest ones, appear normal. Like the famous pastor who on live Christian TV claimed there were more abortions committed in the United States than in all the holocausts of history. I wondered what special phone to Heaven he used to get that info; but when I heard him totally misquote Psalm 139 (which in English reverses the meaning of the God-breathed original), then I knew he musta used his hotline to Satan & Co., just before entering the pulpit. In short, respectable people outta God's System, say the darnedest things!

   Precedence: Adam severed the connection when he sinned. See how wacko Adam immediately became. Exodus generation all went nutso: read their story even in translation! For us, the situation is much worse, because Adam didn't have Eternal Life and God's Righteousness and the same kind of human spirit, as Christ's. So we go much more wacko, as believers. It's no exaggeration to say you lose your own brains when you gain Christ. That's the Design! [LordvSatan2.htm, which is Part 2 of the Lord vs. Satan, has an "In the beginning of Man" section, which traces what happened to Adam; SpirPath.htm is a broader webpage of spiritual diagnostics in general. You can take what you learn in those webpages, and then turn on your television or otherwise people-watch, to test 'em. My pastor's "1991 Israel" audiotape/MP3 series proved very helpful in shortening the analysis, if you're interested.]

   So one can only guess that it would have been a bazillion times worse for Jesus, had He ever sinned. Try to analyze how hard it must have been for Him to be both God and Man at the same time, while down here. In the process, much about the properties of Infinity versus finity, are examined. In short, the problem is STRUCTURAL, even before we factor in the immense complications which a sin nature creates.

   So now you know the STRUCTURAL reason why insanity demonstrably results from prolonged severance from God's System; as you can readily see, simply by turning on your TV or remembering the last United States election. Christian and Crazy do begin with a C for a reason -- you are supposed to REPLACE the last "C" with the First One, by learning His Thinking. Else, you stay.. crazy. And, if you dally too long away from 1 John 1:9, you will accumulate insane thinking, namely, all that religious insanity which people imagine 'spiritual' in Churchinanity, today.

   It's a life or death matter, 1 John 1:9. Notice how you must keep Believing to stay in God's System. Believing in using 1 John 1:9 and the remaining three Elements of God's System. These are the protein bases of your spiritual life. Take them seriously. Satan & Co. sure do.

2. Here's the major arrest category in spiritual growth among even faithful Bible students: they understand the 5 Elements of God's System and go through the motions every day, but forget to use 1 John 1:9, thinking they aren't sinning (mistaking the motions for the meaning). I call this the "long, slow, slide"; it first takes the form of being bored with repetition (i.e., from your pastor), so you think you are tuned in; then your usage of Bible during the rest of the day, starts to lag; then remembrance of 1 John 1:9 starts to lag; then you fancy yourself in fellowship, but have long since, stopped. But you still go to class, still seem 'spiritual'.. until one day, smack! and you have no inner resources. Then you realize what hit you, and get back in the saddle; or, more likely, go off into the sunset, shuffling with the bell ringers...

3. More typical, is the wrong-spiritual-door entry, by the ritual/religious/taboo crowd. Historically, 90% or more of Christians are in this group. Their problem? Well, it's kinda like dressing up in caveman clothes, thinking they are current fashion. Most Christians are trying to live the Old Testament form of the spiritual life. It's quite weird, really: my Bible doesn't stop at the Gospels, but apparently theirs, does. And their teachers don't seem to know better, either. Thus you hear all that archaic emphasis on the 10 Commandments (despite blunt passages like Hebrews 7:18 and Romans 10:4, how strange). Worse, those commandments themselves, aren't even spiritual, Except The FIRST One. Which, no one does, since you can only obey the First Commandment, by living in God's System (main theme of 1 John). So they aren't obeying the 10 Commandments, even. John has a lot of fun pointing that out, in his letter (which is all about first-things-first, very witty, in the Greek). So you see, today's inanities were going on then, too.

   God is precise. Spiritual 'biology' is even more precise, than physical biology. The spiritual life is internally MATCHED to the "covenant" which is given. So your spiritual life, inside and out, is nothing like the OT. In fact, more the opposite of what the Old Testament had. This topic is treated at some length in LvS4a.htm (over 100 printed pages). DDNA-wise, you have the same type of human spirit, as Christ -- since you are to have His DDNA from His Humanity, 'cloned' into you, via learning in God's System. Thus everything about your spiritual life, is both unique and based on His, not on any other covenant. Hence the moniker "Church" and "Body of Christ", to distinguish our group of believers, from others in history. So if you follow the wrong definition of a "covenant" by misinterpreting Bible, you will not only never grow up, but Satan & Co. will be ringing your bells, baby. Obviously, then, it's pretty important to understand your true DDNA need. So these folks aren't getting any DDNA. They showed up in costume at the wrong party altogether: and that party isn't hosted by God. But it is being hosted. Guess by whom, ding-dong.

Now you know why you need to be in God's System; why it's the only true spiritual life. No baby survives absent nourishment, and only Righteous Nourishment Added, adds anything to you. Forever. Sorry, someone should have warned you before you believed in Christ! No spiritually-born person can be spiritually killed (1 John 5:18, mistranslated).. but no spiritual baby grows absent nourishment, either. Hence all the "backsliding" and other goofy stuff in Christendom throughout the centuries. Starving of Word. Even though, the Bible is the most-possessed and quoted book on earth. Gathering Dust. [And you know it's gathering dust, because it's so mistranslated. 1 John 5:18 uses the same repeated formula pattern from Chapter 1 forward, so the translator should make it more like "no one being sired by God the Holy Spirit, is sinning during that time" -- just like all the other similar constructions in the letter. Oh well. You can't translate Bible like a Berlitz 30-day tourist audiotape, k?]

So, as 1 John explains minutely, just as in Christ's Humanity when He was down here, this Divine Thinking propagates in us, via the Spirit, in God's System. No other way. This alone is the purpose for your life as a believer. This alone is the spiritual life. For it was the spiritual life of Christ; and now, for Church. Exact Same Life. So, obviously: no other definition of the spiritual life is accurate, but the propagation BY the Holy Spirit, TO positive believers in God's System. Works are evil -- well, more accurately, anything you do outside God's System, is evil. Greek word is "ἀδικία": literally, "Not Righteous!" Fake.

As said just before this "Production to Love" section, about the United Nations' satanic, slapstick bell: whatever God provides, man wrecks and Satan 'helps'. Let's briefly review God provides, and our wrecked nature, before factoring in how Gramma Satan & Co. 'help':
• "Sin" is GENETIC, first. It's in your REAL DNA, part of your instruction set as a biological being.
• But you are not solely a biological being. You only became human at birth, when God Personally Made Your Soul, And Put It In That Exiting Fetus. Which is why, all fetuses begin life with an exhale, since God inhaled your soul into you (Genesis 2:7, "breathed into his nostrils").
• So when that first temptation hits the soul God made, and you agree with it -- at THAT point, your soul becomes sick with the body disease. You only get sicker by giving into the temptations, but they begin in infancy, well before you even know to resist them, and.. well, that's why we need salvation. You can resist them, but.. you won't.
• So you can believe in Christ. And maybe you will.
• Thus the genetic disease of sin which becomes a soul disease via volition, needs new, replacing DDNA to get rid of the soul sickness. And the soul's 'blood', is thinking (big Bible keyword).
• So God Thinking Cures Bad Thinking!
[Nerd Note: no baby who dies goes to hell. No one goes to hell unless he has rejected the Gospel all his life. Can't reject what you haven't yet heard, k? Now, it's true that 'the heathen' do reject the Gospel their whole lives (not all of them do this), because they first reject knowing God at ALL. So God won't coerce. But many is the so-called 'heathen' who has gotten the Gospel, because if the person wants it, God provides. It's a two-step process God uses: first, to make you aware He exists. At that point, you don't know Who He is, but you do know THAT He is, and you then decide if you want to know Him better, or not. This awareness will be repeated over and over and over. At some point, you either peel off into other ideas of God, or you think Toward This God-You-Don't-Know, "I want to know you." Then, God rolls out the previously-prepared answer, in your own language(s), giving you the Gospel (by human voice on radio, someone you meet or know, etc). Never fails. Heck, I know of an African tribesman who hikes 30 miles to get a Bible class, so don't underestimate God's ability to get the Word out. His Son died for all mankind, 1 John 2:2, so God will not waste ONE DROP of that Precious Thinking. As you grow in God's System, and you discover how you suddenly know stuff, you'll get a much better hands-on understanding of how God works with volition, to make Himself clear. God isn't judging us or blaming us like we blame ourselves and other humans. He knows how sick we are. But He won't coerce, either. Notice how even the most blistering passages in the Bible always have encouragement liberally sewn in among the words. Awesome stuff, our Gorgeous Bible!]

Just as DNA determines the Exact Life of Cells, so also Thinking Determines The Exact Quality Of Your Soul And The Life You Live. As a result, people are compatible or incompatible based on 'soul' DNA, which is to say Thinking; and really not due to anything else. If you know someone gave you a gift to show off how wealthy he is compared to you, no matter how much money he spent, you will not enjoy his gift. You will be too upset, to enjoy it. If you are married to someone with whom you are incompatible, you will come to loathe every minute, especially during the times s/he is nice to you.

By contrast, if a little kid wanted to thank you and made a very ugly clay turtle, but was so excited to make it for YOU, you will adore that ugly turtle. Worth maybe two cents' worth of clay. And it will be your most precious possession. Someone with whom you LOVE to be, might be reciting the nightly news programs, but it's heaven, to you. No merit, in reading TV Guide, right? Doesn't matter: it's as precious as heaven. Because you ARE compatible.

So again, thinking alone determines everything: it's your 'soul' DNA. But look how wrecked: the heart of man is deceitful, and desperately wicked: who can know it? moaned Jeremiah. But my people perish for lack of knowledge of God, moaned Hosea. So our thinking life is not compatible: My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor my ways your ways, says the Lord. We notice the ugliness of others' thoughts and actions, not noticing how much more ugly we are, when comparing ourselves to them! "Whited sepulchres", said Our Lord. For grossest evil, is white.. not black. Dried bones, bleached out by a desert of thinking, in 'repose' all alone in a tomb of self-absorption!

Disaster awaits those who try to SUBSTITUTE another way, so Gramma Satan & Co. specialize in substitutes, as 'help'. So now let's factor in how Satan & Co. help: they feed our sin nature proclivities. We have two basic proclivities: one, toward asceticism (religiosity, see Genesis 3) and the other, toward lasciviousness (rebelling against religiosity, essentially). So Satan & Co. cheapen and polarize everything 'spiritual' in order to block out what's the real problem: our not wanting God. So the religious look at the lascivious, and vice versa: but nobody is looking at God. We just get stuck on each other. (It should be common sense that if you're busy looking at your brother's flaws, you're not looking at God. And if you were looking at God, then your thoughts would be there on HIM, rather than on what's wrong with your brother. See the "log" analogy the Lord makes in the Gospels.)

So the true offense is that we reject wanting to know GOD, and so God must stand off. Because, Love never coerces volition. Satan & Co. Cultivate The Rejection in order to 'corner' God so He'll 'have to' stand off. That's how they 'help' us become or stay spiritually-comatose.

God doesn't see "offense" the way we do. The real offense, is being Omnipotent but Free and Standing Still.. because we don't want Him to cure us. He won't coerce. God is free, so everything and everyone else must be also. This is HIS Standard and He wants to see it everywhere reflected. Even though, it means He'll see total disregard for Him. That doesn't offend Him, really (Bible is couched in human language of accommodation, so you have to read 'above' it to see what God's really saying). What offends, is that He must Stand Aside. Which is why the Cross is such a Relief to Christ. He had to Stand Aside and talk to us like kindergarteners, the whole time He was here: notice how many times He says, but you can't understand this now. No condemnation there. But lots of grief. When you love someone who doesn't love you back, the bigger problem is that you must stand off. You don't need the person to reciprocate, you want to give. But you can't, if you really love that person. It won't be well-received, whatever you do.

So it is, between God and the human race. So Greek word "ἀδικία", though a judicial term, is, like All Attributes of God, first a LOVE term: here, God's LOVE is being denied expression in YOU. Doesn't matter that God isn't hurt. Doesn't matter that your denial means God will re-route what He wanted to do to YOU, to someone else (Part 4a of Lord vs. Satan explains God's re-routing of blessing system). Does matter that you refused. You can immediately cancel that refusal by using 1 John 1:9, at which point you can get back all or some of what you lost (even David didn't permanently lose his kingship when he murdered Bathsheba's former husband, so that tells you how important 1 John 1:9 is). God doesn't WANT to stand off from you, but if you want to stand off from Him, well.. He is perfect Love, hence perfect Integrity, and He will never violate His Integrity. So will never violate free will.

So God's System is a carrying by God of you. Which you reject, every time you sin. Which you again accept, every time you use 1 John 1:9. Which you reject, if you don't stay in all four post-salvation Elements of God's System. So let Him carry you. See 1 Peter 5:5-7 on this carrying. Verse 7 in Greek is in participles, which means it's how you are to let Him carry you. [Participles, especially when last in a paragraph or sentence, stresses MEANS, since grammatically a participle precedes or runs coterminous with the main verb. See: God's Word is precise in the original languages, not at all fuzzy.] Notice how the word "humble" is used (very wittily, in the Greek). So "humble" is letting God do all the work (like a pack animal, you 'cast' your cares on Him, says the Greek of verse 7). Don't put an oar in. Paul tried that in Acts 18-22, and look what happened to him: God carried him to Rome in chains! So if Paul didn't get away with it, we sure won't...

The Gospels illustrate well this rejection and how God must stand off; Christ repeatedly had to fall silent or walk away, and often warned the rejectors. [NASB or NIV manage to convey the flavor well, at least of the Lord's speaking (though the mistranslation of verses like Mark 3:5, making Him look like a sinner, are inexcusable). However, no translation can be free of satanic tampering, so just broadly read the Gospels. What struck me about John's Gospel in Chapters 4 and following is how He gets hated for every nice thing He says or does. Mark's Gospel is even more strident, deliberately sketching the increasing hostility He met with each miracle He did; how He kept shutting everyone up (especially the demons) who wanted to advertise Him -- so clearly, He wasn't looking to gain political (or other) power. Yet He was hated, from the very beginning. Not just by the Pharisees, either. Read the Gospels over and over, see for yourself. Again, you can see this in translation. A review of Mark's Gospel is in PopeMyth.htm. I don't buy for two seconds that common shibboleth that Mark got his stuff from another human being (i.e., Peter). Mark's Gospel is too brilliantly written. Sheesh: why do people doubt God's ability to teach someone a deposition? Moses sure wasn't in the Garden of Eden, was he? So why doubt a different "M", Mark? Oh well. By the way, Bible versions later than the NIV are screwy. In trying to make the Bible more readable, they usually mangle the original text beyond recognition. Every once in awhile a newer translation is brilliant -- but again, ignores the original-text keyword usage, so you can't track what the writer means. At least old translations like the KJV enable tracking of keywords, once you know the KJV rendering.]

So: turn on TV, watch the same rejection 'play' daily, at any hour. Notice how we don't even think about Him, and whatever we claim to think about Him, ends up painting Him as a two-dimensional, cardboard character: Sugar Daddy/Petty Judge. 'Usually, in Punch-and-Judy garb, mouthing silly phrases and platitudes. Almost every movie and TV show about God displays Him as needy and pathetic; or, abstruse and imperial; very insulting, when you think over what's portrayed. Well, the Real God can't be insulted, but He also must Stand Off.

We don't hear Him. We don't want to hear Him. Listen to lives. They are all preoccupied with what other people do and say, what things they own; all their plans are frenetic, and they measure in tit-for-tat terms, everything. Oh, and it's so much fun to relate what horrible experience one had, how bad someone else is, how evil is this or that political party or company or person. We make such issues of our rights, who slighted us.. all the while, slighting God. Do we ever call Him up just to say hello? Or do we treat going to church as a SUNDAY CHORE, like the laundry, to be valued only if what we heard made us feel good. Treating God like a dog, then wondering why others treat us like the mutts we truly are... Matt 7:1-2, baby. It's a law like gravity. For we were not made to reject God.

See how sick we are? See why the Lord prayed, "Father forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing." So God's offense at our disinterest in Him, is that of a Loving Father, aching to heal us.. His Love will never change, Isaiah 53:6ff. But He must stand off unless we opt to get in and stay in His System. And as you'll see in the Third Aspect, if you opt to do that, and finish the course (i.e., 2 Timothy 4:7-8), then God will use you to help heal all those poor unfortunates, who didn't grow up in His System. So the contract of Isaiah 53:10-12, applies to everyone of us (Fourth Aspect) -- a legacy of Christ, designed by Father in eternity past (see Ephesians 1, which references it). That's your opportunity! Yours, and mine! Will we take it? Our choice, every day we are still breathing. "For the Lord is slow to anger", says the constant refrain in the Old Testament, "not willing that any should perish", echoes 2 Peter 3:9. Showing Moses His Glory, the LORD passed by, as He'd later do for Elijah -- saying that most tender statement, that CHESED (lovingkindness, strongest word for love, emphasizing tenderness): "to those who love Him", echoes Paul, in the exultant Romans 8:28. God sunistemi's His Son to demonstrate His Utter Love, Romans 5:8. That we may turn and be healed.

So Satan & Co. seek to make us compatible with them, in order to separate us from wanting God. To do this, they will MIMIC 'white' stuff in the Word. So this is the 'devil's DNA', but notice, oh! the same initials! How will you tell the difference, fool? So "ddna", to denude you of the Word's real meaning, and of the Holy Spirit's Power.

Relationships are based on compatibility. The more incompatible you are, the less you enjoy the relationship. Whether you have a relationship to 'things', or to people. Far more, compatibility with God colors how much you will enjoy relationship with God. No creation can be apart from God, but anyone who thinks is free to think APART from God. Even as, God of course is free to think apart from what He creates. But if you want a relationship, you don't want to be apart, you want to be a part OF. Oneness. John 17. So, in the final analysis, you will learn God because you want to be WITH God; when you come to know Him intimately, your own thinking coalesces with His, and you are said to be "in" God, even as He is in you. It's a marital metaphor, denoting complete compatibility and rapport. In a word, love. For Love is only and always, a Thinking Pattern. With no strings, no price, Isaiah 55.

In DueDisclosure.htm, much time is spent explaining why Trinity. You can know why. They are Each Uncreated, but there is a Why They are Three. For Love. In short, if you love someone, you don't want to be distant. You don't want to stand off. But if certain issues (like equality of status) interfere, then maybe you MUST stand off. Which tells you right away, why They call Themselves, Father, Son, Spirit. This is a Voluntary Corporation, so They can Justify not being aloof. So since Son Voluntarily agrees with Father to subordinate (i.e., in Isaiah 53:10-11), then Intimacy is not precluded. Even though, and especially because, They ARE Equals (identical Essence/Nature, but Three Independent Persons, kinda like "Triplets", my pastor's very helpful term). So Each One due to Love, subordinates By Sovereign Choice. This is not a loss of Sovereignty, but an exercise of it. So too, with us, we are given Divine Righteousness that first second of salvation (2 Corinthians 5:21), but.. do we want to subordinate? Love subordinates. Hatred, doesn't (and hatred will make up no end of excuses to justify itself, all of them noble and self-sacrificing). So if hatred, then we elect "no" subordination. Ok, then Matthew 7:1-2, we will be distant, aloof. Forever, if we don't get in and stay in God's System. Part 3's "Corollary 3B" covers this issue in more detail, for the believer.

Hence Peter's love of ὑπό-prefixed words in his Greek. He seems to use at least one in every sentence. In 1 Peter 5:5-7, he piles them up (another writing habit he has). The guy's a genius, and his writing style is very unorthodox (how ironic, since he once was VERY orthodox, as a Jew). All throughout his letters you see him use these "under" (meaning of ὑπό-) words like wifely abandon, loving her husband so much she will do anything for him. Love doesn't account itself demeaned. So "obey" is a happy word, a Grateful-To-Have-An-Outlet word, not a tyranny. But of course, to hatred such a word will be rationalized AS tyranny. Well, hatred and love are not at all compatible. But God is Love.

So Satan & Co. REVERSE the meaning of the Word to MAKE hatred out of what should be an enjoyment. So they bang the drum on obedience, they make God boring, they strip the Word itself of all its humor and meaning in all translations; incredible, how hard they work at making God a PAIN to know. And then, they SUBSTITUTE emotion as spirituality, so you will become addicted to your emotions, fancying yourself spiritual or unspiritual, based on how you FEEL. And then they sell all manner of dippy activities, so you will consider yourself spiritual or unspiritual based on another BODY thing: what you do. Thus they can HERD you into ANYTHING THEY WANT. You are a marionette, and they are the puppeteers.

So Satan &Co. promote WORKS, which is a functional form of their RELIGION ploy, which Satan invented in Genesis 3. "Works" is a hateful, separatist thought pattern. All sin is BASED on works. Adam didn't do any works until he sinned, Genesis 2-3. First thing he does after sinning, is to make fig leaves, because he's ashamed and wants to make it up. All Satan's arguments are based on works. There's not one sin you ever sin, which isn't motivated by some kind of 'works' argument. Think that over, test it. The whole "deserve" question is sinful at heart, since it is based on works. If you love, you don't think about you deserving, you think about the love object. But if you hate, you talk and think about DESERVINGNESS. The one loving, really doesn't believe he's working or deserves anything even if he must admit it. He only thinks how glad he is to be having it, to do. The one hating, really doesn't believe he's getting properly paid for what he does (always keeps a scorecard), so he notices oh-so-much, the works he or others, DO. Yeah, doo-doo, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 4:5!

Hence works are all evil, every one of them. The relationships are all evaluated in terms of what "works" they do, so it's not the thing or the person to whom the works person really wants to relate -- but rather, to the works. So works becomes its own god, and the Real God is just used to make the works person feel good about his works (or, the works of others). So "works" thinking is completely antithetical to God's Thinking. Bible in the original-language texts is so adamant about how God does NOT want "works", you sometimes have to put down the Bible, to catch your breath. Christ didn't do any works, but became a Lamb: dare ya to find even ONE work He did of Himself (if you do, then He sinned in doing it, so you won't find any). So in the Bible, "works" are constantly and sarcastically compared to God's "works", so the "works" person can hopefully come to see that his vaunted "works" never ever could even begin to compare to the smallest "works" of God. You won't see this so well in Bible translations, since "works" persons largely are the translators. However, some passages can't be wholly blotted out in translation, like Galatians 3-5, Romans 4, Ephesians 2:8-9, the excoriating-Pharisees verses, John 14-17, Philippians 2:5, Zechariah 7, Isaiah 1:13, Matthew 15:11 & Matthew 15:18 (etc).

The primary New Testament tracking device for this difference between the evil of man's works and the ONLY WORK BEING GOD's, is the insertion or omission of the Greek article (our "the"). Translations nearly always fail to notice it. So you get the impression from translated Bibles that man's works are important. That's Satan & Co.'s handiwork, k? James is all about how only the Word Works. But read the translation, and you'll think that your works prove your faith. That's exactly the OPPOSITE of what James says. Satan & Co. are not stupid. They know we are so terminally insecure since the Fall, that we are fig leafing NUTTY about doing works. So of course, we mistranslated James and most other works verses, to make it look like man does something. Religion, baby. Keeping you a baby, forever.

Again, if you hate what you do, your soul will be tempted to MEASURE or PRICE what you do: especially, toward God. That attitude immediately wrecks the value of the work, theme of Romans 4. But if you love what you do, you will not even want to measure or price what you do, but will be constantly thinking how glad you are, as if you Received a Gift. Which, you did. Morality is a Gift. One of the best gifts God can give to the human race. But the moralists HATE morality, so claim something from God. At which point, they become more immoral, than axe-murderers (theme of Romans 2, Romans 9, Romans 11). Adam's sin nature is in all of us, and we all think this way. DDNA alone can cure it. More importantly, DDNA alone changes how we think. Because, it's Divine Doctrine Not "Ἀδικία" ("wrongdoing", in English Bibles). "Ἀδικία", is the sin nature thought pattern. How we naturally think.

We naturally think like children, at best. Children have no discernment, so you have to give them little things to DO. And when they do them, they do them rather badly, but.. well, you praise them. You're trying to teach them that doing good IS good.. primarily, for themselves. But they don't know that. So they pride themselves over other children if they do a better job or get more praise. Cruelty on the playground. Cruelty as adults, who never learned that the VALUE of morality or of doing good, is innate pleasure at being able to do something for someone other than the self. Instead, we grow up priding ourselves on what we do, demanding from others that they praise or reward us, and getting rather bitter, if the expected reward, doesn't occur. Divorces, broken companies, broken nations result from all this childishness. And it's totally hateful, for look at what the expectation really means: oh, this good thing I did doesn't do ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME EME ME ME ME ME EME ME ME any good whatsoever, so I better get paid. Yeah, how 'moral' is that thought? Not At All. See Isaiah 1:13...

The Three Temptations in Matthew 4 are temptations to DO works. Read them yourself. Use 1 John 1:9 and think them over, toward Father. See for yourself!

So as 1 John explains minutely, you avoid Gramma's 'house', lieb Hansel or Gretel, by remembering DDNA is God's Goal, as we saw back during the Soliloquy: God Wants To Hear Compatible Thinking, not works. So all life is designed by God to serve as Bible class: you Learn, Never Earn; Learn Is The Objective, The Goal, The Life; not a mere means to something else. So important is this Learn Goal, that God even designed the structure of the universe to teach you about God, Romans 1. So here, we're looking at the micro-universe: our very cells. For every atom is like every cell: all are teachers of Him.

Hence, life is 24-hour Bible class; some of that time is official, i.e., you're in God's System, learning under whomever God has appointed to teach YOU the Bible. During the rest of the day, you "practice righteousness" (the Word, in context of 1 John -- that's one of his catchphrases). That is, the "righteousness" you learned in official Bible classes. Day in, Day out. Cells reproduce, DNA via RNA, divides and replicates. So will His Thinking be replicating in you, precept on precept, line on line (hah! DDNA!), until your faith becomes a twisted rope no one can break. (Hebrew verb, usually translated "trust", but means a faith growing strand by strand until it becomes a rope no one can break. I can't remember the Hebrew word itself, right now (it's not "abot"), but I remember my pastor explaining it. Hebrew has different words for trust, each one vivid like this one. Wait! Job 4:6 just flew into my mind, and I've not read it. Loading BibleWorks, and yes! Here's the word! It's "tiqwa", meaning a cord made of a mass of threads, per HALOT. Root noun is qaw, line you use as a plumb line or measure (metaphor for the Word). Root verb is qawa, hope, trust, confidence (even folly, because the trust is so absolute)! 10 years, I've been trying to remember that word! And see how trust is justified, even after 10 years' waiting? See what the Holy Spirit Can Do???? Yes! Yes! Yes!)

DDNA! Day after day, day in and day out, for the rest of your days on this planet. At which point, you truly are being transformed into the Very Son Who is Your Savior. By Personal Agency of the Spirit, and By means of the Truth, John 4:23-24, Ephesians 3:15-19, 1 John 4:12-17 (in context from 1 John 2:28-3:2). [Nerd Note: it's a rule in Greek that if you have a verb in the passive voice, and what seems to be a "means" done by a person (rather than a thing), you should translate such "means" "by personal agency", because it's that Person acting directly to make the verb occur on the subject; and verse context matters a lot. Holy Spirit always gets messed up in translation, as if not a Real Person. He's even treated as a mere "what", rather than WHO in 2 Thessalonians 2:6! So no one read 2 Thessalonians 2:2 or 7, and remembered that "pneuma" is a neuter-gender word? In 2 Thessalonians 2:2, Paul uses wordplay between evil spirit, and Holy Spirit, anarthrously. So "spirit" is the ONLY antecedent idea (the ONLY word in the neuter between 2:2 and end of 2:6). First rule in Greek is you TRACE BACK an article used as a pronoun, to find its ANTECEDENT. Really, cool, how the article which belonged with "pneuma", is 'removed' several verses away, since the One Who Will Remove the Restraint via Rapture (so He 'departs' with us), is the Monadic Holy Spirit! What genius of Greek syntax! Oh well.]

Your choice, how much you want to avail yourself of God's LEARN (never earn, never do's) standard. All is here to Learn Something, not to learn like you did in school, where you couldn't wait to get out and do something worthwhile. Go To God's School For The Rest Of Your Life, or get schooled in ennui (Satan's school, this world).

When something is truly worthwhile, it won't be flashy. When something is truly worthless, it will be flashy. The flash, you see, is needed to hook you. Kinda like those long grocery aisles of potato and corn chips in American supermarkets, where the packages all scream with color. But the chips, taste like cardboard. So you try another brand, and another. The package colors keep on enticing you, for surely the inside will be as attractive, as the outside?! Guess again.

God, therefore, doesn't 'do', flash. Yet as you get 'inside' Him via His System, you find Him so GORGEOUS to know.. you come to not want, anyone or anything else. It's not emotional, but Real Understanding. DDNA, baby. You change as a result of knowing Him, just as you change due to anything or anyone you come to know. Of course, since HE's God, well.. you change a whole lot. So much so, people will come to think of you as kinda strange, since you're no longer bored or flash-oriented, like the world. So when you finally get to the point where you yearn to have "the fellowship of His Sufferings" as Paul put it (Philippians 2 or 3), then you realize you are one weird bird, in the world's eyes (if they knew of that desire, which you aren't keen to voice). Well, that's cuz you are alive, and they are aping life. All this, from merely learning and living on Bible? Yep. DDNA, baby: and you're no baby, anymore.

Instead, you are pregnant with the KINGDOM God is developing for you. Third Aspect will be on that. It's shocking, baby. Part 3 of the Lord vs. Satan explains it, and Part 4 explains why all those people refusing to learn God, will be housed IN you. What happened to Christ, must happen to you, FOR FATHER.. under Him. That's the Contract Meaning of Isaiah 53:10-12! Fourth Aspect focuses on the contract itself. In short, you are to BECOME Pregnant, Paul's main theme in all his writings God gave him. A pregnant woman can't do very much. So you don't, either. It's all done INSIDE you, and TO you, by the Birther, the Holy Spirit, Isaiah 54:1!

Were you born to the Blood Royale (and you are, HIS) -- you would spend most of your childhood years learning, thinking, being trained to just SIT there, while other people wait on you. It's unbelievably arduous. People have the goofy idea that if you're just sitting there you aren't doing anything of value. Peasants do with their bodies, because they can't 'do' with their brains. So, they think the Royal isn't doing anything. That's why royal families must be SEEN MOVING about in royal splendor. So the masses will think they are 'doing' something. Children need this. Peasants need this. And it's unbelievably HARD, what the Royal really must do: nothing. The job of the Royal is to learn to THINK. Because, everyone else around him, CAN'T. Someone must be the head. So the Head is to get in our heads so we can head kingdoms in eternity, since most Christians will opt for Brother-Foot Churchinanity. So their dendrites in eternity, will be limited, and the only way they can get more enjoyment, is through the HEADS of their kingdoms.

The aggregate result of all this DDNA building in believers who want to know God, is an incalculable blessing-by-association for the whole world. For all the universe, in the eternal state. In the Bible, DDNA is likened to money and to blood (1 John especially focuses on the blood role); Circulation Of Thought Determines Everything About Soul Health, just as circulation of money makes a polity strong; makes a body, nourished (blood's main role is to feed cells). All my websites focus on the role of blessing-by-association, and the entire Lord vs. Satan (see Home Page) is woven around that theme. For Christ is our Blessing By Association, and by contract, per (again) Isaiah 53:10-12. So we, being made like Him, are blessing-by-association to the world. Right now. Third Aspect, is entirely on this topic.

Bible's "Salt" metaphor is familiar to people, and you'll hear believers parrot how they are the salt of the earth, preserving it. Yes, that's true. But they have no clue what "salt" is, and don't seem to remember Christ warning people they could become "saltless" (Matthew 4:13, Mar9:49-50, Luke 14:34). Salt makes food tasty, but more importantly, it's the salt in your blood which enables your cells to GET nourishment. [Technically, there are many kinds of salts the body needs. All have some form of sodium, the principal component of table salt (but not only sodium); put too simply, the 'salts' make cells open to get nourishment from the blood circulating to them. Too little salt means the cells don't open, and thus starve for lack of food. "Saltless" condition occurs where TOO MUCH WATER is present; so the sodium, which is attracted to the water, goes with it, leaching out from the salt.] In short, without the Word in you, you starve.
Again, remember how DDNA is most like brain DNA? The brain's DNA does not replicate (good analogy to how you must get Deposited Word in you, can't make it yourself). The brain's DNA has its own salt processors, which no other type of human DNA has. So you cannot think apart from salt. Probably many a mental or other illness is due to chemical imbalances, of which salt should be the primary 'target' in diagnosis. It shouldn't have to be said, but all enjoyment or pain in life comes from what you THINK. So if you cannot think, you're dead even while living.

Ergo, salt was money, in the ancient world. Salt PRESERVED food. A polity with lots of salt, was a healthier polity, than one lacking it. Salt enlivens. Leaven, puffs up. Former is DDNA, the latter is malignant RNA, the world's thinking. For Satan owns this world, so it reflects him. 1 John is about the difference between the 'testimony' in the Angelic Trial that DDNA produces, versus Satan's; hence, God blesses the world due to the DDNA circulation He 'drinks' or 'smells' (other metaphors for Word Cycling, concept of propitiation). Because, that Thinking, beats Satan's. So God Can Justify Blessing A World Which Doesn't Want Him, Solely Because Of Those Few Who Do. Therefore, those beginning to learn to want Him; those wanting Him but yet too young to think fluently like the Son; well, they all get Time To Grow Up. We are all beholding to Past Believers Who Wanted To And Did Stay in God's System!

This blessing by association in the Old Testament alone, was extreme. If you've read LvS4a.htm, Mirroring.htm and the GeneYrs.xls, then you know that the entire world was held together by just one person in a generation (reason for the roster in Genesis 5); specifically, due to Noah, the world was granted 490 YEARS of further existence. God made a covenant with Noah personally to repopulate the earth, with his progeny. Idea was, the thinking of Noah (="rest") was so pleasing to God, He wanted to have 'sons' of that thinking. Precursor of the same offer extended to Abram, Moses, David, the Christ.

Like every other dumb-bunny Christian, I grew up with the chirpy, stupid Churchinanity crowd who lauded Bible heroes, thinking they did these great works. Ok: try to find one work any of them did. Noah built a boat, but you know -- it was for his own family, given the 969-year advance notice of the Flood (meaning of the name "Methuselah"). So you can't call that a work. Noah gave the Gospel to everyone who came to watch him do this very stupid thing nowhere near water, even spending the time to grow the cypress (aka "gopher") wood, then the most valued shipbuilding material. No work there. Abram, well -- God just showed up one day and told Abram to leave Ur of the Chaldees, just before it was overrun (I forget by who just now). Then God promised Abram heirs like the stars of the sky, but.. nothing happened. So Abram argued with God off and on for about 25 years, before he finally buckled down and believed that God would deliver on His Promise. Abram had, after all, fornicated at his wife's behest with Hagar.. look all the trouble THAT caused the human race. Sure, at the end Abram takes his adult son Isaac up the mountain, but you can tell he expected God not to make him actually kill the son: "I and the lad will come back to you." Murdering his son at God's order could hardly be called a work. You'd go to jail for that, today.

Moses killed an Egyptian (it wasn't a crime, but he did kill the man). Moses then left at God's behest (see Stephen's testimony in Acts, somewhere near Chap7), but then argued with God over his being appointed as God's mouthpiece. Took 40 more years, after that. What did Moses do, but BELIEVE, and talk? [Nerd note: the verse somewhere which seems to say Moses was afraid of Pharaoh, is egregiously mistranslated. Verb refers to what Moses thought of GOD, not Pharaoh.]

So the world was granted through Israel sets of 490 years each due to ONE person (so if multiple persons were so granted, the quality of that 490 years vastly improved the world's lot); and, due to the mere continuance of the Temple in Jerusalem. Which Temple, foreshadowed Christ Himself, the "Petra" (name of bedrock in the Holy of Holies where the Ark sat). You realize, of course, that most of the time Scripture was lost INSIDE that Temple; that at times phallic cults were actually practiced INSIDE that Temple. So it wasn't Israel's faithfulness, which caused the blessing to continue. It was GOD's faithfulness. So again, not human works.

Even the Lord, what did Jesus do? He obviously Believed In The Word, and talked. Satan tempted Him to DO good deeds, which the Lord refused. So um, you won't find Him recorded as doing even one teeny good deed; in fact, He chided those who chided Him for receiving the ointment, "the poor you will have with you always, but you will not always have Me." Hmmm. That wouldn't go over well in a revival tent meeting, if anyone knew the verse. David, of course, committed adultery and murder. But each of these persons God Blessed Personally with a special personal covenant (Moses turned his down, twice). For what works? Not for works, but for Belief In The Word, as James 2 assiduously explains (it's the theme of his whole epistle, starting in 1:1), would anyone bother to actually read it (James 2:22 is horribly mistranslated).

Wow. Whole lot of blessing just for believing, huh. Of course, it must be said that back in Genesis 17, God told Abram long before the Ishmael affair, that Abram's sons would be in SLAVERY for 400 years. And the sons all knew. And they WENT to Egypt anyway, and they STAYED in Egypt anyway, and God DELIVERED them anyway. Whole lot of belief, then, huh. Tell me: what work compares with all that belief? And how would the belief BE there, if not for the Gorgeousness of the God Who was with them? So WHO gets glorified by believing? GOD. And who gets glorified by works? Not God, but the worker. For if you work, God must stand off. For every worker, represents Satan's side in the Trial (it's Satan who's all about works, see Genesis 3). As Hebrews 11:1 puts it (corrected translation, English Bibles are awful), "It's about Doctrine confidently believed = CHRIST of the [believer] Trials = Evidence, Unseen!" Greek is anaphora and heptameter, very dramatic. Notice how no works are mentioned. Belief in HIS Works, always and only -- "Christ in you", the Word sprouting in your head. That's the Holy Spirit's work -- just like, the Cross!

Now, think: Christ paid for all the human race by means of His Divine Thinking deposited in Him by the Holy Spirit (learning, not magic). So just how big do you think the blessing-by-association now must be, if we learn His Thinking? All of Part 3 and Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan are dedicated to explaining His Legacy to us, and the consequent shocking importance of every believer thought. Even when brushing your teeth. Here in this page, you can learn from the 'biology' metaphor of DDNA, that it's a REAL thing; in those other pages you can see how detailed and difficult it all is, lest the sin-of-Adam nature in all of us (works-oriented, remember the fig leaves thingy) be complaining that merely learning Him is valueless.

Yeah, right. Tell me: How Else Could Christ Pay For Sins, When He Is Nailed To A Cross? You don't pay for what's a SOUL crime with a body. We are stuck with that limit here on the earth, but GOD is not stuck with it. And every sin, however white-lie, however good-deedy, is doo-doody crime against God. Even our righteousnesses are filthy (euphemism in translations, Isaiah 64:6).

So think: How Much More Blessing Must God Be Able To Justify, If The Very Thinking Of Christ, Is Growing In Us? God doesn't have to stand aloof if believers in a country are Growing In His Son. So He is judicially free, despite it being Satan's world, to BLESS that nation; maybe only 10-100 people in the United States are needed to justify it being blessed with a continued life, for crying out loud! So, as 1 John puts it in the Greek of 1 John 3:16-18 (in context), absent the Word cycling in you, you may as well be a murderer, and spurning aid to the poor. Ouch. See: we don't have a Brother-Foot role, because we are BODY of the King of Kings. In training to become Kings. Which requires we Get His Thinking. DDNA.

Of course, most of the human race won't even want to believe in Him, let alone, grow up in His Thinking. So down here and in the eternal state, 99.999% of the populous, will be "γυμνός", Greek word for "naked" (fuzzed over in translation, to "poor"). Well, naked people have needs. Who will supply those needs? And in what way are they "naked"? Naked of Divine Thinking. So, since thought is a virus, and clothes the person's soul, well -- those with a lot of clothing can clothe the naked. So the naked can think too. Children learn to think from being around those who are of higher-thinking caliber than the children. So too, in the eternal state (and even down here), you learn to think better by being around those who think better. Or, you learn to think worse (or not at all) by the company you keep. Media, TV, radio, friends, family -- everyone 'infects' everyone else. For better or for worse. Well, in Heaven (or the eternal state, which is actually a new universe), it's all for the Better. But it takes a Lifetime of Training Down Here, to reach the "fullness of Christ" (Pleroma) -- being filled up with His Love Thinking. Which, most won't choose to get. Which, if you choose to get, means you will inherit the many (Isaiah 53:12, even in translation), and you will be clothing them. Owning them, and clothing them. And they will love it. So will you.

Best of all, you are owned by God, already. So it's justifiable for you to be intimate with Him. Knowing Him intimately. That was always the promise in the Bible, from Genesis 3:15 onward (in fact, the very reason Adam and the woman admitted they'd sinned was to keep the relationship with Him). So the more you grow in His Thinking, the Closer to Him You Will Become, Since The More Like Him The DDNA Makes You. So you will own the many and clothe them, but you'll want that So To Gift Them To Him, since you yourself are owned BY Him. Your kingdom will love it. So will you.

Of course, in the world now and in the parallel "Lake of Fire" universe to be spun off from this world (2nd half 2 Peter ), what people love, is to hate. Everything is priced, but called "love" to SELL what's priced. To strike a deal, make a bargain, tit-for-tat, you-scratch-my-back-and-I-scratch-yours, praising and judging, oogling what someone else has (or how that person looks), on and on and on. So a God Who Has No Price is ugly, to this world. Ugly, to those in hell now (see Luke 16:20ff, Isaiah 53:2-4,7-9, 52:13-14). Ugly, to Satan & Co. They want something to PREEN about!

How good I am. How bad that other person is. How I beat that person. How superior so-and-so who likes ME, to x-and-so, who doesn't like ME. ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME EM EM EME Me. So they love hating God, and they love claiming that a 'just' God wants works. Hence all religion, reflects Satan's denouncing mindset, same as in Genesis 3:11: "Who DENOUNCED you for being naked?" The Lord rhetorically asks Adam. Well, think: who else was around? Obviously the woman didn't denounce it, Adam ordered her to make fig leaves with him. So who ELSE was there, huh? Oh, the guy who told them that by magically eating some dippy fruit, they'd be like God Himself. Yeah, that worked real well. So well, Adam forgets how he'd been a taxonomic biologist for however long, and now he's a seamstress? Do you know how uncomfortable it must be to have itchy fig leaves about the loins?

So that ugly universe will forever exist as well. So your thinking will be countering all that ugly thinking which goes on forever. For the essence of salvation was to set up Two Counter Thinking Systems, so that life COULD go on forever. Else, there'd have been no creation in the first place, or we'd have to be made automatons. Free God Doesn't Want automatons or drooling babies for companionship. And a free hell can freely go on shaking its fist at God, which it will forever LOVE doing.. if there's a heaven (eternal universe, at that point) which has Far Higher And Better Thinking going on in it. Which all those cannon fodder in the hating universe, helped to birth (now you know why evil exists -- we need it for Training).

Because, God is Omniscient. So everything is One Big Now, and forever past and present and future all Thinking is in His 'ears'. Now, dunno about you, but the last thing I like to hear, is bad thinking. Makes me cry, vomit, yell, or something else not-good. So how must it all sound.. to GOD? It's not as though He can forget. He'd have to first choose to Stop Being God, to forget. Well, that's not a choice He'll ever make. So: what to do? Have marionettes, or real free beings? Well, the latter. Ok: then there will be free Results, and those rejecting Him will thus be lacerating themselves fancying themselves martyrs.. forever. Hence, what Thinking can counter all that hell God experiences? Hence, an ongoing 'heaven' (and eternal state). Hence, why allow evil? To train those going to Heaven IN such heavenly Thinking. Which Christ, who went to the only True Hell no creation will ever know for three hours.. paid for. What wealth we can get in Christ. Our Free Choice. His Free Choice. Father's Free Choice. Spirit's Free Choice. Contracted Freely, in eternity past, before even a whisper of matter or energy, existed. Because, God loves Truth: good truth, bad truth, any truth, BECAUSE truth. So God loves everyone, and God will never cancel hell. It must be FREE to exist. Because the first truth, is God exists, and God is free. He never applies a lower standard to anything else. And thus SUBORDINATES to everything else. Sovereignly.

In the Lord vs. Satan, Part V's ending posits why free will thus remaining in hell also, that those in it can change their minds toward God and He'd pull them outta there, if they yet! believed in His Son. However, they won't want to change their minds. But since they can, the God-Who-is-Love, will never separate from them, so hell goes on forever. Always waiting, even though knowing in advance they won't change. Because God will never change, either. God IS Love, and Love never changes.

Theologians have debated and demurred over the nature and existence of hell ("Lake of Fire", is the eternal name for it). Most who admit Bible teaches of an eternal hell, will claim that God locks the door and throws away the key (nicely-put, though). I don't believe that's true. It's inconsistent with all that He's done since forever past; but it IS provably true that people negative to God reach a saturation point where they reverse all their loves, and hatred becomes a form of self-'love' so high, they are wholly addicted to it. Certainly Satan & Co. are that way: those guys must be billions of years old, by now (if the cosmologists are right about the age of the universe). We humans, being much smaller, don't need so long to saturate ourselves with permanent negativity. You know people like that: they love hating. They thrive on it. Such loving-to-hate ideas are even mainstream, blanketing our media. Oh how we love to criticise. So it makes more sense to say God never gives up, despite what He knows (how else could He justify saving us?) -- not even, on those He foreknows will forever be in hell, which is really their idea of 'heaven'.

So malignant devil's dna, or DDNA, is our choice. Both, with superhumanly-powerful effects. All communicated via Thought. Just as, God can merely THINK a thing and it exists, so thought programs us. And we do it to ourselves. Exception is, if we want God, He does it to us as we choose, which means DDNA is something HE does, but we must first consent, inasmuch as He'll never coerce -- since we are else powerless to get what we want, a relationship with Him. So, the net result is that, like God, our thoughts are utterly determinative. Uh-oh!

For we INHERIT from Son, as Body/Bride. So, we inherit Isaiah 53:10-12. That's the Reason Why We Can Get DDNA. Fourth Aspect focuses on this topic.

So let's see this passage in corrected translation; it's the key to everything, and is incorporated by reference all throughout the NT: it's a 'Grand Central Station' for the writers. Again, Isaiah 53:10-12's five infinitives are so graphic, you can't miss the meaning of God Decreeing To Replicate His Son's Thinking, In You. The bolded text is operative for Church. Note The Infinitives.

Our Eternity-Past Contract in Christ Isaiah 53:10 [Masoretic text] "But the LORD [Father] delights to crush Him [Humanity of Christ getting the Stone-too-heavy to lift], putting Him to total grief; [Hebrew wordplay: "heheli" in the hiphil, is multi-meaninged. Looks like He's crushed with longing, so Father crushes Him with our sins.] [for the contract made was,] if He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see long-lived seed; then the LORD's delight will cause His Hand to prosper. [LXX portion, next says] So the LORD delights to PURIFY [καθαρίζω, same LXX Temple-purifying word as in 1 John 1:9] by wounding Him: [based on the contract,] 'If You will give as a substitute for sin, Your [plural, God-Man in One Person!] Soul [singular] will see long-lived seed.' " Isaiah 53:11 "Then the LORD delights to PLUNDER, birthing/carrying out from His Soul's [pregnancy] Labor, to DISPLAY/POINT OUT/MAKE KNOWN/EXHIBIT via Him, the Light. Then, to SCULPT, via His Mastery-of-Thinking, so to MAKE RIGHTEOUS/JUSTIFY. [Masoretic text] He will see, be satisfied. [propitiation, 7th day and promise-fulfilled soundplay with satisfaction-from-eating. Qal imperfect of BOTH "seeing" and "being satisfied-from-eating" shows you the Third Aspect criterion gets met at the Cross, in the Masoretic.] Due to His Truth-Knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, as He will carry/bear their iniquities: [Awesome Soundplay made between dakah ("crushed") of 53:5&10, and da'ath ("truth-knowledge") and tsadeq ("righteous/justified") here, in Hebrew, merging the one into the other, to show the transformation!] [LXX portion] The Righteous One Well-Serving purposed for/instead of the many; even their sins, He will carry off/lift up." Isaiah 53:12 [Masoretic text] "Therefore I [Father] will distribute to Him the booty/spoils/plunder of victory because of the many; and He will apportion the booty among the Great Ones; because HE poured out HIMSELF to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He Himself carried/bore the sins of many, and interceded for the transgressors. [LXX portion] For this reason He will inherit the many; in fact, He will apportion the plunder among the Great Ones; for the sake of which [plunder] His Own Soul was given over to Death."

Now, on to the Four Aspects of DDNA.

1. Click here to start reading the First Aspect: What DDNA is & 'sires'.
2. Click here to start reading the Second Aspect: DDNA isn't Bulimia, but Balance.
3. Click here to start reading the Third Aspect: via Your King giving you a kingdom, your DDNA blesses others FOREVER.
4. Click here to start reading the 4th Aspect: DDNA is produced by Contract: what happened to Christ, is to happen to Us CHURCH.

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Appendices

Click Here for "DDNA, the True Grail.. has Enemies: an Appendix to DDNA.htm"

Click Here for "About Bible Mistranslation: an Appendix to DDNA.htm"

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SideBar on Corollaries of God's Love as Integrity

So LOVE is the heart, the driver, the Actual Divine DNA, itself. So it is clonable. So -- again -- if (and we know it's true) God is Omniscient, then Love is likewise simultaneously Truth, Righteousness, Justice, etc. -- But Because Love, Would Want To Subordinate To Truth, Righteousness, Justice, etc. Would Want To Propagate Itself. Would Want To Deposit Infinite Truth Into Love-Objects Who Want That Truth. Would Want to Substitute (i.e., Christ substituted for us on the Cross, Romans 5:8 and all of Chapter 6). Would Want To preserve, restore. Would Not Want To Judge; Would Not Want Anyone Going To Hell; Would Not Want Distance, But Rather Total Intimacy (owing to the Attribute of Infinity). Etc.

Of course, man has always puzzled over God's nature. Aristotle and Descartes tied themselves up in philosophical knots over Him. Augustine did, too. Plato and Socrates for that matter, were constantly referring to what they perceived as Divine Essence, to figure out the resultant creation corollaries (ἑνότης is a Platonic/Socratic Greek concept of harmony with God's System, which is why the Holy Spirit uses the term to describe our spiritual growth system, in Ephesians 4:11-16). So there is much written rumination on "What is 'God' LIKE?", throughout history.

Your typical theological commentary from about 50 years ago really grappled with God's Attributes. There's kinda been a roaring discussion going on since at least the Reformation. Mostly, everyone's been trying to figure out WHICH Attribute rides over the others, as the 'leader'. The Calvinists, of course, picked "Sovereignty". Most others, picked Righteousness/Justice. Some others, Omnipotence. Love, though picked by still others, wasn't too popular, since everyone regarded it as mushy, so some Other Attribute must 'husband' it. Not too many folks caught on to the fact that what holds anything together, is the degree of love. Not a feel-good thing, but an Infinite Attitude which never changes. So, we've misconceived of God for some centuries, now. Even my pastor feels he got it wrong until the year 2000, and felt he had to redo his "Integrity of God" monograph over yet a third time.

Yet, they all got it right, for one of the rare unanimities among theologians I've found through the centuries is that they all realize God is Uncreated and Unsustained. Which means you CANNOT separate out His Attributes, except for brainstorming purposes (i.e., tracing out which Attribute does what primary function). Bible has a really cool way of communicating this: either there is NO verb (so the Attribute is static), or some kind of unifying/static verb is used. The wordplay on hayah as His Name says it all: Absolute Existence. There are many lesser ways, like the pairing or bundling of Attributes used in connection with some discrete action. When you analyse a verse you realize that while (for example) Righteousness might be your 'window' in that verse, all the other Attributes are functioning within it, metaphorically, for purposes of the verse: often the other Attributes are mentioned by name or depicted, so that you always get a Whole. Great examples of this are in the Hebrew of Psalm 139:11-17, Psalm 89:14-15, Psalm 23 (David loves Attribute-bundling word-pictures). A bunch of them are in Isaiah as well, but I forget the specific verses.

When my pastor started revising his exposition on God's Integrity yet again in 1997 (he does it every few years), I heard those tapes in the year 2000, not knowing he'd drastically revised the exposition to the perfect statement that "Love IS God's Integrity!" but I got the same idea from his earlier coverage. For I'd run into the same verse (which changed my life back in 1995), Romans 5:5's subjective and objective genitive (ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ), and was encountering that phrase in the first short story of James Joyce's Ulysses. So the structure was well known. So the Lord vs. Satan was born, especially Part 1's "Integrity Properties" section. Frankly, that was the birth of the usual theme in my websites, that God is CYCLING Infinity inside finity via Bible Doctrine, in order to Connect Us Functionally. Forever. It Does Solve The Problem Of The Dichotomy Between Infinity And Finity, as the first four bullets in Fixes.htm, explained at some length. The Lord's Humanity HAD to solve the problem that way, since He was (and of course still is) ONE Person with Two Antithetical Natures. Being Perfect Humanity Made Things Worse, not better (we sin-nature humans are deadened by our nature -- Christ didn't have that buffer, due to being Perfect). Again, the first four bullets in Fixes.htm explain this in some detail. [The actual pattern of discovery was really cyclical. The Holy Spirit kept on hitting me with Romans 5:5 as I'd listen to my pastor's 1997 exposition, and thus "Integrity Properties" was born. It was about a year or two later that I realized the Cycling inherent in the subjective and objective genitive, and then I 'just happened' to read James Joyce while taking a break -- and saw the phrase. Bing! So from that point onward, the (now called "DDNA") concept of God pouring His Truth into you as a circle of LOVE, was a continuing theme in the sites. Then, in early 2005 I heard my pastor's 5/7/00 statement that "Love IS the Integrity of God" -- also by a fluke. Yeah, right, no accidents in the spiritual life. That 5/7/00 tape was a 50th anniversary celebration of his ministry, and was gratuitously sent with my regular tape order. Curious, I heard it (out of sequence, which is not my normal study method). And bing! The "DDNA" concept linked up with what I also just happened to be learning about Isaiah 53:11 in my side research. See? God Orchestrates Your Learning, which is why you must find your own right pastor, whomever he may be. It doesn't matter how good he seems to be compared to another pastor: it matters altogether that he is right for you. It's a soul-teaching match criterion. See RightPT.htm for details.]

When you search Bible for all its "love" verses in connection with God, you find out a very interesting pattern: Love As God's Attribute, Is Never Mentioned Alone, except in "chesed" refrains (like in David) UNTIL the New Testament. At least, I can't find it. Even in the New Testament, you don't find it but rarely standing alone. The FACT that He loves is frequent, as always. But the Identification of Love as an Attribute, is rarely stated alone. Romans 5:5 and 1 Corinthians 13 are famous passages, to be sure. 1 John 4 has two verses of "God is Love" bracketing the spiritual life sketch in dynamic relationship. And even in the Romans 5:5 and 1 Corinthians 13 passages, Love is used as a metaphor of the Completed Canon. But it's definitely more onstage in the New Testament as the star of the show, from what I can tell thus far.

That's extremely significant, I think. I can't escape the interpretation that in the New Testament, Love Is More Revealed/Released, as a Covenantal/Dispensational change. Obviously, due to the Cross. So it was always the 'leader', but didn't take center stage UNTIL He was Seated. The phrase "en agapei" is really common in the New Testament, but you don't find it anywhere in the Old Testament (equivalent phrase). My pastor spent months on 1 John 4:12-19, explaining how the Completion of Love (idea of developing the First Commandment to its fullest spiritual extent in Church, due to Christ's Legacy) is what constitutes the criterion for the completion of the Body of Christ, and hence the Rapture. (Which is why it can't be predicted: see LvS4a.htm, which is a very long site on precedence and criteria, for details.)

Sadly, this significant change of vocabulary between Old Testament and New Testament, isn't getting much attention elsewhere: it surely should, for Paul dramatizes Love as Canon and Integrity, every time he uses the term (most dramatically, the "by means of Love, having predestined us" in Ephesians 1:4-5, his fanfare announcement and theme of the book). [That verse pair, like every other Paul writes, 'looks' at Isaiah 53:11's son-making infinitives (LXX). Very, very witty play on the opening speech of the famous Greek play "Ion", to say 'predestined in love'. That Greek play is Paul's allegorical setting, and he plays on the play throughout Ephesians. English is mistranslated, and breaks the verses inaptly. Ephesians 1:1-18 is one long sentence in the Greek.] Worse, today the teaching and theological commentary regarding the Nature of God gets incredibly dismissive, arrogant, short shrift: as if He were just an asterisk or something. Test this claim yourself: for every 1000 hours your average pastor teaches, not five minutes are spent explaining God's Attributes. Why, you're lucky to even hear "God is Love" bandied by people to get you to clean up your act, or to get money from you, or to preen themselves that they actually know a verse in the Bible!

So when this lone statement, "God is Love" is at all taught, well -- today's theologians and even pastors fantasize and thus 'teach' God as being emotional, for crying out loud! Does no one realize that emotion means CHANGE? So how could God be Infinite, if He were emotional? Even we merely have emotions in our bodies -- it's a FELT thing. Technically, the soul cannot 'feel'. It's thought, not feeling. Body is hooked up to the soul, so can only feel. It has no thought. So we live our lives puppeted by our feelings, and then assign that Slavery To Feeling.. to GOD?

Even my pastor, toward the end of his active ministry (he's now retired, but all his stuff is on tape), had to spend every class drilling the congregation over and over in remembrance of the fact that God is Infinite, so has no emotion. You actually get sick of hearing him repeat it over and over and over and over. But what else could he do, since obviously nearly everyone else who has the gift of pastor-teacher, is insisting that God is emotional? Us poor sheep only listen to our pastors: we don't ever even try to figure out anything on our own. So it looks like a competition, one pastor saying one thing, another contradicting... And no one sheep cares to crack open the Book and find the answer to this 'sparring'? No wonder Lot's sheepherders and Abram's, needed to part company. Sheesh.

Why He doesn't zap us all down to the amoeba level for such blasphemy, baffles me utterly.

But here's why God doesn't react to our blasphemies. His Nature really is Undivided And Unsustained: each 'dot' of Him is a WHOLE (Greek word "ἑνότης"), so needs no external 'support'. The earlier (i.e., pre-1950's) theological inquiry concluding that, was largely on target. That God is Undivided and hence Unsustained, means you can't 'divorce' His Attributes of Will from Love from Truth from Righteousness from Justice from Omnipotence from Omniscience from Immutability from Infinity from Perfection from Eternal Life (etc). So, you should consider each 'dot' of God's nature, a "composite" (my pastor's term), not isolated Attributes which have to shake hands, as it were, to work together. Each 'dot' of Him is thus Wholly All Attributes, and LOVE is the WHOLE of God, the other attributes being the Composites of Love. Since Sovereignty is WILL, and Love is a CHOICE of Will, to say God is Love references the Whole of Him, is the clearest way to comprehend Him. (So the only comprehension problem remaining, is to understand what "Love" really is. Which no one comprehends, opting instead for the mushy human idea: it never occurs to anyone to study Scripture in the original-language texts, to learn how Bible defines "Love". Hence man remains confused, hence the usually blasphemous pontifications about God's nature, throughout history.)

Consequently, God is not at all passively 'restrained' by His Attributes (as I've heard some theologians claim in chatrooms). Sheesh. He's not God if He were restricted. Quite the opposite. The inherent Unity of these Attributes means No Boundary, as a result. Even a human body, if it is wholly sound, functions as a whole better, less restricted. How much more, if every Attribute is part of every Other Attribute, indissoluble? That's not restriction, that's Total Freedom. Hence God is Free to do or have whatever He wants, without concern that some mismatch among Attributes could 'rip' His Integrity. That's kinda like knowing you could jump from a plane without a parachute, and would land 30,000 feet below, intact, guaranteed every time. Sure, you might not want to do it -- but you are not restricted.

After all, THE inherent property of Love, is that it JOINS. Hupostasis, get it? Heh. What Joins Is Greater Than The Parts Joined. So LOVE truly IS the Integrity of God, and all other Attributes are Joined Together by it. Indissolubly.

So if there are no restrictions, then even bad stuff serves Him, and in fact All Bad Stuff Was Joined To Him On The Cross. So even the goofy idea God has emotion (which basically makes God a mere bundle of biology, not even human), is Joined In Some Way Within The Structure Of Truth, to result in many DDNA children. Which of course, we know: for even the wrath of man shall praise Him. Hell is like a womb, then, for in hell, everyone loves shaking his fist at God. Which is why people go there. The only reason. Love doesn't love suffering -- unless Love can do the suffering, itself. For, Love Joins Because Love is Innately FOREgoing. Better to give than to receive. So ask yourself: wouldn't Hell be a last-ditch 'home' for still trying to rescue folks from their own self-imposed arrogance? Christ did pay for everyone, 1 John 2:2, so it's not like the rescue isn't forever funded...

Next, note this Ultimate Irony about Love as Integrity: the one 'breakable' Attribute, is LOVE. Because, Love must always be Voluntary. Will, of course, must always be Free, so Free to Love or Not Love. So Here's The Greater Unity: Since Love Must Have Reason To Love (it's not love, if irrational), then the truth must be so awesome, Will 'looks' at Truth and Always Chooses To Love It. Again, that means ALL Truth. No unknowns. No exceptions, nothing omitted to make it 'easier' to Love. Do you realize what this means? God Must Love All Truth, no matter how heinous, how hellish, how degrading are the outputs or the truth-formula relationships. It Must Be That Good, to love ALL of it. Else, God would be Unjust to Himself. So to say God 'must' means It Must Be True That He Does. Continuously. Voluntarily. Even despite the fact that He knows He will forever see His Son on the Cross (Attribute of Omniscience necessarily means all events continuously are occurring, forever past-future, never 'dying').

Christ wasn't kidding when He said, "You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free." That concept is repeated often: who doesn't remember Galatians 5:1? Do you see? The More Truth You Know, The More You Will Love The Truth You Know. Freely. And the more truth you know and the more you love the truth you know, the FREER you become. It sure has proven true progressively for me -- but I didn't understand that fact until just now, when typing this paragraph! So no wonder Romans 5:5 uses "Love" to designate Truth, as does all of 1 Corinthians 13 (but in the latter Paul's using Christ's HEAD as the LOVE-Truth, very witty). Tooling around other places in the New Testament, you'll often find "Love" used as a metaphor of Truth: Scripture, in all cases. Wow.

So Because The Truth We Can Now Learn Is Bigger Due To His Becoming The Truth And Then His Thinking Being Codified For Us, the Love Which Will Develop Freely from knowing more of that far bigger deposit cache of Truth, is.. awesome. New Testament verses on this Covenant-Changing Fact are all over the place: every writer stresses it. Paul usually opts for blatant marital analogies to explain the changeover, most of which are blushingly covered up in translation (Paul loves tweaking asceticism, maybe because it was his own worst sin pattern?) Peter is more oblique, and specializes in the Wifely Subordination as a reflection of His Subordination on the Cross (Peter loves ὑπό-prefixed words). James stresses the upgrade-from-OT nature of it, using terms like "mirror" and "royal law"; the writer of Hebrews does, too -- in total detail.

John, of course, is given to be the primary expounder: there's this fabulous series of riddle-like verses in 1 John 2 about how he HAD written, and was NOW writing; about how he HAD written about the Old Commandment versus the New One about which he is writing -- but which is not new (yeah, the First Commandment was from the beginning, but beginning with Church, it can now be FULFILLED due to what Christ did). Very witty. [Took me about a month thinking over 1 John 2's wording before I got its meaning. Oh well.] Maybe that's why his Gospel and epistles and Revelation are last, for he ties together all the other New Testament writers' vocabularies and weaves them together, in 1 John; yet the principal metaphorical source for exposition 'remains' the Lord's Vine speech (John 15). Heh: 'remains' is Greek verb μένω, a Marital Loyalty verb (also military loyalty, concept of maximum honor so you STAY at your post). Which is a play on "remnant" and "rest", since the Promise Remains Open (Brideship, which Israel rejected, wordplay in Hebrews 4 which John plays on in 1 John). Truly awesome wordplay! Of course, it was John who got to write that until Christ completed, all this wasn't available (John 7:39). Our "Copybook" (Peter's term, ὑπογραμμός) first had to be the Original (Ἀρχηγός, Hebrews 12:2), else we'd have no way to emulate Him.

So when, for example, 1 John 4 crescendoes in verses 11-19 to depict Church as being the vehicle of completing God's First-Commandment Fulfillment Plan (my pastor's teaching, but you can prove it from the text), well -- we are truly at an apex, now. For never has there been more Scripture more easily available, yet less interest in God Himself -- since the days when Scripture was still under lock-and-key. The best of times and the worst of times are ahead. Getting into and staying in God's System is far more important, than in past centuries of Church. There's no getting around that interpretation.

When God bothers to roll out Scripture, the generation getting it is more positive than normal. But at the same time, because segments of that generation are positive (and there are technically three or four generations alive on this planet at any moment), you will always find a significant counter trend of unusual negative volition among humans as a whole. This is obviously true in the 1st century; in the 12th century (College of Paris invented the chapter-and-verse system); in the 15th century (Gutenberg, the true beginning of the Reformation was exposure); in the 19th century, especially (concerted efforts to gather original-language manuscripts, learn them, and teach them to the 'flock').

We are still in a rollout which began in the 19th century (rollouts tend to last about 200 years, from what I can tell). Its latest phase began, from what I can tell, circa 1950, when the very different from expected Greek grammars were unearthed (near Qumran? I forget where). If past is prologue, the rollout window should close this century, but due to the change in teaching beginning in 1950, the phase might last much longer. Time-windows close on Bible availability, when interest in it atrophies. Interest in Bible is not closing; but instead, opening up further (else there'd be no market for products like BibleWorks).

So here in the 21st century, when interest in God is peaking at both ends, so also Scripture's availability is peaking. It's now more mainstream for individual pastors, to teach (versus denominations); it's now more mainstream to at least refer to the original languages a little bit while teaching (though abused, i.e., people using Strong's and believing it sufficiently accurate (when in fact it's very misleading); believing they are scholars thereby).

Frankly, I'm now convinced that we are in a 'fourth Reformation' epoch of history. The first 'reformation' was the first century, and Paul was used by God as its spokesman; the second 'reformation' (really a counter-reformation) began circa 90 AD, with the rise of the Catholic Church (Revelation 17 harlot, timely warned about the very year Clement I began his bid for power). The third 'Reformation' is what we actually CALL "The Reformation", spearheaded by Calvin and Luther. But that "Reformation" really degenerated quickly into state religion, rather than the monolithic, multinational, Catholic one (well, not technically monolithic after the Great Schism, but largely so). So this fourth reformation, is a return to the first one, which is the accurate one: individual pastors teaching from the original-language texts of Bible, as Paul explained in the Greek of Ephesians 4:11-16. It's so exact, the language he uses (and sexually graphic, which is partly why that passage is mistranslated).

So God is COMPLETING A CIRCLE, get it? My pastor is one of the spearheads of this fourth reformation, but there are others. It's a quiet revolution (revolving back to True BIBLE), so you can't really tell who are the spearheads, except by who's teaching BIBLE from those original-language texts. They are all spearheads (well, except for the satanic counterfeits, which Matthew 7 teaches you how to discern -- discern, not "judge"). God likes Quiet. After all, if you want GOD, you don't want to run around advertising yourself, because you are too busy learning Him. [So discern that those pastors promoting themselves, wouldn't know the Bible if it bit them, so are counterfeits. Sadly, there are a whole lot of really interesting pastors of great intellect, who are among this satanic crowd. They don't know they are Satan's dupes, either. Pray for them, don't expose them, running around trying to get people to stop being under Dr. so-and-so. Leave off naming them. After all: How would you feel, what would you want, if you were one of them? How horrified would you be, to find you spent your life huffing and puffing for the Word -- so you thought -- only to find out you were used: and it was your own fault? Pray for them! The power of your prayer is enormous: First Aspect's beginning focuses on the power of prayer, to illustrate the huge value of DDNA.]

So for you and I to get in and stay in God's System, has a far bigger impact than is normal. This window of availability will close, as all the others have. Sure, Scripture will probably stay available, but it will go 'lost' again, due to neglect. In the Old Testament, Scripture was available but "lost", by being neglected, collecting dust INSIDE the Temple. So, it can just SIT on bookshelves, now. That's just what's happening, too: you only had to watch the stupid mini-series "Revelations" on NBC, to recognize how blatantly satanic doctrine can be promulgated. Sheesh: put an "s" for caca on "Revelation"? Then depict all characters, both protagonists and antagonists, exactly as Bible depicts the two antichrists and the Catholic Church? What hutzpah. It's as if someone studied Revelation and concertedly made a burlesque of everything in it. Which we know, no human is smart enough to do. So if Satan & Co. can get away with THAT kind of obvious derision of Bible, the peaking of negative volition is so high -- our DDNA value if we stay in GOD'S System is way richer than normal.

So we can get in God's System, which is the only way to learn to Love God and get higher-than-normal Pleroma Benefits, since all that DDNA potential in other folks is lying fallow. Isaiah 53:12 depicts the inheritance like a 'pie', being apportioned by Christ to the "great ones". So the DDNA for this generation is huge, but is not being 'invested'; so, the folks otherwise due all that DDNA real money will not be "vested" -- and will forfeit it all. To the "great ones". So guess how big your potential 'slice' of the inheritance 'pie' must be? way bigger than normal. All you have to do is look at Christian activism in the United States to realize the forfeiture 'pie' is gigantic. Right Now.

Look: I do pension plans for a living. In any kind of pension plan, the Assets Are Reserved Solely For Participants, even if they quit; so the quitters' Money Is Reallocated To Those Who Haven't Yet Quit. [US Federal law requires mandatory graduated vesting: if you have 7 years of service, you must be 100% vested, but you still 'forfeit' receiving future Employer contributions, if you don't stay employed until retirement, even in DC plans. DB plan forfeitures are bigger, and take too long to explain.] So, in God's Divine Benefit Plan (explained at length in "Perfect Actuary" section of LvS4c.htm), any participants (believers) who do not stay in God's System until retirement (death) will forfeit the money set aside for them: ALL of it (God practices "cliff vesting"). Ephesians 1 tells us that God set aside the money in eternity past (my pastor uses the secular concept of "escrow" to explain that). So the money can only go to whomever finishes the course. The New Testament Bible phrase "inherit the kingdom" refers to this Isaiah 53:12 inheritance money-pie splitting.

So in our generation, there are an abnormally high number of believers who have an abnormally low interest in learning Bible. (Because our numbers as bodies are overall so high, the numbers of believers interested in Bible is higher than in past centuries, but the percentage is abnormally low.) So: in pensions, what's forfeited must be allocated to the remaining participants, usually in the following year(s); but in any event, any unallocated funds must be allocated to those in the plan when the plan TERMINATES. Our Divine Benefit Plan terminates at the Rapture; that's when we get the post-death benefits (which are so enormous, you can't even calculate them). The Bema is the event during which those benefits will be conveyed, and everyone will know who got what. We don't know when that will be, but we do know that there's a lot of DDNA Money in the plan which will BE forfeited. A person vests in God's Plan by finishing the course through Pleroma, Ephesians 3:19+2 Timothy 4:7-8. A person forfeits if he quits God's System and instead dies poor, under the 1 John 5:16 capital-punishment clause. Which way do YOU want to end up? When the pie is so LARGE?

Dunno about you, but I do not plan to miss out on my own DDNA portion of this inheritance 'plunder' (term used in Isaiah 53:12). I love too many fellow Christians, and if I get the inheritance they refuse, I'll have that much more to spend ON them, glorifying My Lord.. forever. Then again, if you are reading THIS far down the webpage, you probably hold the same opinion...

That Love is God's Integrity, His DDNA, also answers the conundrum about how it is we never sin again, post-death, yet retain Free Will forever. Have you ever thought about that problem? God won't gerrymander either Freedom OR free will, and for the same reason: Love Of Truth. So how is it, that we who have essentially learned sin down here, suddenly never want to sin again, once we die? Seems impossible. But DDNA builds us up the way it built Christ -- Who obviously STILL has free will. Hmmm.

So if God puts His Truth into you, you are getting 'dots', so to speak, of All His Attributes. Because, you can't 'divorce' the Attribute of Truth from any of the others. That's why you get stronger. That's why Christ could BECOME, in His Humanity, "the Way, the Truth, and the Life". Note that the latter two, are God's Attributes. And Righteousness is Truth is Life is.. Him. So Now, Romans 8:4 makes sense, especially in conjunction with Romans 5:5. We really can become Functioning Sons Of God, since this really IS God's DDNA, replicated via all those Truth deposits! (Ooops. I let the cat out of the bag too early. Pretend you didn't read this paragraph, and keep reading.)

So those who do not get in and stay in God's System, don't get but a de minimis number of 'dots'. So their soul size ends up being very small. ("Production to Love" section next following will revisit this question with more detail.) The smaller the soul, the more childish. The lower and narrow the range of thinking, pleasure, appreciation. Not a desirable outcome, but certainly better than roasting in the Lake of Fire forever...

You realize of course, this fact about God's Truth going in you changing you internally, utterly destroys all works-claims. For, the fact you become more like God Simply By Learning Bible In God's System, well.. what work could even fantasize doing that? All the works from Adam through the Millennium, don't make anyone even one 'dot' more like God. They are just good works. Whoopee. No wonder Peter said they all get burned, at the end of 2 Peter. Who cares that they are -- If You Can Simply Learn Bible And Become More Like God? Don't people do works in hopes of getting some boon? Who needs any boon, if you can BECOME closer to Him, Himself? Keep all the riches of the world, baby -- have them all, enjoy! I'd rather have the riches of knowing HIM!

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SideBar on Corollaries God's Love for even hellish truths

It's hard for us humans to understand how God could actually want any hellish truths; why wouldn't He hate casting unbelievers in Hell, for example? Well, there's a whole lot about Hell and those in it, we don't understand. But instead of asking God, of believing that maybe He has Good reasons, we either condemn Him, or fancy all the people WE don't like are sadistically boiling away in the flames, goody goody (glad it isn't 'me'). Neither of those prejudices, is true. Love never coerces. So if you want to go to hell, and when there, still want to stay there, you'll never believe in Christ. Look at the guy in Hades in Luke 16:20ff. Do you see him yet believing in God? Or do you see him manipulate Abraham, and STILL try to torture poor Lazarus, who during life had laid in the guy's scrap heap outside his house, no one even caring for Lazarus' sores, but the dogs (see earlier portion of Luke 16)? So how much is that fire actually bothering the guy in Hades, that he has so much energy and careful thought, to manipulate and cajole? I know if I were there, I'd be yelling at God how wrong I was not to believe in His Son! Do you think God would LEAVE me in hell if I did admit my wrong? Why? His Son paid for everybody, 1 John 2:2. So He could justify pulling me OUT of hell, if I admitted like Adam admitted, in Genesis 3. It wouldn't be unfair, since God DID get paid. But do you see the guy in Luke 16 doing that? Hell no. Sometimes it takes drastic measures to save a patient. But Infinite Love Would Never Quit Taking Drastic Measures, would it?

You can't write off that passage as a parable. Parables don't have specific names and details like that. And the Lord HIMSELF is the answer to the hypocritical 'prayer' that someone go topside and warn the guy's brothers, doncha think?

Delve deeper: if God shaved truth, how Righteous is He? If I claim to lift 250 lbs, but the weights are hollow, then I'm not so strong: merely LYING about it. Delve even deeper: if God Doesn't Have To Shave Truth and can still make it do an Isaiah 54:1 job (which that verse actually claims, given the context of Isaiah 53).. then how hateful could any truth be? Sure, the Profit would have to be so HIGH that even God is graced out, so to speak -- but if God is rational, then the profit IS that high. Now delve deepest: Would God Judge His Own Son if the resulting profit weren't worthwhile, even at God's Level and TO God? And surely, you don't think 'we' contribute anything of value, do you? We Are A Burden Forever as a result of the Cross. He could have just zapped us into oblivion, once the Son finished His Job. No burden forever, in that case. But that's NOT what happens. So there must be something of so high a value, God the Father Will Do The Worst Thing, What Is Most Against His Nature -- Judge His Perfect Son, the Only Human Who Really And Fully Loved Father for Himself. Not, because of the goodies. I know the Lord's Humanity was totally filled up to full Rapport with Father due to the Cross, because of Isaiah 53:11 in the LXX and kindred verses (most notably, Hebrews 1-2); but if it were not also true that the DDNA value produced as a result of Him in us was mind-bogglingly HIGH (which Isaiah 53:11 also says, in the LXX portion) -- there's not enough reason. So it must be uncountably HIGH. Enough to justify Hell forever. Third Aspect will cover this topic in much detail.

So now you see the Power of Love as an Integrity nothing can assail. Sovereignty isn't just gritting it out, like the traditional Christian ascetic with his dour, black mind likes to imagine. Nor is God some wildly smiling gargoyle, as the emotional crowd likes to fancy "love". Neither one. Rather, the answer is so simple, everyone missed it. God is Absolute Love, even as He is absolute, everything else. Requires no steeling, sourdough strait-lacedness. Gross sin is not attractive, to Absolute Love (nor most kinds of other sane love, even among humans with even a smidgen of empathy). asceticism is heinous to Love (a fact ascetics miss), as attested by the huge amount of sexual vocabulary the Bible uses to depict the spiritual life in both Old Testament and New (some so graphic, you dare not translate it even in a webpage). That's why Satan & Co. invented the phallic cults, as a kind of burlesque of God's Begetting Plan for the human race.

For, Absolute Love needs no hedonism, either. It's too HUGE for such limited expressions.

Which is why neither asceticism nor hedonism have squat to do with either salvation or the spiritual life. It's kinda easy to see why hedonism isn't used, but for asceticism's evil, look: what if we had to work to be saved? Wow, that's a Sisphyean hell if ever there was! When would the works, ever stop? Whatever you works you did, someone else would do better. Another, would do worse. So we'd all be competing, scratching, biting each other clambering to be 'saved'. Kinda like, we already do down here. Dunno about you, but if heaven isn't substantially different from the tit-for-tat sterility of life on earth, I'd not want to go! THIS IS HELL, right now. With a greater one to come, and a greater one after that, for those stupid enough to think themselves smart for disbelieving in Christ. How could God make it easier, than simply 'believe'? Would anyone you know who claimed to love, give YOU such an unconditional promise? I bet not! I sure don't know anyone ever in life about whom I could say that. Heck, we humans are the mean-spirited ones, constantly fineagling: so we claim we love to GET something, not to GIVE something! So 'obey' John 3:16, and Cancel The Appointment, Hebrews 9:28?

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First Aspect: Bible in your head is Doctrinal DNA, and thus is the 'superior parent' siring (as it were) out from the body life, a 'body' of Divine Thinking in your own soul: gold silver precious stones. Via the Holy Spirit, and due to being in God's System.

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The Body of a King, requires the Riches of a King. Bible keyterm "Riches", DDNA.

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The more DDNA in you, the bigger your soul. The bigger your soul, the more capacity it has for everything. So you become King-sized, fit for THE King in eternity: so, fit to INHERIT a kingdom FOR eternity. Funny thing about being wealthy, or being a king: the more you own, the more what you own, owns you. You are not your own.

Capacities determine relationships, and everything is RELATIVE TO those capacities and relationships. You hold a cup in your hand. It can only hold so MUCH, within some range of TEMPERATURE; if the cup is made of GLASS, the VISCOSITY capacity of glass means that thin COLD liquid will 'weep' through it. If the cup is made of paper, temperature and viscosity factors can cause the cup to BREAK DOWN faster. Notice how the integrity of the cup is its HOLDING power. Integrity is a holding, especially despite pressure. Earthquakes, hurricanes, heat, cold, wind, mold, etc. all are THREATS to integrity.

So the CAPACITY of a thing determines what relationship you can HAVE with the thing. The capacity of an athlete determines whether he can engage professionally, or merely on Sunday afternoons. Your capacity to hear your relative go on and on about his/her lumbago, determines how long and often, you'll visit that relative, and what the CONTENT of your relationship will be. There, it's Shallow. Your capacity to hear about GOD, therefore, determines how Shallow Or Deep, Short Or Tall, Short Or Long, Narrow or Broad, will be your relationship with Him. Relationship is about COMMONALITY, and that depends on commonality of CAPACITY. It's a BEING thing, not a doing thing. Prove this quickly: with someone whom you had nothing in common.. have you ever gone on 'vacation'? How much fun did you really have, even if you went to nice restaurants, saw nice scenery, dressed nicely and met nice people? Very little. The prolonged togetherness took its toll, and you were relieved to get home. No wonder relatives are glad when Christmas ends!

For years my pastor harped on spiritual capacity, even inventing the term "capacity righteousness" to describe the Spirit's activity as Paul depicts it in Romans 8, replete with computer-generated diagrams. And for years, I had no clue what my pastor meant. Well, that clueless day has left the building...

The real you is your soul. Your real shape is determined by the CAPACITIES of your soul, the DIMENSIONS of those capacities. So all your relationships are likewise 'boundaried' by the relative COMPATIBLE capacities in others. So you are large-souled, or small-souled. Shaped proportionately, or disproportionately in your soul 'depth', your soul 'height', your soul 'length', your soul 'breadth.' So the 'body' is not even remotely what you see in the mirror; not at all, your fingers and toes and (ulp) the need to lose weight. What you see in the mirror is but CLOTHING your soul wears, as David puts it in Psalm 139's Hebrew. And clothing is DEAD, which is why you have to keep on doing stuff TO your body, to keep it going. But YOU, are alive. When was the last time, you fed your soul? Unlike the body which dies from starving, the soul starved of spiritual food, goes into a coma.

Notice all the walking zombies, next time you shop. Notice all the talking zombies next time you turn on TV. Notice the vacuousness of statements like, "I'm a good person", and all the complaining. Read the personals on the internet, see how shallowly people define themselves. Listen to conversations in restaurants, at the bus stop, in a hospital, in a church, 🤣! What souls are operating? Dinky ones. So they make much of their bodies, their ownerships, their nationality or religion or gender or political affiliation. They got nothing inside, so all the outers constitute their identities. And how miffed they are, if you don't 'respect' such definitions the way they think warranted!

So what capacities and relationships must accrue from these 'dimensions' of soul? Shallow, short, short-lived and narrow capacities and relationships. Which is pretty easy to witness, in daily life: we can't hold much, can't hold it very long, and are easily upset; all with an attention span of about five seconds. Just long enough to read the crawl at the bottom of the newscast, and forget it before it comes 'round again. Shallow lives are frenetic lives, calling such movement, 'progress'.

Repeating: Your capacity to hear about GOD, therefore, determines how Shallow Or Deep, Short Or Tall, Short Or Long, Narrow Or Broad, will be your relationship with Him. Relationship is about Commonality, and that depends on Commonality of CAPACITY. It's a BEING thing, not a doing thing. But God is infinite...

So your REAL body is the body of your soul's THINKING. Your Own Thinking is the 'DNA' of your soul, and it therefore GOVERNS how you will be. So your capacities, the 'shape' of you, are totally PROGRAMMED by what you think. Thus all your relationships in life will be governed by how you think. Doesn't matter that other people seem to have control over you, YOU are the arbiter INSIDE your own soul. So YOU are only the product of what YOU think. So all capacities develop or retrogress, are shallow or deep, short or tall, short or long, narrow or broad -- based on how shallow (etc.) is the THINKING. But God's Thinking, is INFINITE...

Whoa -- so those same thinking and capacity facts mean you can EXCHANGE 'your' body of Thinking, for HIS. That is your rejectible Royal Destiny, to become Christ-capacious. All bodies have shapes, sizes, capacities. Hence the body of a lumberman, would make a poor horse jockey. The body of a horse jockey, would make a poor lumberman. A person poor in thinking, makes a poor president; a president rich in thinking, makes a poor housekeeper. The level and capacity of your body's abilities, make you suited to certain occupations but not others. The Level And Capacity Of Your Thinking Abilities, make you suited to certain occupations but not others. And here, the Thinking Required, is a king's. So when you grow up in God's System, heh: you are then only suited to become a king, 'fattened' by His Thinking. And only, under the King of Kings. Forever. Everyone in the Body Politic God Will Have Granted You, Is To Live On Your Fatness-Of-Divine-Thinking. Because, they didn't grow up in it. As Part 3 (LordvSatan3.htm) explains, that is your destiny. But you can reject it.

Paul has no end of fun in his epistles with this fact of your real body, being a body of thinking. Trouble is, the wordplay is either missed or fuzzed over by the translators, so you don't see it. So when Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15 we are raised as a spiritual body, people just wrinkle their brows, wondering what Paul meant. Some goofballs imagine we are bodiless, or balls of light such as in the movie, "Contact" (starring Jody Foster). Wrong. God is Spirit, remember John 3? His 'body' is a body of THOUGHT. Thought is true beingness. So Paul, who's been playing with Head and Body since 1 Corinthians 1:5 (His Head in your heads, the goal of the spiritual life, Greek wordplay), in Chapter 15 climactically writes how that Head produced a spiritual body of thinking.. That Goes With You When You Die. Your physical body doesn't go anywhere but into the ground. Your brain doesn't go anywhere but to feed worms. Your human thinking doesn't survive your death, either; it has NO CAPACITY for heaven. Only the DDNA you get down here, goes with you.

Hence DDNA alone is the real body of your real soul, and it really lives forever. And yeah, you get a resurrection body like HIS, too. But how big, what capacity, will be the Spiritual Thinking 'body' to go with that Resurrection Body? Well, it's designed to be a King's Level, but.. you can turn that destiny down, by never learning His Thinking.. down here. In which case, you have the DDNA Structure the Holy Spirit created that first nanosecond you believed in Christ (i.e., Titus 3:5), but.. nothing else. Like a newborn, then. Not, like a king. Paul spent Romans 8 on how you are to grow from BEING a newborn, TO a King, with Romans 8:4 the key verse: Spirit Filling You Up With That Spiritual Body of Thinking That is Christ's. Which Filling, you reject by rejecting 1 John 1:9, by rejecting the Spiritual Life in God's System. Your choice. Your choice, your consequences. And the consequences of not growing up in Him, are: babyish. Forever.

A King's thinking is very different from a peasant/baby, as the "Second Reason for Royalty" link in LordvSatan3.htm, explains. A King's Thinking is necessarily deep, high, long and broad. For, he owns a kingdom, and that kingdom needs him to think so largely. A small-souled king is the worst thing to happen to any kingdom. Frankly, no such king lasts too long: someone deposes him. So in God's Kingdom, you are to become a King, hence the need for your soul to get DDNA. First, to be like-minded with God; second, to have the "true riches" you need To Rule Your Own Kingdom. You can reject this, but the consequences are obvious: having been Soul-Designed to be a King, if you try to be happy as a baby, well.. you'll be all the more miserable. Witness almost any group of Christians, see how miserable they are.

It's downright hilarious that throughout the centuries, we've assigned mystical properties to relics and to bloodlines. Here, the True Bloodline Is Christ's Thinking, and it really IS more powerful than anything else. It really Does Transmute The Person Blessed With It. It really IS "true riches", buying true happiness, because GOD is That Thinking. That's why Christ WANTED the Cross, since in His Humanity it would have been cheating to tap into His Own Deity: had to be what FATHER wanted, not what Christ wanted. What Spirit did TO Christ, not what Christ could do to Himself. So here, look: By Throwing His 'Blood' Away, He Inherits All, Isaiah 53:12. So all these centuries we've had this "Blood" in writing, but know it? Not at all. We instead search for dead things and write novels about alleged physical descendants of a King whose physical blood, is dead. The authors of such trash make tons of money -- while the Real Holy Grail, the BIBLE.. goes unread, gets misused, is distorted and mistranslated in every possible way. So look at the stupidity of the souls buying all those alleged-descendant books: when was the last time blood read you a poem? Not even real physical royalty becomes good via bloodline, but by BREEDING. Which means, Training in Thinking. Very arduous, not at all fun.

So Christians rejecting God's System are like-miserable, not like-minded. They rave and race and run for office. They "plead the Blood" rather than GET the Blood. Bible is thumped of its dust, or gathering dust. So the souls are starving of capacity, wailing in the sandbox. And so shall they ever be with the Lord. Your choice, whether you go that route. Their choice, so long as they are down here, to reject that route and get IN God's System.

For here's the origin of this our rejectible Royal Destiny. The Spirit via the Cross, Converted All Sin Into DDNA -- inside Christ Himself, per that contract with Father, Isaiah 53:10-12. Thus He became The Heir of "all things" (Bible keyword, most often used by Paul). This is the POSITIONING of our so-great salvation, that the First Person Benefitted by the Cross itself, was Christ Himself. Let's revisit the LXX of Isaiah 53:11, since repetition makes meaning clearer, each time:

"So the LORD delights to PURIFY by wounding Him [based on the contract], 'If You will give as a substitute for sin, Your [plural, God-Man in One Person!] Soul [singular] will see long-lived seed.' Then the LORD delights to PLUNDER, birthing/carrying out from His Soul's [pregnancy] Labor, to DISPLAY/ POINT OUT/ MAKE KNOWN/ EXHIBIT via Him, the Light. Then to SCULPT, via His Mastery-of-Thinking, so to MAKE RIGHTEOUS/JUSTIFY."

This is how Christ got benefitted, HIMSELF. You see that fact in Isaiah 53:11's five infinitives, especially the way the words are ordered, in the Greek: no prepositions (I inserted the "via" and "by" prepositions, in the above translation) between Him and the action done TO Him. LvS4d.htm has a "Combat" table which starts near the beginning of the page (text prior to it is important, so read it), to explain that the Cross ENLARGED His Soul, so that total rapport with Father could occur. It's Real DDNA conversion. Isaiah make quite a point of that fact, contrasting how He had no physical progeny due to the ABUSE cutting Him off, in Isaiah 52:14, Isaiah 53:8b -- but due to Greatest Abuse on the Cross, He bears all kids, Isaiah 54:1. Hence we sterile, dead-in-sins humans, sire also: same Isaiah 54:1! Fabulous, how Isaiah uses sexual/birthing analogies, throughout Isaiah 52:13-54:1!

Ergo: Christ would not be as CAPACIOUS as He is in His Humanity, were it not for the VOLUME of the sins imputed to Him and judged on Him, Philippians 2:5-10, last half of Romans 5. What, you don't think Father would impute and judge His Own Son without it benefitting His Son, do you? Well, what was the biggest benefit to GET, but total rapport, in His Humanity, with Father? God is no sadist. So from His Perspective, each human being born was used to make His Son BIGGER; so it doesn't matter, what the human chooses -- the Son was Benefitted. Never forget that. Like Paul says in Galatians 3, it's "Seed", not "seeds". So now, that Seed can get into us. For, like Paul also explains in Romans 6, we Died In Him on the Cross, so now we Live In Him (see also 2 Corinthians 5). We need feel no guilt whatsoever: guilt is a sin anyway, but more a stupidity, since from God's perspective He says: I chose you in part to bless My Son, and thus you are used to make Him the Head of all (subtheme of Hebrews 1-2). God profitted His Son by means of the very sins we sin, by ENLARGING His Son.. with maxed-out, DDNA. Kinda like what Joseph told his brothers, we meant sin for bad, but God turned it into good. Viral conversion of Divine Thinking on sin thinking made DDNA out of it all, Hebrews 1:4, Hebrews 7, 10. He became "more excellent" through His Victory on the Cross.

Divine Physics, to make spiritual fission, the sins' effects -- beginning with that first "muth" in Genesis 2:17, see last half of Rom5 -- produce spiritual FUSION, total UNITY with Father. That's what happened on the Cross. Full circle. All that soul fission was reserved ("passed over", "Passover" significance in Bible). Then, PURIFIED in Him ON the Cross, and converted via the other four infinitives. DDNA would be the 'biological' name: these are the 'physics' of God's Spiritual 'biology'. So now, that process can be replicated IN us, using our own 'soul' DNA to convert all of IT, to DDNA. That's why you see the only VIRGIN apostle, Paul, spend almost every verse ON God's Begetting Plan (well, in the Greek you can see it, English is fuzzed over).

See, God is Omniscient. So He knows all that sin thinking. So what does HE do with it? Well, He assigns given MEANINGS to it, and BECAUSE of those meanings, He never wants to sin, Himself. You are what you think. Your capacities determine your relationships. God's Capacities determine His Relationships, so What He Thinks About Sin, Renders Sin Productive -- not of itself, but due to What He Thinks In 'Reply' to it. So That Same Thinking Was Built In Christ. As a result, when the sins HIT His Soul, His Thinking 'reply' Converted The Erstwhile Meaning Of The Sins Into The DIVINE Meaning. So He didn't sin, either. So the sin was converted into DDNA. Just As It Is, In God Himself. And this is the legacy of Christ to us, that we can get that same conversion 'physics' of DDNA. Awesome, huh.

Hebrew of Isaiah 52:14 explains all this so deftly, every day the words leave me breathless: "k'asher shamemu alek· rabbim; ken mishhat me ish mareyhu; wa toaro me bene adam." This is a Decree, based on verse 13's purpose of utterly-and-vehemently glorifying Him due to His Mastery Of Thinking. So Isaiah keeps on playing with "m" sounds, since the Hebrew preposition "min" means more-than, above, beyond, outside, separated from -- always used with "womb" meaning, connotation of BIRTH, Incarnation, Hypostatic Union. Beyond Human, Out From Human, Born from Humanity: "me ish" and "me bene adam". Preposition "min" changes endings depending on what vowel or consonant follows it. Noun "ish" means "man", and "bene adam" means "sons of men". So literally, "beyond-man", and "beyond-the-sons-of-men", idea of born outside separated from. Deft noun "toaro" means His Incarnation, His Human Form -- but also, the SHAPE of how He will be regarded, the OUTLINE of His Life down here, the Outline of History. His Story. So with "mishhat", which is a very graphic verb (think of Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion" to sense the sheer brutality of "mishhat") -- "mishhat me ish" thus means brutalized beyond all human resemblance -- so beaten up, you can't even tell He is Human, anymore. Because, Beyond Human Takes On Humanity, so gets Beyond Human Abuse. To be Beyond Human Glorified by the Father Who Abuses Him on the Cross, 2 Corinthians 5:21. So because the Mastery of Thinking, therefore the Mastery of Glory, via the Mastery of Abuse -- VIA That Thinking. That's Our Lord's Legacy to us. Bad stuff is GOOD, mishhat Gift to us! So we can learn it too! So translated too simply (play with the Hebrew multiple-entendres, instead!) it reads,
"Just as much as They Will Be Appalled up-at You,
so also You Will Be Seen Brutalized Beyond Human Semblance [by men, born from men]..
for Your Incarnation, Beyond the Sons of Men!"

Notice how the clause after the ".." is separated, double-entendre (like every word in this verse). Hebrew like Greek places words so they point backwards at prior words and forward at following words, to make multilevel meanings clear. So notice: on the one hand, His Body will be more brutalized than all mankind put together; but He is Beyond Human in Nature. It's a deft statement of how Father will ENLARGE and CONVERT into DDNA all His Son's Soul.. more than all mankind put together. So that's His Legacy to us. To Church. Beyond Human, no longer restricted to our puny thoughts and petty ways, always with the nose to the ground, qvetching. Salvation has truly come from the Jews. They were brutalized during their long history, and in self-defense, developed a psychological qvetching pride so cannot read this verse for the Fulfillment-to-Them-Promise, that it is. So it's normal, to react. But He Did NOT React, but Rather Accepted Like The Lamb Offering He is, the Full Hatred of Mankind into His Own Soul, thus Fulfilling (Isaiah 53:10's) "im tasim asham", = Red Heifer Offering for all of Israel.. and all of us. How Blessed we all are, and we need not be guilty, says Isaiah 54:1! For it ENLARGED Him Who Had No Descendents, to Owning Us all!

Hence the spiritual life is this "mishhat", a type of Matthew 4:4, always occurring, and with results that last forever: God will forever see that moment you used Bible INSTEAD of the 'normal' qvetching expected -- for He is Omniscient, One Big Nowness. So, the moment: a thought hits, you 'reply' to it with Bible you are learning under the Spirit in God's System. 24/7. And each moment you do that, DDNA is being made in you, and it lasts forever, too. As time passes, a lot of DDNA gets made in you, so life becomes rougher, so that the DDNA production can escalate. You'll see how, as this First Aspect unfolds.

Much of the thinking as you age will be Bible-Initiated Thought. So it's not at all just some struggle with hitting thoughts. Bible just runs in your head, 24/7, John 14:26, eventually. It's not so much the recall of specific verses -- though that is quite enjoyable, witty, and frequent -- but the meaning, the principles, and above all the AWARENESS of Him you have come to know, 24/7. More real and closer than anyone else you've ever 'lived with' in any kind of relationship. It's not emotion, but a state of being. For relationship is a BEING, not a doing; and Your Capacity Is Increasing. So The Relationship Is Increasing In Depth, Height, Length, And Breadth. So like Christ, Who would not be as BIG as He is absent all that stuff HITTING Him, YOU will be made bigger due to what hits you.

Of course, all this Begetting was planned since eternity past, theme of Isaiah 53:11, all of Ephesians 1. So when God says He created man in His Own Image in Genesis 1:26, He's not kidding. When God says you become a "son of God in Christ Jesus" the first nanosecond you are saved, He's not kidding. CHRIST WAS MADE, so now you can be made OUT FROM Him. So if we don't take His Word seriously, we will misuse the Enormous Power Granted To Us In Christ, and wreck our lives. We really should get briefed on the "surpassing greatness of His Superior Power to those of us who believe", Ephesians 1:19 (my pastor's translation). [Nerd note: pretty much everything Paul writes is centered on the LXX's Isaiah 53:11 process being completed in US. Since that verse in the LXX is cut out from translated Bibles, you can't see how often Paul 'accesses' it as a frame of reference for every verse he writes. All other New Testament writers and the Lord do this too, but Paul is given it as a primary expository task. I really wish theology would 'discover' this. It would be the find of the 21st century.]

For when God says He makes you a "son of God in Christ Jesus", that means His DDNA Attributes are to be replicated in you. Truth is one of God's Attributes, so by Him teaching and you learning under the Spirit in God's System, you are literally getting God's DNA. That's how Christ Himself BECAME "the Way, the Truth, and the Life". Note those last two terms: those are God's Attributes -- in His Humanity. Same, for Love. Obviously, same for Omniscience, since you know Truth. Of course, being Human, He was not infinite in scope -- but His Structure as a Human was such that All The Attributes Of God cycle through Him. This cycling came from the deposited Truth. That He is also already God the Son, is an independent fact. So you could say He's doubly God, in the sense that His Humanity Was Grown To Have Divine Attributes.

Compatibility Requires First, A Compatible Structure. We all know from the glitches in Windows, how lack of backwards compatibility, wrecks your ability to use old programs and data. Well, sin wrecked the To-God compatible structure, in Genesis 3. So Christ had to be built, First. Having been built, His Compatible Structure Is Built In Us, beginning that first nanosecond we believe in Christ. But Surrounding That Compatible Skeletal Structure, Must Be A 'Body', So There Can Be Compatible Function, theme of Romans 8 and Peter's frequent "hupo" words (especially ὑπογραμμός, a handwriting copybook for beginners, in 1 Peter 2:21). Else, it's like having an 'empty' body. So to Fill Up That Body/Building, is critical. But that Filling Up, has a structure of its own: wiring, placement, access routes.. a wide variety of things which must be in Precise Fit, so that the Function Is Free And Full. Rapport between two beings is essentially a 'body' of shared thinking; and we all know even a little bit 'off', strains a relationship. Well, God isn't going to have anything be 'off' between Himself and His Son! Philippians 4:19 in context and in Greek, tells us God GUARANTEES this is what He Will Do To Us. (Philippians is all about the DDNA results, and keys off Isaiah 53:10-12 in every verse.)

So here's how Spirit Fulfilled The Rest of the Function of FULL Compatibility with Father, in Christ's Own Humanity while He was ON the Cross: the incoming sins were 'grabbed' by His Divine Thinking, kinda like RNA can 'grab' DNA. That Thinking was due to the Truth deposits of Bible as it then existed, all from the Holy Spirit, Who ran both the depositing, and the usage, with Christ's constant consent (hence the need to be sinless). So: think of the sins as thought-DNA by humans, hitting a Human whose DDNA was the stronger. Then, the DDNA, acting like RNA, acted on the sins' DNA to re-engineer the thought into More DDNA. So, He Grew Bigger in His Soul, hence had more CAPACITY for Rapport with Father. The problem was, to keep on persevering in the Divine Thinking (hence the need of the Holy Spirit empowering Him), until the sins' DNA was thoroughly re-engineered. So sin thoughts of humans, went to a Human who had a COUNTER-Thought of DDNA, and the former got converted in the Latter to even bigger capacity for total intimacy AS HUMAN, with Father. Hence Hebrews 1:4, Ephesians 1. All pre-announced, in Isaiah 52:13 and following, with the crescendo verse (and our legacy) being Isaiah 53:11. God's Intent, all along -- to make sons of His Son, via DDNA.

Back to the Cross and its conversion effect: Had He used His Own Deity instead of relying on the Spirit, all this wouldn't have worked (since the Humanity is finite, hence not Infinite Deity, it would screw up use of Deity, on its own). So since He did NOT do that, and the conversion occurred IN His Humanity, we can get that Thinking in us (again Philippians 2:5-10; 1 Corinthians 2:14-16; all of 1 Corinthians 13). Until He did this, that Thinking couldn't occur in humans, because He was the Author of all of it (John 7:39, Hebrews 12:2). He authored a NEW spiritual life in order to SUCCEED at the Cross (ibid, and Romans 5-8,12:1-3).

See, when sin occurs, it's triggered by some kind of allegation of relief or redress. One gets angry usually because one perceives a wrong done (i.e., to self), and feels self-righteous to be angry. Well, both the self-righteous motive, and the resultant anger, are both sins. Those are thoughts (body is but a bucket of biology, mindlessly carrying out thought). But a different response to the initiating 'cause' could be applied. Thoughts of virtue (especially, Leviticus 19:18, James 2:8) which Do Not Reciprocate with self-righteousness, anger, etc. So instead of rejecting, acceptance; instead of separating, marrying. So, HOLDING, GRABBING, the sin thoughts imputed, and thinking the Divine Response, changes the nature of the sin thought. Re-engineers it. Technically, 'atonement' occurs because the Counter-Thought occurs instead of the sin thought -- the latter being the 'trigger' for the former. Technically, the conversion of the sin thought into DDNA, propitiates, since Christ Becomes bigger. So, Reconciliation occurs (now the sin thought is converted, and it has its converted value in Divine Truth). So, Redemption occurs (new value of the sin thought, having been converted by DDNA). All this, you see in the very graphic original-language, inspired text of Isaiah 52:13ff (through 53:12, chapters and verse numbers not being in the real Bible). So you see a lot of references to that text throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament (i.e., in Rom5-8, 12:1-3, 1 Corinthians 2,6,13, all of Ephesians). Seed converts thinking in His Seed, which He bore on the Cross. DDNA, baby!

So here you are, in front of a computer. Things hit you, don't they? Glitches in Windows, dumb stuff ya gotta do, millions of gnats. Now you can get angry about it, or you can accept it. And the Same Holy Spirit Who Built Christ, can use all those gnats -- and the elephants, for that matter -- to Make DDNA In You. Father sees the same gnats, doesn't like them either -- so, shouldn't Father get Atonement, Propitiation, Reconciliation and Redemption of His Time in seeing that stuff forever? For unlike you, God is one Big Now, so there's no 'past' for Him. So DDNA conversion, gives purpose to the gnats (etc.) -- DDNA conversion purpose, Isaiah 54:1! And it all can happen inside you, since YOU are the one being hit. Elegant solution, huh...

Christ basically paid for the entire "opportunity cost" of creation, on the Cross; you know that's true, else Father would have been cheated. Technically, it would have been the PRESENT VALUE of the "opportunity cost", forever. Because Christ Himself is LIVING (big point in Romans 6), this Payment is IN Him, and HE is the basis for everything (Paul starts that theme in last half of Rom5). So: you are a 'dividend' of Him. A DDNA dividend. So: dividends produce, too. So the DDNA the Holy Spirit puts in you is like a present-value relative to that MOMENT you get hit with gnats or elephants. So to 'fire' or 'spend' Bible-in-your-head-under-the-Spirit at those gnats or elephants Pays Big Bucks, in the only currency God likes, Matthew 4:4, Isaiah 53:11. And You Get Those Bucks Added Into Your Own Soul (ibid). This is true wealth. Keyphrase "every spiritual blessing" in Ephesians 1 tells you that: since if you get Spiritual Blessing, you also get every material blessing to express all the spiritual blessings you've accrued. Forever. Yes, think of this as money, because it's really bigger than money, and it's all reserved for you (my pastor calls this your "portfolio of invisible assets" and your "escrow" account). I like to think of it as your "Divine Benefit Plan"; LvS4a.htm and LvS4b.htm cover that Plan (search on the term in each page).

For God doesn't want babies, morons, pets or automatons, He Wants Equals. It's sheer arrogance to think God should settle for anything less! We saw why, in "God's Soliloquy". Because, He wants Unlimited Rapport, which requires the other party in that rapport, Be Equal In Nature. That's why we get His Own Righteousness imputed to us due to the Cross, 2 Corinthians 5:21. All else is built around it, i.e., Eternal Life, Truth deposits, the powerhouse function of prayer, etc. Every Attribute of God is Undivided, so Love = Truth = Righteousness = Omniscience = Omnipotence, etc. So by getting Truth deposits, you are made More of His Attributes, DDNA! From all those DDNA deposits, is built a compatible-with-God Structure And Function, In Your Own Soul, Ephesians 3:15-19! Such that, the full power of God can CYCLE in you, Ephesians 3:19! Yet not kill you. Yet, become enjoyable TO you. Yet, eventually MERGE with what else you already are as a finite person, so you can see Him as He is, 1 John 3. You can't see what is not compatible with your own nature. So to say you will be able to see Him as He is, means you too will BE as He is. Hence Right Now, you are THAT work of HIS in progress, Ephesians 2:10.

So God Sovereignly Wants To Clone His Own Attributes Into You, By Cloning His Son's Thinking Into You. He committed to do this in eternity past, For The Sake Of Christ. So He does this, to fulfill the "great ones" Contract Provision of Isaiah 53:12. So it's not some sentimental whim, or nice dream you can later imagine arrogant, k? Your choice, how much of that Contract Fulfillment, to get.

Capacities determine relationships, and everything is RELATIVE TO those capacities and relationships. The Capacities God Wants Are On Par With His Own. Not lesser-thans. So the first thing that happened to you at salvation was that you were Made As Righteous As God Himself, 2 Corinthians 5:21. It's not a figure of speech or nice words. Infinity is Infinitely Clonable, Begetting By Nature. God is Life. Not merely 'possesses' life, but IS Life itself. So His Thinking is Life, Righteousness, Justice, Omniscience, Love, Truth -- all undivided. So infinitely clonable. So God Won't And Needn't Settle For lesser-thans. Capacities must be FULL, not partial, to please Him, Hebrews 11:1,6 (Greek, English is mistranslated).

"I have said, You are gods: and all of you are the children of the Most High", Psalm 82:6, quoted in John 10:34 by the Lord Himself. The context of His Quote is most illuminating. He had just finished telling them that He and the Father, are "one". Meaning, EQUAL. They wanted to stone Him for saying that, so He sarcastically asked them for which of His Miracles (demonstrating His Equality, k?) are they stoning Him. They reply that it's due to Him speaking blasphemy (denying His just-demonstrated Equality). So He quotes from Psalm 82, the PLAN of God, which even Asaph the Priest knew (the Psalm is Asaph's). For, the Lord is talking to priests, so they should know what their own priest, wrote! For the Son is to Make Sons. Again, Isaiah 53:11. So It's Not Only NOT Blasphemy, But The Very Plan Of God!

So understand, since you are saved, you already have an extremely bigger nature than you were the second before salvation. Your human nature cannot sense how big you really are, because your Bigness is Spiritual. 1 Corinthians 2 explains how the non-spiritual can never apprehend the spiritual. So the only way you can comprehend your new nature and size, is via God's System. And even then, it takes some years of daily eating Bible under your right pastor, before there are ENOUGH SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS made by the Holy Spirit so you can 'see the picture', spiritually. Meanwhile, you really are this gigantic person of enormous potential: Ephesians 4:13, "fullness.. of Christ". It's not a joke. Take it seriously. So: you have this enormous Potential Rank of King. You are already your own priest, and can pray anything to God in Christ's Name. So: rank has its privileges, and its responsibilities. God can kill with a thought. By His Design, so can you. Better learn how to think, huh. Since you lost your brains at salvation and instead get God's Power and Attributes: get Christ's Brains to go with that power and responsibility.. or you are one dangerous, loose cannon! Cannonfodder, absent Canon-Feeder, Ephesians 3:16!

Look: because God can bing! anything He likes at any moment with a thought! how it should be, you as a priest, can also. For as a priest, you can ask anything in His Name and it will be so. Christ kept harping on that while He was here. Everyone didn't believe Him. Like the priests contending with Him for calling Himself Equal to Father, we doubt, disbelieve that we are given equal status, as well. So: when you are peeing, you can ASK that be made to 'do' for Father, and it will. Shouldn't you ask? What's GOD getting for your peeing? Heck, all you even get is relief, wish-you-didn't-have-to-spend-time-on-it! God is making DDNA Out of Everything, Period. That's the contract. Father has to see it. So you can participate in that process, or not.. since you are a Royal Priest. God won't be shorted. You can short yourself, though. Because you are a Royal Priest, and what you don't learn or don't take advantage of, will only hurt YOU.

Dunno about you, but I absolutely detest small stuff. Big stuff is fine: if I got cancer tomorrow, the only thing about it that would bother me was all those stupid hospital visits, filling out forms, etc. I could care less about the disease itself: it's the annoyance the disease produces, not the disease itself or the prospect of dying, that bothers me. It's the little stuff which makes me need 1 John 1:9 constantly. Little stuff is, why are you here wasting my time?! So I'm heartily glad to claim and name that DDNA is being made out of all that nonsense (especially governmental garbage, politics, petty junk people spread on others everywhere). I need to learn this lesson better, but boy oh boy -- what a relief, to know God is turning it all into DDNA! Hits, like sin! So hits me, so God has to see it all (everywhere, not just here), so doggone it, "Light, Be!" conversion like Genesis 1 -- DDNA, Be! out from all things!

Again, capacities determine relationships, and everything is RELATIVE TO those capacities and relationships. But you SET what those capacities ARE, because you are a Royal Priest to God. Your Choice, His Power, Ephesians 3:16.

A whole lot of Christians are using their priesthoods to curse their home nations. Being priests, what they say, GOES. The world rejects God, and we are in the world, so what WE do, how WE grow, determines history. Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan proves that in excruciating, shocking detail. So if you don't have the Word in you, you can't BE competent at using your priesthood, so you are like a child with a machine gun, thinking it's a toy. Big mistake. LordvSatan3.htm explains more about what your priesthood means. It's pretty important to know who you really are, now that you've believed in Christ.

Hence this design and power exist even on a non-spiritual level, since to GET the spiritual level first requires your soul be ALIVE. The spiritual level is far greater, but to begin to appreciate it, let's focus on the lowest level of this extreme power: "as a man thinks in his soul, so he is" (Proverbs 23:7a, corrected translation). This oft-quoted verse is seldom recognized for what it is: you already ARE your own god. Every thought you have, MAKES you what you are. Not your parents, not some political party, not your environment, not your body abilities, but rather, Your Thinking. So now maybe you better understand what the Lord meant when He said that only THINKING defiles a man, Mk7:14. You do it to yourself, by Divine Design. You are already your own god, so that you can BECOME a "son of God in Christ Jesus". Angels are called the "sons of God" also, and their innate structure is higher than our own. But in Christ, we are higher than angels: Hebrews 1-2, explain why. That's not just a status, but a reality. We don't see now how true it is (Hebrews 2, 1 John 3), but it's True Now. So you can learn it Now, and learn to use it properly Now. Your very ability to pray to God is due to your being equal in Christ. Equal TO God. Else, Christ's own Priesthood wouldn't be good enough, get it?

One of the many neglected doctrines in Christendom is what my pastor terms, "the Mediatorship of Christ". This doctrine is, like all doctrines my pastor teaches, upgraded every time he teaches it, which is often. Book of Hebrews is all about the EFFECT of Him becoming God-Man, and paying on the Cross. The type of Priesthood He inherited due to defeating Satan (Cross was also a conclusive Trial defeat of Satan & Co.), was BASED ON Him being Both God and Man. A mediator must be equal with BOTH parties in the mediation, or it won't hold. So as God, He's equal to God. As Man, He's equal to man. So is Qualified thus to be a King-Priest kata (of the order of) Melchizedek. Hebrews 5-10 explains what that means for us, since we are Royal Priests Under Him. Priesthood is in essence, mediation. Someone lower than you needs something from someone higher than you with whom you are well-connected, so your petition or involvement is sought. Well, for the higher one to listen to you, something CONNECTING the two of you must warrant that hearing. Such as, a wife to her husband. Such as, Church to Christ. Such as, Church to Father of the Husband to Whom Church is married, Ephesians 5. So, see? We Are Designed to be equals, for nothing less, is good enough for God! So if we don't learn to think as befits our "high station" (τῆς ἄνω κλήσεως, phrase in Philippians 3:14), then our actions can't be recognized. For Rank has its Role, and if it doesn't play that role, it can't be Recognized. "Protocol Plan of God..due order and precedence, coupled with precisely correct procedure." (Quote from my pastor.)

So now you know why you are getting God's Attributes at such a high level, higher than all other believer groups. [Even the Old Testament and Tribulation + Millenial people got God's Righteousness at salvation, but they don't get the level of Truth deposits we can have, so they are lower. It's a permanent difference. We have different human spirits -- made like Christ's Own -- so we need more Truth to function, as well. Odd thing about being bigger than another person, is that you need more of everything, just to be 'even'. If people knew that about wealth, they'd never be jealous of what others have.] So, you are literally being lifted up. You are in Hypostatic Union with the Hupostasis (term for Christ's Dual nature, in Hebrews 1:3 or 4, and 11:1). Hence where Christ went DOWN to become Human, you are growing UP to God's Level, by agency of God (Holy Spirit) Himself, Ephesians 3:16 again. Now you know why.

So clearly, God isn't into demeaning. God is into lifting up: if you look at the italicised words in Isa53trans.htm, you'll see Isaiah constantly employs a lifting up theme from Isaiah 52:13-54:1. So God lifted Christ up on the Cross, so we could be lifted higher than even the angels. That was done to give them something HIGHER to enjoy, than they already had. When you look UP in life, you enjoy it more. Love is a type of Looking UP. Hatred, the archetype of looking DOWN. So if in your thinking you are looking UP, you enjoy your life more. If in your thinking you are looking DOWN (i.e., as most of the world looks), then you will enjoy your life progressively less, until at the end you are just a vibrating lump of reaction, upset by every little thing. By contrast, looking UP makes you become a Calm and Happy person, even when suffering. At that point, everything you see is ipse the reason to love it. Nothing can argue or stand against such Love: end Romans 8, Ephesians 6.

And you know this already, for tell me: it is more enjoyable to fix up your house as a chore no one else enjoys; or, to fix it up for a party? It's innately more enjoyable to do something for someone else, than for self.. IF you love that Someone Else. Doesn't mean the activity will feel good. True love isn't a feeling, anyway, but a FOCUS. Different "f", and if you don't get the Word you'll flunk by thinking love a feeling.

And nothing is worse, than to be cut off from Someone you love. Well, here's the problem: people who don't believe in Him, cut themselves OFF. People who DO believe in Him for salvation, usually still cut off learning more about Him. So they are stuck with themselves, living down here, trying to make it make them happy. It never works, sheesh. So who will MEDIATE for them? Who will GET this Thinking Built so they can have more than themselves, to live for? Father must be paid DDNA dividends, right? Father got paid by Christ, but hey -- we're still here. And all those people who cut off from Him -- where's the dividend production? God must stand off from them, for they reject Him. So no DDNA is going in them. So what do we do with ourselves? Live for ourselves? Heck no! Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5. And by living for HIM, we are happier. By living for HIM, that propitiates for the temporary time granted so that others who are stuck living for themselves, can get OUT of that rut, by 'finding' Him. See? You're learning and living is a Priestly role, a Kingly Role. First, for Father. And second, for them.

For God would have you live to fix up the 'house' of your soul, preparing for the never-ending party that He intends your kingdom, to forever celebrate -- FOR His Son. That's what the Lord is talking about, in John 14:2. It's a Royal House of THINKING (analogous to 'bloodline', since thought=blood, in Bible), in which there will be RANKS. A place for everyone. Under you as one of the Priest-Kings. All of these Priest-Kings, under THE King of Kings, the High Priest-King, the Christ (main theme, Book of Hebrews). So that everyone, however much they rejected Christ down here but yet once had believed in Him, can 'find' a way to look UP and be happy. Forever.

Again, this is the Isaiah 53:11 Contract, For You To Be Made High For God, For Christ. So it's sheer arrogance to roll the eyes and declaim how one doesn't want to be 'high'. God Wants Only High, Since He Is High. No one likes incompatibility. To be compatible with God, Requires You Be Made High. And so you cheat Him (really, yourself, He'll just reroute the value to someone else, Matthew 25:28), by pious eye rolls and that yucky fake humility people preeningly display. It's a bazillion times more productive and harder to be rich; so those who claim some virtue in being poor, are just making excuses and calling it 'holy'. How gross. One can get away with that fake humility around stupid people, but not around God...

So to fulfill 'His End' of the Isaiah 53:11 Contract, God Follows That Same Five-Infinitive Procedure in the believer: Purify, Plunder, Point-Out, πλάσσω (Sculpt), Perfect (Make Righteous). In Greek, the infinitives (in vocabulary form) are worth memorizing:

• καθαρίζω (kath-ar-IDZ-oh), to purify;
• ἀφαιρέω (af-ay-REH-oh), to carry off (as plunder);
• δείκνυμι (dike-NOOM-ee), to point out, exhibit;
• πλάσσω (PLAH-ssoh), to sculpt;
• δικαιόω (dik-eye-OH-oh), to make Righteous/Justify.

For, He uses your existing body of thought 'DNA', to renovate/create the Spiritual Body, DDNA; your God-given, innate, power of thinking over your own body, born the moment when you first drew breath, is what He uses to make that Romans 12:1-3 transmutation. [Greek word sumorphologew is here rendered "transmutation".] You think. You have ideas. You have beliefs. What you believe, drives your life. Your thinking is like DNA to your body, the instructions to it, on how it ought to 'remember' or 'regard' events or information it receives. Body cannot discern anything. It must be programmed. Soul tells the body what truth is, and body won't know if it's getting bad instructions. The body is designed to 'obey' the instructions it gets, which is what DNA, is. So your soul does to your body, what DNA does to your cells: tells them what to BE. Hence bad thinking makes you truly sick, even more than any virus. For your soul, is a bazillion times more powerful, than all the DNA in your body.

Question is, what's bad thinking? What's good thinking? What's a lie, what's a truth, and how can anyone know enough, to really get it right? Answer: you can't. Only God can. That's why there was a Cross. That's why only Isaiah 53:11 works to Pay, Save, And Change Us So We Can Become Of The Same Nature And Compatible Capacity, as Very God. Which DDNA change immediately results that first nanosecond you are saved, Titus 3:5. And the rest, is about how to grow up IN that new DDNA nature, Romans 8:4. He thus uses the 'leftover' nature, to do this growing-up. Leftover body, leftover 'soul' DNA. Spiritual engineering, and it's only run by God.

Practically every religion ever on the planet claims that if you follow its prescriptions, you will 'evolve' to become a god. But notice how they all focus on body stuff to 'get' you there. Some kind of 'magic' is assigned to all those rituals, food practices, chantings, etc. Like evolution, then, all these stupidities tell you that via your nature now, you can become higher than your nature now. But look: you are necessarily restricted to the capacity of what you ARE. So how are you gonna really get bigger in nature, on your own? You can't. You must be 'parented' by that Higher Nature, directly. Ok: so of what nature, are all the rituals, works, incantations on the planet? The same biological nonsense. So they cannot change you -- eating that stupid fruit didn't make man know something in the Garden, either. So all that stuff can do, is drain you of your money and energy, and make you crazy.. but not, make you into a god. A God Nature alone can do that changing.

A variant of this crazy stupid claim you of yourself can make yourself a god, is the claim that God is in you -- cute satanic twist on the Real Indwelling Bible explains. But let's just go with the flow, here: okay, a piece of 'god' is in you, like all animism and Hinduism and gnosticism and New-Age tenets say. But it is in you. You are still you, smaller in nature. So how can someone smaller in nature properly use, what is bigger than the self? Do you see better WHY Christ didn't tap His Own Deity? His Humanity wasn't competent -- and He was Perfect, even MADE the Truth itself -- He nonetheless being FINITE, was INCOMPETENT to tap His Own Nature to 'do' for God, let alone, 'make' Himself something He wasn't, prior. Note that well: He Was Able, but needed first to be Infinite in His Humanity, to perfectly use what He was as Deity. To Not Perfectly Use So Much Power would have been a disaster. The more power, the more careful you must be in using it. So much for all the claptrap about you doing anything with the 'divinity' residing in you. Sheesh.

Now you can see why the Holy Spirit has to 'parent' you. Truth is, you've no clue what Divinity really is, since it's Spiritual, thus undetectable to your human nature. So whatever you hallucinate 'using', will be at best a joke, and at worst a disaster (think of playing with a loaded pistol, the mistakes you can make). Now you can see why it's your thinking which gets transmuted, and your body is pretty much bypassed. And you can't do any of this yourself, since your new nature is undetectable, and your old nature is incompatible. So all that power, only God can run. And you consent. That's it.

Because we humans are soooo body-oriented, we fail to recognize that thought, not body, is all-powerful, even post-Adam; and Thought Originates In A Higher Parent: GOD. So, God put HIS Immateriality in each of us at the very moment of birth, by creating our immaterial souls, per Genesis 2:7. So, it could be thought which created sin, Genesis 3; so, it is still thought which perpetuates sin. Body is affected by the thought, gets wired by the thought, so sends feedback based on that wiring, which is all too often mistaken for valid thought. So the body runs the soul, because the soul gives in to the body. Just like Adam gave into his wife, Genesis 3:17. So now insanely body-infected, the soul can hallucinate like Satan does: that it OF itself can make itself a higher nature, Isaiah 14:13-14! Sheesh. So the irony is, this huge power of thought, can make your body bigger/more powerful, different from what it was. But that body makes your soul hallucinate such changes as making you godlike! 🤣!

Psychologists have done many studies on how suddenly a weak person can lift a car or something heavy, when trying to save someone else's life. How mental illness really changes a person's biology, such that you really don't know if the anomalies in the CAT scan, show causes of the mental problem(s), or results of the problem. Since diagnosis determines treatment, and since the treatment is antithetical if cause versus result, you can easily recommend the wrong treatment.

Complicating diagnosis is the fact that what you think can make your biology run very well: and yet the thinking is even more sick. So the problem can be easily misidentified, or.. not even seen. The real illness maybe takes awhile to show, then -- because it has this asymptomatic or nice symptomatic phase (i.e., bi-polar disorder). So it's not true that bad thinking will simply make you look like the Wicked Witch of the West. Maybe, you'll be that Witch, but look like Good Queen Bess. So looks and feelings are deceiving. The real illness, is nonetheless infecting you, just like cancer does -- only in the end-stage, do you see the illness for what it is. Satan's cancer of thinking doesn't make him look bad. So bad thinking, is (frankly) usually attractive, not unattractive. Strong, not weak. So you think you don't need it fixed. That's what the sin-in-Adam results, basically are. And since all of us are infected with this crazy wiring, we think ourselves 'normal', even 'good'.

But it's the need to be good, which is the hallmark symptom of spiritual death. Because, you don't need something you already have. So you don't need to be something, you already are. So the incessant drive to BE good, to GET good, to GET MORE are all proof positive that We Are Spiritually Dead To God; even as believers, who are in fact spiritually alive ("born again" in John 3), this spiritual death's residual effect remains in our very DNA. So the needs keep on going, like the Energizer Bunny.

Psychology has identified (usually 8) "defense mechanisms", which are used by volition to pretend a lie is the truth; the truth perceived is too uncomfortable to face, so it is 'cooked' by the "defense mechanisms", into a palatable 'truth' the conscious mind can volitionally accept. To do this, the 'actual' information is deep-sixed into the subconsious mind. So the problem with defense mechanisms, is that they don't solve the problem, they only bury the problem. So, it's garbage, in your subconscious. So the truth rejected (and sometimes you're rejecting a lie but thinking it true), keeps bleeping the conscious mind. Have enough of these rejections dumped into your subconscious, and your conscious mind will have tons of problems: lack of sleep, poor appetite, obsessiveness, etc.

And all of them, manifest as NEEDS. Because, You Were Originally Designed To Function On Truth; due to Adam's sin plus your own, you've rejected (what you consider) truth; so the need to face truth, goes unmet. It's a type of starvation, so has all the symptoms of starvation: obsessiveness, imaginations, prickliness, etc. So it is, with spiritual death: the first truth is, the uppermost truth is, We Need God; but Adam believed the lie that God was bad (and he rationalized that he'd share his wife's fate, to demonstrate love for her); so that lie believed, resides in us. Hence we fancy ourselves good, to hide the lie believed. So, the need for God, remains; which manifests in the Need To Be Good, To Cover It Up. But think: if it were true that we were good, we'd not need to tell ourselves how good we are; for, we'd not need to be good anymore. That's why it's so easy to disbelieve God. See how sick our minds truly are?

By far, the most common objection to the Gospel is variantly phrased, But I'm a good person. That's the defense mechanism called "denial", speaking. Good must cover up God, so like Adam, one can fantasize not needing God. So one can fantasize one's own good, is enough. So every time you hear an objection like that, you're hearing Adam speak at the very moment of his fall, through the mouth of the person you hear. Genesis 3 plays live, every day. LordvSatan2.htm's "In the beginning of Man" link/section explains the psychology of the Fall in much more detail.

So here's your soul: at any moment, some of the information you consider true is not true, or not true in quite the way you think it is. So think of your soul as a kind of puzzle, where some of the pieces are either missing, or misjoined to other pieces. More particularly, think of DNA, which is a whole Twisted Ladder Of Joined Puzzle Pieces, 98% of which is just fluff, but 2% of which is an Entire Instruction Manual For All Your Biological Life (98% maybe-junk DNA, 2% actual genetic instruction, per Encarta's "Genetics" article Sec.IIIC1). If ONE instruction inside that 2% was even a little mismatched or misused, you would get very sick, die, or mutate. Same is true for your soul. Which is why we need salvation, because "real spiritual death" means we have NO connection with God, hence ALL our soul connections, are jammed together. Like fused and broken wiring.

That's why Adam went wacko and made fig leaves, in Genesis 3. Having been created ruler of the world and a genius taxonomist to boot, he suddenly couldn't think, the first second after he sinned. I mean, come on: fig leaves? Over his genitals (Hebrew text)? And he even sews them? Do you know how stupid and frustrating it is to try and sew leaves together? Oh yeah, he utterly lost his brains...

When DNA isn't working properly, only small sections of it are malfunctioning. But since ALL of a cell depends on ALL the DNA, even the small part not operating, wrecks the replication process. That's how viruses invade: they change small sections of DNA in a healthy cell, and use the rest 'as is'. So the result is a cold, AIDS, cancer. 99.99% of the DNA in the healthy cell, was used. .01%, was changed to match the virus. That's genetic engineering. In spiritual engineering, you have the same problem, but it's the soul's thinking, values, ideas, and connections, which are misjoined, etc. So ALL the 'cells' in soul's thinking are messed up. But only small bits of understanding, need to be changed, for the thinking to become healthy, more-aligned with God's Own. For example, if you think it's holy to chant prayers, the error is, "chant". God isn't the God of mindlessness or magic. So you hopefully learn it's only the "chant" part which is wrong, rather than think you should stop praying altogether. But to learn even that, takes some time learning other Bible stuff, so you can see why it's wrong. The right answer is refreshing, not upsetting (God isn't the God of punishment, either -- even His Discipline is designed to bless, Hebrews 12:5ff). So most of what you thought on that topic, was right (yes, pray, it's right) but some of what you thought needed Divine Re-engineering (no, not chant).

You have to choose to learn Bible, to get this DDNA process to occur, and whatever you choose to believe that really IS the Truth, God uses. Else, you're programming yet more or different lies into your own soul, if you believe them. That's okay: God can fix that, too. For we all learn imperfectly. But only the TRUTH portions of what we learn and believe, God uses for spiritual re-engineering. And as John repeats incessantly, He won't re-engineer anything, no matter how much you want Him to do so, if you are "off/out-of-bounds from the playing field" (προάγω, verb in 2Jn9) -- outside of God's System. For we are finite, so need a system which only GOD runs, to be developed by God. It's spiritual DDNA surgery, Hebrews 4:12, to be schooled in the Word. Which obviously means PRECISION.

So Bible is DDNA, God's Thinking, which then joins to your own soul 'DNA', so to speak, and works on it the way RNA works on DNA. So, you CONSENT to God doing that, by being born again, and then after that, using 1 John 1:9 and learning Bible in God's System. God won't fix what's wrong in your soul absent your consent, ever. Doesn't mean you know what He's fixing. Technically, whatever Bible you learn and believe, is a consent to that truth. It will bond, then, with what you know already, and eventually what you know already will CONFLICT with the Bible in some way. At which point, you make a decision pro- or con- the Bible information you believe. At which point, a DDNA replication (or malignant DNA replication, if you're not in God's System), occurs. Repeating, thousands of times a day in your head, with each thought you think. Over the years, your thinking thus "transforms" (transmutes, sumorphologew, Greek word in Romans 12:2) into a reflection of God's Own, if you are in His System. That's why we get a Bible: to transform our thinking to become like His (ibid, see Rom121-3.htm for a corrected translation).

Like, as in LIKENESS, REFLECTION, CHILD. Not 'like' as in 'approximation', 'semblance'. God won't settle for less than His Son, and doesn't HAVE to. He could bing us all right now and get that. But He prefers, consent. His Sovereign Choice. So our choice. It's not a joke, but no one takes Him seriously, in Galatians 3:26 and John 10:34.

Belief in Christ makes you spiritually alive (John 3:16, Titus 3:5, etc). That means all your soul wiring can be fixed, so that you can be a whole person as God intended. More importantly, it means God can make you THINK the way He does. And the process for such "epistemological rehabilitation", as my pastor likes to call it, is to learn Bible in God's System. Line by line. Each line, a little bit is learned. Each precept, a little more. All these discrete learnings get KNITTED TOGETHER in you by the Holy Spirit. As these learnings grow (same process as how DNA replicates), they begin to impinge on all the soul garbage you still have. So then you feel a battle going on. You decide for the doctrinal answer as you then know it, or you reject it, in favor of some substitute. If the substitute, you've sinned; so, you breathe 1 John 1:9, which puts you back in the Divine Replicating Mode again. [Nerd Note: Satan & Co. really don't want anyone learning Bible in God's System, so don't ASSume that soul garbage in you is the sole cause of the conflict you feel; they might be urging guilt or wallowing in your past, so you will forget to just name 'whatever', and move on. Just treat the conflict impersonally. Doesn't matter if you are the source of the garbage or whether it's being thrown at you. Just learn to notice it, breathe 1 John 1:9 whenever you're in doubt, and keep choosing Bible as you know it so far. You don't need to wallow in self-diagnosis: that's a sure road to mental illness. Your body cannot hold Bible doctrine, it's a dead battery. So it constantly bleeps you with temptation. That's a given, a normal thing. Good news is, you get the opportunity to practice as the Lord did, in Matthew 4:4. THAT is victory. Just keep practicing firing Bible at the temptation. It's spiritual racquetball/NASCAR/name-your-favorite sport. Which you'll come to enjoy, as you become proficient in practice. Takes time, as anything worthwhile, always does.]

This DDNA process happens 24/7, ideally. You learn stuff in class, then think it over and try to use it throughout the rest of your day, using 1 John 1:9 as needed. For all life is Bible class. After some years, your thinking has gradually changed to be more like His. After some more years, your thinking has become a lot more like His. Bible likens this process to pregnancy, birth, childhood, and adulthood in myriads of ways. In 1 John, then, John calls "children", those whose DDNA is relatively 'young' (basic, and little in quantity); "young men", those whose DDNA are starting to knit together as a lifestyle, having "overcome" the thinking-lifestyle of this world; "fathers", those who know Christ. For when DDNA is fully built in you, you 'see' Him via Bible you live on, 24/7. My pastor's term for this is "Occupation with Christ". You see Him you live on His Thinking, and you are aware of Him 24/7. Nothing else matters. Yes, you still sin. But your view is altogether different, from when you were back in spiritual childhood.

Now let's examine a 'case study' in how DDNA changes your thinking, so you can see how God manufactures DDNA out of 'soul' DNA: how He changes the 'body' of your Thinking to become more compatible with the 'Body' of His Son's. Say you believed that it was holy to light candles in church, for your deceased relatives. Say also that you were very interested in Bible, and you were lucky enough to have a priest who told you about 1 John 1:9, so you didn't really have to go to confession each Sunday, since you can tell God Himself that you sinned. So pretend you do that, and you start reading your Bible in the Douhay-Rheims version (the official version of the Catholic Church).

When reading one day, you come across the verse that says, it's not what you do that defiles, but what you think (refrain of Christ's in the Gospels, i.e., Matthew 15:16-20, Mark 7:15ff). So you think, Oh, then my lighting candles doesn't do anything for God! Bingo. So, you stop doing that. Lightning doesn't strike you, either. So the time you had spent lighting candles for dead relatives who don't need them any more than God does, you living, read more and more in Living Bible. So then you find out, hey, God is a spiritual being, (John 4:23-24) so I need to learn Truth! That must be The BIBLE, since God wrote it! And, then what I think, if it could defile, well.. then I can think Truth, Bible, and that Pleases Him, too. Since if only thinking can defile, then only thinking can be the issue, then if I think as Pleases God, that's really something FOR God. So when your stumble on Philippians 2:5, a command to THINK, well.. you smile. Aha. DDNA building, and rapidly! So then you realize, hey, I need a teacher of Bible! Bing, more DDNA knitted together into a conclusion of Truth! Then, you realize, oh, all this ritual and ceremony isn't what God wants, but for me to learn Bible! More Knitting! So you leave the Catholic Church -- or, find a priest who only teaches Bible, as some do -- and you start learning in God's System. [One of the fascinating historical studies you can do, is learn how the monks functioned. A goodly number of them were of course under the Church officially, yet they ran around Just Teaching Bible. So on the surface, no one 'bucked the system', but underneath, they just rejected the whole thing and learned God. The success of this teaching became so widespread, you had outbreaks of open rebellion, (namely the Cathari) -- and eventually, the Reformation (which was started by Catholics, 🤣). But mostly, people just ignored the Church, and in a quiet manner, learned Bible. And still do. Then, as now, a good bit of the rebellers' ideas about Bible, are goofy (i.e., some of the Cathari tenets) -- but the fact that it's Only About Bible, is correct.]

Notice a few things about this DDNA process:

• there's no condemnation, only happy discovery. Even from translations. [The problem of translations is they mask or reverse/distort what God does say, so you miss even more happy discovery.]
• Any suffering isn't coming from God, but from our own innate self-punishing desires (1 John 4:18), from the world's goofy anti-DDNA ideas, or from Satan & Co. Next,
• notice how refreshing it is to learn something which finally makes sense.
  It didn't ever make sense to light candles. You only did that, because you were taught you were a bad boy/girl if you didn't obey it. So you did it, and you deep-sixed your desire to question (which was also deemed disobedience). So this senseless thing rankled. But, you were obedient. So you finally killed your curiosity. But up comes this priest who, looking to simplify his confessional day (pretend), told you about 1 John 1:9 (which they all know), so you are REFRESHED that you don't have to wait in line (and pretend that suffering counts with God) until you get your chance to robotically recite your sins for the week (most of which you probably make up anyway, so you don't sit there in silence).
• So now, you are talking to GOD! You don't know that's God's System, but
• since you are talking with God, you get INTERESTED IN GOD,
• so you start reading the Book you were taught He Wrote. And you like this Book. It's REFRESHING.
In short, you now ENJOY what was once a pain to suffer to avoid damnation. Quite a DDNA changeover, eh?

Notice also how it is all an internal change, so it's NOT necessary to go crusading or 'correcting' others. Only God makes the change. So if a person is not changing, then they are refusing God. Well, if they are refusing God, they will refuse 'you'. So not only is it not necessary to go crusading or 'correcting' others, It's A Waste Of Your Time. No wonder the Lord counselled that we remove the logs in our own eyes, and leave off 'helping' our brethren to remove their 'motes' (Matthew 7, Luke 6)...

Now let's look at it from God's Point of View. Candles are like idols, getting all this robotic attention due to a falsehood which is patently stupid: what kind of God would I be, if I wanted people to light candles? Does no one realize that function insults "God"? So how refreshing it would be to You (pretending you're God), when this one person, finally wakes up! One less lifetime of stupid thinking about candles, to wait on. For, God will not coerce volition. And ho! This person is actually INTERESTED in You, unlike the billions who pretend interest to get something, engaging in all manner of insulting practices and rote prayers, learning Bible as if it were multiplication tables, etc. ad nauseam. But this one person just plain.. wants to know You. Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles. So you lovingly respond, boy oh boy, with as much DDNA as that soul can then handle. Which in the beginning, is not much. But DDNA grows, and so does the amount transmitted, each time the person learns more Bible in God's System.

For God will never violate His Own Standard and force Himself on anyone. So how pleased is God, do ya think? Rah-ther, Luke 15, all of 1 John, widow-with-two-coppers story in Mark, and on and on and on. We like, like-mindedness. It's the basis for all rapport. We like, interested people. They don't have to be interested in us, but if they are interested, it's interestING to hear them. Well, God made all of us: from which source does your soul come? And if from God, you are like Him, structurally. So then what you like, He likes more (excepting sin, of course). So if you don't like boring, why treat God in a boring way? If you don't like stupid, why use stupid religion to have a relationship? For surely, God being the smartest of anyone, doesn't like boring and stupid.

So it must be INTERESTING to LEARN God. Who would by definition, be the Most Enjoyable Person to Know. And you've got this Great Book To Learn, which is all about Him! So, you can become like Him in your chosen thinking, too. One line of Bible Doctrine, at a time. One DDNA strand, at a time. 24/7, replicating like rabbits, if you want!

Back when I was in college, I first knowingly believed in Christ. (My mother had evangelized me when I was very young, but I didn't know that.) It was a pretty traumatic experience. But within a few months of running after all the wrong ideas of spirituality (from those dippy headless Bible classes to speaking in tongues), I realized during Italian class that I just needed to learn Bible. So I turned over my Italian book (you can tell I was bored in class), and wrote on the page edges, "Te Desidero Imparare", meaning I want to learn You. DDNA began for me then. It was a precious moment He still remembers, and always will.

Surely you have a parallel story. Think about it now, so You Can See How DDNA Has Been Working In Your Life, Even Until Now. That trip down memory lane will do more to explain the hands-on effect of DDNA, than a million more words from me.

This is personal and intimate, not dry Blecch! stuff you cram down, so you can 'do great things for God.' Oh no. God Is Doing Great And Refreshing Things To Your Soul! The learning Christ is Living Christ, Phil1:21! Togetherness, flat: WORD in your head, 24/7, in God's System. So not at all dry and boring, but really, finally, learning the Real God. Closer to you than your next thought. And it's more beautifully intimate, than any romance could even dream. Not emotional, either, but.. eventually, Absolute. Nothing beats DDNA, for DDNA results in Love. And Love is an Absolute Attitude, not an emotion, 1 John 4:19. As my pastor likes to put it, "The Love of God is true wealth." Yep, the "riches" verses in the New Testament are all linked to Word-in-you, Word-in-head, Word=Love. Inseparably.

So notice: gradually, easily, refreshingly, your 'body' of thinking changes into His Body of Thinking as you grow in God's System. You Learn to Love God that way. Because you Come To Know God that way, Ephesians 3:15-21 via Ephesians 4:11-16. Can't love someone you don't know, says 1 John repeatedly. So learn Him, and you learn to love Him, because what you learn about Him, IS Love=Truth=Righteousness=Omniscience=Justice=Bible. In your own head, LIVING. You are never alone!

Getting this Word, this DDNA in you, also happens to be the Only Holy Thing You Can Do. The Body of a King, is Church. So requires the Riches of a King, His Thinking. Again: Capacities determine relationships, and everything is RELATIVE TO those capacities and relationships. So Royal Capacity for Royal Bride Relationship is required, and everything is relative to that. So to the Royal, go much wealth and much responsibility: "to whom much is given, much is expected." Not peasant thinking, but Royal thinking.

What passes for holiness in this world is universally, peasantly insulting to God, when you examine the definitions and behaviors. Look how vile: I go to church every Sunday (preen preen). How ugly a statement. I give a tenth of all I have to the poor. How much more ugly, that statement. I rang bells/chanted a prayer /went to Mass /fed the homeless. Whoopee. God didn't need any of that. And He sure doesn't need, such disgusting thinking! For all that thinking says, Look at ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME. Who wants to look at such a person? Surely, not God. For such thinking demands from God, some kind of 'reward'. Yeah, they surely will get their reward, the Lord often warned in the Gospels. Reward, for treating God like a laundry chore (church on Sunday). Reward, for giving money to be SEEN by people (see Matthew 7). Reward, for mindless activity, which even the people doing it, don't like (watch their faces)! As if giving up something for a God who is oh-so-needy. Yeah, what love is that? Disgusting!

Children think like this. Children see pretty clothes and think that's being important, happy, 'good'. Tabloids count on childish thinking. Religions do, too. But those "rich and famous" don't think at ALL the same way. They have other stuff on their minds. The Royal learning Him is thinking about HIM, not about how good the self is. Kings don't think about themselves, but about their jobs. The wealth is there to free them to think about their jobs. But those viewing the kings, think the kings have the same childish mindset; so they imagine the kings are busy frittering away the money just as a child would do. Not at all: wealth which isn't invested, doesn't stay wealth for long. For the Body of a King really does require the Riches of a King.. due to Love. Love for the kingdom. The children of which, the King lives to serve. Lack of wealth is a burden. Having wealth, is a bigger burden, since the children are children in their understanding: the King would have them grow UP and grow HAPPY. Hence the deft expression, "heavy is the head who wears a crown."

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The Riches of a King, are the LOVE of a King.
They are ONLY acquired by Royally learning Bible in God's System,
and ONLY under the King-Mentor, the Holy Spirit. For God IS Love.

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This is a very long section. Here are its main subsections, in order; they function as an outline. Click on one of the items, to go back and forth between the subsections: for the content interweaves, and is sometimes confusing.

1. The more DDNA in you, the bigger your soul; the more capacity; so you become King-sized, fit for THE King in Eternity.
2. Hence LOVE Capacities determine RICHES Relationships.
3. "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Treasure of knowing Him.
4. For God's HEAD is Treasure. Love Heads His Heart, By Divine Decree. Ergo LOVE is the First Commandment.
5. So 1 John uses 1 Cor's metaphor of Word in Head as Love, since Canon=Love being completed, via John.
6. So everything "from the beginning" (in the Garden) is Now come Full Circle.
7. So Now the Last Adam, gets the Last Eve -- first, as His kids, being Sired by 'Mom', the Holy Spirit!
8. For MARITAL Love Capacities determine MARITAL Relationships.
9. For God is always about Marriage, and the Angelic Divorce Trial is about Marriage, so the Garden and hence Church's Marriage to Christ, was and is.. On Trial.
10. So 1 John explains that to develop Divine Marital Love, requires Marital-Level Intimate Knowledge of God, which takes Divine Power to produce.
11. So it's not about human love, but Word in You, which IS Divine Love. THAT is what's On Trial.
12. So Learning Word is the first "flank" of Divine Love. Second "flank" is Believing What You Learn. Believing-in, is the 'heart' of Love.
13. So Love as a Metaphor of Word means the Spirit has Built ENOUGH Dendritic Word in you, such that you maturely love, even as Christ does.
14. Hence 1 John's theme: Completion of Canon AS Love, wraps up history, via First Commandment Living in You.

1. The more DDNA in you, the bigger your soul; the more capacity; so you become King-sized, fit for THE King in Eternity.

The more DDNA in you, the bigger your soul. The bigger your soul, the more capacity it has for everything. So you become King-sized, fit for THE King in eternity: so, fit to INHERIT a kingdom for eternity. Funny thing about being wealthy, or being a king: the more you own, the more what you own, owns you. You are not your own. And you are not your own, because by the time your soul is King-Sized, it's the KING you live for. Not for yourself. In a word, you have come to LOVE Him.

Love is most abused in and by the human race. What passes for love is a calculated user game, Pro23:7 (in context). So most of us know we have been the victims of such clever users, by the time we are in our 30's. And then, horror of horrors, we discover (hopefully) that we too have been such users! Most of us don't grow past that educational experience, to learn how God's Love is nothing human. Humans thus project their user mentalities on God, so bandy about "God loves you" the same way, and for the same calculated reasons, they bandy their own love -- to get something. Love has nothing to do with it. Love is just something you use to get something you really want. Slam, bam, thank-you-m'am. Welcome to reality.

That's why people don't give a flip about content: be it the content of a person, the content of a book, the content of a job. They only care about their own opinions and comforts, so that person or book or job had better serve them.. or they are disinterested. That's why conversations are so typically banal and narrow; absorption of content is not desired. You can prove this pervasive fact quickly: interest in the Bible is slipshod, sloppy, narrow, lukewarm, and vile. Every century. The mistranslations of Bible show this up starkly. So if people have such a calloused attitude toward GOD, being so DISinterested in the content of Him, well.. they will be just as vilely disinterested in everything else. And not mean to be; and not know they are so vile. Welcome to the reality of Genesis 3.

For "original sin" was rejection of God in the name of love. Adam rejected God in the name of his wife, evidenced by the fact he took the fruit from her. So altruism is a rejection of God in God's Name, nicely hiding the true origin of sin. It's in the DNA, and that rejection reflex thus gets in the soul the first second a baby sins. From there, the mutated instruction set of rejection multiplies, dividing the human race. All in the name of altruism, mind you. For truest evil, is near-white in color, not black.

So Genesis 3 rejection of God, is the reason why everyone is so unhappy and unloving. Look: first thing Adam did when queried by the Lord after he'd sinned, was to accuse God and then his wife. Of course, the first thing she had done was to accuse the serpent (which God had made, and the serpent wasn't even to blame, it was just an animal). So she was lying -- she knew Satan used the serpent as a screen, he wasn't coy about it. So Adam was lying, too. So much for any love for God or love between them. This is our inheritance in Adam, and it shows. Thanks be to God, we have a new inheritance in Christ to replace all that tainted, no-love DNA in our souls, theme of Romans 5!

2. Hence LOVE Capacities determine RICHES Relationships.

Hence LOVE Capacities determine RICHES relationships, and everything is RELATIVE TO those capacities and relationships. Love is a focus ON the love object. But the Integrity of Love depends on the other attributes of the subject. Since God by nature is Infinite, He is therefore Undivided in His Attributes: you can't 'separate' His Attributes. So His Love is characterized by ALL His other Attributes, which is why you can't change God's Love by who you are or what you do. By contrast, everything about finity depends on division, even DNA itself. Finity must be modular, cellular, to continue living. So man's attributes are necessarily divided, in order for man to keep on living. That's the heart of the problem in the infinity-finity dichotomy between God and man. So to get DDNA in you is a True Transmutation in Truth, which means in Love. For Love isn't really love, if it's divided, apart from virtue.

Division is necessary for finity to exist, so that freedom will exist despite conflict. Conflict occurs because finity GROWS in its attributes, whereas God is Infinite at all 'times'. Finity has a beginning, so has volition reacting or responding to its own attributes, to the attributes of others, of things, and most of all.. of God. Volition must always chose for and against, so needs division as protection to make that choice, to keep volitional independence, and hence stay free. Sin shatters that independence because a rejection of God is a derivative of negative volition against an Object far greater than the volition being negative. However, because God made finity of divided nature to start with, the volition can remain intact, and much of soul-body function can be stable. It progressively disintegrates over time, if negativity persists; but it takes a long time for this disintegration to occur: see Genesis 2:17's warning in Hebrew.

Thus man can change his mind and go positive to God. The body disintegration is incurable, but it is treatable, such that many positive decisions slow the body's deterioration (well, unless certain genetic mutations or injuries are too severe). You make yourself sick by what you think. But you also become more soul-healthy by what you think, and the body is often positively impacted as a result. The most important health, is health with GOD. There's really no other reason to want to live, else. We all die. So to live for this dirt ball's preoccupations down here, is to cheat yourself. You can live for GOD, instead.

So the trick is, to get God's Truth in you, which produces God's Love in you. That Love thus TRANSCENDS your finite, divisive capacities, to MERGE, FUSE into a compatible capacity -- compatible with Him. Of course, for this transmutation to occur, you have to keep on choosing to know God, choosing to live in His System, wanting the Truth. It has to become more precious to you, than everything else. With God, it's all or nothing, by nature. So that change in the nature of valuing -- to Him, and away from all the divisive things which occupy our minds -- must occur. And when it does, line by line, you grow in a King's LOVE.

This growth will drive your soul crazy. Love is not native to man since Genesis 3. Instead, rejection is native to man. So when he nonetheless starts to love -- remnant of pre-Fall capacity, since sin is everywhere incompetent -- his sin nature must rebel the more, subtheme in Romans 7. Even between humans, any incipient love disorients the one who has it. So how much more, when Divine Love is growing in you? As Paul explains, the old 'husband', is rejection. The new 'husband', is the One Who Accepted Sin on the Cross. Sin can't take pardon, so it keeps on wooing the soul to regain its old tyrannical role. Paul records the inner battles, well.

Hence Matthew 4:4 is how you fight those battles. Word in you, the surgeon-soldier's knife, Hebrews 4:12. Which you won't do, if you aren't learning to love the Word you're getting. Which you will do, if as you Learn that Word, you turn it over in your head in God's System, to better understand God Himself. That's where Christians divide, frankly. Many are big Bible thumpers, but they wouldn't know the Word if it bit them. They only want to thump Bible, not think Bible. Others fancy themselves thinkers, spouting verses and Greek-geek stuff, etc. But they don't turn over what the verses (etc.) mean, so they don't take the next step and learn about GOD HIMSELF. Instead, they use the Bible like a weapon to buttress ego, bludgeoning themselves and others, with it. That's not proper surgery. So, we're scarring ourselves and everyone else.

But a few nonetheless discover a love for God Himself. When that happens, they gradually forget about the "me" thing, because they become progressively engrossed in the HE thing. They go nuts, too, as Paul describes in Rom7. But if they persist in wanting to know God, the perpetual warring of the sin nature is met more and more by Matthew 4:4 'replies', and one grows in Love all the way up to the Ephesians 3:19, 4:13 standard of Pleroma. At which point, one Loves the King, LIKE the King. No greater wealth, than to know the King. Hence the need for a body (kingdom) and Riches, to express that Love.

3. "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Treasure of knowing Him.

"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also", Matthew 6:21, Luke 12:34. "Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and His Ways beyond tracing out!" Romans 11:33. God's Heart, God's Love is beyond our radar screen, our comprehension, our accounting. So His Riches are, too. His Riches are His Love: as you'll hopefully see, in this subsection. Satan and all religion of any stripe would have you think God is the god of poverty. You know the gambit: if they scream on behalf of the poor, they are the holy ones and you are to feel guilty. But "My Ways are not your ways", He says in Isaiah 55. Yeah, The Way to God is a PERSON, not a religion. That's why early Christianity was called, "The Way" after the famous phrase, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life". That Person is Seated, Now. So where should our heart be?

For if you love, you are thinking of how wonderful the object of your love. If you love food, you think about IT. If you love someone, you think about that PERSON. If you love God, you think about HIM. In short, the object of your love occupies your brain, and the more you love that object, the more it occupies your brain. You can learn a lot by listening to people talk. What occupies their conversation, is what they love. And what they love, sustains and changes them. Love is powerful. Beware of what object, 'gets' it. For what you love, will lead you by the nose, everywhere you go. So if you learn to love God, The Spirit Does All The Leading: and you desperately need your nose in His Book.

Sampling from what you can find on the web, airwaves, and church visits, 9999 out of every 10000 sermons aren't occupied with Christ. They are, however, rather occupied with human behavior, money-begging, nice emotional phrases, fire, brimstone, and thump thumps. "Christ" or "God" is spoken every once in awhile, to make it all sound 'holy'. Kinda like the talk on the floor of Congress. No love in all that, just ego rego. And if ego rego, then Pneuma nego. But the production of the Spirit is Love, Galatians 5:22. So no Spirit in all that. Just a lotta hot air, ballooning everyone up, to be tossed by each nosy, passing wind. [Ephesians 4:14's Greek uses a sea-tossed analogy. It's exegeted in RightPT.htm, since you can't find a proper translation in English.]

As the Lord warned, "where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Bible keyterm "heart" always means thinking, with emphasis on what you believe in, and hence love. Your soul 'pumps' thought, but the kind of pumped thought you want, is where you 'put' your 'heart'. So if your 'heart' is on blaming people, on acquiring things, on promoting self, on buttressing ego, well.. that's the treasure you value. Again, beware of what gets your love, for it will lead you by the nose, everywhere you go. [Read Matthew 6:21, Matthew 12:35, Luke 6:45-6 in the context of the surrounding verses. Then, if you have trouble understanding how Bible designates "heart" as the Believing-In Part Of The Soul, look up all Old Testament "heart" and "blood" verses and their related concepts (i.e., 'longing' for the Lord by David and Hezekiah). It's not emotion, and sheesh -- there's no such thing as a "head vs. heart belief". Why don't we ever do our homework in Bible? Cuz we don't love it. So, we don't love Him, however mushy our endless songs.]

Childhood has a lot of warm fuzzies. It's a time of innocence, and for many it's the only time they were ever happy. So it's very hard to let go of falsehoods you didn't then know were falsehoods, because you grew to love them. So when the floodgates come crashing down on some cherished idea and you see its feet of clay -- especially, with respect to religion -- God gets blamed, people get blamed, and oh how hurt you are. At that moment, you are loving hate. And it will lead you by the nose.

People spend an awful lot of time and money trying to make themselves feel good about themselves. They do good deeds and say to themselves, "I did something good", kinda like Adam thought when sewing the fig leaves. Years and years and tears and tears of striving and paying build up a sense of 'treasure' in what you spent all that money and time on. So to see it all go up in flames, is a grief beyond bearing. All that devastation from the tsunamis, hurricanes, floods: whole lifetimes wiped out in a few minutes. One doesn't recover well, if at all, from such disaster. Never again is it easy to just go back to the same ol' ideas -- for you know you just got mocked. So you become more hardened, and the martyr complex accelerates; or you become lala goofy; or, somewhere in between. But you are never the same. The trust you had, got broken.

Sometimes the feet of clay need to be seen, or a thing needs to break, to free you from your nose-ring, hooked on a way which is not His Way.

4. For God's HEAD is Treasure. Love Heads His Heart, By Divine Decree. Ergo LOVE is the First Commandment.

So God's HEAD Attribute, which at 'heart' is Love, Decreed that every verse in the Bible be about His Son's Heart-Making DDNA, instead of heart-breaking, religion: all to build and answer, Ephesians 3:15-19, with focus on the ingressive aorist of γινώσκω, "and to come to know the Love of/for Christ", in verse 19. For Divine Love is Something you Learn. And it changes you. That's DDNA, baby. Coming from Wholly-Matrimonial Divine Love, God in you, answer to His John 17 prayer. So the Real Holy Matrimony, First Commandment, you in Him. Lived and Loved, 24/7, 1 John 4:19. Communion, never divorce!

Because humans are terminally dumb, when they see "Love" as an Attribute of God, they completely misdefine it as being like human love. Human love is based on attraction. God's Love, is NOT. God's Love is completely independent of attraction. His Love is a CHARACTERISTIC which represents His Sovereign ATTITUDE, with or without, any object. So there doesn't even have to BE an object. If there is an object, it is Loved. If there is an attractive object, it is Loved. If there is an unattractive object, it is Loved. The qualities in the object will be referenced by God's Love, but those qualities never influence God's Love in any way, degree, or direction.

For God's Love is a STASIS. To say "God Loves you" is even more meaningful, because it means there is NO compromise in His Love. So you can't earn it, and you can't lose it, either.

It would take maybe 100 years just to list the Bible-verse ties (i.e., tying keyword in verse, key concept)!!

• Head-in-your-head = Love, completed Canon concept of 1 Corinthians 13 (ὑπερβολή keyword in 1 Corinthians 12:31 and Logos in your λόγοι of 1 Corinthians 1:5 set the tone of 1 Corinthians as Head and Body);
• Isaiah 53:11 mechanics -- but in context of ALL Isaiah 52:14 - Isaiah 55.
• 1 John 4:12-17,19 (which in Feb.2005 gave rise to this "DDNA" webpage, as I listened to my pastor talk in his 92SD 3/12/00 class, L.1702).
• Romans 5:5, doctrine is water, and via the Spirit it becomes Love in your head, quintessential ("plenary") subjective and objective genitive. Cycling forever, never disappointing. God's Love never disappoints!

There are literally thousands of these verses squarely on the topic of God's Love being His Head Attribute, His Integrity, which is why building the Truth in you, makes your head like His Son's. For Truth is Love and vice versa, in Undivided Infinity. No divorce in God, so as you learn Him you will come to love Him and you cannot be divorced FROM Him, in your own thinking. No matter what assails you.

For, God isn't into magic. Relationships based on magic cause the magic, not the relationship, to be the 'god'. That's what distinguishes Bible from all other 'holy' books and prescriptives for 'improvement' or 'happiness'. Evaluate any other claim, and you'll find it's based on some magical idea which has no counterpart in reality. For the reality truly is, if you base a relationship on magic, then you have no real relationship: the magic, interferes. For the magical idea itself always disappoints, since there's no such thing AS magic. There's no magic product, magic promotion, magic job, magic house, magic spouse which will make you live happily even for five minutes, let alone, "happily ever after". Fairy tales are for children, not adults. So sooner or later even the search for such magic, will disappoint.

God is into Truth. Truth isn't magic. Truth can be learned. God's Truth is God's Level, so only God can teach it. So, He taught it to the writers of Bible, and then they wrote it. Because, the Word is God's, but it's not magic, it's Reality. So His Teaching it, is not magic. Your learning it IS supernatural, because The SuperNature Holy Spirit is your Teacher. But that's not magic. It rather, is a kind of discipline: line on line, precept on precept, DDNA on DDNA. Hence Bible never disappoints, because it isn't magic, so enhances all relationships, even creating them. Love isn't magic, then; it's not some gushy feeling which you can also get from a nice, romantic dinner, for crying out loud. True love is a constant, not an emotion; because Truth Builds Love (hence it becomes True Love, not a fantasy); so True Love, never interferes. Fealty is based on Truth.

This Love, therefore, is completely alien to the human race. Yet to have Rapport with God, we must come to have the love OF God, and FOR God. That is why Christ died on the Cross: to build this Love in us, forever -- one Word Deposit at a time!

5. So 1 John uses 1 Cor's metaphor of Word in Head as Love, since Canon=Love Being Completed, via John.

So, 1 John uses Paul's 1 Corinthians metaphor of Bible Doctrine in your head as Love, since John is writing about 30+ years later: because "Love" is being completed with John's writings; and because "Love" is the First Commandment. For all love is based on knowledge, and all Divine Life And Love Comes Through Knowledge, Hosea 4:6 (book's theme). God's life and love, John 3:16. Hence you have life and can know Him. The circle of love, Romans 5:5, is the circle of life, the Word; without Word=Love, there is no point in living, 1 Corinthians 13. Love is something you Learn, by learning Him (ibid). So 1 John is on how things have come full circle (playing on Ephesians 1), and hence Completing. For he knew he was the last author of Canon. (See how he plays with all that, in 1 John 2's incredible Greek.)

My pastor kept using all these keywords from about 1997 until the day he retired, and always in context of 1 John 4:12-17 and Christian marriage (which is a paradigm, a corporate spiritual test topic in the Church Age). Took me years to grasp what he meant, and it drove me crazy the meanwhile. No more! So this section will be a challenge to understand, sorry. Some helpful hints on better understanding 1 John will be covered later, but for the moment know this: 1 John is all about FIRSTS. First thing first. Sine qua non. First of importance. First in sequence. First in Value. First in practice. First in origin. First and Foremost Love.

Practically every verse in 1 John is a socratic equation, allowing the reader to substitute a protasis in one verse with a protasis in another verse, to learn more. Likewise, with the apodoses. So he's reasoning out for his audience, how "abide" in John 15 means Think Word, and thus is truly Love, truly spiritual. To do this, he crafts the equations in many facets, so they can see a) that they ARE abiding and hence Loving, and b) that they have a victorious Trial witness versus all the deserters-to-religion between 70 AD (when the spectacular gifts largely ceased) and the 90's AD, when he's writing. So he also writes in a series of LISTS: each item is the first item on a LIST that the audience well knew. That's a Greek (and Judaic) technique all the writers use (see Hebrews 6:6's "repentance" in the context of Hebrews 6:1's "repentance" for a quickie example). Saves time to just mention the first item in a list. [Sigh: Hebrews 6:1 should say "repentance..dead works"; if your translation says something else, it's no good. Dead works is a major theme in the Book of Hebrews, and should have been picked up everywhere it appears in that epistle.]

Practice going through 1 John even in your favorite translation. List all the positive protases on the left, and all the positive apodoses on the right. Then notice how you can link up any apodosis on the right, with any protasis on the left. Then repeat the same exercise with the negative protases and apodoses.

You'll also notice another thing: the listing is PROGRESSIVE, and the protases ADVANCE as the letter goes forward.

• That is, John starts simply, first protasis is "if we claim to have fellowship yet we walk in darkness" (NIV), a negative protasis, in 1:6.
• The last protasis in 1 John is in 1 John 5:20, a positive "We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding" (NIV).
• Now, let's link up the apodoses.
• 1:6's apodosis: "we lie and do not practice the Truth."
• 5:20's apodosis: "so that we may know The True One [or, "Him Who is The Truth]." Actually, John piles on THREE apodoses crafted from "The True One", for dramatic anaphoric effect.
  See the contrast, the Advance, the Completion? See how the discourse comes full circle, even within the letter? Awesome stuff!

6. So everything "from the beginning" (in the Garden), is Now come Full Circle.

As 1 John deftly explains, historically everything "now" (=Church, its timeslot) is come full circle; because with Canon's completion, Church the Bride can complete IN the First Commandment. The wedding is on, fulfilling the purpose of that Garden wedding, "from the beginning"! So John is also showing his audience WHY everything comes full circle by means of all those FIRSTS in his socratic equations. Very deft. Very unlike modern writing, so 1 John is routinely mistranslated and misinterpreted. Try reading the whole epistle aloud, and change all present-tense verbs to the English PROGRESSIVE tense, see what a difference it makes in comprehension.

Remember how, back in Genesis 3, the man rejected God in favor of people, represented by his wife. That rejection reflex and substitution of people as 'god' has gone on, ever since. Thus the First Commandment is largely replaced.. by altruism, the nearest-white of evils. You'll see that altruism's true evil face from the Genesis 4 roster. Acquirer ("Cain") rejects God, so what does he do? Well, after murdering his brother Vapor/Emptiness/Vanity for not rejecting God ("hevel" in Hebrew, "Abel" to you), Cain builds a city for his son named "Inaugurated/Dedicated" (Chanokh in Hebrew, "Enoch" to you). So Cain worships his son, to reject the God Who will 'bear' and thus 'inaugurate' the Son of Salvation, on the Cross! [You see all this in the Hebrew and LXX, but the translations screw it all up. For example, English Bibles don't translate the names; and especially not, the sexual pun Eve makes of Cain's "spear" name, in Genesis 4:1! So of course Genesis 4:7 is blasphemously mistranslated, and is key to understanding what Cain is doing. Genesis 4:7 should say, "The Sin BEARER is laying by the door" -- waiting for Cain to believe in the One Abel's lamb depicted -- but of course Bible translations always Cut God And Christ Out Of The Verses! So notice how the same sin that Cain is warned about in that verse, is committed by the translator, who leaves out "BEARER"! The lexicons were available; there's no excuse for this verse to be mistranslated. You can set your watch on man's arrogant disinterest in the Word! Of course, over the centuries this mistranslation has not been fixed, for oh -- then we have to admit some past greybeard translator, was (probably quite tired and hence) wrong! Yeah, man is still more important than God, every century! Same sin as Cain's, every century! Again, this isn't to excoriate the translators. Rather, the point is to show how mankind as a whole repeats Genesis 3 behaviors (here, not fixing an errant translation), pretending himself still the intelligent one, the lover. What a crock. So Satan & Co. can make a translator commit the very SIN as is covered there in Genesis 4:7, laughing at the poor guy the meanwhile. We are all Satan fodder, absent God's System.]
That Cain BUILT A CITY tells you much. It means he was a hard worker, and had a very engaging personality (he got ticked off at God for not accepting his produce as a sacrifice). For a city, needs to be populated with people, which means Cain was POPULAR. So among his sisters and later brothers, he'd gained something of a fan club; so they aggregated with him. Now, all this city-building didn't happen until after he'd murdered Abel, so you also know another thing: they allied with him in his murder of Abel. Big division in the First Family, then. Which, Genesis 4-5 deftly show (notice how so many of the kids in Genesis 4, have the same names in Genesis 5, and some of the Genesis 4 kids defected over to the Genesis 5 families). So Cain was not a nasty guy, in the eyes of his siblings. He was a leader, and he loved his family. Yeah, but not God. And neither did they.

Now you can begin to understand how Genesis 6 demon invasion, was no surprise visit to the human race. Civil war IN the human race, was going on: notice Lamech's pride over murdering a defenseless man and his son, calling it an avenging of Cain. So the demons didn't hide themselves: after all, Eve knew she was talking to Satan, so 'hiding' was never needed. So Greek mythology isn't quite so farfetched: the sons of the parent gods (Trinity, really) rebelled, and carry on their rebellion into man, playing out upon him. [Seduction of Isha was mental, not physical, as the Hebrew of her admittance to God, shows. Satan is an ascetic, anyway, and physical seduction doesn't appeal to him. Mental seduction does appeal, since he hates God. Your other big clue is that he used a cute pet of hers rather than show himself bodily to her: had he done that, her volition would have been overwhelmed, and she could be rightly said to not be guilty. Moreover, he had to appeal to her ego, so showing himself as superior wasn't politic: he would argue that God's Own Superiority is an ego trip against her, which is why God prohibited Satan's tree. So he only 'hid' his appearance from her.]

So now you know why 1 John is so focused on religious sin&evil, and why he uses the example of Cain, in 1 John 3. Religious people won't see that strident message in 1 John: you have to think over the letter as you read it, and be breathing 1 John 1:9. Religion is darkness, so religious people can't read anything. More technically, they are blinded by the 'brightness' of their own altruism and self-sacrifice, so they think themselves in the light (subtheme in 1 John); hence they can't read, process, or hear truth (another subtheme). That's why they are so prickly about works, and can even justify murder, just as Cain did (another subtheme). That's why John focuses on warning against such people, throughout his epistles (and Gospel): Satan invented religion, in Genesis 3.

So on a macro level, God has been reversing that fissional effect of sin, into a FUSION of Love back to Him. Christ is the Person Who Accomplished That Full Fusion, on the Cross. It's not simply about sin. It's about resolving the Infinity-finity dichotomy, so that man's necessary divided nature won't hinder full rapport with the God Who loves him. So that happened IN Christ: which is why, the Cross converted everything into DDNA. Why, the Old Testament people couldn't know God as well as we Church can, John 7:39 (and theme of all Hebrews, Ephesians, Romans 5-12, etc).

So now Church Is Bride, Body of Christ. So that means our fusion level is the same as His, in aggregate. So the failure in the Garden, is Reversed And Catapulted Into A Greater Bonding Than Adam And The Woman Had. [My pastor has taught this for years, even wrote a hymn about it. I can't tell who else recognizes this reversal purpose, but it's patent in 1 John. Not coy at all. Deftly written "from the beginning" tips you off, which is a catchphrase the Lord used often, and is an Old Testament catchphrase. It always has end-purpose and birthing significance. See how Paul uses it in Ephesians 1, for John in 1 John is playing off that, too.] On an even higher level (next section), this bonding between Christ and Church also will serve to catapult the bond between God and the angels -- which was always designed to benefit them more (subtheme in Hebrews 1-2). So in the Millennium and in eternity, Church has many wifely roles, to effect a higher Synergy of Love than would otherwise obtain. So down here, we are to be training in that role by Learning Our Husband (theme of Rom5-8, most of Ephesians and Peter). To know Him is to love Him. On a Divine Marital Level, not just any ol' love!

So God LEVERAGES sin into GREATER LOVE: see last half of Rom5. That's how He thinks. That's our potential, rejectible, Destiny, to think like He does!

7. So Now the Last Adam, gets the Last Eve -- first, as His kids, being Sired by 'Mom', the Holy Spirit!

Oh, Holy Matrimonial Wit! Look: Christ is the Last Adam, so we as Last Wife (🤣!), have to FIRST be His Kids!

• Seminally in Him ON the Cross (Romans 6, Isaiah 53:10-11) in order to be born again, Isaiah 54:1, John 3.
• Just as we had to be born from Adam's physical genes to have physical life, so also we need Christ's Spiritual Genes, To Have Spiritual Life.
• But how can Christ be born? Well, He gets 23 chromosomes from his mother Mary, and the other 23 supernaturally supplied (NOT parthenogenesis) by the Holy Spirit.
• The SAME Holy Spirit who called Himself a mother hen, in Genesis 1:2, re-birthing the earth (Hebrew verb there is rahaph, [a mother hen] brooding over [her chicks]).
• So now the Seed is 'born' of a Father VIA THE SPIRIT, and a mother -- the body.
• This, because it was Adam's sin which condemned us (he was the authority (head), so the genetics pass from him, Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:22, etc).
• The sin nature is in the 23 chromosomes of the male; the 23 sin nature chromosomes in the female split off each month due to meiosis and polar body. So that the remaining 23, can be fertilized -- but they are pure. [Sigh: why do people think that they have to explain a miracle? Don't they realize the tautology of the atheist, who claims that if he can't naturally explain the supernatural, God doesn't exist? That would mean God is only God if He is not God, get it? If God must 'obey' natural law, then God is not God. This is how the atheist can put distance between the idea of God and himself, yet fool himself that he is scientific instead of tautological. What a crock. Bible says the Holy Spirit made Mary pregnant. Accept it or do not, but sheesh -- God made your soul at birth, not via some natural phenomenon, since the soul is immaterial. So if He can do that, He can just WILL Mary to be supplied with 23 extra chromosomes.]
• So now The CHRIST's Seed -- Isaiah 53:10 contract, see also Isaiah 54:1's wit -- is 'born' of Father VIA THE SPIRIT (Titus 3:5), and a mother -- the body. Get the pun? Our chromosomes are also bypassed!

• Ok, let's see, hmmm... if it was the First Adam's sin which caused the problem, then the Last Adam's obedience can solve the problem in the same way.
• So we become His Kids, the same way He Paid For Sins, Isaiah 53:11.
• Then, we become pregnant with His Thinking so we bear kids, same Isaiah 53:11 mechanism!
• Heh: no wonder Paul gets so emotional when writing the last half of Romans 5!
• After all, whoever FATHERS you, shouldn't you 'obey'?
• Question then becomes, who fathers your THINKING?
• For as a man thinks in his soul, so he is, Proverbs 23:7.
• So we are FATHERED in His Thinking.

  That's why practically every Originator/parenting/caregiving keyword in Bible is also thesaural-like used as a moniker for Christ: Righteous One, That One, Righteousness, Just One, justice, sirer, author, hope, love, riches, faith, salvation, clothing, food, shelter, husband-head, glory. For, even as the wife is the glory of the Husband, the Husband is the glory of the wife: "Christ in you, the confident expectation of Glory". Glory indwells you, Glory is your thinking now, so glory is your life (1 Peter 1:8 in context). And it's a glory, isn't it, that everything reflects Him so much, that everything is thus a moniker for Him?

  So, the same Isaiah 53:11 process occurs spiritually, in us; since after all, the γεννάω, siring, parenting, is spiritual! So you are to STAY AT HOME ("abide", "remain", "rest" are some English translations of Greek verb μένω), and obey (ὑπομένω, to stay under): that's a wifely faithfulness, so.. heh.. staying in the Word, makes you become spiritually pregnant (Pleroma, see Ephesians 3:15-19), your body life being like a 'womb'; thus those to be assigned to your kingdom in eternity, are seminally in you. To honor the Father, to fulfill Son's John 17 prayer. How rich a metaphor: Christ was pregnant on the Cross with sin; we are thus pregnant with Him in our bodies in this life, if we keep on keeping on, Philippians 3:14. What a great and dramatic life, ennobling even the brushing of teeth!

  So John uses γεννάω, "to sire" in fabulous wordplay, which you miss in English because English Bibles mistranslate the term, "to be born". So "sired by God" or "parented by God" is far more accurate than "born of God"; even the English connotation of "sired" or "parented" has its double-entendre meant in Greek and in Hebraic thought:

  • you are PROGRESSIVELY sired/parented spiritually by your Trainer/Teacher, the Holy Spirit, post-salvation;
  • Who BIRTHED you spiritually, as well.
  So keep that duality in mind when you read 1 John. It's real important to know the duality, since "abide" (Greek verb μένω, always about staying at a location due to a positive attitude) is about post-salvation FELLOWSHIP, not getting salvation; so if you're not under Your Sire, you've no fellowship, either.

  1 John 3:6 isn't ever translated well in English. translation should be corrected to go something like this: whoever is in fellowship with Him, is not sinning; whoever is sinning, is neither seeing nor knowing Him. You can substitute "in fellowship" with "abiding", if you prefer.

  • Basic idea that you can't be sinning and knowing God at the same time; the two conditions are mutually exclusive.
  • So if not knowing, not seeing;
  • if not knowing, not loving.
  • But if in fellowship, then seeing, knowing, and loving are operating (progressively, of course). [Present participles precede or are co-terminous with the main verb, so in Greek a condition not or no longer happening is sometimes put in the perfect tense, sometimes put in the present tense, depending on what nuances are stressed. In English you'd have to make them all the same tense, to convey the same meaning: here, the progressive tense. This verse is in present-present parallel, to stress the ongoing parallel action, but other socratic equations using the same structure, use participles in the perfect tense to stress the cause of the ἀπόδοσις, as in 1 John 3:9. In English you still have to translate it progressive, namely, "no one BEING sired by God [Holy Spirit, here] is practicing sin..." John is proving that you can't be in fellowship with the Spirit and sinning at the same time, even as he already explained, back in 1 John 1:5-10.]

  Try this corrective technique: whenever you see "born of God" in 1 John, translate it instead, "being sired/parented by God", because this is a progressive BUILDING of those spiritual dendrites the Holy Spirit is doing TO you. Translate also any other verb used in parallelism in the same verse in the same progressive tense.

  • Spiritual siring is a Continual Birthing Of New Connections, Added DDNA, so it's a progressive-tense action.
  • You are being transmuted, gradually.
  • Each day little 'births' of understanding are adding to your soul, if you are residing ("abide") in God's System.

  That's the point John keeps stressing in 1 John. Christ stressed it in John 14-17, so convert verbs into the progressive tense there as well. [Nerd note: the γεννάω participle is usually in the perfect passive, because it precedes your ability to be spiritual; hence you have to translate it in the progressive tense, to know in English what generative state you are in, which 'houses' the action of the main verb.]

  Here's how you know it's progressive: first, look at Galatians 5:25, which is about 'walking' (a Hebraism for spiritual lifestyle); that verb is in the hortatory subjunctive, to encourage you to keep going back to doing it. So it's a dynamic. Next, its sister verse, Ephesians 3:16 (corrected trans): "that He would grant you, on the basis of the Riches of His Glory, to receive strength with Power through the Personal Agency of the Spirit inside [εἰς = destination] the inner man [your soul]." Paul prays a progressive prayer, for a process which God continually does TO you. 1 John explains how this process works; the Lord first described its structure and function, in what comes down to us as John 14-17.

  So when you read 1 John 3:9, correct the translation to: "no one being sired by God practices sin [at the same time].. and he cannot sin [during that time] because he is being sired by God." John's explaining that so long as you are filled with the Spirit, you are not sinning. When you sin, the "siring" stops until you (1 John 1:9)name the sin to God; at which point, you are abiding in Him again, and He's siring you again. [Greek verb μένω is always a dynamic location verb, so it's always an living-in-progress.]

  These verses show You Cannot Stop Sinning On Your Own; You Need God's Power Sustaining You At All Times. And you keep needing Word=Love Growing In You To Receive The Strength to resist sin. But in translation, you miss all this. What a relief to know one is helpless: He Alone carries you in the spiritual life!

8. For MARITAL Love Capacities determine MARITAL Relationships.

Hence MARITAL Love capacities determine MARITAL relationships, and everything is RELATIVE TO those capacities and relationships. No marital capacity, no marital relationship, no matter how many carats are on your wedding finger. Marriage is the most intimate of relationships, so requires the most Love. Love is not native to man, though he fancies himself a lover. Hence the divorce rate. Those not divorced, usually just stick it out. A truly happy married couple shines like a lighthouse in a storm, and is just as rare.

Marriage has no limits within the couple, so the bond is meant to be Total, Indissoluble. It's all or nothing, at all times. That's why it's sacred, exclusive. That's why sex is only between the two (heterosexual) spouses. Depicting, Infinite God and (heteros, different-kind-of-being).. finity. So finity-finity preferences, are like homosexuality, evil. So all this to-people stuff is like homosexuality. For GOD should be the object, not people. There is no "people" in the First Commandment God wrote. So religion is same-sex also, hence excoriated all over the Bible (i.e., Revelation 17, all of Hosea and Hebrews, etc).

Moreover, a marriage based on works.. never works. Marriage can only be based on Love, never works. There were no works in the Garden. If tit-for-tat, men-are-from-mars-women-from-Venus scorecards are used by couple, a constant negotiation takes place between them, and the marriage itself is a big lie. True marriage is Ephesians 5: the husband throws himself down for the wife, and she for him. It's not negotiated. He does it from his own free will, with no strings. She does it from her own free will with no strings. Solicitousness must come from Love; not from negotiation, however seductively promulgated.

What human can love at so high a level? Some few have tried, but the human race is finite, so divided by nature for the sake of preserving freedom; hence PRICED love is all it knows. Enter the impossible, full-circle nature of Church. So for us, unlike all other periods in history, Christian marriage is suddenly a Spiritual Trial Issue. Need Word in you to 'do' the Church Marital Standard Of Throw-down in Ephesians 5. The Church did not exist when Christ died for it. So it was UNconditional. Only God is unconditional love. Hence, the tenor of John 14-17, and 1 John.

Think about it: marriage is a personal bond. Something in the soul of each party so fits the other, that life alone afterwards is inconceivable. So the soul tainted by the sin nature is utterly disoriented, since the definition of 'self', now must include this other person, in order to even THINK about the self anymore. [Hence the common "my wife", rather than her name -- evidence of that deeper bond, not a putdown. Some women talk this way as well; it was much more common early in the 20th century. Honor is evidenced, too; but the deeper evidence is the "my" plus office of the other person. Merging of self-concept with the other one, going beyond mere attraction.] So all the insecurities and inanities of the soul are irritated beyond measure. Yet it's here that one ignores all that need for the other, and instead without negotiation, throws self down? Whoa. Paul had never married, so God made him the marriage expert. If you've never been married, you can really see starkly this bond in a married couple. For better or for worse, they are INFUSED with each other. God help them, if they get upset with each other or divorce. Their lives are thereafter forever shattered. They gotta numb inside or become very bitter, to go on living. Awesome to witness. Scary thing, to marry: Paul is right, in 1 Corinthians 7:32!

My pastor likes to say you grow up three times in life: the third time, is in the marriage. How apt. For history 'grows up' and completes, in Church, and Church is the Bride of Christ.

Clearly it's God Who Makes This Happen. We humans can't even handle love. Notice how in our churches, we turn 'worship' into a dull chore with many shallow rotenesses, bad choirs, sour and solemn faces; or, the converse, lalalalalalala emotionalism, rah-rah Jesus. We don't even know what 'worship' is.

By contrast, notice the wit in 1 John. YOU ARE BEING SIRED! SAME SPIRIT! Every moment you are between sins, The Holy Spirit is SIRING you in the exact same way as He did Christ Himself. So what is there to be sour about? Yeah, it doesn't feel good to the terminally-insecure sin nature, which always has to beat up on something or someone, since rejection is all it knows, legacy of Adam's sin. But You Are Being Sired By the Spirit, so take THAT, you stupid Energizer Bunny, just keep drumming, and I'll just keep on ignoring you, theme of Romans 6-8! Isn't it nice to know that the dull life you have to live, its constant menialities, are being trumped by Your Sire? Hah!!

Would really be nice if pastors could show the wit in the Word. The wordplay in the Word is so delightful and witty, nobody would ever afterwards want to do the stupid Churchinanity thing again. Who needs lalala, when you have the λάλέω of the Word? Who needs the sour, dour, oh-so-solemn shallowness of a Sunday service, when you can delight yourself in the Fatness of Divine Witty Word? Bible in the original is nothing like the sour translations, sorry. γεννάω, Siring! Kids of the Christ! Then, His Bride! That is witty, you know: God sires a Bride for the God-Man He Sired the Same Way. Yet it's not incest. Yet we are brothers. Yet His Father is the same Father as Our Father. Yet it's not sex. Yet it's greater intimacy than sex. Are you getting the wit, yet?

NO BOUNDARIES between God and you. That's closer than any marriage. No body boundaries, no gender boundaries, no social boundries, no sin boundaries, no status boundaries. Which, of course, makes it harder than ever, on the soul. Soul DIVIDED away from God in Adam's sin. So divorce is its nature, while at the same time, craving oneness. Torture! So the 'game', is to overcome the divorcing sin nature, and join to Your New Husband, theme of Romans 7-8.

The Marital Capacity for GOD is what's to grow, here. Wealth of Intimacy. That means, divorcing everything else in life. Cut out, Graft in. Cut out everything else, for it's a MARITAL relationship, exclusive to Him. Then THROUGH Him, graft in all else. The cutting-out takes the better part of one's lifetime, and the grafting-in makes the exclusivity, topmost at all times. But due to Love, not due to obligation. Hard thing to learn. Can't do it, except as God grows you. Can't do it, except by living on the Word to the gradual exclusion of all else in life, Matthew 4:4. But when you come to Love God, no other way of living, will ever suffice. For you are being INFUSED with Your Husband, Him.

9. For God is always about Marriage,
and the Angelic Divorce Trial is about Marriage,
so the Garden and hence Church's Marriage to Christ,
was and is.. On Trial.

God is always about marriage, and the Angelic Divorce Trial is about marriage, so the Garden couple's Marriage was on Trial -- was God more important, or not? The irony was, in the name of marriage, Adam took that fruit from his wife, rejecting God. So we've all been divorcing HIM.. ever since. Just like Adam did, we choose people rather than God, and we call that choice, virtuous. Replacing the Real "God" of the First Commandment with "people"! Expecting God to reward us, of course. Funny how we keep cutting the head off the Commandments, paying so much attention to the 2nd through the 10th, but ignoring, the First. So we have no marital relationship with God. So we have no love for people, either: main theme of 1 John.

Everything has always been about the First Commandment. Back before there were humans, the angels had the same commandment, and 1/3rd of them rebelled: more on that rebellion follows below. Point is, this divorcing between finity and Infinity preceded man's existence and is the proximate cause of man's existence.

For the One Who First practices the First Commandment the Most, is God Himself.

• For God constantly prostrates Himself, so to speak, before Truth (Psalm 138:2b), before Righteousness, Justice and Love (Psalm 89:14-15), etc.
• And also, before Each Other.
• We know this from Their Self-Chosen Titles: "Father", "Son", "Spirit". DueDisclosure.htm explains more why this Prostrating Love results in a Triunity.
• It's not a structural deficiency within the Godhead, but a Use Of Sovereignty.
• Because They are Equal and Each Wholly God, that's a PROBLEM.
• Being Equal should mean a kind of DISTANCE, which They do not want.
• So Because Equal, They can Justify Prostration Before Each Other.
• Because Each of them IS Love.
• So Love is not denied, and it's not unjust, either.
• That's why we must be made EQUAL, 2 Corinthians 5:21, else a kind of distance would be required.
• Love loves Justice.
• So Love goes THROUGH Justice.
• So we are made Equal because that's JUST. Anything less would not be.
• Hence we are to be filled up with Love=Word, atop that structural DDNA Equality we inherited that first nanosecond we believed in Christ, Isaiah 53:10-11 (contract), plus Romans 5:1(result), plus 2 Corinthians 5:21 (fulfilling Isaiah 53:11, the means for Equality to be made juridically valid).
• That's why we CAN pray, as explained in the prior section.
• That's why we get MARRIED to Christ forever as Bride, Body of Christ.
• That's why we are GIVEN the Word to the highest level, Christ's Own Level, Ephesians 4:13 --
• and that's why we are still down here, to learn this Marital Level -- God's Own Love.
• No other group of humans can get this. Woe to us if we frigidly spurn it, Colossians 3:25.

Israel was to spiritually train to become Messiah's 'bride', which is why she got the Exodus and the Mosaic Law. That's why so much of the Old Testament vocabulary to Israel is marital. Therefore, way back when Moses taught the people their eschatological marital role (for the 1st Advent), he continually stressed the Word being "near" (i.e., in Deuteronomy 30), so you were to think it day and night, "when you get up" and "when you go to bed". Hence the many reminders to think Word, like tefillin, tassels, all those rituals and details. They were mnemonic devices, teaching many things as well. Which you loved, if you loved what those mnemonics meant. Which you hated, if you hated the meanings. Manna, for example, depicted the daily provision of Word. Many hated it (i.e., Num11:6).

Christ loved it, Matthew 4:4. So in the New Testament, Christ-Who-Loved-Word became the Word of the Cross (ὁ λόγος τοῦ σταυροῦ) which is a Title indicating how He paid for sins (again referencing Isaiah 53:10-12, from context of Isaiah 52:13ff). He loved the Word so much, it sustained His Motivation on the Cross to complete the javelin-piercing imputation and judgement of our sins! So Hebrews 12:2, called the Cross a "joy". It's not hyperbole.

As explained at length in Part 4a of the Lord vs. Satan, Israel spurned Messiah when He came, so He announced His Call for 'Esther', in Matthew 16:18. Church thus plays an Esther role to Rescue Israel -- specifically, rescue her TIME (math is extensive for this). So here we are. The Lord prostrated Himself on the Cross, so we get crosses, too. Royal Marriage, Royal Role Model, Royal DDNA, Royal everything. Including, crosses. So Royal Training in Love is required: hence the Royal Mentor-King, the Holy Spirit, "without limit", John 7:39 (and elsewhere). And rejecting HIM, means Colossians 3:25 (Greek word ἀδικία is "wrongdoing", rejection of His Ministry, see parallel John makes in 1 John 1:9). It's not exaggerated. There never was a "people" in the First Commandment, but until there was a Person Who could Fully Execute it, no people could, either. Until "now".

So the long human history of Divorce from God, comes back TO God in marriage, via Church. At this point, we've ALL divorced Him, and Israel is cut off temporarily -- but He is Faithful, since He is Truth. So with His Truth building in us, we can become that faithful, and thus bring history full circle. Via Our King-Mentor, all things are possible, and united.

10. So 1 John explains that to develop Divine Marital Love,
requires Marital-Level Intimate Knowledge of God,
which takes Divine Power to produce.

So 1 John explains that to develop Divine Marital Love, requires Marital-level Intimate Knowledge of God; and that, takes Divine Power to produce -- parallel is Ephesians 1:19's "surpassing greatness" (wordplay on Christ as Head). [Whenever Paul uses ὑπερβολή, he's playing on His Head in your Head, the Head Attribute of God's Word=Love. Fabulous stuff!] See, first the Groom had to be developed, for the Bride to be able to 'copy' Him. Israel was supposed to be that Bride, but she played Vashti (Part 4a of Lord vs. Satan is on this topic). So now Esther gets developed. The Husband 'bought' His Wife on the Cross. So now she learns Her Husband, prior to the Wedding. It's an old royal metaphor: in ancient times, a royal betrothal took place when both intendeds were young, and the bride was often raised in the royal house of her future husband (i.e., "Mary, Queen of Scots" had been betrothed to the future King of France, so spent her childhood there). So now we are in training to become Fit Bride for Our Royal Husband. It's a lot to learn.

Since love depends on knowledge, no child loves: trusts, is attracted to, needs, wants -- but not loves. What passes for love between strangers, cannot be: they don't know each other. For not even human love develops overnight, since it IS wholly dependent on knowledge. No one knows God but God or has ever even seen Him (i.e., John 1:18, John 5:37, John 14:7-9, 1 John 4:12). So it takes GOD to give you knowledge OF Him. Until you have knowledge from HIM, you cannot love Him (another theme in 1 John and his Gospel). And you don't have ANY knowledge of Him, if you are in a state of 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10; and you have no knowledge of Him, if you're not learning the Word (main theme in 1 John and his Gospel, even in translation).

You can't think about anything, much less love, what/who you didn't first LEARN. You don't know if you'd like peas, until you 'know' the taste of them. You don't know if you'd like math, until you 'know' how it works. Get the idea? Even so: you don't know if you'd like Bible, until you 'know' what it says; and you don't know what it says, outside of God's System, period. You can fantasize you know: but 1 John is pretty strident about the fantasizers, calling them very bad names (murderers, thieves, nice epithets like those). [1 John 3:6-15, wordplay analogy on the religious crowd, same rhetorical gambit as Paul uses in Romans 1-2, and the Old Testament uses everywhere in the prophets. Idea that these people consider themselves pure, yet are the devil's own children, so are really murderers, thieves, etc. It's a common Bible theme, very.. um, abrasive. Isaiah 64:6 sums it all up, calling man's righteousness, menstrual rags. My pastor spent a lot of time explaining that verse, so you know I'm not making it up. You can't easily find the true translation in lexicons, but all of the BibleWorks lexicons (even Strong's abridged, what a surprise) don't euphemize. All translations do euphemize "iddim" (ayin dalet yod mem), menstrual flow, rags containing (in plural).]

Thinking depends on Learning. Love depends on Thinking. Hence the First Commandment is only realized VIA Word, main theme of Hosea. Hosea was a prophet to Samaria (aka "Israel", the Northern Kingdom), during the 40 or so years before Sennacherib levelled the place. Hosea was actually commanded by God to marry an unfaithful woman, whose meandering took her all over the place; in the end, she was sold for the price of a damaged slave, and Hosea was able to buy her back. Gomer was her name, and she represented Israel's unfaithfulness. But note how Hosea 4:6 describes it: my people perish for lack of knowledge of Me. Can't be faithful to Someone you don't know, since Love Sustains Your Motive To Be Faithful, in the first place.

And since Love depends on Thinking, and Thinking on Knowing, well.. if you spend your time knowing not-God, then you are not-My-People (name of one of Hosea's kids, tweaking Israel). So your loyalties are elsewhere, naturally. So-called Christian 'backsliding' occurs for but one reason: not learning and living Bible in God's System. It's impossible to 'cure' sin; it's impossible to even treat sin. Only God can do that. And His Operating Table, is Hebrews 4:12. Period. The only alternative is the romphaia (Divine Discipline, depicted as a broadsword). Your choice. [One of the funniest ideas in Christianity is the revival/retreat concept. Idea that you throw some faggot on the fire, vowing to change your life of 'sin' -- narrowly defined as the gross ones, of course. So what really happens, afterward? Your sins merely change to the worst kind, legalism. Note the Lord's oh-so-fine sarcasm in Matthew 12:43-45, Luke 11:23-26! Well, see the context from Luke 11:14, to get the full meaning.]

11. So it's not about human love,
but Word in You, which IS Divine Love.
THAT is On Trial.

1 John (and his Gospel) stresses that Word-Love connection which Paul had earlier explained in 1 Corinthians 13; which the Lord had first explained, in John 14-17. So it's not about human love, but Word In You. That is True Love. Nothing else. For "love" in Greek has different words to denote a different source for the love. In Greek, "agape" is never used for any other Source, but God. In Greek literal, "agape" was the love from the gods, and to the gods, but the latter was always a product of the former. That's why you have the "subjective and objective genitive" in classical Greek, which construction the Bible uses a lot (i.e., in every "love of God" or "of love"). The 'god' cycling in you, is the idea. So the proper English translation requires an adjective front the verb: Divine Love, not merely "love". [Typical of translations, to chop God out of the picture. Happens so predictably, you can set your watch. If the word "God" or "Divine" is part of the meaning of the word, you must translate it. But hey: no one does. Find even one translation of the word "agape" properly rendered, "God's Love" or "Divine Love", I dare ya. Everyone knows this word, so why is it continually mistranslated! Aarrrrrgggghhhh.]

We also have the subjective and objective genitive in English. Look: "the Love of a King". Is that the King doing the Loving (subjective genitive), or the subject OF the King, loving Him (objective genitive)? Often in the Bible, both ideas are in view, but one of them is first in view, depending on the verse. Latin has this same circular wordplay inherent. James Joyce made use of the Latin version, in the first chapter of his novel, Ulysses ("amor matris" line).

Idea of RECIPROCATION. 1 John is all about how that Reciprocation is Built: "we love, because He first loved us!" says 1 John 4:19. So you need the Word in you, to get the Love Of God Known, so you are thus Motivated to Reciprocate. Which you can only reciprocate, by means of that Same Word, just as Christ did, Matthew 4:4, per 1 John 2:6 (etc). For God IS Love, hence His Word is Love, hence His Word needs to be IN you, in order for You to love; hence CHERISH-GUARD that Word in you, 1 John 2:5 -- and then you ARE completely loving. It's a sine qua non. How genius the writing, in 1 John!

Trial Gist, preview of coming attractions:

• 'Can't know someone you don't learn, can't love someone you don't know.
• But the amazing thing is, we can't SEE God, yet can know Him via His Word.
• That we can nonetheless come to Love the One we cannot see but by Word, constitutes massive Marital Trial Evidence of His Love being built IN us. That point really mattered to John's contemporary audience, since a) the flashy, visible spiritual gifts had ceased, and b) the defections were in favor of visible works and feely-stuff (to make you 'feel' spiritual). Just like, today.

• For humans cannot love what they cannot see, touch, taste, feel. Makes one feel crazy.
• So it's Divine Love which is evidenced, yet IN sinner humans!
• Hence the Marital Capacities determine the Marital relationships we will have TO Him, forever. All built unseen, while we are down here: Hebrews 11:1. In a corrected translation (trying to reflect the Greek meter), that verse reads: "Now it's about Confidence in Word! Christ's Thinking, on Trial! Evidence Unseen!" [Translations should match meaning in the original. Sometimes that means you must use different words in the destination language, to properly reflect the meaning of the source language.]

1 John 4:12-17 says all this, and the last two sections of this webpage will explain these Love Dimensions in much more detail. For now, notice the Impossibility of a sin-nature human loving at ALL, much less having the Prostration Love that characterises God and Christ. Especially since God is Invisible, someone loving Him that much is considered nuts. Just as Noah looked, when he spent 120 years building a silly boat miles away from any water. Faith is in WORD, else you really will go nuts. Faith needs Reason to survive, especially if the Object IS invisible. That's true in lesser attitudes like honor and respect for mere principles. Far more true, when the Object is the Source of All Honor. Worse, when visible proof is manifest and obvious (like the Dome of the Rock and the Wailing Wall, which scream that Daniel 9:26 occurred), well.. absent the Word in you, you can't tolerate that proof. And, we prove we don't. [LvS4a.htm, which is Part 4a of the Lord vs. Satan, sometimes focuses on the Dome of the Rock and Daniel 9:26 as a threaded theme, to show how God orchestrates time to rescue Israel via Church, since the structure stares us in the eyes, every TV day.]

But sadly, all this meaning in 1 John is missed, so we believers never wake up to why we are here. For in Bible English, "love" is a MIStranslation; the "Divine" meaning of "agape", is always cut out. So what's left for us to think? Oh, we naturally think of 'love' as emotion! Emotion isn't even human love, but a body reaction! Your body gets 'love' stimuli from any variety of extrinsic or intrinsic sources. That's why people get on drugs, go to revival rallies, overeat, and watch 'Christian' TV. Anyone can provoke a body 'love' reaction. Advertisers count on it, and design their commercials around what stimulates that reaction. Get real.

1 John is deceptively simple, so in English it's doggone near unreadable. In Greek, the keywords stick out, so it's much easier to parse and understand. Deft piece of writing. For example, 1 John's rhetoric is crafted in terms of beginnings or firsts. Sine qua nons, without-which-nots. On, or off. Alive, or dead. Light, or dark. Love, or no Word. Word, or no love. Very stark, very dramatic. Cast in socratic equations (which was the style of discourse at that time), John's seemingly-simple prose hits the Greek reader between the eyes like the highest epic play. The Real God really comes to dwell in you. Not deus ex machina. Real Love from Real God is Real Word living ("abiding", Greek verb μένω) in you, climactic summary statement, 1 John 4:12-17, 17-19. For more tips on Bible definitions, especially in 1 John, CLICK HERE.

How ironic: the first non-Gospel New Testament book written was James, and it was on the same subject; now here's the last apostle alive, the last one about to write the last book of the New Testament and knowing it, talking in the same way. Because the legalistic ascetics had religified the Word, so their malignant 'DNA' had spread: Christianity in Diaspora was apostatizing rapidly. So the theme of 1 John, is to avoid that malignant DNA by 'abiding' in the Spirit, and thus in the Word, and thus in fellowship with Father and Son. STAY AT HOME in Him. In HIM, not in works. In Word, not in the world. And then, you are truly loving.

So it matters WHY you are learning the Word, not merely that you are learning it. Love is a WILL result of learning Truth. If that love is for GOD, then you keep on using the learning to learn more about God Himself. If there are other motives -- and there will be, so don't get upset -- the other motives will skew your developing love away from God and onto 'substitutes'. Again, this is a normal set of hazards in spiritual growth: Second Aspect will cover some of these hazards in more detail. As you catch onto them, just keep on reminding yourself WHY you really want to keep learning Him. As time passes, the other motives will get defeated.

12. So Learning Word is the first "flank" of Divine Love.
Second "flank" is Believing What You Learn. Believing-in, is the 'heart' of Love.

So Learning the Word is the first "flank" of getting Divine Love. But there's a second flank: Believing In What You Learn. For Love always begins with a believing-in. If you 'abide' in believing-in, you eventually come to love, say the socratic equations in 1 John 4:7-19. From there, you 'abide' in the love, the same way you got there: "Love believes all things..endures all things", Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:4ff. Paul's main meaning level, speaks of the All-Things of Christ, His Word. Like the writer of Hebrews, John ties in the "believes" (in) and "endures" keywords, from 1 Corinthians 13:4ff: to explain how you can know you are loving God, especially in 1 John 4:7-19.

It's really important to grasp early on that this Love is not possible for a human to 'do'. Save yourself a lot of angst over the many failures you'll experience every day. You cannot do this of yourself. That's why you have to learn it, and then it does the work via the Spirit. DOCTRINE WORKS, main theme of James (always mistranslated and interpreted by legalistic, non-loving Christians). It worked in Abraham, it works even higher in us, theme of James and John (really, everyone in New Testament). The sooner you grasp that fact, the sooner your life will relax. This is a real DDNA transmutation. You can't do it yourself. You can only Vote For It, using 1 John 1:9 as needed, to keep on keeping on. God will do it. That's the Isaiah 53:10-12 Contract.

Big hint that God's definitions aren't like ours: if Bible were talking of human love, there would be no 1 John or 1 Corinthians teaching you how to know if you are loving God. Because, it's Divine Love, and you must learn it by Learning the Word. Just as was always true, in the OT. But now, we get Christ's Thinking in His Humanity, a "new commandment" (term in 1 John 2, talking of the new covenant), to complete the First Commandment. Since He loved so much that He paid for sin, His Thinking can produce in us that Same Love, 1 John 4:19. Thus, completing us. Hence to get complete, means to get His Thinking completely in us (crescendo passage in 1 John 4:12-17).

Love is not a doing, but a BEING. Specifically, a State of Being, since God is Absolute Being, hence His Love is Absolute (unconditional, immutable, dynamically homeostatic, the essence of Infinity). So "God" is not a doing. Hence the need to get DDNA, to change your own being. So love is not a doing, but a Thinking from a DDNA being; for, God Thinks. And you can't abide long in anything you don't love thinking about, period. For to abide, remain, rest in BELIEF, means love grows. Even, human love. But especially, Divine Love, since the only reason you'll GET the Word and USE 1 John 1:9, is because you BELIEVE in the God Who Wrote the Word and in His Son, Jesus the Christ.

Believing IN, is not the same as believing. Bible uses the term so often, it concatenates the meaning to just state the verb, but the full statement is in places like Acts 16:31: Πίστευσον ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον (...) καὶ σωθήσῃ σὺ. Meaning, Believe on the Lord (Jesus Christ, in the text), and you are (that moment) saved forever. So "ἐπὶ" means ON, as on a FOUNDATION, 1 Corinthians 3, Ephesians 2:10. I can believe a thing is true, and be negative to it. I can believe a thing is true and be positive to it. Like James writes in James 2, even demons believe (in the trininty + that God exists, etc)... and shudder. They certainly don't 'believe' Christ paid for their sins though, because they are negative to God and salvation.

Note how it's not whether you believe or even know a thing is true, only: but, What Attitude Do You Thus Have About What You Believe/Know? Two 'flanks' of development are required, not one. Water AND Blood, as John puts it, in 1 John 5:6. Water, the information, the Word (another layer of meaning in the verse). Blood, how your volition reacts or responds. As my pastor puts it, the latter is your "Reciprocal love for God", and the Former, is the Doctrine itself. So demons know the Word way better than all of us put together. But they ridicule it (especially in the fake holy books). Every second they breathe, they are ridiculing Him. So they believe Him, but not in Him. So they never develop into loving Him. They probably started out that way, before they sinned. Having sinned, they can change their minds, since they of course retain free will. But look how hard it is to change the mind back toward God, once He is rejected.

So all love -- even human love -- derives its staying power, from 'believing-in' the object. So: the second a wife stops believing in her husband, the husband stops, the child stops, the nation stops, the believer stops.. then the love stops, too. Real love never stops: but it first has to DEVELOP. Hebrews 11:1 is never well translated, but it says all this: Ἔστιν δὲ πίστις ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις, πραγμάτων ἔλεγχος οὐ βλεπομένων. All those "ων" endings are plurals. Meaning many confident believings, many trials, many unseen evidences. All starting with believing. And not stopping.

Like 1 John does, let's next review the process of thinking-development from the believing-in phase, to Love. As a child, you first believed in your parents. They warned you and cared for you and you learned that what they taught you, proved true. Even, when you disobeyed. So you came to trust them (i.e., 1 John 2:1-6). As you grew older, you learned your parents weren't perfect, but you respected them, anyway. And as you became a bigger person (maturing), you came to love them. Not necessarily attracted to them, but.. well, anything they need, you want to provide. Love rarely feels good. But it remains. And, in human relationships, love is used like a weapon, unfortunately. But God is not people. And the First Commandment has no "people", in it. So, you worry less about people, as time passes. For you have a relationship with God Himself, and you know 1 John 1:9, so you can stay in that relationship. [1 John is about living the post-salvation relationship, not about salvation. You can't lose your salvation. Some of the verses in 1 John are poorly translated and so sound like you can lose salvation; most of these verses, unintentionally mess up on English verb tenses, so you can MISread the verses. So if you think you see a verse which says you can lose salvation: try changing the English tense to the progressive tense. For example, "sins" should be "is sinning": a very different meaning in English, signifying the act At The Moment -- which is what John means. See if you don't get a better 'read' on the verse. It takes too long to go through the specific verses.]

In relationship with God, as you come to know Him in His System, you realize there is No Risk. Finally, Love is free to BE Love, 1 John 2:2. Sure, you might rail at Him from time to time. Sure, you will get very emotional from time to time. But it's always a closeness, and that closeness occurs because of what you know about Him, from being in His System and learning His Book. For that is How God Thinks. Phrased, for human consumption. Yes, it IS possible for Infinite Thinking to be reduced to writing, and only because a Human went to the Cross, having Developed in That Thinking, and completed it. Without sin.

So now you, with sin, can learn.

• It starts slowly. It starts with Just Believing, and a kind of Childlike Trust, where you understand little, but boy oh boy you know GOD LIVES!
• Then it grows, as you grow in the System, into the kind of adult appreciation, which then means "we love, because He first loved us." 1 John 4:19.
• From there, the love matures.
• All this growing, is an "abiding" in believing, in the Word (aka "faith", in English Bibles).
• You Stay In The System.
• You use 1 John 1:9, you stay under whomever is your right pastor, and
• you think OVER what you learn in Bible class at times during your day.
• Every day. So, you grow.
• So, you come to Love, when you have accumulated enough of that daily DDNA.
• Kinda like physical growth, it takes some years. But baby, you can't find any happiness like it! Not emotional. Emotions are too small, for this kind of happiness.

• Notice what's not an issue: sin. Sin was paid for 2000 years ago.
• You are experiencing it now, but it WAS paid for.
• So it's not an issue, else Father was unfair to His Own Son -- what a crock.
• So sin is not an issue. It's an issue to people, who slap God's Name on it to justify making it an issue. Self will do the same thing. Well, all the people are liars. God is Truth.
• You can't stop sin, cure sin, treat sin.
• God Alone Did That On The Cross, And God Alone Does That In Your Head, As You Grow In His System.
• So whatever sin problem you're having, just keep on keeping on in His System. He Will Handle It. Don't you try. Psalm 46:10 "Be Still.. and know that I AM GOD." Whew!

• For sin is resolved by learning, not earning. I just keep using 1 John 1:9 and firing whatever Doctrine I remember at the moment.
• That's a Voting, and it Remains Unsinged, 1 Corinthians 3.
• He makes that vote effective, even as He made your initial faith in Christ effective for all time, to save you to Himself forever.
• Same mechanism, but now applied to the Rest of the Rescue, Building Atop that Foundation of Salvation.
• From which Voting Atop, demonstrates Love.
• It's Love God Builds. So don't worry about sin.
• Do worry about permanently quitting God's System, so make being in it an instinctive habit.
• 99.9% of Christians do not get in and stay in His System, which is true 'backsliding', 2 Peter 1:9 (always mistranslated, corrected translation is in TrueSpirituality.htm, search on "myopic").

• As love grows you will become more and more tempted to be disgusted with yourself and what you see around you: this, because Righteous Standards Are Growing In Your Head, and You Are Growing To Love Those Standards.
• The body will always screw up what you learn, distorting it to the sin-nature's need to reject and blame. That's the "Energizer Bunny" nature of the sin nature.
• So just keep firing at all that temptation, what you've learned about Grace (my pastor calls this a "problem-solving device" of "grace orientation"). I must think a bazillion times a day, "You Can Do This!" toward God. He can do it, I know that, but my Energizer Bunny is deaf to Him, despite all this beautimous doctrine taught so well over the decades.
• So relax a little: the stupid temptations never go away. You just get used to them, and even develop a sense of humor!

This is God's Nature Which Is Growing In You, And Your Nature Cannot Handle It. Hence the need of being in God's System, 1 John 1:9, etc. As time passes, this fight will give way to more subtle fights, and it never goes away. You will mature in the fighting, but it never ends, this side of heaven. Spiritual life is a marathon race, not a sprint, Hebrews 12:1-2, Greek. So it helps to know now that you're in this for the long haul. No magic in God's Love, for God's Love is way better than magic is even imagined to be. For God wants DDNA, not magic. IN You, not in works. For YOU are the works HE wants to work, because He loves.. YOU. You, not works. So forget about works, sin, etc. Just learn Him. By the end of this webpage, you'll see what a huge testimony that is, outweighing all works, and accomplishing the Greatest Work of All Time: "Christ in you, the Confidence of Glory", defeating Satan & Co., Colossians 1:25-27 (see context).

13. So Love as a Metaphor of Word means
the Spirit has Built ENOUGH Dendritic Word in you,
such that you maturely love, even as Christ does.

So Love used as a metaphor for the Word means enough OF that dendritic Word has been built by the Spirit IN you, with the result that you maturely love even as Christ does: John parallels the goal of Ephesians 4:13, Ephesians 3:15-19, in 1 John 4:12-17. To show how the completion of Canon, leads to its completion in your head; leads to the completion of history. So you become a king in eternity, and get a Kingdom of kids to love.

True Love never thinks in terms of price, so status is but a tool to love the better. Notice how God uses His Godness to Prostrate Himself. Father, for Son. Son, for Father. Spirit, for Father. Father, for Spirit. Son, for Spirit. Spirit, for Son. We insecure humans with our constant yearning for power, cannot therefore love. So we don't 'get' this Love. We think it's grovelling, rather than FREEDOM. So we can't do this love. That's why 1 John 4:19 is so dramatic: we Divinely Love because He FIRST loved us! Circle. Full circle of Infinity inside finity. So no need for power, when you have Love.

Your human nature cannot perceive this Love. The world cannot perceive it. Under pressure, you will be blindsided and will need to just assert this truth to get through that pressure. In calmer moments, you will realize how true it is. Every day, maybe many times a day, this pressure-assertion process will occur. Because You Are Living a Supernatural Life, in God's System. It's Beyond Human, me ish! me bene adam! So Beyond Human Perception, so seems untrue, foolish, wrong, unproductive, goofy, whatever. But Bible exists, and you fire it at all those too-low arguments. Takes lots of practice.

True Love is Unconditional, which is impossible for humans: everything necessary to human survival requires PRICING. So only God's Love is True Love. So when the Word is referenced as "love", Bible is talking about a certain spiritual growth level. It's never talking about human love, or even human love for people -- but only Divine Love. Which is an absolute, every time it is "on", 1 John 2:5. And it is "on", if you are in the Spirit (1 John 1:9 used), and in the Word (a refrain, reminder of John 4:23-24). Then you are in the Vine, and in the Father, theme of John 14-17.

1 John addresses three groups of varying maturity in that Love. It's true that God's Love is an absolute, but until Enough Word is in us, that Love doesn't connect enough to cross us over the maturation threshold. And there are three such thresholds.

• First, is childhood. No real love there, but the believing-IN exists. God builds on that.
• Next, the break into spiritual adulthood, my pastor designates by the Bible term "hope" (ἐλπίζω, absolute confident expectation).
• Makes sense: a child lacks confidence.
• So: just as a child shouldn't marry, so also a spiritual child can't produce anything but drool and diaper rash.
• But an adult, can actually have children.
• So spiritual adults ("young men" in 1 John) have just crossed over.
• Third, the "fathers" are called that, because they ARE producing. So, to mix metaphors, one is 'childbearing' as a 'wife' once one is somewhere between "young men" and "fathers". For enough of the Word has grown and Connected to Become a διάνοια of Love in you.

Greek word "διάνοια" means A Thinking Structure That Functions. DDNA is a Structure of Instructions, and when you are Sufficiently Instructed, That Structure Forms. It's kinda like cell division occurring often enough that an aggregate body is produced. Takes time, and in the beginning everything is confusing. Just keep on keeping on. It does get clear and consolidated. Back seven years ago, I knew a lot of Bible doctrine, because I had a good pastor; but only since the last seven years, has it all consolidated so very much. Overwhelming, actually. Fluency is fast, high, even in my sleep. I didn't produce one whit of any of it. Holy Spirit does it. So it works. And I'm still the same doo-doo brain I was at salvation, hence the moniker "brainout". It works. Doctrine Works. The διάνοια Gets Built, so get in and stay in God's System, see for yourself.

When one becomes mature enough to marry and have children, an enormous change occurs. You stop living for yourself. Love is like that, 1 Corinthians 13:4ff. So, that's how it will be in eternity, too. For the Riches of a king are Love of a king. Loving, loved. A circle of love, due to a circle of Word, and it's all Priceless, Isaiah 55:1-11.

14. Hence 1 John's theme:
Completion of Canon AS Love,
wraps up history,
via First Commandment Living in You.

Hence 1 John's theme from Chapter 1 is thus the Completion of Canon AS Love, wrapping up history -- in you. Completion ("perfecting" in English Bibles) of a Written Contract which Fulfills the First Commandment, completes Canon, completes Church, completes you, completes God's Trial Answer to Satan & Co. Note how this Trinity Love Contract is expressed in Isaiah 53:10-12: If you will give Your Soul as a substitute for sin, you will sire many, who will via You, get the Light of the Word. There's not one verse in Bible which doesn't point to this Contract, which was made between Father and Son in eternity past. John understood it; he's using "Light" in 1 John to reference the LXX transformative additions of Isaiah 53:11, since it's the Heart Of The Our Legacy In Christ; so when he repeatedly uses the Greek verb τελειόω (=to complete, "to perfect" in legal sense), he's thus showing how that contract gets fulfilled first in (1 John 4:12), and then in association with, us (1 John 4:16).

Trinity as Family is so widely played on the Old Testament you'd have to take five sabbaticals just to list the salient wordplay in all the Old Testament verses. I think I stopped counting after about 500 verses, deciding I could never list and explain them all in TrinityCites.htm. The wordplay doesn't port over into English, so you can empathize with the translators, here. You can't even list all the categories of wordplay methods: I started to try, and then flat gave up. Come on! One of the Hebrew months is named "Father" (Ab, in Hebrew)! In that month, both Temple destructions occur because the Son was rejected! How the Jews can deny Trinity with so much wordplay in the Hebrew on Ab, and Breath (ruach, ruach-elohim being one way the Holy Spirit is designated), I'll never know. Most of Bible's Old Testament Divine Humor is based on Trinity, marriage, fathering, birthing: FAMILY, get it?

Birthing, Building, and Trinity-as-Family wordplay are the three most common metaphorical structures in the original-language texts of Bible: now maybe you begin to see why. Infinity inside finity, and it's not a compromise? 🤣 no! It's a FULFILLMENT! God has Desires, and just because He can do a thing, doesn't mean He wants to go against volition!

So here's the Deal They Struck:

• the Holy Breath ("Spirit", to you) will Breathe Power for the Son's Humanity so
• the Son's Humanity can choose to stand off from using His Own Deity, even through the Cross. So it's never a work!
• 'Mom', the Holy Spirit does that birthing, brithing, breathing, but not the actual paying, so 'Mom' isn't working, either!
• Father, for His part, is the Ordainer (so bears the most responsibility) -- yet does neither the Breathing nor the Paying, but instead the Judging, so it's not His Work, either!
This is the Divine Sense of Humor: I, Holy God, did not make Myself, so there's no such thing as anyone making himself, either. I, Holy God will make them, and thus they will be Made Like My Son. Shouldn't Holy God get that? Of course. But not, based on deserving -- but based on Love. With all Three, Wholly, Holy Participating. Which is what births us. David claims this No-Work Deal as the basis for his petition for Divine Aid, in Psalm 40:5-9, showing that the Word got IN him. [Section 85 in the Mormon holy books is a ribald satire on Psalm 40:8's Hebrew And Greek, so of course no Mormon could know that. The Bible verse is mistranslated in the English to say "heart": but in the Hebrew and Greek, the term rendered "heart" should have been translated "inner parts", "womb", "guts". The verse is referenced in Isaiah 53:11, therefore. So Section 85 satirizes both Psalm 40:8 and Isaiah 53:11 in both the Hebrew and Greek! For Section 85 says it's Joseph Smith -- not Christ, Who is depicted in Psalm 40:8 and Isaiah 53:11 -- but it's Joseph Smith, who has a "fountain of truth" in his "bowels". In other words, truth is doo-doo in Joseph Smith. What demonic wit: they always but always mock those who believe in their fake holy books. Poor Joseph Smith didn't know Greek and Hebrew of Psalm 40:8 and Isaiah 53:11; nor could he, because at that time, the Bible IN those languages was just then being collated overseas, by Samuel Prideaux Tregelles and other Bible people. So this was a demon who made up Section 85.]

So, just as ON the Cross, it's a CIRCLE, a CYCLING in aggregate of Word in us, which makes this process complete. Last two sections of this webpage will explain more about the process and its testimony, siring results. For now, just notice that "from the beginning" this Love Contract gets completed, in and with Church. Technically: because the First Commandment got fulfilled by Christ in HIS Body, He gets a Body to Administer that Love: we are that Bridal Body. It's an award to HIM, part of the "booty" promised back in Isaiah 53:10-12.

Hence "Completed": passive voice, Holy Spirit brings you to completion via Word-Love in your head: tying to and playing on "It is Finished!" which Christ said on the Cross (τετέλεσται). Really bald statements that Doctrine in you=Love, and that's what completes you, testifies, and gets you "confidence" (of reward) at Bema (1 John 4:17, climactic verse). The DDNA angle comes from μένω and agape and many intimacy/pregnancy allusions like "in", "abide", "children", "seed" in 1 John 3:9: so long as you abide under the Spirit who made Christ from a virgin, you too abide in the Word-Seed; and so, during that time you not only cannot sin but you are caused bear spiritual kids of your own -- inside yourself! Spiritual DNA! What a witty way to play on Isaiah 53:11's "me amal" (labor pains of the Seed bearing all sins on the Cross)! [1 John 3:9 treats the Holy Spirit as birthing learning 'seed' of Word, Sanhedrin aphorism -- see γεννάω in a lexicon. There's an ancient Judaic concept which comes from the Bible, that those who teach the Word 'sire' children who learn it. Bible stresses that about Abraham, and Paul uses that Judaic concept to write 1 Corinthians, Romans 4, Galatians and Ephesians.]

Something else gets completed, due to the completion of Canon: Church. And Church, completes God's Trial argument to Satan & Co. about Why Love Triumphs. John's tying Church back to eternity past, to the Trial, and hence to the Garden couple, just like Paul does in his witty Book of Ephesians. [LvS4a.htm begins Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan Trial, very long, very comprehensive on this topic.]

Remember what was said earlier, quoting James on how demons believe Him, but not IN Him? How they ridicule the Word? Well, look: we have believed in Him. So as 1 John 4:12-19 dramatically sketches, We Are On Trial For Believing In The Word: will we 'remain' in that belief, 'remain' in the Love the Word builds IN us, 'remain' as evidence of Him, overcoming Satan & Co. while still IN the world? That's our real testimony, and the real culmination of history (main theme of 1 John and John 14-17). As you'll see better in the next section, it's not testimony to people, but to God. God First. Which is why we are on Trial: is God the One Who's First? If no, our testimony runs the football into Satan's end zone, and the demons laugh their heads off. But if YES, it demonstrates to Satan & Co. that their rejection of their version of the First Commandment, is wrong. For they were (and still are) higher in nature than we puny humans.

First Commandment has no one but "God" in it; no angels, and no people, either. Deuteronomy 6:5 follows the dramatic Deuteronomy 6:4, the command to Hear The Word, saying:

"You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."

No other object, and none of you left, either. The Lord's Humanity changes Deuteronomy 6:5 to UPGRADE it, since He will be our DDNA. For He says,

"You shall love the LORD your God in (by means of, in the sphere of) ALL your heart (believing-in), and in ALL your soul and in ALL your Understanding/Thinking-Of-Doctrine." [Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27.]

That purple capitalized text is really the pithy Greek noun "διάνοια"; the term is usually fuzzily truncated in English as "mind"; but "διάνοια" is not merely the faculty of thinking. Rather, the term stresses the CONNECTIONS in the thinking, how the thinking 'moves', and the CONTENT of the thinking; here wrought by all those spiritual dendrites and data the Holy Spirit makes INSIDE you.

So "διάνοια" means DDNA as an entirety, the 'body' of the thinking HE's made in you: the 'Divine throughput' of your soul. It's no longer the old Deuteronomy 6:5 standard, your own strength. It's HIS Strength, same as the Holy Spirit did to Jesus Himself. Which is why He changes the last word in First Commandment. [Interpretative quoting tells you how to use the quote. It's not like our modern practice of merely repeating a quote everyone already knows.] You'll need to trace "διάνοια" throughout Bible, to see this specialized meaning. [Well over 200 occurrences of cognates, i.e., Isaiah 55:9 uses διανοήματα, rendered "thoughts", body-of-thinking; 122 occurrences of morphed διάνοια words alone; sometimes they are rendered "heart", as in Isaiah 14:13, 35:4. A telling use of διάνοια is in Isaiah 57:11, where God 'chides' for the lack-of-thinking ON Him (NASB translation is cool). So, whew: start with the Hebrews 10:15-17 translation notes, to see the Holy Spirit's Writing Role so you can tell it's about the DDNA dendrites and data. Then Paul's letters are next easiest.]

So note how nothing of 'you' remains left over to 'give' to people. Oh, how 'Christians' would bristle if they knew the First Commandment, since they want everything to be about people! Yeah, well.. 1 John has a lot to say about how if you don't love God, you cannot love people, partly for this reason; so if you do love God, then you ipse truly love people. So it's God-First, and God-only. Takes time to grow up in the Word enough for this God-First (a state of being, not emotion) to become true; but baby, if you don't seek to grow there, you'll never know anything but ennui. You're not designed to be less than God, which is why the First Thing He did, Was Give You His Own (and Christ's Own) Divine Righteousness, 2 Corinthians 5:21. So you cannot be fulfilled, unless you are filled up with Word, Romans 8:4. So you cannot love, until you love God, 1 John 4:19.

Christ didn't cave into the to-people arguments of Satan in Matthew 4. Every one of those Three Temptations was a claim that Christ didn't love people, if He didn't a) make stones into bread, b) do a flashy jumping display so people would believe in Him; c) take over the kingdoms of the world on behalf of defeating Satan himself (oh, how Satan loves to be the messiah) and on behalf of caring for people. We Christians fall for these Three temptations immediately, every day. See The Difference The First Commandment Makes? It's only about God, never people -- for the better sake of people. God made us. God is the One who takes care of people. To substitute someone else, makes one Just Like Satan.

Preview of coming distractions: the biggest evil -- and the one which felled Israel -- is to replace "God" with "people", all in the name of the First Commandment. Very deft ploy. It's Satan's ace trump, and he plays it well. While we are spiritual children, Satan limits our idea of 'spiritual' to people-stuff; so we never get those spiritual dendrites and data from the Holy Spirit. For to get them, requires us choose God over-and-against people, like the Lord did in Matthew 4. Adam didn't pass that test, he chose his wife. We don't pass the test, either. So DNA remains DNA, no one gets DDNA, so no one remains in GOD'S Love. For God's Love is DDNA, only. True riches, as Christ puts it so often in the Gospels. Satan would make it dDNA, the devil's DNA -- in God's Name, of course!

For True Divine Love will always CUT OUT, GRAFT IN.

• Cut out Adam and the woman from the Garden, for cutting out God;
• cut out Cain for cutting out Abel,
• but graft in Seth;
• cut out all but Noah &Co., in the Flood;
• cut out Ishmael,
• but graft in Isaac;
• cut out Esau,
• but graft in Jacob;
• cut out Levi for cutting off Shechem,
• but graft Levi back in through his youngest daughter, Moses' great-grandmother,
• but via Aaron, since Moses cut himself out;
• meanwhile, cut out all the firstborn of Egypt,
• in order to graft in Israel,
• which also meant cutting out all the Canaanites;
• but then cut out ALL of Israel, when she cut off God in favor of Saul,
• but Graft Her Back in, via David;
• so of course, when the Last David arrives, He too must be CUT OFF, for the sake of Israel,
• and when Israel cut Him off, well..
• Church had to be grafted in.

I submit to you that this seemingly-cruel exclusivity of GOD ALONE FIRST -- demonstrates more love for people than all the acts of love and charity since Adam's Fall and forever afterwards. So lookie what happened as a result of cutting people out -- all mankind can be SAVED! So we must cut people out, God being first. First before everything and everyone else, the same test as in Matthew 4. THAT is what's On Trial.

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Hence both the Riches AND Love of a King, are always under attack.
More specifically: ON TRIAL. As in, Legal Trial.

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So of course, our Plot, our Script, our Story is rather dramatic. Fitting, for a Trial By Combat. The Script/Plot/Story nature is one of WAR. Specifically, CIVIL war. The story of this war and our role in it, is comprehensively explained in the Lord vs. Satan, accessible from the Home Page (upper right teal box); the first page in that series, is LordvSatan1.htm, which furnishes you with an overview. This DDNA series is the 'micro' side of the Lord vs. Satan, to explain how you are DDNA-transmuted; but the war is over WHETHER you DDNA-transmute. For that's the same war angels had before mankind was created: back then, Satan decided that God's DDNA-transmuting plan for the angels, was evil. So he along with 1/3rd of the angels, rebelled against it, Isaiah 14:13-14. ["Satan" is a title, not a name: means "adversary" as in "opposing attorney" in a trial. But his real name is Haylel ben-Shachar, which name can be rendered "Shining Son of the Dawn", Isaiah 14:12. LXX renders it "MorningStar, Descendant" -- well, the LXX uses incredible wordplay, you'd better just look it up.]

The rebellion is based on priced love, essentially. Satan claims there should BE a price to love. Since God is Infinite, the price God 'asks', is too high. Notice how to justify rebellion, Satan changes the truth. God is Infinite, and God does all the work, for FREE. We choose to get that done TO us, or not. Love never coerces. Does it really BUG our finite nature to submit to this process? Yes. You can't become bigger than what you are, without it bugging what you are. Growing pains means going against what you are 'now', in order to become what you are not. But that doesn't mean you earned anything. If you love something, you don't call it a cost, you call it a GAIN. If, by contrast, you hate something, you twist the truth to make a cost. Hence you can say that the One growing you, is 'asking' a price OF you. Thus priding yourself on your hatred. Pride and hatred always go together. The common urge in the media, by popular psychologists, etc. that you 'deserve' and should be proud of yourself, etc. is sheer satanic salesmanship, period. Recipe for misery, every time. John 3:16+2 Corinthians 5:21 makes you as good as God, so you don't need to ever think in that miserable, puny, sickly, 'deserving' way! Read all of 2 Corinthians 5, if you've any doubts.

Frankly, Satan himself is the best witness to prove how yucky and gross a thing it is, to pursue 'deserving' or being 'proud' of yourself. Look: the 'deserving', 'proud' mentality of Satan makes him his own god; he clearly craves that conclusion. Ok, now put yourself in his place: you are this god. Therefore whatever goes wrong, you have to fix. But you can't fix all that goes wrong. So you have nothing to be proud of. You failed, see. So you don't deserve to be god. And by the way, even when you do fix something, it doesn't stay fixed for long; or what you fixed, isn't the thrill you expected.. afterwards. So you are always huffing and puffing for no reward, constantly being disappointed. Welcome to the reality of being your own god. Satan also testifies that he does not like being his own god: see the Third Temptation in Matthew 4. He tempted the Lord to zap him into oblivion by the crass insult of 'offering' all the kingdoms of the world which by rights the Lord owned anyway. So Satan was expressing his own death wish. So will you, if you make yourself. See? Pride and deserving ideas suck. Better to be a drunken bum on Los Angeles' Skid Row, than to seek all the kingdoms of the world...

So it has always been a war/struggle over whether Superior God makes you like HIM, or whether you make yourself your OWN way. For God is infinite, but you are finite; so if you love God, you want to be more like Him FOR Him. If you hate God's superiority, you want.. divorce. So you can be your own god. Satan & Co. will gladly 'help' you be your own god. In fact, you'd then need their help, for you can't improve yourself on your own. [Adam was created perfect, so no improvement mechanism inside himself was created. It wasn't justifiable. Any further growth would be beyond his then-current nature, so such growth would have to come from God.] You aren't your own, and weren't designed to be on your own, so you always need either God's Power, or Satan's. There is no middle ground. See, you were designed to be a King-Priest. No king owns himself, but his kingdom owns him. So if you want to be made like the Most High FOR the Most High, God will do that TO you and FOR you. If, by contrast, you want to be made like Satan & Co., they will do that TO you and FOR themselves. Your choice.

Notice how this is the same issue as faced Adam and the woman in the Garden. Two trees. For us, the "Tree of Life" is the Cross, John 3:16 being the vote for it. For us, the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" is refusing the Cross. Post-salvation, it's the same choosing, but with this upgrade: "Tree of Life" is Romans 8:4, getting filled up with Christ's Thinking in God's System. Satan's tree is thus (still) the world's thinking, and you choose to get filled up with that. Historically, 99.9% of Christians have opted for Satan's tree, and so are filled up with satanic thinking.

Again, capacities determine relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. What makes life hell, is that we have no soul capacity for life. Instead, we are bundles of urges, needs -- all due to the sin nature. That nature is an incessantly-needy tyrant, infecting our DNA; so when it gets in the soul, it mindlessly plays tyrannical instructions from that DNA. The first sin's imprint is a combination of Adam's original sin urges residually stored in the genetic material, plus a mutated residual storage of all the urges of all the other people whose genes you inherited. Thereafter, however, the imprints vastly mutate based on your own volition, and no one else's. So you can be tempted based on the genes, but only if your volition assents, will such temptations have any power in your soul. The power is weak, at best, even so. It takes many repetitions of your YESes, to give that nature power. But you are spiritually dead to God from birth, not from your first sin, because of your genes. [Again, no one goes to hell but for lifelong refusal of the Gospel, John 16:9. So babies who die obviously go to heaven.]

So, mutating the meanwhile, your DNA-based sin nature mindlessly bills itself out as a god you must obey, kinda like a huge urge to pee, eat, sleep, etc. Hence we mistakenly call it 'good' when needs are met. And while they remain UNmet, we call that 'bad'. But true good only occurs when the need itself no longer matters, whether met or unmet. For so long as the need itself matters, it tyrannizes you. Freedom thus only occurs when your soul has sufficient capacity. For only then will it no longer matter that you need: the need can't interfere with your happiness, anymore.

You know how hard it is to undo a past bad habit. How hard, to exercise and diet and otherwise 'war' with your body. Well, one war you cannot win, is the war with the old sin nature. You can redirect its trends, but when you do, the new trends are even more powerful at blinding you. The world's prescriptions for dealing with sin all make the 'solution' an even bigger tyrant, than the thing it allegedly solved. That's why welfare programs don't work, why multiple, choking laws don't work, why do-goodism doesn't work, why nothing works but to make life worse, not better. It's all picking-at-pimples, to try to solve the sin nature and its natural 'children', the problems in this world. But so long as one wants to be the god, rejecting the Real God, well.. one will fantasize he is fixing something. Just like Satan does.

Man can't solve the sin-nature problem, since his very body-and-soul DNA, is now infected with this sin-tyranny (called "flesh" and "old man" in Bible). So God is out to make us Christ-capacious; for on the Cross, all that horrendous need which sin produces and urges, Lacerated His Soul Utterly -- Yet Didn't Even Dent His Love. So instead, the True Solution was accomplished, and is on 'reserve', as it were, for every human born: DDNA conversion. That will make you Christ-capacious, so even while hurting, you are content. That's what happened to Him, that's His Legacy to us (main theme of Book of Hebrews and Ephesians). It does mean that God's Hebrews 4:12 surgery, will continually (progressively) be uncomfortable. But each moment of it, pays a bazillion dollars forever -- because Father wants it to. God is One Big Now, doesn't like suffering, loves blessing, so it has to pay big time to Him, if one of His sons (from The Son) suffers. See, you are much loved, theme of Ephesians 1!

Satan thinks God's 'solution' to man's problem, is evil. So Satan & Co. promulgate their own 'solution', which is to make man's needs become works which deserve a reward. So, the world rewards such works, as you well know. Whether those rewards are better than what God does, is the substance of the Trial, and we of course are constantly voting between God's solution, or the world's (Satan's 'solution'). You'll end up loving the one and hating the other. There is no middle ground. So your capacities will end up reflecting one or the other: you will either end up 1) having no capacity for God and total capacity for only the world, so you'll hate God but love the world; or 2) having only Capacity for God and no capacity for the world, so you'll Love God and Not Need the world -- even while your human needs are maxed, analogous to Christ-on-the-Cross.

So this is the biggest and foundational, classic Love vs. hatred story: everything else down here therefore plays the same script. So it's about marrying and birthing kids; it's about politics and power; it's about struggling against your enemies. Classic epic. From which all other plots, derive. Hence the Hero's challenge: do you Love God despite the fact He's way superior? Or do you hate Him for that? Underlying fact giving rise to this plot line: God didn't make Himself. And you don't make yourself, either. But Satan claims to make himself superior to God, Isaiah 14:13-14. So, we're here to pick either his choice.. or God's. Either way, you're picking WHO will remake you: God's Remaking, is DDNA. Satan's remaking, is dDNA. Which, of course, he believes superior to God's DDNA. So it's about Real Love versus real hatred; Real Marriage (here, Christ and Church) versus real divorce; Real Wealth versus real destruction/poverty. Lasting, forever. It's as big a Production to Love, as can be.

So: in this Culminating Phase of the War-Trial, God is out to build a Bride for His Son, which is Church. Then, to marry her off for all eternity; at which point, she keeps on birthing DDNA kids; starting, Down Here And Right Now. For in that first nanosecond you believe(d) in Christ, you marry Him. What kind of marriage ensues after that, depends on how much DDNA gets put in you. The marriage, is absolute. The way it forever plays on and for you, is a matter of your consent, every second you breathe. You can always reverse a prior vote, but many prior votes of course will take time to nullify. Meanwhile, every positive vote you make has a bazillion times the effect. Which you know, because God took your first vote for John 3:16, and saved you forever. So how much more now will He do with your subsequent positive votes! For you are not your own, but His, now.

God does all the work to endower this Bride. But the Bride, must consent. So Satan is out to abort this consent, so to abort the production of DDNA kiddies, to abort God's Rulership, itself. For if Satan can do this aborting, then he wins over God. That's the deal. We know from Scripture Satan won't win, but God isn't even trying to stop Satan; God is out to help Satan & Co. to subordinate, since that will truly make them happy. But it's Satan, who's always out to refuse God's never-ending offer. That's why there is a hell. Because, God really never accepts divorce. It's inimical to His Sovereign Attitude concerning His Attribute of Infinity: which Sovereign Attitude, thus desires to "fill all in all", end Ephesians 1.

Hence God's Wealth, Kingship -- us -- are always under satanic attack. Hence even down here, "rich" are always on Trial, accused of not 'giving' to the poor. Wealth of DDNA -- Bible in your head, run by the Holy Spirit -- is the highest wealth there is: resulting in Love, God's Own Attributes. So we saw in the previous section, God purposed to make this DDNA in us back in eternity past, via His First Son, Isaiah 53:10-12. By contrast, Satan's out to make his own brand of wealth, thinking that by so doing, he defeats God in the Trial.

So this spiritual siring by God, occurs amidst a Divorce Trial which Satan & Co. filed; hence we were created. Hence the human race has always been "evidence" in the Trial. In this phase of the Trial, we Church are being developed and then presented in evidence (by both sides, actually) to show the results of Love as Word IN you. Or, the lack thereof. Word, not works. Love=Word, not works.

Love itself does all the work. Question is whose Love and whose works? And, what's the Quality Of The Resulting 'Children'? God says that His Love Must be Built in you; else the resulting 'children' have the 'quality' of menstrual rags, Isaiah 64:6. Satan counters that God's 'love' is masochistic and sadistic, so offers his own dDNA 'seed'. Both sides in the Trial agree that what man does, is worthless in and of itself. Neither side in the Trial really faults us for that, we're too puny. It's not about how small we are, it's about Where Our Consents Go. The quality is entirely based on who remakes us; that Production Result is Trial Evidence. So in this Trial, we are 'operated on' by one side or the other. So we vote for who remakes us every second we breathe, by believing in one or the other side's tenets. So notice how in any event, It's the Believing, and not works, which develops you. As a result of which believing, works result (main theme in James, always mistranslated). So the resulting Trial Evidence shows 1) who is developing you, and 2) whose works thus result. That's the 'game'; you are always deciding who will do it TO you: whether you know that, or not.

So what's on Trial, is God's LOVE. Satan contends God lies, and does not love, essentially. So it's a big battle over the works of God, versus the works of Satan & Co. That's why Satan tempts the Lord in Matthew 4, with works! You can see where this argument is heading, can't you? Do you Wait for God to Work, or .. do YOU work? Satan was trying to break the Lord's waiting on Father... So: if you Wait on the Lord to do the Work He wants to do in you, 2 Peter 3:18 -- you will be a Victorious Witness, and own ("inherit", in Bible) your own kingdom, for all eternity. Just as it stands written, "Wait on the Lord, be of good courage; and He will give you the desires of your heart." Psalm 27:14, 31:24, 37:4. By contrast, if you don't have the Word in you, you aren't abiding in God and you don't love Him, and your Trial witness is a failure. But you will be putting a lot of touchdown works.. in Satan's end zone. See 1 Corinthians 3:13, 2 Peter 3:10. Notice the apples-and-oranges goals and results. God doesn't want works, He wants sons; so only does works for the sons He's developing; because those sons are in the world, the world benefits from God's works; because those who are not sons refuse to become sons -- could God make it easier, than John 3:16? -- God will not do works for them. By contrast, Satan says because God won't do works for the refusers, God doesn't love. So Satan does works for the refusers, alleging he's the greater lover. Yeah, he is that petty. Welcome to reality. God's Work, therefore, is to Produce Children Of Love. That means, Happy Children. Truly happy, not automatons. Truly happy, therefore independent. Irony of how total dependence on God produces maximum independence, is Christ Himself (thesis of Book of Hebrews). So His Victory on the Cross, demonstrated Maximum Happy Independence via Maximum Dependence, Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 12:2. So he defeated Satan in the Trial (Hebrews 1-2), but.. now the kiddies get produced (ibid). Christ paid for every soul in history on the Cross. So clearly God Loves every soul He makes at birth, no exceptions (1 John 2:2, 2 Peter 3:9). So He loves all the angels, too, including Satan & Co., since He made them. But when the child rebels, the child is refusing to have God's Involvement in the child's life. So, a Loving God accepts that refusal. But the same Loving God, knows what will most aid the child to see that his refusal is the source of his unhappiness. So, part of the Blessing The World Gets Due To The Developing Sons In It, is a blessing of discipline: lest the rebelling children, have no escape route out of their self-made unhappiness. That's another reason why hell will always exist. God never gives up, 1 Corinthians 13:4ff, Rom9. Judicially, the issue is related: The King Who Made You is being refused. Christ's many parables on this topic in the Gospels, explain that issue. So what is at heart a Loving Father's discipline, is judicially, a warring: hence the last half of John 3, is about that warring 'match' Justice would require. So the hating world can see in its own 'language', what Justice must ensue. And its children-of-God, get blessed (and spanked, of course). So the hating world can see the advantage -- again, in its own language -- of making peace. Frankly, the West only developed due to the few believers in it. The United States is not of itself, powerful. Same is true of any other nation. The sons in the nation are the only source of blessing, because it's a Justice Issue. Founded, by Love. Satan's work, therefore, is to produce Children Of Misery. That means bored children, prickly children, fighting children, dependent children who never grow up. For Satan is all about aborting whatever God creates. So he's all about faking out the prolifers who never look at Bible in the original languages, to see how no soul is ever in a womb. So, he can chuckle over how he's aborting their very real spiritual life, in the name of life. Yeah, he's that petty. Should see how much more cruel a game he plays on the Moslems via the Koran, but I digress... As 1 John keeps repeating, if you are in the Word you are loving (i.e., 1 John 2:5); if not, you are hating (ibid, immediate context). So at any moment, believer, you are either hatred-based or love-based. The unbeliever is only hatred-based, and wouldn't know love -- again, 1 John repeatedly explains all this. When a hatred-based person is attracted, he must beat up the object of his attraction. Therefore the more you do for a child of misery, the more you will be hated for it, and the more you will 'make' him miserable. So at some point, you must stand off. Conversely, whatever mistakes you make (and we all do), the more those mistakes will be blown out of proportion, to justify further hatred of you. So again, at some point you must stand off. When a love-based person is attracted, he must leave free the object of his attraction. So the children of love, are quiet; but the children of misery, are loud. The children of love, put UP (and put up with) the objects of their love; but the children of misery, must put down the objects of their attraction. Seduction of any kind is a put down; flirting, compliments, you-name-it, are done to manipulate, and are all coming from misery. For misery seeks power. Love seeks to avoid power, since it already has too much and wouldn't want to influence the love object in any way. So that's yet another reason why God stands aloof from the world, sending His blessing only through the children of love. God is not like the children of misery, but since those children are clamoring and loud, they can't 'hear' His Quietness. So all they 'hear', is their own language. Yet, He demonstrates He Himself is not like them, by leaving them free to clamor, etc. Sooner or later, many of these children (of which we all once were) will catch onto God's Quiet Freedom. For lightning doesn't strike them down, the wicked do prosper, especially the religious wicked. They need space and time to see that God is Quiet, because He is Loving. So they need that contrast, even as they need the seeming 'warring' in their own language. The 'mix' between the two varies all the time, for God knows when you need to 'hear' Him 'mimic' your own miserable nature, and when you need to 'hear' Him be Quiet. No one, but no one, goes UNloved by God. Not even in hell. So: Who shall work upon YOU? God, or Satan & Co.? You and I are in the operating theatre; you and I are on the stage, in the stadium: with billions of angels (and probably many dead believers, I dunno).. watching. See how much we miss when we cut God out of the First Commandment? Thus mistaking Who sees us, as mere people? The whole people-people thing, doesn't even matter! The whole people-stress thing comes from the guys who enjoy guffawing at our touchbacks! (Per dictionary.com, a "touchback" occurs you make a touchdown for the opposing team. That's the definition I grew up with in the 1950's. Not all dictionaries agree, today.]

There's an unbelievably-gigantic difference between God's DDNA-Love-Production works, and Satan's dDNA version; because, God's love and Satan's, are antithetical. Again, this is Trial Evidence. And your own Trial witness/production is this: How You Vote. How Do You Vote.. and Keep Voting? For GOD'S works.. or for Satan's? It's Evidence, hence Legal: you're voting for Who Rules you, every second. Therefore Because Of You, 'in your name', Works get Produced. The works of 'you' are always bigger than whatever you do, good or bad. Because this is a Trial, and what's getting done TO you is always the Bigger Power. So if you're getting dDNA, that's a bigger power than anything you personally are doing -- Satan & Co. are doing works through and in you, and that's the Evidence 'you' are producing. Conversely, if you're getting DDNA because you're voting for God by Being In His System, then that Power is Producing IN and FOR you, Works IN you and in the world. And that is Evidence, as well. So at no point are you the product of what you do. You are only the product of what gets done TO you, and most of the time you can't even see what's happening to you, or what's being done in the world 'in your name'. Welcome to reality. It's exhilarating and humiliating, and it's the truth. The Real Truth. You are simultaneously both bigger, and smaller, than you think yourself. Play on the Hypostatic Union, dual-natured value, per the Greek of Hebrews 11:1.

Here's a quick example. The Divine purpose of the internet, is to get the Word out where it couldn't otherwise privately go. A big problem with getting the Word out, is that people-people interactions put pressure on the hearer. But the internet is private: one person in front of a computer. No pressure, no judging, no money-begging, etc. So the individual gets the needed space to consider God and issues related to Him. It's direct, too: for internet sites are needles in haystacks, so the person getting a particular site can know it came from God -- for God alone knows where the right needles are in the right haystacks, hallelujah -- not the site's writer. Perfect, that. We humans need to get out of each other's way...

Satan & Co. also wanted the internet, but to denude us of privacy, to homogenize us: we all can be more easily herded into their be-your-own-god altruism: pattern of Tower of Babel, George Orwell's 1984. If they can get us all on the same altruistic page, we will be so busy looking at ourselves and making ourselves gods, that we will be like ancient Rome. The 'world' size in our eyes thus dazzling us, we will forget all about God, and even shake our fists at Him whenever He does some weather or disaster warning. Pattern of the people in Revelation Chapters 6-19. For this body is very susceptible to the world's siren songs, being as we are all infected with the sin nature.

Consequently, all the people making money due to the internet, and those who invented it, are needed for the internet to exist and continue. So they are blessed by both sides. So they won't realize that's the reason, of course, and will congratulate or curse themselves or others based on banalities like stock price, or what kudos Fortune or some other magazine, gives them. They work very hard to make this internet thingy go, and they thus think they earned whatever they get. But they cannot earn it, since the very purpose of their success is not related to their own working.

Not that working hard is pointless, but.. the point of it is something else -- which is UNseen. So never think that what you do, is the value of it. Even brushing your teeth in God's System does far more than anything you could do in a body. Even earning a billion dollars on your investments does nothing of value, if you're in Satan's system -- you're just making touchdowns for good-and-evil thinking, for all your hard work. But don't hate money and material stuff, either: because it all does have a more valuable purpose, than the one you can see. Instead, Vote For The Right Team. And then, whatever you do, will be truly valuable.

Parts III and IV of the Lord vs. Satan go through the importance of a believer in God's System, in terms of what value he is to the world. It's enormous, this value: only believers make history (forget the history books!) and only believers in God's System can buy time for the world to go on living; for only believers are the source of blessing or cursing by God to the world. Here in this webpage, only a teeny bit of that value will be explained via examples. See, if God is pleased, then He expresses His Pleasure. And since He's Infinite, His Pleasure is Infinite, so He expresses Himself in a Gigantic way. After all, only One Person paid for all the sins of History, and He did it with Thinking, not doing. So never underestimate the Pleasure of God.

Since Christ really did pay for everyone, the value of every soul, believer or unbeliever, is much higher than it would otherwise be. God upped the cost of creation when He ordained Christ pay for it. Christ (then, as God alone) wanted that increased cost, to express His Love for Father. Spirit wanted it for the same reason. So the Chairman of the Board of the Trinity Corporation, ordained it. As a result, all of us are extremely valuable -- paid for by the Thinking "blood of Christ". DDNA-potential, see. Before, we were just dumb bunnies, worthless, cannon fodder. But now, In Christ -- potentially, or really (if we ever 'did' John 3:16) -- we are extremely valuable. See, when you pay a bazillion dollars for something, it is afterwards worth much more to you than it was before you paid that money.

Never underestimate either the Pleasure or the Power of God. Absolute Love is more powerful than anything in the universe, and Love loves obedience. God 'obeys' because He wants to. Absolutely. So this isn't a God Who's keen on condemnation: Romans 5, Romans 8:1, 2 Peter 3:9, Isa45:7, Isaiah 55:9, Ephesians 3:15-19, 2Cor8:9, Revelation 2:9. Even the Dome of the Rock gets to stand in mute and utter testimony to the Christ's Victory on behalf of the whole world: Matthew 24, Daniel 9:25-26. Anyone can see it.

Satan expresses himself in terms of destruction, and all he does to improve the world is designed as a setup to destroy it. Satan's pretty upset the Lord didn't take him up on his surrender in the Third Temptation of Matthew 4, and he knows there's nothing he can do to win. So he wants everything destroyed, classic Wagner Gotterdammerung plot. So going for what the world wants is a waste of time. But you can Change The Reason Why You Do Stuff In This Body. Look UP, and then you'll have a real satisfaction in anything you do: Isaiah 53:11's "see, be satisfied" (Hebrew) clause.

Moreover, your own ultimate nature is the outcome of all those amalgamated votes. As always, any past votes you made, can be undone (usually gradually). So it's never too late to change your voting pattern. In all events, you are always voting with every thought you think, every action you do. And absent DDNA building in you.. you're voting for Satan. No way around it: You Can't Vote For God, Absent God's Power. So when you vote for God, the Holy Spirit makes that vote produce DDNA, even as He made your first 'vote' for John 3:16, save you forever. But now, the question changes to what goes atop that salvation, as Paul puts it in Romans 8:4.

Meanwhile the world, Christians included, largely votes for Satan: people rely on people rather than God, so they vote for Satan rather than God, so.. touchdown! for the enemy side.

God must therefore stand aloof: He was rejected. Being rejected, He Must Withhold Blessing, And Instead Judge. Satan's constantly saying (namely, beginning of Job 1, Job 2, Zechariah 3, "accuser" verses): see, they voted for me, not You; see, they should therefore be wiped out. Satan builds his 'seed' in order to destroy God's Begetting. Never forget that.

In the Bible, it's easy to see the past testimony: the qualitative 'children' of God's building-UP works, versus Satan's destroying works. Not so easy to see this evidence in the world around us. Yet the evidence is everywhere. Look: the world is constantly doing works for mankind. Why, we're falling all over ourselves to help the poor, the hurricane victims, the tsunami victims, the name-your-brand victims. Every piece of legislation, every TV program, internet site, radio show is all full of good-deeds pushes. And with what motive? So we can fancy ourselves, gods. For if we really cared about the human race, we'd be Voting For God's Help, rather than trying to do it ourselves. So sure, beneath this i-am-god attitude, there's lots of altruism. But altruism is only there to serve guilt, ego, the need to feel good by beating up someone else. You can see this ulterior ego motive trump any alleged love for the victim quite easily: next time someone tells you what good deed he did, don't reply by complimenting the person. Then, watch his reaction.

They crucified the Lord for not complimenting them, you know (Isaiah 53:2-3). He didn't fawn over or even kowtow to their very very many good deeds. So they violated every juridical law IN the Law, granting Him no witnesses. They violated even the Passover itself -- the penalty for which should have been, their own deaths -- in order to grant Him a lot of punches, blindfolded! They also granted Him bribery -- which a dull populous greedily accepted -- to free a murderer (Barabbas). [Details are in PassPlot.htm.] Even like, today's works crowd. Works people love to and need to condemn others. It's a trend of history.

Post-crucifixion, the Christians quickly forget about Christ altogether; they retreat back to the Law, go hog-wild for works, and the Judaizers among them -- the very people who did the most works -- were those who beat up Paul on the Temple steps! You can see this sordid story play out in that Book of Early Christian Failure, aka "Acts". Paul (with Luke, Timothy, a few others) got straightened out. Later, Peter and John got outta Jerusalem, realizing that works don't work: the Bible records Peter going to Antioch and later Babylon (never to Rome, that was Paul's territory after God shipped him there in chains). John ended up on Patmos, exiled there by Domitian. But the others all morphed into the Church Fathers: we all know how That Failure turned out.. Revelation 17, preening live even today, still wearing the same colored clothing. [Does no one read the Bible, anymore? Would you wear those colors and then call yourself the true 'Christian' church, when even the colors and the behavior you exhibit, exactly match Revelation 17? Sheesh: Satan & Co. sure do like to mock our disinterest in God, huh.]

Moreover, the works themselves are incredibly stupid. Whether some silly bell by the United Notions people, the silly laws each country passes (do ya need a law in Argentina mandating clothiers sell larger sizes?), every candlelight vigil -- not to mention, the silly lawsuits people filed against the airlines whose misfortune it was to ferry the terrorists -- we prove we don't care about the 'victim', or about competence. We sure like wasting money, though. Same ol' same ol'. For works, preening and accusing, go together in any century. Century after century. Just turn on your TV, see for yourself!

Worst of all, the more we work, the more DISsatisfied we become. Sin eliminates the capacity for soul satisfaction, and substitutes a capacity for DISsatisfaction. So the more you give into sin (moral sin fuels works), the more DISsatisfied you become. Hence in the last 50 years we've made more technological progress than at any time in man's history: yet we've never been so dissatisfied and unhappy. The more we advance, the more we retreat. Whatever successes we enjoy, are ever-sooner cut off by some new goal; so that past success becomes ever-more-quickly, passÈ. Been there, done that, what's next... It's just like the effect of prolonged addiction/fornication. The 'thrill' becomes instead an urge, with repetition; and you never get the satisfaction of that 'first time'; so your only pleasure becomes anticipation, instead of attainment. Quite some production to love in Satan's system, huh.

Insanity, results. That's why the world adopts insane projects like a bell made by polluting the air to melt down children's coins, in the name of 'global ecology'. That's why we pass insane laws to choke our lives by the millions. That's why we keep throwing money away on anything to buttress ego -- the altruistic cause actually being harmed by the activity, not helped. We can't get satisfaction, are ever more desperate for it, and in our attempt to ease the urge constantly besetting us, we'll grab any idea which feels good. Because, we don't feel good, can't feel good, can only feel like martyrs. Welcome to Satan's reality. This is what the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil produces. This is why God outlawed it for consumption by the Eden couple. For, this is why Omniscient God, Who Really Knows All About that Tree, never sins. It's not satisfying, but destructive.

So with all this satanically-sponsored soul pollution of motive, insanity and incompetence evident, God's Love Evidence stands out in stark, mute contrast. The human can't hear or see it, "silence of Jonah" clause in Luke 11:29. [The "sign" of Jonah, is 'silence'; play on the witty Hebrew term "damah" in Hosea 4:5-6, which was the Message Jonah also gave to Nineveh. "Damah" has two roots: 1) silencing/destroying Bible teaching leads to 2), national destruction ("mother" being the nation). The Lord makes a Genius parallelism, here: it's not just the three days and three nights, but the pregnancy metaphor running throughout Isaiah 52:14-53:12, the resultant fulfillment of Daniel 9:26, which is parallel to both Hosea and Jonah's messages of Believe.. or else. You'll have to read both Hosea and Jonah to see His clever conceptual concatenation. Awesome stuff.]

As Hebrews 11:1 puts it, what's on Trial is "elegchos ou blepoμένωn" -- evidence UNseen. So you see nothing. So no preening going on. So you see nothing. So no competing going on. You see nothing. So you compete against yourself, and you never consider yourself to have 'won'. You see nothing -- but the next day, dawns. And if there was not ongoing UNseen evidence -- you'd not see one more dawn. Because the believer is here -- as always, since Adam -- to buy TIME. And what buys time, is DDNA.

God Himself directly fathered every soul. Only God can create the soul, and He does it every time, no helpers, Genesis 2:7 -- when the fetus is outside the womb (on the ground as it were, fully formed). So God Is Our Mutual Father. No one else, Isaiah 63:16ff (great Trinity wordplay in the Hebrew). So God has the Father's Rights. God is Perfect, so His Rights are Perfect. But what does He do with His Rights? Love. Grant the world who hates him, Time.

So let's look at this judicially, since the Love thingy throws us for a loop. Ok: here's the judicial brief. God wants sons for His Son. That's what HE wants. The world wants God to be a dog, 'fetching' for them. Well, God won't do that. So the world would not be here, and will not be here, one second longer than it takes for God to get what He wants, theme of Ephesians 1. We can hate Him or love Him for that, but.. hey, He's God, we're not, that's what He wants to have creation FOR. Call Him bad or good, He's GOD.. and we're not. So: notice how the hating-Him world, gets another day and another day and another day.. simply because God is busy making progeny like His Son. Not too bad a blessing, huh? These hating-Him folk can do whatever they want, while God does what He wants to do. And since we are in this world and we are OF this Son -- courtesy of Him, not of ourselves, but we did vote to be saved -- well, we need the world to go on longer. So, He grants Time. Not all the works on the planet from Adam through the end of the Millennium could even add one second to life, Matthew 6:27. [Greek verb μεριμνάω really means to be concerned about, to care for, so He's not talking about the act of worrying per se, but the actions of taking care. So all that caring, and the works resulting from it, don't add a whit of time.]

As Paul quips often in his letters, heh: we were just like 'them', once. We were hating God, far away from Him, shaking our fists. So: wouldn't we want them to get another day, another chance, another fertilization on the fig tree? For what if we didn't get the time we needed to wake up and believe in Him? What if we were cut short in our spiritual DDNA-growing time? So why would we want them to be cut short? Ahhhh, that's a Priestly motive. And we are priests! So guess what? We can pray about that need for them!

So look at the Evidence Quality, the 'child' which comes even from a simple prayer. For golly gee willikers, anybody who's ever 'done' John 3:16 can PRAY! But few care to learn how. There's a protocol for prayer, and if you respect God, you follow it. In essence, you

1. must be a believer in Christ;
2. must not be in a state of sin when you pray (so breathe 1 John 1:9);
3. must ask Father, no one else (any other addressee invalidates the prayer);
4. must ask In Christ's Name (acknowledges your legal standing is solely due to Him).
There are some other protocols, but the foregoing are the main reasons most prayers get tossed out of God's court. Yes, Court. This is a legal, Royal, Privilege. Hence the protocols. Other protocols (which will naturally occur to you anyway), are in GodSystem.htm (shorter) or PrayProc.htm (longer). Remember: this is a Trial, so the Defendant (Satan & Co.) needs a level playing field. So there have to be terms and conditions met, to allow prayer entry. So of course they do all they can to obfuscate our learning the protocols!

We don't know Bible, so we don't know prayer protocol; so of course 99.9% of prayer goes no higher than the ceiling. And when we do know, we don't ask. So only an idiot has the courage to pray something big. Yeah, and God Loves Idiots, 1 Corinthians 4:10 (NIV, French Darby). His Son paid for them.

But Daniel prayed for Israel after the Temple was destroyed in 586BC; at that point, because Time Depended On Israel's Existence As A Client Nation To God, the entire world had only 126 years left; but even that much time, was contingent on Israel reconciling to Vote For The Lord, by a deadline of 516BC (when the sabbatical years completed, Daniel 9:2). Daniel knew all that Divine 'Mirror' Accounting for time; so Daniel prayed, following the protocol above. (The essence of the protocol is the same, but the expression was different, in the OT. You should be able to see from Daniel 9 the astonishing similarity: he addresses Father, names the sin of Israel, and the prayer is about the Christ, so is obviously acknowledgement of his standing solely due to Christ -- the only juridical basis for the prayer. So the prayer is answered because of Christ, as well. Btw, "Christ" means "Messiah" which means "Anointed One", it's a title. So the term "Christ" is IN the LXX of Daniel, 9:25-26.)

So in Daniel 9, God answered Daniel's prayer by granting the entire planet, another 490+70 years! Just one request, and the world lasts another half-a-Millennium? [For the derivation and accounting of the 560 and the 126 years, see the "To Be or Not To Be", and the text after (so you see it all balance to 30 AD, fulfilling Daniel 9:26a). God's accounting is very precise, so it will take time (heh) to absorb that material.]

Whoa, what we could do instead of ringing Satan's bells, Matthew 7:7ff, Matt 17:20ff, Luke 17:6ff, Mark 11:22-24, John 16:23! Tell me: What Works Could Ever Buy Time? And all you have to do, is ASK?

Oh yeah, you'll say -- that was Daniel, a Bible great: He'd never do that kind of thing for me. Oh really? Guess what. I was a complete dufus back in 1984, and so I stupidly prayed God would break apart the Soviet Union because I feared Gorbachev's popularity in the US; I wanted Russians to freely get Bible, but Gorby's glastnost and and perestroika initiatives looked like they would keep the Soviet Union chained forever. So for one week, six weeks, six months -- I don't remember -- I daily spent time laying on my bed, knowing very little Bible, and prayed. Then, I forgot all about it.

So what happened? Well.. on my birthday years later, I overslept in a hotel room long enough to be stuck there.. just in time to see live on TV, Gorby going under house arrest and then 'rescued', by Boris Yeltsin. Down came the USSR. Then I suddenly remembered that old prayer from years prior, principle of John 14:26. God timed it so I'd be stuck in a hotel room on my birthday, so I could see the show... [I didn't watch TV or read the news in those days. Would have not known, absent that 'weird' circumstance. Would not have seen it still, but because I overslept I missed Bible class in Houston -- I was there on business -- so woke up 'just in time' to see the 'coup', etc. on CNN. I didn't even have cable, at home.]

Now the diplomats of the world would not like to know some dippy Christian's prayer got answered, and all their hard work counted for squat. But that's what the Bible says (scathing passages in Isaiah 30-31, 36-37, for example). ASK GOD not man, for help. So.. didn't God's Work count for more than all that money and machination? It's hard work to be in diplomacy, I initially trained for that in college -- but God had other ideas. What a sense of humor. Guess He didn't want my BA in international relations, to be wasted; after all, wasn't the world owed something -- especially since it was a full scholarship -- since He nixed my going into that field upon my graduation? 🤣. See, only GOD thinks like this. This is exactly His Sense of Humor you see displayed all over the original-language texts of Bible.

Never underestimate God's Accomplishment In Christ. Pray your brains out, k? So what do you really want? Ask HIM! Think carefully about what and why you pray, given the Enormous Power.. then Practice Praying. It's a Priestly Function, a Kingly Function.. so Think Like A Priest-King. Forget how puny 'you' are: it's not who you are of yourself, it's who you are in Christ. Again, never underestimate God's Accomplishment in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:17 (really, the whole chapter). Christians totally underestimate the Victory of the Cross. Don't join them. Even were you an axe-murderer but a Christian who did the prayer protocol, you'd be heard.

Because you really ARE a "son of God in Christ Jesus", Galatians 3:26. Old things, remaining oldnesses you see, are completely irrelevant, 2 Corinthians 5:17 (read whole chapter for context). God's Work Is Bigger Than Anything You Do. No matter how good or bad what you do or did or will do, you are not God. So don't put yourself in His Place, by judging what He should or should not regard of you, based on you. For He Is Your Father. You didn't father yourself. You don't make yourself. You vote who makes you, and you can vote therefore as a Royal Priest (2 Peter 2:5,9, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10, all of Book of Hebrews); and you are a Royal Priest, because Christ made you into DDNA on the Cross: Isaiah 53:10-12, theme of all Romans 6-8. Accept it, do the prayer protocol, and you will be heard. Reject it, and all your self-touted, mere-DNA (or dDNA) good deeds are cast out of court: you will never be heard so long as you are rejecting, Psalm 66:18.

Which brings up the other biggest reason prayers don't get heard: we really don't believe God will answer us. Ok, then: He won't! We really hate it that someone 'inferior' to us can get something nice -- you know, like an axe-murderer -- you know, like a prayer answered. Ok, then: He won't answer our prayer, but will answer the axe-murderer's prayer (parable of the Pharisee and the publican, look it up). Matthew 7:1-2 always plays in the Supreme Court of Heaven, 24/7. So if you adjudge God wrong to answer, well.. then He won't answer you!

It will be a real surprise when we get to heaven, to find out how history really was shaped. Nothing like the news and history books, that you can be sure. Maybe some serial murderer used the protocol and asked God to make the Word accessible to anyone in the world for free, and that's why we even have an internet. Maybe a charwoman back during the Dark Ages used the protocol and asked God to free people from the Catholic Church, and that's why we have the Reformation and Real Bible In The Original-Language Texts. Do you see where this line of reasoning goes? The Lord said we could Ask For Anything In His Name, and He'd Do It (John 14:14, 16:23). Let's not be embarrassed at the Bema for not asking, k?

Even though God didn't make Himself, so He utterly rules out deserving as a valid justice criterion: God being Infinite, should be Infinitely Matched. That's why you got His Own Righteousness that first nanosecond you were saved, 2 Corinthians 5:21. So even if you think you are puny -- big lie, since you are as Righteous as God which is why you Can Pray Anything in Christ's Name -- even if you still persist in believing you are too puny for God to answer you, He is not puny. So your prayers should be big, not small -- matched to HIS Size, not your own. After all, you are a Priest To Him. Asking for yourself is not small, either. Asking for others is not small, either. But aim as big as possible, think big like a king would: because, you really are in training to become a king. So practice is essential. Prayer is much more than asking for stuff; David used it like conversation, which is by far the best nuclear device for accelerating spiritual growth. Yet, you also need training in thinking about What To Pray, so pray often. 24/7, really: thinking toward God is like prayer. Conversation, awareness, Living With And In Him, 24/7 is the spiritual life. Hence the need to be in God's System.

What have we learned in this subsection thus far? That life in Satan's system, leads to insanity: the evidence in world history is enormous. By contrast, we've also seen something of the Fact That The Christian's Power In Christ, Is Even More Enormous. That, it is accessed by living in God's System, growing in as much DDNA as you can get, baby. And because you are doing that, since God's Goal is sons, well.. the world is being blessed due to you. You just breathe, you are a dufus, drooling or growing into spiritual adulthood, whatever -- but You Are In The System. Whereas the world, rejects God's System. They adjudge Him of no account, Isaiah 53:2-8; but you adjudge Him your God, and you're learning Him. So He blesses them due to you, and answers your prayers but not theirs. It's that stark, that simple, and all TIME depends on it.

My pastor likes to say that God is training us to be "spiritual Atlases." Very apt. Frankly, What God Makes Of You Personally For All Eternity Is Far Far Far Bigger Than any prayer you can pray. So it's still, not what you do -- not even prayer -- but What He Makes of you, that's the biggest prize of all. And you, don't you want to just know Him as much as possible? Well, that's why He makes you bigger, really. Again, still not what you do -- but for Love. Just because, just to be intimate. Forever and ever and ever. The Atlas function is actually.. peripheral. Infinity is all about INTIMACY. The Cross Is Maximum Intimacy. So go for the intimacy, "and all these things will be added unto you", Matthew 6:33, Luke 12:31.

So, like every other New Testament book, 1 John 4:12-17 shows why the Building-Up of Church "sons" is the Culmination of History, because it Finishes God's Love Answer to Satan & Co. in the Trial; hence Canon's completion will be the cause of Church's completion, and hence Church becomes the cause of Love's completion (v.17 compared to verse 12, in the Greek). And with the culmination of history, no more time is needed to answer Satan, so: the Rapture occurs, playing out the last 1007 years of history previously reserved (pre-Church). 1 John 4:12-17 elaborates on Ephesians 1:15-23, essentially. [Regarding the 1007 years, see "Jesus the Christ".]

Each writer of Scripture uses his own synonymal structure. So in Hebrews, the structure is built around "priesthood" and "covenant". Paul selects the "Body" and "Temple" framework. Peter likes using "under" (transmutation, obedience), and "stone" synonyms, as well as "priesthood". John, who is the last writer of Canon and knows it, fashions allusive concepts so to incorporate by reference in one very short letter, all previous Divine Writ. It's an awesome task, and he awesomely fulfills it. Of course, the Holy Spirit is the Real Author behind all this deft writing in 1 John. Which means, He taught John the material, so John could write it. And that same Holy Spirit, can teach us to read it. He ought to know how His Books are to be interpreted. No one else could know.

John's essential message, is this: God is not seen, but abides in us; His Love in us is being brought to completion when we love each other, which is out from the Spirit (tie to Rom5 and Romans 8); so we nonetheless have seen and known and testify (in the larger Trial, not merely to our fellow humans) of Him, because we have come to know and believe the Love-Canon (v.16, ties to Ephesians 3:15-19); which itself is brought to completion and thus Brings Love Itself To Completion In And In Association With Us, verse 17. So we'll be confident at the Bema (ibid). [John's rhetorical style requires above-normal Greek-techie knowledge; and, Bible software that allows you to research all the "MSS" for John's Greek words. Each writer of Bible uses previous definitions in Bible to craft his letters. John thus uses specialized vocabulary in Greek, so you can see John making use of Church and priesthood and Canon keywords. Light, for example, is an Old Testament moniker the Word, both Incarnate and written (i.e., in LXX of Isaiah 53:11). 1 John 1:9's καθαρίζω was used to sanctify the Old Testament Temple (and is also in Isaiah 53:10); so just that verb also incorporates by reference, the Church/Body concepts Paul had explained in 1 Corinthians, Ephesians, etc. 1 John 4:12's "and" (kai) should be better rendered "in fact", since it will be bookended with verse 17. So verse 12 would be better rendered "in fact, His Love is brought to completion IN us." "IN" also signifies by-means-of, location-of, sphere-of; so John again stresses Church/Body as Paul had. 1 John 4:16 parallels Ephesians 3:15-19, so John literally incorporates by reference the entire book of Ephesians in 1 John 4:16. So now verse 17 makes much more sense: "By this [v.16], Love is brought to completion associated WITH us." Verses 13-15 are the means of verse 16-17's achievement. My pastor kept on returning to this passage over and over, from 1997 onward. So if you are under him, you might want to get his "1992 Spiritual Dynamics" tapes. Begin in 1996 (circa L.800) and go sequentially forward from there. These webpages couldn't exist except due to those lessons, and are corollaic to them (albeit via independent due diligence).]

CENTRAL TRIAL PROOF: LOVE capacities determine LOVE relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. God is out to Build A Marital Relationship Between His Son And You. His Son's 'side' in that relationship was previously built on the Cross, 2000 years ago. So now it's a question how much on your 'side', you want to be built. This is an Exclusive, Personal, Intimate Relationship. It matters not at all that there are billions of us; in our lingo, it's a relationship that's 'as if' each of us were the only person in the universe. For God's Love is not 'diminished' by a plurality of objects, by differences among the objects, nor any other factor about the objects. God's Love is Absolute, which is why no human can do it, which is Why It Must Be Built In You. But Love never coerces, so your consent is constantly required. God does all the work, you just consent.

So He utterly bypasses all sin and works issues. It matters not at all who you are, what you are, what you've achieved or done wrong. Only the Relationship Matters: we need 1 John 1:9 because sin breaks the relationship, which is why Christ died on the Cross, and why 1 John 1:9 admits sin -- because He died, therefore Sin Was Paid. So, you get back in Fellowship with God, only via 1 John 1:9. Hence the Holy Spirit's Love Capacity-Building Function, Can Resume. It's only about soul capacity for relationship to God. Never about anything else. [2 Peter 1:9 uses scathing Greek syntactical sarcasm to stress the fact you can only be in fellowship with God via the function we know as "1 John 1:9"; but the Peter verse is everywhere mistranslated. Search on "myopic" in TrueSpirituality.htm to get a quick corrected translation of 2 Peter 1:9. "True Spirituality" also explains 1 John 1:9 and the Peter verse in much more detail.]

"Love" is a Progressive Thing, and it's only and always a mental attitude. Soul has no body itself, so emotion is felt solely from the body, which sends that feeling to the soul. Body reacts to any kind of input, which is why you can be tempted, too. So here, what you learn changes how you value everything: especially, how you value God. As you value God more and more, you want to reciprocate TO God. But, you really can't reciprocate to God, the way you can to people. So, needing an outlet, you want to reciprocate to people to express your desire to reciprocate to God. It's something you need as an outlet, not works. You need food, and you need to express yourself. Here, you need to express love: to HIM. That's why the Cross meant so much to Christ -- the maximum outlet to express His Love (in His Humanity) toward Father, and toward us.

That's the point John is making about loving the brethren: pattern is set up beginning in 1 John 2:28, parallel to Christ. Point closes in 1 John 4:17. So it's not works John is talking about, but the Word-in-You DDNA results of Transforming Your Thinking. Of which, one of the symptomatic results, is that you will love the brethren, when enough of this Word has been built in you. My pastor classifies this development in 8-9 stages (the last two are a unity, so maybe only 8), and the "loving the brethren" stage he calls, "Impersonal Love". In other words, it doesn't matter how 'deserving' the object is, you love anyway. That reflects God's love, and there's absolutely nothing like it ever, in the human race.

As we just saw above, altruism's dark side is ego. Fake love is actually hatred with a smile on. The second you don't 'deliver' the expected pay or compliment for a person's good deed, beware the sudden venom, Proverbs 23:7ff. By contrast, true love is relieved to have something to do, so has no expectations of reciprocation, 1 Corinthians 13:4ff. The person who loves, IS reciprocating for something he feels he already got. Moreover, even the reciprocating thing the person gets to do, is in his mind, a gift; not, something he's giving. And he doesn't want to be complimented by the recipient. His attitude is like the angel who chided John, "Don't do that!" (literal, don't see me that way!, very strong) in Revelation 19:10,22. Compliments or 'worshipful' attitudes given to the self, are utterly disgusting. God Alone gets those. That there should be any other recipient, is laughable. See the difference in attitude?

See, God didn't make Himself Infinite and Perfect, He just IS that way. So There's No Such Thing As Deserving. Sure, justice requires a matching; but 'deserving'? It's downright hilarious that Satan thinks he can make himself like God, since even God didn't make Himself Who He is, get it? So whatever puny 'me' seems to make is laughable, as well. On the other hand, at no cost and without any effort -- it takes no effort to 'do' John3:16, k -- I am saved forever. Moreover, at no cost and without any effort -- it takes the Spirit's power to 'do' Word in my head -- I am growing up in the relationship with God. So the erstwhile need of the sin nature is gradually replaced with a need to Thank God for what I've already gotten. But I can't thank Him. So HE HE HE -- Father, Son, Spirit -- do what thanks Them and the world, on my behalf. So if I get some little token of refreshment as well, it's like a nice meal. See the difference in attitude? And the 'me', 'I' is any of us. God never loves unequally. We are the ones learning to love Him, from Him, so we are the ones loving unequally. But that doesn't matter, since God needs no reciprocation. It's just an enjoyment to have. Not, a need. Salvation obliterated all need, even while needs remain. Word in you develops that fact in you, and by the time you mature, you'll have needs and not at all care that you do. Someone Else is occupying your mind, now. Love is an attitude, and it truly does conquer all.

So with this attitudinal difference, competence is freed. Competence is freed, because the person isn't looking at himself, anymore. He's looking up at GOD, instead, Philippians 2:5, Hebrews 12:2. See, most of what complicates competence in life is insecurity and immaturity. A child can't concentrate, because everything is too 'big' for him, and since he has a sin nature, he's focused on himself. The child only grows up if he learns to go against himself -- which means, going against his urges. Well, the only sustaining motive for that, is a burgeoning trust, which leads to respect, which leads to Love -- outside himself. How much more, this transition from childhood to adulthood, needs to occur spiritually: to God Himself. The "me" thing has to give way to the "He" thing, in the spiritual life. So if this transition does not occur, a childishness remains. So incompetence remains, so insecurity remains, so the thinking is eventually retarded. So we arm our airports with all kinds of ineffective screening, and strengthen the cockpit door -- but forget all about, the latch. So we are no safer. And cannot be. But we are insecure, so we grab even any fantasy of 'safety', and call it 'good'. It's not good. But incompetence and fear, will do anything to get relief. Except, the one thing that works: look UP to God.

The world is entirely preoccupied with itself. So it never sees how it's being herded by Satan & Co. It wars, it makes peace, it marries and divorces, it gives gifts and takes bribes. And, it dies. Only as each person dies, does he come to realize his entire life was a waste. Caesar is long since gone. The drunken bum on Skid Row (in Los Angeles) who died of cirrhosis of the liver, is also gone. High and low, eaten by the Conqueror Worm. So where did all this frenetic activity, go? Nowhere. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. But we don't learn from all that overwhelming past evidence which daily stares us in the face. So how competent are we? Not. Look: what difference does it make if you are brilliant in French, if that brilliance won't help you live? And looks? Well, a pretty, dead blonde is still a pretty dead blonde! Were we competent, we'd instead focus nearly all our attention on what's of First Importance: what happens after death? Can't orient to life, until you can orient to death. Because, nothing else lasts. Because, all that talent we work so hard to acquire or steal.. dies. But we are afraid to talk about all that, and instead sublimate in lesser pursuits. Yeah, and that's why the evolutionists and the cosmologists can never solve their conundrums, because they won't address initiating cause. So they chase their tails. What sick puppies we all are.

And we are crazy puppies, to boot. Always fantasizing some explanation, we insecure puppies thus feel good about ourselves. And we see not how insane, our explanations. Just like Adam's neurotic fig leaves 'solution', we modern adams continually cock up the wackiest ideas in religion, politics, medicine, science, philosophy, childrearing, even fashion -- drugs, really, all those ideas -- and go on not learning a thing. However smart we imagine ourselves, we learn nothing. 2000 years of failure in the Middle East, should have taught us that, by now. The Dome Of The Rock Evidences Daniel 9:26, yet the smartest folks on earth, the Jews.. learn nothing from it. Even though Chanukah, is based on the abomination of desolation. The Lord even pointed all that out, in Matthew 24 (explaining the then-future outcome of Daniel 9:26). But they didn't learn from Him then, and they still don't. So if the God-Gifted smartest people on the planet still aren't learning.. then none of us are. So much for 'human wisdom and achievement'!

As a result, the few who are growing up in Him, are vastly more competent than everyone else. However, since only a few will be growing up, and a world needs many competent in order for that world to go on living, well.. God Grants Competence To The World. LvS4b.htm's "Seventh Facet" explains this granting in more detail. For our purposes, it's again an expression of Father pursuing His DDNA purpose, and blessing the hating world for our 'downtime', as it were. We aren't 'helping' the world directly, we are rather citizens of heaven, not the world, Philippians 3:20, Hebrews 8:11. [Greek: politeuma (and synonyms), used by Paul, Peter, and writer of Hebrews. The latter in Hebrews 8:11 is a bookend to Hebrews 10:15-17, which is why you know it's a citizen-of-heaven application. See also Hebrews 6-9 text (showing our 'ascension' in Him), and Hebrews 12:23.] So to 'compensate' the world for our not 'helping' it, God helps it. Satan owns the world. God never cheats anyone, so is 'compensating' Satan for our time down here -- even though, God owns everything, including Satan & Co. What Grace!

This building-up of Sons will result in an aggregate Body for the Eternal State. The Third Aspect sketches out the nature and function of that aggregate Body. So the Rapture occurs when that Body's Structure completes, which is why no one can 'predict' its 'date'. Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan furnishes a lot more detail on this topic. Here, the objective is to see what micro, internal goals God has per person, and how such goals relate to the Trial against Satan & Co.

In sum, Love=DDNA=Word Being Built In You Is The Spiritual Life: you are to be DDNA-Transmuted, like His Son's Soul. So it's what you are to become by means of Who you learn, that defeats Satan & Co. in the Trial. Because, You Keep Voting To Learn Him So You remain Learning Him; rather than, change your vote and instead, learn Satan. You aren't being trained to learn something in order to do something else, ever. God is infinite, and your life is forever about learning Him. Whatever you are to 'do' is for the purposes of learning. Which, if you Love Him, is a dream come true. Which, if you do not love Him, is a nightmare. No middle ground.

So it's never never never never about 'earning'. "Earning" is what happens when the "L" for "Lord" is missing. If you don't learn this ASAP, you will waste your time and have a lot of later regrets. The world lies: it's not at all about works, since the work is what God works in you -- building that Love up, one precept at a time, every second you breathe. No matter what you do. So if you don't breathe 1 John 1:9 and live in God's System, you are as evil as Satan -- a threaded theme throughout 1 John and James. You can even see it in the Gospels, when the Lord excoriates the religious types. Example: in John 8:44, He calls their father, "the devil". Hint hint.

Hence Satan & Co. are out to make it about "earning", so to abort God's Progeny. But at the same time, they mock us for not Learning Bible. Their strategy and tactics are not at all hidden. Rather, they advertise their involvement to Deride the spiritual life, to Imbalance the spiritual life, to Obfuscate the spiritual life, and finally to Substitute their own viral dDNA, in lieu of spiritual DDNA; so the poor soppy Christian, has no excuse for his votes against God.

A demon-run idea always has seven distinct characteristics. Thus you can distinguish what's demon-sponsored and promulgated, versus the usual stupid ideas in the human race. But you have to know your Bible to make the identification, so if you don't know your Bible, you are fair game for derision and maltreatment. Thus you are mocked and proved at fault, because they blatantly advertise these characteristics in the demon-run idea. So due diligence is accomplished (this is a Trial, so due diligence disclosure is key to legal procedure). So you didn't consult your God-given Manual to read the disclosure. So you, not they, are responsible. So dDNA results in you, and you consented to it.

Here is a summary list of "Seven Content Signature" characteristics:

1. Some key verse, doctrine, or concept in Bible is used as a hub; then, it's satirized in a very pointed, superhumanly-witty way within the target idea. So if you knew your Bible, you'd know the target idea was wrong, because you could detect the satire.

2. The satire always 'travels on' Greco-Roman cultural concepts, since those concepts best repeat the Genesis 6 success which destroyed almost all mankind. Sex, intellectuality and feeling are prominently promoted as the way to have 'communion' with the gods (satirizing God's Begetting plan, basically); these are all works; you are to get worked up in them, or you're not 'holy'. Sex, in particular, is Religified. In Greco-Roman culture, you had two types of sexual 'union' with the gods: one was lascivious (i.e., orgies), and the other was ascetic (i.e., castration in the cult of Cybele). So it wasn't merely the first, but also the second. Bible excoriates both lasciviousness and asceticism, using language the ascetic translators usually won't translate. My pastor's favorite verse on the latter is Galatians 5:12: parallel to cult of Cybele, idea that if you got 'holy' via circumcision, why not go the whole way...
   It's not too hard to see the religification of sex among ascetics. But it's even more religified among the lascivious. What you move, when you move, how you dress, how you perform, is incredibly legalistic. The famous HBO series "Sex in the City" demonstrates the religification in spades, which of course was not its intent. Dating rituals, the questions and hard-hearted attitudes.. all this is predatory and judgemental, just like any religion. And just as boring.

   These Greco-Roman concepts are very much replayed and recast in the following: Tongues, the prolife movement, the holy rollers; Kabbalah, Sufi, Dervish; and most all of modern eastern religions. But also in the concept of the almighty 'Terminator' hero, the inordinate worship of sports celebrities, etc. Rome had a lot of virtue concepts, but they were heavily laced with ennui and craftiness. Such ideas are pervasive in society, even today. God is nowhere to be seen, but everywhere to be bandied about. All in the name of self.

3. The demon-sponsored satire is promoted as a series of baldly slapstick beliefs. Quick example: even if you didn't get all the witty satire on Bible's true (7-fold) definition of "baptism" promulgated in the demonic sales pitch re water baptism, you can nonetheless figure out quickly that getting wet doesn't save you. So if you nonetheless believe that water baptism saves, you are the consummate fool.

4. The satire therefore openly mocks those who believe in the promoted beliefs; so those who don't, can laugh at those who do. Thus everyone is looking at each other, and not at God. Probably the most embarrassing proof of this open mocking is the Dome of the Rock. Mocks the Arabs who built it and believe in it, and the Jews who prove that all their Torah-kissing didn't result in comprehending this blatant depiction of Daniel 9:26. So the Arabs proved that verse true by building the Dome, and the Jews prove their blindness by moving back to Israel. We Christians are just as blind, and in fact we helped the Jews move back to the very place the Lord warned them to flee, in Matthew 24 (see also Ezekiel 39ff, Isaiah 60ff). For the better part of 2000 years(!) the Jews had stayed away, and we Christians did too. Shows how Blind To Bible We've Become -- oddly enough, beginning at the very time when Scripture in the original-language texts became widely distributed in the West, so did the 'Zionist' movement and its Western promoters. [Israel should be defended at all cost; her 'return' to 'the Land' makes her an easier target for annihilation, which is why God repeatedly Warned Her To Flee; and she heeded that warning, as did the Christians, until the late 1800's when finally we had proof from the original-language texts, OF that repeated warning, 🤣. So the point here is solely to demonstrate our being mocked, and with exquisite timing: here by a freakin' building, for crying out loud, which was built on the 'mirror' side of 99+586AD. Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised, and the "Rock" is the rock on which he had almost-sacrificed Isaac. So, the Dome commenced building on that auspicious year, proving it was Isaac, not Ishmael, who had been on that Rock. The Rock is the Holy of Holies' Ark stand, aka "Petra", a famous Old Testament moniker for Christ. See Matthew 16:18 in Greek, where He plays on His Own Name.]

5. The satire's heart mockery goes largely undetected, yet is always there: lawyerly wordplay with many meanings all-at-once stacked like a building, and in a studied ambiguity phrased much like the infamous Delphic Oracles. Each one of the stacked meanings plays on something in Bible, and most often, on the original-language texts. Quickest identification of demonic satire is had if you know those texts. Sometimes it takes only a few seconds.

6. The satire's promotion is always advanced with strong, sexy emotional appeals -- appeal to intellect being chief among them, so you can fancy making yourself god. Truth is thus substituted in favor of the target idea, because it feels good. Widespread Popularity Always Accompanies a Demon-Sponsored Idea, therefore. Angels (demons are angels) are composed of light, which is to say they are electro-chemical in nature. So they can send thoughts and feelings, and you wouldn't know theirs, from your own. So they can blanket a populous, and the populous will just swoon (herd) wherever desired. Only Bible running in your head, defends you.

7. Finally, the Bible is blatantly and satirically contradicted, truncated, and admired -- all at once. So if you missed the other characteristics, you can't miss this one. Idea is that for all their gamesmanship, only the human who buys their lie, can be blamed. For example, both the Book of Mormon and the Koran claim that the Bible is from God, but that those books 'update' it. Yeah, and when you read those 'updates', you find Tons Of Deliberate, Derisive Contradictions versus Bible. Much the same can be said for any fake holy book, but some are wittier satires than others. These aren't mistakes. They play on what IS truly in Bible God Wrote, and then twist it. Cow sura, for example, plays on the Hebrew meaning for "red" in "red heifer" in order to make a golden calf, hence a "yellow cow" is in the Koran to prove the Koran is from a demon. No human is this smart, but the resultant contradiction is blatant, derisive, so no one can excuse himself for not recognizing it.

Hence, we Christians get derided openly by them for not reading our Bibles. Thus Catholicism, most other denominations' tenets, prolife, baptism, works-salvation, faith+ 'gospels', and a wide variety of other commonly-believed falsehoods are fairly easily proven false if one just looks at Bible for a little while, even in translation. But we don't. So we are proved the fools.

Non-Christians are mocked even more than we are, because all the holy books actually point to the Bible, and in very sophisticated ways. The pointing is always satirical, derisive of both Bible and the person who believes in the fake holy book being authored. The wit is sheer genius. For example, a demonic specialty is to have the text in the fake holy book, play on the Original-Language Texts Of The Bible: only those texts are inspired, really from God. Translations, are not. Every demon knows this. Almost no humans, do. So very often in the fake holy books you'll find outright references to words in the original-language texts.

Some demonic references are instead to specific old translations of Bible; there, the references sometimes play on the translations versus the original-language texts, to correct the translation, 🤣 (the Section 85 example is one of them). Then there's the common fixation on Bible in all of the post-Crucifixion holy books: inordinate amounts of text praise Christ or Bible or some Bible hero, with unbelievable derisive twists so you can see both the admiration, and the derision, side-by-side. Or, these books say other stuff which only a demon could know well, but again -- in some twisted way. Like, the fact that the Bible is "adulterated." That's true, but you'd have to be very familiar with the original-language texts, to know that. Not one in a 100 million people, are. Truth is, we have so many copies of the original-language texts we can tell where and how one text is adulterated, but another one, is not. So in aggregate, the Bible is infallible and inerrant. But of course a demon wouldn't tell you all of that; he just wants to imply you have an Excuse To Reject the Bible; he never quite accuses IT. So: notice how these implied accusations sit side-by-side with the fixation on Bible and Bible people. So.. do no brains turn on, wondering why all this fixation? All this pointing to one 'holy book' out of all the others out there? Guess not. They like the implied accusations, see.

A good index of man's negativity historically, is his embrace of books which claim to be of the Bible, but patently are not. These get the most demonic promotion, so that you think you're looking at a book of the Bible, but are not. Such books have the most glaring evidence of their being fake (i.e., in the pseudepigrapha). So there's even less excuse than none, to even read those books for longer than 10 minutes -- well, unless you had a bad day and need to laugh. It's like Mad Magazine, to read them. So anyone who takes those books seriously -- and millions do! -- is proper Satan fodder.

Then there's the demon-sponsored version of ghost=spirits=aliens=Bible demons' characteristics. These are commonly portrayed in the media, and are very popular, currently. Humans mix in their own ideas, as well. Hence the importance of the seven characteristics for proper identification. For in a demon-sponsored version, the same characteristics in a 'ghost', are in 'the aliens', are in the demons of the Bible. The Bible, not some other holy book. Only Biblical demons are cast as ghosts, not another holy book's demons; only Biblical demons cast as aliens, not another holy book's aliens.

And it's sophisticated, with the 'ghosts' or 'aliens' exhibiting and mocking Bible doctrines most Christians don't even know: like, no believer can be possessed. Like, how we are Royal Family of God. Like, what "Pleroma" -- a Greek word -- means. You can't find the proper definition of "Pleroma" in Bible lexicons, because the lexicographers are too ascetic, not admitting the many sexually-explicit terms IN the Bible. You have to know something of Greek literature usage, to know that stuff. Its pregnancy connotation is played on (particularly in the Koran, but also often in the ghost/alien UFO stories). Lots of stress on nakedness -- that's Genesis 6! And on and on.

They've done this mocking since time immemorial, beginning with Cain. Pretty much every religion of every ancient culture you'll look at is a demonic satire on Bible and on those who believed in the substitute religion, proving the Biblical excoriations, valid. It's pathetic, it's embarrassing, and we don't even notice how much we are always mocked.

Evolution itself, is Isaiah 14:13-14, sold to the human race; worse, it's sold to intellectuals, yet is but a recast version of animism and reincarnation, stripped of God words. So how 'intellectual', is it? The intellectual prides himself on not being 'religious'. Yet, is more religious than the primitives were. See the derision? Now, look at how irrational. Since no set can contain itself, even math proves evolution is a fraud: adaptation, yes; hybridization, yes; mutation, yes; TRANSmutation, no. Hence there is no such thing as evolution, since NO being can become bigger than what he already is, absent a larger 'set' in a parent. Doesn't matter if you believe in the Bible, or even if there was a Bible, evolution is a fraud on its own terms. So look how pathetic, how embarrassing: and again, those who believe in the substitute, are mocked.

So what gets proved, is how much we want any excuse to reject God. No matter how silly. So we are all mocked for not knowing Bible. By, those who most hate God.

Let's now examine in more detail, how they accomplish this "DIOS" strategy, thus making the Real God 'foreign' to us. A strange god...

• Earn their dDNA, baby: Works is spiritual AIDS. The 'AIDS' disease that works produces, will take some years to manifest. Years of huff-and-puff, with a vague, building resentment. So over time, all these huffings and puffings without the expected 'reward', make one bitter. There's a reason for that: the works are not God's, but man's -- always with a little 'help' from Satan & Co. And you know this, because God's Work in you doesn't lead to bitterness, but to happiness: Hebrews 12:2, Galatians 5:22. And the litmus test? Watch how a works-person behaves when disaster hits him. The one believing in works will (in some manner) resent God, thinking, after all I did for you! Love-for-God triumphs over that horrible thought. But the works-person has no love; so he can't triumph. Numbers 11:6 becomes his fate, and he dies shaking his fist at God, losing faith in the Bible, declaring himself an atheist, whatever. All for nothing.
  1 John is a treatise on why works is spiritual AIDS, versus the Word. For works are depicted all over the Bible as a form of adultery away from God. You can't see this in translation, because Satan & Co. mess with Bible translation; they are allowed to do that, because the translators have largely been religious Christians who thus vote for works. If you are works-oriented, you'll read the Bible that way, even when reading the inspired text. Because you want it to have that meaning. The proof that it was your slanting the Bible, rather than the Bible itself, shows up in the poor scholarship of the translation itself, compared to the original. This proof is rampant, embarrassing, and every website must show examples: precisely because, such rampant bad scholarship over centuries, proves the 'invisible hand' of Satan & Co. behind such incompetence. [If the scholars are so blinded, then who are we puny, to think we can escape? So we gotta live in God's System, to be protected against the same snare, as snared our best-and-brightest. That's one big reason why so much emphasis on mistranslation is in all my sites. I didn't learn Bible in translation, so I didn't know it was so badly mistranslated, until doing these sites. I knew there were errors, my pastor covers them; but he usually just flat teaches from the original-language texts, so I didn't know the scope of the errors.]

  So do this: when you see what looks like a verse pro- human works, dig into the original- language texts. James 2:22, for example, uses συνεργέω, a God-Works-Together verb. Every good lexicon for the verb συνεργέω (even Thayer's) will tell you that the "sun" prefix on a verb always and only means a Divine Actor. So the inspired text means Doctrine Works, since the Actor, is Divine (here, the Holy Spirit). God worked the Word in Abraham, which is why Abraham was able to sacrifice his son. So why isn't it translated, "Doctrine Works" or "Word-believed works", so you know that God is doing the work? Because then you'd know human works aren't desired, get it? So the translation makes it appear that Abraham himself did something, and turns "faith" into a work. So for centuries Christians have used this verse to justify their works claims! Satan & Co. are herding the translators' 1) natural works-orientation; plus 2) their natural fear of disagreeing with 'tradition' (past translations). It's a common ossification problem in academia and science, every century. But since you can prove that same obvious mistranslation persists for centuries -- our lexicons are usually old too! -- man's arrogance is being herded by a power greater than himself. We selectively ignore something old we respect (and preserve) that's right (the lexicons), in order to grab something old that is WRONG (past translations); thus we prove ourselves the arrogant fools, so Satan & Co. are not to blame.

  So the AIDS spreads as time passes: we preserve and propagate it, lovingly. Just you try explaining the God-Breathed-Text of James 2:22 in a 'Christian' chat channel, see what opposition you get. People love their ignorance, and consider it holy...

• So works is spiritual abortion. Again, God is not about making us work, but about making us sons. So it's Only About Relationship With God; Fellowship with God is everything, 2 Corinthians 13:14, Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27. Relationships with people, are optional. Satan & Co. are about Works, not sons: so they use people-people issues, to divorce us from God. Then in Heaven, they use our divorcing from God, to accuse us before God. This, so they can get a "mistrial" verdict. So it's a double abortion:
  1. The Christian aborts from the spiritual life, individually, in favor of people-people, aka "works";
  2. corporately, a mistrial verdict constitutes an Abortion of God's Sons-Making Plan.
  Their Mistrial Strategy is explained at length in LvS4a.htm, LvS4b.htm, and LvS4c.htm of the Lord vs. Satan: search on "mistrial" in each of them, to save reading time. Or, just turn quickly to the beginning of Job 1 and Job 2. There are other verses in the Bible on the topic, but those passages are easy to read.

  There's true and false abortion. False abortion: to claim there is soul life in the womb. That idea is not in the Bible, but instead originated in ancient pagan religion (i.e., mother-goddess cults, transmigration of souls). Bible only and always says that life begins at birth, with the Breath of God breathing your soul into the body which exited from the mother. But -- and this is demonically clever, boy oh boy -- Bible is almost always Reverse Translated in all womb verses, so you can't easily know it's untrue, unless you read the Bible God wrote. Again: the God-breathed texts say repeatedly that no soul life is in the womb; rather, God breathes soul life á la Genesis 2:7, after the body is formed and outside. Bible says this thousands of times, often using a deftly-placed preposition (min, in Hebrew, ek in Greek). [Since "min" is often a prefix, you can't even count how many in a Bible search. "Min" by itself is used at least 709 times in the OT. But the prefix occurs many times more often than the "min" form, and every time I've run into it -- practically every verse -- there is always a wordplay on Birth of some kind; birth of an idea, birth of sin, birth of blessing, etc. God is always about Begetting, so "min" constructions are extremely frequent.] So when a fetus spontaneously aborts or is taken out in any other way, God is no murderer, and neither is anyone else. It's just biological tissue: see Caveat4.htm if you doubt this and need info.

  But there IS such a thing as true abortion. To Abort The Spiritual Life Is Worse Than Murder, and the Bible spends a lot of text on that fact. Because, you are already spiritually alive, Titus 3:5. Paul spends Romans 8 in Greek explaining that this spiritual life, 'begets' a new pregnancy period, to give birth to eternal progeny. So beginning in 8:11ff, he explains how the spiritual life's adult phase, is like labor pains (a frequent theme in his other letters, too, namely, Galatians 4:19).

  So: only a Live Christian Rejecting God, Can Commit Spiritual Abortion. And when he does, he is far more vile, than any murderer. Paul, James, John, Peter, Jude use the grossest possible words to describe these folks. The Lord called them "whited sepulchres" (pretty tombs), and many other vile names. So Bible is pretty rife with excoriating detail you should be able to find even in translation. So the prolifers commit spiritual genocide in spades. Satan thus aborts the prolifers, by getting their eyes on people who they consider evil -- always his tactic -- so they get their eyes OFF God, and thus become more evil than those they accuse -- all in God's Own Name! 🤣 Many countries in the world are literally dying from the spiritual infection these people spread, especially in the US. Which is all the more tragic, since if the infected only knew their God-Written Bibles (not translations), they'd quit the prolife stance faster than a cobra can spit. But they like being their own gods, so they don't read the Bible -- they just use God to make themselves powerful: Jude likens them to the orgiastic folk before the Flood (Jude verses 4-20). So they will live as spiritual babies in heaven forever, unless they wake up to their delusion, 2 Timothy 2:26-3:7.

  Next, regarding the Corporate Abortion: a mistrial verdict means the entire Premise of the trial violates the Law of the Trial itself. Or, that the Judge of the Trial is somehow so Corrupt, that the Trial itself, is More Guilty than any Potential Guilty Parties IN the Trial. It's the biggest kind of victory an attorney can win. "Satan" means "opposing attorney", in Hebrew (that's not his name, it's one of his titles).

  As 1 John 3 reminds everyone, Rapture can occur at any time. From Revelation 1-3 we know that It Occurs For Two Reasons: 1) Christian apostasy is too great to justify time continuing (it's never about the unbeliever, he has no legal standing, he's not to blame); and, at the same moment, 2) God has Finished His Trial Arguments to Satan & Co. Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan (LordvSatan4.htm is the header page) spends a lot of time on that topic. Basically, when John wrote 1 John in the 90's AD, Christians were tiring of waiting for the Rapture; were tiring of life with God: like Israel tired of Him and wanted a human king, circa 1050BC. So some believers went apostate and split, tempting those still faithful in the Word to peel off, too. You can tell by 2John and 3John that the condition only became worse. Jude and Peter's letters of a generation prior, echoed this sad aborting condition. Satan & Co. were Religifying Christianity, so the Relationship with God, was being Aborted. Religion always cuts God out of the picture.. but in His Own Name, of course! The sordid history of Christianity from the 90's AD onward is the outcome: Scripture would stay under lock-and-key until about the last half of the 1800's. Little breakouts here and there, and of course any individual who wanted the Book, well.. God is God, and He handled it! So this letter is more relevant to us Now, since we have an Unprecedented Access To The Original-Language Texts. And we can tell by the prolifers' ignorance of those texts, how Satan AbortS them all. So this abortion method is used across-the-board, but what a nice derision 'flavor', to use the topic of abortion itself! Yes, they really are that petty and cruel. We are all being derided, 24/7.

  [Nerd Note: the Reformation was a big deal, but it quickly apostatized into mega-religions like Lutheranism and Calvinism, which in their own way, suppressed Scripture by their rigid, anti-Bible interpretations. The Calvinists in 1610 really screwed up what Calvin had written when they invented TULIP. Beza's probably in heaven right now screaming at us down here to wake up and fix what he (or his people) screwed up! Calvin, Beza, Luther, all the so-called fathers are probably totally chagrined that their followers are so puerile, treating what they wrote as ceilings of spiritual grandeur, rather than as adolescent understandings, begging for upgraded study. So what you have is and was a very UNChristian power battle, down here: with everyone thinking himself holy. So state churches formed; so, they still linger, choking off all further growth from their adherents. Meanwhile, under all that furor, there were really growing believers in all the groups, who just kept on quietly learning whatever Word they could get. And they could get it, for God always provides. But the religions in either Protestant or Catholic camps, were (and are) all competing for the Revelation 17 mantle. Sorry, you can see it in history: apostasy is always political and always in the name of a holy crusade, as if God needed man's help: just as Revelation 17 depicts. Same stupid trend continues today, only this time, it's the independent churches who get on their political high horses and ride in beastly fashion, decked in scarlet and purple.]

So let's pause in our review of Satan & Co.'s DIOS plan, to note a litmus test. After all, God does mandate behaviors, so.. how do you tell the difference between obeying God, or.. somehow slipping into Satan's Works System? Well, operationally, it boils down to MOTIVE. Why are you thinking/doing What you are thinking/doing? And it also boils down to Where You Are Living, whose Power System. So: are you living on Bible in God's System.. or living on works/people, in Satan's System? Live in God's System, and DDNA grows. Live in Satan's system, and dDNA grows.

Here's how the to-do's work in God's System: in Bible class, you learn; in life outside of Bible class, you practice, as 1 John puts it, the "righteousness" you learned. Note that difference in orientation: you are learning 24/7, even when doing something. Not works, but ongoing Bible class -- living, with your body engaged. Not merely study, since no one can keep warm by means of good wishes. In short, Balance. (Same theme is in James 1:1-2:26). So if you want to get ahead in the spiritual life, get headed with His Thinking, by living in His System; when not in Bible class proper, treat the rest of the time as practice of what you've learned thus far, Headed by His Thinking. For the Body of His Thinking acts on a body of flesh, engendering an ennobling of all you touch. However wretched.

Believers then and now had this problem about the knowing, versus the do's. Then and now, we think of 'doing' something of extreme value. We also have the peasanty idea that if a thing requires a lot of body effort, it must be worth something. So we get real upset, when someone who isn't sweating like we are, gets more than we get. Or, when we see someone learned, we get upset that we aren't learned too -- or, intimidated, thinking ourselves hopelessly inferior.

Both attitudes prove this problem of eyes-off-God. We are looking at each other. And expecting that "God" values what we value AS we value. Well, He doesn't. So James and John (and Paul and Peter, etc.) take great pains to separate out the entire works question, to show that the premise is Learning God. Specifically, the Son of God (e.g., 2 Peter 3:18, which he wrote just before he died). All the New Testament authors trace how Word IN you is what works. God doesn't want your works, doesn't need your works, and your works don't really help people, either. John is particularly pointed about it in 1 John 3:17 -- parallel verse is in James 2:16. Both passages in context illustrate that absent the Word in you, your works are but empty, hypocritical wishes. For God Is Not In Them. As 1 John explains, there's a gigantic difference between doing the Word and doing works, and this difference shows up in motivation. Both James and 1 John stress this difference:

The one doing the Word, is motivated by IT; the one doing works, is motivated by them.

So which source is your motivation? Like the widow who put in the two coppers, the one motivated by the Word is looking at it, not at what he does. But the one motivated by works, like those many rich before that widow who were putting in tons of money, were motivated to be 'seen' doing Much Money. So the money, mattered to them. Didn't matter, to her. Christ explained this (saying far more about it than I'm writing now), in Mark 12:42-44 and Luke 21:1-4.

Because if the Word motivates you, you don't price what you do. But when works motivate you, oh -- how you do price them!

Priced love is no love at all, for the Word is Priceless, Isaiah 55:1-11. When the Word motivates you, you want to hide what good you might be doing, and you'll never believe it's good enough: because the Word IS Priceless. Pearl without price parable, ties here. By contrast, when works motivate you, you want to be praised and noticed for what you do, so you are constantly measuring in terms of PRICE, like the Pharisees (both of Jesus' day and today in Christendom). Big difference in love, huh. Bigger difference, in the object of love, huh. Which of the two, should God prefer?

So back to their DIOS Plan...

• Abrogate the WORD. Now you know why Satan & Co. focus on distorting, mistranslating, hiding the Bible. The Word is the Counterfeit Detector, not only of fake verses, scribal errors, and fake holy books, but "the Word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any machaira (two-edged Roman sword); piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit and the joints and the marrow, and is a critic of thoughts and intents of the heart. All Scripture is God-breathed and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in Righteousness; that the man of God might be mature, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth." Those are three Bible verses largely from the KJV. My pastor used to begin every Bible class with those words.

  True evil is white, not black, because true evil mimics God in every way. So it's subtle; and the younger (or more arrested) you are in the spiritual life, the more trapped in evil, you are likely to become. This subtlety works on all the right answers God gives in Bible, like Satan tried to work on Christ in the 2nd temptation -- to push the believer over the edge. Read Clement I's alleged letter to see how far over the edge he went -- it's not immediately apparent. Now you'll know why Revelation 17 was given John to write, in the same year as 'Clement' wrote his letter.

  Given all Scripture says in the post-Paul letters about false teachers (and even, during Christ's time, He said much about them, i.e., Matthew 7), those apostate believers must have been a real problem; which we also know historically, since that was the decade the Church Fathers began arising (90's AD). Sure can tell the difference between their writings, and 1 John! How ironic that it's John who writes of this origin of antichrists, only to follow it up a few years later with their portrait, Revelation 17. False versus true 'spirits', false vs. true 'seed': the latter have the Word in them, the testimony in the Trial; the former claim to have the word in them (3:17,18a). Now 1 John 4:12-17 makes sense in the contemporary context, too. Revelation 1-3 shows some pretty apostate folks, especially the respectable Laodiceans. No wonder John uses Temple keywords in 1 John, since there was no temple (he skips right over the Temple prophecies, since they were already fulfilled, and instead spends three critical chapters on the post-salvation spiritual life, John 14-17, all taught on Christ's last night with his apostles). No wonder God is sarcastic about measuring the non-authorized Temple, in Revelation 11:1. We learn from Bible that we learn nothing from Bible.

  So the quintessential characteristic of Satan & Co.'s involvement is therefore the suppression of Scripture; when they cannot suppress it, they suppress interest in it; when they can't do that, they distort it. Now you know why So Much Mistranslation, occurs. Satan & Co. are finite like we are, only bigger. But they still can't be everywhere at once. Because the Word "is alive and powerful", they can't afford to have its use go unmonitored. But they can't monitor everything. So they have to herd us in order to make their DIOS goal function effectively.

  Hence their AIDS and abortion tactics. By getting us into works and getting us into people-people substitute 'holiness', they can all the better distract us, and hence dissuade interest in the Word; wrecking translations, stressing substitutes, encouraging disinterest. Any way they can do it, they will. Since the Word produces Love in you, and since the Love in you is the quintessential witness in the Trial, then suppression of the Word is all-important. And they did it very well, for nearly 18 centuries. But today, they can't suppress the original-language texts -- so must offer other substitutes. The Gospel, Caveats and "Right" Pastor? links on the Home Page spend much time on the nature of these substitutes, so little more will be said here.

  Essentially, you can tell a satanic sponsoring of someone or something if the Word is given only lip service (or emotion). Every religion acts like this: not one of them know their own holy books, but vaguely; and instead, they get into many doo-doo's, pretending they are thus obeying their holy books. It's hysterical, what hypocrites we humans all are. So, with respect to the Real Word: if a teacher doesn't teach Bible, or just gives you snippets and sugary/emotional sermons; if you are taught by means of Madison-Avenue or emotional techniques, socializing and all manner of substitutes for teaching the Word -- it's not God who's in all that. Mind you, Satan & Co. don't exactly 'inform' their pawns; so you can be reasonably certain a satanic pawn very sincerely believes he's on good terms with a real God. It's at the end of his life (but hopefully much sooner!) he realizes he's been used. Better to never be born, the Lord observed of Judas. Judas, by the way, was a disciple -- so had to have been a believer, first. Would you want to know forever what Judas in heaven forever, knows about himself? So end up all of Satan's pawns, whether they live happily in heaven or happily in hell. [Nerd note: people in hell love it there, because they love feeling sorry for themselves. Read Luke 16:20ff to see why.]

  God wrote the Word. God didn't write long tomes with windy erudition. God didn't say we should read the Church Fathers as if they were the summit of wisdom (what a crock -- read them yourself, and see). God didn't say we were to just intone or quote or otherwise parrot our teachers, as if it was respectful to learn nothing from what they taught. (Worst thing you can do to a teacher, is to not think out what he teaches you -- very disrespectful, sorry.) God didn't say we were supposed to memorize Bible verses and slap them around when we see behavior 'we' feel doesn't comport. Oh no. But Satan & Co. teach all that. So forget all the knowledge about what a surplice is, and how many Marys are in the Bible, and what Quelle is. Just Learn The Word. For itself. Not, for showing off at a 'fellowship' rally.

  Granted, most Christians won't go to church if they don't get the razzmatazz -- people will leave if they don't feel the church is friendly, for example -- but then it's not God they want. Flee anyone who isn't teaching the Word AS the Word, for itself. Kissing the Word, oh-how-i-love-Jesus songs, potlucks and all that substitutes for the Word, so is evil. Satan is all about Dios -- his strategy for making God foreign to us. By Derision, Imbalance, Obfuscation, and Substitution. Implemented by the substitutes of Morality, Emotion, Gross sin, and Apathy (toward the Word).

So: if you don't learn those socratic equations in 1 John, you'll become Satan fodder, mistaking 1 John as about works and being nice to people. A socratic equation is a rhetorical style which is kinda like tic-tac-toe. It's modular, and the sentence structure is balanced. Notice, for example, that in 1 John 1:5-10, you have three clauses in each sentence; if you 'vertically' examine them, every first clause parallels every next first clause; every second clause parallels its next second clause, etc. So that you can equate the protases of later sentences, to similar protases in prior sentences. So the one who sins is in darkness, doesn't have the truth in him (so is a liar), doesn't have the Word in Him (calls God a liar). This is a sophisticated form of parallelism, so you can move the modules around and equate conditions and results. Hence Word=Love=abiding in God. All else, not. Very deft technique.

So by means of these socratic equations, you can tell that every 'bad' thing John's mentioning in 1 John is what moral sinners do. Keyword "antichrists" in 1 John 2 also tips you off, since the term first means "instead of Christ" -- fake christs, fake holiness, fake representatives of God. The moral sinner claims he's not sinning, claims he loves God, claims he loves his brother, claims he obeys. A false teacher claims to be of God, but is of the world. The world is normally moral, for morality is needed for survival, and is the root source for pride -- another survival (aka "defense") mechanism of the sin nature.

Moral sinning comes from a need to be compensated for doing something unpleasant; there is no compensation to the moralist, except pride. He has to be his own god, so he has to be unrequited. That's why moral people are such a pain to be around: they have to be superior to everyone, in order to justify their own pride, which is the only 'compensation' they respect. It didn't start that way. See, we are too well aware of our physical limitations. We have to pee every day, for crying out loud. So to do the 'opposite' of that, like to deny ourselves or incur an expense, naturally upsets us, since we are so animalistic. So, if we treat that upset as making a 'sacrifice', well.. then we can (oh so quietly) call it evidence of how GOOD we are. Yeah, an extra "O", for Obfuscation, got put in God's name. So we make ourselves, gods. Real subtle, constant urge running from the body to the soul, to make the self god. Can't avoid it, unless you get God's DNA, His Son's Thinking. Constantly. It takes some years, to knit together.

So beware. What's most obvious, we least see. Because, without the Spirit, we are in darkness. It's our natural condition. And being in darkness, we fancy ourselves in the Light, just as John warns in 1 John 2. Look carefully at what John parallels as bad, given the purpose of his letter in Chapter 2: how the audience can know they are not like the believers who became apostate and left; which leaving believers, are now under the devil's sway; hence to beware of them (parallel passage in 2 Timothy 2:26-3:7); for their objective is to sway the epistle's audience away from the Word. Moral sinners substitute their works and their power lust and then call themselves doing the will of God, namely, all Christian activism in any century (and especially, today). Worst evil is substitute holiness. Murders the spiritual life.

To illustrate this fact, 1 John 3 reminds his audience of Cain's sweaty religious sin of offering vegetables to God, instead of Abel's belief depicted by the lamb sacrifice; and hence Cain became jealous (instead of doing the same thing as Abel) -- and hence murdered Abel, 1 John 3:12 (see also Genesis 4:7 in context); the murder was done with a sacrificial knife in a sacrificial manner, mocking the Sacrifice-to-Come. (You can't see that from the English -- Greek word is specialized for sacrificing a lamb by slitting its throat, σφάζω -- ties to John 8:44, my pastor explained.) So John is very much, excoriating works and false spirituality. So you also have to know Cain was very moral and was ticked off all his hard farming work wasn't acceptable to God, but Abel's no-account sheep (which you just lead to pasture, you don't slave over it), God honored. If you don't know that about Cain you will miss John's definition of evil and sin and everything bad, in this epistle. Remember, John's parallelling what Christ said, to remind the reader, and Christ excoriated works at every turn, i.e., the Pharisees, in Matthew 23 (whole chapter, but especially vv12-15).

Worse Evil is white, not black, and the theme in 1 John is to beware of false teachers. If teachers, then obviously the evil being warned against, is religious evil. Idols are always used by religion (i.e., the cult of rituals, taboos, relics, etc), the last warning in 1 John. John's other two epistles are only on that topic, so.. looks like many of his initial audience, defected too. The theme that no Word or false word=no love is very pointed in 2Jn. So if you have trouble seeing it in 1 John, look at 2&3 Jn, and Jude (each only a few paragraphs long, and written in some haste): note the Cain analogy in Jude 11, which John uses in 1 John 3 (tying to the earlier Jude letter). Notice how "love" means turning away those false teachers. For 2John verse 10-11 says, Don't even greet them; for then you yourself share in their evil. Pretty strong statement, huh. Wow: today, that behavior would be considered very unloving. So, again - it matters that you learn Bible's own definitions, not your own, lest you misread it. [Nerd note: notice that John is not telling the noble "lady" to go crusading against the false teachers, either. That's the other typical apostate behavior common throughout Christendom's sordid history, to crusade against what they consider "false". Truly disgusting, that Athanasius and his ilk. When will we ever rightly divide the Word of Truth?]

Even in translation, if you use 1 John 1:9 and actually think about what you are reading, you can see it's only the Word In You, which matters. So if you have trouble with the equations of 1 John, look first at 2John and 3Jn, and Jude. Then 1 John might make more sense as you study it.

So with the illustration of Cain, 1 John 3 says works leads to murder; again, referencing Christ's quote (John 8:44) and his epithet to the Pharisees, "you are of your father, the devil". Christ never uses that expression for any other group of folks: only the religious types get that epithet. So in 1 John, you can't mistake what kind of apostasy is referenced, unless you don't know your Bible. Of course the devil is a Self-Righteous Murderer, so Christ came to free us from the devil's works (λύω should be translated loosen the bonds, not 'destroy' in 1 John 3:8). The equating of works to turning away someone starving, to mere words mouthed, is pretty scathing in 1 John 3:17-18.He's saying the Word clothes and feeds and loves the brethren by abiding in you, so don't do what Cain did and substitute something else -- ouch!

See how he writes 1 John 3:18 (corrected translation): "Children, we must not 'love' by means of mere words nor in lip service, but [rather] in the sphere of Divine Work, even The Truth!" Pretty strong sentence: leaves no doubt, huh. In context, his socratic equation here contrasts all human works as mere words and lip service, versus the Truth which is The Word. Only The Word, works. Hebrews 10:24 is parallel syntax and construction -- mistranslated, of course. Same theme in James, also mistranslated. See for yourself: well, only in the Greek, never the English, 🤣. [Read the context from verse 1 John 3:16, because the equations relate back to 1 John 2:6 on how the Lord walked; how by the Word, He gave up his Life. So here in verse 18, 🤣 -- "ἔργοι" and "ἀλήθειαι" are anarthrous, both of them. John is equating what is True Works, with the Truth -- after all, it's the Word which was IN Him, which paid for our sins, direct reference to Isaiah 53:11's sunesei (da'ath, in Hebrew text, dalet ayin tau). But do you find that anarthrous quality indicating Divine Work in translation? Of course not! This is a pivotal verse, just like 1 John 2:5 is, and both are surgically mistranslated to reverse the meaning! Kill me now: in seminary one of the first Greek-geek things you're taught is to look for the absence of the "article" (nee: "definite article"). Absence stresses Quality, and particularly, Divine Quality. And the other big thing you're taught, is the Granville Sharp rule, where you treat "kai" as a hyphen, if there is an article for two nouns. But here there's no article, so how much more close, are the two nouns? They are equal, two sides of the same coin! So "kai" is not "and", but "even" (ascensive)-- John is equating, uniting the two anarthrous words. You'll find the same exact construction with the clever "καλῶν" inserted, in Hebrews 10:24, so that verse should say [hortatory subjunctive] "let us carefully discern among ourselves, resulting in the encouragement of Love=Word, even Divine Good Deeds." 10:25 therefore turns the noun into a foundational participle, "being encouraged" (there's no "one another" in the verse): so you know it's from Word, previous verse -- it's not between people, for crying out loud. Verse goes on to say how that encouragement results: by getting Bible Teaching (you went to church to get Bible Teaching, not social life, they didn't have tapes or internet back then)! But of course, Hebrews 10:24 is reversed in translation! Sheesh! I'd never know what Bible said, from translations! It's a miracle anyone gets saved or lives the spiritual life! Thank you Father, my pastor taught from the original-language texts for 50+ years to his congregation, nearly every day! It hurts to see what others are stuck with. Man, my church and I have taken for granted the teaching we got, not realizing how poor the translations are. What a fool I've been! End ranting, sorry. ]

So much for all that claptrap about giving to the poor! So if I would feed the poor, I better get fed Word! Unlike people, God can really bless the poor. Unlike people, God won't use the poor to get money out of other people. Parallelisms of this in 1 John 2:9-11, 15-19, 3:4,6,8,10,12,15 and 4:20-21 show that religiosity was really a problem. After all, the devil is extremely moral, too. Angel of light, even. Religion murders the Word: see John 5:37-47, 15:18-27, 16:1-3. What you think defiles you, not what you do. So what you do, doesn't help you either, but rather what you think, Mark 7:14ff. So if defiled thinking, what must God do to any works thus contaminated, as Christ Himself, explained? Burn them up (2nd half 2 Peter, 1 Corinthians 3).

So it bears repeating, that litmus of Motive and Where You Are Spiritually Living. As 1 John explains, there's a big difference between doing the Word and doing works. This difference shows up in motivation:

The one doing the Word, is motivated by IT; the one doing works, is motivated by them.

So which source is your motivation?

Because if the Word motivates you, you don't price what you do. But when works motivate you, oh -- how you DO price them!

For priced love is no love at all, for the Word is Priceless, Isaiah 55:1-11. When the Word motivates you, you want to lay down your life: because the Word IS Priceless. By contrast, when works motivate you, you want praise for what you do; so you constantly measure like the Pharisees (both of Jesus' day and today in Christendom). Big difference in love, huh. Bigger difference, in the object of love, huh. Which of the two, should God prefer?

Do you begin to see how evil is the do-good-for-people claim? Does no one recognize that Matthew 4's temptations are temptations to good deeds? Of course not. Well: why are we so blinded? Surely it's not God who's blinding us. And you just know those touting good deeds are blind. For the claim sounds soooo nice. Soooo loving -- yeah, and chops out, God Himself! Think really hard: to Whom do you owe your first allegiance? Your parents. And Who is Your First Parent? Well, the Father Who Ordained Your Salvation. And to Whom did Christ sacrifice? He didn't turn stones into bread to feed the hungry of the world in Matthew 4:3, did He? Why not? Oh, it would have been a sin to do good deeds! And why? Because Father Wasn't The Recipient. First Commandment does not have the word "people" in it. And, excuse me -- by not 'caring' for the poor but instead going to the Cross for father, no little accomplishment was made on our behalf, right?

So, then: if Father is FIRST, and if Father is pleased with His Son's Thinking developing in us, then -- how do you think Omnipotent God likes to Express His Pleasure? Well, due to Christ we all got saved! So what do you think He'll 'save' in the world now, since those saved by Christ are learning what Father wants to hear? Won't He save people in other ways, far more than anything we can think or imagine, Ephesians 3:20? So how evil are we, if we reject Learning His Son? Well, we are more evil than any murderer!

Can it be more evil than to reject your parents? Can it be more evil than to reject your parents in the name of God? Can it be more evil, then, to reject God in the name of your parents? But the Corban gimmick was used by the Pharisees to deny support to their parents in the name of God. But works was used by the Pharisees to deny God Himself (see Mark 7, Matthew 23).

Can it be more evil, to refuse to do the one thing God really wants -- learning His Son -- so that the world can get from God, not you -- what God wants to give it? So if we are soooo busy giving the world what we think it needs, then we succeed in giving God nothing He wants, and we deny the world God's Gift on our behalf. Greater evil than that, well.. can't think of any worse.

Hence the climactic, scathing, 1 John 3:17: who having the world's goods, can close his emotions to someone in need? Unsaid, and sotto voce -- but we have All Things in Christ, so how can we not 'lay down our lives' like He did.. by Learning Word, Matthew 4:4? Didn't God Buy Time via Noah, Abram, Moses, David, and now.. Christ? And what 'works' did these Bible greats do? They Believed. They Learned God's Thoughts. Thus the world Continued To Exist; for God only and always perpetuates via spiritual 'fathering', same contract pattern as Isaiah 53:11. David says that's why he was born, Psalm 139:17 (Psalm 139:11-17 are always reverse translated).

More: as said earlier in this section.. can any work one does, BUY TIME? But, as Paul said in Colossians 4:5 and Ephesians 5:16 (and 6:13, indirectly), which letters were already well-circulated -- it's our job to buy time.The same way Christ bought it: learn the Word. For the Word became flesh and we flesh can thus become the Word in ourselves, since only God can do that. So only God can buy time. So only God knows how to help the poor.

Take this challenge, test the Gospels yourself and see: Christ never did anything that 'Christians' do. Not even once. He didn't run around witnessing (but rather kept on teaching, and told everyone to shut up about His Miracles and Identity, see Mark's Gospel); He didn't try to debate the validity of the Bible versus science, He didn't pass around the collection plate (and was excoriated for that); He didn't fast (except in Matthew 4, because that would weaken Him for better testing); He didn't tell others to be ascetic; He didn't condemn those who were rich or poor, He didn't get into activism. He only taught and died on a Cross. So, when John says repeatedly we should live ("walk" is the expression, a Hebraism) like Christ, well.. he sure doesn't mean religion. He sure does mean BECOMING something, since Christ became the Way the Truth and the Life. So how can we become that? By learning the Thinking of the Way the Truth and the Life through the Holy Spirit (1 John 4:13). Which is Spiritual DNA, Doctrinal DNA, Divine DNA. Changing us. Not, us changing a world which wants breaded stones.

Instead, Christ prayed that we be Sanctified (literal, set apart as holy, hence the term "saints") By Means Of The Truth -- John 17:17-21, 4:23-24. Truth, not works. Truth, not givings-to-the-poor, not rituals, not taboos, not revival rallies, not sing-alongs, not syrupy sermons, not prolife movements, not political crusading, not religion.. not anything like Christianity today. But instead, Truth: which results in glory and oneness with God, John 17:22-26. So much for the goofy idea that man's works do anything 'holy'! Yeah, works make one sanctimonious, but never sanctified! [Nerd Note: Greek preposition "en" is used with the dative, hence close Association, Relationship, Benefit is always the connotation. It matters that "in truth" uses that preposition, but "in" is not the only meaning, and "sanctify" is an action word, so you have to use "by means of", which of course results in "in". Look up all the meanings of the preposition "en", and test all the meanings when you find "in" used.]

Now why would He pray that? Because Truth Is What Father Wants To Hear; obviously, since Christ never prayed against the Father's Will, did He. So Truth is what Father wants to hear. Truth, not 'works'. If you work for a boss, and that boss is pleased with your work, he pays you. Pays you more, if especially pleased. Then you can spend that money as you choose. Ok: so what if God, your ultimate Boss, is pleased? Well, He pays you by taking care of the world for you, since you need the world and it (the more) needs you in it. But you are so busy learning, not doing all those kooky works the world pants after. So God Does Bigger WorkS. Well, isn't that better than you directly getting the money, and having the hassle of giving it away? It is a hassle: people won't treat you like a human being. They drool too much. So, God spares you all that hassle, and gives the world TIME, WEATHER, and all manner of stuff only God can do. Plus, competence -- because on our own, we're not competent. God is Love. Grace is His Expression of that Love. No one else can Justify that expression, but the One Who Grew Up. Of Whom, we are growing up. See the parallel?

He's Our Father. Could be the world's Father, and in fact He Gave Birth To Every Soul Directly, Personally, model of Genesis 2:7. But the world disowns Him. But we didn't. We drooling dufuses, not able to think our way out of the proverbial paper bag; we fools who actually believe in God instead of our own egos, for we can't fool ourselves anymore -- we got spanked too much, enlightened too much, δείκνυμι clause of LXX Isaiah 53:11! So Our Father, Dad! Our Dad! OUR Dad, Our Mutual Dad! will move heaven and earth to love us, protect us, spank us as needed, GROW us. To be like Our First Brother, Christ (see Hebrews 2). And because HE is our Dad, the world gets to live another day...

I've left out one other Huge Blessing God Grants Because You Are Learning His Son: your entire nation is Blessed. My pastor has taught this for decades as "the pivot"; since 1997, he's warned us that due to lack of interest in Word, the United States is about to be punished with extinction as Israel was -- but then discovered through the parallel of Moses, that a few "Pleroma" people are enough to justify the continuance of a nation, despite itself. Years later, through the math on Bible verses about certain Bible believers, I learned of God's Blessing System for Time. That's a separate blessing system, from the one which benefits your home nation. So you are worth much!

Given the Moses parallel, a ratio of about 1:6 million is needed. But when you look at the parable in Luke 8, that ratio might be much higher: LvS4b.htm spends time on how such ratios leverage blessing, and how such ratios might indicate how God builds the Church for the Rapture (not trying to date it, just to understand the voting parameters). So: for the US, my pastor guesses that between 10-50 people alone carry us. We are too far gone. When national debate can center on steroids and stem cells and Federal Marriage Amendments -- headed by ding-dong Christians who wouldn't know law or the Bible if It Bit Them -- then you know we are a nation of rotten figs (metaphor of believer apostasy, in Jeremiah). So only a few are spiritually-mature enough, and the United States limps along. I shudder to think of the sad condition of other countries, for Bible seems to be much more loved here than anywhere else (except maybe South Korea and Brazil). [I'm not at all sure that the Bush administration is 'into' all these issues. They seem to be adopting the stance to keep their ding-dong Christian Right, having decided that political support in other sectors is too small. What's interesting is that they really only talk about the issues, always managing to do very little of substance about them. That's an encouraging sign, but someone in the Administration ought to read Isaiah's many warnings against trusting "Egypt" -- the prototype of trusting the Wrong persons for your safety. God first and only. To hell with the stupid ding-dong Christians, don't count on them. God disciplines His Own (Hebrews 12:5ff), so we don't go punishing others, but we don't go relying on them, either...]

In conclusion, τί γάρ οὖν; τί οὖν ἐστίν: for whom are you voting, and who's making you? Are you getting DDNA, or dDNA, fancying yourself holy? For surely, it's murder if you key your life to people, and you're making touchdowns for Satan, but never God; especially, if you do all that AIDS abortive, Word-distortive work in the name of God. For God alone has first "dibs" on your life, and if He's not getting all your heart and soul and understanding, the Lord's Amendment Of The First Commandment is a sham. So you reject Your Savior, too. There's no "people" in the First Commandment, and it's First. So that's the "work" which is good. All else, is a phoney substitute, Cain's vegetables, Zechariah 7: are you doing that fasting for ME, Israel? Isaiah 1:13, I can't stand your sacrifices any more, they stink. Lots of verses like this in Bible. So there's a lot of satire on works which in translation you can't see; the normal style, like here in 1 John, is to tweak the religiously apostate's works by calling 'em something immoral (major rhetorical style in the OT); by stating what real good, work, love.. is.

Even in translation you can see how we all would have been murdered if Christ didn't live on the Word, Matthew 4:4. Yet by our 'Christian' standards, Jesus Christ Our Own Lord and Savior, was the One most remiss for not caving into the doo-good deeds of Matthew 4. He didn't feed everyone, as Satan pleaded Him to do; He didn't do something flashy so we'd all easily believe Him, as Satan taunted Him to do; and He didn't zap Satan and just flat take over the earth, as Satan baited him to do. So we have a lot to learn about what does and doesn't please God; what is and isn't, spiritual. Hence, 1 John.

Apart from the Word, then, one is just like the straw man in James 2, wishing everyone to be clothed and fed -- but no one can feed, but God. The straw man, the works person, fancies himself doing God's work by doing body works. But God has no body. But there are so many poor. Do you help but one, and that one, scantily? When you can do what Christ did, learn the Word and produce such a sweet savor that God blesses the world to express His Pleasure?

Through the Spirit, you can do much. So to not abide in Him, when you can, 1 John 3:17 -- well, that's like the false good wishes everyone hypocritically banters: Have a nice trip. Happy Christmas. Hope you have a good week next week. Christ turned Satan's good-deeds temptations down in Matthew 4. In favor of, the Cross. To get to which, He had to learn learn learn learn for a lifetime. Surely if we are given to learn, then God wishes to make more of that, than we could wish to do ourselves. Even were we able.

And if you love God, oh how you ache to solve another's suffering! And how well you know, since you know HIM -- that Only God can solve suffering! Didn't He solve your own suffering? For capacities determine relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships; so the world has no soul capacity, and therefore it suffers. Well -- how then do you pray? For you know unless you pray, the world cannot be helped, since it rejects Him. And you know unless you grow, your prayer won't be heard, since no prayer is heard from someone outside God's System. God should get from us, right? And doesn't the world need Him to be pleased with us? You are So Royally Powerful, you've no idea -- well, hopefully you've some idea by now -- use that power well?

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So the Warring against the King, produces Battlefield Royalty: kings.
And Battlefield Plunder, Booty, Isaiah 53:12.

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John writes 1 John so believers can know what constitutes being "spiritual" for God; what constitutes good evidence in the Angelic Trial we are in, because we can't see anything from down here; and we can't see them (the demons, angels, God, etc). So John outlines four types of things which in that Trial are used to demonstrate God's handiwork. He's referencing and elaborating on Hebrews 11:1 (in the Greek), which they all knew. What they didn't know, was what now that the Temple is gone, and God seems to have gone silent?

LvS4a.htm, which is Part 4a of the Lord vs. Satan on this Trial, begins with a much longer version of what follows in these indented paragraphs.

Gist: the Coming of Christ was a cataclysmic event with widespread, worldwide repercussions owing to the kind of Prophecy His Coming was. Salvation and the end-of-the-world were to be simultaneous. That prophecy was known throughout the world, and His 30 years of 'silence' after His Birth, gave the world enough time to decide for or against going to Israel, to see Him. That's why John the Baptist and not Christ, was visible. It was a Period of Voting. Since the world was to end with the ending of Messiah's paying for sins, the world needed time to decide how to vote. So Messiah doesn't show up on the world's stage, until the last three years. Everyone could know when those last three years would be, owing to the timeline in Daniel 9:25-26. So after He came and was crucified, the world turned upside down. Proof of His Coming was evidenced by spectacular spiritual gifts, to give the Jews and the world yet another 40 years, to decide how to vote: Paul chokes up about that, in Romans 9:22 (ἀποσιώπησις between verse 22 and verse 23). Because, the message was.. He's Coming Back. This time, as a Rapture, which would kick off the end-of-the-world sequence known in the Old Testament by various names -- which we know as "the Tribulation".

But those visible spiritual gifts pretty much terminated with the 08/28-29/70 AD end of the Second Temple, and probably by that date, most of Scripture had been completed. Then, a 'silence' ensued: only John's 'portion' of the Bible, didn't yet exist. In the 50's and 60's AD, Matthew, James, Luke, Acts, and Paul's huge portion of Bible, were all written and disseminated. In the spate of Christian persecution following Paul's execution in 68AD (beginning the Year of the Four Emperors, a very bad time in Roman history), you got Peter's letters (written from Babylon, that's how bad persecution was), the Book of Hebrews, Mark's Gospel, Jude. So from 70 AD forward, a period of silence ensued. No Rapture happened (which was expected), either. And it kept ON not happening.

So by the time John writes in the 90's AD, the other Bible books had been in circulation for nearly a generation; everyone had grown weary of the 'silence'; and wary, from all that waiting for the Lord's sudden "ἐξανάστασις" ("Rapture", in modern parlance) -- which "exit resurrection", had obviously not occurred. As a result, there was a terrific breakout of legalism and 'Christian' gnosticism (an ancient, morphing idea underlying many Eastern religions). So people were defecting away from Word in droves. It wasn't 'fun' like the competitors' offerings. So John is the last Canon writer (which he deftly informs them, in 1 John Chapters 2-3).

Back when the Second Temple was built (circa 536BC-516BC), there had been excitement; but it wasn't anywhere near as glamorous as that First Temple had been, and the Glory of the Lord did not fill the Second Temple: it was promised only for the Millennium (i.e., in Ezekiel and Habakkuk). There was no Ark, either: just the Bedrock in the Holy of Holies. Still, there were plenty of prophets, and plenty of prophecy, too. So the people were sustained by the progress in building, by the prophets, and by the hope of Messiah. Understand, it wasn't easy to build the Second Temple and Jerusalem -- people kept on persecuting the rebuilders, so building took something like 90 years (circa 536BC-446BC); and Messiah-to-Come, wouldn't come for another 400+ years: the Daniel 9:25 timeline was precise. So that rebuilding generation, was the first generation to know when He would come.

But His Arrival, was too far away. So about 10 years after Jerusalem around the Temple had its walls finished, boredom and weariness set in again. So by about 434BC, Malachi, who was raised up by God as a prophet, was ending his ministry: so he wrote what was known as the last book of the OT. Then, there was silence. All you had to go on was the promise of Messiah's arrival per Daniel 9:25, and the Writings. Which you knew, were completed. No new revelation would come, until Messiah came. Which date, was a long way off.

If you trace God's messages and messenger styles, you'll find a progressive DISappearance of visibility. And in each case, the disappearance tallied to negative volition. As men waited and waited and waited, they tired. Those who did have a lot of faith, got a lot of visible feedback from God; those who didn't, didn't.. until some judgement had to occur. So by the end of Malachi, negativity of an ascetic nature had taken hold; so no more prophets, even, were sent. If you read Malachi, you'll see why. It ends abruptly. The next person to arrive, would be Messiah. Meanwhile all they had, were the Writings.

So here in the 90's AD, believers faced a parallel situation, but in a kind of reverse impatience: the Rapture can come at any moment ("if He should appear" clause in 1 John 2:28, 3:2), but it's been so long, and it hasn't come yet. Will it come at all? Believers a generation earlier had the same weariness, so Peter wrote them scathingly about how the Lord is not slow as "some count slowness", in 2 Peter. But then Peter died. Mark's Gospel had come out soon after; the Temple was destroyed within two years afterwards; and of course Paul had been executed by Nero, in 68AD, which had kicked off that second spate of Scripture writing (Peter, maybe Jude, Hebrews, Mark's Gospel). But since all those climactic events which kept people going -- nothing happened. So here in the 90's AD, people wondered what to believe. Most just up and left or morphed the Bible into something it was not.. as usual. Notice the parallel, and the switch: the Rapture was imminent, not far off. But because it didn't happen as expected, people drifted off.

We humans are dependent on the visible for motivation. What we can't see, we don't remember very long. Two people are close friends, but one moves away. Their closeness fades, as a result. So, too, with learning God: there was no visibility, except an aging set of books a few old ones could tell stories about, back when they and the books were younger. So old peoples' stories, by now. The younger ones, ached for something they could get their hands on or see. But there was nothing. First generation in history to have total invisibility, these younger ones post-70 AD, felt like fish outta water. And, they were.

For the hardest test you'll ever experience, is nothingness. Doing nothing to be saved, John 3:16. Not seeing God, 1 John 4 (and refrain, elsewhere). Not seeing what your belief in Him signifies, Hebrews 11:1. This Trial phase is the hardest one. Beginning, with that generation of believers who lived after the Temple 'died'. And that phase, is the one you are still in. For the Rapture still can happen at any moment, but it's now been, about 2000 years. Once the Rapture happens, it all goes back to the visible: the official Tribulation, followed by the Millennium. So again, this is the hardest Trial phase. Because, all we have we think we can see.. is a dusty set of books few read, and fewer still, understand. Yet no greater proof has ever existed, either before that set of books was completed, nor ever after. For what you cannot see, you can better know. The 'eye' isn't in the way, anymore.

Scripture in the original-language texts is conclusive proof, in and of itself, that God wrote it. By Content, what the words mean. Written across a span of 1500 years, one cohesive package, consistent and comprehensible from Genesis through Revelation. Without a doubt. If God never did any visible miracle, and even if He did all visible miracles He could do -- this one, is the greatest. Bar none. Reading these texts is looking God in the very 'Face'. Just as Paul forecast, back in the last half of 1 Corinthians 13.

Oh, but there is a catch: without the Spirit's Brains, you have no eyes. So without the Word, you have no way to know how to get the Spirit's Brains. Hence we have John's writings, which explain how to 'see' without our eyes. Faith is not blind, but a superior sight. Which is why a person can read Bible until he's blue in the face, and learn nothing. Takes the Spirit's Brains and you believing in the Word He teaches you, to see anything: that's the main theme of 1 John.

For the world wants to see the world's way, but God stopped all that visibility, since the world is too negative. Prove it quickly: See the Dome of the Rock? It's the latest in a long series of "abominations of desolation" since the 160's BC! And this particular Dome has been dumbly standing Over the Rock which is the Holy of Holies, for 14 bleeping centuries! Is it not big enough, not often enough in the news, is it not easy to read Matthew 24 and Daniel 9:26? Why, then, don't we see Bible is from God? So if a truly gigantic building with a well-established history no one disputes, Goes on Testifying to Bible's Divine Origin and is yet UNseen, well.. why should God do more? Not to mention, virtually every natural law including math, economics, history, patently displays a Hypostatic Pattern -- can God make it more obvious?

Now you have a better inkling why we Church alone can become Battlefield Royalty, the true and only Royalty for all eternity: kings under the King of Kings, Revelation 1:6, 5:10. Just as He was in the world, so are we, 1 John 4:17. Kinda like John the Baptist had been, we are now the only visible evidence of Him: so like Him, we are On Trial. But the world can't see us. We can't see the Trial, and we can only live on this Bible.. invisibly. That's the hardest battle for a human being. No visible support, no human systems of perception or courage. Just silence.

No one really sees a King. They see his body, and hear his voice. They see his property and servants, but they don't see his inner life. That, he lives alone, independent of all others. Else, he's not a good king: even within his own immediate family, he must draw the line, be somewhat isolated. In his own mind, he must stop being a person, and instead become an entity. Which entity, he then obeys. For the king to be a good ruler, he himself must internally be, the most ruled (Peter's palindrome, "ὑπάρχειν", in 2 Peter 3:11). He has advisors, but he makes the decisions. He has lots of help, but no one can help him BE king. They can only help the outers and behaviors which attend the king. So for a person to train to BE a king, requires much inner isolation, to gain the necessary independence. For which, one needs strength with power, Ephesians 3:16-17. Spirit, Word, Christ, Word, Love. That's your inner life, now. So you can see how it becomes valid to be crowned a king, if you finish the course all the way through Ephesians 3:19's "Pleroma" completion. Invisibly.

They say that in Russia, one of the really bad punishments rendered was to lock you in a red room for about a month. You'd come out of it, crazy. Man can't take invisibility, isolation, independence. He needs feedback. Well, in this spiritual life, you don't get any: only the boys on the opposite side of the Trial, will be urging you out of your shell. So: if you're not held together by the Word in you, you'll fall apart. That's the spiritual life Christ had, and that's His Legacy to us. Welcome to reality.

So, the Silence Of Jonah is the answer: Bible Teaching, Just As The Lord Had Promised Back In The Gospels. (Matthew 12:39, 16:4, Luke 11:19; the later explains what "Jonah" meant for Nineveh.) Hence the Word in us, the THEME of the Trial, Love being brought to completion in association with us. (1 John 4:17, but brought up in verse 12.) It's not running around to people gushing love, for crying out loud. That's what the Gnostics and the religionists were all doing -- just like today. Love is a Thought Pattern Of The Word In You, so can't show up on any radar screen except heaven's. This Trial and this Witness is something we ourselves can't even see, so of course it's not even playing to the world. It's playing, to GOD. And thus, to the angels on both sides of Him, in the Angelic Trial.

So Father silently answers Son's John 17:17-21 prayer by putting His Son's Thinking, which is the Truth, in us hapless earthen vessels. Consequently, for Trial purposes, these four major demonstrations of Invisible God are the "Work" God is accomplishing in us. These four are listed in 1 John 4:12-17. Put too simply, these four are:

1. The Spirit teaching and FILLING, thus EMPOWERING us, which is why 1 John is written, why one needs to live on Word Study and 1 John 1:9; this is the entire spiritual life, for Church. For in the beginning which was not a beginning, was the Word. And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. So began John's Gospel. "Word" is the quintessential moniker for God in the Old Testament, and particularly, the Son of God: dabar in Hebrew, ho Logos in Greek. For that means God's Thinking, His Essence. So loving the Word, is loving God. And if you love the Word, you cherish/guard the Word, 1 John 2:5. Anything else.. not. For that's only how the Lord 'walked', Matthew 4:4.

2. As a result, we thus truly know we 'see' the Invisible God, Who sent His Son, the Savior; we're thus eyewitnesses, in the larger Angelic Trial, and not but condimentally, witnesses to people; and in fact we can see and know God like 1 John explains, because we are becoming like Him via the Spirit's transforming DDNA in our souls (the Word itself, its Thinking Results);

3. So We admit that Jesus is that Son of God, and for that reason, keep abiding in Him ('confess' is an admittance something is true, hence obviously you believe it); John 15 is thus fulfilled.

4. Hence, the climactic completion: We have come to know the Word and believed Him, so we reflect that Love: Him. A love the world can't match, no matter how hard it tries. A Love the world can't see; but it's not about what the world sees: it's about what God sees. God, not people.

Because, we are truly spiritually-born, and it's all the Spirit's DDNA, proving the authenticity. Not, how nice we are to people.

This invisibility is just like all the other Trial witnesses of the Bible. Who saw Abraham sacrifice Isaac? Who saw Job pass the test? Who saw Christ on the Cross? The angels, not people. So who is seeing you now? The angels, not people down here. Search on "angels" verses in the New Testament, see how many Trial references are made to them. It's so bald in the Old Testament and New Testament that this Angelic Trial is going on (fuzzed over in translation, of course), it's totally amazing that all our fascination with them doesn't yield a more sober understanding. My pastor has taught this extensively for over 50 years, as have some others. Consequently, we have no reason to be so obtuse about the fact that the Trial is before the angels; not at all, before mankind.

So people have very little to do with this witness. So we need to have little to do with people, but a lot to do with God. Once we are "rooted and grounded in Love", Ephesians 3:17, we'll have enough discernment and proper motivation from Word to know what, if anything, we do in witnessing (etc) to people. Frankly, God's not too coy about what He wants: he just flat brings people to you when He thinks you are the appropriate mouth for whatever He wants. Then, they run around and tell everyone they know what you said. You never see the person again, after that. Ships that pass in the night. So God, not you, remains the sole focus. After all, you get chateaubriand, Him. Why should your brethren then settle for you, who are dog doo-doo?

But Up High in the Third Heaven, beyond this universe, those who know the difference between what is normal human and Bible Doctrine IN the human, are the unseen combatants in the Trial. They are very involved with humankind. They intently watch us down here. Peter uses "ἐπιθυμοῦσιν ἄγγελοι παρακύψαι" to describe them craning their necks, like you would from up in the stands at a NASCAR race or a football game, totally involved in the 'play' -- one of my pastor's favorite reminders, 1 Peter 1:12. Think of us as a stadium (1 Corinthians 4:9, Greek), as a laboratory, where the results of Satan's implanted thinking versus the Lord's implanted thinking are all on display (namely, beginning of Job 1 and 2, Ephesians 3:10, 1 Timothy 5:21). Now you get a better sense of what 1 John 4:12-17 is about. This Trial is real. You are onstage. You are being watched. By God, by the angels. So forget the people thing: you are part of something of so much greater importance, you can't even imagine. As a result, your potential impact on the human race right now is so vast, you can't even imagine. So forget the works thing, too. Stay In God's System, not works! John keeps repeating. Now you know why.

Here's a quick list of the tangle of conflicts and issues this spiritual life creates due to the Trial, and especially due to the differential between Infinite God putting His Own Truth in you.. and your own nature. Each of the items below is happening within each of the above four dimensions of this DDNA buildup. This DDNA transmutation, is a killer!

1. Spirituality is what happens in your soul: this DDNA growing in you is impossible from the get-go. You can't even understand it, or use it, yourself. You can only vote "yes" or "no". So the Trial Test is, do you learn Christ and thus become like Him in your soul, or do you instead become like Satan? Same test, as in the Garden. When the woman took the fruit, she became like Satan, not God. Macro version: when we stupid Christians make an issue of "fruit-bearing" we imitate the woman's sin -- see how Matthew 7, 12, Luke 6 talk about "fruit": rotten figs, Jeremiah (i.e., 24:8, 29:17) reference. Read the context of Jeremiah closely; notice how from Chapter 22 onward God is talking about how He will destroy the Temple due to all those rotten figs with their rotten works. It's gruesome text. It's what's going to happen to Christendom, and all its associated countries, if we don't grow up in God's System. One person growing up makes so vast a difference, you can't imagine.

2. It's Learning, not earning! So from whose tree are you 'eating' learning? If Satan's, you'll be all about visible works stuff. If God's, then you'll live as Christ did, Matthew 4:4. For the Fruit of the Spirit is all inside you, Galatians 5:22. Spirit is invisible, and so is what HE produces, since He produces it for God. Not, for people. But heck: what people can get just because you 'abide' in the Spirit, is a bazillion times bigger than all the works since Day One until the end of time. This is not hyperbole, but "the surpassing greatness of His superior power" (my pastor's translation), Ephesians 1:19, Ephesians 3:19. "Surpassing" in both those verses, is a frequent wordplay technique Paul uses to designate His Head, which is superior to the Body, being in our heads, which IS the spiritual life. (See also 1 Corinthians 1:5, 10, 12:31, 2 Corinthians 4:7, 2 Corinthians 12:7 in Greek where the same punning wordplay is used -- Greek word is some form of ὑπερβολή, but sometimes the imagery is used instead of the word. Peter seems to like ὑπάρχειν -- well, he loves using ὑπό- prefixed words, designating you are Under the Head, the Word.) Keep on being in God's System, and you'll see it for yourself. Invisibly, taught to you by the Holy Spirit Himself.

3. Because, the Divine Thinking and the human body are not compatible. Which is why spirituality and spiritual growth, is only the learning. As you grow in Christ you will be increasingly living only on the Word in the Spirit. You cannot survive, else. So, apart from Him you can do nothing (John 15). But if a part of Him in the Spirit, you need do nothing. Just stay (aka "abide") in His System. Now you know why 1 John is so 'simply' written. When under pressure, those 'simple' reminders, are your lifeline. Spiritual Growth and spiritual importance are always 'blind' to your human nature, so to that nature this life will always seem 'wrong' or surreal. You only know due to the Spirit telling you; and He only tells you through the Word, John 4:23-24, 14:26, 1 John 4, Hebrews 4:12, Ephesians 3:15-19, Ephesians 4:11-16, etc. That's why you need the Word for proof, so you can keep on seeing that you aren't hallucinating. God never commands us to make bricks without straw. Religion, however, is for those blind-of-Word; which is why Christianity proves itself blind-of-Word, constantly working working working to make touchdowns for Satan & Co., per Revelation 17.

4. God truly changes the person who grows in His System. Ironically, this means your sins are bigger than they were before. Because, YOU are bigger than you were. This problem is a concomitant hazard of growing in what my pastor terms, "capacity righteousness" (keying off the Greek in Romans 8:4). As you grow, you will become much more discerning about what is truly righteous, and what is not. This leads to a vulnerability in your soul: you will become more ashamed or guilty about your own failures, because you are more discerning. You will also become more offended at the failures around you, for the same reason. So you are weaker, not stronger, humanly: thus more vulnerable to attack (by your own sin nature, by the world's thinking, by Satan&Co).
   God never urges; so the urges you feel, are never coming from God; the urges will seem like they come from God (sure mark you are being messed with, by the unseen defendants in the Trial). God never accuses. God never casts doubt. God never expresses disapproval the way we expect. He informs, but there's no taint. Even Divine Discipline is loving, Hebrews 12:5ff.

   So it's an occupational hazard, to step 'out' of God's System, as this burgeoning discernment, beckons you to react. Cling to 'Mom' (the Holy Spirit) in the Word with all your heart and soul (aka "mind") and strength. Breathe through it, hanging onto whatever Doctrine you know, learning what you can about our hapless condition as humans. It's a normal part of the growth process of knowledge, to suddenly see and need to react. Hang on in the Word. Use 1 John 1:9, get up, and keep going. Over and over and over. It's spiritual LaMaze, frankly. "Me amal", Hebrew prep phrase of birthing in Isaiah 53:11, depicting His 'labor pains' of the Cross; being paradigmally played for your benefit IN you, fulfilling Isaiah 53:11, fellowship of His Sufferings. Couldn't be a more valuable experience, one you will come to cherish. Fourth Aspect will cover this topic in more detail.

   "My Food is to do the Will of Him Who sent Me," said the Lord in the Gospels. And what is the Will of Him [Father] Who sent Him [the Son] into the world? To Do Nothing. Be a lamb. Let Holy Spirit carry you to and through the slaughter of the Cross. Lambs don't care for themselves, and neither should you.

5. Guilt and shame and offense are big-ticket items for the human race, to motivate works so Satan & Co. can get more touchdowns and spiritual abortions. So guilt, etc. are even bigger ticket items, when used on the believer. Christ paid for ALL sin on the Cross, but we humans want to put our oars in: the more power you have, the greater the urge to "do" something with that power, so Satan & Co. use guilt (etc.) in order to push the believer to "do" something. Guilt is a sin-nature trait (bio-psychological remnant of remembering that first sin). Can't get rid of it. Treat it like an allergy, so you take your medicine of Bible you know, under the Spirit, in His System. You will be tempted like the psychosomatic paralytic my pastor taught us about, in Matthew 9 (Mark 2, Luke 5): to think your sins have cut you off from God. Well, your sins were paid off, since 2000 years ago! so take up your bed of fake misery -- use 1 John 1:9 to name the guilt, shame, offense -- and walk away. It's a lie that you ought to feel guilty, ashamed, bad or offended. All a lie. Christ didn't die on the Cross in vain. If you don't use 1 John 1:9, you in essence claim the Cross a fraud; that somehow what you did either didn't get paid, or that you don't need to name the sin since the Cross did occur. Evil lie, either way: see 1 John 1:10 and :8. See also Hebrews 6:6, Romans 4:14, 1 Corinthians 1:17.

6. Divine, Absolute Power is growing in you line on line, precept on precept. For the Trial is about whose Power is superior, and we humans are the recipients of both kinds. Test is, What Does The Human Become Under God's Power.. or, under Satan's? It's not about anything else, at the Trial level. So you must be careful what you want. What you want, will be given EFFECT. That's why we have prayer. That's why we have a spiritual life. It's one long series of votes for whose power will govern. So you are powerful, not in yourself, but in your God-given Role. And that role is way too powerful, to be treated dismissively or emotionally. Christ was God-Man, because that would maximally express the range of power options available. He chose to spurn the use of His Godness to benefit Himself or anyone else -- unless and to the extent that, Father wanted Son to use it. Christ also chose to spurn the use of His Human Power, completely. Instead, He relied on the Spirit. That is what we must do also. But we will be tempted to quit or use this power wrongly. Just as Christ was. This is the closest thing to being in Hypostatic Union a sinner human can get. No other group of believers was given so much power, theme of Ephesians 1. No other group post-Church will get it, because we are Body of Christ. No one else has that role. If Christians really knew this, they'd probably be too shocked to move for weeks...
   The more power you have, the less you should 'do', because you are more powerful. You don't kill a fly with a neutron bomb. You don't spend your wealth on the poor, you invest your wealth, because then the poor can have jobs and make their own wealth (socialism always bankrupts a country, sooner or later). The more power you have, the smaller must be whatever you do. Because whatever you do, is way more powerful than everything else.

   DDNA is very small. All life depends on it. Quarks are very small: all the cosmos depends on them. Aggregations of the small stuff thus get big, whether in biology or cosmology (vacuums 'unite' quarks and general theory of relativity). So the 'big' stuff gets all the attention, since we can see it; but big is little, really. So the Holy Spirit focuses on the 'little' thoughts you have, lovingly. Thereby turning spiritual fission, into spiritual fusion. Biggest power in the Universe: "not by might, not by power, but By My Spirit, saith the Lord", Zechariah 4:6. The Holy Breath, Invisible. On Whom, all life depends.

   So you only win in the spiritual life by God CARRYING you, since Only His Power does Everything, and.. since you're not God, you can't properly use all the power He makes you BECOME. Satan & Co. will try to USE that power He makes you become. Hide in 'Mom', the Holy Spirit. Just stand still, as Ephesians 6 counsels. Stay below-radar, just keep on learning Him. Don't give into the temptation to come out from 'under' the Holy Spirit, but instead "abide in Him". Like a soldier staying at his post, not giving into the taunts to leave (i.e., to help defeat the enemy). God Does All The Fighting. He did it all in the Old Testament, and He still does. Stay Put. Be a 'faithful wife' and stay at home, no matter how it seems you glorify your Husband if you do it yourself. Christ never used His Deity for Father: Satan was baiting and berating Him for that, in Matthew 4. Jesus always could have done so, even on the Cross. But Christ Stayed Put. So must we. That's 1 John's strident, never-ceasing warning.

   In practice, you'll mess up over and over and over. Think of it like training in your favorite sport. For example, in racquetball, for every kill shot you make, you'd previously shot a thousand high balls. But with continued practice, you get more kill shots per 1000 bad ones. So keep breathing 1 John 1:9, try again. And again. And again. John's style of Greek writing is over and over and over, very driven, very repetitive. That's how success in the spiritual life, is built. That's how even biological DNA is constructed. One nucleotide upon another in a gigantic chain; one moment chained to the next, repeatedly. No flash.

7. Because it's God's power, the entire mechanism with respect to the human race, is INDIRECT. You pray for what you want. You live in God's System according to how HE wants, and you pray instead of do, anything (big running theme in 1 John). Whatever your body life, it will have exigencies, intrinsics which tell you what God wants you to 'do' with that body life, so you live that life in God's System as a Bible class, 24/7. But your spiritual life rides 'atop' it, so to speak, and you use all the body stuff for learning. So you yourself, are 'indirect' with respect to the world: in it, but not of it. Because, you are taken off the world's playing field that first nanosecond you believed in Christ. So you live to God, and no other way (main theme in Romans 6-8, 2 Corinthians 5, Ephesians, Colossians, 1 Corinthians). Satan & Co. will continually try to get you off the spiritual life in the name of being spiritual or serving God. To tap that power of God's. For you belong to God, and when you want to do the wrong thing, well.. certain responses BY God are required. Trust Him, these responses are not what you would want, were you in your right mind (see Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28, for a harrowing picture). In the Lord vs. Satan, Part 3's "Corollary 3" items and all of Part 4 are dedicated to the beyond-imagination effect God's Power has on the human race due to believers and how they are growing or retrogressing in Christ.
   1 John is very focused on this fact. From the beginning he weaves the theme of the separation from the world, that we are. Technically, since the world doesn't want Him, it won't want us either, so we don't play on the world's turf. Instead, we just learn Him. Father then uses that progress to reward the world -- really, to sustain us, as if we owned the world already -- so the world gets paid far more than what we could have done, for it.

   In the previous section, I explained how in college I was training for a career in diplomacy; but God didn't want me in that field. So, I didn't go into it. So what I might have owed the world in that field, HE paid by answering a prayer I prayed during my too-dumb-to-know-Bible days. I don't need to tell you that the breakup of the Soviet Union completely changed the balance of political power in the world. Additionally, all those hard-working diplomats on both sides, not to mention the now freer peoples, got to be involved in that change. Not in a million years' training, could I have directly helped them that much. But God is Infinite, whereas I am infinitesmal.

   So: I'm not the only believer on the planet, am I? So what must He be paying on your behalf? Gotta be at least that big, huh. For we are equal in Christ, per Romans 6, 2 Corinthians 5:17, all of Galatians. Our status in eternity might not be equal, but we're still down here and thus are equal as Priests. And all of us, are Kings-in-Training. So the world gets a king's ransom out of us. Or a king's worth of damage, if we try to play on this world's turf. Avoid all power motives -- and Churchinanity claptrap -- like the plague. They only make touchdowns for Satan's team.

8. God's Power is indirect, because He's too big for us. You have to be 1) a believer in Christ (so to have the requisite spiritual structure and thus not die from directness), and you must be 2) in God's System (for Truth is the way He reveals Himself). Also, because we humans largely don't want a relationship with Him. We'd rather be ashamed, offended, preening about our own vaunted accomplishments. In short, we want some other version of "God" (which praises US).. than Him. So, that's what we get. The sin nature is incurable. Adam fell for the pitch that he'd become something greater than he was, by disobeying God, so that urge has been genetically in our cells, ever since (sin nature is only genetic). So the only cure to bad DNA, is DDNA via spiritual cloning, re-engineering by the Master Surgeon, the Holy Spirit, Hebrews 4:12, Ephesians 4:23 (Greek), Ephesians 5:18, Galatians 5, Romans 12:1-3 (Greek), Ephesians 4:11-16 (Greek). Period.

9. Hence Divine, Absolute Beauty is growing in you line on line, precept on precept. For the Trial is also about whose Beauty is superior, and we humans are the recipients of both kinds. This beauty will be played on, attacked, and human agents will be used. This is ironic. Most of the world's singles are pining for the right person to meet, and they constantly manipulate their own lives and the lives of others, to get someone. Well, that's why they are lonely: as my pastor loves to repeat, "marriage isn't about finding the right person, but about being the right person." Since you are automatically the 'right person' for Christ and are being trained by the Holy Spirit, well.. a whole lot of humans who are not in God's System, will be attracted to you. Because you are not like others; you aren't needy. So you are not FAKE.
   People will be thus be attracted to you for no apparent reason, or disproportionate to the reason which seems apt; you won't see your own beauty, so you will mistake what's going on. You gotta be reserved; royalty faces the problem of being too desired, so they must be somewhat aloof from admirers -- and so must you, since you are being trained by your King-Mentor. Many of these encounters will turn into truly weird relationships in business, friendship, even romance -- and in each case, the person becomes extremely possessive. See, people who are interested in something outside themselves, are attractive to begin with. When that interest is in God, it's even more attractive. So people uncannily pick up on your interest in God -- or, while immature you don't keep quiet about it -- and then they use it to 'acquire' you. This is a kind of kidnapping, really, very predatory. It's you they are after. This is not the typical predatory behavior just to get money or support. It's a personal need these people have, and they themselves are largely unaware of the "God" connection, or wish that connection were not there. They think it's you they want. Oh what sops we all are, being used by Satan & Co.!

   So: if the relationship lasts long enough and becomes close enough, you'll get or sense an ultimatum to give up your interest in God as the 'price' of the relationship. For, they become jealous of that interest, wanting that interest on them. All kinds of vindictive behaviors then ensue, if you don't give up your interest in God. You see this story time and again in the Bible -- especially with respect to Christ Himself -- and you'll see it in life. I could tell real-life stories about it, but God will show you how this theme plays in your own periphery. One category you can research: a good pastor is always excoriated by those jealous of his flock. That you can research on the internet, and find play throughout history (Paul, Jeremiah are two quick Biblical examples, to see the pattern). Also study Canonicity (i.e., read Christopher de Hamel's The Book, a history of how we got our Bible), for the same pattern is exhibited there. This pattern happens the most on a personal level, because the Rapture occurs when enough believers have reached Pleroma maturity; so the individual is the main target; the objective is to entice you away from the spiritual life, or to make you miserable for not 'giving in'. You are being pursued, and as you grow up in God's System you'll one day maturely recognize that. Meanwhile, just remember: You Can't Afford To Live Outside God's System. Cling to 'Mom' (the Holy Spirit) for dear life!

Now, the angels all well know we humans can't stand still, that we're squirming (drowning) in our own blood, Ezekiel 16:6ff. For they well know what "normal human" is. And none of these four spiritual functions/dimensions is normal, for a human. Every one of them completely goes against our herding nature as a human; completely goes against our insecure sin nature, which is genetic (talk about biological determinism)! Every one of them goes entirely against the nature of the world we live in, which is propagandizing constantly with fit in, be nice to get nice, don't stick out, win others over, gain gain gain but pretend otherwise, feel good. Might as well be in a torture chamber, to believe in Christ and grow in the spiritual life, what with all this antithetical body life we all have. Impossible. Good thing we but once believe He paid for all our sins, to be forever saved!

We're really just a cut above an animal. We are utterly weak and helpless (see Ez16:6ff); hence, cunningly, terrifically grasping; hence, totally disloyal and fickle. We therefore drool over the misfortune of others (think of public and private reaction to Enron and Arthur Anderson and Martha Stewart!); we way overvalue ourselves; our pettinesses know no bounds: how we love bureaucracy and ritual! To top it off, we are undoubtedly the most incredibly irrational, of God's creation. Even Darwin noticed that: our irrationality was a real flaw in his theory of evolution, since due to it we dressed oddly, and didn't choose mates in line with what survival-of-the-fittest ought to 'do'. Well, there's a reason for that. God solved "unified field theory" in Isaiah 53:11 and evolution in Genesis 3, duh.

We aren't evolved, we instead Transmuted Down (devolved, but it was instantaneous); so we are nuts, ever since we wigged out against God and for Satan (who is the craziest of them all), back in Genesis 3. Our Devolving State is all on Bible paper any psychologist can read in any United States hotel room. See how economical God is? He saves us millions upon millions of dollars in researching cosmological theory, evolution, and psychology. Not to mention, saving lots of pockets hourly fees they no longer need to spend, 'on the couch'. We Are Incurable. Only salvation and getting Word, will produce "sanity, without illusion.. as God has assigned to each one, a standard of thinking From Doctrine", Romans 12:3 (my pastor's corrected translation).

So to get a spiritual life at Christ's Own Level, sheesh -- that should be a recipe for disaster. It's a real spiritual birth, and of a uniquely-high spiritual species to boot (καινὴ κτίσις, 2 Corinthians 5:17, so to be most compatible with His Spiritual Nature). We have both the Righteousness of God the Father and the Son as our own, imputed to us at salvation. So what do you think happens when we sin -- Adam went wacko, and he didn't have any of these attributes. But we do. As a result, our spiritual being is utterly incompatible with our physical being, and our storm-tossed souls (theme of Romans 7 and 8, Ephesians 4:14). So we need DDNA, to keep from devolving into insanity. Just the same, the process is completely incompatible with our sin nature, which has the upper hand. So: we should be wigging out (and we are), we should be running away (and we are), we should be hostile to God (and we are).

1. Witness, the impossibility of Dimension 1, Spirit Teaching and Filling, 1 John 4:13: it's not natural, to just sit and study Someone you cannot see. We can't even do that in secular school, but must twiddle with our hair, gum, or throw spitballs. We can't sit still in a concert, a ballgame, a lecture. We nod off or eyes glaze over after about 10 minutes. That's why commercials and packaging always change and are loud. To get our attention. We can't sustain attention, and thinking is harder than passing kidney stones. It's not natural. Angels all know this, and laugh at us for feeling so guilty about our natural puny state. Satan & Co. are completely flummoxed by any sustained concentration or learning of the spiritual life. It's impossible, and they know it. Doesn't matter that the Holy Spirit does it, we should not be able to consent on a sustained basis. No basis for the motive, since we are constantly picking the lint out of our navels.

2. Next, Dimension 2, Actually Knowing God, 1 John 4:14. This should have flat killed Christ Himself. Much more, it should kill a sin nature person, so Satan & Co. reason. Part 3 of the Lord vs. Satan explains what we inherited as a spiritual lifestyle from Him, and when you read it, you're exhausted. It's a constant monitoring of thinking, a constant awareness of God, a constant fighting with your dippy body urge, and a constant attempt to stay on an even keel although you are constantly shocked that you actually know God. We don't get the buffer of visible training aids and miracles like they had in the OT. Those things give you a 'comfort' of looking at something not-God, to indirectly see God -- kinda like using sunglasses, and still not looking directly at the sun. But Christ didn't have that luxury, and we don't either. Knowledge can kill you. When you 'know' your spouse cheated, or you 'know' torture or abuse, it changes your life. When you 'know' that all your efforts to save a life were in vain, or all your hard work got trampled on, that changes your life. So knowing God is the hardest and most alien kind of knowledge you'll ever get. So you go nuts, or you grow up, but it's impossible to live with. Hence the need for Indwelling and Filling of Spirit, or you'd not survive. The angels all know this.

3. Next, Dimension 3, being able to Admit and Abide in Him, 1 John 4:15. This is utterly impossible. To do this makes one a wacko in the eyes of the world. Even among Christians, belief is sidelined in favor of works, because to believe too much, well.. where IS He? You can't see Him, touch Him, taste Him, and this old Bible, well.. it's obtuse. Might as well believe in the Easter bunny. The world laughs at belief in God, and especially at belief in Christ. It's offensive and silly, and what proof is there, lalalalalala, snicker snicker snicker. So how do you sustain belief ("abide")? Just some book telling you? You don't have human 'help' or approval (only fake ideas about Christ get herded, the true ideas are always isolating). So how do you continue to believe? When the pressure mounts, when things get way nicer than you expected, oh! Why don't you peel off? Humans aren't loyal to anything, by nature. So this "abiding" shouldn't be happening. And it's not happening due to human strength, but.. Why The Continuing Consent? God isn't forcing that. It's not your merit which provokes the consent, but as you grow up in God's System you understand better, see better, so your consent has more basis. So, in your mind, it's easier to continue. But that's the Spirit holding you together, 2 Corinthians 5:14 and Romans 5:5. So it's factually impossible, and Satan & Co. absolutely hate it. Admire it and hate it.

4. But nothing is more impossible, than to be Made Like Him, Dimension 4, 1 John 4:16. Which means, we come to have God's Own Attribute of Love built out of all those millions of Diamond Doctrine deposits. Doo-doo made into Diamonds? The process is a killer, of course. So how is it you stay the course? Naw, this shouldn't be happening. Period.

So most of us, quite understandably, don't stay the course, parable in Luke 8. But some of us are aberrants; we just plain become these impossible reflections of Christ, and hence 'abnormal'.. solely due to the Spirit's DNA working, within this Plan of God's. So we become bigger targets, for Satan & Co. Even the lowliest believer is one, but much more, those who are learning the Word -- such as the audience of 1 John. For, the Word is designed to Finish The Transformation, Building on the Imputed Righteousness what my pastor likes to call "capacity righteousness" -- capacity to enjoy God (theme of Romans 8, especially 8:4). So it's a real transformation, this Word being poured into our hearts, Romans 5:5: actually, a TRANSmutation, (sumorphologew, καινὴ κτίσις, in Romans 12:2 and 2 Corinthians 5:17, respectively). We don't see it happening, because we're just wigging out or so busy trying to live ON the Doctrine, we pay no attention to our transformation. Of course, the world we live in, only hears the weirdoes; we aberrants are too small and uninteresting for the world's radar -- but not for angelic radar. For apostasy is always what's popular. Anything to denounce God.

But Spiritual capacities determine Spiritual relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. So we who become Pleroma, are fit to be Kings. Higher than angels, Hebrews 2, defeating even Satan & Co. God can do anything, and this is what He does when you abide in His System to Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 4:13 Completion -- you are a spiritual giant, and thus a king forever. You are a "great one" in Isaiah 53:12, to whom the Lord Himself, Your King of Kings, grants a kingdom. Your Own. And you will own everyone and everything in it. No communism, no democracy, only True Monarchy, in God's Plan. No constitutional monarchy, either. Because here, only the Monarch has the requisite Virtue. Learned the hard way, via the Battlefield of this Trial. Learned from the King-Mentor, the Holy Spirit, Himself. Hence truly valid.. forever. Again, capacities determine relationships, and the capacity built in the Pleroma person is "full". Pregnant, birthing, fecund. And everyone else quit, so ended up naked at the Bema. So they will be grateful forever, to BE in your kingdom. And you will love throwing yourself down for these your 'kids' forever, Hebrews 2's "I and the children You gave me" verse.

And the Booty? Well, 99.9% of us Christians reject the spiritual life. So, we don't become the kings, we become the PROPERTY inside Kingdoms which are awarded to those kings. Isaiah 53:12 is stark. Calling the rejecting believers "the many" (and it's not complimentary), these "many" get divided up among the "great ones", with Christ handing out everything. Christ told a great many parables of this future event in the Gospels. The king-gone-away who came back to see how his slaves handled his investments, for example. Two did well, the other didn't invest the money, but hid it. So that latter, had to give what he was entrusted with, to the one who had the most money. Then there's the parable of the stewards who kept beating up the king's servants when those servants came to get the produce, finally beating up the Son. Lots of parables like these. In each case, The King Returns, and those who rejected Him, are made into booty or otherwise judged. So yeah, we will all be happy in heaven. But none of us will be equal. John 14:2ff is about ranking in the Royal Family of God, not about rooms. Wish people would do their homework.

It's important to develop the awareness that although you are doo-doo, what the Holy Spirit is making out of you, is Diamonds. So you are treated as owning a kingdom already. Practice thinking that way. You'll have cocky days and therefore humiliating ones, as He trains you into thinking properly about that status. But the sooner you begin practicing thinking AS a king, the sooner you'll be trained into one. People depend on you. They aren't to know that this is your future. It would be upsetting (think how you would feel). You don't want to become a king to lord it over others, but to serve Your King, Who is the King of Kings. But as your soul size increases, you'll need a Kingdom, to express yourself toward Him. So you are becoming a Chief Slave under the Chief Slave of Slaves. Notice how being a slave and being a king, unite. Practice practice practice live in the System, practice and practice again...

So you have one of two future fates, and you choose which one: become a King by living in God's System down here, growing up to the Ephesians 4:13 level; or, be miserable while you are here, and be booty in someone else's kingdom. It honors Christ to become a King. It dishonors Him to be a peasant, however Royally-related. A king wants another king, doesn't need more peasants. Again, God Is Rich. And everyone hates Him for it. Too bleeping bad. Love Pulled Out All The Stops So Everyone Could Become A King. That few accept, and "the many" reject, well.. God won't get cheated. Frankly, when we see Him in heaven we'll be screaming for those kings to get everything; for at that time we will all only care about what God gets; all this horrible ego-focus will be gone. And then, we will account ourselves as deserving death. But, will never suffer again, because that ego-focus is gone. It's the "me" thing which wrecks our lives. Get in God's System, and the "He" thing gradually replaces the "me" thing. And then you'd be happy as a pauper or prince, but then you will be made.. a King.

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First Aspect Macro Siring Results, Summary:
4-Dimensioned Body of 'Fertile' DDNA Kings, Revelation 1:6, 5:10.
Cloned from His Thinking in God's System per the five infinitives in LXX of Isaiah 53:10-11, via Ephesians 4:11-16;
and thus also, from viral RNA-DNA 'interaction' WAR against them, Romans 6-8, Revelation 1-3, 2 Timothy 4:7-8, etc.
Just as Christ was made ON the Cross, Isaiah 53:10-12.

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Now we have to go back to cell structure. Everything in the universe, no matter what it is, is essentially cellular in nature. That is to say, composed of 'parts' which are very small, which aggregate in certain ways to form larger 'parts', which larger parts also aggregate into much larger parts, and so on. All these 'parts' are very very busy. They are focused on their own natures, and don't see the larger aggregation to which they belong. And they live, these cells of ours, in the bazillions.. and only for a few days, a few weeks, a few months. All that frenetic activity, that warring, for such a short life? And sheesh: only the DNA itself, lives on! Everything else ends up being recycled and finally processed as fuel, 2nd half of 2 Peter . It's hell, to be a cell.

So notice the Infinity-finity dichotomy, 'from the get-go': God Himself is a 'composite' of Attributes which are not divided, because He is Infinite. So finity reflects its Creator, and also exists in composites. Because, however, it IS finite, it is barriered into cellular-type structures, no one of which can 'live' independently; no one of which, is complete; each 'part' has some independence, but could not live 'alone'. So: whether a quark in physics, or a nucleotide in a cell's nucleus, everything is cellular and dependent. By contrast, God's Love is not separated from His Righteousness, or Justice, or Omniscience. So His Attribute of Truth IS at the same time Loving, Righteous, Just, Omniscient, etc. Complete and Eternal, never dying, is each 'cell' of His Immaterial, Infinite, Perfect Nature. So when you get His Truth into you, you are getting wholes of Him.. in 'dots' learned precept by precept, under the Holy Spirit. Which wholes, live forever. For only DDNA, God's 'genes'.. last forever, sustaining all else.

So: your soul, like your body, can be said to be 'cellular' in nature, though the soul is immaterial. Look: one thought links with another to form aggregates, and the sum of all these aggregates, is the real you. So your 'soul' DNA, is essentially all of what 'Instructions' You Believe. And your believing, is Your Volition Choosing To Believe, at all times. Whether you understand the effect of that belief ON you.. or not. So, You Program Your Next Thought Based On What You Believe. However incorrect, doesn't matter. You are what you think, Proverbs 23:7. Same is true for your biology, your physical body. It depends on -- and mindlessly -- the instructions given it. These instructions reside in genes, and the genes are in the nuclei of your cells. For a new cell to form, the instructions must first be replicated. For a new thought to be formed, the instructions for it must first be replicated -- and your volition decides those instructions. So if you decide that God should form those instructions, you live in His System and live on Bible under the Holy Spirit as long and as often as possible, breathing 1 John 1:9 whenever you even think you are sinning.

Bible is Food For The Soul, Matthew 4:4. Most of the body, is composed of protein. For protein is 'body' component of the cell; fats protect it, carbohydrates fuel it, and nucleic acids instruct it how to make and use the proteins; how to use the fats and carbohydrates. DNA itself is composed of the building blocks of proteins, our instruction set -- Bible is our soul's instruction set, hence all food is produced from it. DNA is basically a chain of nucleic acids which act on and are acted on by, fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. So everything depends on everything else, but most of all -- you need the meat of proteins, the meat of the Word. So DDNA is the Instruction Set which tells the cells of your 'soul', how to make proteins of God's Thinking from within itself. This process is run by the Holy Spirit. We don't run our body's cells, either, so watch in what follows, for the parallels God designed in the very body itself...

The (spiritual hence soul-and-) biological cell itself, is composed of the following parts, which in cell biology are called "organelles":

• ONE "nucleus", which is the 'head' and generator, replicator, holds DNA tightly wound kinda like a golf ball's innards;
• multiple "mitochondria", which function as central energy factories;
• multiple ribosomes, which function as central protein factories: RNA works in here (more about RNA follows, below). Next,
• "Golgi Apparatus" bodies act like warehouses and distribution centers for proteins and fats previously made by the ribosomes, but not yet used by the cell's 'roadways', called
• "endoplasmic reticuli"; these roadways manufacture, process, and transport within the cell itself. So, kinda function and look, the way arteries do; so the structure is circulatory. The ribosomes either attach to some of these reticuli, or are free floating. Next, there are
• "lysosomes", which are sacs functioning like a 'food processor' for the cell; in them are enzymes. These lysosomes thus act like recycling centers -- or police, when defending. They break down material to keep it from harming the cell, or to make it do something productive for the cell. The endoplasmic reticuli manufacture the lysosomes, and the Golgi apparati process them so they can have an independent existence. Then, they do their recycling/policing jobs. Next, there are
• two "centrioles", which also function to protect, but primarily function to break down the cell itself when the cell is to DIVIDE.
• The entire cell is encapsulated in lipids (fats), and it's living in a kind of soup mostly made of protein, called "cytoplasm". So the cytoplasm is its inner 'body', and the lipid membrane is its 'skin'.

  Think of the cell as a mini-body or mini-polity, therefore. Just as God has designed you to become, if you complete the training in His System: a king, under the King of Kings, owning your own kingdom of 'cells' who need you as their 'nucleus'.

Ok: now we are ready to get into DNA, again. Within the cell's nucleus, DNA itself is encapsulated via its compacting (folding over itself), into pairs called "chromosomes"; what differentiates one life form from the next is the number and makeup of these chromosomes. In man, and there are 46 of these (23 pairs). "Genes", by contrast, are the string of instructions (literally, a string of nucleotide BASES, covered below) -- so a gene is a portion of the 'sum' of what DNA 'instructs' for cell creation, function, and even death. These gene strings are parts of chromosomes. So you could say the whole of DNA is the instruction book, organized into chromosome 'chapters'; and each 'gene' is a subsection within a chromosome 'chapter'. [This sentence might be confusing. Rethink it. DNA is technically composed of the smallest units, organized into genes, and next up in the ladder of organization are the chromosomes. But the entire string of DNA is the real book and the real generator of the whole cell, so maybe let the sentence stand as is.]

So inside the nucleus, you have chromosomes; inside them, is DNA; and the 'strings' (sections) of DNA inside the chromosomes, are the genes. You are thus wholly produced, whether in your soul -- the real you -- or in your body, by INSTRUCTION, period. No other way to exist.

"Warring" is a but a form of energy producing a result; this result always comes from the collision and coalescence of opposites. A true description of Spiritual DDNA-RNA 'warring' to make you alive or sick would take much webspace. So it's really worth your time to separately study how these interactions work in biology (cell genetics): because the Bible Is Wholly Depicted in that science. You Are Designed To Be Cloned. So Christ Is Cloned Into You, in accordance with each discrete consent to be in God's System. So: Your very cells right now, work exactly the way Scripture is Written, and right now depict what Scripture via the Spirit does TO your soul. So if you want to understand the Bible's spiritual genetics better, learn more about DNA-RNA. Most encyclopedias will cover the details in their "genetics" articles. What follows is not so detailed; its purpose is to analogize, to show how the Four Dimensions of Love -- God's DDNA -- get produced in your SOUL while you are in God's System. And, if you finish the Course of Growth, that DDNA Production (Ephesians 2:10) will make you yourself a DDNA King 'reproducing' much DDNA progeny, in eternity. [In Romans and in Ephesians, Paul likes bookending: he begins a conceptual segment with a type of birthing, and the ends it with the birthing-to-eternity. So Ephesians 2:8-9 is the your spiritual birthing, but Ephesians 2:10 is the birthing-to-eternity goal of cloning His Son in us (very deft in Greek: search on "God Endowers Bride" in LvS4b.htm). Parallel passage is Romans 5:12-21, sweeping from our physical birth to our birth-to-eternity ("reign in righteousness" in verse 21). I'm trying to describe this process using something you can test in science, because the two are so alike! So if you are a geneticist, I apologize for any gaffes in the explanation -- I'm just a layman. I'll keep trying to find better books to read so I can explain it better. If you know of any, please let me know!]

So let's review DNA-RNA structures, and add some more information (as is the Bible's typical writing style). Remember: in order for a new cell to form, it must be given INSTRUCTION. This instruction tells the cell what it is, how to behave, how to live, and how to die. You can see the immediate parallel to the spiritual life: without God's Instruction, we don't know how to be, live OR die. Frankly, that's what we're here for: This Life Is But A Pregnancy, say Paul and the other New Testament writers: we are here to Learn How To Live In Heaven With God Forever, Hebrews 10:5. No other purpose. "For this purpose I came into this world", said the Lord (e.g., John 9:39, Hebrews 10:5, John 12:27 -- look at context). Don't miss this purpose!

Cells are made up of protein, whether formed as enzymes or Golgi bodies or DNA, etc. -- Encarta posits there are 30,000 kinds of protein! -- so the instructions a cell receives from DNA, tells it what kinds of protein to make. DNA itself, is composed of nitrogen-hydrogen-oxygen atom "bases", and these bases are the instructions themselves. [Thymine has one carbon atom, but the others have none.] But for the instructions to execute, they must have energy to be held together and pull apart: thus they themselves bind together via carbon-hydrogen-oxygen compounds; aka sugars; and also by means of salt compounds in the form of phosphates. The latter act like 'arms' to hold two sugar molecules together: the phosphate 'body' is between each molecule. Thus the vertical 'stair' of DNA is made up of alternating sugar-phosphate-sugar molecules, and the nitrogen-hydrogen-oxygen atom "bases", attach to the sugar molecules horizontally. If you have Encarta 2004, click on its "DNA Replication" picture in its "Genetics" article; a short-but-helpful video will play, so you get a good visual idea of this structure.

1. So ironically, the first step in cell multiplication, is division! (Remember, Infinity is hupostatic in nature!) To prepare for that, the cell's instructions need to be replicated, so their replication also begins with division. You divorce this life in favor of God's life, that first second you believed in Christ. Therefore all life multiplies, for you. So: technically, the cell first forms (or gets) free nucleotides (sugar+phosphate+"base", covered below). When there are enough of these, the DNA molecule splits. As you grow in God's System learning Bible, you get lots of 'free' floating information and you have no clue how it all fits together. That's what happens in this first step for cells, and in the first phase of your spiritual life (just like childhood -- lots of input, no internal organization).

2. So the DNA splits, next. Remember, DNA is this twisted staircase with half-runged 'bases', so it can split At which point, it looks like two 'combs', no longer a staircase. When something in Bible you are learning 'clicks', your DDNA is splitting so it can link up with that free-floating info you suddenly are ready to understand better. The more you mature in Christ, the more often this happens, and the bigger the splits become; sometimes it's overwhelming.
3. DNA splits, but then stops; it doesn't replicate on its own. It needs RNA to make that happen. Part of the instructive action of DNA in protein synthesis, on which your whole life depends, is in the DNA itself, but RNA is what's needed to finish that process. This is what the Spirit does to your soul when your DDNA splits. He's the Real/Royal Nurturer of Absolute Truth.

4. This RNA comes in three types, and they are all essential to each other.
   • The main type, is ribosomal RNA (rRNA), which makes the actual process of DNA replication happen. But for rRNA to work, it needs to be acted on, so it has two siblings:
   • "messenger RNA" (mRNA), is the actual instruction manual for rRNA;
   • the other sibling is "transfer RNA" (tRNA), which carries amino acids to your cell's ribosomes, to make proteins. Notice the Trinity depicted, except that of course Each Member of the Godhead can do all things. They Don't Choose To Operate Separately, however. So, notice: you can analogously see how rRNA, is the Son; mRNA, is the Father; tRNA, is the Holy Spirit. Or, you can say these are three sub-Ministries of the Filling of the Spirit.

5. The components of DNA and RNA are sugar, phosphates, and five different nitrogen compounds called "bases".
6. Each "nucleotide" is composed of two sugar molecules, one phosphate molecule, and one "base". Then the "nucleotides" all join up to form what we know as the double helix structure of DNA (RNA is a single strand, except that some forms of viral RNA are two-stranded).
7. The bases are each half-'rungs'; they pair to form a full rung. So think of a "T", where the top part of the "T" is the phosphate, 'flanked' by the sugar molecules, and the vertical part of the "T" is the "base". Then (mentally) turn the "T" sideways, to 'see' the half rung, like this: |--. The "|" is now the sugar-phosphate combo, which hooks to the "|" of another nucleotide. The "--" is the base, which hooks up with another "base". So a pair of bases hooked horizontally, looks like this: |----|. And a longer chain, looks like this (pretend the vertical bars all connect, 🤣):
   |----|
   |----|
   |----|
   
8. There are five types of bases, but only four of them pair up. These five are:
   • "guanine", a "purine" member of the bases, primarily has a FERTILIZING function (i.e., bat guano, a fiercely-sought fertilizer of the late 1800's). Purines are hypostatic in nature: what distinguishes a purine is that its own atomic structure is four-sided; but it doesn't exist alone -- it joins what would otherwise be a pyrimidine, which is six-sided. Think of a pentagon's 'fifth' side joined to a hexagon, leaving the other four sides 'free'. By contrast, a pyrimidine lacks the 'pentagon' attachment. Now get this: Purines only mate with pyrimidines: there's no same-sex in cells either, 🤣 !! Further, they don't mate, without a MEDIATOR to CATALYZE that hupostatic hybridization (hint hint). Next base, is

   • "adenine", the other "purine" member, which primarily has an ENERGIZING function. Next, is
   • "cytosine", a pyrimidine member, which primarily has a FAT-PROCESSING function. Fat is essential to everything in cell function: would take too long to describe it all. Basically, fat protects, preserves, lubricates, and provides a reserve when carbohydrate metabolism is insufficient; it saves your life, when all else fails. Fat is also the most efficient energy there is -- ergo, it's hard to get rid of. Chemically, 'fat' itself, is a combination -- get this -- of fatty acids and alcohol. That combo produces an "esther" (look it up): without esthers, you can't metabolise anything: your DNA would just sit there, dead. Next base, is

   • "thymine", the other pyrimidine member, which primarily has a MUTATION function. All mutations require thymine, to occur. Next base, which only occurs in RNA, but on which DNA depends, is
   • "uracil", which only exists in RNA. It, too, is a pyrimidine; its 'job' is to metabolize carbohydrates, so the entire process of RNA-DNA interaction cannot occur without uracil. For RNA and DNA depend on two other components: sugars, and phosphates. The latter is a salt. Salt controls how you can absorb nutrients. But no matter how you absorb them, you can't use what you absorb, unless you have energy; but you can't get that energy, without sugar; and you can't get the sugar, without uracil. Note well: salt bonds sugar together. Without salt (=Bible in you, Biblical metaphor), your entire DNA would fall apart: the 'vertical' part of the DNA 'double-helix staircase' is entirely composed of phosphates (salt) and ribose (sugar), in alternating 'blocks', because the 'blocks' of sugar are bonded by the salt blocks. Moreover, brain DNA requires more salt and sugar, and has its own salt generators for this reason; else, you couldn't think and you'd be dead. Hint hint: the spiritual life is not something you provide, not of works but of God's Works Upon You, Ephesians 2:10; and it's not a pain-in-the-donkey, either, Psalm 34:8!
     So what do these bases do? they INSTRUCT all the process of cell formation. They, in turn, are dependent on sugar and salts for that instruction to even form. These four combine in sequences to form all the amino acids. These sequences are vertically 'read' from the order of the 'rungs' on each side of the DNA strand, kinda like you'd read a sentence. They form what are called "triplets", and each "triplet" ("codon" in RNA) instructs what type of amino acid will be produced. The amino acids form into proteins -- sometimes as many as 100 amino acids are needed to form ONE protein! So the TAG, GAC or CAG or ACG or AGC (etc.) sequencing tells every cell what to become. Else, you'd not be here. Given what seems to be the fundamental function of each base, it appears that
     • Thymine, which has a MUTATION function, is the Transmutation base, setting the parameters of how the cell can change.
     • Guanine, which has a FERTILIZING function, is the Growth base, setting the parameters of growth character and dimension.
     • Adenine, which has an ENERGIZING function, is the Aggregating base. It catalyses energy, and sets parameters on what kinds of energy to use, how much, when, etc.
     • Cytosine, which has a fat-processing function, is the Christ base. "Christ" in Greek (i.e., in Daniel 9:25-6, LXX) means "Anointed One"="messiah" in Hebrew; and all "anointing" in Bible is done with oil, a fat. Heh -- salvation depends on fat, and "all fat is the Lord's"! Seems pretty bald, since cytosine alone is uniquely composed of three nitrogen and three hydrogen atoms (plus one oxygen atom). Cytosine thus determines the quality of cell life in all parameters (i.e., without the lipids, the cell has no integrity). Apt metaphor, huh.
     • Uracil is the Uniting base. Without uracil, the sugars couldn't hold to the phosphates, nor could the sugars be metabolised to enable the splitting and recombining in DNA-RNA interactions. So you wouldn't be alive without uracil, either: all the above four (TGAC) require uracil to 'do its stuff'.
   • The latter two bases, thymine and uracil, exchange places in RNA-DNA interactions (thymine is in DNA, but uracil is in RNA, and adenine pairs with either of them).
   • Guanine only pairs up with cytosine, and vice versa. Perfect picture of God-man. Father's 'guanine' is the same as Son's, but Son takes on Humanity, to become the Christ base; to pair up with our viral RNA -- sins -- ON the Cross; on which sins, He used the DDNA Holy Spirit gifted Him -- so then that process 'fertilized' Him so completely, He even IN His Humanity, gained total Rapport with Father.
   • So you can have a rung of cytosine and guanine (the 'split' is in the middle, with hydrogen bonding the two).
   • So you can also have a rung of adenine and thymine, or adenine and uracil, but never both.
   • The four also act on each other to form catalytic processes, but in order to do that, they must break down and 'die'. So the energy function of adenine is often warring with cytosine or guanine, etc.
   • So notice how all energy comes from waste. As in, warring. As in, the puny body life we live, the attacks of temptation and sin, the attacks by Satan & Co. All that waste is turned into spiritual energy (the adenine and cytosine) by the Holy Spirit (His 'uracil' function)! Is God witty, or what?

9. These bases form sequences, and the precise order of them tells the cell what to be, do, etc. If you understand binary code in computer programming, you can better understand DNA sequencing. Or, think of it like composing a series of letters into a sentence that can be read. These are chemical sentences which can be read as how-to-make-proteins, on which everything else depends. So some string-sections (a gene) are very long, and some are very short. It's amazing that only four bases are needed to do all this instruction. In Bible, "4" is the number of completeness, so I guess a Christian shouldn't be surprised. But the amazement then intensifies: Trinity are Three, and Each of Them is Wholly God, needing nothing: yet Christ's Humanity makes a '4', which is why we are necessary. God's Love Wanted Us, though we are completely undeserving. So He flips our complete waste of nature into complete in Him, Ephesians 1:15-21.

10. DNA replication and RNA interaction require that the phosphate-and-ribose pairs hold during the process; or dissolve when being recombined. Since sugar has no nutrition, and salt represents Bible-in-your-head, and your volition fuels how your life goes (for better or for worse), it seems apt to say the believer's soul is represented by these salt-and-sugar blocks. Again, you are deciding, but that's all you can do. You don't make the instructions, you choose what instructions to obey/believe. Better be God's Instructions, huh...

11. "Recombinant DNA" results from very precise surgical changes in the sequencing of these bases. So your choices will have effects, Colossians 3:25, 1 Corinthians 3. So choosing God's Instructions result in previous 'soul' DNA, changing to DDNA. For, that's Your Vote (the choosing). As we saw near the beginning of this First Aspect in the example of the Catholic who stopped lighting candles for the dead, that 'soul' DNA was Acted On By the Holy Spirit, and the transmuted belief was truly beneficial for the dead and the living, not to mention of immense benefit to the believer who no longer had to mess with it, anymore. God's into spiritual genetic engineering, in accordance with your consent. So, analogously: genetic engineering of DNA changes how proteins form; and proteins, are the basis of all life; All Thus Depends On The Instructions Replicated.
    Notice how a small change in DNA will have a huge effect: a small change in your DNA during replication causes a mutation; descendent cells thus contain the mutation. Spiritual lesson depicted: Infinity is God's Attribute, and hence only a 'dot' of it is enough to save you to Him forever, John 3:16. You believe, which is 'soul' DNA; in that very second God the Holy Spirit -- the Real/Royal Nurturer of Absolute Truth, Who because you Believed A Truth (the Gospel) -- thus Transmutes your 'soul' DNA into His Own DDNA Nature, Titus 3:5, etc. That's why You Cannot Lose Salvation. So keep that analogy in mind, when you read what follows. Because now you'll see the Romans 8 Superstructure Built Atop that first 'Cell' of Salvation (Romans 8:4ff), as you live in God's DDNA-RRNA making System. It's pretty shocking.

Divine Nucleotides, Always Recombinant: via the Uniting Holy Spirit, Who is the Hydrogen (bond) and Sodium of our lives, God Adds Christ's Thinking. Is Christian activism against knowing the Word, genetic engineering, stem cell research and cloning because all those things are the Very Plan Of God? Sure looks like it. See Galatians 4:19, Ephesians 3:17, Philippians 2:5-10, Colossians 1:25-27, Romans 8:10, Hebrews 8:8-12, Hebrews 10:15-17, all of John 14-17; not to mention the cloning words like ὑπογραμμός (in Peter), λίθοι, etc. Not to mention all the transmutation verses like Romans 12:1-3 (mistranslated), and 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 (also surgically mistranslated); not to mention the transmutation/cloning process which is run by the Spirit through each pastor, Ephesians 4:11-16 (always mistranslated). Then there are the "sons of God" references in Galatians, Romans, Colossians, 1 John 3. Propagating: God is propagating His Son! See how God is the Ultimate, Cloning Geneticist. Repeating: the four major demonstrations of Invisible God are the "Work" God is accomplishing in us. These four are listed in 1 John 4:12-17. They are demonstrations, functions, foundations, dimensions. Of a living building which keeps on getting, 'additions'. Specifically, the building God makes of you, inside yourself. Put simply, these four prove the superiority of what God does versus what Satan & Co. do; versus what mankind does. So superior are these results, that mankind can't even see them. So neither can you. (Body-thinking is too limited to perceive the changes Spirit is making; what it thinks it perceives, is foolishness to it, 1 Corinthians 2, Romans 8:1-10.) So 1 John is about how you can nonetheless know what's happening. 1 John 4:12-17, summarizes that process. And God's Work needs to be happening in you, because the person needs to be remade by God, to be good enough for God: to be happy. It's not God who needs anything from us: we need everything from Him. To not be God, is to have a hellish life, so God moves hell and high water to make us "sons of God in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3). That's what true good, is. All else will be burnt, 1 Corinthians 3, 2nd half of 2 Peter. Again, it's hell.. to be a cell. So we might look like and behave like 'cells' now, but that's not what we are becoming. Rather, our 'cells' are designed to be replaced with His DDNA cells, just as was done to Him (especially, on the Cross). Repeating, but now on a macro level: 1 John 4:12 introduces the LOVE=WORD building structure's DIMENSIONS and demonstration. Love is a Thought Pattern Of The Word In You, so it can't show up on any radar screen except heaven's. This demonstration of DIMENSIONS, completes the Dimensions of God's Testimony in the (Satan & Co.) Divorce Trial. John loves Greek drama. God has him write epic themes. So John writes in socratic equations, and he always stresses the FIRSTs: that's another Greek listing technique. Idea that the first in a list tells you what list is in view, so only the first item needs to be mentioned. Also, first of importance, first as foundational, first as sine qua non. So his writing style's seeming simplicity is lost on the modern reader, who glazes over it; but the Greek reader of his day would be thunderstruck. This passage is very dramatic, in Greek: the simpler the sentence structure, the more dramatic it is. So if you're reading 1 John in translation, Turn Over The Words' meanings many times, Thinking Out What They Mean, and Keep On Noticing The Parallels he draws to the Gospel of John, especially John 14-17 (he uses them as a 'base' in writing, and from there ties in ALL of the Bible except 2&3John and Rev, which hadn't yet been written). Oh: and change most of the verbs in 1 John to the progressive tense, when reading: John is writing pictorially about actions in progress, as any good dramatist would. Translators all know that, but stupid translation rules only used for Bible, prohibit recognizing John's pictorial style in proper English. [The stupid rule is that you must use one English word per Greek word. But you can't ever do that, and be loyal to the source language, when translating. Incredibly bad rule, this. No translating company on earth holds to that rule, and you'd be fired from the UN or any embassy, if you followed such a rule. But this is the Bible, so it can be trashed, 🤣, who cares about God!] And here's the reason for the epic drama: This Trial Witness is not even playing to the world. It's playing, to God. And thus, to the angels on both sides of Him, in the Angelic Trial. So what constitutes a work, is what plays to God. Not ever, what plays to mankind. Heck, you need merely read Revelation in translation, to know that: notice how Heaven Watches, but the earth has no clue, not even when informed by the Witnesses in Revelation 11, or the angels in Revelation 14, for example. We are blind, so what's the point of playing to the world? Hint hint! Therefore, your life is measured in these Four Dimensions (referencing Ephesians 3:18-19, but John plays out the dimensions in reverse order), since they "perfect" (complete) the contract of God: which is to bring to completion, Christ's Love-Thinking in our souls, 1 John 4:12. This creates an aggregate 'building' of Hero-Love Thinking in the believer, who is here dramatically depicted in aggregate. To wit: 1 John 4:13, Love's Depth/Foundation: The Spirit Teaching and Filling us, so we keep living on Word Study and 1 John 1:9; this is the heart of DDNA manufacture. Verse 13 shouldn't end "given us of the Spirit", because John is using the birthing preposition "ek" plus the partitive genitive. The Holy Spirit births us, just as he'd recorded in John 3. So a better translation would be "given us the siring of the Spirit" (goes with the mistranslated "born of God" in his letter, which should be translated "being sired by God" -- progressive tense -- everywhere it appears). Greek drama shifts to verbal nouns, prep phrases (with or without the preposition) or infinitives or verbs without objects when heightening drama: it's a type of dramatic ellipsis. To render that meaning in English, often the nouns (etc.) have to be translated as progressive verbs. For once you are spiritually born, you keep needing spiritual siring forever atop that DDNA of your spiritual birth, 2 Corinthians 5:21+Romans 8:4. Because God Is Infinite, so it never stops. You're a new creation at the new birth, so an empty 'vessel', 2 Corinthians 5:17. So need Him to keep siring you -- Filling you up with Christ's 'seed', see. True Fellowship, True Communion! Deepest Love, 2 Corinthians 13:14! [My pastor has speculated a lot about this, at times surmising that only the Pleroma keep on growing after death. Seems to me that we all keep growing, but the spiritual capital we start with post-death, becomes our Capital Base In Eternity. So if you have a Pleroma spiritual-capital base, obviously there's so much more 'yield' than someone who quit the spiritual life, so only has the de minimis needed to live in heaven forever. And only DDNA forms the capital base. Currency is only Christ's Thinking since that Thinking paid for sins.] Shallow love is gushy, splashy, childish. Deep love is silent, accepting, mature.. hence unfathomable, to most. Shallow love is akin to excitement, so can always be faked; in fact, the one faked out the most, is the one shallowly loving. Watch how quickly such a person can be disappointed, lose faith, etc. Body has emotion, and shallow 'love' is all about emotion. So any emotion 'changes' that 'love'. Deep love, by contrast, is utterly independent of emotion, so cannot be faked; as a result, it is usually not recognized, either. God's Love is Infinite, so Infinitely Deep. The Cross is a Depth, which is why Christ is the Foundation. So the test/demonstration/dimension reveals How Much You Want To Abide In Him, and therefore how Deeply You Come To Love Him. You vote to learn, you 'vote' 1 John 1:9, and God transmutes each such vote into more DDNA, which Deepens Your Desire To Vote The Same Way, The Next Time. So at some point, you must get added energy of 'suffering', so greater transmutations will occur 'downward', deepening you further. So whenever you suffer, you are getting DEPTH training, no matter what or who is the nominal source. No matter whether God gives you the suffering as discipline, or not. If discipline, convert it quickly to the faster type of Divine Depth blessing, by using 1 John 1:9 (I breathe that verse a bazillion times a day, just in case). Once you die, you will be Most Grateful for the Suffering. It's the best asset in the Divine Portfolio for Growing You. Don't seek suffering, but learn to accept whatever you get, knowing this is the real reason why you get it. The height of any structure, be it a boat or a skyscraper, is proportioned to and dependent on, its depth. Structural integrity in buildings or believers-being-made-living-Temples, is the same. Man has no depth; he lost the capacity to get depth, in Genesis 3. So growth in Love is impossible, because Love requires Depth as its Foundation. God loves the impossible. So what He loves, He does to the believer. And what He does, works. We are His Craftsmanship, Ephesians 2:10. Christ is the Ultimate Proof of what God can do. By contrast, in the world there is a 'depth' of shallowness: much complaining, striving, ooohing and ahhing, with an attention span of five seconds, unless the attention is on the self; and any suffering, only raises the world's clamor -- again, for five seconds, after which it goes back to the same ol', same ol', perpetually looking at its navel. Everyone blames everyone else. Everyone grabs at everyone else. All in the name of 'love', but sheesh -- see the hypocrisy? True love never grabs at anyone, but the world knows nothing of love. So for all its vaunted achievements in every field, sheesh -- οὐθέν results. Nothing. What good is it to be the most rich, most beautiful, most talented person on the planet.. but without Love? No good at all. Satan's plan for us fools us into thinking that if we go after the things of this world, we'll get love. No, we get death. There's no love, down here. Yearning, yes; fantasizing, yes. But there's no pea under any of the world's walnut shells. Notice How the Testimony is Not About Sin, But About Good. Whose 'good' is really good for anything? God answers Satan's 'good' height, with DEPTH. If what's bad is still voted for by the believer because he has been grown up enough in the Spirit to want the bad as well (think of Job), then.. Satan's arguments are demonstrated to be οὐθέν, nothing. More importantly, the believer thus grown in depth truly does yearn for the opposite of what he wanted, prior to spiritual growth. Everything else is too small; all the world's heights are but anthills, windmills, anticlimactic and .. boring. The paired "Fourth" Reasons in LordvSatan3.htm explain more why. It's a real desire, and it reflects Christ's Own Reason for yearning for the Cross, Luke 22:15ff. This Depth dimension, as it develops, will develop this motive. And the Height IS the Depth. Spiritual maturation is all about developing in knowledge of God and motive toward Him; when you're a spiritual baby, the world is big in your mind, and God is a distant, fuzzy computer-like icon. But in the final stage of spiritual growth ("Pleroma", Ephesians 3:19), all that focus is completely reversed: it's all about Christ, and the world is but a pinprick, hardly even noticed. Everything else is comparatively uninteresting, even your own life. Whatever you do or are in the world, is redefined in terms of the spiritual life, Philippians 1:21. You still sin (that's incurable, hence the need for 1 John 1:9), but your Motive for Living completely reverses from what it was when you were saved -- again, Philippians 1:21 IS your life, period. That's a key demonstration in the Trial. Satan can't produce spiritual maturation for all the tea in China, though he beats his brains out trying. Maturation in the world's values is maturation in evil. True evil is near white, not black. All that altruism, is a replacement of God. So it's the most evil. The one maturing in Satan's system will be very moral, and very stuck on the world; God is dismissed from the mind, treated as not important or as approving the evil person's good. In reality, the evilly-matured person in Satan's system tells God what to think. And is mighty ticked off if he is not 'obeyed'. Hell will be heavily populated with these people, many of whom called themselves 'Christians', but they never 'did' John 3:16. Breathing 1 John 1:9 as needed, repeatedly read Jeremiah and the Gospels even in translation, sometime: see for yourself. Again, It's Not About Sin, But About Good. Satan maintains his plan for mankind is better than God's; which argument, is founded upon his argument in previous angelic trial: to wit, that a Loving God wouldn't treat His Creatures as He does. So that's what the Trial is about, still. And we are the new crop of lower-creation witnesses to finish off the (now, final-appeal) Trial. So the test of Depth, proves that even when God treats you 'bad', you want it with all your heart. Now you know why Hebrews 1-2 state flatly that Christ beat Satan via the Cross. All the bad He absorbed: and yet never rejected Father even once (theme is repeated at the end of Chap4). For true sin is rejection of God. That's the only reason why anyone goes to hell, John 16:9. Capacities determine relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. So the capacity resulting from being DDNA Depth-Developed by the Holy Spirit, is a Depth of God's Love IN you, conquering and reversing, what you were. So the capacity resulting from being depth-developed by Satan's dDNA, is unconquerable pride and hence its hateful children: prickliness, a pervading martyr-complex, ennui, and above all.. bitterness. 1 John 4:14, Love's Height: We thus truly keep knowing we 'see' the Invisible God, Who sent His Son, the Savior; we're eyewitnesses in the larger Angelic Trial; which proves the DDNA, for to see and know means we are becoming like Him via the Spirit's transforming DDNA in our souls, demonstrated by the presence of the Word itself, the Thinking results in our souls: This Is The Goal Of DDNA Manufacture. You really do come to see God Face-to-Face In Thinking, even while down here in this body. It takes a lifetime, but it's worth more than all the kingdoms of the world from Adam's fall until the end of time. Seeing Him is incomparable to anything else you will ever know, and it's not emotional, but a State Of Being, A Constant. How to tell? Your Awareness of Him becomes ever-more-pervasive in your life as you age in God's System. Eventually He is always on your mind and you are always 'looking' at Him in your mind. You have to learn how to walk and chew gum at the same time, all over again. It isn't a thrill thing, but a θλῖψις (= tribulation) thing. And it's a θλῖψις thing, because it's a shock to see God. And so you ease into it, react to it, get back in, many ups and downs, many zig-zags. But you acclimate to the shock gradually; so you calm down after some years. Meanwhile, you coalesce and can really live in this world even while seeing Him: "Third" and "Fourth" paired "Reasons" in LordvSatan3.htm, explore this changeover further. It's big change, and it begins in spiritual adulthood. "First Reason of Invisibility" link in LordvSatan3.htm provides you with an overview of the vicissitudes of spiritual growth. Upshot: You Change Focus from people and things.. to Him. Love is a FOCUS, not an emotion, 2 Corinthians 5 (especially verse 14). The changeover is shocking to your sin and human nature, and you won't recognize the true nature of the change for a long time: you'll constantly misdiagnose what's happening as something wrong with you or someone/something else. Only if you keep on going, will you come to recognize this change for what it is, as you enter spiritual maturity (well, sometime after you entered). So notice how spiritual growth progression, progressively shocks you as your Awareness of Him grows. That seems like depth, because you will often feel low, as you come to see how High He is. So that recognition of lowness, tempts despair, demoralization, etc. But think: again, you can't see what is unlike you, or too far off. So if you are better seeing how high HE is, that means you yourself were grown higher, so that you can see His Highness. So you are also grown closer, so that you can see His Highness Up Close. God is the God of irony, baby. And you're no baby, anymore... The world absolutely cannot handle such up-close, high recognition of anyone, much less, God: hence all religions are so kooky and insulting, to whatever 'god' they claim to worship. We routinely beat up our rich, our famous, our heroes. We smother them with praise, we grab at them to get some praise (or money), we pick at them for even the smallest 'foible', and make up a good many; we dissect them in conversation constantly.. as if they were but cattle. That's not love. But we'll call it love, to justify doing it over and over and over... By contrast, here you are, surviving and even thriving -- feeling like doo-doo, but hey -- and the world, can't handle that. People who know of your interest in God (hope they are few, not many) will be "utterly appalled UP at you", Isaiah 52:14. Interest in God is not their idea of fun; they are highly offended that you disagree with them, and they have this urge to 'convert' you away from that interest. Ever notice how people are uncomfortable around some "man of the cloth"? Hoo-boy, what irony: the most common complaint against Christians is that they are 'pushy'. But the pushy one, is the one pushing against the Christians! Why be so offended? Who the blazes cares that we Christians are often so childish? Why not get that upset at the Hare Krishnas, or the Moslems, or other faiths? What's so special about Christianity, that it is always the preferred target? Well, because it's the real thing. We Christians didn't make that true. We can't handle it any better than the world can. So here you are, not a child but a Christian, whaddya know. So you have to be attacked, because your highness is perceived by them. Just as Christ was, Isaiah 52:14ff. And yet you go on, not giving up, not cursing God. This is impossible. And very upsetting, inside and outside, Isaiah 52:14. So depth is height, and height is depth, and all Satan's expert horsemen can't ride as well as you are. Even though you will look like Don Quixote, it's the world which deludes itself about heroes. Capacities determine relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. So the capacity resulting from being DDNA Height-Developed by the Holy Spirit, is Height of God's Love IN you, making you like the Most High Himself; your ability to Know Him demonstrates that likeness, since you can't see what is UNlike you. So the capacity resulting from being height-developed by Satan's dDNA, is unconquerable blindness and its groping children: tyrannical grabbing, vanity (inability to be satisfied by what you get), ennui, and above all.. bitterness. 1 John 4:15, Love's LENGTH (of your life): We thus keep admitting (on the witness stand, Greek verb homologew) that Jesus is that Son of God and keep abiding in Him, another sign of our Transforming Compatibility; which compatibility should be impossible, given our natures; this is the Function of DDNA Having BEEN Manufactured. The double-helix nature of DDNA operates like "mutual flanks", which is my pastor's term. (He borrowed it from military lingo, to explain the spiritual life better, starting really in 1997 with the parallel of the breakout of the WWII Fallaise-Argentan "gap" (June-Aug, 1944); but he fully developed the concept for the spiritual life, in year 2000+ classes.) The term is further explained in the "Second Aspect" of this webpage. There, the "sugar-phosphate group" in DNA, is in DDNA, the Reciprocity flank; the "bases" in DNA are in DDNA, the Doctrine "flank". "Protein synthesis" function of DNA, is in DDNA, the four functions/dimensions in 1 John 4:12-17, this table. Divine Sequencing, which literally makes you, clones you by your choice, to become like His Son in Thinking. So you keep admitting Who He is, despite mounting pressure, despite ongoing pressure, as you age. Two kinds of pressure in life, whether pleasant or unpleasant: acute, and sustained. Notice that pleasant or unpleasant are still pressures, so still suffering. "Suffering" means that something beyond your current capacity-for-tolerance, is occurring. Pain or pleasure per se only add to the addiction quality, urging you to cave in. The childish idea that "suffering" is only restricted to stuff which feels 'bad', thus ensnares millions in the more-common suffering due to pleasure. Whatever enslaves you or has puppet-power over you, is a suffering. So you can never say, "a gorilla is better than an ant." Yes, a gorilla is stronger in certain visible ways. But the gorilla can be felled the more easily, for that same reason. The gorilla needs more food, is susceptible to more diseases, etc. The ant can be trodden on more easily, but it can also hide better, build better, needs almost no food (but ironically eats more, proportional to its size, than does the gorilla). Notice how capacities are specific, and in the 'right' spot, 'best' is only one moment. Capacities determine relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. So we humans really can't measure ourselves BY ourselves, yet we spend the LENGTH of our lives, doing just that; we are puppeted thereby. We don't have the facts, and we don't have the requisite information on either capacities, or needs. That too, is a kind of suffering, the worst kind: judgementalism due to ignorance. Most common suffering in the human race, because in Adam we are all terminally insecure. So we are under pressure all the time, and we use everything to buttress ego: even accrediting ourselves, if we believe in a good thing or buy a good product, 🤣! If you 'look good' on a given day, why does that look suddenly make you good, and you you you get the credit? It's a product, 🤣! It is good, and you get the privilege of using it, but you are not changed! Every actor or actress knows this. Five hours in makeup and exercise each day yields a product which can be sold. Puh lease. So to your terminally-insecure human nature, acute pressure is a surprise; so your Love-Word 'instincts' are tested the more. Sustained pressure is debilitating, so Love-Motive instincts are tested. A short war is shocking, but a long war is tiring. In short pressure, there's a reaction, an apnea, followed by a rah-rah phase; but if that pressure continues, the rah-rah wears out. That's what happened to Christianity in the years following the Crucifixion, as LvS4a.htm, paints. So John has to write these tired, demoralized people who've just suffered a lot of attrition -- believers who deserted Word in favor of works. So those left, began to naturally wonder if they were even spiritual. Hence John's Gospel and 1 John are focused on showing why the Word in you, is the only spiritual life. The Gospel, highlights that evidence (which everyone knew, but they needed a Canon for best authority-assurance). 1 John draws on that Gospel and all prior Canon, to show the Staying Power of "abiding", as opposed to works. So to your terminally-insecure human nature, all these pressures, whether painful or pleasant, acute or sustained, beg your attention. They hook, as if you were just a fish. Your body is just this bundle of urges you can't help, and the mammoth media campaign of Satan &Co. to herd you, is more than the body can bear. Just this once. Just this little bit. Only for a moment. Won't harm me. I can take it. No, you can't! With each give-in, the next give-in lasts a little longer. Then a little longer and a lot longer and then the rest of your life. This is how people get fat, lazy, justify crime, etc. It's all the same process, and is just a matter of time. So as a Christian growing in His System, you are an anomaly extraordinaire, swimming upstream. Funny thing, though: you don't feel good about it. You don't feel but out-of-place, a fish outta water and swimming upstream in the 'ether'. And.. you are. For everyone around you is calling 'Christian', the product Satan sells. Buying it all up, baby.. Pavlov's dogs. And you are not among the pack, so all that barking, doesn't keep you going, but rather tires you out. That's when you know you are spiritually-powered, not living on your own strength. Because, You have none. So as John puts it in 1 John 4:15, the Word is a series of Divine Thinking, Love 'nucleotides' which pair and chain together, GACT. So the effect on your soul as a whole, is that it transforms, just as Romans 12:1-3 explains. So you keep admitting, since your belief is sustained by that Word. Sustained in depth, sustained in height, so sustained in length. Despite sustained, ever-growing, pressure against the weak capacities of your human nature. Humans aren't capable of sustained independent loyalty. They keep needing ego-stroking goodies, kinda like those greyhound racers need that stupid 'rabbit' running in front of them on the racecourse. The world is a walking corpse. What is truly dead, it calls 'life'. What is truly life, it calls 'death.' Hence the world is all preoccupied with feeling, but not with thinking; with doing, but not with learning: the world doesn't know the Divine GACT sequencing, so its biological sequencing ends up controlling the soul. That's death-in-progress, not life. Corpses need to kept moving, else rigor mortis sets in. Death is the absence of circulating thought (flat EEG). So people who have the world's death-thinking in them, are not attracted to God. They are instead attracted to insulting ideas of "God": Satan's many-religioned caricature, always derisive in the extreme. As John says in 1 John 4:5, people of the world think like the world, and only want to hear IT. Even if they have believed in Christ. Because, they don't have the Word in them. So it doesn't matter how smart they are (and often they are brilliant); it matters how spiritually discerning they are. Which they are not, because the only one who can even become spiritually discerning, is the one getting DDNA built into him, via the Spirit. So as 1 John says, that is how we know we are being made like Him, and abiding in Him -- because you can't see or understand or be attracted to, what is UNlike you. Incompatibility does not attract, for incompatibility is a BARRIER, a type of divorce/death. Spiritually-alive people have eternal life, sired by God, so have spiritual thought. Capacities determine relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. Couldn't be a greater incompatibility, than between spiritual life and spiritual death. The believer, then, who doesn't get DDNA built in him, lives down here in a spiritual coma; marionetted like the world is, so indistinguishable from the walking corpses; but when he dies physically, he will be in heaven forever. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the world is like that sci-fi movie, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", only worse. At least in both versions of the movie, you could empathize that the person couldn't possibly stay awake and avoid being 'replaced' by the alien. In real life, the aliens are the demons, and they can make anyone do what they like -- so long as the person consents. To get that consent, they play to our arrogances and needs. So we, not they, are responsible. You can't explain the furor over Enron and Arthur Anderson, else. You can't explain the reaction to Princess Diana, else. You can't explain Christian activism, else. You can't explain that stupid bell Japan spent countless man-hours and millions of dollars to make to ring for the Earth on March 20?! else. We don't have enough facts pro- or con-, to warrant such a reaction. But then, we didn't want any facts. We just wanted a feeling: with the bell, the puppet strings are "children" and "Earth Day" and "coins" and "bell" and "ring". Just as, we wanted to light candles and put klieg lights up to the sky at Ground Zero, to allegedly honor the victims of 9/11; not recognizing, that's what Albert Speer did for Hitler at Nurenberg! See? We're marionettes, pure and simple. Gurgling with delight, the whole time. See, It's Not About Sin, But About What 'Good' Is. And the world's good, is insane! So the believer is doubly tortured to finish the length of this dimension, when he finally sees God and the Truth in enough detail, to realize how insane the world is. This world is soooo 'Twilight Zone', and sometime during this "Length" dimension of Love, he realizes that fact. Worse, the more he becomes like Christ in his soul, the more tortured he is inside, to see his own humanity be So Much Less Than Father Should See! Torn apart: Romans 7. But then, he reflects Christ there, too: for how much more torn-apart can you be, than to be God-Man, since finiteness is so short, even when perfect? And then, to be on the Cross???! And Complete it?!! What, No Price Too High????! Capacities determine relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. In humans, what passes for love is necessarily a PRICED object. We haggle over price: you do for me, and I do for you. All 'love' relationships are really agreements on PRICE -- which relationships, when the price becomes a problem.. break up, divorce, become bitter. Then, the real hatred which is the basis for all 'price' concepts, shows its true nature. So much for our vaunted 'love', k? Hatred is always and only about price. True love is priceless, Isaiah 55. Only God is true love, so it's here in LENGTH that the constantly-increasing 'price' of relationship with Him, shows you are Spiritually Loving, just as God does. The Holy Spirit built that love via Bible in your head. Your head changes, since God's Truth is simultaneously characterized by all His Other Attributes (God's Attributes are not divided). So in building Truth, He's building Love, as we saw earlier. So the one growing in His System, finds the ever-higher prices of STAYING with Him, still desirable; as time passes that one comes to realize there IS no price too high (shocking the self, maybe). All the while, that one has thus gained inner strength to keep on keeping on, Ephesians 3:16, Philippians 3:14. That is love. The one loving doesn't even want anything in return, having previously concluded that what he gets, is already way higher than he can ever pay (2 Corinthians 5, theme) -- so all he wants to do, is keep on 'paying'. Just the opposite of normal human nature, weirdoes excepted. So you will be accounted a weirdo by the 'world' of your periphery, once you've exceeded their idea of the 'Price' Of Wanting God. At which point they will attack you, leave you, cajole you, or quietly drift away. There's no commonality between love-for-God and the world's thinking. Capacities determine relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. Your true cross will be your interest in God. As you grow in His System you'll find that out. It's not God who makes the problems of this life, but disinterest in God makes all problems. Rejection of God is the most destructive power in the universe. And it must seek adherents. As it does, it shrinks and shrinks and shrinks. For the price becomes ever too high, as rejection-of-God 'ages' in a person. At the end, the person is just this quivering, reacting lump of emotion; or, dead-to-the-world. Disinterest is an RNA virus, see. So disinterest in God spreads like mold spores throughout all the rest of life, and at the end, the person gets ennui for all his huffing. So he fancies himself a martyr, and longs to DIE. It's not "sin" you should fear, but rather, DISinterest in God. That's the most deadly virus in the human race: just turn on your television, watch it spread. By contrast -- and this is a big theme in 1 John -- the believer growing in His System, also yearns ever-more-desperately to free his fellow humans, since he once was as they are. But who will believe our report, Isaiah 53:1. No one believed the guy at the end of (1st version of) "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", either. The guy looked like a raving maniac, wandering through traffic, warning everyone to stay away from the city.. didn't he? So will you, if you run around and warn folks. So you stay on God's radar, content to avoid the world's. They're deaf, anyway, since God is evidencing Himself constantly and they won't hear HIM, first. Just as they didn't hear but instead laughed, in the 1000-year Warning period before the Flood, so they also won't hear and ridicule, today, theme in 2 Peter. [The names in the Genesis 5 roster tell you reams of information about the character of the time in which those people lived. Finding out the meaning of the names is a real pistol, since lexicons don't 'translate' proper names, but you can research the syllables. Good pastors do this. So "Methuselah" means, "when he dies, it (destruction) happens." So the "it" being the Flood, was already long known. Which you also can tell, by the names prior to Methuselah. Enoch, for example, means Dedicated-to-God (root for "Chanukah"). So Enoch had that message to give, and that's why he named his son "Methuselah", to leave behind a reminder to all.] Again, capacities determine relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. So the capacity resulting from being DDNA Length-Developed by the Holy Spirit, is LENGTH (staying power) of God's Love IN you, making you independently Love like the Most High Himself, even during your own 'crosses'; your ability to Stay in Him demonstrates that likeness. So the capacity resulting from being length-developed by Satan's dDNA, is unconquerable shrinkage and its devolving children: tyrannically-puppeted, insane (unreasoning), bored, and above all.. bitter. 1 John 4:16, Love's Breadth/Width (of your spiritual understanding, and hence love): Thus the completion, we come to know the Love-Word and believe it, so we reflect Him. This Is The Result Of DDNA'S Function. This love, Satan can't match, the world can't match or even see; and thus we have confidence at the Bema. Confidence in and from and toward God, not people, 1 John 4:17. There's wordplay in 1 John 4:16 which isn't translated. Verse should go, "We have come to know and have believed the Love-Word God has built in us..." The capped word 'built', isn't in the text, but it's what John means. The usual translation mistakes the sentence to mean just the Love God has for us, which is true, but the Greek syntax and words chosen, here mean more than that. They signify what God did atop giving His Son, to demonstrate His Love. So this is a BREADTH of Love Deposit in us, His Word. So all those GACT sequences got built enough to knit together into many DDNA strands, and the strands built many 'cells' of spiritual understanding, so that now a whole body of spiritual discernment, understanding, and mastery (recalling Isaiah 52:13, 53:10) exists. This is the fulfillment of the John 17 prayer, which is why the second half of 1 John 4:16, reads as it does. See also John 14-17 in context, which is the Lord's detailed explanation of WHY we get saved (what happens as a consequence). The whole point is to Abide In Oneness With God. That's not a mystical thing, but a Rapport thing. Like, an old happily-married couple: they think so alike, you can't tell them apart. Where the thought of one 'ends' and the other 'begins', is all one whole. That's what happens, in 1 John 4:16. You Are completed in "grow in Grace and in the Knowledge of Our Lord and Savior", 2 Peter 3:18. So that verse ends in glory, and so do you, Ephesians 3:19, Colossians 1:25-27. Capacities determine relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. Breadth of spiritual understanding makes you spiritually denser. What once took you many hours to understand, you now understand in a few seconds. The breadth of your thinking Doctrine is far bigger, far faster and more fluent -- so much so, you must be careful what you say to others, since your secular thinking has also become much 'smarter', as well. People will be intimidated and will have trouble understanding you because your ability to think outpaces theirs. So you must slow down -- which will become very frustrating -- for their sakes. This you will be able to detect, when the Spirit has knitted enough breadth in you. You will become cocky, at first; then God will spank you a lot, and then you will really come to see what He's done to your soul. In the Lord vs. Satan, Part 3's First Reason for Invisibility extensively examines those vicissitudes. It's an odd kind of smartness, compared to human smarts. Humans consider lots of quantity knowledge important. But rather, Right Connections To Right Data are alone important. So very brilliant people mistake all their hordes of data, for relevance. So can't detect relevance. But the Holy Spirit, can. So when you find yourself being able to solve conundra brilliant people can't solve, it's again evidence of the DDNA at work in you. The recognition is alternately exhilarating and humiliating. And you can't explain to anyone that they shouldn't give you credit for what they perceive as your smarts. The other big differential between human smarts and spiritual smarts, is the accounting 'system' used. Humans have zero breadth. Their definitions of who they are, look: my name is, my gender is, my race is, my nationality is, my religion is, i live at, my job is, my wealth is and on and on and on. Those facts tell you nothing about the soul, except that the soul, can't think. To account such definitions as valid indicators of identity, says that you are no more than your outers, all of which are dead. So you are identifying yourself the way a coroner must identify a corpse. By contrast, spiritual smarts causes thought to run along truth lines, which are principles related to God and His Nature, His Purpose, His Planned Future, etc. So you think like Paul does, in Philippians or in 2 Corinthians 5. So you don't value or even define life as the world does. The world hates Galatians 3, which knocks down all barriers: so the world can't preen over its dead differences. But you love Galatians 3, since those Barriers Are Down. Really gigantic difference. So again, it's not about sin, but about what 'good' means. The accounting of true good. God's Accounting, or Satan's. And here in Breadth, you become adept in God's Accounting, always via the Spirit. And that's just how you want it, too: living apart from 'Mom' is anathema to you. To the world, you will look like a fool, and you will be accused of wasting your smarts -- for you can't hide the smarts, even if you can manage to hide that they are spiritual smarts. But you don't value being smart. You value.. seeing Him. All else is narrow, foolish. So you look the fool. And the world's dead definitions, keep on getting those gold stars. Mirroring.htm documents with real dates in real history you can vet yourself how much time the entire planet received to keep living due to one individual (usually, 490 years per person). Just because that person believed in Him so strongly. So test it all yourself, breathing 1 John 1:9 as you do so (to avoid wrong conclusions and tail-chasing, since clearly the Holy Spirit's 'brainpower' is alone sufficient). This is but one believer's deposition on the topic, and you'll need more proof than my attestation! It shows you the Divine View of History. Who the real heroes are. The webpage only goes through 70 AD, but from its accounting principles you can prove that the Continuation Of Time Goes On Because More Heroes Are Being Manufactured. That's what John's talking about, here in 1 John 4:16's breadth -- parallelling the 'hero' Paul prayed God make of each of us, in Ephesians 3:15-19. The hero whose Hero is Christ. See: to see Him you have to become like Him, so you have to become a hero too, Ephesians 4:13. Defeating, Satan & Co. Satan wanted to become like the "Most High" (pre-fall angelic title for the Son), Isaiah 14:13-14. Well, that's what God wanted all along. But Satan wanted to do iT himself, which was impossible. So Satan is the true Don Quixote. And we'll replace him and his kin (i.e., 1 Corinthians 6:3). So it's here in breadth that you will be able to see what He's done to you, most poignantly. From that moment onward, the best and worst period of your life, begins. It's one kind of challenge, to persist in "abiding" in the spiritual life (i.e., #1's Filling maintained), when you do not know much; but an even bigger challenge, when you DO know much. Satan flunked his breadth tests. Christ passed them all -- even through the Substitutionary Spiritual Death (my pastor's term) on the Cross. [The term is actually in the Bible, and quite often. Isaiah repeats "ὑπέρ" and "ψυχή" in the LXX as a refrain, to show how Christ died for our sins. It's not physical, but He gave His Soul, and "ὑπέρ" means "as a substitute for" -- don't ever call it merely "for" if you study Greek in seminary, unless you want to flunk that test question. Unfortunately, after seminary most translators forgot that fact, so you'll find the wrong translation of ὑπέρ (and peri) as merely "for", in English Bibles. Oh well.] God is Truth and God is Omniscient, so the building of Truth in you makes you more functionally compatible with those two Attributes of God, as well as with His other Attributes like Love and Righteousness. Which of course, means your puny body can't take that Truth. At all. So again -- best and worst life, is when you finally do "come to know". [Nerd Note: we are given God's Righteousness and the Son's Righteousness at the first moment we are saved, but that doesn't mean we know how to live out those attributes. It's like money: you have to learn how to have it, once you have it.] Capacities determine relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. So the capacity resulting from being DDNA Breadth-Developed by the Holy Spirit, is Breadth of God's Love IN you, making you CAPACIOUS like the Most High Himself; your ability to think truth thus demonstrates that Likeness: the "delight thyself in fatness" of Isaiah 55, and Greek of Romans 12:1-3. So the capacity resulting from being breadth-developed by Satan's dDNA, is unconquerable famine and its bony children: tyrannical hunger (inability to be satisfied by what you get), narrowness-of-mind, lassitude, and above all.. bitterness. All these functioning LOVE CAPACITY dimensions demonstrate that we are truly spiritually-born; that it's all the Spirit's work of DDNA, Our Savior's Thinking.. transforming us. It's a whole Building of Love Thinking, so you inherit a whole POLITY if you get completed in it, Isaiah 53:12. Those you inherit, did not get completed, and need you to complete them. Just as even down here, we all need each other, since no one of us is able to be the best at everything; even so, in heaven we need each other to be a happy aggregate. And it will be happy: what 'competition' there is, 🤣! is a competition of everyone falling down before everyone else, anxious to give! See those angels falling down before Him with utter enjoyment, in Revelation 4? That's how we'll think, too! No one inferior will feel bad about it. No one superior will even want to preen. All that stuff will be way "passé"! Just the opposite of the one-upmanship and scratching/biting fake 'love' down here on this dirt ball. Capacities are dimensioned, hence relationships are also. Relationships to self, to things, to people.. and especially, to GOD. Dimensions are shallow, short, narrow; or, deep, tall, long and broad. Structural integrity has very particular dimensions, as any boat or skyscraper builder can tell you. God is out to build His Own Structural Integrity, in you. Because, you will be living with HIM forever and ever. You will never sin again once you die. But what is atop that perfect nature, after you die? Do you realize, you will reverse most of the values you now have? Can you imagine being a Christian of shallow dimensions down here, suddenly realizing how he wasted his life on the stuff down here? He will be the opposite of what he is now. We all will be. Hence 2 Peter 3:9, which is the strongest verse I can find to indicate that those in Hell can get out, but don't want to. God knows now how it will be then, and He Never Wants anyone to perish, but have eternal life with HIM. He's not imposing, but Proposing. Forever. For Better and for Worse, and He Knows Both. For God's Capacity is Infinite, Endless, and so He can save anyone at any time. But from what you've just read about what happens to our capacities.. we won't want to be saved, in hell. We are too shallow, too short, too narrow to want anything but vibrating hatred. That's how Satan is now. God is using Satan, like He did Pharaoh, to Wake The Rest Of Us Up. Because He really is NEVER willing that anyone should perish, Satan included -- but we are willing. Caveat emptor. [If you're also under my pastor, you might recall his reversal of whether angels had eternal life, so were not paid for on the Cross, back sometime in 1999 or so. I'm not disagreeing with that, but rather refining what I think it means. Somehow God must be paid for ALL shortfall in all creation, but how it got 'booked' -- as direct cost or indirect cost -- I don't know. Further, since God had to be paid, then the 'funds' exist and He's Omnipotent, so it's not a matter of whether He can save -- and we know from 2 Peter 3:9 that He Never Stops wanting to do that -- but it's a matter of what happens to volition in someone who always refuses John 3:16 (and its equivalent, for Satan&Co). Clearly the volition becomes sclerotic and permanently negative. So all the flames of hell are designed to save the person, still -- even if out of a natural desire to avoid pain. But, looking at Luke 16:20ff and Satan & Co.'s continued behavior, clearly even that pain doesn't register so much as the self-insanity addiction they've so carefully dDNA'd over all the years. Makes you wanna weep forever. LordvSatan2.htm has a table on this topic of what-if-no-angelic salvation. LordvSatan5.htm's last section is on the (imo, defensible) premise that even those in hell, can still believe in Christ to get out, but (likely) never will.] So it becomes critical to get Fully-Dimensioned IN God, before you die. Let's review these Dimensions He builds in you: Depth-of-Love, #1 Dimension, 1 John 4:13, demonstrated by Keeping On In The Spirit, despite Deepening pressure, Deepens your DDNA love=Word. Man has no depth in himself, except depth-of-arrogance. So this is Spiritual Depth, contrasted with the world's fake-messianic, Isaiah 14:13-14 arrogances. Spiritual Depth Capacities Determine Spiritual Depth Relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. Height-of-Love, #2 Dimension, 1 John 4:14, demonstrated by Keeping On In Awarness and Knowing Him, despite the enormous shock, and the ever-growing recognition of self-lowness. The greater love grows, the greater this accounting of His Highness and one's own lowness, becomes. It's not fake or maudlin, like the world's grovelling. So paradoxically, this Heightens your appreciation of Him, and raises your own soul 'height' capacity, as well. Which others will recognize, much to your chagrin. That you ARE chagrined, that you don't quit despite the overwhelming sense of self-lowness, are completely antithetical to the human nature. But totally reflective of your spiritual nature. Spiritual Height Capacities Determine Spiritual Height Relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. Length-of-Love, #3 Dimension, 1 John 4:15, demonstrated by keeping on in admitting He is the Lord of your life, despite all that ever-dripping sustained torture of being in the world. The world's argument is that God is bad if things are bad. Your thinking is the opposite. And keeps on staying that way. Love is a staying power, a ὑπομονή, Greek word comprised of "hupo" (under) and μένω (to "abide", "remain", "stay"). So the Length (staying power) of this Love is demonstrated. The world has no love, knows no love, fakes love, views real love as weakness. Well, Love is God's Head Attribute, theme of 1 Corinthians. Which theme is cut off, in translation (see ArchiDes.htm). So even Christians view Love as a weakness. For the world is about power, not love. But God already is Power, so is Love. Therefore His Word-Head-Love is the greater power, 1 Corinthians 13:13. So the staying power of Divine Love in a your DDNA spiritual nature is demonstrated, 1 John 4:19. Spiritual Length Capacities Determine Spiritual Length Relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. Breadth-of-Love, #4 Dimension, 1 John 4:16, demonstrated by keeping on knowing more maturely, despite the honor and horror such knowledge brings. Honor of Him, increases as you Know Him Better. The horror of anything else, is thus unavoidably known. And you live with both. Worse, your own knowing abilities in order to know Him better, had to increase. So they spill over into all other areas, too. So everyone and everything is now low, slow, very hard-to-live with, and you can't hide the smarts, so people close to you are intimidated. Sticking it out despite what you know is always the harder. The very Structure of your knowledge versus the world's, is like apples and oranges, so it's not human knowledge, but Spiritual Knowledge, and hence Spiritual Love-Breadth, is demonstrated. For you keep on going in it. This is not humanly possible to even build, much less want to have. Too big. Yet you keep on maturing.. to completion. Spiritual Breadth Capacities Determine Spiritual Breadth Relationships, and everything is relative to those capacities and relationships. All the while, your human nature is completely side-swiped by the spiritual life. You're living in two antithethical worlds, and for all your Spiritual Dimensions, your body is none the wiser. It can't 'hear' or 'see' what your soul sees, theme in Rom7-8. Whatever understanding you have, your body will distort. Your body is something you have to keep on fighting, the most. Like Paul explained, you have to box it, constantly. This pressure of hypostatic growing distance is the closest experience to Christ's own -- for He is God-Man, and the differential couldn't be greater. Being Perfect Humanity is much harder, since the Perception is Perfect. Our dead body blunts the perception of the difference, comparatively. But it's a killer, that growing differential, like being on "the rack". Your Internal Incompatibility Increases, Not Decreases, As You Mature In Christ. Thus your own body is like a 'cross', which is used to Leverage The Love=Word Dimensions, even further. Think of leverage in finance or physics, and you'll see what God does with 'bad'. It's just capital, baby, DNA which He uses to make DDNA, the most. Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ" movie focused on the Day He went to the Cross. It's a gruesome movie, but His Constantly-Trudging LOYALTY is well-depicted. That's how the spiritual life plays, and that's how 1 John is composed in Greek, a steady rhythm: μένω μένω μένω abide remain stay rest ὑπομένω stand under understand keep going trudge day in day out keep going. Even and especially when you think you can't go another step, when it seems you're not growing or learning or 'doing' anything for God, even when it's so shallow a life, so menial, so.. empty. Yeah, that's His Trudging toward Golgatha. Fellowship of His Sufferings, Isaiah 54:1 being birthed! So don't be surprised that your learning seems to produce no improvement on your body's behavior. Body is dead, Genesis 2:17. When you're spiritually young, you don't really know that. Like DNA production, the first step in spiritual growing pains, is Division. God progressively divorces you from all your human attachments, and Grafts In DDNA attachments. At some point in spiritual adulthood, you experience a reversal of your old attachments, consciously. And from that point forward, this world is not where you want to be, anymore. Usually the awareness of the changeover is traumatic, but it's been a gradual replacement, all along. So as you age, you'll mistake your growing awareness of your deadness, for some new 'flaw' in you. It's not new: you're just newly aware of the shortfall ("come short" clause in Rom3:23), so for a long time you will angst over it, thinking yourself a spiritual failure. Just keep using 1 John 1:9 and living in God's System, and even this angst the Holy Spirit will resolve. The body gets left behind. You will grow to understand that. For It's Not About Sin, Not About Works, So Not About The Body, At All. But rather, it's about "Christ in you, the Confidence of glory", Colossians 1:25-27. Love Glory, Ephesians 3:20, which comes right after all those Dimensions are completed, in Ephesians 3:19. Which comes as a Result of Learning Him, last clause in 2 Peter 3:18. Hence 1 John 4:17 reads as it does, pointing (again) to Isaiah 53:12's "great ones" clauses. Love gets completed IN ASSOCIATION WITH us, in the Trial. We are the end group in God's Rebuttal to Satan. "For (1 John 4:17c) just as He is, so also we are in the world." And later (1 John 4:19), John climactically explains why: we love, because He FIRST loved us! That verse ties back to Ephesians 1, which is on the same epic topic of God's Love completing in the Body of Christ, aka Church, via the Depositing of His Love-Thinking in our heads, aka Scripture via the Spirit, John 4:23-24, 14:26. So those of us who get completed IN this Love Answer, have no reason for shame at the Bema, 1 John 4:17b, because we are the Pleroma, Ephesians 3:19. And anyone can be completed, for it's never about sin, it's never about works, but it's only about What God Does, Ephesians 2:10, 3:15-19, 4:11-16, 1 John 4:12-17! This Witness is therefore higher than other Trial witnesses of the Bible, except Christ's Own. Watch for the Highness of the testimony, the Arduousness of it, and the Likeness to Christ's: Who else gets a double portion of Righteousness in this puny sin nature body? Who else has a Standard Of Growing Up To Be Like The Perfect Son Of God, despite being in a sin nature body? Who else was appointed a Royal Priest forever, the second he was saved -- and then held accountable for that unearned status? Who else gets the arduous standard of monitoring thought 24/7, so to be sure to stay online (in fellowship) with the Holy Spirit? The Biggest Sin A Church Believer Can Commit Is To Not Use 1 John 1:9, because that denies the Holy Spirit His DDNA Function On The Believer. ["Third Reason for Invisibility" in LordvSatan3.htm covers this problem in some detail. The Building Opportunity lost is far worse than any sin you can commit. No one gets away with sin, and this is the worst one: to not use 1 John 1:9.] No one else was so accountable. Who else has to bring every thought into captivity, so that Father can get the hearing He likes, 2 Corinthians 10:5? Who else gets a job pray properly and to BUY TIME, via learning Son so Father Grants Time -- so the world can Breathe One More Day? Who else gets spanked and even executed for doing good deeds, Acts 5 (see also Matt 4 to learn why)? Who else gets blessed the more, just by brushing the teeth while thinking Bible under the Spirit? Who else can even see that we are important and responsible, so We Can't Ever Explain Ourselves? Man is born under a horrible mismatch between the power of his mind to imagine and value, versus the power of his body to enact what his soul thinks. In the Garden, that mismatch wasn't a problem, for God supplied the requisite power: we were designed to be in Union with Him, from the get-go. Notice that there were no works in the Garden. For man is Not meant for works, but for Union. God works. That's always how the relationship works: it's One-Sided, at God's end; hence the mismatch is deliberate -- we need His Power for Fellowship, not works. So, we have weak bodies, comparatively. Which bodies, did no works. That essential message and meaning continued despite the Fall, and was stressed, i.e., on the sabbath You Do No Work. Waiting for God to Work On You, so that you could be spiritually-matured and then Go Home To Eternal And Full fellowship with him, Psalm 23:6. So: Ephesians 3:16 explains that if you are to have power, you need strength: for Church the Highest Levels of both are given. When you ride a horse, the horse has power, and you need the strength to control that power; control requires self-restraint. The foremost use of power is to hold it, not flap it around. Judicious Restraint constitutes the wise use of power. Which thus requires strength. So: when you pick up something, you need strength not only to pick it up, but to control how you do it, and most of that control, is a kind of waiting. Hence you need a certain body strength, which in turn requires integrity of mind to focus, to be aware, to have the right values so you can be competent in using your strength and power over the horse, over your arms, etc. Without strength to hold power, it will crush you. We are subject to two warring powers, down here: Satan's power, and God's Power. We are no match for either. Surely all the Bible mistranslations in my websites should prove that to you by now: our best and brightest scholars screw up the Bible, and not a one of them intends or even believes he is doing that. But the evidence is overwhelming. So: if our best mess up so badly, we the laymen-puny don't stand a chance! Hence 1 John 1:9 is our lifeline. Literally. Love is the greatest power there is, and hence the greatest wealth. Love is also integrity and strength (Latin "virtus" depicts this meaning well). But we humans, have no integrity and no strength and no power, so can't handle this Divine Love. So, Ephesians 3:16 explains that the Holy Spirit produces it via Bible's doctrine in your head (mistranslated "faith", in English Bibles). Notice those components: strength in your soul, and power in your soul, and Spirit running both, and Bible-in-your-head is the means He uses to do this running. No rituals, work. No taboos, work. No amount of charitable giving, works. No amount of altruism, works. In short, no works, work. Bible alone works (main theme in James, always mistranslated and misunderstood). So This is True Wealth: His Thinking in Your Head, His Love-Word in your words, 24/7, main theme of 1 Corinthians (always mistranslated, too). Paul advances that theme here in Ephesians, and John dramatically summarizes the meaning and effects of both 1 Corinthians and Ephesians, in 1 John 4:17. Bema Blessing Is based on Bible in your Spiritual Brain, BY the Brain, the Holy Breath. No Breath, no Brain, no Bible, no Bema Blessing. Period. One can't help empathizing with Satan's motive to rebel. Satan was made the highest of God's creatures, at that time. Imagine the burden he came to know: Oh, all I'll ever be is second-fiddle to the Most High Himself, and yet HE will pay for future "humans"? They can sin, but I cannot? It's very rough to be high. You have all the burden, and those below you are so far below you, the satisfaction of 'fellowship' with them is rather unfulfilling. So either you Grow Further and Learn to Love The Burden, or.. you do what Satan did, and decide to shake your fist forever. We Christians face an even higher burden than Satan did, since Our Progenitor IS that Most High, Who Became (YH+WH), Jesus the Christ, Hebrews 12:1-2, Greek. Higher burden, higher blessing. For God really means to make us Like His Son. You can't transmute without suffering. Even exercise teaches you that. So it's to gain something, not to sacrifice something. But as you pursue this Blessing Life, Philippians 3:14, you will be attacked. Those not wanting such a life won't let you pursue it in peace. People born to royalty and immense wealth, face these same problems on a much smaller scale. Many of them end up bitter. Others get into the royal/rich honor code, which has from time immemorial, helped the poor without any legislation. Don't kid yourself about status and wealth: it's a killer, not a party. (Frankly, the parties are boring.) Christ was crucified for being the Richest Person in the Universe. We are in the world even as He was, so our status -- and fate -- will be the same. Playing quietly, on every demonic radar-screen near you. So this life is about Two Warring Powers: the power of sin, which is death (i.e., 1 Corinthians 15, Rom7), run by Satan & Co.; and the power of Love, which is Life, run by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 3:15-19, Romans 8). We humans have no ability to control either one, and we mess up whichever power we get. So both sides build that ability, and keep having to nurture it. The Trial demonstrates the results of each side's 'building': the dimensions, the resultant strength, the resultant "production" (1 Corinthians 3), etc. Notice the contrast: the apostate version of Christianity -- run by Satan & Co. -- is all about visible works. So bad is this works-tainted thinking, our Bible translations are all slanted to it. So really, you're not reading The Bible God Wrote, in translation. At best, you get a vague idea of what God might mean. At worst, you get infected with the power of a whole lot of lies. So of course, you'll end up loving death, and hating life, by life's end. For the idea that you just study the Word to get His Thinking IN you, isn't even visible in translation. Whereas in the original-language texts, that's all you see harped on, over and over and over. So the world can't see even from the Bible, what God says. Much less, how to obey Him. They had the same problem, even back when the original-language texts were new and everyone could read them. So we know it's the world's blindness 'powered' by Satan & Co. which we prefer, rather than the deadness of the ancient Greek. If you read 2John and 3Jn, you'll notice that a whole lot of folks still kept peeling off, hankering for the world's religious self-praise. Funny how to this day, religious Christians are utterly blind to the tremendous excoriation of religion in every verse of Bible, especially in 1 John. To their blind eyes, Bible buttresses their religious arrogance. Amazing. For as 1 John stresses over and over, all religions are Revelation 17 harlots, competing for customers. But the real believer really growing in Christ, is Just Like Christ, quietly learning, turning down the Matthew 4 temptations of the world. Sure, we aren't as 'big' as Him -- but we are reflecting Him, since we are being made of the same 'spiritual genes'. Even a little piece of a mirror, still reflects the Big One from Whom it came. Gemstones reflect, whether big or little. And we are stones of the BedRock ("Petra", big Greek Keyword for Christ in Old Testament, designating the Holy-of-Holies Ark stand, on which Isaac was almost sacrificed). Being made into, Diamonds. So this is a big Trial between Two Big Powers, and we hapless humans are caught in the middle. But we are given the means to know and choose and hence be made strong. Which way, though? Satan's huff-and-puff power, or God's Quiet Breathing Power? That's the drama of it, that's what gets answered with us Church, that's the decision you face every second you breathe... Do you now see something of the TRANSformation which must be occurring, so that we too don't consider this spiritual life, crazy, 1 Corinthians 2? For we cannot go on in this life, unless we are doing all those four functions, every second we "abide" in the spiritual life. Because it is all Invisible, and so we can't rely on the usual buck-ups people use to motivate themselves (i.e., peer praise or pressure). We Can't Talk About It. It's an isolated life, even amidst a crowd. So if we aren't living in those four spiritual dimensions, baby, we're cooked! So now you know why 1 John is written as it is. The believer privately lives this life. The spiritual life is choosing God, not works. So God is thus Juridically Free to do God's Own Works. Directly. I'm sorry, but that's a far bigger 'work' for 'you' to do, than all the world's works put together. For the world rejects God, so God must stand off. But you, puny believer, are Learning Him. Look how God granted 490 years to the entire planet, just because Daniel admitted Israel's sin and prayed for a reconciliation, in Dan 9. That's not a work Daniel did, capisce? It was an Attitude. Oh, how we underestimate the value of knowing God... So follow 1 John's Script, live in God's System. No one but the unseen and you will know how you are doing, this side of heaven. And pay no attention to the loud mouths, for they aren't playing in heaven; they are playing on the Wrong Playing Field -- 2Jn9, still fancying themselves actors in the world's play, though God removed them from that cast, the first nanosecond they believed in Christ. (See Romans 6-8, 1 John 2:15-19. When reviewing 2Jn9, my pastor always stops to explain "proago" in simile: like a quarterback hotdogging it with the ball. No points added to his team, just a lot of childish blather.) So Christ told even the demons to shut up about Him in Mark's Gospel (awesome Gospel), so we aren't to run around advertising ourselves, either. Learn And Live On The Word. One day at a time. Then, you will truly be becoming like Your Savior, as the Spirit deposits all that DDNA in you. Then, at the Bema, 1 John 4:17 will be your victory shout.

In sum: Christ could have just died on the Cross, and having done so, creation can stop: its purpose is fulfilled, by producing Him. But God replies (as it were) Oh yes, that's true! So now that purpose is fulfilled, it's time to make sons! Hence Doctrine is DDNA, His Thinking is spiritual genes; which elaborate code, play like fractals throughout the life: line upon line, precept upon precept, day after day, from glory to glory, once seeing as a child, but now with unveiled face. We who are a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) get filled up with Righteous Thinking (Romans 8:4, in context) and thus are transmuted (Titus3:5 parlaying into Romans 8 into Romans 12:1-3). So to become pregnant with Him (Ephesians 3:15-19), and thus in labor like He was on the Cross (me amal, Hebrew of Isaiah 53:11), groaning (Romans 8:11ff); so to become raised up a spiritual body (1 Corinthians 15), in glory. To the Glory of Father, thus fulfilling John 17.

So in 1 John, just like all the other epistles and especially the Gospel of John, Isaiah 53:11 is altogether in view, as well as Paul's use of Love to mean Word in You, by John's deft crafting in 1 John 4. Awesome stuff. DDNA! Doctrinal DNA! 1 John 5:4, Doctrine overcomes the world!

Doctrine, Divine thinking, Not Adikia!

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About Tracking Bible Definitions, especially in 1 John

Every Bible book's definitions are determined by references to other Bible passages with the same words in them; or, a Bible book's beginning sets up its own definitions of the metaphors to be used (usually both devices are used so you know where and how to define the words). Then you track the definitions thesaural-like. Especially in 1 John, which is very sophisticated; the whole epistle is crafted in parallelism, like math formulas where variables are changed to show an EQUATING matrix. Makes me think of what it must've been like to see Einstein quickly writing his general theory of relativity, on a blackboard. John repeats the variables over and over in formulaic patterns; so what you look for, are the CHANGES in the formulas. So, for example, you compare all the abide-in-Hims to see that numberset of variables, etc. It's always important to get the overall BIG picture of a Bible book before you analyze any verses in it. Else, you can mistake the import of the verse(s) you're examining. This would be a great book to print out and color code the parallels: for example, it's like tic-tac-toe in 1 John 1:5-10, each clause in a vertical parallel with its brother clause in each following verse.

Then try to do it all over again -- but in Greek, since translations bland out the cultural loading, so you really don't see well what he's saying; since he repeats so much, it is really important to track this book in the Greek. Master the Greek keywords, for they are all loaded and multiple-entendre words, especially from the LXX and the Gospel of John. Of course, if you only know Strong's or lexicons, this won't be too helpful. Read Greek plays. Read Plato. Read Greek literal If you read those guys in translation, then when you see the same English words in the Bible, you'll have a better cultural background for the real meanings God builds on to tell the real Truth. There's no substitute for this kind of digging. Pastors should NEVER teach the Bible apart from the original definitions in the original languages, even if teaching from a translation. Your translation is but Swahili, else.

Lemme give you an example. In Greek, a very common way of incorporating a whole list by reference, is to but mention the FIRST item on a list. If you don't know that, you'll never understand 1 John, since one of his main themes, is first-things-first, First Commandment. Without which, you can throw the rest of the list (i.e., of commandments, do's, your entire life).. away. So, he crafts his epistle in 'firsts', so to the English reader, it seems kinda basic, almost child-like. Not at all. This was a very sophisticated dramatic technique, and required of the reader, extreme concentration: it's like Einstein's formulas, swiftly written. John stresses so much that without the Word in you, the First Commandment is spit on, you almost can't read it. His very insistent, extremely fast-paced style, is totally reversed in English to a simpering, sugary, pitch. That's not the translator's fault, but the fault of how English is as a language (a language of diplomacy deliberately fuzzes over, and that's what held England together for centuries, its ability to fuzz over -- a great genius, but no good for understanding the Word of God).

So John keeps referring to first-list items, so the reader knows which list John is referencing. Further, the Old Testament was popularly summed up as follows, which you'll find in the Gospels: the whole law was the sum of 1st Commandment and Leviticus 19:18, which meant: love God, love your fellow man. If you did that, you obeyed the whole law. But underneath that simple statement was the implicit and well-taught understanding that "love" meant Knowing The Word. Hence the commandments in Old Testament for tassels, leather strips, prayer shawls, and all manner of mnemonic devices, so you would have the Word cycling in your head, 24/7. The Psalm 119 people, who were daily raped and stabbed and tortured on their death march from Jerusalem to Babylon, put it this way: "I have guarded Your Word in my heart, that I might not sin against You." That whole Psalm is a kind of acrostic, each first verse standing for a letter in the Hebrew alphabet. First things first. John is incorporating all that meaning, when he writes. So, he keeps to firsts, thus always stressing the First Commandment. Can't love someone you don't know. Can't know someone you don't study. Can't study someone you don't want to know. Can't study someone if you're running around paying attention to people. For "people" isn't in the First Commandment, but in the subsequent ones. So, John keeps stressing: if you don't love God, you're not loving your brother, either. So if you don't have the Word in you, then you're not loving, period. It's real dramatic (John must have loved Greek drama and the philosophers): it smokes on the page. But sleeps instead of smokes, in translation.

By crafting his letter in firsts, he sets up equations. He's equating getting Word in you, with being saved; with having eternal life; with loving your brother; with food/shelter/clothing (bitingly, near end Chapter 3); with being in the light (another term for Word, used by Isa in Isaiah 53:11, LXX) or in the darkness. Stark contrasts, sine qua nons. So the reader is pounded with the insistent rhythm: one foot in front of the other in the Word in the Word in the Word just as essential as breathing and just as low slow constant high drama playing on earth treasure in earthen vessels keep moving keep guarding the Word just as essential as your salvation keep thinking don't deviate from the course. Now you know you love Him now you know you are abiding in Him now you know you are in the Spirit now you know you overcome the evil one now you know you will be rewarded at the Bema now you know Him now you see Him now you are testifying to the angels about Him...

And on and on and on. Phrased in linked verses which take what was said before, change the equation a little, so you see that the prior and the current equation, are Word In You. Equals Love. Equals victory. And anything else, is bupkis. Anything else, is fornication. Being a seed of the devil. John is not, coy. He likens being in the Word to being a faithful wife at home, not straying from her husband (μένω, big keyword in John 14-17). Like a soldier faithfully remaining at his post. Faithful Bride. Which "from the beginning" (tying to Ephesians 1 deliberately, and to Genesis 1 and to John 1), was the Plan of God. Who was With God. Who is God. So now, you are in Him. So now, Be With Him In Your Thinking. Which means, walking in the Word, it guides your every thought. Faithfulness. Marital intimacy. Oneness, John 17. For obviously, if the wife doesn't share her husband's thinking, she's not being really faithful. Kinda like being inert when intimately alone. Sorry, it's a main theme of the Bible, that sexual metaphor (see Ezekiel 16, a truly blistering chapter).

Talk about smoky! John also heavily weaves in the by-then-long-famous, Passover night discourse of the Lord, which John finally reduced to writing, in (Gospel of) John 14-17. It's all about marital oneness with Christ via your own soul being so Filled with His Thinking, you are 'pregnant' with Him. Even as, He was pregnant with your sins. So: look for sexual innuendo, because that rhetorical style is critical to understanding the meaning in not only 1 John, but Ephesians and doggone near every other Bible book. Bible makes very heavy use of sexual innuendo, since the theme of the entire Bible, is God making sons for His Son; of which, we are to be a Fertile Bride. But translators are ascetic, and finding the sexual innuendoes in lexicons is a pistol. You almost have to look in other Greek literature, to find the meanings.

Pleroma, for example, is a pregnancy word. Paul uses it pretty bluntly (he loves sexual innuendo more than the other writers, except maybe Isaiah): all of Ephesians is on that topic, as is the latter half of Romans, and all of 1 Corinthians (a major thread throughout, fuzzed over egregiously in translation). Major sexual-innuendo words are usually translated "full" or "fulfill" or "fullness" (πληρόω and pleroma), "abide", "remain" (μένω), "seed" (sperma, obvious), hence "Word in you" (get it?), and all the Body stuff (like 1 Corinthians 6, 12), Bride and wife analogies. Then there's "endure", literal ὑπομένω (staying under); Paul uses some really blazing words, too, like the blanded out "joined and held" in Ephesians 4:16 (think about that, will ya?) which are two very graphic verbs (even I myself had to euphemize them). Moreover, all of John 17 is sexual innuendo: namely, "that they may be one even as We are one" is a blatant reference to the "oneness" of Adam and his wife, prayed by the Last Adam, partly for His Wife, the Church. Don't let the ascetics spoil your learning Holy God. It's right to unite with God. It's spiritual, which is far higher than any stupid phallic cult could imagine. Poor sops. They settled for animalism. We get to have Coalescence of Thinking. Unless we wanna be frigid, or pretend a headache.

Satan is thoroughly ascetic. That's how he can fancy himself like the Most High. Satan's first act on taking over from Adam when Adam sinned, was to command Adam cover his genitals. My pastor reminds his congregation of this fact every time he covers that aspect of Genesis, noting that Genesis 3:11 should be translated "Who denounced you...". So, I must conclude that ascetics would rather malign God and make Him a liar (compare end Genesis 2) by translating it "Who told you...", than admit there's no shame in being naked: since the better lexicons clearly agree with my pastor's translation. Satan denounced nakedness. Because he can't bear to see his own. Don't imitate him. God invented marriage and sex as a unit. Satan wants divorce. God invented pleasure. Satan wants pain. Love frightens Satan, because love means weakness, to him. Again, he can't bear to look at his own nakedness, so he makes doggone sure God's Word is 'clothed', in translation! God is not so insecure. Neither need you be.

If you can only use a translation, look for similar-meaning words in the translation and track them from the first chapter, forward. Don't just use the same words, for the actual tracking also tracks by parallel concept. Then also look carefully at John's Gospel metaphors in the same translation, because he's referencing its keywords as well. 1 John 2:8 makes it clear he knows he's writing that very letter as new addition to Canon, which accounts for all the tracking he does. Here's a shortcut, until you can research the Greek: ASSume that I'm right about all this sexual innuendo, when you read the translation. So when you see a phrase like "fill all in all" at the end of Ephesians 1, ASSume it has (what even in English) would be a wry underlayer of husbandy desire. Also, "in the beginning" is a real big keyphrase in 1 John (and also in Gnosticism, which he's tweaking). It dates back to the Garden, another shorthand way of saying Church is the culmination of history. (My pastor really stressed that fact.) Oh: Don't go overboard on the sexual innuendo meaning. It's just an analogy we really need to understand, to get the "depth" (yes, another innuendo, in Ephesians 3:17-18) of God's Plan. This isn't literal sex, k? Rather, (as it were) spiritual sex: God's Infinite Desire for Intimacy, which is non-emotional. Which is far far higher than the stupid body-sex fanatics could appreciate. They get all excited over swear words and feelies as if they were still five or fifteen years old. Let's not be childish or ascetic.

Big hint: Love=Word In You. If you don't know that is what the Greek is saying, you'll screw up interpretation. I didn't get this for a long time. In fact, it wasn't until my pastor started revising his presentation of the Integrity of God back in 1997, that the meaning hit me. Specifically, he was circling on 1 Corinthians 12:31, Ephesians 3:19 and 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, then verse 4. It was when he got to verse 4, that I recognized how "ὑπερβολή" is used in 12:31 and Ephesians 3:19; Romans 5:5 skyrocketed my spiritual life back in 1995 when I was listening to a 1977 Romans series exegesis on the verse. So, all of a sudden, everything clicked. So I looked into the Greek of 1 Corinthians, to see WHEN Paul started to introduce the idea that Love=Word in you. He starts right away, in 1:5 -- but you'd never know that, in translation! All that talk over believer schisms in Chapter 1, is used to jump into the Union of the Body with Christ -- not in a religion, for crying out loud.

But again, the translation is so pitiful (lots of sexual innuendo words in 1 Corinthians, especially since they all had a hedonism problem), you can't see what Paul is tweaking. Basically, he says this why settle for body animalism/schism, when you can have marital intimacy on a spiritual level with Your Husband? It's beautiful, the way he develops that concept. So by the time he introduces the Husband as the Head of the Body in Chapter 13, you are ready for the Love=Word In You meaning. So by the time I realized all this, I was ready to see it everywhere else in the Bible, the same theme is developed. Like, in 1 John. As you can see, this coalescence of understanding took approximately 5-10 years. So maybe it won't now take you so long...

Yikes, what Incredibly Deft writing, therefore, in 1 John! John is restating the Head-completed-in-you theme in 1 Corinthians, for the post-temporary-gifts generation of believers, so is reminding them of what they already know -- and assuring them that it's still true. Tying it to John 14-17, which they newly had. (They knew about the material in John 14-17 for a long time, for all of 1 Corinthians is based on it, as is Ephesians: that material was a prophecy, technically, so the New Testament books being written were explaining, gradually, how that Vine and Branches structure, was going to work. But they didn't have John's testimony in writing, and he was an eyewitness on that Passover night. God staggers out the witnessing so that each witness circulates, so not to confuse people. God knows our limitations.) No wonder my pastor spent so long exegeting 1 John verse by verse! It was a watershed book for him, culminating in what he'd come to call the "Divine Dynasphere"; his teaching really ramped up after that, and he was already advanced compared to anyone else I could find. In short, it's worth the time to really understand 1 John.

My pastor is one of the braver ones, not shying away from all the sexual innuendo like so many feel constrained to do. Scholars know about all this innuendo. They are embarrassed over it. My pastor, is not; he feels that if God writes a word, He means it to be understood and taught as He wrote it. That attitude nearly cost him his whole congregation, back decades ago when he had to teach the graphic Ezekiel 16 and Song of Solomon (back in the 1950's or 1960's, if I remember rightly). But he hung in there. And the congregation, reshaped and stuck with him. So because I'd been under him steadily since '81, and many times heard him equate marital intimacy (Corporate Testimony of Christian marriage, is the name of the doctrine currently) with 1 John and the topic of Love every time he brings up the Integrity of God (to teach the parallel between them), I was alerted to look for the innuendo in 1 John, Paul, and the rest of Bible. But if you don't have a pastor like that, you'll have a real hard time seeing all this intimacy meaning: and you will miss out on the most fabulous information about God's Plan for you! Don't let a tendency to asceticism ruin learning Your Holy Savior, k? Don't let all that stupid distortion of sex (which God created, to depict this Infinite Intimate Desire) which the world likes to do (God never divorces marriage and sex, but the world always does) -- don't let the world's animalistic distortions color your learning of Your First and Only Love!

Now let's return to how 1 John uses rhetorical parallelisms to act as an EQUATING matrix. Greek key words used in this equating are logos, μένω, ποιέω (really important -- John's distinguishing between doing the Word versus works), light, commandments (especially the First: compare use of τηρέω, to keep/cherish/guard in 1 John 2:4-5). So Word=Word of life=truth='doing' truth=naming sins to be purified like a temple you are, so you can re-abide IN truth -- all these metaphors are set up in the first chapter. So you know the math paradigm, so you can interpret the rest of the letter. So when you see "practice (ποιέω) righteousness" in later chapters, you know that "righteousness" is the truth you're learning, which is the Word you are learning. So when you see other "does" and "practice" clauses, you realize that "sin" and "lawlessness" and "hate" are all tied to the same parallelism as in 1 John 1:8,10 -- NOT learning Him.

This is especially true with the "abide" (μένω) clauses.

So you're supposed to recall that same "abide" metaphor which Christ used in John 14-17, and tie it in (i.e., 14:23-26, 15:5-10, where "fruit" means the Word from the Seed, get it?) -- which also ties to Isaiah 5, about false teachers wrecking God's vineyard of the earth (Law in head, resulting in wine).

By 1 John Chapter 4, "love" is Equated to Word.

Back in Chapter 2:1-11, you learn that if you don't get the Word in you, you can't stop sinning (2:1 should be translated "stop sinning", not "not sin"); else, you're not doing the Commandment (especially the First One), not 'walking' (living) as Christ lived (reference to Matthew 4:4). So the "Love" equating to Word begins back in Chapter 2.

Another example, 2:4-5 is about having the Word in you, else you're not keeping "the" commandment; verse 7 is a reference to the shema, the command to learn and live on the Word of God 24/7.

Another example, 2:8 is about Canon "true Light", the fulfillment of Isaiah 53:11 (in LXX) and Jeremiah 31:31-34.

1 John 2:12's "fathers" know Him, versus the children who know only the Father, and the young spiritual adults, who are said to conquer evil one (by learning Him, see previous verses' metaphor of light and darkness).

So to father children yourself, You Must Know Christ. Can't love Someone you don't know, and "knowing" is also a metaphor for marital intimacy. Parallel concept is the focus of Ephesians (passim, since the whole letter is about God's siring superior progeny, compared to "Ion") and 2 Peter 3:18.

Hence 1 John 2:18, doing (ποιέω tracker) the Will of God is to learn Him, established earlier 2:1-11, repeated again (setting the tone for all the "abide" of later verses), in 2:24.

And 3:3, making use of Romans 5:5! Which you won't know, if you don't know that "cleanse" is a culturally loaded word, refs back to water ritual to depict purification, especially in connection with the Nazarite vow -- which then ties back to the far bigger cleansing of καθαρίζω in 1 John 1:9! [Whoever the audience was for this epistle, they were well trained in Old Testament concepts; maybe they were Jewish, or very well-trained-in-Law Christians. John relies on their understanding of Old Testament becoming New Testament as he writes, and like the writer of Hebrews, he uses those concepts. Kinda like a post-Temple reminder of what Hebrews explained.]

Additional Technical Notes about 1 John 4:12-17

Again, when you read any Bible book, you have to know its own definitions. Trouble is, the Greek language at the time John wrote, had very refined definitions which don't port over to English. So you can see the same words in English, and entirely miss the meaning. You have to know the definitions in the Greek, so that when you read the English, you can understand. For, John is writing Socratically and in terms of Greek drama. [Even the dumbest person in the empire was familiar with these concepts, since the whole language was based on them. So this isn't intellectualism. It was everyday language and thinking. Dramas were for the common people (same, for Shakespeare's, in his day; same, for operas when they were composed). We've gotten so stupid since those times, we call all this stuff high-brow, now. Well, it wasn't. We've just become incredibly animalistic, eschewing thinking.]

Of course, you can only know all that if you are reading IN the Greek. And that means, you have to know Socrates' definitions, and the Greek drama concepts, or you can't understand what you are reading. For, John takes those definitions (as all Greek writers did), and builds from them, God's definitions. Furthermore, John weaves into these, the Old Testament definitions. Furthermore, John is weaving all the New Testament known at the time of writing, to show how it all comes together to glorify God, reaching a series of crescendoes. So if you don't know all those definitions, 1 John will be greek to you. Especially, in the English.

So here are some critical definitions to keep in your head as you read 1 John in the English.

• "Love" means 1st Commandment, without which, nothing. Ties to 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.
• So "Love" means Word in you, since the First Commandment is only obeyed if you are constantly thinking the Word of God: "you shall love the Lord with all your heart (thinking) and soul (place of will) and strength (of will)." So it's not human love, and it's not emotion: if you love God, you live on His Word, Matthew 4:4. So John is folding in the entire Old Testament, when he uses the Word Love. It's a Hebraism, reminding the reader of the shema, which was the beginning of a series of commandments Moses gave the people to keep having the Word in them, like leather strips on their heads and arms. All day long. All night long. So, it's "not a new commandment", but yet a "new commandment" (see 1 John 2), since the "new" is the Level Of Word we can now get. Ties to 1 Corinthians 13, completion of His Head in our heads. So you are only obeying, if you are Learning And Living On The Word. Period. You are only loving if you are Learning And Living On The Word. Period.

• "Love" is only and always, God's Level: it's not human, so you can't do it, you must learn it, by learning the Word. This was a well-defined Greek concept, and even more, Hebrew (see how well the Psalm 119 people understood that); so the word "Love" for only this type of love, is (in Greek), "agape" (ah-GAH-pay). Verbal nouns in Greek are more dramatic than verbs. So John is being very dramatic in his writing (as opposed to the sleepy English translations). So simultaneously you understand, if reading in the Greek, that all the epic-drama meaning of "agape" is what's to happen in YOUR life. By, Word building in you.

• So by 1 John 4:12-17, John summarizes the 'play' of your life and its intended result; the play began at the end of Chapter 2, talking about how we are to develop so we can have confidence in the "Day of Evaluation" instead of shrinking back. So you have to know that in Greek plays, there were usually a set of four plays to constitute a whole epic story: these are the four dimensions of 1 John 4:12-17. And this epic story, always plays on two levels (hupostasis): one level, seemingly-mundane (daily life); but the "level of the gods", the higher story being worked on you BY "the gods", as part of THEIR objectives. So, the Real God has Real Objectives HE works on you. Not, you working. Hence Chapter 3 is the seemingly-mundane level (well, chapter divisions are funky, so it's really 3 through mid-4). Then beginning about 4:8, he begins to merge the seemingly-mundane with the larger from-heaven epic meaning being simultaneously worked IN you BY the Holy Spirit. To win in the Angelic Trial.

• Put simply, this 'play' is the play of us learning the Word, by which one 'overcomes' Satan & Co. in the Trial; culminating with God winning and us being victors in the "Day of Evaluation" (Bema, review of heroes and losers), 1 John 4:17. So he begins in Chapter 3, with the seemingly-mundane activities; comparing good versus evil, Divine Good versus works. So by the end of Chapter 3, you are stunned: oh my goodness, if I am not learning this Word and living on it in my thinking 24/7, it's as if I were a murderer, a thief, a liar, and withholding my brother's worldly needs. Pretty dramatic, huh.
• In Chapter 4, he keeps on with the theme of if you're not growing in the Word then you don't love God nor your fellow man, by showing the mechanics like prayer, being in fellowship, testing what you hear. The repetition of loving the brethren is a constant refrain, to show that if you are in the spiritual mechanics (which harken back to Chapters 1 and 2), then you are growing in this Love. Which then sets up the dramatic summary, 1 John 4:12-17.

• A new crescendo is set up on verse 17, to flourish in high Greek drama of verse 19. So verses 17-19 review in panorama, the cycling of this growing Love Word in you, the fulfillment of verse 17, the Completion of the First Commandment. Hence the verse in Greek, "We love, because He first loved us!" In Greek, no direct object and two nominatives denoted Absoluteness. Note the clever use of "First". Because God first loved us, we can do the First Commandment, as a result of which, He becomes the First in our lives. Thus we love Him. Thus we love the brethren. Thus we fulfill all commandments (the Hebraic aphorism about loving God and your neighbor being the fulfillment of the Law, see the Gospel discussion Christ had with the teacher on it). Climax, victory. In between, is the zig-zag course of fear (representing all sin, not just that category, first in a list, Greek rhetorical device) and love. Which, brings the reader back to Chapter 1 and 2, with emphasis on the turnover in 1 John 1:9. So you see the wholeness of the dynamic, in verse 17 and 19; in verse 12-17, you got the four-dimensioned, dynamic structure.

  Whew. Now you see why Christianity is so messed up. No one bothers to really learn the Bible in the languages God actually wrote! So much for our vaunted "oh how I love Jesus", and all the people who think a translated Bible is just as good as the Real One Which God wrote. Oh well.

So I need to say a lot more about what these four dimensions are, especially since they are deliberately tied to what Paul says in Ephesians 3:18. Lesson 1707 of 92SD of my pastor links both passages together, but doesn't explicitly link the four dimensions in both passages. However, it was a Sunday class, and he wasn't feeling well. However, if you take what he says as the four dimensions in Ephesians 3:18, and then apply them to 1 John 4:12-17, you'll get a match. So when you add up what Paul is saying with what John is saying, you get Depth/foundation of your spiritual life (or of its failure), height of Seeing Him Who is Invisible, length of the Doctrine+Reciprocity mutual flanks (covered in the 1st and Second Aspects), width of God's Love and your reciprocating that Love Word in you so you too are completed in it. You are the building, so if you don't know the structural-integrity procedures followed to construct buildings, you will have a hard time understanding how you get built by God. Heh: the woman was built for Adam (banah, Hebrew in Genesis 2). We get built for Christ. You'll notice we get built in Word, never works. Never emotion. Love is THINKING which no one can see, just as no one can see God. Invisible. Real building -- "Edification Complex of the Soul", my pastor used to call it. So Paul explains how this building works in Ephesians 3:17; in L.1707, my pastor explained this as being FIRMLY rooted (hence incapable of being uprooted, when disaster hits) in Doctrine, and STRONGLY secure in your motivation (reciprocity, covered in Second Aspect) -- both of which, accomplished by the Holy Spirit, only and always.

John depicts the order of building in the reverse of Paul's listing, to make it goal-oriented and chronological, since you always start by building a foundation, and you always have an eye on height, when building the rest of the structure (so that the integrity of the structure is secure, its building goals are met). Paul talks about this building first in terms of the superstructure you see, because his point of departure is that you already have one. So John is reminding his audience of Ephesians 3:18 -- the four dimensions, which are impersonal substantives, each relate back to Ephesians 3:17's "Love", the burgeoning Spirit-deposited, Christ's Love-Thinking in you.

There's a double-entendre meaning to "depth". It's true that depth has both a negative and a positive connotation. That the depth is supposed to keep on increasing means your soul is getting bigger; hence depth and height are mentioned together, so the 'foundation' of you is getting bigger, too. So think of depth both in terms of getting back into fellowship via 1 John 1:9, and rising no higher than the foundation of salvation if you are not; but also, the positive idea of "depth", living in the Spirit and on Doctrine (since the deep moments of life are usually the very unpleasant ones, "deep" in the sense of really hitting you hard).

The next big thing to note is that verses 14-15 (which 'threw' me for 20+ years, even though I've heard my pastor teach this passage dozens of times) are probably a Greek idiom of repeating the first thing on a list, to incorporate by reference ALL of a previously-stated list. You'll see the same kind of structure, for example, in Hebrews 6:6's "repentance" (just after he'd listed basic doctrines, beginning with that one (another Bible keyword to denote the function in 1 John 1:9, which was always true, even in Old Testament -- μετανοέω); which they were supposed to have learned, but didn't). The see-and-testify, and the Who-is-Son are the first things John mentions in his letter. Which is John's point, in 1 John 4:14-15, i.e., Keep Looking At Him Who We See And Have Testified -- idea that, you yourself see Him and could testify. Also, idea that you yourself keep admitting He is that Son, because you see Him and want to abide in Him. Which of course you couldn't do, unless you were seeing Him and abiding in Him (staying online with the Spirit, 1 John 1:9 used and learning His Thinking).

So John is talking about all the letter, and hence all of Canon, by referencing those two firsts in vv14-15. Idea that you should be remembering all of it, and since you actually can, you must be abiding under the Spirit and in God, since it takes God's Power (John 14:26) to enable such comprehensive understanding and remembrance. So you have EVIDENCE that you are in Him, by means of this function; so you are being demonstrated AS Evidence in the Trial, by means of this function.

Dramatic or really important passages in Greek are written by dropping objects, prepositions, and leaving just a stark verbal noun or verb seemingly dangling -- to indicate Comprehensive And Absolute Function of that verb or verbal noun. So you track such verbs or verbal nouns in a passage to see how they interrelate. So when saying His Love is brought to completion in us, he's saying this is a culmination-of-history (so in all ways and at all points, with respect to all objects, brought to completion). Same kind of structure is in Ephesians 3:18's dimensions. That's why in Ephesians 3:18 you don't see breadth of any one "what" ("love", though, is the antecedent noun the impersonal substantives relate to) -- because Love is the foundation for all "breadths". John is picking up on that comprehensiveness and elaborating on it when he words 1 John 4:12-17. By this he also ties back to Ephesians 1, incorporating the entire chapter by reference. See how the deceptive simplicity of John's words are instead, the most sophisticated?

So you are to interpret verses 14-15 as hubs or foundations, baselines from which all other Word-learned seeing and testifying, abiding, spring. Which in practice, they do, since at the lowest moments of your life you'll find yourself USING those facts to motivate breathing your next breath, namely, "You're God, and that's all I know". "He's My Lord, and that's all I know." Absolute belief, in the trenches. So after verse 17, you see the results of that Witness, contrasted with the world's: no fear, loving God and His Word (aka "commandments"), hence really loving the brethren, overcoming the world (Our Doctrine, 1 John 5:4), you keep on believing, and your 'blood' is His Thinking -- big tipoff there of the nature of DDNA -- by agency of the Spirit, you are in agreement with Father's Testimony. So now you know you have eternal life, seeing the evidence of what once you believed, but didn't actually know. So you have confidence in prayer, staying power (1 John 5:18 should be translated with progressive tenses, in English -- verse is not about salvation, but post-salvation fellowship). So one knows He is Genuine and we are genuinely from Him and in Him (v.20 looks like a parallel to unveiled face verse in 1 Corinthians 13).

Divine DNA! Second Aspect

For a Text-to-Speech rendition of this webpage, see the audio player below:

Second Aspect: Because Doctrine is DDNA in your head, you don't need to overstudy. Life is the REST of your Bible-class 'day'.

If you've come to love learning the Word, then this section is for you. And you probably love the Word, if you have read the First Aspect. Therefore, you have a strong desire to reciprocate God. Therefore, you are dangerous to yourself, and to everyone else.

The Problem of Love

Christianity's sordid history is largely one of a desire to reciprocate, run amok. Satan & Co. fawn that. It's natural to taste the Grace of God and then want to 'do' something in return, for Him. We are that way with other people, so we are that way in our thinking of God, too. But God is not people, and what works to reciprocate Him, is to do nothing. Christ knew that. Christ did that -- nothing. To do nothing goes entirely against human nature. Because, we being finite, need constant to-and-fro. For finity depends on barriers.. and on movement. But God's Nature is the very opposite of all that.

True love needs no reciprocation nor wants any, 1 Corinthians 13. True Love Gives (ibid), and Never Wants To Stop Giving. As explained in the "Introduction to Love", and in the "Integrity Properties", God's Love is Absolute. [See also DueDisclosure.htm, the first blocks of purple text, so to see why Trinity is first a Corporation of Three Voluntarily-Uniting, Co-Equal, Same-Infinite-Nature Gods.] So True Love never seeks reciprocation, ibid.

Which creates the great dilemma: if as the Lord said, "it is better to give than to receive", and True Love is built in you, you will have a desire to GIVE which you cannot ever competently execute. Hence you will be tortured, to grow in the spiritual life; not because it is torturous, but because there is No Outlet. Your love for God grows, and your ability to enact that love, is increasingly understood as being inadequate. So the solution IS to do nothing. God will do the reciprocation FOR you. You just keep on being carried by the Spirit, and learning and living on the Word: which is what Christ did. So the Cross for Him, was the greatest relief of His Life. United His Thinking fully with Father, and paid for us. "Combat" table of LvS4d.htm goes into more detail on that. So we get HIS spiritual life, as noted in the First Aspect, so to learn how to get the oneness He prayed for in John 17 -- which means abiding in Him, theme of 1 John. Which means a whole lot of waiting occurs. Which builds up a yearning for a cross.. just as it did, in Him.

Humans were made to be united to God. Sin breached that purpose. Christ freed us at the Cross, such that the first nanosecond we believe in Him, we are able to learn how to be healed (theme of Romans 5-8). Meanwhile, the human desire to reciprocate God, will be incompetently executed; for proper reciprocation depends first on Knowing God (else how do you really know what He wants), which is why we got The Book; and on being CARRIED by God, because we know that Book. Naturally, we humans never get the picture straight, so we run off to one side of the boat, frenetic activity we consider as 'honoring the Lord', or.. the other side, burying our heads in the Book (or in emotion, means the same thing). So those electing the one side, will at length come to scorn those going to the other side. Neither side, learning anything; and their boats will be tossed to-and-fro by every wind of falsehood, Ephesians 4:14.

Hence, among humans, basically one of two ways of reciprocating God, is chosen: 1) to religify, or 2) to study.

To say "religify" means anything but really learning God and what He wants in His Book, even if thinking one knows that book. Key symptom will be an urge to criticise. "Pil-pul" in Judaism is essentially an urge to religify, where you endlessly fine-tune what you think 'obedience' is, to the law. It's Pharisaical. But anyone does the same thing: if you don't get that emotional high when thinking of God, are you bad? If you didn't light candles -- ALL of them -- are you bad? If you showed up at Mass five minutes late, are you damned to hell? All of these incredibly stupid questions demonstrate man's total inability to reciprocate God. So of course, we apply these unending, torturous standards to each other, and every little 'infraction' brings down our houses of cards: relationships shatter, people sue each other, even kill each other. All in the name of 'honor', of course! All the while, honoring no one but Satan & Co.

Hence 1) people don't love learning the Word, even if they fancy themselves learning it; instead, they love the world as their god (theme in 1 John and John 14-17, Philippians 3:18-19, 2 Timothy 2:26-3:7). Hence, they mistake the temptations of Matthew 4, as being 'spiritual'. You can prove this in five seconds: just turn on your TV to any 'Christian' station. Hence all the crusaderism, flashy Bible thumping, politicking amidst Christians today. All Revelation 17 harlotry, playing on your TV, any hour of the day.

All of us, when we are young in the spiritual life, make this mistake. For human love is rather robotic in its analysis, keeping a scorecard of do's: did I get/give a card for a birthday, did I get/give a phone call, did I get/give a nice enough gift, did I get/show enough respect, etc. ad nauseam. Those are manners, not true love. We don't know what true love is, so we follow signposts someone else (Satan & Co. or society) put up as the manifestations of love. But true love is in the thinking, not the behavior. So if Satan & Co. can keep us busy enough with the behaviors, and long enough, they can stunt our spiritual lives; we end up chasing our own sense of self-worth, trying to be 'worthy' (and often deeming ourselves 'worthy', since the obvious not-worthy answer is too painful). Which they love, to see!

It's a subtle and devastating descent into a torturous life of self-absorption. Say you really love someone. You will become anal about it. So you will constantly be having comparative thoughts, which spiral down further and further in to your own worthiness. So if you don't do what you think you should, either you will fantasize yourself as not loving enough, or fantasize the love-object, as not deserving -- anything to assuage the pain which comes from this needless, anal, comparative thinking which plagues every member of the human race. When laws multiply in a nation, the nation is wholly afflicted with this anal preoccupation, as in the United States today. So it has long since ceased to be even human love, but is obsession and hatred, fawned and thus fanned into self-burning, by the happy sponsors: Satan & Co.

Love fulfills the Law. That's a threaded theme in Old Testament and New Testament, to show how if no love, then no law can fulfill love's role, and instead will rot those involved in all that law-living, like maggots rotted the too-much-manna gathered by Israel in the wilderness. It never works vice versa: love fulfills law, but never law fulfills love. So the "law of Christ", IS love, another threaded theme in the NT. For if you have everything else but no love, then you have and are nothing, Paul wittily remarks in 1 Corinthians 13; for Love must be and can only be, Free, Isaiah 53-55. Here's why: True love can never be based on obligation, no matter how much the recipient deserves it. As you will see below, God went out of his way to ban all deservingnesses (and hence human works are always evil): true love in God is never ever based on deserving, because it is Absolute.

Because Love is ABSOLUTE, man can't 'do' it. God, however, can "pour" His Word into us, and we can be CARRIED by the Holy Spirit, IN that Absolute Love. And then we ARE 'doing' it, as 1 John and John 14-17, incessantly repeat. (Romans 5-8 is on how this process works at the big-picture level of your life, and Ephesians knits the whole macro history picture together, demonstrating how God's Purpose for Giving us His Love from eternity past, is completed.) The First Aspect covered that process, and this Second Aspect is on the many pitfalls in the human race's pursuit of this Absolute Love: particularly, the believer going through the DDNA process.

So, look: Adam went nutso in the Garden, and the first thing he did, was a 'work': "Operation Fig leaves", as my pastor likes to call it. Which did for God, nothing at all. Which did for Adam, nothing at all except to make him more nutso. So we Christians, who lost our brains altogether that first nanosecond we believed in Christ, go Absolutely Nutso when we have any taste of grace which 'registers' in our brainouts. We don't know what to do with it. We therefore devise the most sickening ways to reciprocate it, due to demonic aid: God provides, man wrecks, Satan & Co. 'help'. Especially, here. Thus we go shuffling off with the bellringers, imagining ourselves doing great things for God.

So we all start out in 1), not knowing better; even if we learn early that STUDY is the only way to grow spiritually, we will RELIGIFY that 'rule'. I've seen it happen in my own church, and of course in the early stages it happened to me as well. It's normal and natural, this trap. What's ABnormal, is to remain so disinterested in God you don't grow out of the trap. For you can't persist in religification unless you are uninterested in God. True interest will eventually free you from this false-love, fawning religification which passes for 'worship' in all religions, since time began. For Satan invented religion, in Genesis 3 (really, his own initial motive for rebellion against God was messianic and religious, Isaiah 14 & Ezekiel 28).

So here we are, helpless children caught in this superhuman battle between God who Absolutely Loves us, and Satan & Co. who 'absolutely' hate Him. Added to that problem is the fact that we remain childish in our concepts of love, since the only way we can grow UP, is to get enough DDNA built into us. Else, love is a torture chamber. Which is why, from time immemorial, we've fancied love as something you feel, we crave it and endlessly abuse ourselves and others in the name of it. That's the history of the human race, and of the "People of the Book", in particular. ["People of the Book" is a Koranic catchphrase, Satan & Co.'s wry tribute to the Bible. That's why there IS a Koran, to trap some of Abraham's sons who did not inherit the Land, into being jealous over those who also won't inherit the Land, since none of them are really learning the Book. Christians, Jews, and Arabs, in other words, with "the Land" being an eternal life with God, according to whatever 'covenant' period one was in. So: notice carefully how we've all warred with each other, from time immemorial. Because, Satan hates love, and is out to destroy anyone who is an object of God's love. Even, himself: he is so tortured, he baits the Lord to destroy him, in the Third Temptation...]

As we all know, a child has to grow up. What makes any child grow up, is a development of interest outside of himself. Question is, in what ways? If you develop an interest in science, and it persists, then you will give more and more of your time to it, not at all considering it a work. You will religify that pursuit, because you are so interested; but, after awhile, you will realize you've religified it -- again, because you are interested IN IT, more than you are interested in being 'good' at it. Notice that subtle change:

• you have an interest, you grow in it, and sooner or later there's this 'goodness' you become, due to that interest.
• Then that 'goodness' will 'compete' with the object itself: here, science (in the spiritual life, God).
• So what happens next?
• If you fall for the 'goodness' which you've become, you will lose interest in the object, since it is now serving your 'goodness'.
• If instead you increase your interest in the science, then you will forget about how 'good' you are: because, the object is not how good you are, but your love-interest (here science, but in the spiritual life, it's God).

And so it is, in the spiritual life with God. So God's goal is to progress you beyond the child's interest, to an all-consuming one, where it ceases to matter how good you are. For that is freedom: for if life were based on deservings, we'd all be torturing ourselves and others over those deservings. God is not the God of torture. Even when He tortured Christ for our sins and tells us about that fact, His Message is I Love you Absolutely, and absolutely not, 'you owe me.' For True Love, has no limits, and therefore no 'strings'. Which is, the very opposite of human love. Absolutely.

So you'd think that if you avoid 1), you avoid that horrible, torturous descent into fake-love; so you avidly pursue 2), baby! Yeah, and then it gets worse, not better! For 2) people who DO love the Word have a different Matthew 4 problem: their love can be pushed over the edge, precisely because they realize those Three Temptations are so evil. So they religify study and hence become 'bulimic' about it, not knowing they thus descend BACK into 1).

The complication here: This Is True Goodness, God's Thinking Building In You. Unlike the other ideas of love and goodness, God's Real Thinking IS that good. So your thinking becomes truly good, as you learn. But notice how the problem of your 'goodness' still and even more competes with "God" -- precisely because your thinking has become so good, and you know it is good. Which competition, you won't notice, since the realization that you've become good in thinking, taps your anal desire to Reciprocate God, which you still cannot do -- but will fancy, you can.

Satan knows this 2) problem well, since it was his own: he was the smartest of God's creatures, and from what I can tell from my pastor's many classes on Satanology and from Scripture, Satan was designed to be the #1 over all creation, second after only the Son. Satan didn't pass this #2) problem, and instead got very religious about it, finally concluding that God was using him. So, eons later, in Matthew 4, he tries to motivate the Lord's Humanity to tip His Love for Father and us, over into ἀδικία, "wrongdoing" (my pastor's translation of the term, in 1 John 1:9 and Colossians 3:25). And the way the tip-over works, is to get you to overeat the Word in terms of study. Precisely because you do love it.

But Doctrine is manna, which is why Deuteronomy 8 is quoted in Matthew 4:4 -- you live on it even more than food, but still.. you don't eat too much in a day. Remember what happened to those in the wilderness when they tried to eat too much? There's a right amount to eat, and a right amount to exercise. Overeating and under exercising is not good. That's the occupational hazard which accompanies a love of anything, but all the more, here: because true love for God is the opposite of human love. True Love for God has No Limits. It's just THERE, and nothing can stop it. Which is why you can't stop eating. Human love masked as love for God is like a choked or shallowly-planted seed in Luke 8 (and other Synoptic) parable. But the rooted seed, the believer loving the Word itself for itself, is still capable of drowning in it. That's not what the Water of the Word is for, 🤣. [Nerd note: scholars consider only Matthew, Mark, and Luke "Synoptic" (like-witness) gospels. What a crock. Each Gospel has a rhetorical underpinning for the immediate contemporary audience; which underpinning, accounts for what aspects of the story it includes, and what it leaves out. So ALL Gospels are like-witness, not just the first three. Man loves his arrogance, huh. Here, John does not record the parable of the sower and seed, since the seed is already sown, choked. John's job is to stress how to "abide", how oneness via Word is God's Begetting Plan. Hence his Gospel, his letters, and Revelation, all elaborate on and tell the outcome of that parable, rather than retell it. Vine and Branches, John 15. Hence Vine and unproductive branches that get burnt, too. Religification BURNS. After all, Satan invented it! So if he can't burn your love for God, then he'll drown you in it. Too much Word consumed renders all that consumption, unlearnt. Big problem, that: in my church, they limit how many lessons you can get a month, so you don't overeat...]

See, True Love for God comes from all that DDNA; and its character, being Divine, means its God's Own Attribute of Love being built in you. And this love, couldn't BE more alien to the human nature. The human nature is first finite, and second, sin-nature tainted. Finity can never 'carry' Infinity. Sin can't 'carry' love. Paul makes that impossibility clear, in Romans 8. Hence the need to be Filled by the Spirit, so you can be CARRIED, even as Christ Himself, Who Knew No Sin, was 'carried' by the Spirit all the way through the Cross (Romans 6, Isaiah 53:10-12, 2 Corinthians 5:21). Also, God's Love is the opposite of human love. Why? Because first, Infinity is exactly the opposite of finity: for Infinity, has no barriers, but finity depends on barriers. Second, because Perfection is exactly the opposite of sin. Perfection, is a wholeness, but sin is a complete fragmentation, a shattering like the proverbial Humpty Dumpty who had a great fall. No one can put you together again, because everyone else is just like you. That is, everyone except the Son of God who Added Humanity to Himself so His Thinking can transform your soul (Romans 12:2+Romans 5:5, Greek text in context).

For God's Love has no beginning, so is always 'on'. Since it has no beginning, nothing 'motivates' it, as my pastor likes to remind us (stridently, too). God's Love requires no object, therefore. God's Love is Absolute, meaning no limits, ever. Nothing dents it. Nothing sways it. Nothing knocks it down. Moreover, unlike human love, God's Love doesn't require any love object to be 'good' -- precisely because His Love is Absolute. As noted in the "Introduction to Love" link, any truth (i.e., the truth that something is bad), is ipse reason to love it. Paul waxes rhapsodic at the end of Romans 5, noting how God turned our sins into advantage for Himself, loving for grace to abound the more. No wonder he begins Romans 6 as he does: what, shall we keep sinning, so that grace may continue?

No human can think this way. Proof positive: we argue endlessly about one another's sins, filling up bars and coffee shops with our tales of woe and anger; we ascribe to the Bible, the same kind of farcical attitudes: when the Bible makes it clear that our sins were wiped off the map! at the Cross. That's why there was one! So, see: God looks at how marvellously He solved the sin problem, and luxuriates in its results (i.e., Hebrews 12:2 shows the attitude of Christ ON the Cross, and Isaiah 53:10-12 shows how it's part of a larger contract for the sake of Son); so Love is judicially free to do what it wants! But man keeps on setting up barriers. No one but goes to hell for rejecting the Love of God, Romans 5:8, John 3:36.

So for a human to get this Absolute Love in him, whoa: should drive the person, nutso! Above all, the reason you MUST be carried by the Holy Spirit in God's System, is that your own 'system', your own beingness, cannot handle this Love, which is Undivided from Truth, hence every 'dot' of DDNA you get, is FULL of this alien Love! Truth is alien to man, love is alien to man. We live by our urges, and the 'urge' which comes from DDNA, is opposite our natures in every way: see Romans 7-8, especially in the Greek.

So you will easily be tipped over the edge. And for the best of reasons: you want to do something to thank God, You Need An Outlet For Your Own Love! This, above all, was the greatest Temptation Christ faced, every second He breathed down here. Satan of course knew that. So was trying to get Christ to 'step out' of the Spirit, so to speak, in the very name of doing something on His Own to Make A Gift. A temptation to a good deed. Note that: a good deed, not a God-deed. The extra "o" in "good", means opposition!

So for those of us who are happily 'afflicted' with so much DDNA, we just can't get enough. And we know it's God's Will to learn His Son, so we naturally figure that the more Doctrine we eat, the better. So watch how easy the tip: then eat more and more and if you eat anything else (i.e., have other activities and interests besides eating Doctrine) then are you pleasing Father? Ohhhh, how subtle the tip-over. One simple pronoun, "you" -- got inserted, thus obfuscating God Himself. So now "good", opposes God. What YOU do. Wrong pronoun! So in comes guilt, in comes frustration, in comes denigration of anything else BUT eating Doctrine. At which point, YOUR DOING it is the god, and no longer, God Himself. Whoa: subtle and sudden descent into ἀδικία, baby.

Like the Lord told the Pharisees, "God made the Sabbath for man, not man for the Sabbath." Doctrine IS Sabbath, the promise, the 7th day, the REST, during which Israel was supposed to REST so she could STUDY the WORD all the day, not having to wait until evening only. Man doesn't live on Bread Alone, but on every word that proceeds from the Mouth of God (Matthew 4:4) -- but man doesn't gorge himself on the Word, either. Kinda like the Judaic obsession over when sundown begins, so that they spend countless Mishnaic sentences on what kind of blue versus white thread, the believer obsessing over eating Doctrine, religifies its study. At which point, God is no longer the god of his mind. And he won't even KNOW that happened! [Big and stupid megillah made over when sundown begins in Jewish law: when you can't distinguish between blue and white thread, then you light the Sabbath candles. You won't find that rule anywhere in Scripture. Idiots who want to pride themselves (or, more innocently, get it right just for the thrill of it), made up this rule. But notice how now what THEY DO is the god, no longer the God who MADE the Sabbath. So how much Word will they understand? None. This is the curse in Judaism today. Words mouthed, but never understood: see Deuteronomy 30:11ff. Christianity is no different.]

It is true that the goal of the spiritual life is for you to become full of Word CYCLING in your head, 24/7. Trick is, for VARIETY and BALANCE to also be your life. Thinking in two universes at the same time, basically -- toward God (Father), and toward your life. The second 'look' gets gradually more and more coalesced to the First One, so that you come to see everything in terms of Christ. But that means Practice of Word as well as study. Trouble is, for the 2) person, the study has become so wonderful, he's loathe to spend his time on anything else. And there IS no comparison, because compared to Word, everything else in life is boring. So then practice takes a sad holiday, and the believer's life, well.. gets imbalanced. Which is precisely what Satan & Co. most hope for, since it's only the 2) people, who are a threat to them.

The 2) people are a threat, because this Absolute Love which is DDNA, makes the 2) person, WEAKER. See, Satan & Co. consider love a weakness in God. Therefore, hatred is strength. To be defeated by some mere human who loves God, is thus the greatest insult to them. So they ridicule the Love of God everywhere: the phallic cults of Old Testament times (and even now) are really demonic ridicule of God's Love Plan. Satan is ascetic. That's a hatred base. I have accomplished so much. I am so good. Everyone should therefore grovel to me. The ascetic thinks that way also, but usually views himself as an object who should be doing the grovelling. God is not like this. God DOESN'T want grovelling. God wants you to be EQUAL to Him, so He can SHARE His Love Fully with you. So the 2) people, thus weakened by all that DDNA so they truly see they cannot reciprocate, can only impotently desire it. Which, the Holy Spirit then picks up and carries into competence, even as He picked up our non-meritorious faith in Christ and made it into permanent salvation, that first second we believed Christ paid for all our sins.

So as you grow in the Christian life, you will see more how Awesomely Infinite God is; so you will be tempted to despair of ever doing anything even remotely reciprocating for Him. You'll go through a cocky phase where you imagine doing great things for God; and after being spanked enough, will jettison that religiosity, in favor of being CARRIED by God. At which point, God gets reciprocation, because YOU want Him to get it. By the Holy Spirit's doing, more DDNA will be built into you, and THAT is what God wants as 'reciprocation'. Because, He just Flat Loves. So uses your own desire to make you better, so you won't feel bad about it anymore. You need the outlet, and He gives it to you: "We love, because He first loved us", 1 John 4:19.

In sum, the problem of Love, is love itself. God being Absolute and we being finite, there is this fundamental MISMATCH between His Nature, and ours. We are the ones with the problem. Now: should God then have made automatons, or perfectly-chirpy Stepford wives? How would that EVER please, True love? But then if He will be DEPOSITING His Love into us, well.. it's a torturous procedure, to grow up in that Love. Which torture, is kinda inherent, for love WANTS TO GIVE, but at the same time, wants NO reciprocation. The only 'reciprocation' True Love wants, is to be able to express ITSELF. So, knowing this, God Wants To Deposit His Truth In Us, since that will give us the strength (if He keeps running it, and NOT us) to have both this Love IN us, and yet not be tortured by it. For once we have enough of this Love in us, we will Love Being Carried By Him, and any 'cross' is a relief, never a torture. Just as it was, for Christ.

The LXX of Isaiah 53:11 brings out this meaning beautifully, by deft use of two cases with "autos" (He, Christ). One of the cases is dative, so "αὐτοί" -- dative is the case of source, conduit, relationship, beneficiary; and the other case is accusative, so "αὐτόν" -- accusative is the case of Hero, object, cause. What's so phenomenal about the entire passage in the LXX is the way prepositions are inserted, omitted, or piled up -- a frequent rhetorical device to show purpose or sweepingness of scope. Here, if you use a case which doesn't have the expected preposition, you are to know a SWEEPING PARALLEL is intended: especially, since the whole of Isaiah 53 is written in a kind of parallel of contrast between God's Absolute Love and our utter disdain. So for years, scholars have pooh-poohed the inclusion of Isaiah 53:11 in the LXX because the way "αὐτοί" and "αὐτόν" are there used, seem to imply blasphemous things about Christ -- which 'seeming' immediately disappears, if you consult something stronger than your first six weeks of Greek in seminary. For the use of a case is deliberately multilayered, especially in Greek drama (which this is), and in Scripture.

So what's the drama? Well, what happened to Christ, can happen to us: His Humanity was BUILT UP in the Light and Righteous Word, so He could be Made Sin and thus Purified in the sense of Vindicated into Full Fellowship at even a Divine Level -- even, in His Humanity. God is making Christ's Own Humanity of Infinite Quality for the Purpose of Love. Then, the same verse (Isaiah 53:11), due to those same cases, shows how each of us are to be made in Him, the same way. That is, to the extent we consent -- for the contract was, "if you will give". Which of course first means, Love Is Big Enough To Give.

Again -- and please forgive me for repeating this, it's a never-ending source of astonishment to me -- again, every verse in Bible 'looks' at this one.

• All the shema is based on it,
• all of the Jeremiah promise of His Head in our heads is based on it,
• all of what Adam looked forward to is based on it,
• and that's all the New Testament talks about, The Fulfillment Of This Contract.
• Moreover, in the "Church Fathers" and similar writings everyone respects so much, this one verse is very often quoted, used, analyzed.
• So all the criteria for including this verse, are met, according to the established rules of Biblical hermeneutics and textual criticism.
• Yet this is the one verse theologians and lexicographers universally exclude from translated Bibles, due to these two cases? Which a person with even a year of Greek in seminary, should know better than to exclude?!
• And the only old translations you ever find are never re-visited: Lightfoot's translation is allowed to stand, and he's venerated -- poor guy is probably screaming from heaven now: Redo that verse for me, will ya?!
[Nerd note: since my pastor teaches the original languages of Scripture, I didn't have to go to seminary. But I did go to a good seminary near me, to get the books: to see what pastors-in-training are to learn. That's how I found BibleWorks, Mounce, and Wallace, for example. So notice: you learn in the first year or maybe the 2nd year, that case endings have multiple meanings, so you should be chary of translating Bible only one way. Bible is deliberately multilayered in meaning, to communicate Omniscience Wrote This Book. So you never just accept 'one' layer of meaning in a word, a case, or a verse. You expect and ideally try to find, all the skyscrapers of meaning layers. Lesser literature is also deliberately designed to communicate in multi-layer format, and especially, Hebrew and Greek -- multi-meaninged, punning, irony permeates the heart of both languages, in the very warp and woof of every word. (Heck, even my Latin teacher taught us that about Latin in high school for three years, and stridently: so this is not a new idea solely with respect to Bible and its original languages.) But then, the seminary teachers warn you to always translate one way, in order to pass the tests (see the Appendixes of Mounce on prepositions). So now you know why suddenly all the former chary warning, is chucked -- if you can't pass the test with it, then don't remember the chary warning -- it won't help you pass! Clear sign that it's not God Who is motivating the translator/translating committee. Sorry: we care far more for respecting our peers than we do about the Word, and it shows!]

So the process of spiritual growth is traumatic, largely because We Are Truly Being Transformed. Now you know another reason why there is no soul in any womb: if there were, the fetus would be denied choice, since it would be trapped there. We have souls, from birth onward, so we can choose how much of this transformation, to get. Which means, eating Word in God's System. But which also means, "neither to the right nor the left": either of which, religify the learning. As my pastor puts it, there are "mutual flanks" of Doctrine (eating) and Reciprocity Motive. But as we saw above and will see more below, these two 'flanks' seldom keep pace with each other. For, we are always running to one side of the boat OR the other, rather than keeping 'neither to the right nor the left' of God's Plan. Not to worry: He has a cure!

Diagnosis and 'cure' for Lovesick Bulimics

Bulimia is a type of eating obsession: and as with everything else in life, there is a spiritual counterpart of which the secular, is a subset. Here, 'spiritual' bulimia: you 'eat' doctrine, when you learn and believe it; when you love what you eat, it becomes quite easy to overeat. This makes for all kinds of problems in the rest of your life, since the activities foregone mean an atrophy is occurring. Like exercise on only one part of your body, the structural integrity of your life disintegrates. Technically, bulimia means you vomit up the food after overeating (big orgy practice deliberately done in SPQR, during its heyday), so you can eat again. Well, don't do that with doctrine. Trouble is, you won't recognize that's what you're doing, until your life is in shambles.

Hence Spiritual bulimia possibly has its origin in true love for God. If so, DDNA produces this love IN you, and you can't control what is beyond your power. For here's the irony: spiritual growth is supposed to result in you having only interest in God, eclipsing all else: "zeal for Your House consumes me." Hebrew verb heheli in Isaiah 53:10 has the connotation of being caused to be sick with love (among other meanings). From there, God grows you further so that all your life is based ON this bulimia (idea of absolute motivation, Occupation with Christ). So that all your motives begin and end with Him. Anything else, is unimportant to you. So if you sleep, you sleep because of Him. If you work, you work because of Him. Not because of people, morality, your own attractions or distractions: just because of Him. So instead of harmful bulimia, your real 'sickness', is spiritual growth. You thus enter a dangerous stage, then, if you don't relearn all your motivations for daily life: relearn, to Associate Everything with Him.

The descent into bulimia might be slow, or sudden. In either case, you become more and more DISinterested in the stuff of this world, and more and more INTERESTED in the stuff of God. Romans 8 explains the problem and the process. At some point, your INTEREST reaches 'critical mass' (think of quantum mechanics in a black hole), and it TAKES OVER your other motives, such that if you don't find a doctrinal reason for a thing (usually phrased in terms of obedience or duty, since you WANT duty), well.. you're not interested. Those around you will deeply notice this change in interest, and some will feel.. um, jealous or unloved, by comparison. They will admire the change and will feel rejected, since you are preferring something other than, them. So your human relationships will have problems. You pay less attention to stuff in your life; and some of that lesser attention, is warranted; but some of that lesser attention, is a arrogance souring your life (i.e., because you shun certain things or people). So the real trick is to find a NEW reason for the daily life stuff -- one tied to doctrine. CREATE one, even. That's how you can turn the corner so this permanent addiction, becomes your unassailable integrity.

For as my pastor likes to remind us, Absolute Love, IS integrity. The very Integrity of God Himself. So the one growing in it, becomes weak with love, but VIA that weakness in God's System, is made absolutely strong (one of many layers of meaning in 2 Corinthians 12). Warning: once this love is entrenched in you, you will not survive if you don't stay in God's System from then on. Bible Doctrine is Power. Absolute Power. So must be run by the Absolute Holy Spirit. So The More You Grow In The Word, The Weaker You Become. So He can carry you ALL the time. Until you fall in love with Christ, you think on your own, apart from concerns about Him. But once Doctrine builds in you enough in God's System, you fall in love with Him (it's not emotional, but an absolute FOCUS). From that moment forward, you can't go on unless you stay in God's System. Period.

See, God's Love really IS the very opposite of human love. Human love is only motivated so long as the love object is "nice" to the subject. So the subject's 'love', is no love at all. Rather, it's just an ego trip. The subject loves how he FEELS, and becomes demanding of the object continuing to be 'nice' -- calling all that urge by another name, of course. Thus, becoming a USER. The one so used, learns gradually to run away from the subject, since the object comes to realize, hey, I'm just an object, not a real person: so-and-so doesn't love me, at all! Welcome to the stuff of many a tragic romance. Parents abuse their kids this way, and kids their parents; friends so abuse each other; whole nations abuse each other in this manner. It's in the DNA, this abuse.

It's not that people are never motivated by genuine desire and gratitude, but those motives are fleeting: for man is essentially fragmented in his soul as a result of Adam's sin, plus those of our own which we add. So any motive will be based on a kind of grasping neediness. Just as Adam grabbed the fruit from his wife because he needed to listen to her rather than God, so also all mankind ends up needing: so we have been grasping at each other, ever since. (Examine the text in Genesis 3 closely, see how post-sin Adam grasps at straws to blame his wife, the Lord, anyone but himself.. until he finally has no one else to blame, and only THEN admits he ate the fruit. That's the quintessential characteristic of all his progeny, however much we cover up our motives with fig leaves.) These needs drive us, and any virtue we end up having in a day, is sheer Divine provision.

Or, satanic provision. For man on his own is completely and utterly helpless, fragmented in his thinking, with no capacity whatsoever. If man becomes interested in something related to God, i.e., morality, he gains some coherence in his life. So Satan uses morality above all, to marshal and herd mankind where he wants them to go. Because Satan is all about, works. But morality isn't designed to be satisfied by works, but by Grace. So the one working, works himself into bitterness, Genesis 4, Romans 4, Num11:6. All this, is what 'love' in humanity ends up being: a torture chamber of unmet needs. Because the Need, is for God. Going, unmet.

Satan & Co. have this "DIOS" plan to make God foreign to us, and to make themselves, our gods. Their motives aren't strictly related to hating Him, but rather, to their own erstwhile need to love. Now totally morphed, this need is a lust to control, to put their own 'seed' in the believer. So what they will hit on more than anything else, is whatever competences you have. Man has no competences of his own; he must derive coherence from outside himself. Hence the two power systems, God's and Satan's. God's lower-level power system of morality, nationalism, family are all thus manipulated by Satan & Co. to divert the person into their power system: preferably, with the victims being none the wiser. So the push for competence is their cheerleading song. God's higher-level power system of learning His Son, by contrast, results in a far more competent person who is paradoxically weaker, due to that increased competence. So he is a bigger and more delicious target for Satan & Co. to attack. So again -- you cannot survive falling in love with God, except by staying in His System. Period.

So when true love for God hits you due to enough DDNA in you, then you are supremely vulnerable to all your essentially abusive, human-love motivations. They will bombard you, and Gramma Satan & Co. will 'help' to make these motives torture you, with the goal of either making you throw up the spiritual life, or .. just throw up. Continually. The only way out, therefore, is to stay in God's System. Holy Spirit will handle all the attacks. 1 Peter 5:7 not only works to enable listening under a pastor (the immediate context), but it works in all areas of life. "Casting" there, is the clever Greek verb "ἐπιρρίπτω" (pronounced "epi-RIP-tow"). It really means "throw on God like you would throw clothes on a pack animal", idea of throwing it on and forgetting about it (ties to Philippians 3:13-14): great word in the context of the earlier "put on humility" of verse 5. "Humility" doesn't mean lowering your eyes at half-mast (that's Uriah Heep arrogance), but instead a happy recognition that God is handling your lovesickness and your other concerns, failures, the failures of others, so you don't need to think about them anymore. After all, He did a pretty good job of handling Christ's concerns, on the Cross!

So bulimia is a very real danger; and Satan & Co. are out to exploit it using the exact same strategy and tactics, as employed on the Lord in Matthew 4. My pastor explained this problem at great length when exegeting that passage. (Part of his "PSD#10" classes, in 92SD, maybe near lesson 800 or so?) The Gist: Satan gave his best shot against Christ, so won't obviously be doing something less, now, on those who have come to love Him. It's a kind of cruel joke, really. See the weak believer; see how Doctrine doesn't help him. See how he can't handle being so lovesick. And I personally have seen people drop out of God's System, who had previously come into some of this Love for God. When they drop out, their souls become charnel houses as a result. It's like watching someone be trapped inside a crashed plane, burning alive, and you can't do anything about it! Better to never be born!

See, there are three sources of conflict due to getting the real Word in you: first, the inherent differential between God's Absoluteness and your own finity, which was of a maxed differential, in Christ. Second, Satan & Co. lose in the Trial if they can't stop enough Christians from growing up in Christ to Pleroma completion, so they will do all they can to drive a wedge between God and the believer, preferably using slighted Truth (truth is the most powerful weapon to achieve a goal). Third, your own sin nature is by nature, grabby, always in an endless quest to feel good (i.e., that's why the woman grabbed the fruit, and why Adam got it from her). So these three 'forces' are in conflict, Romans 8. So, you groan. Trick is, to not give UP during the groaning, but to Remember To Be Carried By The Holy Spirit, even as Christ was. For His Situation was by far the worst and hardest; so if it worked for HIM, then it will work for you. If you don't learn this 'weakness' of being carried, you will inevitably burn up inside.

And the worst charnel houses ever, the saddest folks to be alive, are those very demons who torment us. Look in the Gospels at their behavior, then look in life for the same things going on. See all the idiots with saffron on their heads and orange garb, in India -- oh yeah, it's holy to live as a beggar? See all the idiots on Christian TV. There's also some guy running around Brazil who calls himself "Henry Christ", and you just know he's being demonized, else how could he remain so deluded, for so long? So look how obsessive, are those demons who torment him? (Probably more than one, like the "Legion" story in the Gospels.) Obsession makes a smart person, stupid. So don't be surprised, that the most obsessed person, is Satan himself. Hence Satan & Co. can't stop attacking Christ (which is why we are even targets), because they had grown somewhat in this Love, eons before Adam. But when the inevitable challenge to self-separateness occurred, they didn't weather it. Some failed in the adolescent stage.

Satan failed somewhere in late adulthood: you can see his sad transition in passages like Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. You can see the very witty, bitter sarcasm of his compatriots, in wry phrasing within fake holy books like the Book of Mormon, Koran, the Eastern religions. They all use Bible in those fake holy books, in ways you'd not detect, if you didn't know Scripture in the original languages -- to mock it, themselves, those who believe in the fake holy books. Incredible obsession.

And here's why: Love is ultimate power, so the finite one loving, feels weak. That brings up the question of price: how much to lose self, in order to gain expression of Love for the Love Object (here, the Son of God). God the Father calls Himself "Father" because that's how He uses His Love. Son calls Himself "Son" because that's how He uses His Love. Spirit calls Himself "Spirit" because that's how He uses His Love. So in God, this weakness, is His Most-Loved Strength. Nothing can defeat it. But if you don't grow enough, as Satan & Co. did not, then it will defeat you. You'll never be the same again, if you don't hang on to God's System, once this Love hits you. And it will hit you, if you are really learning Bible in God's System (not flashcard knowledge, but talking-over-with-God understanding of what you've been learning, why and what it all means).

Hence Satan & Co. create their own cruel, joking bulimias, often using Scripture to create obsession; so it's not always true that Scriptural bulimia is due to actual Word growth. Obsessiveness leads quickly to mental illness, and it's super-delicious to them if they can maneuver you into imagining you are spiritual because you are obsessive, so that you never use 1 John 1:9 (again) and skyrocket in the real spiritual life. Note how it's more dangerous to be positive to God, than to be negative. To see how horribly they mock Christians they trap, just visit any Christian chat channel, and ask folks how long they've been doing chat, and how often. Watch those who trumpet verses and their message in the channel, totally unable to hear anything said to them. Totally insensitive to others. Thinking themselves holy nonetheless, because they are spouting some kind of message from God or of Scripture. It's frightening. And it almost killed me, too, until God woke me up. [From 1999-2002, I discovered the internet and chat, and it took a good two years to realize how obsessive it was. Absent Doctrine, I'd have never gotten out of it. Absent having a body with needs, I'd have never gotten a chance to step away from the computer and recognize what was going on. There are two kinds of traps operating: first, on the obsessive ones, and second on those reacting to the obsession, totally amazed and transfixed by its weirdness. Think of how everyone all over the world watched poor O.J. Simpson tool around in his Bronco, thinking of killing himself, and you see exactly how Satan & Co. 'herd' obsession on both sides!]

Hence, their favorite ploy: if you've been spending a lot of time in God's System and you are habitual in the use of 1 John 1:9, then the motivation from Doctrine has suddenly skyrocketed in you. Satan & Co. will add to it very compelling urges to do nothing but study, seeking to deflect and to religify that activity into mere obsessivness. Else, they use that to wreck your life, patterned (roughly) after the strategy in the 2nd Temptation of Matthew 4: to tip Christ's Love for the Word, shown by His Response in the 1st Temptation.. over the edge. To tip you over the edge. And if they don't succeed with you, they will still bill you out to others, as obsessive. Crazy, in other words. After all, one must be crazy to so strongly believe in God, right?

Here again, we see the vast difference between Infinite and finite 'love', with the latter, really being a form of hatred-lust. For in mankind, we are considered 'weak' if we believe in God, or depend on someone else. But strong, if we do not. That's hatred, sorry. Machismo and oh-how-independent-i-am are really childish ideas, the kid who never quite grew up. So of course, we children wanna be grownups, waaaahhh! So we consider ourselves grown up, if we depend on no one. Especially, not on God.

The general Bible Doctrine under which this problem is covered, is something my pastor labels "mutual flanks" of Doctrine and Reciprocity (Lesson #1706, 92SD). David apparently was given to write it, by the Holy Spirit. [In case you're interested, the live classes on this topic start about Lesson 1700, 92SD, but you can see the origin of the concept beginning in earnest during his exegesis of 1 John, back in 1981, when he discovered the "Love Complex" structure of God's plan (later termed the "Divine Dynasphere"). I can even see it from his Romans '77 exegesis tapes, beginning in Romans 5. But From 1981 forward, this "mutual flanks" doctrine has been steadily developed, and its lines and Scriptural proof are overwhelming. Why theology never 'got it' before, is utterly baffling to me: and they didn't get it before -- I've spent five years trying to find anything like this, to no avail. So if you are very interested in it, go sequentially, not topically, through the tapes beginning in 1981. That's about 20 years' study, 🤣. And it's all independently provable, I now realize.]

The terms need defining. (Better still, just get the tapes, since no one else even he knows of, teaches the concept.) Here's how I understand what my pastor says, which I've also seen in Scripture (all over the place, frankly). In military parlance, "mutual flanks" are kinda like an advancing black hole, in that the space between them 'protects' them from a two-front attack. So you have two lines of troops advancing along parallel lines, with the 'vacuum' between, being more protected. Doctrine and Reciprocity (Truth+Will Positive, aka Love) are the two advancing flanks in your thinking as you keep on keeping on in God's System. But here's the problem, if you (like me) suffer from spiritual bulimia, which my pastor warns about: the Doctrine and the Reciprocity flanks don't stay in balance, so you have something like a gap or a salient, which thus renders you vulnerable to multiple-front, blitzkrieg attack. This is even more true once the troops are wholly together on the high ground, assembled. It's always the weak spot the enemy can effectively hit. For me, that's the body life, since I don't care about it anymore. Wrong decision. God made the body. He wants it to have its nature. God took on a Body (Hebrews 10:5), so the body He made, with all its weaknesses, He Himself would actually have. So there becomes a gap between Doctrine and Motive (Love), when the love for the body, isn't attended.

Since most people have no love of Doctrine, that is their weak spot; so it's easy for the one positively learning Him, to account self healthy, by the contrast. Big mistake. The deeper sins of the life are those occurring later in maturation, not earlier (later sins are very subtle, playing on the RIGHT STUFF in your life). See Matthew 4, to see how Satan tempted Christ. So it's easy to get a salient or gap in your spiritual life due to being positive; and very hard to recover, once you see the problem. Keep on keeping on in God's System, not too much, nor too little study and motivation: they gotta develop IN TANDEM, my pastor warned. My church has been giving this warning for years. First time I went to Houston and ordered some tapes for local pickup, they warned me. It's a big problem, see. To which I didn't listen very well, during these last four years. With not-so-nice consequences, k? [Absent His Grace, I'd be dead meat right now.] You can bet I'm listening now: hence this webpage!

The two basic problems of parallel-lines advance, here: 1. If the Love flank isn't advancing in tandem, discouragement and rejection of 1 John 1:9 will be the result, my pastor stressed in L.1709. The second problem, as he puts it: 2. If the Doctrine flank isn't advancing in tandem, "Religious emotionalism and wrongdoing" result. Now these two extremes don't nicely advertise themselves; in fact, if they are out of balance there will be an ANTAGONISM between them, so the one 'ahead' will begin to 'despise' the other, with the result that the DISTANCE between them, grows. Ooooh, big mistake! Now that one of the two outruns the other, a gap BETWEEN them is created into which the enemy can justifiably go, thus making the problem WORSE. Examples like Fallais Gap, Waterloo, the strategic advance of the North in the War Between the States (aka "Civil War"). Think of two parallel lines, each 'running', but one gets bogged down. Even if the bogging down is by one 'day', the other line has kept on advancing, and that is enough advantage to wreck the mutual protection.

The whole point about parallel lines is that they can UNITE at any time to form a flanking pincer movement (think of Chinese chopsticks, scissors or tongs). The wider the distance between the two advancing columns, the more the advance must be for STRATEGIC reasons (narrow lines mean tactical). The advancing columns are GOING to a particular site to fight the enemy, but MEANWHILE, they can be attacked BY the enemy. For, you always choose to fight on terrain best suited to your own capabilities -- and, ideally, least suited to the enemy's. So the enemy's objective is to hit you when best suitable for him. Satan & Co. are our enemy, and GOD does the fighting, not us. But until we grow up enough in the spiritual life, we frequently mistake it for something 'we' are to do. So, we get creamed (see the story in Numbers when the spies came back to Kadesh).

So: you are to stay put and study, but BALANCE is critical. Too much study means you will religify it just like the guy who thinks he must give all his money away, etc. So as you grow in the Christian life, you are to FIRST become WIDER than you were before, as we just saw in the "Divine Nucleotides" table re 1 John 4:12-17: WIDTH is last and greatest, chronologically. Because it's WIDTH which makes for the stability of the structure. "Width" areas in your understanding are then most vulnerable, and they really need to be BALANCED. Obviously, one of the wider width areas, has to do with the body life, how you LIVE OUT the Doctrine you love so much. And that's the weak area: for the more Doctrine you know, the more you realize everything is so puny and puerile, you want to WITHDRAW, not advance. After all, during the spiritual childhood phase, you weren't supposed to TOUCH what was bad -- so, this lingering and now quite-unhelpful standard, motivates withdrawal, instead of advance. Or, hostility (looking down on the inferiority, Satan's hangup).

Hence the danger of one of the lines (doctrine or motivation) going too fast, versus the other. And since WIDTH is the issue in spiritual adulthood, the STRATEGIC value, can't be overstated. With a WIDE gap in between (post- spiritual adulthood), the opportunity to be caught unawares, or to be of uneven growth, is an occupational hazard. The strategic objective is to get both lines to the battlefield where they can MERGE, and under the "economy of force" and "concentration of force" doctrines, make for maximum power and coordination: God's blitzkrieg. So, before that point, these lines start to converge beginning at Spiritual Maturity (a coalescing level of "Occupation with Christ" which began back in spiritual adulthood, see First Reason for Invisibility in Part 3 of Lord vs. Satan), from what I can tell.

The convergence issue is multi-faceted, not quite so simple as two parallel lines which meet. You've got the SAME double-flank going on with respect to EVERY belief you have, EVERY facet of your life. For example, you might be bored with some doctrines taught. Well, that's a lag in motivation, so you can be and will be hit hard. Some pet areas of your secular life attract (or distract) you so much, you stop living on Doctrine well (i.e., problems between spouses or family members). So you will be hit hard. It's a SUM of many parallel double-columns, this "mutual flanks" question, not just the mutual flank problem of whether you go to Bible class every day (a common misconception among those who religify Bible study).

Assembly on the final battlefield begins at the Pleroma stage, which may last a long or short time -- battle isn't over until it's then FOUGHT, probably many times. Of course, at that point you've got to get the lines to coordinate in maneuvers, since the whole Pleroma 'field', is battle. In the Pleroma stage (and always true even prior), you only win if you realize God Is CARRYING You. For the objective is always learn, never 'do'. You only win by doing nothing of your own power. So, in your mind, you rest, knowing that the Holy Spirit is running the show. That process itself takes a lot of Doctrine to even recognize how it works! In the Pleroma stage, you've finally come to understand this.

In God, everything is ironic. In God's Plan, the more you grow, the LESS you are. Less interested in this body life, less able to handle it, less needy of human power, less of everything. Because you are turning into a SINGULARITY, a MERGED person -- merged with Christ, the Singularity of Singularities. So you come to realize you MUST be carried. You are actually becoming MORE helpless.. on purpose. God's Purpose. It's exactly the opposite of everything human. On Purpose.

Hence your volition, full as your soul is with all this Divine Writ, is the TARGET. God won't transform you at any time without your consent. Consent becomes harder and harder as you know more, because your human nature progressively cannot operate on the information. It's Spiritual Information, and the Romans 8 description of the oppositeness, is A Growing Reality in you. So only your will, not your body, can 'power' the decision. And that, only comes from the Holy Spirit Putting the Power in your volition. So it's a Catch-22, always: you have no power to vote yes, yet you do. And everything else, you can't use or use properly. So all you have, is that inky volition, swirling with all the temptations and confusion, blocking out all that gorgeous knowledge (when under pressure, under fire): do you still VOTE? That's the Trial test, and baby you're no baby anymore. But you've never felt so much more LIKE a baby, in your life.

As explained extensively in the Four Reasons of Part 3 in the Lord vs. Satan, your entire life is only about learning. You will eventually be able to SEE the results play in your life, but there is a long downtime (analogous to childhood and adolescence, and ideally lasting only as long). You don't really 'get it' about the Holy Spirit's Power until spiritual adulthood. And you get spanked a lot, because you don't 'get it' about How He Does The Work. You start to see the results -- and mistake them for something marvellous about you, so cockiness becomes a real problem. So you get lots of Discipline. Eventually the still-growing Doctrine and Reciprocity bring you to a kind of coalesced understanding where you actually can see how it's ONLY HIM Who's doing the work. At which point, a kind of crisis ensues, because your body just can't handle so much prosperity AMIDST helplessness. It isn't getting the credit, and it can't pretend it anymore, so.. well, depending on your personality, you'll have all kinds of problems.

Eventually, you learn how to CHOOSE TO BE carried. It's the hardest thing to CHOOSE. This is what Christ did His Entire Life. Being God, He could have done the whole thing Himself, but instead He chose to BE CARRIED. Because, then It Would Be Spirit's Choice What Got Made Out Of Christ. Not Christ's Choice. Now you know why He kept on saying stuff like "not My Will but Thy Will be done", and "My food is to do the will of Him Who sent Me." The "do" was to BE CARRIED. Even, through the Cross. Very different idea of what a true Work is, huh.

And this is the only way True Love can reconcile: you GET CARRIED by God. True Love is all about, giving; and never ever ever about 'working'. Paradoxically, you give the most, when you do NOTHING, allowing it all to be done TO you by the Love Object. Here, Father. Notice how Father Defers to Spirit's Choices, Because Father Loves the Holy Spirit. Of course, the Holy Spirit loves Father; being God Himself, the Spirit knows exactly what Father's Choices are -- but watch this -- The Spirit Loves to Carry out Father's Choices, when He Sovereignly acts on the Humanity of Christ! So Each of Them is Still Deferring to Each Other.

So it's not a work, then. For to be a "work", means the one doing the work, is doing it of himself. But that never happens -- not even, on the Cross. Especially, not on the Cross. Father did impute and judge sins ON Christ, but didn't make it easier on Christ. Christ Himself, RECEIVED them like the Lamb of God He was. Spirit, not Christ, empowered Christ to RECEIVE them without sinning. All He did, was keep on Wanting To Be Empowered: that's not a work! Spirit didn't pay for sins, either -- that's not a work! Father, Who imputed and judged the sins, obviously didn't pay for them, either. So not a work! So Each of Them can truly say to the Other(s), "I didn't do anything." Closest thing to an argument in the Godhead, this. What wit! Now it remains always true that the Greatest Work of All Time, was sheer Grace all around! Just as, being co-Equally God, They Chose to defer to Each Other, Each giving the Other One(s) the credit (which we know, given Their Self-Chosen Titles); so also ON the Cross, They Can Still Look at Each Other and Say, "You, Oh LORD, did this marvellous thing!" That's how True Love thinks, 1 Corinthians 13. That's Our God! Are we the most blessed persons in the universe, or what????

See how awesome is God's Love? For the second 'work' intrudes into the relationship, then torture begins. So God is out to demonstrate that even the most torturous event of all time, worse than all hell and the Lake of Fire combined, which was the Cross -- was not a torture, but a joy (Hebrews 12:2). A relief, really, for this so-great Love of Christ. Which was also not a work, but Built By The Holy Spirit. Who doesn't call that a work, since Christ Chose it. So we incredibly-rich humans in Him get to also say, "I didn't do anything." So we can't torture ourselves over not doing 'enough', and yet it's always enough, and never enough, and we can't get enough of it! Satan & Co. are thus utterly defeated, and we did nothing to defeat them! Nor would or did God. For Love, has no equal. It needs no defending, needs no attacking, never fails, never condemns, and is always Just: 1 Corinthians 13. So, the only reason anyone goes to hell (and later, Lake of Fire) is due to Rejection of this Love, which begins ON the Cross, hence John 3:16. So much for the one loving God, being weak! May we all be, as weak as the Savior who Loves us...

Hence the spiritual life begins separated from God, functionally; as a spiritual baby, your soul is still inchoate and fragmented, since that's how the human soul trashed-by-sin, really is structured. A bombed-out Dresden, a tsunami disaster area. So the early spiritual growth pattern is likewise fragmented, with your body life and your learning life, separate: the former occupies 99% of your thinking. At the opposite end of the spiritual life, once in the SM level of Occupation with Christ, He is 99% of your thinking (you still sin, etc., cuz it's your thinking, not your sin nature, which God is changing). The body life then becomes a different kind of danger: you'll want to reject it. Which you are supposed to do! But.. not by hating and withdrawing from it. But, by embracing it. For now your thinking is MERGED with His, so now your body can be MERGED with the Knowledge of Him you live on. Ideally, the body-merging aspect proceeds in balanced manner. In reality, particularly if bulimia is present, it isn't going anywhere, but rather, atrophying.

Principle: your body is always your weak link. It will either frustrate soul advance or it will lag behind soul advance. Either way, you can't afford to let it get left out of your Bible class. So you have to limit study (if bulimia is true) and treat the rest of the day as Bible class during which you practice what you live on with your body.

Corollary: your body is thus your trebuchet, and that's exactly how the Holy Spirit will use it. A "trebuchet" was a siege catapult used to throw boulders at a castle, with the objective of breaking through the castle walls, so the invading infantry could get in. It of itself, was useless, cumbersome, easily defective; and to move it meant almost certain death, if you were trying to do so when your enemy was after you. And its value, well: something else and someONE else, made it valuable. It obviously had to be loaded with huge boulders (etc.) over and over and over and over, aimed properly, etc. Thankless task. No where near as glamorous as storming the castle walls. Yet without it, few castles could BE stormed. So without the body life being integrated with the soul life, your spiritual life will be dragging.

Evidence Test Corollary: In Evidence testing, the body life is always a kind of boulder, no matter how nice or not-nice your circumstances (and you'll have plenty of both), because the Doctrine is so big, You Must Be CARRIED By God. That's true anyway, but it's absolutely critical to surviving the Evidence Test (aka Pleroma) phase. You flunk when you try to do a thing yourself. You pass if you REST in the Holy Spirit doing it for you. Your Thinking Doctrine is Determinative, never what you are doing; particularly, your Thinking about Wanting Him To Do It. [Pleroma is the field, Evidence Testing is the combat happening ON that field, and the location of the field, is your soul full of Cycling Bible Doctrine.] This point can't be stressed enough.

Notice how the tandem development of Doctrine In Your Head and Living On Doctrine With Your Head is ongoing. That's another set of parallel lines, which requires coordination between The Doctrine He is Feeding You, and the Motive You Have To Get And Live On It. Of course, within each of these four sets of parallel lines, are others (parallel lines are really infinite in number, nested and in need of integrative connection). There will be some doctrines you love less than others, so you'll have lag problems as a result; there will be some body uses of Doctrine you love more than others, so the unloved ones will lag. In short, this is a multi-phalanxed problem, not just two simple parallel lines of Doctrine and Motive. Those latter two are really the interconnected amalgams of many parallel lines which are specific: just as, DNA is constructed.

And, just as with viral RNA, there will be 'competitors' to come in and take advantage of your DDNA. See, the spiritual life is really powerful. You really do become much bigger in your soul, which results in a lot of new competences which can EASILY play secularly. So there will be many temptations to use those competences that way. Sometimes you are supposed to, and sometimes not. But at all times, you are supposed to only want to Use Them As God wants. Well, it's not easy to follow God's wants, if you've all these new, wonderful abilities -- especially if you've been feeling kinda icky and puny for so long. [Cultural note: "icky" is 1950's American childhood slang. You feel "icky" if you got ugly or smelly mud all over your skin, for example. Or, a bug touches your skin. Stuff like that.] Usually He wants you to go where you don't want to go, or to not go where you do want to go. So, for example, in bulimia that's ALL you want to do, is learn Bible and think it, not doing anything else at all. But that's when He wants you to stop so MUCH of that kind of Bible class. For, you're MERGED now, and you need to be MERGED elsewhere!

For most people, the problem is the opposite: they don't want to learn Him, but need to. So the viral RNA (temptation) will try to latch onto whatever competences a human has, to 'steal' love-for-God motives. Hence, all religion. Hence, all that good-deedism. At best, such evils are mutated love for God. Oh, how wonderful, such theft can be done in the very name of God! Yeah, in His Name, but He's not in it! How great a belly laugh Satan &Co. get when they can do a thing in God's Name which is not in God Himself! It's the high moment of their day. They love this more than any other game they prey upon the human race. Spiritual bulimia is just another satanic game, and like all satanic games, the believer is CONSENTING.

This is such a subtle and tough battle, because God created the addiction by putting all that Word in you! Ok, then: God can solve it, too. In fact, only God can solve it, So Learn To Be CARRIED. It's really dangerous, too. However, God can flip the results in a marvellous way, so there's never a need to be depressed as you see yourself so often fail. Because, the very Doctrine you overate, will be the source of your motivation to Get Out Of The Trap. The motive will be the recognition that all this study has kinda become its own idol, so it's stopped being the Real God. Which you come to realize, is not at ALL what you want happening: 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. You want HIM, not merely His Beauty or the beauty of the study. He's not His Beauty, merely. This recognition will break the viral RNA, and catapult you in the spiritual life.

The recognition will then be used by Satan & Co. to make you STOP eating. No, that's not what God is saying, either. You never go cold-turkey, but relearn the right proportions, staying in His System. (Now you know why movements like Promise Keepers and Alcoholic Anonymous, don't work: they only shift addictions, never balancing anything.) So it takes time to notch down the addiction to Bible, and regroup your thinking so that your Bible class day is Balanced.

Obviously, with bulimia you'll run far ahead in the areas of the bulimia, leaving exposed, the atrophying, neglected areas. The Love Itself Must Be Balanced. Scripture is full of the failures of great believers, to show the pitfalls of spiritual growth: for the irony is, the more you are growing in Christ, the more you will fail and the more vulnerable you will be. The failures become more subtle and more devastating, when they occur. David committed adultery and murder as a mature believer; was incited to number the people against God's orders as a mature believer; Moses hit the Rock at 2nd Meribah as a mature believer; Paul did the stupid Nazarite thingy in Acts 18ff, as one of the most mature believers of all time! All these, are evidences of bulimia in one particular area or another, being exploited by Satan & Co. For your pet loves and hates (usually warranted, too) will be the hardest-hit. See? If we aren't Carried by God, we are Dangerous To Mankind!

They teach you at West Point the military blunders in history, not to denigrate those who made them, but because anyone can and does make them. So too, here. In our spiritual warfare the tiniest lack-of-tandem gaps get attacked by Satan & Co., because they don't have enough firepower to defeat a united advance. So the closer you're getting to the convergence point of Spiritual Maturity, the more you are attacked. It becomes continual, after that (and much more subtle, too, so you easily screw up).

Rx: if bulimic, use the bulimic tendency toward what you least want, but as a way to Live On The Doctrine You've Learned. For there is no getting over Love-for-God, except to redirect it in the area(s) where you know you're not 'behaving' as He wants. Satan never got over his love for Christ, breaking into negativity probably just before completing what for him was the last spiritual stage. That conclusion seems right, going by his obsessive, alternatingly-admiring-yet-acerbic, games (covered in the Appendix link of the Lord vs. Satan on the Home page, rightmost teal box). We face the same problem, once growth has gone on enough. Bulimia tends to make the person throw up the spiritual life by throwing up life, period. Not good. Devastating results; I've seen them in others, and in myself. Not Good!

The greatest of victories is if you can use the very qualities of a weakness, to trebuchet (catapult) an even bigger strength, 2 Corinthians 12:9. God does this. I call this, "the flip", and it's like flipping a negative derivative into a positive one, fantastic power. For me, the "MERGING!" meaning is like a nuclear weapon. All this DDNA merging me (I'm doing nothing, God's doing everything). So no longer will the temptation to be discouraged over my puny humanness, matter. He's doing it all, and He's merging it into my body, even as He merged it into my soul. Can't survive, moi, without this MERGING meaning constantly on my forehead, like tefillin.

Finally, at last, it's worthwhile to engage in life's usual activities, knowing the larger reality is that He's making a MERGER out of every second of them! And if it's God's Doing, then it's God's Quality, and God's CHOICE What's Being Done. Therefore no morE need I worry about whether He's getting value out from me. No more need I worry that my desire to reciprocate His Love is powerless, with the result that whatever gets accomplished in this body, is always SO inferior compared to What I Wish He Could Get From Me. Because The Holy Spirit Is Not Powerless. Just as He made me a spiritual being that first second I believed in Christ, which belief alone accomplished nothing; so also He makes Infinitely Beautiful and Effective my love. Heh: God can just think a thing and it happens. So the believer in Him can just WANT the reciprocation to occur, and He makes it happen. By learning. Not by magic. Double-heh.

Of course, what complicates diagnosis, is that what's "bulimic" for person "A", may be "too little food" for person B, so you can't take a cookie-cutter number of hours spent in Bible study, and call it "ok" or "bulimic". Satan & Co. play games here, too, trying to get you to draw the wrong conclusion; so use 1 John 1:9 and write out on paper if you must, whether you're going overboard on anything. (Writing out on paper helps me, anyway.) HS will make it clear to you as you analyze. For what's right for you, might be wrong for me, and vice versa; we are each individuals, and for some of us there are times when it's ALL we should do, is study. Ask God if the study you are doing is too much or too little in quality or quantity (the former's level is critical, the latter faster indicates a problem). He'll answer!

There will be many symptoms, if you are overboard. Trouble is, those SAME symptoms are also symptomatic of the burgeoning LOVE, itself. Kinda like the difference between an exercised muscle which is properly fatigued and one which is over-exercised, one day you wake up and find you can't use either that muscle, or those around it, well. Then you know you overdid it. Trick is to detect the overdoing beforehand (yeah, and if I could do that with stocks, I'd be richer than Croesus right now). The Holy Spirit alone can detect it, and since you are a brainout the second you believe in Christ, you're not supposed to lean on your own understanding, anyway. So try to plot out the 'evidence' in your mind or on paper, pro- or con- so much study. There are some times when you SHOULD go overboard. Very hard to detect: but the Cross was one of them. Combat is one of them. Scrimping to save for something you really need to get is one of them. Notice how 'balance' sometimes requires imbalance? So it's a subtle thing, this question of overdoing Scripture study. It has to be measured against the other stuff you know God wants you to do.

No one but you can make this determination. However, if you are going overboard, there will be others in your periphery to warn you of that fact. False warners, and true ones (God always likes a higher, messier game -- so do Satan&Co). So listen to the warnings, if you are having trouble deciding if you are overboard, and sift them as you would intelligence data. Here's the trick I use: the uppermost truth, is the overlooked obvious, so the loud meaning will be the opposite of the truth. Sometimes you have to cycle that testing logic several times before you can simplify diagnosis, but it works. Satan & Co. know it too, so sometimes they play quiet. But God knows true from false: so keep on with 1 John 1:9.

Don't agonize over this. If the problem is really big, you'll only see a little bit at a time. You have doctrinal instincts. Follow them. The doctrinal ones you can prove. Not the conclusions from them which you can't prove. If you find yourself mulling over the issue more than five minutes, get up and do something you know you need to do, revisit the issue later. I sure wish I had done that!

When a person is finally permanently 'addicted' to being in God's System, Satan & Co. switch from the tactic of dissuading you from it, to gorging you with it. So they 'enhance' the desire, so you almost feel you are sinning if you're not studying all the time; that's how so many hermits got that way, in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. You can see the demonic 'enhancements' play en masse, when visiting Christian chat channels that have folks relentlessly spouting Scripture. So this 'enhancement' goes undetected; since if one keeps on eating, the body is satisfied: so you can't tell anything is wrong. So also undetected, the bulimia seeps into the life's attitudes, so there is this Subliminal Distaste For Anything Which Isn't Bible-Related. Count on it, those around you will notice the distaste, and they will feel hurt. Count on it, your body and your outside life will disintegrate quickly. But you won't notice it.

So what tames this not-from-God urge, is to recognize Isaiah 53:11 is automatically happening every second you're breathing. Life is always Bible class, and therefore not merely one format of Bible class. So treat the whole DAY as class, practicing what you're learning, seeing what the Holy Spirit is teaching you. Keyphrase with the LXX transformatives proves it: "βούλεται (...) δέξαι αὐτοί φῶς.", "He [Father] is pleased.. to show via Him [Son, Humanity of Christ], the Light." The "Light", of course, is the light of the Word in You, producing His Thinking.

Isaiah 53:11 in the Greek Old Testament is written with these hugely-expansive infinitives: five of them. Fourth Aspect will show the whole verse. For now, you need to know that when one uses only an infinitive, without objects, an all-comprehensive function is designated. It's an Attic Drama Greek rhetorical style. [Bible's Greek is really five types of Greek, and it used to be remembered that much of the Bible uses Attic Greek. Lately, scholarship is so bad, even renown scholars dismissively state that the New Testament is mostly koine. Wrongo. And even when koine is used, Greek drama and cultural concepts are constantly referenced. To show how the High Epic Drama of Salvation is available to the Common man ("koine" means "common", as in "common people", "communion").] So ALL of your life is about getting the Light of Him. Hence, ALL YOUR LIFE is Bible class, not just the time when you sit down and listen to your pastor teach, or when you sit down and cogitate (write out, in my case) what you learned to learn it more. Everything Is About Learning, down here. Not earning. Body is too corrupt for you to do anything with it God likes -- except, have it be a womb. Certainly Christ Himself didn't use His Own Body except as a womb. It's dead material, not able to understand Doctrine, is only affected in a rudimentary manner (corpuscles have no spiritual life, get it). But it IS important in its own sphere. So you do learn Bible from it -- only if, you are in God's System and breathing 1 John 1:9 as needed, and CYCLING what you've been learning to apply it to the rest of your day. It's only Bible class, your life, to train you to become something, post-death.

Paul likens the whole of life to a pregnancy, in Romans 8:11ff. Which is, what happened ON the Cross, Isaiah 53:11. So what's getting produced during the REST of your day, you cannot see. But God the Holy Spirit Is Doing It, so it has to be Bigger Than Birthing A Universe, every second (He won't waste His Time on something Father doesn't want to see). "Third Aspect" will say more on that topic. For now, just realize that it's only a question of What Bible Class Does God want for you to have THIS second. Your obligations in life are Bible class, and you know what times to take those Bible classes, by the nature and timing inherent to the obligations. In short, you aren't giving up, anything: just redirecting which 'classes' you're taking, every second of every day of your life!

For Isaiah 53:11 rescues what is otherwise an inferior way to spend your life; so that even its sterility bears more kids (Isaiah 54:1) than the study of Doctrine itself. Which is as it should be, since God is 'giving up', so to speak, the time you COULD be spending on sheer study, which the positive person knows is THE spiritual life (learning and living on Doctrine, period: no works, no ritual, no emotion, etc). Yet what Christ had to do was GIVE UP sheer study in favor of running around talking to people like you'd talk to kindergarteners. Notice how He only talks in parables; notice how His BODY got the sins imputed, and He Does Nothing But Hang There. The first, the running around, was used by the HS to strengthen Him to have the stamina for the second, the Cross: during which, nothing ran, EXCEPT His Thinking. That's the two-pronged effectiveness of spiritual life on body life, under the most extreme circumstances.

Well, your body is getting all kinds of hassle 'imputed' to it, too, in whatever structures God has given to your body life right now. Do not spend time on how you yourself screwed up and thus have the problems you do. Take Paul's advice, in Philippians 3:13-14, Keep Moving. God owns you, so owns your problems. It's not as though He didn't always know you'd mess up. Same, for anyone who messes on you. So handle it all, the way Christ did -- Live On the Doctrine during it. That's a Birthing of DDNA Going On. Seriously. Sheer study sets UP the DDNA, but until you Live On the Doctrine WITH the body (even if brushing your teeth), the Birth Process Doesn't Finish. Many births of thought-on-body-life are needed to make you big enough so that millions of believers who didn't choose the spiritual life, can be 'housed' in your kingdom, so the requisite aggregate sweet savor forever, will be occurring (synergy in aggregate of Divine Thinking in the polity). So if you are such a royal screw up, isn't God owed the ability to Make You Bigger To House all those other royal screwups who didn't want Him to fix them? Triple-heh. This is the Third Aspect of DDNA.

Remember all those verses about how God is pleased to take the foolishness of man, rather than his wisdom, and make Divine Glory out of it? Well, 99% of our day is foolish, no? So boring and mundane and frustrating. So, He makes those things act like wombs ("me amal", labor pains, in Isaiah 53:11's Hebrew), birthing Divine Thinking from them; just like at the Cross, Christ birthed our lives and our spiritual life for Church (theme of Ephesians, especially Chapter 1). So when I'm Filled and doing anything with my stupid body, it's Just As Much Bible class, Just As Much Doctrine learning. But, via the body. Because, the body needs it too. Yeah, it's far more gorgeous to learn Doctrine without paying any attention at all to the body, but we have bodies, and lives with needs. And the first of those needs, is the need for Doctrine In You To Be Circulating While Using Your Body. More important than food: Matthew 4:4!

More important than, but not alone. Not good that God should be alone, so there are Three, and They all Voluntarily unite in a corporate structure, hence Their Self-Chosen Titles of Father, Son, Spirit. And what Decree does Father make? If you will give Your Soul as a substitute for sin, Isaiah 53:10. They choose the LOW! So, the Lord says in Matthew 4:4, Man does not live on bread only, but on every (taught) Word which proceeds from the Mouth of God. So now "bread" due to the Bread of Heaven going into your head, has a more noble role it plays. For, your body HOUSES this Manna from Heaven. Sacrifices and offerings He did not desire, but a Body Father prepares for Son. Using, YOU. You are part of that Body, which is why YOU have a body. So this bread for the belly, now is rescued from an ignoble purpose, to a noble one. See how much Bible class learning CAN come from a body thing?

So, God saves the Best for Worst, even as the Cross -- once you've GOT Doctrinal DNA set up from previous learning, THEN the body's actually being MADE reproductive of the spiritual life by the Holy Spirit. Just as He did, to Christ's Humanity on the Cross. Hence, learning is so accelerated by the body junk you gotta do, you can't imagine. I wish I could explain that last sentence, but you wouldn't believe me: just try it yourself, and see for yourself. He shall see, be satisfied, says Isaiah 53:11's Hebrew. Oh, how True!

So the body life under the Spirit, is indeed a critical component of spiritual advance. It comes second, after the learning (i.e., in the other 23 hours of your day), and it needs much more time to get attuned to the Doctrine, than your soul needs. So you can practice what you learn, the rest of your day. That's how the life is meant to be: "neither to the right [too much study], nor to the left [too much body stuff]."

So if you also consider yourself to have a bulimia problem, just go bulimic a different way (heh) -- try using what you learn ON what you've got in your body life, treating it like Living Bible class. After all, life before Father is 24/7, so you don't have to really give up Thinking Bible; HS is your Mentor, and whoa, that John 14:26 is always ON, baby! For, that's a sweet savor to Father (even higher than thinking without any body interference): just as, it was on the Cross. Test this claim yourself repeatedly while in the Spirit, for no words can properly describe how true it is. The Cross truly was the BEST saved for LAST. Sounds weird, but again.. test the claim, yourself!

Webpages most related to this Second Aspect are Third and Fourth Reasons in Lord vs. Satan 3, Lord vs. Satan 4-d's Combat table, first four bullets in Fixes.htm, and the Seven Doctrine Diamond Facets of Lord vs. Satan 4-b. Point is, that living on the Doctrine is the reason why you GET it, in the first place. It's easy to forget the body, because as you grow you learn No No No No No ignore-the-body. But once the learning is IN you, it switches to Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes -- like it did, on the Cross. All along the road, you are supposed to keep balancing between Thinking and body-stuff, so that they connect and coordinate. Again, preserving the protection of mutual flanks at the weakest, most helpless link: your body life. Christ gave Himself as a Substitute for the Church to sanctify HER, says Ephesians 5. Her, the Body. Hint, hint!

Divine DNA! Third Aspect

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Third Aspect: Because this DDNA is the spiritual life, it produces a LIVING entity. YOU. Furnishing, potentially, the counter-thinking needed to synergize your kingdom, if you complete the course through Pleroma.

Philippians is the quintessential book on DDNA results. At some point I'll have to fold here in DDNA3, an outline of the Philippians "μεγαλύνω" (propagating) theme (term is used in Philippians 1:20, very witty). But I only just learned of it by mistake (yeah, right) when hearing my pastor discuss its exegesis (if you are under him, see L.1838ff of 92SD, maybe start back in 1828 to get context). Hit me like the proverbial ton of bricks. When I've had a chance to fold in the outline here, I'll post the change in Latestchgs.htm as an upgrade. It will take some months, to do this.

Upshot: DDNA operates in your head pretty much as follows: Bible is an actual thinking pattern, an inner lifestyle, lively, dynamic, enjoyable, and very fulfilling. So you are literally being CLONED in His Thinking! You're in the habit of using 1 John 1:9, so when you think, you think in Biblical analogies, you connect data in Biblical ways, you enjoy stuff in life via Biblical meanings you see. Basically the BIBLE ITSELF constantly cycles in your head, as your eyeglasses. It's His Thinking, and you SEE HIM through it, so it's total communion. Marital. It takes some time to get to this place, but you can just practice USING what Bible you know (be sure to keep monitoring thought so you can use 1 John 1:9).. ALL DAY. That was the 'rule' Moses taught the people repeatedly in Deuteronomy, and it hasn't changed. What did change, was How Much And How High And How Deep And How Long And Broad is the amount of thinking, which goes on in your head. Even, while dreaming. Yes, I speak from experience. Sinning still goes on also, and temptations morph as your body keeps trying to regain its Energizer Bunny (sin nature) goals over your soul. But that's why you have 1 John 1:9 and Scripture to think, instead. It's a wonderful life. Really. So wonderful, that as you saw in the Second Aspect, you can easily forget the rest of your life. Bad move. Hence God grants -- thank GOD! -- lots of testing in stuff you need to attend to, so that you can get into or get further into, the MERGE (aka "oneness") goal of the life: Just Being With Him In Him In Everything. He's "τὰ πάντα" (big Bible keyphrase), and you want to be in Him in everything. Again, it's a marvellous life.

So, your DDNA culminates in a stage called "Pleroma", which is extensively described throughout the Lord vs. Satan (about 1700+ pages, as of 2005). I don't know who else teaches the final spiritual-development stage of Pleroma, except my pastor. The doctrine is all over the Bible, since the very definition of Pleroma is Christ Himself, especially in Isaiah 53:11. [Nerd note: the term in Hebrew is me amal, pregnancy labor; Greek is πόνος. Lexicographers tend to be ascetic, so they excise sexual meanings. That's a serious flaw. You can prove the sexual meaning of pregnancy if you read the verses in which these words appear; also, the more detailed lexicons will admit the meaning, usually buried far down in the text.] You'll find Pleroma mocked in the fake holy books, since obviously Satan & Co. know all about it, and mocked in life. Phallic cults of the Old Testament (and now) are essentially a mocking of God's filling-us-up-with-His-Son plan, which was a progressive plan beginning with Genesis 4:1 (Eve makes a play on words by naming "Cain" to show she understood it, very clever). We get the highest version (covenant, dispensation, use the term you find comfortable), because we are to be the Bride of Christ (as extensively explained in Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan). Once the Bride is completed, then the spiritual life is lower for other folks. Parts III and IV (about 1000 pages, by now) explain why our spiritual life is unique. Rank has its privileges, and its responsibilities. For us, these are mammoth. Scary, wonderful, awesome in every way.

So most of my websites focus on the topic of what Pleroma is, thinking out the ramifications. Obviously in Bible class, the pastor's job is to give you the building blocks and technical stuff. Moreover, he never gets enough time to teach you all he knows and even wants to teach, since he has to aim at the entire class, most of whom are disinterested. So you have a lot of homework to do, if you really want to learn what your pastor, teaches. Of course, you can't go bother him (unless you are really calloused and self-centered), since he's got a larger job to do; so, you have to do your own thinking, since you are in training to become a King-Priest.. and you don't fully vest forever, unless you complete the course. So What and Why, this Pleroma structure? Well, this DDNA angle provides the shortest metaphorical answer (versus what I've written, elsewhere) so I'll try to summarize it here.

God solves the sin problem by setting up two perpetual counter-thinking entities: heaven, and hell. Both are needed, due to freedom. If a soul is terminable, then it never was truly free to start with, so no soul ever dies. If a soul is forced to think a certain way ever, then it was never truly free to start with. God has standards, and those standards are to be reflected everywhere He 'looks' (Divine 'isotropic' property of GOD'S universe). Hence, there will always be sin, since there will always be those who reject God. They get what they want, which is hell. Those who want God, get what they want, too. So both heaven and hell are ongoing entities composed of living beings, who go on forever. Trick was, to develop Christ enough so that His Own Thinking could become a Big Enough Living Entity, such that all that sinning in hell, COULD go on forever. Trick was, to also develop Christ such that His Own Thinking could REPLICATE ENOUGH among those living with Him forever; such that, all that thinking around Him, COULD go on forever. It's a two-pronged present-value calculation. Put simply, the expense is always way more than offset by the profit. So much so, the expense itself is a profit.

As we saw in the First Aspect, the central problem is the Contagion Of Thinking, since the quality of thinking, determines the quality of relationships, and hence the quality of life. Compatibility between thinking beings is a real problem, if they don't think alike. So, the Plan of God is to make believers who Think Like His Son. Even so, there are many who will not: those in hell go on shaking their fists and hating God forever. So too, people who don't believe in God now (even if believers) -- that's their idea of happiness now, and it will eventually permanize (for those who never believe in Christ before death) -- so that will be their SELF-MADE PERMANENT 'happiness', then. God isn't coercing them: it's what they WANT (see the thinking pattern in Luke 16:20, for example).

We've all experienced the 'thrill' of hatred. Most normal people can't sustain such a thrill, but negativity to God increases the capacity for hatred, even as positive volition to God results in God Making Positive Capacity of Love (as explained in the First Aspect). We see the hatred capacity everywhere, and are bombarded with it. So it shouldn't be too hard to imagine that such hatred would exist forever in hell also. Deepest hatred, smiles. Contempt. Hatred always puts down in order to put self up. So it prides itself on putting up with others, and learns to love how good it is. Meanwhile, everyone else is just cannon fodder. For ego. The smarter the hatred, the more engagingly (charmingly) it 'plays'. True hatred, like true evil, is white, not black.

Notice how Revelation 20:11-15 never gets to record that even one person appearing before the Great White Throne, admits he's guilty for rejecting Christ. All throughout the Bible, you'll find exceptions highlighted. Like, the roster in Genesis 5. Like, the fact God changed the primogeniture basis for Moses via his parents' mothers, to justify preserving Israel. [Nerd Note: In "About Bible Mistranslations", much is said about Jochebed, as an example of how Satan & Co. mess with Bible translation. Here, that fact shows you how total and permanent is the very petty, hatred.]

So since we know God makes a point of listing exceptions, think: if even one person at the Great White Throne, where obviously they see CHRIST, so there's no room for doubt -- not even one person there, believes even then? Wouldn't God joyously list that some believe, if even angels rejoice, Luke 15? Well, clearly: those at the Great White Throne Judgement, only love hating Him. No other logical conclusion. It's not as though they lose free will, see Luke 16:20ff.

Just as DDNA 'links up' over time in one person, the DDNA in many persons, 'links' inter-personally. We can easily see how inter-personal linkages work now: and they are hugely powerful. Everyone wants to belong, have fellowship, be alike, fit in. So too, then (in eternity). We are all affected by the thoughts of those around us, by the media we hear; in turn, we too affect others. So to develop an aggregate group (here, heaven) is like capitalizing a country or a business: so that the requisite thought-flow will make it so satisfying, it doesn't matter what variances there are within the group -- nor, what variances there are outside the group (in hell, and later, the Lake of Fire, that universe to be spun off at the end of time, 2nd half of 2 Peter ).

So, this Third Aspect handles the construction of aggregates which go on forever. We are now in the 'pregnancy' stage of that process, Romans 8:11ff. For, since each one of us is to get DDNA, it stands to reason God has designed an interlocking, AGGREGATE DDNA when He fits us all together. Paul describes this as a Body in 1 Corinthians; a temple, in Ephesians. 1 John uses the same analogy, but more subtly. Revelation is far more blunt, calling us IN AGGREGATE, "Bride". But note that our aggregate title Now is "Church" -- school, really. Ἐκκλησία, the place where you assemble to get Bible teaching. Learn GOD, fellowship with GOD, not people. As a result, some of us will learn Him more than others, since we all vary in our desires to know God. Those who learn the most, finish the DDNA development course of "Pleroma" in God's System. As a result, the hierarchy of DDNA Thinking can knit together all those Lower in Thinking. All of us, knitted together IN Him. So DDNA in aggregate, is being worked out by God just as DDNA in each of us, He's making. Uncoerced. Free. With the free consequences, attending.

High status is a burden. It cannot be enjoyable unless you love to be a slave. Human beings can't by nature enjoy much, so when they get too low or too high by even a little bit, they go bonkers, lording it over those below them, or bitterly resenting those above them; so those higher who might be enjoying themselves, are pilloried or otherwise are made to feel guilty.. by the resenters; so those lower who have no grudge against those higher, are pressured to become resentful. God isn't like that. The results of His Thinking aren't like that. Christ proved it: read the Gospels, see for yourself. In Mark, He's quite abrupt; that didn't go over well with anyone. So: you don't see Him being coy about His Status, yet you also don't see Him Who Is The Lord, lord it over people. Because, that's not what the status means to HIM. Nor will status mean to US, what it means now. Because, God's Ways are not like our ways, nor His Thoughts our thoughts. So chuck all your notions about the vaunted status of Pleroma. No one who actually attains that status, preens.

So: you are constantly thinking. Father constantly hears you, since eternity past and future (God is one big Now-ness). What does He hear? Well, we don't like most of what we hear in other folks' souls, so.. we can better understand He's not too attracted to the thinking He always hears. Sin is first and always rooted in thinking; but there's much more that's unattractively thought, besides sin. Like, our puny interests. Like, our self-righteousnesses (which are sin, but also evil). Like, our petty concerns and reactions and needs to use the restroom. Think: would you want the world to see you going to the bathroom? No. But God, does see: no way to avoid it. So thinking is obviously very important. Which we know is true, since Mastery-of-Thinking is what paid for sins on the Cross (Isaiah 53:10-12 again, "da'ath" in Heb, and "σύνεσις" in Greek).

Next, DNA is replicative. Thought is DNA, because it is immaterial, and it replicates in you simply by you reading. So if you have a lot of Doctrinal DNA in you, it will replicate in those around you, whether or not they are positive. No way to avoid it: now you know why we need a four-generation curse. You will be replicating what they think, and they what you think. So at all points, we all mutate what we hear, since we each have our own souls; and we 'own' the thought replicated, once in our own heads. So in eternity, this means everyone will be very much more 'contagious' than today. So a whole lot of happy thinking about HIM, will be going on. But, in every combination, every 'color' and 'hue', so to speak. Unequally. Needing some who think higher, which replicates in the many lower. After all, that's how all of us got to learn Christ's Own Thinking (Bible), in the first place. So, this same system replicates hierarchically throughout the whole of the Body of Christ. Paul is very.. um, marital about it, in Ephesians 4:16's Greek. (See RightPT.htm's semi-exegesis -- or better still, get a word-by-word exegesis from your own pastor.)

So, then: believer folks who don't opt for the spiritual life or peel off it (think of the seed parable in Luke 8, Mark (who explains it), and John) -- what will their thinking be like in eternity? Limited, since you can only take your doctrine with you, and doctrine determines the size of your soul, since that's how the Holy Spirit grew Christ (see Combat table in LvS4d.htm for details). So: do you want to be limited like that? If you're reading this webpage, you probably do not want to end up like that.

Enter yet another vital role for using DDNA on your body life. They (the ones who rejected the spiritual life while down here) will be your body, if you vest as a king-priest. Your portion of the kingdom, since you will be a "great one" (term in Isaiah 53:12, my pastor's translation). So your thinking needs training with respect to the body, since you will have a body of people who think much more like a body, than you will. They need intermediaries to see Christ better; they need physical stuff you won't need, to understand spiritual stuff. Because, THAT'S THEIR VOTE, down here (i.e., one rejects growing in Doctrine because one wants stuff of this world.. often very normal stuff). So, YOU have to get the physical stuff, oodles of wealth, BECAUSE you don't need it, but they do. So, that's what they will get THROUGH you -- lots of physical stuff, kinda like how the Mosaic Law was learned via all that physical stuff people did. LordvSatan3.htm spent a lot of time explaining that, in "Corollary 3B".

My pastor's explanation is rather more succinct and scary: you get γυμνός (nakedness) if you don't stay the course. Well, a naked person needs goodies, big-time. A rich person already has more than he needs. So the rich benefit the poor, never the other way around (even in this world, an evil rich person can't but benefit the poor, no matter how he spends his moolah). And in eternity, the poor, are those Poor In Doctrine (obviously, they will have a nice body life -- no more sorrow, no more tears, etc).

So they need Your Thinking, so that the aggregate thinking production Father hears, is good enough: each Thought of Christ's is perfect, but there needs to be an aggregation, to counter all the lesser thinking which will still exist. Hell will exist forever, too. So two counter-thinking systems will exist, and it's the NET PRODUCTION (which is incalculably high) which pleases Father. Enough to justify making us in the first place. You can calculate that production, too, even though there will be an ongoing progression, if you know (as He does), the end-date: when eternity begins. It's like a funding calculation in actuarial science, what capital must exist at the time lifetime benefits are due to begin. Here, there is no death, so it's a simple rate of return on capital needed at the time eternity begins. Then, going backwards, you can get to What The Present Value At The Cross Had To Be, to justify all creation. I oversimplify, but you get the point.

See, to get to the Cross, He had to be bigger than even it would be, by the moment He GOT there. Else, He'd not have successfully completed it. So that's the present value of creation (opportunity cost, paid for, technically) so that no matter what people choose, God The Father isn't being shorted the requisite Beautimous Thinking. So the play out of His Thinking in us, which we are to be learning down here (that's the sole meaning of life down here, a sine qua non) -- are like 'dividends'. Each dividend is its own present value, thus churning out other 'dividends' if you keep on keeping on in God's System.

Hence, after awhile, you grow OUT of needing physical stuff. It's gradual, and you won't notice the change, just as Part 3's First Reason for Invisibility, explained. But the burgeoning Doctrinal Capital in you, is (as it were) really being saved up for post-death needs. The task Now, is to get you so YOU operate in a manner compatible with God's 'need' (justice issue, not a lack in Him) to see Thinking He likes. The others you will inherit (Isaiah 53:12, treat it as already true, so you don't lose sight of the goal), these others won't have that thinking. They don't grow past needing physical stuff. They won't grow past it, because they want that need to remain. God doesn't have any needs, and especially, not that one. So if you are becoming more like Him, you too will gradually not need. But they still WILL need. So YOU will get, to distribute among them ACCORDING TO their needs, since the parallel contract provision of Isaiah 53:12, applies all the way down the line (His Life pattern is ours, forever, which is why we can learn Him so much). Those γυμνοί you inherit will need you most of all, as a Conduit Of Thinking they themselves can't do, so to grow in what thinking they DO have (which will always be way less than your own, even as we are always way less than Our Lord).

So grow Now, or quit Now. Each moment is a Now, so you can change your mind back and forth (not good, but inevitable, it's the normal zig-zag growth process). And know now, or don't know now. That's always the issue, each moment. No other. For Isaiah 53:10-12 is a Contract (4th Aspect's table), and it will never change. So YOU change. Those who reject the spiritual life are being readied for the contract too, even though they reject, and their wills are not tampered with. Which is why, they end up naked. Which is why, they will forever need royal parenting. Your choice, whether you want to go their way, or God's Way for Your Life. Which is, learning The Way, The Truth, The Life: Him.

So this body life is training for a body you will have of people who need you to think on a higher plane than they will be able to do. That's true now, as well: our thinking now justifies the world getting a tomorrow. We puny, stupid brainouts -- imagine! But that's what He BOUGHT, and the Holy Spirit makes it happen each second, never our power. So God is blessing the world for what GOD does, via us. We just breathe (and use 1 John 1:9, baby)! So counter-thinking going on in us, i.e., learning Bible, Living On Bible, however mundane the surface activity seems to be.. Is Really Important. See "Seven Diamond Doctrine Facets" in LvS4b.htm, for more detail (it's kinda long).

My websites don't need adjusting for this DDNA fact, since they all say it, already. I was just slow on the uptake to recognize what the heck the writing, meant. The meaning finally clicked when I revised Evolshort.htm's "Grand Theory" section, with respect to how God plays TIME: then, I finally understood how it was that Christ could pay for all sins in only three hours (hell's sinning never ends, so it seemed impossible to ever 'finish' the payment).

Upshot: God is right now creating Two Continual Hupostatic Counter Systems Which Link And Synergize, So That His Desired Level Of 'Hearing' Is Always Complete. Each moment, then and now. Gift from the Son, Romans 5:5. And that production cannot occur in the believer no matter how much he knows Bible Doctrine, even in God's System -- without the concomitant skill of counter-thinking with respect to the body. Just as, Christ couldn't have completed the Cross, without that skill being perfectly completed, PRIOR. [Nerd note: yes, the "Lake of Fire" designates an entire separate universe, so is completely physically apart from the one we believers will be in. But God Hears It -- really has always heard it, since eternity past -- One Big Now. So it has to 'link' like the Cross 'linked' our sins in His Body. So a body of thinking going on in heaven -- which He has also always heard since eternity past, one big now -- 'counter-matches' every thought in hell, and The Aggregate Value Of That Thinking Is Sooo Pleasing, Even The Lake Of Fire Can Please the One Who Wants No One to Perish (2 Peter 3:9). You don't mind losing a child to the ravages of war or disease if so many others are blessed as a result. Has to be a whole LOT of blessing to compensate for the loss, right? In fact, nothing ever compensates for the loss, but you see the GAIN, and you can go on living, knowing that Your Loved One Didn't Suffer In Vain. So How Much More Blessing Must Be True, if Father Was Willing to DECREE hell? For surely hell itself doesn't compensate Him. We'd have no Christ to rely on, if it did!]

As stressed repeatedly in James and 1 John, learning Bible alone won't cut it, even in God's System: for God's System is two-sided, a hupostasis. Hence living on Doctrine in God's System WITH THE BODY has to be practiced over and over again, like you would with a weapon or language drill. For, we are in a war, and combat skill makes all the difference. And in the eternal peace, such counterthinking is even more important. Vital, in fact. Sure, we will all be a bazillion times bigger and better than now, but God is INFINITE. So, concentration-of-wealth keeps a polity healthy. How much more, when that wealth is the "true riches" of His Thinking! That's why Ephesians 3:15-19 is written as it is. Go for the gold, the Pleroma?

Divine DNA! Fourth Aspect

Fourth Aspect: You get DDNA because Christ did. So you get His DDNA, because that was His Contract. So Isaiah 53:10-12 play ON and IN every second of your life. Hence the DDNA Spirit makes FOR FATHER, results in a gorgeous entity: YOU. So here's your 'side' of the contract: you contribute the problems, and He makes them into Gorgeous Solutions. Divinely!

Calvinists get all hot and bothered about the free will question, maintaining that it's somehow wrong if God has free will and anyone else does, too. As if Sovereignty could ever be threatened or compromised by anyone else having free will, what a blasphemous thought. Of course, it's equally blasphemous to maintain that if we believe in God, learn God, or vote for God (i.e., believe in Christ to be saved), that 'we' contributed aught but a problem: which only GOD, can solve. I can will to be a turtle, and that accomplishes nothing. I am exercising free will, but it has no power.

Enter the Role of Salvation. Total Depravity is the problem: it's not a loss of free will, for crying out loud, but a corrupted DATABASE. Look at Genesis 3: on the same day that Adam sinned, he suddenly has a problem with being naked? This guy, who was a taxonomic biologist for so long? Sheesh. We Have Corrupted Thinking, so no matter how we use our inviolable free will, we remain incompetent. Body-thinking is essentially what the sin nature does to thinking: you can't get past body concepts, so even "God" will be defined in terms of body stuff like do's, tit-for-tat, Sugar Daddy or Petty Judge.

The larger picture: we remain childish in all our ideas. For, children don't have enough thinking to overcome their body needs. Neither does man. We can't think our way out of a paper bag, and whatever thinking we have, is wacko (as demonstrated in Genesis 3). So the Contract among the Trinity Corporation (so to speak) is to RESCUE us (σῴζω, first meaning of). From there, to completely redo our souls with His Thinking. But we are alive, so this second birth requires we consent; so this spiritual life requires we continually consent: else, God does nothing to grow us. Our Consent Creates More Problems, But God Will Never Coerce Volition. So the Total Depravity itself only and ever means (in this body) that man's free will always creates problems. But that's okay, in God's Eyes, since only HE can solve problems. In fact, what 'upsets' God is our imagining we can solve our own problems, do something good, etc. Because then, we are not consenting to HIS Solutions. In which case, we reap what we sow: unbelievable problems!

So, and others, Isaiah 53:10-12 Corinthiansrects both childish notions about man's free will and abilities; the passage is provably the Grand Central Station of the Bible and history: all other verses point to it, even before Isaiah existed! For this passage, is about a Legal Contract Made In Eternity Past. That God the Father wants to see His Son replicated everywhere inside us is The Spiritual Life Contract Clause. But all the rest of the Bible cites or invokes that text and further explains it -- which you also won't know, if you don't know of that text! If you never learn anything else about the Bible but you deeply learn Isaiah 53:10-12, you will still know the entire Bible. If you don't know this passage, you don't know the Bible, no matter what you know. I realize that fact, just now. No wonder every inspired Scripture writer is always playing off its key words.

I don't know if my pastor goes over the LXX transformatives when he exegetes Isaiah 53; I've not heard him go over anything but the Masoretic (Bible translations almost only use the Masoretic), but he has only one hour per day to teach: and he can't get into something like this, anyway. But I've not heard all his classes, and he's always revising whatever he did prior, to keep on upgrading his and our understanding. What I do know, is that everything he teaches about what the spiritual life is, exactly agrees with what's said in the passage. You can learn the same facts all over the Bible, but here the point is the Origin Of Those Facts: Contract of the Trinity Corporation with Each Other, in Eternity past. Nice wordplay on the Spirit's self-chosen role is in the verses (nephesh being used, idea of life not being worth breathing if not in the Spirit). Lots of really fantastic touches, which you'll find in other Bible verses. Because, they all play on the contents of this one (which obviously, occurring in eternity past, means this contract was always known).

So look at what this passage says in amalgamated, fresh re-translation, below. The larger discussion of how I derived this translation is in the now-deprecated Isaiah 53 exegesis. The translation below is slightly different, since there is never just one best way to translate God's Word. (Frankly, there's no substitute whatsoever for learning Bible in the original languages. You Really See The 'Face' Of God in the original. Can't tell you how many times I faint, as a result. Tough nougies. Cry all the way to the Real Bible Bank, where moth can't destroy!)

Note to the squeamish: Isaiah 53 is very graphic and violent. It gets way over blanded in translations. God didn't write it blanded; the Cross was no stroll through the park. If you can't handle reading what God writes His Way, then please stop reading now. Frankly, I have trouble reading it too, but doggone it, God Wrote This! So I better get past my own arrogant squeamishness and learn...

There is a lot of wordplay you can't translate in all bearing/carrying words, because in the Greek these words sound alike. So I tried to show that linkage in translation, here, but it's far from perfect. Finally, there is also soundplay and wordplay in both languages' texts, between the KNOWLEDGE and its results. Also, the text is highly dramatic and elliptical; I didn't check to see if it was poetry, but it probably is. Hebraic couplet style is like math, where much of the prior clause is repeated, but a few words are changed, to show HOW the prior clause is interpreted, enacted, effected, etc. So that's the biggest reason why the LXX transformative words are needed: you don't get that extra 'upgraded' detail without them. All Bibles should be retooled, which is of course impossible. So we need to learn these texts from the original (heh, cry all the way to the Bible bank, you blessed believer).

Notice how sweeping infinitives and verbs are used without objects, when you read this passage. In English, we feel confused because we see no objects. So the verbs read intransitively to our eyes, incomplete. But in those original languages, the selfsame usage designates utter completeness, all-objects-receiving-the-action-of-the-verb. As dramatic as can be. So: carefully ponder all these sweeping verbs; and especially, the capped LXX words in verse 11 (all of which come from PURIFY in verse 10). These are multiple-entendre infinitives of purpose and intended result: PLUNDER, EXHIBIT, SCULPT, JUSTIFY. These infinitives are causally chained, one after the next: each one has so many meanings, you'll need a lexicon, since I had to pick which English words, seemed most apt (which always wrecks the translation, for God means all meanings of a word, in a hierarchy set inside the sentence/passage). Notice the unlimited scope of the infinitives; Christ is the Reason For All Of Them: only Christ. That stresses the quality and absoluteness of the infinitives -- idea that all existence is impacted (tie-in passage is at the end of Romans 8). In short, there's nothing 'normal' about the text here, and it requires a lot of rumination. So obviously, the translation below leaves out a lot of meaning, and can't but do so: one could spend a good year refining it. Get the original texts and study 'em under your own pastor. Worth a bazillion dollars, if you do, since all Scripture writers constantly refer to this passage and its keywords.

You might want to read Ephesians 1, 1 Timothy 2:5, and Isaiah 53:1-9, first. Verses 10-12 are an explanation for the previous dramatic prophecy of Sacrificing Him. I'm using the present tense sometimes where a past tense is indicated, to show interconnectedness and the vividness. (i.e., the first "delights" in verse 10 is in the qal perfect in Hebrew, but the present tense in Greek, since the latter depicts the drama of the contract, and the former tense depicts the certainty of it, as a done deal decreed by God).

Our Eternity-Past Contract in Christ Isaiah 53:10 [Masoretic text] "But the LORD [Father] delights to crush Him [Humanity of Christ getting the Stone-too-heavy to lift], putting Him to total grief; [Hebrew wordplay: "heheli" in the hiphil, is multi-meaninged. Looks like He's crushed with longing, so Father crushes Him with our sins.] [for the contract made was,] if He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see long-lived seed; then the LORD's delight will cause His Hand to prosper. [LXX portion, next says] So the LORD delights to PURIFY [καθαρίζω, same LXX Temple-purifying word as in 1 John 1:9] by wounding Him: [based on the contract,] 'If You will give as a substitute for sin, Your [plural, God-Man in One Person!] Soul [singular] will see long-lived seed.' " Isaiah 53:11 "Then the LORD delights to PLUNDER, birthing/carrying out from His Soul's [pregnancy] Labor, to DISPLAY/POINT OUT/MAKE KNOWN/EXHIBIT via Him, the Light. Then, to SCULPT, via His Mastery-of-Thinking, so to MAKE RIGHTEOUS/JUSTIFY. [Masoretic text] He will see, be satisfied. [propitiation, 7th day and promise-fulfilled soundplay with satisfaction-from-eating. Qal imperfect of both "seeing" and "being satisfied-from-eating" shows you the Third Aspect criterion gets met at the Cross, in the Masoretic.] Due to His Truth-Knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, as He will carry/bear their iniquities: [Awesome Soundplay made between dakah ("crushed") of 53:5&10, and da'ath ("truth-knowledge") and tsadeq ("righteous/justified") here, in Hebrew, merging the one into the other, to show the transformation!] [LXX portion] The Righteous One Well-Serving purposed for/instead of the many; even their sins, He will carry off/lift up." Isaiah 53:12 [Masoretic text] "Therefore I [Father] will distribute to Him the booty/spoils/plunder of victory because of the many; and He will apportion the booty among the Great Ones; because He poured out HIS SOUL to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He Himself carried/bore the sins of many, and interceded for the transgressors. [LXX portion] For this reason He will inherit the many; in fact, He will apportion the plunder among the Great Ones; for the sake of which [plunder] His Own Soul was given over to Death."

Notice the bonding. What's His is ours, and ours, His. He gets plundered for His Thinking, and He is deemed to 'plunder' our sins: carry off, carry away, carry as a burden, carry off as plunder or prize (all extensively wordplayed, in the Greek): so of course, we are HIS booty, and He is our booty. Ancient world was constantly subject to raiding parties who ran in and carried off the people booty, plus whatever valuables they fancied. It was an expected thing, and not always the horror we think it to be. (Sometimes the raiders were nicer conquerors than those who ruled the weak, prior.) That's why it was so shocking to those in Canaan, when the Jews did NOT take booty, either killing/burning up everything, or leaving it all behind. (Big way to advertise GOD is doing it, not the people, since it's against human nature, not to take booty you can legally claim as a result of victory.)

So that's being depicted here; He's being raped, javelin-stabbed with our sins (53:5 et seq.); so now, He reaps the booty: us! So you shouldn't be surprised that, since we are His Booty, and He is thus our Booty to Learn, that the New Testament constantly exhorts us to to carry off the prize: the booty, the gold silver precious stones, the true riches. Treasure in earthen vessels: His. Most of the booty words are kinda violent-sounding, so translations bland them out, i.e., the prize is often tamely rendered "promise", leaving out that it's a pledge/promise of booty or much wealth! The other words like crown (which, if not used in Olympian manner, always means a kingdom and loads of wealth to go with it), deposit, capital, are harder to mangle, but they manage. So look for the words in the original language.

Therefore: He has free will, since He made a contract. So do we: we can believe in Christ or not. Clearly if you have free will to reject, you have free will to accept; and either one, has consequences. Can't be blamed for what you COULDN'T choose, see. We, however, can nonetheless only contribute the problem, as the above verses so vividly explain; so He has to CHOOSE to be carried off (as booty, as in cut off, see Daniel 9:26) by Father, via the Cross: so that we can be carried off as His Booty. So that's who we really are.

We Are His Booty. So it's always and only about Isaiah 53:11, baby, and baby, you should be glad! For that means nothing in your life happens because of you, but because of Him. So all that talk in Bible about being a good or bad boy is.. for kindergarteners. Yes, it's all true, but.. it's basic, k? Not spiritual, really. What's spiritual, is to get the Light of His Thinking, the 'body' of His Thinking, yatser'd, πλάσσω'd, Sculpted -- In You. Every Bible book is on this topic, and in the New Testament, it's harped on to the point of reader annoyance.

Now hear this: God doesn't want pets, but EQUALS. It's too boring to be around lesser-thans. We can opt, therefore, to get the Booty OF Christ to become better booty FOR Christ, ourselves. Or, we can refuse -- and, Being His Property, will be roundly punished. Subjective and objective genitive, or objective thrashing. Our choice. But we are owned, and that is not our choice, but HIS, from eternity past. Satan & Co. are owned. Unbelievers are owned. They don't want that to be true, so they own hell. Now they own something ON their own, get it?

1 John stresses this so much, you almost can't read it. Gospel of John in Chapters 14~17 stresses it so much, you almost can't breathe. For apart from Me, you can do nothing. That's a hard statement for our arrogant-in-Adam natures, to accept. It feels like defeat, it is defeat, and you go under His Feet if you say yes. In any event, you will be under His Feet, Psalm 110:1.

So you have two choices: have your OWN life, or LOSE your own life to His. The first choice will be made by 99.999% of believers, even, which is why the Pleroma are few. These latter, will have made the second choice. 1 John and John 14~17 are extremely blunt about this stark choice, I now realize. Those who choose to have their own lives, will of course get what they want -- Far Away from Him. Look at a map of the universe, see how far away, most of the stars are. Notice how there are many stars, many planets, in groups each revolving around one center; and most of these are Far Away from that center. Bible always means the heavens to depict spiritual truth, and here's a biggie: if you want to be on your OWN, then you don't want to be God's Own. So, you will be DISTANT from Him.. forever. Even, in Heaven. No pain, no sorrow, but no closeness, either. Because, you didn't WANT that, and God won't coerce volition. You Get What You Want. So be careful, what you want!

Christ prefers hell, to distance from Father. He opted for 100% closeness with Father. That is the First Reason Why This Contract Was Made. Father would never do to His Son to get us puny beings, if it didn't First And Only Benefit His Son. But it doesn't benefit either Father or Son to get us, if Son's Humanity isn't totally "one" (John 17) with Father. But because "one" (coalescence of thought, not Scylla!), They can contract to EXPRESS that "oneness" by having 'sons' together. That's where we come in. But we still are a problem which can only be solved, by REPLICATING HIM in us. Because some family members are.. well, never 'enjoyable'. So they can be supported at a distance. So those who LIKE HIM would rather go through hell than be distant from Him -- will get the closeness they so ardently desire. You get what you want, irrespective of your worthiness (obviously: we are all only worthy of hell).

Those who prefer to be distant from Father (and therefore distant from Son and Spirit), rather than finish this spiritual life, well.. they get what they want, too. Forever distant, on their own just like they WANTED to be, around others who voted like they did. Maybe, if they are lucky, they will get to glimpse Him pass by every Millennium or so. And you can tell quickly where your wants are, by how much you want to learn Him via being in God's System. Barometer of your spiritual life, is that desire. No other. Fool yourself with works all you want; use your abilities and moralities to fantasize God approves, all you want; but if you aren't Wanting And Doing The Word, which means getting in and staying in God's System, well.. you're just spitting in the wind. So wind is what you'll get, since you alone VOTED for it while down here. You always get what you want from God. Period.

The real person is what goes on in his soul. So what you think, is the real you. The 'body' of the real you, is the body of your thinking, and it is the REAL body of you. So think: many lives are spent daily chasing after windmills, and the thoughts are incredibly small: so-and-so is wrong, so-and-so is right, so-and-so humiliates me, 'they' are evil, I will beat them, how do I compare to the other guy, will this make me more money, they have more than we do, we have more than they do, give to the poor to make self feel important or less guilty, crusade on this cause, oh how important I am, look at my important job/husband/accoutrements, everyone should bow to me, how do I look, what should I say, does so-and-so like me, what should I eat, oh that is pretty, why does he get that and I don't, I don't like so-and-so, but so-and-so complimented me, how proud I am of myself, if I have that car/dress/boyfriend/job I will be happy, how smart I am, oh I am afraid, oh so-and-so is BAD, there oughta be a law... On and on and on. So what kind of SOUL is forming? A petty one. Narrowly-focused, eyes on people and self and things, narrow interests. So no matter how much information you give such a person (God binging in all knowledge, for example) -- it would be processed in the same narrow ways. Same soul. See why Getting His Thinking Is So Transmuting?

So we aren't to be automatons, doing stuff which only benefits the body, but never God, Romans 4. So: you aren't to stay in kindergarten. Yes, you'll get a quarter if you take out the trash, but.. is that the level of relationship which GOD wants? Heck NO! Would YOU like to be saddled with a self-made retard.. forever??? [Cultural note: in 1950's America, our fathers gave us a quarter if we did little chores like emptying the rubbish bins, making our beds, little things like that, to teach the relationship between earning money and doing something productive. Every culture has its own homey examples.]

No parent wants his child to STAY a child. So, you are to grow up. So, you are thus free to screw up all you like.. or, free to learn Him. And it's still Isaiah 53:11 playing ON your life, so that you can see His Light. Which you will, if you ever once believed in Christ during this life. Which you will even more, if you get in and stay in God's System. I can't live without these verses. Frankly, none of us do.

The implications of this contract are staggering. And, once you get in the habit of living on these verses every day, you'll see much more how true they really are. Makes all the difference in the quality of your life. Blunts the seeming glories of this puny world, and beautifies its many shames. For Light Shines: His. If you are feeling particularly ashamed or gross, well.. it's Isaiah 53:11 playing, the highest and most valuable way for God to spend His own Time on you. So how shameful can it be, what you are experiencing, if it has so glorious a reason? If you are feeling particularly proud of some achievement, well.. it's Isaiah 53:11 playing, the highest and most valuable way for God to spend His Own Time on you. So, why settle for the seeming-glory you can see, when only GOD'S Level of glory, is worth having? So, why feel bad about the seeming-shame you can see, when only GOD'S Level of glory, is occurring?

See, if something good happens, it already happened to Christ. If something bad happens, it already happened to Christ. It is also already happening IN Christ, since He is "τὰ πάντα", (literal, the-all-things, a moniker), so all is IN Him. You'll find Bible verses all over the place on this, but the most poignant of them are all of Hebrews 2 and the last half of Hebrews 4, alike explaining how He's our High Priest, for He Himself went through what we do, yet He is without sin. So you're getting a taste of what He thoroughly tasted, so you can see Him better. Paul calls this the fellowship of his sufferings, and sharing in His glory. In a word: communion. Not mystical, but intimate. Caused to be knowing, even as you are known. For just as He is, so also you are in this world.

The objective of suffering is communion. LvS4d.htm spends time on this topic; for, suffering grows a person who remains positive to it. Doesn't mean you enjoy it (God is not a sadist, so you aren't to be a masochist, either). Does mean you come to appreciate it. Does mean that eventually, DURING the suffering, you will actually be glad of it. Your soul grows and grows and grows until you are 'above' the suffering itself enough to distinguish between what your body life is going through, and what your soul life, receives. Then you begin to see the parallels to what happened to Him. It's a thinking thing, not at all mystical (so forget the 'holy' people, their demonic 'visions' and 'experiences' -- God is not a circus clown). You realize and LEARN, so you IDENTIFY with Him. Even as, He identified with you (aka Baptism of the Cross, Romans 6).

That's a type of communion, for you are together in it. If you've ever suffered with another human being, you know something of the bonding which results from that experience. Well, here it's double-digit exponentially higher. Think of "E=mc squared", where "c" is not a constant; and instead, it has an exponent of the same "E=mc" formula! Ever-increasing mass begets ever-increasing speed. That's Divine Physics, that's how Infinity cycling inside finity is supposed to work, and that's what suffering increases. Your capacity to enjoy HIM. Even when suffering. So that sets up a potential, as my pastor likes to explain: every threshold of the spiritual life sets up a potential for the next one. Here, the potential due to your soul being opened by the suffering, for a Bigger Rapport with Very God. It really works. This is how Isaiah 53:11, 'plays'. [Einstein's mistake won't show up anymore than the previous mistake he fixed, until one realizes that a "c" constant doesn't account for all matter-energy interactions, either. Newton's prior construct failed once the mass was large enough; Einstein's works for larger masses, but not for ALL the interactions. So "c" is not really a constant, but plays in given ways on given limited-mass quantities. The right value for "c" is 'c exponential', where the EXPONENT is the limiting factor. The potential exponent is unlimited, hence the designation e=mc as the exponent, where "c" is not a constant. Einstein's formulas work on a larger 'set' of mass, than Newton's did. So there must be a set of formulas bigger which 'contain' Einstein's formulas, just as Einstein's formulas 'contain' Newton's. You'll find the math -- probably something in singularity or the math of limits, will be helpful. All this is in the Bible (specifically, in Isaiah 53:11 and in the way spiritual growth works in Church): so its counterpart is somewhere in secular math, since all secular math is but the reflection of Truth itself. Now I wish I had majored in math in college, instead of International Relations!]

Prosperity is suffering, too. Any kind of intensity will be too much for the body. So you get plenty of prosperity, as well. Both the prosperity and the suffering are opening devices, if you keep on keeping on in God's System. The body is all about price and tit-for-tat, which is the opposite of God's Infinite, no-strings nature. So this opening is what in math is called a "singularity", a never-ending "open" number set, which only gets that way once you have recurrences of "a" which reach "a sub-j": the "a" stands for "ἀλήθεια", Greek word for Truth (literal, the unhidden); the "j" of course, stands for "Jesus", but mathematicians don't yet know that. 2 Peter 3:18, playing LIVE.

So, in cosmology, a singularity is what preserves a black hole, so a star can be born from all the chaos entering it. Quantum mechanics plays in the black hole, but the singularity holds it together (a 'line' as it were in the center of that black hole, what in military science would be called the mutual flank, so dense it is of infinite concentration-of-force mass). So, to your body, this singularity is so weighty, you feel crushed all the time. It's the DDNA Knowledge Which is Crushing you. The circumstances plus the knowledge are too much for the body. But you are living on the Spirit's power, not the body's. Just as Christ did. So that larger prosperity and the larger adversity act like counter-pressure, to hold you together (well, it's probably the Spirit's Indwelling acting ON the DDNA and other pressures which holds you together). So, you don't explode. So, you OPEN and GROW instead. Whether you feel horrible, great, wonderful, happy, miserable.. or, nothing.

See, if something bad happens.. GOD sees it first. So Father thinks like this: Well, then: what shall I make of this ugliness? Well, what did I make from the Cross? For the deal then was, "if you will give". So, He did. So, this is GIVEN to Me. So, if it is ugly, then I shall make a far bigger beauty out from it, lest I be cheated and My Son be disappointed in My not Getting maximum beauty.

And 'Mom' (the Holy Spirit, co-equally God but loving to play the restoring mother hen, Genesis 1:2's Hebrew) says: Well, then: what brood shall I make of this ugliness, being as in a nanosecond I could birth a whole universe? Well, I'd better do more than that! For the deal was, "if you will give". So, He did. So, this is my brood to brood over and make beautiful for Him Who I Alone Empowered on the Cross, so He would not use His Deity, so I would make of Him whatever I wanted. For the deal is, these are His Children which Father gives Him, per the contract in Isaiah 53:12, which He accepted wholly and without conditions, in John 17! So shall I cheat Myself, and Father, and Him if I do not make FAR BETTER than a universe, even out from these turd pieces who even themselves VOTED for Me to make them beautiful for Him, when they FIRST believed in Him? Especially, since they themselves didn't even UNDERSTAND anything, except that He paid for their sins, so no other payment was efficacious?

So anything in your life, in someone else's life, is being made beautiful. The uglier it is, the more God will make it oh-so-beautiful, for His Own Sake. The prettier it is, the more God will make it so, for His Own Sake. And frankly, what the world calls beautiful, God finds ugly, and vice versa: For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor My ways your ways, Isaiah 55:8-9. So the big things of this world, aren't anything compared to even the smallest thing God touches. And the big things of this world, if GOD gives them, are nothing compared to what He Will Make From Them; so you never need gloat or feel guilty over what abilities or accoutrements you have or lack.

For Divine Physics, law of the differential, to make more kids even from the sterile, Isaiah 54:1! So the denominator of man's thinking is always infinity-1, since the soul lives forever; so endless infinite quality can be made OUT FROM those Thoughts! "If You will Give!" If Infinite-Quality, Mastery-of-Thinking FROM Christ is given over to Father, then! His Thoughts can be Sculpted in man! "Christ in you, the confident expectation of Glory", Colossians 1:25-27! Making known, displaying, justifying All At Once, One For All And All Time, Hebrews 10:12-14! Meanwhile, everyone doing and getting whatever he wants, no compromise, even though sin continues forever in the Lake of Fire! Qal imperfect, yireh yisba, raáh, sabéa: always seeing, always being satisfied, Isaiah 53:11 forever! After all, He's got a contract with Christ to complete!

Most somber of all, is the realization that the "many", are but children. Only a few to parent them: the "great ones". And if you want to become one of the parents: you have to go the same road Christ did. It won't be obvious to others (nor would you want it to be), while you are down here. Hence my pastor's stress on "Reciprocity", the Love-Circle motive and function demonstrated (and others) in Scripture by the subjective and objective genitive in "ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ" (usually translated "Love of God", but can and often does mean the resultant "Love for God"). Verses in John like "We love, because He first loved us", and the quintessential explanation about how His Head in your head produces this Love in 1 Corinthians 13, is presented all over Bible. Especially, in the New Testament, i.e., in 1 John 4:12-17, as noted earlier on this page.

Because, Ephesians 1 -- that's the PURPOSE of history, to replicate Him everywhere, more than the stars of the heavens, yet also stars of the heavens, just as promised to Abram, and delivered from and TO, that One Uniquely-Born Son FROM Abram's genes through Mary: stars uncountable, full of the Light in His Soul! So He shall see, and be satisfied: He, Father, the Emanator/Author of the Plan; He, Son, the Executor of the Plan; He, Spirit, the Empowerer of the Plan. Three Separate Persons, each Co-Equally God, Each Independent, not hydra-headed. Each Voluntarily uniting as a Corporation to produce.. sons of glory. Can you imagine, us hapless brainouts being a glory to Them? But that's what Bible says we are gonna be, in Ephesians 3:20 and end of Ephesians 1! True Booty, then. Heh. And you know, if Isaiah 53:11 so easily answers the long-standing conundrum about what should be unified field theory, then.. it's pretty likely this 'glory' meaning is even more true. It is certainly the more important.

Takes a lot of growing in the Knowledge God makes happen in you, to have enough love to parent. And no parent who loves his children, wants but to substitute for them. You can't hop yourself up on feeling, you can't fake it; only what God does to you, makes this Love occur. And He continually must run it, since we hapless humans remain helpless, weltering in our blood, until the day we die. [We remain helpless forever. But we want to be helpless forever, for That Justifies the Fellowship with Them: 2 Corinthians 13:14 lasts forever, too. For we will be one even as They are ONE, United by Love-Thinking. Freely. They chose to live as IF helpless, by making a helpless creation. For They first chose to be helpless-with-love for Each Other, which we know for sure, from their Self-Chosen Titles of Father, Son, Spirit. For anything not Infinite by nature, can only BE helpless; but if Infinite, not JUSTIFIABLY Intimate unless CHOOSING subordination. It's that fact which Satan finds so horrible, he'd rather live in hell forever. Satan knows what he's gotten into, and still prefers it. Paradox.htm and DueDisclosure.htm are very long discussions centering on this forever-helpless situation, and why God chose it.]

So it's a stark choice: you can't but empathize with those "many" who opt to STAY, children. But for yourself, think: do you want that kind of stunted fellowship with GOD? There comes a point where you have to choose for YOURSELF. Christ opted for 100%, so we can opt for higher fellowship than we have now. Highest opportunity, for Church. After that, all the other fellowship contracts, are inferior; even as, the ones before. Why ours is unique, is covered extensively in Part 4 of the "Lord vs. Satan".

Clearly, what's a 'child' in eternity is a bazillion times bigger than the greatest hero, down here. But so also, all that DDNA which those who opt to RECEIVE from the Spirit, will be a bazillion times bigger than the then-'children'. For the essential difference between a child and a parent, is that the former RECEIVES, being too weak and too incompetent, to take care of himself. More importantly, the attitude of a child, is gimme gimme gimme. Which, of course, the parent loves doing. But that is their attitudinal difference. No matter how big we become, that will remain, basically, the attitudinal difference. And Father gave us all, His Uniquely-Born (μονογενής), Son. Or we'd not be here. Or there'd BE no 'heaven', for us ALL.

Vast differences, then, in eternity. Your choice, where in that vast hierarchy you want to be. And it's not a status decision. Nothing with God ever is. You get the status only because you want the content, since status means nothing of itself (except trouble). If you love Him, then you want to be a slave, anyhow. But you cannot stay a slave and BE a slave for HIM. He's too BIG. So you have to become a King, to be His Slave. It's that stark a choice. And only the Spirit can transform you with all that Spiritual DDNA, which is Christ's Thinking, Bible doctrine to be written in our hearts and minds, minds and hearts, constantly circulating...

BOTTOM LINE: every second anyone breathes, the Spirit's DDNA is working, boy oh boy. But to whom, then, must it reroute, if those acted upon, don't want to learn Him? Well, what does the contract say? Because of the many, He gets the people booty. So to the great ones (Pleroma), the spoils are Apportioned By Him Who Inherited The Whole Thing. So that Father gets the beautiful thinking He wants.. forever.

The True Grail... has Enemies

An Appendix to DDNA

The True Grail of Salvation: Christ paid for Sins with his Thinking, Not His Physical Death

Blood, circulates in the body. Thought, circulates in the soul. Blood is mindless, a collection of corpuscles run by DNA instruction sets. Thought is wholly immaterial, and designed to be choosing DDNA, God's Instruction set, aka The Thinking of Christ, aka The Bible. So the real you is your soul, not your body. Human life is your soul, not your body, which is why no human can evolve. So in the Bible, blood always depicts thought, when used of a human being, since what's alive, is your soul -- body is just a bucket of biology. So "blood" in the sacrifices, is a metaphor to show what Isaiah 53:11 says bluntly, that Thinking pays for sins: "Then the Lord delights to PLUNDER.. from His Soul's [pregnancy] labor" -- no physical blood, there. For, sins are types of Thinking (volition thinks), so paying for sin requires COUNTER-Thinking 'labor', to birth our salvation. That's what happened on the Cross, since God is Pure Thought, so can only be paid By Means Of Thinking, Philippians 2:5-10.

Of course, God's Truth has many enemies. Most of them are rather stupid, too. For example, it's hard to remember you are in the 21st century, when you hear the still-prevalent medieval myth that Christ's physical blood had anything whatsoever to do with our so-great salvation. The pagan mythical idea of physical blood being able to produce a magical result goes back to Abel, and is a mutation of Abel's recognition of Messiah coming to pay. The myth itself is but a mutation of what Satan told the woman, that she could get knowledge magically from a piece of fruit, in Genesis 3. So when the opportunistic Roman Catholic Church used the pagan idea of Blood to cannibalize the Eucharist (despite the clear meaning in Luke 22:19 and 1 Corinthians 11:25), people greedily drank it up. Every Mass. It's not the Roman Catholic Church's fault -- they always cannibalized pagan religious practices, thinking that by doing so they could save people thus entering the 'fold' of the Church. And probably, they did. Yet even post-Reformation, the myth lingers: can you imagine, the mainstream idea of how Christ paid for sins, is deemed a physical thing? Just like the woman thought of touching the forbidden fruit (which God never said), in Genesis 3 (compare to Genesis 2:17).

Note carefully: man died spiritually as a result of sin. So a Substitutionary Spiritual Death alone can suffice to save man. If you trace how the Hebrew words in Genesis 2:17 (moth tamuth) are used throughout the Old Testament (and there are TONS of verses); and then trace the LXX equivalents (θάνατοι ἀποθνῄσκω); and then trace how the New Testament references the LXX words, you'll see that Christ died SPIRITUALLY on the Cross, which is a THINKING thing -- just as, Adam didn't keel over the first second he sinned, so also Christ Was Made Sin as a substitute for us, 2 Corinthians 5:21 and Romans 5:8. God couldn't make it clearer. You can't be already physically dead and be MADE SIN at the same time; just as man did not die physically when he sinned, but later because of it, so also Christ did not die physically as a SUBSTITUTE for sin, but later after He FINISHED Paying. The physical death represents the SUCCESS of the Spiritual One, main theme of last half of 1 Corinthians 15, referenced in Ephesians 4:8-9 (to show the Precedence for God's post-Cross spiritual teaching system). Sheesh: God couldn't make it clearer.
I did this tracing live in BibleWorks so you can see the Hebrew and Greek for yourself: click here and then view Episode 6d through 6f for Bible's multiple-lives' references; or Episode 7a-d, for its multiple DEATHS references. You can download the original (very clear) Episodes you choose from further down that same page.

The LXX is really useful in deciphering how the Hebrew text is to be read. What's cool about Genesis 2:17 is how "ἀποθνῄσκω" is used. Greek preposition "ἀπο" has the root meaning of proceeding OUT from a SOURCE. So ἀποθνῄσκω, the Greek verb usually truncated in English as "to die", means from the SOURCE of the first DEATH, comes the second. So you know God isn't saying that dippy thing alleged scholars always say about the doubling of the verb being an intensity. It's far more than that: thinking is the source of all the pain you will ever have. If you were physically dead or unconscious, you'd not experience pain. So talk about intense! Because one dies spiritually, disconnected from God, one's life is intensely DEAD, even while living. How's that, for economy of Bible wording -- just pair up a known word with a known prepositional origin to its non-prepositional cognate noun, to express What Kind Of Death Needs To Happen On The Cross. For, Bible always uses etymological nuances to communicate foundational truths. Is God a genius, or what?

In short, Christ's Physical Death is not part of the payment for sin, but part of the Reward For Having Paid, the proof of VICTORY (main theme in Hebrews 1-2,7-10, Ephesians 4:8-9, etc). That's why the Resurrection is the next thing which occurred in His Life, and in ours. Death and Resurrection mean Victory due to Past Victory. Surely it's a reward to die and go live with God forever, 1 Corinthians 15:11ff, Psalm 31:5, His Last Words on the Cross (see Luke 23:46)! Again, God couldn't make it clearer. But we Christians, scholars-with-persistent-Bible-apnea included, always manage to reverse what God says in His Book. How sad.

Look, see for yourself: there are billions upon billions upon billions of sins to pay for. And for each such sin, a living person sinned by thinking (action merely follows on thought, always -- that's how your body works). So then if Christ had to die physically or bleed physically for sin, then He'd be dying over and over again. The writer of Hebrews is extremely painstaking on the point that Christ's death was spiritual, not physical, which is in part why the Mosaic law didn't save -- it had to use physical death; and necessarily so, to depict the Spiritual Death that is ONCE for all. Because, until a Soul could be built with enough DDNA (aka Truth, aka Bible) to Counter-Think while all those waves after waves of sins hit That Soul, sins could only be depicted as covered/atoned for with 'shadow' images (theme of Hebrews 10). The physical is dead from birth onward, which is why you can't do any works to be saved. Duh. So if you can't do any works with your body to be saved, then of course no physical anything can be done FOR you to save you (major theme in the New Testament, especially in Romans, Galatians and Hebrews). God couldn't make it clearer. What, does God have a body? So how can you do with a body, for Someone Who has no Body? What, why else was Christ a Lamb: lambs don't do, anything. They eat and die. So Christ ate the Word and thus BECAME the Truth, YH+WH, completed. So He BECAME in His SOUL the sacrifice of the Cross, and hence ὁ λόγος τοῦ σταυροῦ, the WORD of the Cross. Word, thinking, paying for thinking. The punishment fit the crime, and by His being lacerated with our javelin thrusts of sins ON His Soul, we are healed, Isaiah 53. God couldn't make it clearer.

Trace the Book of Hebrews, which is the flagship book on this topic. See for yourself. [Tracing out the mechanics of the Cross in Bible will take several years, and would be a great topic for a doctoral thesis. And be a true scholar: start with and stick with the Bible. False scholarship (which is sadly the norm) uses other 'respected' folks' opinions and feelings, and very little fact; which 'scholarship' would be inadmissible in a criminal trial, and should be inadmissible in academia/science. No one should be 'convicted' of an idea based on other opinion, but based on fact, right? So: start by tracing moth tamuth references and their LXX equivalents; then all the "heart" and "blood" verses; then how the Bible differentiates between θάνατος and νεκρός -- you'll need some idea of the Greek Attic Drama lit differentiation between those two nouns and the cognate verbs, to get Bible's wordplay. Some of the "blood" verses are listed below, to get you started on your own hard-core research. BibleWorks or software like that makes it much easier to trace what Bible says throughout Bible. Book of Hebrews uses the SSD as a subtheme to explain why it works, and thus why the Mosaic law was obsoleted; other major chapters are 1 Corinthians 15, 2 Corinthians 5, Colossians 1-2, and 1 Peter3. Verses on His Unique Physical Death (as VICTORY testimony) which you should cross-examine in the original-language texts: Psalm 16:10, Luke 22:43, Acts 2:31, Ephesians 4:9, Acts 2:27, Luke 23:46, Jn19:10, Luke 23:50-53. Verses on Resurrection, which was the next step, John 2:18-22 (His Own Role); Acts 2:24, Romans 6:4, Ephesians 1:20, Colossians 2:12, 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 1 Peter 1:21, all showing Father's role; Romans 1:4, Romans 8:11, 1 Peter 3:18 on Spirit's Role. Also, whenever Bible talks of foundational doctrines, it wittily uses wordplay and etymological bases to stress foundationality in the original language texts: so also becomes very deft in the use of prepositions, case endings, etc. -- as we saw, in the transformatives (LXX) of Isaiah 53:10-12. So you can't do any valid research on what the Bible says, except IN those texts. Hence it will take some years: in a sense, you can never research it enough, but you can prove Substitutionary Spiritual Death and not physical death, is what Bible says happened ON the Cross, blow-by-blow. The Physical death is Proof of the Spiritual Death's Success, or you and I wouldn't go to heaven when we die, get it? So: if you'll do this research, use 1 John 1:9, ask Father in Son's name to take you through the Bible for your proof. (One reason Bible is so repetitive is that we are all different and need certain wording to "get" what God means. What verse 'clicks' for me might not work for you, even if we both were equal; for we are each unique.) And keep on at it, in God's System. So you won't be embarrassed, at the Bema.]

See all "heart" verses, so you can tell that SOUL THINKING is what "heart" designates metaphorically. So you see readily why God picked animal blood, to designate the future Messiah's Thinking Payment on the Cross. Then also see "blood" verses like

• Genesis 4:10 (blood has a 'voice', so clearly is a metaphor for soul thought);
• Genesis 9:4-6 (man's soul compared to animal's blood, again showing THOUGHT is analogized);
• Genesis 42:22, Genesis 49:11&Deuteronomy 32:14 (where blood is likened to wine, so again His Payment on the Cross is thought, since wine is part of Eucharist to designate His Thinking);
• Exodus 12:22 (depicting the Cross), Exodus 24:8 (note how blood seals a COVENANT, so means AGREEMENT, which is VOLITIONAL, again depicting thought);
• Lev 3:17 (prohibition against EATING blood);
• Lev 8:24 (note how anointing involves blood, so can't possibly represent literal blood, and also can't represent physical death itself);
• Leviticus 17:10-11 & Deuteronomy 12:16-23 (which explain the analogy, proving it's not literal blood but soul THOUGHT);
• Leviticus 19:26 to treat blood as magical is a heresy like divination;
• 2 Chronicles 19:10 talks of dispute between blood and blood -- but only THOUGHTS can be in a dispute;
• Psalm 30:9, bald parallelism of blood as thinking (praise);
• Psalm 72:14 & Proverbs 1:18, bald parallelism between blood and life (just like Leviticus 17:10-11);
• Proverbs 30:33, blood compared to anger; Ezekiel 16:38, blood 'of' wrath and jealousy;
• Joel 2:31, blood parallelled to light (negative attitude 'darkening');
• Zechariah 9:7, blood analogized to thoughts/words;
• Matthew 26:28, the Lord's explanation (which obviously isn't literal blood, since He's talking of wine) -- compare to Isaiah 53:12's "soul..poured out" and Philippians 2:5-10 (which is a passage on THINKING), and to the other Synoptic passages;
• John 1:13 to show "blood" means human life, so obviously means THE SOUL;
• John 6:53, which cannot mean one is saved by cannibalism, capisce?
• Then there's the famous John 6:55, conclusively proving it's THOUGHT He means, since Word is also food and drink, Matthew 4:4, "I found your words and I did eat them" (Lamentations or Jeremiah), and the myriad other wine-and-bread analogies for Bible itself.
• So when you see a verse like Acts 20:28, coupled with Isaiah 53:11 which flatly says it's His Thinking which paid for sins, you have no doubt that the "Blood of Christ" is aught but His Thinking Truth under the Spirit.

  See, the first principle of hermeneutics is that you should compare Scripture with Scripture. Not, with men's traditions. Blood is likened to many a non-physical pattern of living/thought, to show what God means. You can't live without blood circulation, and you can't live the spiritual life without the Word circulating in you, main theme of 1 John. So no salvation value goes to corpuscles which have no thinking capacity in them. Even common sense proves that His 'Blood' must be a Bible metaphor of His Thinking: it takes THOUGHT to sin, and it took THOUGHT to pay for sin. Again, only a person with zero Spirit in him could claim otherwise. Bible is too plain.

  Paul isn't speaking of literal blood (or physical death) being shed in 1 Corinthians 10:16, but of thinking (theme of 1 Corinthians, Head and Body); same, in Ephesians 2:13; same, the writer of Hebrews in Hebrews 9:14 (main theme of his letter is about how the Covenant changes). 1 Peter 1:19 and 1 Peter 3:18 can't possibly be talking of His Physical death, since death by definition is perishable -- so if you are not saved by something perishable, then His Physical Death did not save you. Rather, His Living Thinking Saved You, theme of Romans 6. Then, as if all that wasn't clear enough, take a gander at how Paul contrasts earthly and spiritual, in 1 Corinthians 15. So if earthly has no fellowship with the eternal, but only the spiritual does, then His EARTHLY death, didn't pay a SPIRITUAL Price. Sheesh: see how clear the Bible is? See how stupid we get when we don't live in God's System, no matter how many seminary degrees we might have? For man's brains are OUT when it comes to God. Need the Spirit's Brains In You, which only happens with 1 John 1:9 operating as needed, in God's System.

  So the "Blood of Christ" is not literal blood, but His Thinking in His Soul which was Filled With Truth from the Spirit. So we are to keep on thinking in us what was in Him, same mechanism AS the Cross, Philippians 2:5-10. Same Thinking, 1 Corinthians 2:16. Which requires the Spirit and living in God's System, and which alone is spiritual. The Work of Christ is Word of Christ is the Thinking of Christ. Not, mindless corpuscles. You can't pay for a spiritual crime with a physical thing, capisce?

  Dare you to find one verse in the Bible which says His Physical Blood did anything at all with reference to salvation. And you know it didn't, because He was dead when the soldier pierced His Side, all that coagulated blood coming OUT. Repeat: He was already dead when that happened. Some people watch too many sci-fi movies, to hallucinate that Infinite God would need physical blood, to do anything.

  Again -- do the proper accounting for the meaning of His Physical Death, so that you don't miss out on the Glory which is the Word. Repeating: Christ's Physical Death is NOT part of the payment for sin, but rather is the Reward For Having Paid, the proof of VICTORY (main theme in Hebrews 1-2, Hebrews 7-10, Ephesians 4:8-9, etc). That's why the Resurrection is the next thing which occurred in His Life, and in ours. Death and resurrection mean Victory Due To Past Victory, which is why 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 is such a comfort at a funeral. Surely it's a reward to die and go live with God forever, 1 Corinthians 15:11ff, Psalm 31:5, His Last Words on the Cross (see Luke 23:46)! Again, God couldn't make it clearer: hundreds of verses in the New Testament are on this, and they refer back to the Old Testament as proof, so you can see this meaning is throughout Bible, not a human hallucination. So you won't hallucinate and thump "Power in the Blood" like so many Christian dingbats do, each Sunday. Ignorantly. With their teachers and seminarians, just as ignorant as they are!

  For think about the mechanics of 2 Corinthians 5:21's "made Him who knew no sin, Sin! as a substitute for us" (corrected translation from Greek); being MADE SIN and still LIVING, Perfect, Loving God the Father, is far far far far far more suffering than mere physical death. How painful it is, to know someone hates you; to know someone blames you; to know you did something terribly wrong. You have to be ALIVE, to know sin, to know pain. Duh. Why don't the so-called 'experts' realize that fact? 2 Corinthians 5:21 isn't hyperbole. To be IMPUTED and JUDGED with sin and STILL LIVING to feel all that wave after wave of javelins (Isaiah's term) is far far far far far far worse than to merely die physically. Idiots who fancy themselves knowing of Bible write disparagingly of the claim that spiritual death is alone what paid for sins, as if physical death could contribute anything; as if physical death were somehow more 'noble'. What arrogance! Man always putting his own puny idea of good and bad and pain and pleasure, then calling it God's definition; then having the colossal gall to use hallowed tones of expression, as if all that maligning of God was a holy thing. Just like Satan did, in the Greek of the first temptation, oozing hypocrisy under the polite imperative of entreaty, Matthew 4:3. Why God doesn't just zap us all to hell and say to heck with the human race, never ceases to amaze...

  For think: if Christ's physical death contributed something, then why didn't Adam's? But that's not what the Bible says: "for all sinned when Adam sinned." And: "in Adam all die, in Christ shall all be made alive." Those two quotes are Romans 5:12 and 1 Corinthians 15:22, respectively. Note the context of both passages. BEING ALIVE means THINKING. Duh: You Are ALIVE When You Sin, So A LIVING Person With Living Thought Must Counter-Think The Thought You Had. Now do you see why Paul keeps stressing "living", in Romans 6? If that person merely died physically, what actually paid for your living thought? Christ LIVES forever, theme of Romans 6. So A Living Payment Lives Forever, Which Is The Only Reason Why We Can Live -- ibid. So also, when He died spiritually, He was THINKING, and LIVING physically: so, it hurts more, no? Doesn't it hurt to have sin? What hurt, does a dead person have? How could a spiritual fault be paid by a physical death, since physicality, is soulless? Sheesh. Even the animal in the Old Testament sacrifices, bled to death while still living. Hint hint. So it's a mismatch to claim that anything physical, does a spiritual job. Those sacrifices were gruesome on purpose. The Cross is gruesome -- because HE WILL BE ALIVE THE WHOLE TIME HE PAYS.

  A whole lot of teachers, heads of seminaries, and degreed people of all kinds who trump the literal-blood-payment insanity, are gonna be embarrassed at the Bema, for having been such traitors to the Cross. Pray for them, so that hopefully they will wake up before they die, and recognize the bigger meaning of the Cross. And avoid embarrassment for themselves, and all those others who respect them. I'd rather be boiled in oil, than to demean the Cross as a physical-death thing. And then have to know I screwed up like that.. forever. No one ever grows up to Pleroma level who mistakes the Cross' payment as a physical thing. If the person doesn't wake up to the fact that it was Only Thinking, the person never even begins to understand the spiritual life, and hence never lives it. Which means, 99.99999% of Christendom will never live the spiritual life: they want too badly to say something THEY do, 'counts'. Pray for them all.

  Now you know why God rolled out Scripture in the 19th century, and had its interpretation, escape the control of the elites. But we still need the elites. So pray for them to wake up to the Real Bible, and finally learn it, rather than persisting in man's old traditions and mistranslations of Holy Writ? God is the God of Authority, and this prayer is one of the most powerful you can pray. As you saw in the First Aspect, God really means it when He says you can ask for anything in His Son's Name, so long as you are in God's System. Doesn't matter, your puniness. Does matter, Christ's Total Payment On The Cross. So pray fearlessly, use the protocol. And watch the deliverance of the Lord...

  I'm too embarrassed for the teachers, to say anything more specific about their gaffes; you can read them for yourself, on the internet. Come the Bema, Judas, who was a believer (couldn't be a disciple unless saved) will look white as snow compared to them! Pray for them: they occupy pulpits and seminaries and can yet be alerted by God to wake up and smell the coffee, so they can avoid being embarrassed. Pray for them, don't 'straighten them out' with the correct answer; cuz you wouldn't like it if someone did that to you (we none of us like someone else telling us how wrong we are). God alone knows what their soul kinks are which need re-wiring, anyway; and hasn't He already done a lot of re-wiring, for us who now know better? What, could anyone get fixed, if God Alone doesn't do it? So: they obviously don't know 1 John 1:9 and God's System, so need someone who does to pray for them. We need them, too, since it's really hard work to be in the ministry, and if they finally got straight on Bible, wow -- what a great spiritual understanding they could get and be caused to give those learning under them!

So the True Grail, The "Blood of Christ", is the Thinking of Christ; for, Isaiah 53:10-12, His Thinking Permanently And Completely Paid For Our Sins. It wasn't His Physical Death which paid; rather, He could die physically because He Already Finished the Payment (τετέλεσται verse +Psalm 31:5, His Dying words). [You can prove the τετέλεσται references to finishing the payment for salvation while still alive, by looking up all New Testament uses of τελειόω, usually mistranslated "perfect" (well, as a legal verb it's not a mistranslation, but what average reader knows that). Seriously: all the New Testament writers play off His Triumphal shout of "τετέλεσται" to show what it means. The writer of Hebrews uses τελειόω as his main framework verb, stressing finishing of salvation, so our thinking can be Finished In Him, and we can thus get to the finish line of this Angelic Trial marathon race.] As a result, He is the Sacrifice Who forever sanctifies all who believe in Him, "once and for all time", Hebrews 10:10-14. As a result, He is called the 'father' of both our salvation and an eternity of prosperity which He shall forever rule, Isa9:6, Hebrews 12:2. So now we are in 'Operation Footstool', waiting for His enemies to be put under His Feet, Psalm 110:1 (a refrain, in the NT). For as Isaiah 53:11 depicts so graphically, The Lamb of God had his soul cut open, so to speak, to become 'pregnant' with our sins, and with His Counter-Thinking "Mastery" (da'ath in Hebrew, σύνεσις in Greek), made DDNA conversion of those sins via the Holy Spirit's power, so Father was propitiated.

Hence we exist. Hence we are able to get that same Thinking, "treasure in earthen vessels", 2 Corinthians 4:7. Hence the command to learn His Thinking, 2 Peter 3:18. Hence Paul's prayer that we do so, Ephesians 3:15-19. Notice the building metaphors used in that passage, as well as the macro building result in Ephesians Chapter 2 and 4:13. Thinking must be BUILT. The woman was "built" for Adam (Hebrew word "banah"), and the Bride must be "built" for the "Last Adam", Our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. That's entirely what life is about down here, for the believer. You have a choice to make: "what think ye of Christ". How much, do you want to be made by God, compatible with your Savior? The more compatible you are made, the closer you will be to Him. Forever. For the "Bride" is a kingdom, and not everyone in that kingdom chooses to be close to Him. In fact over 99% of believers will have made the choice to be rather far away. For they don't want to learn Him. They want flash, instead. To engage in a lifetime of what amounts to daily, college-style Bible classes, and then spend the rest of the day using that information in daily life as a way of sharing His Thinking 24/7, doesn't appeal. They would rather have bread-and-circus. Satan & Co. are only too happy to oblige them.

Hence the Bible itself is the True Grail, the Thinking of the Lord Jesus Christ: the Old Testament, His Thinking as God, and the New Testament, His Thinking as Humanity. The Bible codifies this thinking for humanity so one may choose to get that same thinking, and have ever-increasing real rapport with Him. The promise of this codification is a central theme in Scripture, as noted above and in all my other websites, for the promise of eternal relationship with God, is the heart of God's Plan for the human race. This promise must be believed to be had, since God is Love, and will hence never coerce anyone to choose Him. If believed, then the first belief, is faith in Christ alone for salvation, John 3:16. Once thus saved, the individual may choose to get in God's System, and learn his oh-so-great Savior. To assure the believer that this is indeed 'okay', we have the wonderful First Commandment -- can't love a God you can't first learn. Hence, we have a Book to learn. The above Four Aspects explained how this learning, changes your thinking (at your discrete consent, always) via the Holy Spirit, in God's System.

In short, there are no works man can do, for human power cannot make a DDNA change. Only God can do that. In short, it's learn, not earn, and only God causes that to happen to you. All you bring, is your volition; which is a pleasure to do, since God is pleasurable to know, Psalm 1:2, 9:2, 13:5, 16:11, 119 (written during the to-Babylon death march, during torture)! "How precious your thoughts are to me, Oh God!" David happily wrote in Psalm 139:17. [Translation needs to be fixed, but that is the standard rendering. David's making wordplay on the purpose of God, and His Head, idea of David having a head to see God's Head. But I digress...] David understood that the whole happy meaning of life, is seeing God's Thinking, and he writes about that fact often. David wrote most of the Psalms; David is famously recorded in Bible has having had a number of paramours; so clearly God's love for David (1Sam13:14, Acts 13:22) DIDN'T require David be religious.

Satan's Religious Grail, 'Magical Blood'

Of course, Satan & Co. have always sold blood as a magical, physical thing. Whether it's Roman Catholic Church cannibalism on drinking His Blood (patent misuse of Remembrance in Luke 22:19ff and 1 Corinthians 11:22-24); or, the more common pagan ideas like racial superiority or drinking blood helps conquer foes -- man likes magical blood. Makes him feel superior. So for centuries, since Satan & Co. like buffooning, they've promoted these slapstick ideas. Ancient cultures are rife with them. So many myths abound, about physical blood conferring power, buying stuff, totally satirizing the blood-of-the-covenant TEACHING (which a MIND has to get, not a body).. from Genesis 3:15 onward. So the magical idea that Christ shed His physical blood for a thought crime (sin), lingers in many forms. Anything to get man's eyes off His Thinking and on to something man can pride himself doing, as if the Bible were only a paperweight.

For it was Satan, not God, who invented religion in Genesis 3. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, is Satan's religious plan for the human race: oh, if you do this stupid thing, eat this stupid thing, you will be as good as God. ["God's Transmuting Plan", covers this topic in greater detail in its "Religious transmutation fantasy" section.] In the Hebrew and Greek text, "good-and-evil" is a hendiadys, meaning it's all one thing. What's 'good', is ipse Evil. In English, you're supposed to translate a hendiadys with hyphens, to show the 'unity'. Here, a unity of 'good', being evil. [See also "pastor-teacher" of Ephesians 4:11; it's one office held by one individual; so the term means that God gifts many "pastor-teachers", but not pastors who are not teachers or teachers who are not pastors: idea being, the pastor's job is to teach.] But who would follow religion, if Bible translating committees allowed the hyphen demanded by the Bible's God-breathed, original languages? Whoa: you'd know 'good', wasn't! As my best friend often quips, "they gotta keep those butts in the pews." For religion is all about, CONTROL.

Read Genesis 3, even in translation, see for yourself how the religious ploy, works. Satan sold the woman on flash. Like Adam, she'd been having daily Bible classes in the breeze of the evening (usu. mistranslated "cool" instead of "breeze"), and she was bored by them. So Satan, using a cute, four-legged reptile which was her pet, started TALKING to her. Since animals don't have souls, and she was a genius, she would have known immediately that it was Satan. Animals God made perfect, wouldn't be accusing Him, either. So she knew. And liked hearing the accusations. Because, she was under an authority which tired her. (What Adam might have done to make her start to chafe under his authority, we don't know; maybe he did nothing to warrant her upset; but we get the sin nature from Adam, not the woman, just the same, Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:22).

Being under authority which she didn't like for whatever reason or ir-reason, she LIKED hearing evil said about God. And Satan lost no time insinuating that God was WITHHOLDING KNOWLEDGE by prohibiting eating the fruit of that tree. So Satan introduced the concept of MAGIC as a property of inanimate fruit: if you eat this fruit, you will get the Knowledge Elohim is withholding, and you will be as good as Elohim. Satan says "Elohim" in Genesis 3 as an epithet, and vilely: turning God into just a collection of attributes, de-personalizing Him. She didn't object to that slur on God's Character, either. (English equivalent is to call someone by a last name or nickname in an insulting manner, as if the person were a dog to be ordered around.)

So, she being already upset with authority and wanting ANYTHING else, was actually pleased by this replacing proposition of magic. Remember, she was a genius -- but here, negativity makes her quite stupid. Thus you see her motive in the original sin: to be as good as in order to get rid of being under authority. A bid for independence. As if dependence were a bad thing, a demeaning thing, a slavery. And so the human race has thought, ever since she ate.

Adam, looking at his wife post-eating, had a different dilemma. She was his wife. He loved her. God allowed this thing to happen. Adam also felt responsible, for surely he did something wrong to motivate her disinterest, and after all he didn't stop her from all those conversations with what he had to know was a Satan-indwelt 'pet'. For surely she talked about it with him. For he was right there beside her when she ate that fruit: else how could he take it out of her hand, capisce? [Inspired BHS and LXX text shows Satan's talking to both of them, i.e., the 2nd person PLURAL of Genesis 3:5.] So Adam must have also bought the lie that this magic fruit would make him as good as God, even though the reverse truth stared him in the face, in the form of his wife. But she was seductive now, aggressively so. Adam hadn't seen her be so powerful, before. How could he resist?

So now Adam must decide for the woman, or God. It was no contest. So for a different reason, Adam rejects God: his love for the woman. In the name of a mere human, God gets rejected. Oh, helping/being loyal to the human is good, better than siding with God! And so the human race has thought, ever since he ate.

The fallout from the Fall was psychological. First, all learning about God was completely trashed, as the spiritual connection was severed: "dying spiritually, you will die physically" is how my pastor translates the fallout clause in Genesis 2:17 (which you can prove true, if you run the clause through the BHS/LXX texts of the OT). Secondly, since God is truth and "Good and Evil" is not, all THAT thinking replaced what had been in man. So now man thinks like Satan, not God. Since man is so puny, what he can DO with that thinking is impotent, but his innate wiring -- which the DNA of the brain perpetuates, hence the term "born in sin" -- his innate wiring, is like Satan's:

1. GUILT. Guilt drives all defense mechanisms. A sense of having caused a wrong, so one must right that wrong, drives the soul. All non-organic mental illness is based on a sense of guilt. All defense mechanisms are based on it.
2. Because guilty, fearful.
3. Because fearful, hating authority.
4. Because hating authority, stuck on feeling, as a substitute for both authority, and truth.
5. Because stuck on feeling, one needs to mass with PEOPLE, as a REPLACING criterion for truth (a thing must be popular, to be acceptable).
6. Because needing to mass, petty.
7. Because petty, prone to accuse, malign, put down.
8. Because prone to accuse, one is utterly unable to discern, no matter what the genetic IQ.
9. Because unable to discern, guilty. Which starts the cycle up all over again. One is ensconced, IN it.

10. And you'll notice how the couple accuse everyone including God, before they admit what they did wrong. So the male and the female have been accusing each other and God and everyone else, ever since. To admit self is wrong is judged a kind of suicide. Since to the sin nature, hooked on its Lady-MacBeth quest to be 'clean', to admit self is wrong, IS suicide.

And so the human race has been, ever since. Hence "good" is Evil. Religious, since that's the quest to be 'clean'. Popular. Promoted. Public. So long as it's popular to wear your underwear on your head, that practice will be lauded. Doesn't matter, that the practice is stupid. It will never be popular to believe in God or learn God, therefore, even among those who at least once during their lifetimes, 'obeyed' John 3:16. For they don't want to learn Him. They want flash, instead. To engage in a lifetime of what amounts to daily, college-style Bible classes, and then spend the rest of the day using that information in daily life as a way of sharing His Thinking 24/7, doesn't appeal. They would rather have bread-and-circus. Satan & Co. are only too happy to oblige them.

Hence religion, the same gambit as in Genesis 3, will be promoted, purchased, and perennially popular -- and for the same reasons. Just turn on your television, watch all the religiosity, parade! The 'female' reason for religion, is a bid for independence, as if dependence were bad; the 'male' reason for religion will be in the name of loyalty to the 'female' reason. Hence controlling it, in the name of 'good'. So the 'male' side of religion, will use nice, unctuous tones, feel-good ceremonies with lots of color and base appeal; or, violence. Depending on what appeals to the mass, at the moment. Which the smart religious leader, will know how to engender. Hence will sell control TO those who 'obey' it, so they can mass on the 'right' side, and thus feel like the Most High, just like Isaiah 14:13-14. All the while, being marionetted by Satan & Co. Strings pulled, kinda like how Satan controlled that four-legged reptile. Graduated now, to bipedal ones which smile as they trap you, so you like how the trap, feels. And you dance to their tune, fancying yourself independent, worthy of God.

If you took a rat and put him in with a miniature machine which could stimulate some pleasure 'circuit' (nerve) in his body, you'd find he'd pull that pleasure lever over and over and over until he was exhausted, ignoring even food and water. That set of trials done in the 1960's, to better understand brain function, demonstrates more deeply how the sin nature in man, has such power. Stimulate man's pleasure, and he will quickly become addicted to it. Doesn't matter what's the CONTENT of the stimulation. Man lives as IF he were but an animal, now, perennially in the thrall of feeling.

Since man has a reasoning brain, the thrall can be even more exquisite, if painful. For one can thus imagine the self a martyr, like Adam did. Giving up the self for the greater good. Like Satan did. For the messianic desire feeds ego even more, than pleasure itself. Which is why you have Satan thinking he will replace the Most High, Isaiah 14:13-14. After all, the Son of God was going to take on Humanity and become the Messiah, which the angels all knew. How that humanity was going to come into being, well.. they didn't know. It was to be their eschatology, and the meanwhile they were to learn God's Thinking, since He's infinite and they are not. When the right time came, then they'd have the pleasure of passing on what they learned to that humanity, as His Servants. Of whom, Satan was chief. But Satan came to doubt God's motives, came to distrust God's explanation of Himself, as Love. So in the name of rescuing the angels and the future human race from this lying Elohim, Satan chose what we know as Isaiah 14:13-14, I will ascend and make myself like the Most High. Which didn't work, of course. But the messianic zeal, only got stronger. So pain proves how right Satan is. And he's out to share that pain, with the humanity the Most High, paid for. Derisively. So to do that, he must show a little leg, create little addictive pleasures, so man will keep on pulling the religious lever, baby.

And human history records his runaway success.

Such is the 'yin-yang' of Adam's Fall. Heard anytime you turn on your radio, television; heard anytime you listen to some mouth talking. Meanwhile, the still, small voice of the Spirit (1Kings 19:12) keeps on 'talking' to those who want to know Him, via the Bible, in God's System, totally without flash or fanfare. For the biggest miracle uses no flash, but only positive volition. Which volition, is non-meritorious -- one chooses a thing based on ITS merit, and God is total merit, so knowing God is total happiness. But the religious, will try to claim their volition and God as THEIR merit, but hey -- religion is based on insanity and magic, in the first place. Just as it was, in Genesis 3.

The entire purpose of religion is to make God PAINFUL; the pain makes you feel holy. Furthermore, the purpose is to sell all those outside religion, that relationship with God is supposed to be painful; so if you aren't having a painful relationship with Him, you are a bad person. Never mind, that Adam didn't have a painful relationship with God UNTIL he sinned! And then, the relationship becomes painful to him only because he WANTS it to be painful, as evidenced by how he ACCUSES God (Genesis 3:8-10, 12)! Prejudice, you see. We've all been sold this prejudice ever since: because the first purpose of religion, is to make oneself like the Most High as a REPLACEMENT for the True God, which is Satan's own goal, Isaiah 14:13-14. So the True God must be demonized, for that prejudice to become popular. So he hopes to enlist mankind's support in attaining that goal (theme of Part 1 of the Lord vs. Satan). We are thus pawns and Satan fodder. And truly have painful lives, if we go the religious route.

So religion is always the mortal enemy of God, in all its forms; even and especially when it calls itself 'Christian', Revelation 17. That chapter is about how a FAKE CHURCH would begin to superimpose itself over God and Bible, claiming to represent both. The year Revelation was written, was 96AD, and it was given to the last surviving apostle, John, to write during his exile on Patmos (Caesar Domitian had exiled him there). In that very year, a letter called "Clement I" was written by someone who was trying to become a papal authority. There is zero evidence of any Roman office of pope being accepted, even at the time of that letter: 'Clement' sought to get authority over the Corinthians who strenuously had rejected it on Biblical grounds; so you know right away 'Clement' was NOT a pope, and that the Bible didn't provide for such an office, either. [I don't know who the real author is. It's ascribed to Clement, but back in those days, all kinds of false Gospels and other written material were ascribed to people who didn't write them. That's why the Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha are also suspect. Their content is so silly, you wonder how anyone could even imagine granting them any higher status than the goofball stories in the National Enquirer.]

To promote religion, Satan & Co. use all human devices: especially, those most integral to communication and emotion. Thus, any number of emotional gimmicks will be employed, such as pomp and ceremony, respectability and 'miracles', rousing sermons and other feely tactics. Idea is to hook you on the feeling, so you will buy the demonic doctrine pitched. The chief difference between normal human group goofiness and demon-sponsored goofiness, is that the latter is always about something Biblical. The second major characteristic is that the goofiness is simultaneously turned on like a faucet, over very large, diverse groups of people (i.e., not merely everyone at a rock concert going dreamy-eyed). It turns off as quickly as it turns on. So when on, the huge numbers of people obsessed, evince characteristics of mental illness (obsessiveness being chief among them). Yet when the 'faucet' turns off, no lingering obsession remains. Puppetting. Man, obviously, can't do that to himself or to his fellows, or we'd have world peace by now.

In short, Satan & Co. aren't gargoyles or drooling animals of bovine stupidity (though they sell the idea they are, so man won't recognize them). They are erudite, and have a strong ascetic streak (they sponsor gross sin as a decoy and to ridicule man as a pet). If you could see them, you'd think they were God. They have bodies of light, and so can manipulate light, and hence the electrical functions of the brain. To make you feel anything. They send thoughts. They can control your vocal chords (well, maybe only the "engastrimuthos" demon does that (Leviticus 20:27, Deuteronomy 18:11, 1 Samuel 28:7 and others), I don't remember). They have a refined sense of wit, yet adore above all else, playing slapstick headgames on the human race -- slapstick, because they want man to know it's them playing the game. The slapstick is obvious, a kind of hey-see-me; that man doesn't recognize the slapstick quality of the ridicule, is a never-ending source of amazement. Again, real demons are not at all like the dippy 'demons' you see in the movies who zap and spar (though movies like "Fallen" and "Devil's Advocate" come closer to a proper characterization of their gamesmanship).

Doesn't matter, that some other religion's concepts, icons or heroes are nominally used to ridicule -- the root idea expressed in the goofiness intentionally points at Bible: so if you look for the Biblical character/counterpart, you'll find one. The ridiculing connection made will be in a specific context, not standing alone; it will be way too satirically witty for a human to dream up; and it will usually include conceptual play on the original-language texts of the Bible (but not always, sometimes playing on translations, instead). Since not one person in a million even knows anything about those texts; since not one in 20 million could decipher the connections across Scripture; since the same characteristics are in satirically-witty wordplays in the holy books and also point to Bible, well.. you know it's a demon-sponsored thing, not man's natural tendency to be silly. Moreover, man doesn't ridicule himself. Two prime examples of demon-sponsored goofiness are theories and 'evidence' of 1) evolution (=animism+metempsychosis), and 2) ghosts or aliens (=demons' characteristics). The Appendix of the Lord vs. Satan covers this topic in more detail. [Evolution is a ridicule on those who consider themselves scientific or intelligent, for the construct fails the first law of math, that no set can contain itself. Furthermore, evolution is just a trussed-up version of animism and metempsychosis, the religious idea that you transmogrify over unspecified eons toward nirvana or back to a lower life form, based on how moral a life you last led. The Greek version of this same idea at least was more rational, attributing to superior 'gods' the ability to transmute you. In both versions, however, something YOU did was able to generate this change, and since that exactly reflects Isaiah 13:13-14, the passage is in essence advertised by promoting evolution. With respect to ghosts and aliens, see the "Mothman" link in the Appendix of the Lord vs. Satan.]

Of course, demon-sponsored goofiness often directly ridicules something Biblical, such as today's national United States news (4/21/05, NBC) that a salt stain on the underpass of a major Chicago freeway, is the Virgin Mary, 'appearing'. Thousands are attending 'her', replete with candles, pictures of the dead Pope Paul II, and flowers. Much weeping. There was also a report 'she' appeared in a grilled cheese sandwich. A few years ago in Texas, 'she' appeared in a cooking tortilla. (20 years ago, no national network would bother to air such a stupidity. Today, it was actually treated as a quasi-real event. Cautiously. Cateringly. With live camera and interviews.) Why anyone thinks Omnipotent God would order such degrading 'miracles', I can't fathom. He never did anything remotely like that in the Bible; however, demons routinely do that sort of stuff, as the Old Testament and Gospels so poignantly illustrate. So how is it, when the demonic behavior in The Book is repeated live before our eyes, we don't recognize its source? Worse, we call it from God????? Yeah, the god of this world, mocking us!

I thought it a particularly nice touch the demons would use a salt stain which looks like a narrow flowing Bell curve, dripping down a concrete support for the underpass. "Salt" means Bible everywhere IN the Bible, idea of it preserving you from worldly thinking, and hence preserving the world. See the salt parables in the NT. Water, of course, is another metaphor for the Word. I'm not sure how to regard "concrete", though surely that was around back in Jesus' day (all that Roman construction wasn't marble, you know). Oh -- since building imagery, using common materials, is a favorite of the apostle Paul's, and Paul was the only virgin apostle, maybe that's why they picked concrete (a common substance, easily mixed), too. "Koine" means common, and a main theme of the New Testament is that common folk can become Pleroma heroes simply by living in God's System. It's not an elitist life, the legacy of Christ. Even a brain-damaged person can grow up to the "fullness of Christ", Ephesians 4:13 ("unity" there should be translated "System", hence my use of the term "God's System", which is exactly what Greek term "ἑνότης" in that passage, means).

I'm also not wholly sure what's the joke with the grilled cheese sandwich and the cooking tortilla, except that both required oil to fry, and "oil" is always a metaphor for God the Holy Spirit's teaching ministry (as well as a sign of royalty), so an "anointing" means you're under Him. Bread and its equivalent, corn, are staples (though they didn't have corn in Jesus' day).. and the Bread analogy means both Christ's Body and His Thinking (starting with Passover). Oh, but a tortilla is flat, so 'bread' leavened or unleavened, the latter being required for Passover, which means the bread was FLAT! Aha! (While 'leaven' is a metaphor for sin, leavened bread doesn't mean sin, but 'normal' food, during non-Passover days). Notice how all these joking metaphors point at Bible, nonetheless. Every demon game has characteristics like these -- plays on Bible metaphors which no human is smart enough to do. Kinda like a fingerprint. Common metaphors every schoolchild is taught. Yet no one notices, heh. What a joke on us.

According to the NBC reporter, the Vatican would neither confirm nor deny, nor send an emissary to investigate, the Chicago 'appearance' of the Virgin Mary. Guess it doesn't matter if one's parishioners are thus welcome to believe a lie. Of course, when the sun turned around backwards at Lourdes oh-so-long-ago, it didn't matter then, either. No one said, "God wouldn't do a stupid thing like that to show Himself!" It didn't matter, either, in the case of the 'shrine' of Fatima, nor in the case of any 'crying statue', nor in any of thousands of insulting 'miracles' no Real God would ever do. Clearer evidence of the anti-God character of religion, one couldn't have, since ALL religion is just as 'silent', when the 'miracle' in question, serves to promote that religion. Mark's Gospel is positively scathing on that topic. Probably written just before the Temple was destroyed by Titus (70 AD), the Gospel's rhetorical theme is that Christians still want God to be a dog, doing tricks for them: just like the generation which actually saw Christ do real miracles. [Mark's frequent use of "euthus", usually translated "immediately" alerts the reader to the impending cause of the Temple's destruction, so the Gospel was probably composed as a result of Paul's and Peter's deaths, circa 68AD, as a warning to leave Jerusalem. The siege of Jerusalem was protracted with many relaxations, but when Vespasian ascended as Emperor in 69AD, Titus had to resolve the problem permanently.] So, even when the Real God does a real miracle, which is never stupid and always meant to teach something, well.. people just want its titillation, not its teaching. That was true then, that is true now. So while religion is Satan's tool, it has plenty of human adherents. THAT, is not Satan's fault, but ours.

Satan's Grail Plan, Revelation 12-17: to Unite Fake Church and Fake Christ

So here in April 2005, notice the fawning, mesmerized quality of media reporting and popular attention, concerning two main elements in the Revelation 12-17 prophecies regarding Satan's strategy for world control: 1) the FAKE CHURCH, and 2) alleged descendants of Jesus the Christ. You just know these fawning and mesmerized people, are totally unaware of those prophecies. Look: the combination of the Pope's death and the runaway success of the The Da Vinci Code, resulted in the current media attention on both elements, since the latter is a fictional novel about the persecution of alleged descendants of Christ BY the Roman Catholic Church. That a real death and a fictional novel rehashing again the old Grail myth can be combined for national television and cable, with so much obsessive public interest in both, is alarming. The lock-step fawning in the reporters and other media professionals is even more alarming. What used to be the stuff of Tribulational movies one scoffed at as too goofy to really happen, is now real news. We had earlier 'appetizers' of this fawning feast in the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana, her funeral, the O.J. Simpson Trial. But now this kind of stuff is happening over a much broader scope of topics. As if anything is an occasion for mesmerized attention. Today, it's a Pope's death, at a time when worldwide interest in Roman Catholicism, is at an all-time-low. Today, it's a criminal trial of a singer's alleged pederasty (which I don't personally believe happened), Michael Jackson. [Though the trial of Lizzie Borden excited the same kind of goofy interest.] Today, it's a furor over the whether his sister showed a pasty during Superbowl half-time (still a furor, though the 30-second slip, happened last year). In short, this combined Pope-and-Grail obsession is but a part of an overall trend of increasing obsessions, none of which make any sense. Unless, of course, demons are herding the thing. Since the topic is Biblical, assume that they are, especially since the obsession is worldwide, not just in the US. That's one of their favorite ways of advertising themselves and mocking us, as the Gospels (especially Mark's) painfully prove.

Whether Christ actually married and had kids, has long been a popular topic of debate: the so-called "cult of the Magdalene" is based on that claim. Moreover, there are currently 'pretenders' out there making a similar claim (i.e., Prince Michael Stuart, though I can no longer find his official website). Note carefully that these 'pretenders' are all European: the popular book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, published (I think) in 1982, was based upon one such pretender, an allegedly royally-descended Frenchman of the Plantard-Saint Clair line. That line, as well as the others, all meanderingly derive from King Clovis I (aka "Clodwig" more on him below); and Clovis, from Merovech/Merowig (Mérovée, in French). According to the many legends about him, a mystical priest-kingship was claimed by Mérovée, deriving from a Trojan (Grecian) merging of kingly bloodlines with the Jewish tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Dan. Somewhere in all that you'll find a claim folding in the Magdalene with the Merovingian line; or, instead of the Magdalene, folding in the lost ruling house of Israel (aka "disposyni"). In the Magdalene cult, it's claimed she bore Christ a daughter named Sarah who eventually married some monarch (I forget who). All this is the stuff of myth and legend, you can't prove any of it; what you can prove, is that the Merovingian kings were very into the occult, and.. um, 'wanton'. To the extreme. However, there are real claimants today, and in the past, all of them European, aka "the West" in the Bible. ["real claimants" doesn't mean their claim is valid, but that they are real people.]

So note: Revelation 17 occurs when the FAKE CHURCH and the "King of the West" (who claims to be Christ or a descendant of him).. UNITE. You know this interpretation from the larger context of Revelation 12-17; from many Old Testament passages on the same subject, like Daniel 9, 12, Zechariah 12, and many other passages in Isaiah and other prophets. (The prophecy was unveiled piecemeal, as elements became relevant to the generation needing those teachings at the time; so Bible prophecy isn't nicely limited to one book in the Bible.) Once you go through them all (and it takes a few years of study in the original-language texts so you don't hallucinate what Bible says), you get the picture that

• a political block of countries roughly corresponding to modern-day Europe,
• while inimical to the prevalent world religion based in Rome (claiming to be Church, as we know from the Bible keyword "mystery" in Revelation 17),
• makes a pact with it, in order to exercise effective world control/hegemony.
• That pact is truly successful worldwide, in the Tribulation.
• However, we know from the Tower of Babel onward that the goal is always Satan's plan, so many such attempts are variantly successful on lesser levels, in history. Historically, you can prove some of these readily.

  We are not in the Tribulation: Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan exhaustingly explains the basis for the "Rapture" (a Latin Vulgate term, Anglicized) being the kickoff for the Tribulation. However, Revelation 12-17 is also a stamped trend of history, before the Tribulation commences (also explained in Part 4). Politico-religious world rule, like the Tower of Babel and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, is always Satan's plan for the human race. With it he hopes to create a counterfeit of the Millennium, a nice world which needs no God. If he can pull that off, he thinks he beats God. So Satan's strategy never varies, except kaleidoscopically, in color and name (but not in color, with respect to the FAKE CHURCH). [You'd think the Roman Catholic Church would read Revelation 17, since they claim to be the real representatives of Christ; and then, amid much chagrin, change the scarlet and purple colors which for centuries has distinguished them! Proves no one reads the Bible, among them. The Roman Catholic Church dismissively treats all of Revelation as allegorical. Not a good decision! Of course, if they ever read the end of 1 Peter, they'd stop claiming he died in Rome, since he never went there; if they ever did a search in the LXX on "Petra" they'd have to correct their position to say the word "Rock" refers to Christ and not Peter, in Matthew 16:18. So they've never read that verse in the inspired text.. for centuries?] Again, Lord vs. Satan has much more explanation.

  So to join religion and politics via the mystical idea of a fake Christ, is really the only way he can forge that control and make what he feels will be a victory against God; which is why, he can't just use any religion, but must craft one he can call 'Christian'. So it can be 'headed', in the public eye, by someone he either passes off as Christ Himself, or.. more likely.. as a blood descendant of Christ. The latter idea is far superior, so he can get the Jews to unite, so he can get those wanting only a secular ruler, to buy into it. Remember, Revelation 13 talks about fantastic 'powers' being demonstrated by this 'beast' (the antichrist being used as a substitute for Christ) and his prophet, which is why you have that miraculous statue in the not-God-authorized Rebuilt temple of Jerusalem. [Anyone is a Christian who has once in his lifetime believed in Christ via John 3:16's mechanics, no matter what he calls himself, no matter what religion he espouses. Christianity is a relationship, not a religion. Accordingly, "Church" isn't a religion either, but a type of fitted construction, Ephesians 2, Ephesians 4:11-16: "Church" is the aggregate mass of Christians, people who believe in Christ between Pentecost of June 30 AD, and the Rapture. (Of course, those who believed in Him prior but were still alive ON that Pentecost, are in Church). It's a permanent body, aka "the Body of Christ" and has its own several covenant in Him. You can prove all this even in translation, if you look up all "Church" and "Body" and "Bride" references in the NT. "Saint" is simply another term for believer, stressing how he's been permanently saved (Greek word ἁγιάζω means permanently-set-apart-to-God, usually translated "sanctify"; and άγιος is its cognate noun, usually translated "saint". The Bible term "mystery" refers to hidden knowledge which was unknown to the Old Testament writers, and is a specialized moniker to designate the the Thinking of Christ which the Church gets to uniquely acquire in God's System. Hence, the Revelation 17 metaphor of a harlot 'mystery', designates a prostituted version of Church, with prostituted doctrines. So a believer IN that prostituted version, can indeed exist, since as just noted, it only took a nanosecond's faith in Christ to become a believer. Satan gets an extra thrill if he can use believers as harlots; and indeed you can prove by the doctrines touted (i.e., prolifers) that over 90% of Christianity today is playing the harlot by the Bible's definitions. So people are not the enemy, nor do we fight against them: Ephesians 6. All this is part of Operation Footstool, and God is not threatened. We just choose to either be dazzled by the lie and get caught up in it (which 99% will choose), or to get in and stay in God's System. Freedom to choose is always guaranteed.]

  In the 4th century, Satan & Co. forged just such a union (Constantine and his sons), but had no fake descendant he could use. A century later, he used Clodwig/Clovis. (It's real important to know that the Merovingian claim is not Christian, but to some degree, Jewish-kingship related. I can't prove how much and in what precise way. Looks more like it was related to Solomon and what we know as Sparta, that group of Greeks, but I can't be more specific. Nor can I find any near-contemporary material which indicates whether the Merovingians themselves made this claim. So it is more likely that people made up legends about them, including the idea of a Jewish bloodline/descendance from Christ. The dynasty did last a good 400 years, and in those days it was fashionable to attribute mystical powers to one's king. Kinda still is, when you think over how we over-laud and over-criticise, our leaders.) King Clovis I was, like Constantine, a 'convert' due to military victory. From Clovis came the Carolingian monarchy (not directly, but through gradual usurpation and marriage alliances), all of them having the same Revelation 17 structure (i.e., the Church crowned them kings). All this really began in earnest, way back in the 90's AD with the so-called "Church fathers", who basically supplanted the Bible with themselves as the replacing authority. (Undoubtedly, many of them didn't mean to supplant Scripture, either.) It took about 200 more years to attain the hegemony for a Constantine to 'convert'; thus this united scarlet (religious) and purple (political) anti-Christ structure dominated from Constantine until the Reformation. So Revelation 17's 'play' in history, is sordid, provable, and witty: Messiah is the Priest-King, see. So Satan & Co. are out to make a counterfeit Priest-Kingship. So since past is prologue, events here in 2005 are pointing to yet another bid by Satan to return back to those dark ages. All he needs, is one or more charismatic leaders who wow the world, and unite their 'cause' with the Roman Catholic Church. We don't have to be in the Tribulation for these bids to occur (though those ignorant of Bible, will think we are). It will be all the more sweet, in Satan's mind, if he can drum up another fake descendant of that selfsame Clovis. Since Clovis' kids were very promiscuous and prolific, there will be no shortage of folks he can use. Now you see why the attention to the Da Vinci Code, Gnostic Gospels (which are sillier than Mad Magazine), the Magdalene cult, etc. are paired. It's not the first time this gambit has been played, capisce?

  Since unity among Christians is now an official goal of (the new) Pope Benedict XVI's administration, the current newswatcher better sees how Revelation 17 could realistically work in the future (purpose of prophecy is to teach, not titillate). Since all calls for unity precede war, since all calls for unity mean 1) there is massive DISunity and 2) a jockeying for power, you can expect those hostile to Christians will likewise unite, polarizing the world 'camps' still further. That's Satan's Götterdämmerung plan (why he tries to make the fake Millennium, in the first place). This same call to unity occurred last century before both WWI and WWII, and the resultant flurry of treaties, pacts, etc. proved to cause the war in both cases (because nations were bound to defend the others in the pact). We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. This trend is thus a precursor to a bid for hegemony, cloaking it in the name of the commonweal (same as the Russian and Chinese communists did, last century). If demon-sponsored, then religion will figure prominently (i.e., as it did in the Crusades and all Europe's religious wars); moreover, the group calling for unity (here, the papacy) wouldn't necessarily intend a power grab, and are but pawns being used. (However, Roman Catholic Church always has intended a power grab whenever it makes peace with other Christian factions, since the Roman Catholic Church idea of peace is everyone being under it in some way. That bid began roughly 10 years ago, with other ritualistic denominations. I haven't keep track as to how much progress has been made, so can't report on it. Presumably you can find stuff on the web about it.]

  The larger significance, however, is the ongoing war Satan & Co. fight against God. Since this is the larger truth, the believer does nothing but keep on learning in God's System. He avoids entanglement, because it's only God who does the fighting, theme of Ephesians 6. We are supposed to read the times, not get out and push God's airplane. Don't be on the wrong side of history: just keep on keeping on in God's System, learning Him Who is Seated and Really Ruling.

  Seriously: the god of this world wants everyone to get 'involved' so that everyone will have their eyes on things and people, and not on God. So you keep your eyes on God. And you can only do that, by keeping on keeping on in God's System. Thus you will be used to bless the world far more, even when breathing or brushing your teeth, than all of the famous people you see on television. If you doubt this, read "Corollary 3A" and following in Part 3 of the Lord vs. Satan (LordvSatan3.htm); then, "Diamond Doctrine Facets" of LvS4b.htm.

God's Marital Relationship Plan of DDNA Unity in Christ's Thinking

By contrast, God's Goal is to unite you with His Son's Thinking.. Relationship, not religion-cum-politics which arrogantly passes itself off as divine. For He married you on the Cross. Individually. Personally. No intermediaries. Bible relentlessly explains that God's purpose is a relationship, not a religion. Paul, like Isaiah before him, is especially strident about how it's not religion but relationship, in Romans 4-8 (divorce from religion, man's preoccupations) and in all of Ephesians (especially Chap4). Religion is completely evil, and even more -- irrelevant: a fetid and impotent opposition on its way to defeat, stand still and watch the deliverance of the LORD. You are thus instead, to calmly and daily acquire your portion of the True Grail Word, the Thinking of your Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ, 2 Peter 3:18, Ephesians 4:11-16. For the whole purpose of the Bible, is to teach the believer about God. Not, about religion. [Since Ephesians 4:11-16 is always mistranslated.] The "shemah" of Deuteronomy 6:4, meant all that, which is why "hear" (= shemah) is the first word in it. Hearing was ALL they could do, since not all the Word was yet written down. But it would be. That it would be written down, was the promise Israel had looked forward to, yearning for the day when its shadow-worship (term is in Hebrews 10) would end, and the LORD would be her Husband. You'll find many comments referencing this fact strewn throughout the Old Testament, like in Psalm 138:2b (David, prostrate, which is why 139:17 reads as it does). Like Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is referenced and explained in Hebrews 8:8-12-10:17, 1 Corinthians 13.

Israel was to become the teaching priesthood of this Word forever, the Bride of Messiah when He came. For once Messiah paid for sins, He was to Return and then Take Over The World, with Israel as His Bride. Alas, Israel turned down the Groom during His First Advent, so akin to the problem Ahasureus/Xerxes of Persia had when Vashti spurned him, The Lord Jesus Christ announced to the entire world, His calling for a Bride (Matthew 22). [You could spend a month studying the wedding parable of Matthew 22. So many levels of meaning in it. Each word incorporates by reference so much of the Old Testament, one is awestruck by the genius of the wording.]

This 'marriage' relationship between Creator and a Bride has always been the central theme of the Old Testament and New. Israel rejected Him, so in Matthew 16:18, He announces that on HIMSELF He will build a replacement Bride, the Church, of which "Petros" (diminutive form of Petra, The Rock-Christ, so means a 'chip' of Him), would be a part -- Peter's not the Cornerstone, for crying out loud. (See, the woman was built from Adam's rib; so the Last Adam will get a Church Bride built from His Thinking: see also Ephesians 2,4,5, 1 Corinthians 6, 12. Very witty.) So by Matthew 22, He makes this very wry analogy to show Father's longstanding order that they 'marry' Messiah (γάμος is the marriage itself), using inheritance verbs like καλέω, in the Greek; the language is very strong, even offensive (i.e., use of "δεῦτε" in 22:4), making pointed analogy to how Esther became queen. [If you don't know it's a command to MARRY Him, you'll misunderstand why they get punished for refusing. English is VERY misleading: so what else is new, sheesh. KJV is closest, but still too tame and ambiguous. Greek ἀνάκειμαι in Matthew 22:10 is deliberately multiple-entendre; the Bride shall forever lie with her husband, so first reclines at table with Him, see. He's not talking about mere guests, and English has no proper equivalent translation for ἀνάκειμαι. It's His Father's Table, get it? It's very understandable why this analogy was so offensive. But how else to warn them?] So, as Hebrews 4 explains, "there remains" a promise of Brideship outstanding, since Israel didn't enter the "rest" (really cool wordplay on salt/remnant). So, as the roster in Hebrews 11 explains, it was never about religion, but about an Eternal Intimate Relationship With Him Who is Invisible. [Church does not ever replace Israel. It's a separate covenant. Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan painstakingly goes through the differences. So yes, Israel will still be the head nation in the Millennium, with the Lord ruling the world through her, and through those Pleroma believers of Church (the latter will be ruling Gentile nations). But Bride is Church, forever.]

So Satan's Out to Substitute the Groom -- all in God's Name, of course!

Hey: Laban substituted the bride for Jacob, so why can't Satan create his own 'Leah'? So Satan's bid to marry religion and politics, to craft a FAKE CHURCH and FAKE CHRIST, is to prevent the Real Marriage of the Cross from being consummated. Hence God's Marital Proposal to the human race via the Cross, is contested by those who don't like that fact; Satan & Co. head and sponsor all opposition to it. For, the larger story is that mankind is involved in a DIVORCE Trial petition ("riv" in Hebrew, "pragma" in Greek) in which Satan & Co. allege that God is the guilty party. So religion is not at all an issue, being as it is rendered irrelevant, since God is Infinite and no one can even dream of doing anything which counts before Him, Romans 4:1ff. All of this Isaiah graphically explained, in Isaiah 52:13-Chap55, with 55:9 being the summary: My ways are not your ways, nor My thoughts your thoughts. No amount of religion, can transform the person into a son of God. But God can do that. Do you want that compatibility to happen TO you? Then learn His Book, in God's System. Not, religion.

Thus the arguing plays out in human history, zigzagging between the sides. On the one hand, Bible is contested and misrepresented, lest you actually LEARN it, for a change. Bible is not a religious book, but rather exposes religion as a satanic fraud, calling it 'harlotry' in such scathing language, translators feel constrained to euphemize the God-breathed original. Isaiah and Ezekiel are particularly raunchy in their sarcastic portrayals (both prophets were incredibly graphic). A version of the scathing sarcasm shows in Isa44:10ff, which even the KJV was able to convey. Every Old Testament ritual spoofs religion, especially the contemporary religious practices of the time, to yell that the God of Israel hates religion. Hence the many scathing passages in Isaiah, Ezekiel, Hosea and Zechariah, depicting religion as stinking, menstrual rags, evil, fornicating, harlotry. Translators are always constrained to euphemize what God writes. For the world, hoo-boy -- is religious. For the world, hoo-boy -- is controlled by the Adversary in the Divorce Trial ("Satan" means opposing attorney, aka "adversary"), having won that control when he cleverly used the woman, to get the man to sin (out of love for her).

Satan counters by using the old lawyer's trick of False Definition, to make Bible look like a religious book; change the definitions of the words, and even when you read the Book, you can't read it. The clever lawyer will define the two sides in a trial INcorrectly, and he'll succeed if he can play to the jury's prejudices. He carefully picks just enough truth such that the opposition can't refute that portion, but will Sleight The Meaning And Add Prejudicial Ideas to the kernels of truth, building up different meaning to the kernels. You see this gambit all the time in advertising, too. A deodorant ad won't simply show the product and say it eliminates body odor, but will show some attractive person getting attention from the opposite sex in the next frame, after using the product. See the prejudicial lie, added? If you use this product, you'll be popular. That's a play to prejudice, for everyone wants to be popular, so it's easy to pre-judge the product as producing popularity. A repeated lie always becomes 'true' in the ears of the hearers, if repeated often enough. So now you're thinking about being popular, and it's associated with that product. So what you are not seeing, is that deodorant merely reduces body odor, but guarantees you nothing. So you become religious about using the product.

Satan thus defines issues for mankind into good deeds and gross sin; the gambit is if you do the first but not the second, you are 'approved'. But the truth is, you're not: neither of these obeys the First Commandment, and it's always and only about relationship to God. Rather, by defining the issues as good deeds and gross sin, God is cut out from your thinking, and your eyes are constantly on yourself and others around you. To focus on what you do, is to spurn God in favor of self, people, things. Greatest evil there is, actually, is to make an issue of anything except learning God, seeing God, etc. Might as well spit in His Face. If you love God you want to know everything about Him, your thoughts are on Him and how He is as a Person; if you don't love God your mind is on someone or something else in preference to Him. So it matters not at all, what good deeds or sins you do. It matters altogether, whether you are learning and thinking of and toward Him. The Son of God didn't stay solely God, but chose to add on Humanity and in that Humanity become King-Priest forever to Father, theme of Hebrews 5-10. So obviously, that's what "good" really is. So all man's vaunted good deeds, are really "filthy" as the Bible says, Isaiah 64:6. No God in them, just ego. The writer of Hebrews communicates this in the Greek of 6:11-12 with such sanctified sarcasm, I wonder how the text avoids burning up my computer. Same, for 5:11 (which 6:12 cleverly references, the term "νωθρός" meaning "dull" like a knife is dull -- meaning no Word, Hebrews 4:12). Same, for 5:11-6:6. Scathing.

Notice how deft is Satan's ploy. For it's not that God demands or even needs 100% of your time, but you are MADE, by nature, Royal Priest: Legacy from Christ Who wanted that destiny for Himself, Hebrews 5-10. So 100% dedication to God, which is a Thinking, not an outward occupation (doesn't matter what you do with your body), is your very design, as a believer. So Happiness and "good" are glorious, but puny man can't know what glory really is. God, however, does: "taste the Lord, for He is Good!" wrote David (see Psalm 34:8, 1 Peter 2:3). I mean, if you ever tasted the lentil soup served at The Trails Restaurant in Duarte, CA, you'd know how glorious it is and want everyone to get some, too. But if you thought lentil soup was a 'jewish' thing or a 'religious' thing so you didn't want it for the taste but only the status, well.. you'd not enjoy it. Then you're not choosing the soup, but the status. So the religious person is not choosing God, but the status. Of course, if you loved that soup, you'd not care about the status. Of course, if you loved God, you'd not care that learning Him is the only way to be "spiritual" (no body stuff ever counts of itself). So you'd not regard the status, being too busy enjoying Him. [Sadly, The Trails is no longer in business. That soup was to die for. Only Bible tastes better!]

Satan and mankind, however, allege that their good deeds have independent value which God should reward -- which is not true. For only Infinite Righteousness is worthy. So the allegation is evil, and comes from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. No such 'knowledge' was in mankind, pre-Fall. Now you know why. And look how ensnaring: so long as something YOU do or don't do is the cause of your merit, then YOU can be better than someone else. Man inherited terminal insecurity at the Fall. So he has this obsessive need to make himself better than someone else. Having bought the lie that some stupid fruit could make him as good as God, well.. all other lies which promise superiority, will be delicious. Now you know why ecumenical religion -- nay, all religion of any kind -- is always so popular.

Moreover, both good deeds and sin are irrelevant: since no good deeds are good (Isaiah 64:6 again), and sin was nailed away on the Cross (theme of Romans 6, and others). But with that satanic definition of right versus wrong, people are so prejudicially busy looking at what they are and do, they don't look at God. They use His Name all the time; but they never learn Him, since learning Him isn't in the satanic religious definition of right and wrong, get it? Bible is really a revelation of God's Nature and Character, told in a bazillion ways. The very words in their original languages, written exactly as they are (and you'd not believe how deft the original-language texts are) show His Character in so much glory, you'd never want to do anything else, once you finally learn how to see Him in those words. For the words, reflect the Thinking, and the Thinking, the Character of the Thinking. Beauty beyond description, without mysticism, magic, but with meaning everywhere. Overflowing, as David noted in Psalm 23:5. The 'chalice', the 'cup' of His Thinking is beyond compare. And Satan & Co. don't want anyone to drink it. So redefine everything, religiously. Since fallen man is naturally religious and hence rebellious, the religious redefinition is compatible with man's fallen nature, so he doesn't look at God. Instead, he looks at himself, constantly treading the hamster's treadmill of i'm-improving, going nowhere.

Bible thus seeks to protect man from religion by disclosing the Truth about it. Bible thus explains over and over that all religion tyrannizes, i.e., in Ephesians 2, Hebrews 4-10, Romans 9, 11, Galatians 5 (well, all of Galatians). However, man prefers religion, and thus hates those who believe in Christ, who learn Bible. So: while it's true that Christians are largely obnoxious, the true objection to them is that they belong to God, having done nothing whatsoever to warrant that status, Hebrews 10:10-14. People resent the Gospel, because they want their versions to count. They accuse Christians of imposing on them, when in fact the Christian merely states what's true. How he feels about it doesn't change its truth. But Christians are blamed for telling the truth, and Bible is accused of being just as good as anything else. But there isn't anything else, but lies. So, Christians are hated, not because they are goofy, but because they are saved. It's weird, since anyone who believes in Christ can be saved. But instead of believing, folks would rather hate those who do, hate those servants of His He sends to call them, making all sorts of excuses: just as Christ explained, in Matthew 22. People still don't want to marry Him, just like Satan & Co.

Worse, those who want religion, want status, and thus resent the unearned status the God in Grace freely accords the believer. Greek verb "ἁγιάζω" means every person who ever once believes in Christ during his lifetime, is a saint. Made so forever, by Jesus Christ, "once for all time". So even the lascivious Corinthians, are addressed as "saints" by Paul. No election but God's makes you ever a saint (so popes or people electing you as one is worth bupkis); and even then, God's election is due to what Christ did (ibid). The verb was never used of Old Testament believers, though of course their salvation is permanent as well. Rather, the verb is due to Church (body of believers, never a building) having a unique status in Christ, which Father purposed (Ephesians 1-2), and a "portfolio of invisible assets" (my pastor's term) so vast, that you'd be bug-eyed if you really understood it: Paul's first sentence in Ephesians 1's Greek (English is bad) runs 18 verses long, to rhetorically convey the unending vast wealth we have in Him. Fortunately, Bible is a pretty big book, so it takes years to learn what God hath wrought in Christ. So you discover your vast wealth, slowly. It's easier to take this huge shock one day at a time. (All of the Lord vs. Satan (accessible from the Home Page) is on that topic, running some 1600+ printed pages by now.) So the Christian is doubly-hated for doing nothing to earn such high permanent status, even though anyone can get the same status, simply via John 3:16 and living in God's System. So it's not as though anyone is being cheated. But oh, the religious will holler foul!

Yah, and Israel didn't earn her vast estates, either. On a far lower scale than ours, her grace gifts also resulted in a spiritual life provision of learn, not earn. God is infinite, so what he wants, is for you to Learn Him, First Commandment. Hence, back in the Old Testament, Moses explained (in refrain) that Israel could do Nothing to warrant its landgrant, Deuteronomy 6:4-5, 7:7-10, 8:11-20, 9:4-6, etc (in context). For by grace we are saved, through faith (i.e., John 3:16). Not works. Religion is about works. God is about Grace. The two are eternal enemies, theme of Romans 8:1-10 and all Galatians.

So those who don't believe in Christ, believe in Religion, their substitute 'god', and are hence hostile to those who believe in the real God (main theme of Galatians). Never mind, that the unbeliever can belong to God in a nanosecond via 'obeying' John 3:16 -- oh no, he'd really rather just hate anyone who does obey it; just as, in the Old Testament and even now, everyone is prone to hate the Jews God chose, especially those who obeyed Genesis 15:6 (which the aforementioned Deuteronomy passages, all affirm). Same, for the attitude of the carnal believer, one who lives outside God's System -- he hates anyone who lives in it. Romans 8 explains why: religion is the world's thinking, done up in God-trappings or no, aka "earthly things". But God is the antithesis of all that. So, He's hated for not providing man with some gimmick whereby man can preen.

The need to preen is so total, man even makes a work out of his faith! Look: if I believe the sun exists, why should I get credit for that? So what's the difference, if I believe in God? Isn't it God Who is good? If I eat lentil soup, and it's tasty to me, and also 'happens' to be good for my health, why should I get credit for that? But people manufacture out of nothing, 'justifications' to preen! It's incredible, that stupid debate between the Calvinists and the Arminians all those years -- both were wrong, ascribing to volition, merit! The former had to pretend man lost volition, in order to remove the claim of merit, and the latter stupidly assigned merit to volition. But think: don't you choose something due to the merit in the Object? So how, then, are you good, because the Object is good? What insanity! Now you know why God 'hates' religion -- it's positively insane, like Lady MacBeth! And all advertising depends on this insanity, to sell you products (always alleging that you will be better if you buy that product; that you are wise because you buy that product) -- you realize, that's exactly how a harlot sells her stuff...

Now of course all this hatred, is preferably cloaked in self-superiority: one must be civil, you know. Christians are stupid. Jews are bad. Belief in God is weakness. Trusting in God is childish. God is a fairy tale. Or, the religious variety: so-and-so sinned. So-and-so offended. So-and-so should apologize. So-and-so slighted me/us/the lamppost/whatever. Anything to make self superior to whatever/whoever is compared. So, you hear vile prejudices like these all the time. It's not just that we Christians and Jews being human, provide plenty of foibles for mockers to deride; it's just simple prejudice. And among Christians and Jews, the prejudice is even worse, since everyone is busy being religious, and no one is busy learning God. So the deepest of hatreds, are disinterest and dismissive attitudes toward learning God. His Book is mouthed in our congregation meetings, but never eaten; we want homilies and stupid intercourse with people, but not with our Creator. First Commandment goes completely ignored. So we ourselves are God's worst enemies, even once eternally saved. Uniquely.

This universal enmity of the world, among unbelievers and believers alike, shows up most starkly in Matthew 4. Those are temptations to good deeds. The world constantly succumbs to them, and indeed prides itself on doing so. Oh, but if you would rather learn God than give in to Satan's 3-pronged evil, well -- YOU are the one branded as evil. As if learning God, was less important than doing human works? Do you see how evil, are religion and works claims? What the blazes should it ever matter what you do for people, if you aren't learning God? 1 John is nearly apoplectic in its stress that learning the Word is the only good you can do -- and if you aren't doing it, 1 John 3 likens the lapse to becoming a thief and a murderer, as explained in the First Aspect.

Yet Matthew 4, Satan's triple siren song, is competitively sung in nearly every pulpit of every religion every day and always is featured in the news. Everyone falls all over each other, to outdo someone else in good deeds! You can't get away from the harping message to feed the poor, do something flashy, control other people -- all in the name of 'good'! -- unless you avoid the media completely: who cares about knowing God, helping people is what's right! Greater hatred of God could not exist, and mankind is bombarded with it, in this oh-so-modern communications, age. Funny thing, all this hypocrisy shows up pretty quickly in one's dealings with people, too -- lots of bombast to do good deeds, all of it manipulative. Wonder why.

For the need to be good, IS the sin nature: Part 2 of Lord vs. Satan spent a lot of time on the spiritual pathology of Adam's Fall. (Psychology actually has quite a lot of proof of the sin nature, though psychology doesn't realize that fact.) The sin nature's need to be good is a leftover genetic (DNA) programming 'memory' of the GUILT of succumbing to that stupid Tree. So there is this constant urge to be good, in order to undo or atone for that guilt. It's impossible, to fulfill. Hence man has this mindless, insane need to be good. It's a congenital defect, with no recourse: until you die, your body will torture you with its loopy need to be good. [Hence the virgin Birth, so the Humanity of Christ wouldn't have sin nature genes. Like the First Adam, Christ was thus born perfect. So like the first Adam, Christ could only LOSE that perfection, by sinning Himself.] The believer still is dominated by the need, and only living in God's System, will relieve him of it; and then, only to the extent he Lives On Scripture. There is no other relief. Religion alleges an alternate relief, in order to trap you in ever-greater misery. People generally fall for the religious trap, and die inside it, because they prefer how religion feels to how living in God's System 'feels'.

But we Become Instantly Good As God, 2 Corinthians 5:21, via John 3:16, so there's no need for religion, even if it were ever useful. Romans 6 is on this change (explaining why it works); and Romans 7-8 cover the ongoing war you experience from your body, despite the change. Because the non-spiritual can't discern the spiritual (1 Corinthians 2, 1 John 1:5-10), we can't 'feel' that we are good enough, and the body life remains dead -- ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Religion taps and traps that inability to discern. So we go through our day fancying ourselves better than others based on what we wear, own, look like, or who we know. When to know God, Who's better than everyone.. no one wants to do. So the Book remains unopened, in every hotel room drawer, no time spent on it, but oodles of time spent on hair, good deeds, escapism. What a waste. What enmity and ennui grow, instead...

Christ warned of all this enmity in the Gospels, as does 1 John. Prejudice, hatred: these are religious enemy attitudes, and they always dress in white. Reminds me of Richard Burton's portrayal in the film he made with John Hurt, "1984", the scene where he talks with "Winston" (Hurt) about the number of fingers held up. Yeah, for his own good! So God has many enemies; the one in His System shares in all Christ is and has, including the enemies. Who are numbered, even among fellow believers, even among one's friends or family.

The Lord warned about this also: count the cost. Getting DDNA is no Pollyanna thing. You will be attacked, more and more subtly, as you grow in Christ. And as explained in Ephesians 6, Galatians 5:1, you don't fight back. You just stand fast, keeping on in God's System. Quietly. Stand still and watch the deliverance of the LORD, for the enemies are all being herded from outside themselves, by Satan & Co. For, as Paul quips often in his God-breathed letters, we were all once the enemies of God. But He didn't fight us, He died as a Substitute for us, Romans 5:8 (in context). [Greek preposition ὑπέρ should only be translated, "as a substitute for". You learn this your first year in seminary, and it's drilled into your head -- but then for your tests, you are constrained to chop off that meaning to the more-ambiguous "for". You'd be fired as a translator in a diplomatic post if you were so slipshod, since a slightly-wrong translation in official correspondence can (and did) bring countries to the brink of war. How much more, then, the official correspondence of God? So, see -- even in seminary you are taught early to lie against the Word. See Mounce's tome on the Greek prepositions, his Appendix; then, consult whoever you like about this subject, check it out for yourself. My pastor can barely contain his temper when he goes over how ὑπέρ is mistranslated in the Bible. Think about it -- "for" makes salvation sound like a bargain-basement thing, in English; leaves 'open' the idea you must contribute something, or that you can lose your salvation -- what blasphemy. "Subsitute for" better conveys the preposition, makes it clearer the Lamb-of-God tie to the Levitical sacrifices, makes the believer better understand why salvation is permanent, total, and why there is nothing to 'add' to it. Sheesh. Anything to denigrate Christ. Even in our seminaries and Bible translations! Funny how God 'managed' to anticipate all that, when inspiring the writer of Hebrews to write Hebrews 10. Even in translation, you can't miss the point that the salvation Christ bought is forever, and you can't add squat to it. Whew.]

Ironically, the "cost" is really profit to you. Matthew 4:4 is an answering conversion process which is always 100% profit: any 'incoming' attack of viral RNA from anyone around you, from Satan & Co., or from your own thoughts, is to be 'captured and held' by whatever DDNA (Bible Doctrine, when you're filled with the Spirit in God's System) is circulating. That's just what happened on the Cross: so the allegation or temptation made by the viral RNA, gets re-engineered by the Truth in you, such that even more DDNA gets produced. So you don't have any need to succumb to temptation, it can just hit you: and you just let it hit you, even as Christ let sins hit Him, on the Cross. So "counting the cost" ends up meaning counting your profit, growing ever closer to your own finishing the course (i.e., 2 Timothy 4:7-8, James 1:12). [Term "temptation" in James 1:12 should be translated "testing". James is speaking of a whole lifetime experience, not merely a moment or span, which is how he opened his letter. Theme is on living on the Word, but for some crazy reason people skip right over Chapter 1, and read verses like 2:18-26 completely out of context. Weird.] Getting the knowledge and thereafter the practical skill in such thinking is a lifetime endeavor. Christ trained for 30 years before He 'went public'; and thereafter, the training was totally intense in two (inner and outer) dimensions at the highest levels; culminating with the purpose of all that training, the Cross itself. So we can expect a lifetime of practice, with public-type testing, as relevant, culminating in a 'cross' of our own, by the end of our lives. That is, if we want to get in and stay in, God's System.

So all enmity against learning God, is the persecution subplot in the True Grail story, and it began back in the Garden of Eden. What did Adam and the woman do, that Satan needed to tempt them? Why didn't he just leave them alone? They weren't involved with him. Why should it matter, what God was doing with them? Satan didn't want God, they did, so what? Satan wasn't impacted by their choice, and at any time, could have changed his own. But oh no -- he's got to get them to buy the Tree of the Knowledge of Good And Evil -- a religious kind of knowledge, where man makes himself good, even as Satan purposed to make himself like the Most High God, Isaiah 14:13-14. Religion is nothing, if not pushy. So here you see the First Grail story, where religion picks on people who just happen to be blessed by God. It has never changed, since.

Suffering in life is not coming from God, ever. It comes from bad decisions, it comes from the pressures of the old sin nature, it comes because this world is tainted by sin, it comes because everyone is out to get something from everyone else. It's in the genes, folks. So if you want God, and live in God's System, you will be more attacked. More, because as you learn how Great God is, all you used to think good, now looks tawdry. More, because as you learn how Great God is, you lose interest in the world and its stuff. And the world -- at least, your world -- will notice. And become gradually hostile. Because Romans 8 is really true: the flesh and the Spirit are at war. The former with the Latter, actually. It's a one-sided fight, and it's Not God Who's Fighting, 1 Corinthians 13:4ff. So only hatred, fights, and there's no hatred in the God Who is Love and sent His Son as a Substitute for the entire world, Romans 5:8, John 3:16, 1 John 2:2. So it's religion, that makes life down here, hellish.

Your old sin nature can't live with your learning Doctrine in God's System, either. Satan & Co. can't stand it, either. So the opposition you get as you live in God's System, is what makes life difficult. Gorgeous Doctrine gets attacked. So what you are experiencing as you grow, is the Attack, though superficially it will even look like it's God Who's Attacking. So now you know why people, too, pick on you or are rabidly upset, if you simply want to learn God and make the mistake of talking about what you are learning. They will be offended. They will imagine that you are doing a work, bragging, trying to convert them. They hallucinate all that meaning, since Satan & Co. sell learning God as yet another religious activity. God forbid, you just enjoy Him and are interested. Prejudice. Hatred. And you get blamed. Just like, Adam and the woman got picked on, just as Christ was crucified, so will you be persecuted if you stay in God's System. For no good reason at all. [Immature Christians are indeed obnoxious, but people wouldn't be so offended by them, if they weren't naturally opposed to God. You don't see anyone be so offended by any other faith. Again, it's always the Bible and its believers which get singled out. Funny how no one notices that. Who picks on Hari-Krishna people or Moslems or B'Hai, the way Christians are picked on? Jews are picked on for the same reason -- they belong to Christ by bloodline and by promise. Again, it's always those who are the children of the promise, who get the most attention. Because the Bible is the Truth. That, is what's hated. It's not personal against us. Helps to remember that, when you see the prejudice continue without cause: 1 John 3:13, Matthew 10:22, Matthew 24:9, Mark 13:13, Luke 6:22, Luke 21:17,John 7:7 (in context), John 15:18-19, John 16:2, John 16:33, John 17:14, Romans 8:7, 2 Timothy 3:12, James 4:4. Lots of verses, huh.]

Christ's human ancestral bloodline consists of two prostitutes (Rahab and Tamar), some adulterers and quasi-wife deserters (Abram, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, David, and indirectly Moses), murderers (David, among others). [Abram and Isaac both passed off their wives as their sisters, which prompted passing kings to seize their wives. Abram, of course, copulated with Hagar. Jacob did the same with his wives' servants, and for the same reason, and he never loved Leah. Judah copulated with Tamar; she disguised herself as a prostitute because he wouldn't marry her off according to custom (to younger surviving sons). Moses isn't directly in Christ's line, maybe, but Aaron his brother, is from the very beginning (Aaron's wife was a daughter of the house of Judah). The line weaves back and forth, picking up again most recently, in Zerubbabel. Moses left his first wife, though she instigated that, being disgusted with the custom of circumcision. David's paramours are too many to list, and it's very significant that the Davidic line comes as a result of his initially-adulterous union with Bathsheba.] Pretty much everyone else in the bloodline is a scallywag of one type or another, for Israel's kings were generally apostate in the extreme; greedy, covetous, heavily into phallicism (even Solomon). So it's not a moral bunch, He descends from. Racially, looks like every race is represented somewhere along the line, since when Jacob and family came to Egypt in the famine, a wide swath of the world's population from all over the world, had come there too (chiefly "Asiatics", says my Encyclopedia Brittanica article in "Egypt, History of", 1984 blue-leather edition). Two-thirds of the Exodus population, were "mixed multitude" (not racially Jewish).

So in the most noble, Royal Bloodline in history, "the" one all Grail myths are about, we see an astonishing Biblical fact: God clearly does not exclude any race, nor any 'sinners' the religious person would find shockingly offensive. In fact, David himself is called a man after God's Own Heart in both 1Sam13:14 and Acts 13:22, which is a pretty strong statement -- you are to understand David is a model of what God praises. Think about that. David (name means "Beloved", see also that term for Christ in Ephesians 1). David, the guy who had so many women, it caused a civil war in his kingdom, lost him a war he was fighting (Uriah the Hittite, arranged-murdered-husband of Bathsheba), and plagued Israel with succession squabbles from that point onward. To this guy, God unconditionally promises Messiah will be one of his sons. Forever. So not only did God not need an 'immaculate' virgin Mary ('immaculate' being an idea in the Koran, but not the Bible), but God went Out Of His Way to craft a bloodline of some pretty shocking sinners. Shocking, that is, to those who want religion, but not God. [Mary was a great believer, probably one of the greatest believers of her time; it's impossible to imagine the pressure on her as the last surviving eligible member of the Royal Family who could bear a Messiah, if God chose. And she was a virgin when the Holy Spirit added those other 23 chromosomes at the time of her ovulation. But she had other kids afterwards by Joseph (and would have violated the Mosaic Law if she did not); and she was not free of sin. It really denigrates her great faith to promulgate the lie that she never sinned; and the Bible shows her sinning, i.e., at the wedding of Cana, where she cajoles her Son to show off by turning the water into wine. Helps you understand better what enormous pressure she was under and how God really blessed her. Don't cheapen her life by narrowing the idea of 'faithful' to an illegal permanent chastity. Only humans value that. God, in choosing David, clearly doesn't agree!]

So what do all these sinners have in common? They wanted GOD. Not, religion. So who's the bigger sinner -- the one who spurns learning Him, and hence never executes the First Commandment, or the one who learns the First Commandment? "For love covers a multitude of sins", James wrote (near end of his epistle). And the Lord with the rabbi had that interesting summary of the law being Love the Lord Your God, and your neighbor as yourself. Hmmm. No works, there. For love is, or is not. 1 John says it is not, if the Word isn't in you. So whaddya know -- having the Word in you, fulfills the Law. Even if you are a 'sinner'. Having works in you fulfills nothing. So who is the bigger sinner? All this, is the substance of the Divorce Trial. So ask: if a wife loves her husband, but fails repeatedly, compared to another wife who obeys but never loves her husband, which wife, is the really faithful one? Here's God's definition of the bigger sinner: "This people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me." (Isa29:13, Matthew 15:8, Mark7:6). Compare it with the prodigal son parable and the parable about the praying Pharisee and tax-farmer.

All too often a spouse in a marriage, becomes ritualistic. Actions done, behaviors met, respectability obeyed, mean more than the opposite spouse. So the marriage becomes a stale diet of activities, and often there's this hidden tension, a sense of being nagged by the spouse who considers the self so 'proper' in all the behaviors. If it's the wife who has this problem, she deems all her housekeepings, childrearings as works which don't get the requisite gratitude from the spouse, and she gauges that gratitude, by how much she thinks he pays attention to her. Her conversation becomes horribly banal and plaintive, with always the undertone of after all I've done for you. If conversely it's the husband who has this problem, his 'proper' would be paying the bills, but else he's pretty much taciturn and uninvolved, always busy on some project, with little time for his spouse. Because, he really doesn't want to be around her, or because he thinks his fealty is a behavioral thing. Rules. Always, rules. So it's easy to see why so many divorces, occur. Running to other activities, focusing on the kids, never building the soul bonds with each other, the marriage is dead, even while legally alive. There's more than one type of adultery, you know. And this religious method of being married, is the worst adultery of all. God thus would rather have a failing David who really loves Him, than a perfectly-obedient Pharisee, who doesn't. Hell will be populated with the latter, for you have to at least want God once to want to believe in His Son.

If you want your children to grow up only seeing you because they must, keep harping at them about how much they owe you, either in your mind, or in your behavior/words. (Don't think that because you 'hide' how you feel, that your feelings are unread.) Many a mom-and-dad wonder why their kids don't want to spend more time with them -- the complaint is so common. Well, that's why the kids don't want to spend time with them: the complaining, which always has the You Owe Me You Owe Me You Owe Me in it. So they were taught 'love'=obligation, and never taught that love is free. So, obligation is all they will 'obey'. True love, they were not taught: they were taught religion, instead, and religion is always based on hatred, and hence obligation. So hatred and obligation, is what they will pass on to their children. Vicious cycle, killing the United States today as I type. But God only believes in love being free; but those who go to hell don't want love to be anything but owed them. It's that horrible, that stark, a truth. So those who learn love, are always persecuted by those who learn religion. Can't be another outcome.

So the Grail story has been playing, really, all throughout man's history, i.e., the bond woman persecuting the free woman, like Paul explains in Galatians 3 and 4:22ff. Genesis 6 and the Flood, for example, is a bid to destroy the human race by Satan & Co., so that Christ could never be born. Noah and his family, were the 'grail', back then. So the root idea of 'grail', is a God-blessed object or person, whom everyone is out to possess or destroy, with the result that the object must be continually hidden; with the result that the object/person, is pretty much persecuted its whole 'life'. Perfect metaphor for the True Grail, this "treasure in earthen vessels", 2 Corinthians 4:7, the Thinking of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16. Which Thinking, was hidden from everyone as He used the Word to pay for our sins, Isaiah 52:13-53:11 (both original-language MSS -- translations fail to translate all of the inspired text). Darkness is all we saw, on the Cross. Darkness is all we still see. "For the Christian way of life is a supernatural way of life, and demands a supernatural means of execution," as my pastor puts it. God's Power, Ephesians 1:19-20. Playing quietly, every second you live in God's System. Hidden. Persecuted. So you too grow up before Him like a nourished and flourishing sapling despite all opposition, Isaiah 53:2a (original-language text).

Hebrews 11 is God's telling of this Grail story's results, those who are persecuted for learning Christ in every covenantal age (but the passage focuses on the Old Testament witness, to show its relationship to Church). Because Hebrews is mistranslated in strategic places (sure mark of demon tampering, since no translator would be so smart or evil), you don't get the reason for the persecution, in the translations of Chapter 11. But Hebrews 11:1 tells you dramatically and bluntly, using Attic Drama heptameter and anaphora. The latter is a type of dramatic equation among each noun in the nominative case, and there are always three of them. Such rhetorical techniques have no English equivalents, so here's a too-tame, corrected English translation: "It's [due to/about] DOCTRINE confidently believed, [=] Christ-on-Trial [in us], [=] Evidence Unseen!" Then Hebrews 11:6 dramatically adds, "for without Doctrine, IMPOSSIBLE to please Him! For to approach God, one must BELIEVE that He is, and [that] He acts as the Paymaster of those who seek Him." Him, not works -- verse ties nicely to Romans 4, and all the other verses on God's rewarding. Trick is, to know what constitutes 'faithfulness'. It's not works, but getting that Grail of His Thinking in you, as Hebrews 11:1 and 6, so deftly explain. [Bauer, Danker lexicon explains the "paymaster" origin of μισθαποδότης, and has a cool translation of γίνομαι, in this last clause in Hebrews 11:6 -- God proves to BE a rewarder of those who seek him. What's so awesome about that translation and this verse, is how it ties to Isaiah 53:12 and God's Old Testament name, YHWH. YH, is. WH, becomes. So the writer of Hebrews is reminding the reader that the Hupostasis is YHWH, He who is, BECOMES via the pairing of εἰμί and γίνομαι. And He Became Human and tabernacled among us, so He BECOMES our Savior and thus Inheritor, Isaiah 53:10-12. So Becomes our Paymaster, at the Bema. What Divine Wit! All this, packed in one verse!] Seek to Know Him, as your 'wages': "seek" is a very strong Greek verb, ἐκζητέω, like you'd turn over every stone in your hunt for buried treasure, scour the house for that lost wedding ring, never stopping until you find it or drop dead, whichever comes first.

As in, the hunt for the Grail. Oh, how I wish we all were as dedicated in our seeking God's True Grail, as "the Teacher" was in seeking a meaningless one, in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code! Religion of all stripes, world hunger, political wrangling, family squabbles, wasteful money projects, would all disappear -- for the cheap substitutes for the real enjoyment which is the Word of God, would no longer appeal to us. We'd not have time for them, so busy we'd be trying to get this body stuff outta da way so we could spend more time in Bible. Amazing, how simple life becomes, once you find your True Love. Even "the Teacher" found more fulfillment in his quixotic quest, than we average joes. How sad.

Not one Bible hero is praised by God for his works, ever: it's eisegesis to read into Bible a praise for human anything, else there'd be no need for a Cross. Rather, God praises the Word/Doctrine in the person (usu. mistranslated "faith"). James, having spent the entire first Chapter on this point, then illustrates what he meant, with a crescendo of 2:22 about Abraham -- using a Divine Actor verb executed by Doctrine (mistranslated "faith"), not by Abraham's own human power (volition is non-meritorious, anyway). Verb is συνεργέω. In the Bible, verbs with "sun" prefixes never mean human agency, but only Divine agency (with God in the foreground or the background doing all the work); "ἐνεργέω" isn't "to work" but "to generate, fuel, engender", the connotation of Source Power which is efficacious. So even the dedication, the "will and to do" (which verse also uses ἐνεργέω, the witty Philippians 2:12-13) comes from God. At which point, you won't stop seeking, and you don't care if you drop dead! [I love Philippians 2:12-13. ὑπακούω is mistranslated "obey". It's not an activity, but a listening, and is used also in connection with the shemah, of the Old Testament. See also Hebrews 5:8-9. You stand under the hearing, literally -- graphic verb to show exact mechanics of what God considers 'obedience'. Not works, but Hearing The Word. Hence God works in you to will and to do, since His Thinking is being produced in you. Great verse pair, very witty!]

For God's DDNA/Grail Plan is to make sons from His Son, not religious robots. As we've seen in the above Four Aspects of God's DDNA plan, since God is pure Thought, He makes "sons" via Thought, which is why we have a Bible and the First Commandment. Due to Christ's victory on the Cross, Hebrews 1 and 2 inform us that God is out to make a Royal Priestly "Bride" for His Son, via reproducing His Own Divine Thinking in us; just as the Holy Spirit did, to Christ. And all this, to fulfill the LOVE contract of Divine DNA, Isaiah 53:10-12 (in the original-language texts), and John 17; 1 Corinthians 2:16 and Colossians 1:25-27, Ephesians 1-2, Ephesians 3:15-19 and 4:11-16, 1 Peter 2:5,9, 2 Peter 3:18, Revelation 1:6 and 5:10, are but a few of the passages explaining this astonishing goal, and that it is produced by simply learning Bible in God's System: no magic about it. For the surpassing greatness of His Supreme Power (Ephesians 1:19-20) doesn't need magic; so doesn't need man's help or approval, ever. So certainly doesn't need political help or crusaders. God doesn't need salesmanship, Madison Avenue, or anything human, to get His Word out to those who want Him. And as much as you want Him, you'll get; and if you want no or little fellowship with Him, then you'll get that. For Matthew 7:1-2 is the Divine Justice principle: however you want it, that's what you'll get! God never coerces free will, and free will has its free consequences. Always. So the Bible also serves as a due-diligence disclosure to mankind, explaining your options and their consequences; which you are free to ignore, distort, or learn, as much as you choose.

So Satan sponsors mere DNA, to counter DDNA -- with Grail Myths and atrocious scholarship.

• Since this Quad-Aspect, learning-His-Thinking process is analogous to biological DNA replication and genetic engineering, which is the same conversion-of-thought process as occurred ON the Cross to pay for ALL sin;
• Since in essence God thus 'clones' His Son's Thinking into our souls to fulfill John 17 as we live in God's System;
• Satan & Co. 'reply' with their ridiculing, ribald alternative: a claim of mere biological DNA -- bloodlines from Christ. Aka, the Holy Grail.

Consider the wit of the satanic play on Bible, if you will. Satan & Co. always play on and build on Biblical metaphors, to craft witty, ridiculing and yet oddly admiring satires/caricatures of whatever God says in His Book. They are obsessive about this. Once you see the pattern of the obsession, you can more easily trace the origin and nature of the other 'faiths' in the world, to prove THEY are the mutations, and the Bible (even before its contents were reduced to writing), is the original. So let's go through a few of the DDNA metaphors which are relevant, so to see how this Grail myth, plays on them.

• Blood in the Bible, always metaphorically depicts the circulation of thought.
• So all sin thoughts were 'collected', as it were, and put in a 'bowl' pending the day when Christ would reach the Cross.
• At which point He'd 'drink' (metaphor of acceptance) them or be immersed/baptised with them, Mark 10:39, Luke 12:50.
• Note how the metaphor is LIQUID: Water of the Word cleanses and purifies, detoxifies. So the THINKING of that Word detoxes the thinking of sin, etc.
• All this, was depicted in the Levitical sacrifice by the collection of blood of the sacrificed animal, in the bowl.
• So you have a "bowl" (or chalice), and liquid (circulating thought), which is typically depicted as blood (to show how vital it was).
• Since this entire process is run by the Holy Spirit, it's HOLY. Which means, anything other than this process, is not holy, but evil. 1 John 5:6 (in context) ties this process to the Angelic Trial opposition, specifically. So does the writer of Hebrews (major threaded subtheme, in both books). Thus you are given to understand it's an EPIC, pan-history witness, with lots of opposition (again, major threaded subtheme in both books).
• Next, "Seed" refers specifically to Christ and His Thinking, see Galatians 3 and other passages with that keyword, and parables like the one in Luke 8.
• A frequent synonymal metaphor is that of a plant, playing off Isaiah 53:2, etc.
• Next, pregnancy. Isaiah 53:11 in Hebrew text uses a pregnancy term to describe the effect of Him being imputed and judged with our sins, giving eternal birthing life to us as a result. Hence the joyous Isaiah 54:1, to pair with Isaiah 53:8 (only NIV gets it right), the verse saying he was cut off (cut a covenant, was killed) withOUT having sired any kids. [See TWOT lexicon meaning #2 of dor. Dor is poetic, referencing the 'circle' of life, so it altogether matters what is the surrounding context. Translators needed to also consult the LXX to see its rendering: LXX uses the cognate of the verb "to sire" (γεννάω). You can tell it means "descendants" as the NIV correctly translates it, because Isaiah 52-55 is all about that topic -- how to make sons of God. So, he has been using the rape/pregnancy/birthing metaphor group to explain how our Savior would come to be crucified and inherit, since Isaiah 52:13. Isa keeps on using that metaphor group, threading it through Chapter 55. That's why Paul (next bullet) uses the same metaphor group so frequently in his epistles (using often the keywords in LXX verses of Isa).]
• Paul uses the pregnancy analogy repeatedly with respect to Church, who is Christ's Bride (verses are euphemized in translation, since Paul often uses graphic words), Galatians 4:19, Romans 8:11ff, all of 1 Corinthians 6, 12, all of Ephesians. "Pleroma" means "fullness", but the term often meant being full-with-child (especially, by some 'god'). Paul relies on that etymology to construct the entire book of Ephesians, which tweaks the famous Greek play "Ion" (literal, venom, a euphemism for semen), in order to explain God's superior Begetting in Christ. Other New Testament writers frequently use Pleroma and its cognate verb πληρόω. Then there's τελειόω, which also has a pregnancy connotation (idea of fully coming to term, completion, usually mistranslated "perfect").

Ok. Now let's review the fake Grail stories sold by Satan & Co. since the Crucifixion. There are basically two versions: one which calls the "Grail" an object, and another which calls the "Grail", Christ's alleged children. The object, was corrupted to a magical chalice which collected Christ's Blood from the Cross, the idea being His Blood had magical powers. A second 'object' version was instead a thinly-veiled allegory of bloodline, since the shape of the chalice was much like that of a womb. So the "Grail" meant physical descent, not some magic-power cup. By the way, there were no chalices in Jesus' day; but chalices were common, in medieval Europe. The bloodline idea thus means someone had to 'mother' His kids. This comes from the 2nd-century pseudipigraphic, Gnostic "Gospel of Mary"; which is insulting also because the Gnostics largely held that materiality and hence sex, was evil. [Gnosticism seeks to divest the soul of materiality either by asceticism, or by rampant hedonism. The version of Gnosticism popularized today is the latter variety, but it wasn't the dominant one, when flourishing in the first and second centuries. Gnosticism is really a lot older than that (it's at least as old as animism, and so are the Kabbalic ideas); but Christian Gnosticism began in the first century, obviously. Scholars tend to forget that distinction, when dating that religion in the first and subsequent centuries.] Over the centuries, there developed yet a third idea that the cup from which He drank at the Last Supper was itself somehow endowed with magical powers, such that if you found that cup, you would have those powers to control. Sadly, no one realizes that back in Jesus' day, wine was drunk from little bowls, they were simple earthenware, so could not have survived very long (such bowls were easy to make, so when they developed cracks, etc., people just broke them down and used the shards for other purposes). So there is no such thing TO find.

Now do you see the demonic wit? Do you see no human being could have made all this up, because no one knew Scripture that well? Look: even today, you have to really search to find out that "me amal" and "Pleroma" are pregnancy terms. Scripture was locked up away from the common guy for about 18 centuries, with only the occasional monk or nun being able to glimpse an original-language text. So who could know those pregnancy terms in the original-language texts, and then satirize them into a human bloodline? Who could know from the translation, that Isaiah explains the mechanics of the Cross? I couldn't get it: had I not been a student for 30 years under a pastor who taught from the original languages of Scripture, I'd still not know. It took me weeks of research in the MSS with lexicons, to get a corrected translation of Isaiah 53:10-12, and I've got modern tools! So who back those centuries past, could even discern the Bible's meaning, much less satirize it so deftly? And for so long? Look: Satan & Co. are satirizing the Cross, for crying out loud -- picking a verse on how He paid for sins ON the Cross (specifically, Isaiah 53:11 in both inspired BHS and LXX texts), and then spoofing that suffering into a human bloodline claim! No human being in medieval times could do that!

Today's version of the bloodline story roared back into the public eye, beginning with the book, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, in (I think) 1982. The term "Holy Grail" derives from sangraal, really Royal Blood: it's a French term and a largely French/European obsession, ever since Clovis (466-511 AD). [The weird thing was, Clovis was German. "France" derives from "Franks", of which Clovis was; and so "France" is really just another German country. That's probably why they warred so much, 🤣.] Gregory of Tours tells an interesting story of Clovis' ability to remember his enemies and wait for the right moment of revenge, cleaving an errant soldier's head when the soldier cleaved a valuable vase with his axe (Book II, paragraph #27, "gregory-hist.html#book3" at www.fordham.edu, Halsall's Medieval Sourcebook). So the idea of "Grail" as itself a chalice/vase is simply due to the separation of "San" and "graal" in translation. Kinda cute, that: since we are earthen vessels designed to have the Royal Blood in our heads, and all God's enemies are out to cleave us lest we get that True Grail. Of course, if we are frigid and disdain God's intercourse of His Thinking Seed in us, we can count on plenty of whackings as Divine Discipline. So Satan & Co.'s choice of Clovis, crafting a Merovingian claim of descendance from Christ, is rather witty, huh.

After all, the Levitical sacrifices had the animal bleed to death, and the blood was collected in a bowl. Blood always depicts Thinking (thought circulates, is the essence of soul life), and as noted in the Fourth Aspect in corrected translation, Isaiah 53:10-12 graphically depict Christ as Lamb of God, paying for our sins with His Thinking. So Bible's definition of Sang Real is His Thinking. Mindless corpuscles can't ever please God, so Satan & Co. choose mindless magic, hoping everyone will bleed to death trying to find it. Heh.

So Satan distorts the true nature of "blood" with respect to Christ into a body thing, replete with mystical powers and phallic practices. And, for good measure, Satan & Co. adapt the metaphors in the Bible about how this Thinking builds in you, to the body-oriented lie they want to tell. So the "Grail" story makes use of Bible's masonry metaphors, flower metaphors, etc. It's very rich that in the pro-Grail stories, much is made of symbology, since all their symbols have Biblical definitions no one consults. When you do consult them in Bible, you find very different meanings; such that the Grail symbology, is downright derisive of those who believe in it. For example,

• Paul and Peter use masonry analogies to show how the Thinking of Christ is 'written' and 'built' in you. Paul specializes in sexual innuendo, to show that God's intimacy and sons' goal, is met by learning His Thinking. So note how in the Grail stories, the masonry analogies, are satirizing Ephesians 2 and Peter's use of stone terms (playing on his chip-off-the-Block name, petros). Cornerstone, ὑπογραμμός, lithos, ṣūr, petra, the joining of the two peoples (Jews and Gentiles), etc.
• Not to mention, the too-explicit vocabulary in passages like Ephesians 4:11-16 (Paul is not coy, so translators way over-euphemize what the Holy Spirit gave him to write), the obvious Bridal analogies of 1 Corinthians 6, 12, Romans 5-8 (especially Romans 6-7).
• And of course the Rose, represents Christ, who Isaiah depicts as being 'raped' for our sins, beginning in Isaiah 52:13ff (never properly translated, either). Compare Isaiah 53:2 with Isaiah 35:1. So only Satan & Co. could turn that into a Black Madonna cult, by clever use of Song of Solomon 2:1 (about the Shulamite woman), k?
• So the all-seeing Eye, is God's Word directing your eyes, which is why you wore the tefillin around your head, as deftly explained in 1 John and the Gospel of John (playing on the Old Testament "light" prophecy to the Gentiles, in Isaiah, and simultaneously tweaking the cheap Gnostic idea of light).
• Then there's the truly inane idea in gnosticism (well, in the lascivious branches) which claims you must have sex to see God at all. That's a satanic derision of God's use of davaq (which in Hebrew means to have sex) with "know" (a euphemism for having sex in the OT), with the command to "cling" (davaq) to the Lord via eating His Word. Fellowship and intimacy with God, requires sharing His Thinking. Which, after all, is the coalescence of souls every marrying couple, hopes to have.
• God has no body, so if you want "oneness" with Him (another gnostic term, tweaked all over the Old Testament and New Testament, most adroitly by Christ in John 17, where He spells it out as getting the Truth in you).. you gotta learn His Book. No other way. [Gnosticism is far older than the 2nd or 1st century AD. Wish people would do their homework. It's Christian Gnosticism, which came later. Gnosticism is probably born from the Kabbalah sect of Judaism; that sect, is quasi-Eqyptian, but since it's more that the Hebrews influenced the Egyptian religion rather than vice versa -- remember, Joseph saved Egypt -- it's kinda hard to tell, who came first. The idea of secret knowledge, magic, etc. as the gnostics portray, has really been a common feature of ancient religion, namely in Mycenaean Greece and China (of the same period). Hard to say when it really started.]

So notice: since the goal is to mock God, then every metaphor depicting truth IN the Bible, will be abused. The true meaning gets replaced by the false one, so that when you read the metaphor IN the Bible, you'll think the false meaning, is true. That's always Satan's tactic, to redefine Biblical terms and metaphors: so that when you read it, you'll think BIBLE says the promoted lie. Only if you vet how the Bible defines itself, can you prove the Bible doesn't say what is alleged about it. Of course, Satan counts on scholars never vetting the Bible itself, so the lie gets repeated, rather than tested.

Hence scholars who should know better continually misstate what Bible actually says and means. But it's demonic wit at work to blind and eventually, embarrass them as well. Look: how is it that so universally, 'scholars' claim Matthew 16:18 is an appointment of Peter as the founder of the Church? That's a conversion into DNA, a mere man replacing Christ, in flagrant contravention of what the verse says in Greek! Even the common-sense interpretation of the verse would be that Christ, not Peter, is the Foundation of the Church He appoints: it was Christ, not Peter, Who went to the Cross and paid for mankind's sins! And the Bible leaves no doubt about Who is the "Rock" in that verse: the word "Rock" is the LXX (Greek) word Petra, a famous Old Testament moniker for the bedrock on which the Ark sat in the Holy of Holies, which rock God chose because Abraham had almost sacrificed Isaac ON it (Islamic "Dome of the Rock" sits over it, today). That was a metaphorical act for how Messiah would FIRST come and pay for the sins of mankind -- God the Father truly sacrificing His Uniquely-Born (Greek: μονογενής) Son as a substitute (Lamb) for us all. And who doesn't know, "the Rock of my salvation" catchphrase, used by David and others in the Old Testament, which in LXX uses "Petra" (ṣūr in Hebrew). Moreover, "petros" is a diminutive, and is the name Christ gives Peter, in Matthew 16:18? The -os ending means smaller.

So Matthew 16:18 should read in corrected translation, "And I announce/proclaim that you are [Chip-of-the-Bedrock] Petros, and on This Petra [pointing to Himself, Greek "tauta" is used there, with monadic article] I WILL BUILD my Church; even the [fortress-like] Gates of Hades will not overpower Her."

You need to know also that the Greek "Petros" is in masculine gender, but Petra is in the feminine gender (because it's a BEDROCK, depicting Christ since Abram went there with Isaac). So Petra cannot refer to Peter at all. You must FLUNK seminary to not know this. So if someone claims the verse references Peter, the person is either lying, stupid, or crazy, if he claims to know even an iota of Biblical Greek. Seriously. To screw up here is like being unable to read Dick-and-Jane in kindergarten. There's no excuse for it. But then there's no excuse for claiming Peter was ever a pope, since he was not even appointed an apostle except to the Jews, and he never set foot in Rome his entire life (see Acts and end of 1 Peter).

Oh: "Church" is also a feminine-gender word. So Peter is a piece, not a foundation, sheesh. Look: if you chipped a piece off bedrock, the piece which fell off would be a "petros". That's what makes the verse so witty. Peter loved playing with this verse in his letters, making as many stone words as he could, constantly playing with the UNDERNEATHNESS of the idea (he's almost obsessed with using ὑπό-prefixes in his letters). [I really don't believe Peter was using an amanuensis -- the wordplay in 1 Peter and 2 Peter is too rich, and depends too much on Greek etymology for its wit. The fake "Gospel of Peter" by contrast is so bad and gross and insulting to God, well.. anyone who thinks Peter had anything to do with it, or did anything it claims, needs to see a psychiatrist. Sorry. The fake Gospels are as silly and derisive, as saying you saw the Virgin in a cooking tortilla. God wouldn't put His Son's naked body on a shroud, wouldn't make 'appearances' in any fashion, let alone that kind, and surely wouldn't allow a woman vilely maligned 'appear' to those who adhere to the very religion which so thoroughly maligns her generation after generation. I bet Mary cringes every time some Catholic taps the rosary, treating it like magic beads, wishing they'd shut up and wake up!]

So, see: even 'Christian' scholars don't do their homework, and just repeat the lie, so of course everyone believes them. Respectability sells Satan's wares, always. I'm really embarrassed for them, because this particular lie is so easy to prove. 'Takes but five minutes (searching in the LXX/NT MSS on Petra) in BibleWorks. Since it's just not possible that these scholars are stupid, only two possible conclusions remain: they don't do their homework, or they can't read Bible. The latter is accomplished easily via the deft redefinitions one is propagandized with, from childhood. Satan & Co. are behind this, so don't blame parents, priests, etc.

Hence most 'Biblical scholarship' whether pro- or con- Bible, is shoddy. Shoddy, because like the Matthew 16:18 example above, you can quickly prove the apneas even with mere BibleWorks (which is just a software collection of MSS, lexicons, basic standard reference books -- you can buy the program online, or at a seminary bookstore, like I did). Most theologians who write long tomes about this or that arcane subject always presume no Holy Spirit as the Originator of the Bible, so debate Bible verses, as if men collated them from other eyewitnesses; so can't tell how the Gnostic and Apocrypha and other pseudepigrapha, are fake. So ASSume the Roman Catholic Church adulterated Bible; so don't know whether Paul was the real carrier of the Christian message; so believe Paul never met Christ, despite the clear text of Acts 7-8, 1 Corinthians 15:1-10. You only were appointed an apostle by seeing the Resurrected Christ. So here is the guy who is given to write most of the New Testament (i.e., Romans 12:3, Acts 22), and the 'scholars' claim he never met Christ? Gimme a break! It's positively incredible, how stupid all these degreed people, are.

Another apnea example: do you know, they wonder if there was a schism between James and Paul? How can they wonder, when Acts 21 makes it perfectly clear, Paul was deliberately trapped so he could be beaten up, on the Temple steps? A trap, James knew about. You see Paul talk in the other epistles about how he was persecuted by the Judaizers, who were all run by the Jerusalem church. Sure, James later woke up and sided with Paul, but -- close friends that they were, still James was constrained by the other Jerusalem leaders. All this is in Scripture, you don't have to speculate about it. But 'scholars' do. How sad. Use 1 John 1:9 and ask Father in Son's name to have the Spirit guide your study in God's System, as often as you remember to ask it. Daily. You'll thus avoid all the anthropocentric garbage pandered as 'Biblical scholarship', today.

Note how a degree doesn't make you better able to understand Bible. When you consider how admirable and difficult scholarly research is, how hard these folks work to get their degrees and keep on publishing ("publish or perish" is the rule in the academic and scientific world), you can't help but be awed of both the scholars, and their blindness. They need prayer, for clearly they are under far more pressure, than we amateurs. So note also that sloppy research and lack of academic rigor, is likewise dishonoring to the Lord. Don't debunk the scholar who demonstrates his disuse of 1 John 1:9 by his sloppy mistakes, in an effort to justify your own laziness. That too, is a common trend Satan exploits. So instead learn from his error, but pray for him. At West Point they teach the bright young cadets the great military blunders of history for just that reason. You can't help but admire the more the officer who made the blunder; you can't help but be humbled by the very obvious fact you also will be prone to do the same. So, you pray. Constantly.

Pretend you are Pope John Paul II, and pretend that at some point in his life, he believed in Christ for his salvation, John 3:16, rather than the Catholic lie you must be baptised by the Church to be saved. So he's in heaven now, realizing how false the Church he headed, is. Wouldn't he want us to learn from his mistakes? Wouldn't his dearest wish be that all his fellows in the college of cardinals, would wake up and smell the coffee? There are no regrets in heaven except during the Bema, but there is always memory. One knows the truth upon death.. forever. So wouldn't all those dead in heaven, now knowing what they screwed up, be earnestly praying to Father in Son's name (for we are all forever priests directly to Father, no intermediaries) -- wouldn't they all be constantly praying to Him, "please glorify Your Son, and please correct our brethren who have the same goofy ideas we once did"? So honor the dead comrades who fell in battle: Learn Christ In God's System. As Part 4b-d exhaustingly explain, you can't 'do' a greater thing for the human race. [LvS4b.htm's "Diamond Facets" and LvS4c.htm's two gold boxes about "Your Thinking", and LvS4d.htm's "Combat.. of Rest" table are the most important, but they might not make much sense viewed out of context from each entire webpage. God's Thinking is very thickly threaded, so sometimes you have to go over and over and over it until you get enough 'threads' to see the fit of it all.]

In short, the 'scholars' are being 'managed' by Satan & Co. You can't call such consistent apnea over centuries, anything else. Man isn't even smart enough to get it so precisely wrong: the error always manages, thank you, to denigrate God/Bible in refined yet slapstick ways requiring thorough knowledge of the original-language texts. Satan & Co. thus play the old decoy game: first, set up religion as if it was the Biblical authority, and then second, prove how false it is. So everyone 'marries' the religion to Bible and God, and then in rebelling against authority/religion, also hates Bible and God, once they see the feet of clay in the religion/authority, etc. Clever, huh. "About Bible Mistranslation", goes through more blatant examples. It's real important to recognize that these apneas are rampant, and persistent for centuries, not blips of temporary and (quite understandable) human fallibility. Don't blame the scholars. This apnea persistence is a live demonstration of what Paul means, in Ephesians 6:12-13.

Satan's DNA+Political Power, completes Fake Groom for the Wedding -- with more atrocious scholarship.

So a political Messiah is the Satan & Co. distorted presentation of Christ -- just as promoted to the Jews, back when Christ was down here. The Old Testament prophecy in Daniel 9-12, Revelation 13-17 and elsewhere about the Tribulational King of the West claiming to be Christ, is thus proven at least plausible: for over 20 centuries, there persists a bloodline-descendance-from-Christ claim with the requisite mystical-powers implication, attached; which claim allegedly 'vests' in at least three royal houses in Europe. But the claim was made in variant other forms, since Genesis 3:15 (to prevent Him from being born to fulfill that verse). This you can prove fairly readily from that point onward, via the many phallic cults and divine-right kingships, where the kings were priests as well. For Satan & Co. always COPY what God really says, and then derisively mutate the key elements. It's their version of a joke on God and mankind, and they love it well.

Note the back-handed compliment Satan & Co. pay to God: they mimic the true Grail story, even while playing a religio-political satire of it -- you get the satire's wit, if you know the true Grail story. Yep, a real Royal Blood Payment will be made on behalf of all mankind by a Human Who will eventually return afterwards, to rule the world; to rule the universe, forever; who is now Seated and Ruling, waiting for His Enemies to be made the Footstool of His Feet. Hence the enemies, seek to prevent His Return. Hence the True Grail Story of those who believe in Him, is that anyone who wants God, gets His Thinking in him, and thus gets persecuted by those who don't want God; so such a blessed person, must stay 'hidden'. The blessing-by-association doctrine rampant through Bible (covered at length in the Lord vs. Satan, accessible from the Home Page, especially in Part 4), is always a 'hidden' connection. One person, Noah, justified earth's existence for another 490 years; just one person, Abram, justified the continuation of Planet Earth, since Messiah would be born from him. These folks didn't do any works: they believed, instead: Genesis 15:6, as explained in James 2 (v.22 is evilly translated, cutting out the Divine Actor verb, συνεργέω) and Romans 4. Abram was 'hidden', in the world's eyes. He didn't send out flyers or drum up donations or badger people to accept El-Elyon. Frankly, neither did Christ. Lambs just eat and die, see. Thus blessing, the ones who 'eat' Him ("eat" being the quintessential Bible metaphor for belief, via the Levitical sacrifices and feasts like Passover). So, just as in Mark's Gospel only the demons are advertising Christ (so He had to constantly shut them up), even now the demons advertise to the world that there really IS a Holy Grail -- of course, unless you know what the Holy Grail really is, you don't get their witty Monty-Python-style portrayal of it.

And of course, there are real historical and explosive political components in the true Grail story. Imagine you are of the bloodline of the Royal Family of Christ, being persecuted post-Crucifixion: "the disposyni". He really had a family, you know. The persecution began in earnest sometime after James, one of the Lord's half-brothers, was murdered, just after Paul was carted off to Rome (circa 62 AD, if I recall correctly). Jews began revolting from Rome then, with the result that the Christians also fled Jerusalem; so it's likely that then the Royal Family left as well (if they hadn't left earlier). We know Jude, one of Jesus' other half-brothers, was already in diaspora at the time of his letter (in Bible); he doesn't disclose his location. Peter fled to Antioch and then to a Jewish enclave in Babylon (near the modern town of Al-Hillah, in Iraq), per the end of 1 Peter: never did he set foot near Rome, so he was never a pope of the Gentiles, since only Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles, Acts 15 and 22. So long before the sack of the Temple in 70 AD, the remnants of the House of David, would have left.

So: imagine you are one of Christ's brothers, or of that Family; say you really DO flee to France, because there was a large group of Jews living there. So it becomes easy to imagine, that since you are really OF the House of David, and need to hide, that you'd eventually USE that information, to gain protectors. No matter what you had to say, to do so. Maybe Mary of Magdala (Magdala the town, so Mary of Bethany is a different person), in the company of some others, was pregnant by one of them (married or no), and well.. the story morphed into the Gnostic gospel of her name, who knows. Everyone embellishes the truth in the re-telling, and anyone wanting to discredit Christ -- or preserve his own life -- would jump at the chance to say He really didn't die on the Cross, or really didn't teach what the apostles said, or -- that he was a son, even. To save your life, you'll cater to your audience.

Or, conversely, since it wouldn't have subtracted from His ministry if He did marry and have kids (though you know He didn't, given Isaiah 52:13ff and Hebrews 2) -- maybe someone wanted to capture the 'glory' of being blood-related to Him, and claimed to be one of His kids. People surely have done that before, with respect to lesser royalties in Europe. Man's insane insecurity will madly attribute to mindless corpuscles, magical powers. So to be or allege to be of royal blood, magically bestows added worth on the individual, see. For who doesn't react with a smile to the mere possibility of having a royal/rich/famous relative, however remote? Conversely, how many Hitlers changed their last names after WWII, even though they had nothing whatsoever to do, with Adolf? See how sick with insecurity and prejudice, we truly are?

In short, for very human reasons quite apart from any demonic herding 'help', this Mary of Magdala cult could easily take hold and flourish. Somewhere at the bottom of it, will be the real truth, and it's likely (imo) that someone in the Royal Family, went to the Languedoc and used this or a similar claim, to get protection for herself/himself/the Family. Simmer its real origin for a few hundred years, and you've got a nice Grail story as a two-edged sword: you can use the story to hate the Bible, the Jews and all European royalty, as much as you can use it to laud them. So for these past 2000 years, many have done, just that. You can see why the Roman Catholic Church would either promote (as with Clovis) or persecute (2nd century) the from-David-descendance claim, in its never-ending quest for political hegemony (started by Clement I so far as I can tell, in 90's AD). The Roman Catholic Church can't politically survive any living line of David, because the Roman Catholic Church claims the same mantle, Revelation 17. So it must marry that line.. or kill it. Many ways to kill: ridicule is the best way.

Neither could the Maccabees tolerate a living line of David, back in the 160's BC; that's when the house of David was usurped, and the Royal Family went underground. Thus it has been, ever since. When Christ declared Himself, He knew He was breaking the silence, thus putting the entire Family and all of Israel, at risk. For the claim of Messiah is a claim of future world rule: it's a constant prophecy all throughout the Bible, the entire reason for the formation of Israel, in the first place. Hence it is a claim which will always engender the most virulent opposition. See Isaiah Chapters 9, 11, 52 and 61, 63 for blatant samples of the prophecy you can even discern in translation.

The claim of Messiah upset the entire world then, when it was valid. So any claim of Messiahship, and especially the truncated Satan & Co. political version, will always upset the world. Man doesn't want the Messiah. That's the real reason for the Arab conflict and antisemitism, at the human 'end': everyone resents that their own group, won't be the one in power. Satan & Co. are trying desperately to prevent that future from coming to pass, so they foment all the anti-Bible, anti-semitic attitudes they can. There is no limit to what they will do. So now you know why there has never been, nor will there ever be peace in the Middle East, until the Second Advent. Wars and rumors of wars, until He comes. Now you know why Satan & Co. promote the Grail lie, since it's likewise, a bid for world rule: hence flaming underground tenor of conspiracy to grab worldwide power, including all those gossipy conspiracy ideas targeting the Illuminati, Bilderbergers, Masons, Zionists, etc. [The gossip is yet another way to show resentment against the successful of the world. Gossip believed earns punishment, Matthew 7:1-2, so don't believe in it. Doesn't matter what truth might be in the gossip, it's still gossip, and not proven. God never approves of belief based on hearsay, even if the hearsay is correct. Note that the Bible calls us witnesses and ambassadors, never hearsayers. Trial requires witnesses, not third-hand storytellers with their own agendas of self-importance!]

So today, the Roman Catholic Church itself doesn't have hegemony. But the world should worry about a fake royal house of David claim: since that House would be the closest physical counterpart to Christ people would have. So civil and religious war would ensue; or, the house and Roman Catholic Church would unite. No doubt that's why the Roman Catholic Church made the pact with Clovis, not necessarily believing the claim of Royal Davidic background, but rather to buy peace. [It fascinates me that Grail writers often ignore the pact the Roman Catholic Church made with Clovis and Charlemagne to crown them, in effect justifying their reigns. The Carolingians come from the Mayors of the Palace, who usurped power from the Merovingians, and Charlemagne + at least one of his sons, married Merovingian princesses, so the Carolingian line continues the Merovingian line; Phillip Augustus in 1180, made quite a point of that, when he succeeded to the throne of France. According to legend, Mérovée, the original 'king' of the line, visited the Pope to claim he was a descendant of the House of David and Benjamin, exciting the papal entourage with his red-blond long hair. I can't prove such a claim from contemporary records. You can find much on Mérovée in your local library or the internet. So Clovis, a grandson of Mérovée, was supported by the papacy, in order to stabilize and unify what would later become France. Clovis made the disastrous mistake of dividing his kingdom among his sons, who were rather lascivious and fractious. Over time, they fought with each other so much, the Mayors of the Palace, just took over. The Merovingian legend is mystical, a Priest-Kingship which reigns, but never rules. It has a lot of esoterica in it. So you can see how the claim would be used by Satan & Co., only morphed into a claim of a descendant of Christ Himself, today. So history will repeat itself, and frankly the time is pretty ripe for it. Man is hungry for a charismatic demagogue.]

So, if today's Royal House pretenders ever demonstrate enough charisma to generate a big following, no doubt the Roman Catholic Church again will attempt some kind of unity, since the Roman Catholic Church arrogates to itself the sole title of "Church" -- thus proving itself currently the foremost among the Revelation 17 harlots of every denomination. And from that unity, will come the worst tyranny and outbreak of war: another dark ages. Mark it well, since you see in this the very mechanism which will eventually give birth to the 10-horned King of the West portrayed in Bible prophecy. Doesn't mean it will be the Roman Catholic Church at that point. Does mean that the nature, will be the same. ["Horn" is a Biblical metaphor for human political power, so 10 nations are depicted by the 10 horns.]

So the current Satan & Co.-promoted Grail story, which by now itself is at least 2000 years old, deriving its latest mutation in the claim Christ had kids, is avidly 'herded' by Satan & Co. upon the human race. Which is why people are so enthralled with it. Satan & Co. make their lies popular among those who are titillated by any story which debunks authority, has sexual overtones and intimates conspiracy. Not too hard, to sell. Mankind eats up the lies, greedily. Same story formula as in the Greek myths, sells today. Moreover, the story nicely combines to trash the Bible, the Jews, and thus the truth of our so-great salvation. Which is why so many 'scholars' are enthralled with it. The average joe who reads the story, wouldn't even understand how it maligns all God says and does. Because the average joe doesn't want God either, else he'd diligently study the Word; so, he's ignorant of the Word, and thus buys whatever lie he gets -- not even knowing, what the lie means. So he avidly reads Grail stories for entertainment and the subliminal thrill of accusation against authority's abuses -- and since God is but a cardboard character of authority, well.. the God Who is Christ, is obliquely being accused. Thus the average joe passes along the lie to his peers, who greedily buy more copies of the lie, keeping its books on the bestseller lists. Ignorantly.

Man can only be 'herded' by Satan & Co. if he is disinterested in God. Disinterest in God is the deepest form of hatred. Ignorance, is the proof of hatred. Prejudice, is the 'child' of both hatred and ignorance. So the world hates God, and hence blames God for everything. Every time something goes wrong, God is supposed to go fetch; every time some disaster happens or a loved one dies, God gets accused; He's not worth but a couple of boring hours on Sunday, during which one counts the vowels in the program or hymn book, and the rituals, characteristics, etc. assigned to Him, are likened to an evil, comic ogre who no one can ignore, but everyone would like to avoid. God is expected to make us win ballgames, get us good jobs, make our marriages work, and if He doesn't, well.. I went to church EVERY Sunday! as if God should grovel before you, grateful you showed up. Why He doesn't zap us all to hell for being so ungrateful, I'll wonder at forever. For none of us, is free from this vile prejudice against Him...

Look: what you love, you linger over and learn, never wanting to stop. But what you hate, you avoid learning, and you only linger if required in order to get something else you prefer. So ignorance is always an index of hatred; but cognizance, of love: "where your treasure is, there shall your heart also be", Matthew 6:21. And our treasure is His Word in our hearts and minds, 2 Corinthians 4:7, Psalm 119:11 (Psalm 118:11 in Douhay-Rheims), Jeremiah 31:31-34, Hebrews 8:8-12 and 10:15-17. So if we are ignorant of His Word, our hearts aren't in Him, as 1 John explains (main theme of the book). So, we hate Him, in that event. Hatred means prejudice, and prejudice is man's natural inclination, since belief in a lie that God was bad, motivated the initial rebellion in the Garden (Genesis 3). Which means we can be marionetted by Satan & Co. just like Adam was, when Satan denounced him for being naked, and bade him sew those fig leaves, Genesis 3:11 (mistranslated in all Bibles).

Being naturally dead to God, we are insecure: for, man wasn't made to live apart from God. Being apart from God, we are hence prejudiced against Him. It's a genetic addiction, to which we routinely succumb thousands of times a day, unaware that we even have it. This addiction shows up, however, when we believe truly irrational 'doctrines', like evolution (which alleges a set can contain itself, a mathematical and hence biological impossibility).. or, the Grail myths. The latter group is but one of many patent pagan glosses, claiming to be the 'real' story behind Jesus' life, to discredit Him. Satanic signature on the story proves its real origin. Appendix of Lord vs. Satan explains the seven elements of the satanic signature, their hey-see-me advertisement that they, not humans or God, are the authors. To mock any who'd believe what they sell. So they help God, for crying out loud, to get the Word out -- but we don't want it, since we don't want Him. So only we are to blame for our negativity.

The negativity is always reinforced. If you took a rat and put him in with a miniature machine which could stimulate some pleasure 'circuit' (nerve) in his body, you'd find he'd pull that pleasure lever over and over and over until he was exhausted, ignoring even food and water. That set of trials done in the 1960's, to better understand brain function, demonstrates more deeply the sin nature in man. Stimulate man's pleasure, and he will quickly become addicted to it. Doesn't matter what's the content of the stimulation. Which is why criminality requires a death penalty: the murderer, for example, has become addicted to the 'pleasure' of murder. Which is why prejudice and negativity to God likewise cannot be eradicated by nagging at such folks: they are addicted to the pleasure they get from being prejudiced or negative. Human defense mechanisms will always find ways to rationalize such pleasures, to defend the 'right' to acquire the pleasure again, over and over. Which is why, Satan & Co. can so easily puppet us, and don't need to hide their sponsorship.

The false Grail story therefore only survives due to prejudice against Christ; and that prejudice is demonstrably 'aided' by Satan & Co. Human prejudice itself doesn't require demonic aid; but its persistence, does; man's short attention span and fragmented needs naturally interfere with any crusading cause, so man is prone to easily abandon his ideals (whether evil ideals or valid ones); so he needs 'help' to maintain any kind of focus. Especially, a focus lasting over many centuries. Prejudice is born from insecurity. Insecurity is born from the sin nature, which we all acquire at birth: through Adam, not the woman (Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:22). Hence Paul's witty remark that the woman shall be delivered through delivery in 1 Timothy 2:15 (always evilly mistranslated -- verse is born-again play on Genesis 3:15-22 in the context of 1 Timothy 2:5): a supernatural birth of a Perfect Human to replace the first Adam, counters the disease with which we are all afflicted in this body (larger theme of 1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 5). So salvation is a spiritual-medical RESCUE from our real spiritual-medical problem of being dead to God. To cure our innate and biological urge to remain prejudiced against all He is, says, and does. It's in the genes, folks.

One of the main tactics a lawyer uses to craft a wily defense is to divert your attention from the Truth, by means of a true evil; and from that, shift to a false premise, depending on prejudice to 'encourage' acceptance of that false premise. Then, the wily lawyer builds on the false premise, to give it a patina of replacing truth the prejudiced soul will accept. This tactic is particularly useful if one can use an old lie which has been believed for a long time. Time puts the patina of truth on a lie, because it is old, because so many in the past kept on believing it. Then, atop all that, the lawyer will take suggestive evidence and add it, thus building a 'body' of 'proof' which points coherently to a conclusion -- all without really proving the evidence IS evidence, in the first place. Power of suggestions, adroitly arranged. So only if you do much λέγωork from the premise forward, can you unravel the claim, and expose all these lawyerly tricks. Which the average joe never does, since he's apathetic, has a short attention span, and only seeks entertainment and ego support. It's always fun to say those superior to 'you' are bad. Makes the self feel bigger.

So here the true evil, is Satan's own creation, the RCC, yet another way of superimposing a Bible-isn't-right claim: PopeMyth.htm provides easily-searchable evidence it formed to usurp power from the apostles, and that the very year the bid was made, God warned believers of it, in Revelation 17. Now watch the lawyerly shift from true evil to false premise, ergo false conclusion: since the Roman Catholic Church persecuted those who claimed to be Christ's descendants, therefore the whole Bible is a lie. Clever, huh. Note how the true evil, persecution, is mixed with a false premise, that there are descendants of Christ. No offense, but an objective person would never listen to such rot, whether he liked the Roman Catholic Church or Bible.. or not. So the one buying it, must want an excuse to hate.

So, due to prejudice against RCC, Bible, Jews (pretend) such a person will believe descendants exist. Which, to prejudice, feels good, shoots down all those one is prejudiced against, aha! Such a person will be enthralled with the idea, and will spend loads of time and money repeating 'study' of the issue. These people number in the millions, today. It's positively frightening how popular is the Da Vinci Code. Seems to me the author picked out what he knew could be easily proven false, since it's a fictional novel, duh. That first page beginning with "FACT" is your red alert to him advertising it's FICTION, for crying out loud. For not one thing on that page, wasn't but proven a hoax 10 years prior, when that Plantard guy hoaxed the ever-stupid Michael Baigent et al. Yet people eat up the same ol' information, 10 years later? As if it was a discovery? Oh well -- seems to me Dan Brown did try to protect the reader from believing what is a fictional novel for a tired Friday evening...

So watch how vile the prejudice is, that all kinds of scurrilous claims of immorality, accompany the false Grail story about these descendants.

• Never mind, that everything about that 'bloodline' which you can prove or is alleged by pro-Grail writers, has Gnostic and pagan phallic cult characteristics: so how could such a bloodline be holy or even desirable?
• Never mind, that it has its own violent history, which the pro-Grail writers even admit, in its many bifurcations over the centuries: nicely furnishing a pretext for further antisemitism, in the reacting reader.
• So, now the prejudice can flourish: oh there must be such a 'holy' bloodline, since it was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church which (at least in name) sponsors Bible and Christ as Savior.
• Bible thus is made guilty by slanderous association!
• So people buy the lie because they want to hate Christ as Savior, using the Roman Catholic Church's own evil, as their excuse.
• So people buy the lie because it's a Jewish bloodline claim, and everyone loves to hate the Jews.

  So see: it's not Dan Brown's fault; nor is it the fault of Baigent et al., who didn't twist anyone's arms to buy their books, either. People love hating. So books which seem to provide a basis for hating -- never mind they are proven fiction, even their authors admit that -- never mind, people love buying anything which promotes debunking. Which requires hatred, to love.

  Satan's second macro tactic is always antisemitism (distorting the Word is his #1), and it's easy to find ding-dongs who'll buy whatever slander he wants to sell. For prejudice can always justify itself, see.

  Now note how Satan & Co. advertise their workmanship and thus hold up our prejudice against Bible, as the fault: what, does no one notice that all the fake Gospels, Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, whether inter-testamental or no; the Book of Mormon and the Koran, just like the Grail claim -- does no one notice that all these very slapstick books are obsessed with the Bible? Over all these centuries? Just as, the many reports of 'ghosts' and 'aliens' and demons-as-described-in-Bible are identical, yet no one notices? Such consistency since the first century can't even be maintained by mankind, much less adroitly managed and orchestrated in just the right religious spots. Surer proof of the Bible being the Word of God, no human could have; a more universal testimony across centuries, no human could have -- from the opposition! For even the enemy, likes pointing out to us negative-to-God humans, that it's all our fault we are so negative.

  So: you can't find a pro-Grail book or story, which doesn't claim that the Roman Catholic Church adulterated the Bible. It's really quite humorous how the accusers don't think over how impossible that is. Sure, translations are routinely adulterated. But the Roman Catholic Church didn't allow the original-language texts to be in circulation, was constantly destroying or confiscating them. So that what the average joe heard, was packaged snippets in translation: the Mass is a lot of Bible snippets, sonorously voiced rather than explained. Mistranslations like the reversal of the prepositions in womb verses to make life began at conception, are but one group of many mistranslations which abound. We've been copying, essentially, the Roman Catholic Church mistranslations, ever since -- even though, we've had full access to the original language texts for over 100 years. So now it's our fault the translations adulterate Bible, not theirs.

  But the truth is, Roman Catholic Church didn't adulterate the original-language texts. It just kidnapped them. With its fondness for relics, it wouldn't want to adulterate such treasures. Even the translations in the parishes, were chained to the altar or locked away from possible theft. And it was through Catholics, largely, that our most fabulously reliable manuscripts, were found. Granted, the Council of Nicaea doesn't deserve any credit for 'deciding' what's Bible, but it's also a false accusation against the Roman Catholic Church that the Council arbitrarily excluded valid books from what ought to be Canon; if anything, they accepted slapstick books you can prove are not from God, within 10 minutes. So their judgement wasn't too hot. So where there was a history of acceptance, the Council of Nicaea accepted one book as canonical, but another, not. However, God preserved His texts, and He proves what is His verse by verse, when you study in God's System. Especially, to a pastor-teacher -- that's his job. So forget the accusations against the Roman Catholic Church that it mangled the original-language texts; ignore the Roman Catholic Church's preening that it determined what is Bible. No, God determined it. And He still does, every day. No one can beat the Holy Spirit. No one.

  See how prejudice is used, to sell that lie? If you want to blame, hear an accusation, and your prejudice will incline you to believe it. So you don't know how impossible it would be to mistranslate ALL the Bible, or to adulterate any of original-language, God-breathed texts. You don't know that since we have thousands of manuscripts -- when some enterprising scribe put a "th" where a "ch" really was -- he'd get caught, since there are MSS with the proper "ch", still in them! (True story regarding 1 Corinthians 13:3 -- search on "καυχήσομαι".) Protestants have mangled the translations just as much as the Catholics ever did. Satan & Co. can't allow any translator or teacher to go un-pommelled. Pray for these people, whatever their denomination.

Funny how the Bible's never well-researched either, especially by the pro-Grail people. So not only Christians are bad scholars. If a verse says "A" in plain English even, the pro-Grail people will insist it means "-A", and even pride themselves on how scholarly they are! You do a double-take when you read the same verse they use to support some claim made. Funnier, how since we only know much of Christ through the Bible -- we consult anything BUT the Bible, to 'prove' facts about Him; we'll consult any old rag of the first century, and give it more credibility! As if the Bible couldn't possibly be valid, but only its critics could be right. Hence the Bible is virtually ignored. Note the hypocrisy: if you do research on the Titanic and why it sank, you have to go to the source material, the Titanic itself. So the source for a claim about Christ of the Bible, is the Bible. Whether you believe in it or not. And the Bible was not written in English, but about seven languages which all predate English. So, you should carefully consult those texts, not a translation. We routinely go to the original texts for Egyptian stuff, Sumerian stuff, Greek stuff. But NOT the Bible, for Bible stuff. Do you begin to see a pattern here? Bible is never truly consulted with reference to anything it says -- anything but THAT Source, we use. So too, with respect to the Grail claim: those inimical to Bible cite only Roman Catholic Church people and teachings, which is why every Grail book consistently misreports the meaning of Matthew 16:18, and gets egg on its face. What little Bible is used, is so egregiously ABused, you shake your head in wonder: do they have the same Bible as I do for the same verse address?

Witness, the pro-Grail authors' incredibly prejudiced interpretations of Bible, which even a cursory reading in translation, proves wrong -- how can authors conclude, for example,
• that women are "marginalized" in the Gospels? The topic is about Christ and His Claim. That takes center stage. It's not about people, it's about God providing salvation. Sheesh. It's as if the authors expect one line about a woman, for every line about a man.
• Or, that John the Baptist is being marginalized? Christ talked of him in glowing terms, always. John was His Cousin. John was the "Elijah" no one listened to, Christ reminded everyone.
• Where do these crazy Grail people conjure up an argument between Christ and John the Baptist, or between Mary of Magdala and Peter? You're going down the rabbit hole with them, I guess. The Apocryphal books of "the Gospel of Peter" and "Gospel of Mary" are NOT Gospels, even ("Gospel" means a message about Messiah, and how to be saved -- you won't find any such thing, in those books). Those fake gospels are like a gossip rag which tells you of a human baby with a gorilla body. Read the things yourself! Peter is depicted as making his daughter sick and well and sick again so no one can 'defile' her -- oh, that's believable.. NOT. Mary of Magdala, is made out like an insane person babbling incoherencies, and those are supposed to be the hidden secret divine knowledge? Oh that's believable.. NOT. And these are superior sources to consult, versus the very-carefully written Synoptic Gospels? Sheesh.
• Then again, how can two pro-Grail writers spend several paragraphs on how, in Genesis 3 God vilely ordered the fig leaves thingy to spite the woman (as if the God who made her was a misogynist), when the text plainly says Adam did it? Of course, they misread everything Paul writes as if he were one, too. Man, I had to put the book down and get some air after reading that contention, since Genesis 3 is easy to read for comparison, and Paul's respect for women shows plainly in all he writes (he's the only virgin apostle, and the one who makes the most use of sexual analogies in all his letters, to explain the intimacy of God's design for the spiritual life of Church).
• How can other authors conclude that if 12 different things are said by Christ on the Cross, which are variantly reported by the Synoptic Gospels, that they must be contradictions of each other? Couldn't He have repeated what He said, in different ways? That was the standard practice of quoting Scripture -- to vary the quote to show the current application of it (namely, Hebrews 8:8-12 compared to Hebrews 10:15-17 compared to Jeremiah 31:31-34, and Psalm 40:5ff to Hebrews 10:5ff). What, can't He talk about more than one thing, to be consistent?
• How can so many authors possibly conclude that the God who outlawed phallic cults in the Old Testament, Whose Son in His Humanity fulfilled that Law.. is really instead, a worshipper of Isis, and LYING to the disciples, except John? Would you follow a 'savior' like THAT?
• Next: how can so many authors possibly claim that the Catholic Church adulterated the Bible, when the Bible we have, excoriates every Catholic doctrine? Codex Vaticanus was sequestered, even kidnapped by the Church circa 400 AD; and remained locked away, until Tregelles forced its publication circa 1889 -- that's one of the most reliable Bible manuscripts, and it utterly proves wrong the nonsense promulgated by the Roman Catholic Church since its infancy in the 90's AD. [Among the MSS (original-language manuscripts) about 1-2% have copying errors or attempts to change/add/subtract text, but we have so many manuscripts, they act like a counterfeit detector: hence Bible truly IS infallible and inerrant, when vetted en masse; that is, you end up having a provably infallible and inerrant text, when you collate all the material and, verse-by-verse, go through it. So it's demonstrable, with some years of study, that God took care to preserve His Word, and Satan & Co. tried desperately to burn it, tear it in pieces, hide it, keep it away from man's eyes. Took maybe 18 centuries to get sufficient provable texts available to the common man, but.. you can bet the meanwhile, anyone who wanted the Real Bible, was given it.]

  More: if you substitute the words "Jesus" and "Star of David" in the next (italicized) sentence with any other name or culture, you'll see the prejudice clearly. It's clearly a prejudicial claim that Jesus were just some lascivious mystic; that the Star of David is but a yin-yang thing. That sentence is a main contention in the pro-Grail books, and also in the Da Vinci Code. The latter had to use the contention, since the novel is about folks pursuing that idea of "Grail". But those claiming the story is true, what excuse do they have? If you substituted "Mohammed" for "Jesus" in that sentence, wouldn't the Moslems be up in arms, protesting? Yet Mohammed is a more plausible candidate, since he had many wives and it caused trouble, and there is a mystical sect in Islam, the Sufis. [Not to mention, the Koran's constant stress on wide-eyed houris as your reward in heaven. But for all that, Islam is not a mystical phallic cult, and the Moslems would be right to protest.] If you substituted "Buddhism" for "Star of David", the Buddhists would be up in arms, too -- even though yin-yang is their idea. [Harmony and unity have always been represented by male-female, but that didn't mean sex was a way to commune with God. Genesis 6 is the origin of that idea, where real demons copulated with real humans, to try and wipe out a purely-human gene pool, so Christ, Who would have to be human to pay for humanity, could not be genetically born.] And why is the claim made by the Grail proponents so bad, no matter what noun you use to substitute for "Jesus" or "Star of David"? Because it cheapens the meaning of relationship to God. That's prejudice, to belittle, and here it's GOD who's belittled. You can't hate God and be objective. Prejudice means bad scholarship must be present. Which as was just noted in the bullets above, is painfully evident.

  But review of Scripture shows rather that Infinity IS a unity of opposites, aka "hupostasis" (Greek term); and yes, that's WHY God created them male and female (Genesis 1:26-27), but the oppositeness is INFINITY-FINITY, not male-female per se. God's Integrity is so inviolate, He can allow infinite Freedom of Truths; however incompatible the opposites are or become, those opposites still reconcile at HIS level, harmoniously. Task for us, is to GET His Thinking, so we gradually become reconciled despite all incompatibilities. So the Star of David represents Yah+Weh, alright -- but it's GOD adding Humanity to Himself (hayah+hawah, concatenated, Mediator, 1 Timothy 2:5), not a male-female thing.

  The meaning of Yah+Weh has a very long paper trail of scholarly analysis going back hundreds of years; however you feel about its accuracy, you cannot just up and say Yah+Weh means male female, since the very verbs are about states of being (one absolute, hayah and the other relative, hawah). What a crock, then, to ignore the very meaning of the verbs! No matter what 'god' was being reviewed -- pretend it's not the Bible's definition of God -- this is bogus scholarship, to ignore the verbs.

  But of course, only the Bible gets so mistreated. You won't see this junk promulgated against Krishna, Allah, etc. So the 'scholars' really didn't even look at the Bible, at all. But pretended to. And then have the colossal gall to call themselves 'objective', in their books? And if you hold up their fake scholarship to light, well.. then because you believe in God, YOU are the one who's wrong. No Bible believer can be right and scholarly, of course.

  But look: if 'divine' was limited to mere male-female 'principle' which reached its highest expression in copulation and birthing kids, then what's the point of being alive? Is that all we'll ever get in 'wisdom', a momentary climax followed by years of childrearing? Is that what life is about? See how that idea derides God? See how anyone who thus believes that meaning, hates God? And these people are objective? Sheesh: every polytheistic faith has just such a central fecundity 'mystery' in it. See how Satan & Co. deride the True 'oneness' of having Christ's Own Thinking in You? Shared thinking is a 24/7 thing, rapport being a happiness which needs no set activity, to make it pleasant. So God's promise to the human race is that He can build that Thinking in us, Infinity Cycling Inside Finity, so we can have Eternal Rapport with Him. Not some momentary physical thrill followed by years of childbearing burden. See the difference between the True and false Grail stories?

  Prejudice, of course, erects barriers against what self finds psychologically painful to admit. For barriers, wall off the self so self can claim independence and hence superiority. Which is, the prime directive of the sin nature, insecure as it is, 24/7. So just as Satan commanded Adam to make the fig leaves, so Adam commanded his wife (Genesis 3); so just as the Lord quietly and compassionately reminded Adam of his insecurity and obedience to Satan via "nagadth" in Genesis 3:11's "Who denounced you for being naked?"; so also the human race is bombarded with the self-flagellation works-and-pain thingy, 24/7. Sex is either thus excoriated, or touted as a mystical thing, so that man's mental masturbation, never ends. [Re Genesis 3:11: Cute wordplay on nahash, snake, with nagadth, denounce. Satan denounced God at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which the woman and then more Adam, 'bought'; so, buying the snake's denouncing, ever since.] That's how Satan & Co. think; that's the story they constantly sell. That's the lie we constantly buy. Trapped in such thoughts, then, we hallucinate meaning from Bible, and cannot ever read it properly. It will but always be distorted to our prejudices, and those who disagree, will forever be wrong in our eyes. Is that not the ultimate self-punishment (1 John 4:18,20-21), to lock self up in its prejudices?

Those fighting the pro-Grail folks also don't do their Bible homework, and look silly when they try to refute them. It was unbelievable how the Roman Catholic Church marshalled so many bishops, telling their parishioners to boycott Dan Brown's book, as if it were something new. They'd done the same thing to Baigent et al. with the Holy Blood, Holy Grail series, back in the 1980's. Sheesh: let them read that stuff. The material proves itself stupid, needs no 'help'. I was laughing so hard in the middle of the Holy Blood, Holy Grail book I had to put it down lest I spill my coffee. Great stuff for a guffaw. Like Mad Magazine used to be back in the 1960's. So what's to be threatened about? And all those fake bible books, sheesh -- pure slapstick. Books of Enoch, Jasher, Gospel of Peter, Infancy of Jesus -- a whole roster of satire to make your belly laugh long and loud. So enjoy the silliness.

And here's what all the anti-Grail people miss, as they try to 'defend' against that 'heresy'. Ok, is this embarrassing or what -- Bible's prophecies about developing Israel as a Bride are plainly visible even in translation (i.e., Hosea4ff, Jeremiah, Ezekiel 16:6ff). So if Messiah was to come and 'marry' Israel, the plan clearly wasn't to have a physical family. After all, Messiah was going to rule HIMSELF, forever. Isa7-9, 11, 52-55, 61, Job 19, Ezekiel 39ff (through the end of the Book), etc. tell you all this. God takes on Humanity in order to come down and rule the world, with Israel being the head of all nations, is the core of Judaism, as illustrated by the Ark of the Covenant's gold (depicting Deity) and wood (depicting Humanity). So God doesn't need to produce a dynasty, if He HIMSELF is forever ruling, duh! So when Israel turned Him down when He finally came, Church was the announced replacement for Him, as He announced to Peter in Matthew 16:18 (as Part 4 of the Lord vs. Satan on the Home Page, extensively explains).

God doesn't need to produce a dynasty, but people need intermediaries. As shown in the Third Aspect, most believers want goodies, not God Himself, so will never learn Him. The resultant thinking level IN people will be too small to propitiate Him -- we all don't like small-mindedness, how much more, God wouldn't -- so there has to be a synergistic mechanism for learning to think better, even in the eternal state. Christ's thoughts paid Father for the shortfall on the Cross, so we're talking about how people need this thinking IN them, not about God being owed -- but we'll all want Father to get that thinking from us, once we see Him, post-death. All anyone will care about then, is reflecting Christ. Because, He's Gorgeous. So there needs to be a mechanism to transmit that learning of His Thinking, and hence the Pleroma group will be the kings under the King of Kings, heading up their own respective subkingdoms, mainly for the purpose of teaching that thinking (a king's real role is to be a living textbook others can emulate, even down here on earth). So in that sense, "children" are to be produced. That's what Isaiah 53-55 and Hebrews 2 take great pains to explain, the how of this 'progeny'. Paul's always focused on that theme, in his letters.

Of course, as already noted earlier, Matthew 16:18 is consistently abused by 'scholars' whether pro-Grail or anti-. None of these twerps even bother to research how "Petra" is used in the OT. Over which today, the Dome of the Rock, sits. I'm not kidding. There are 77 verses showing you how Bible uses the term "Petra"; you can find them in five minutes using a Bible bot or software, to obey the first principle of hermeneutics that you compare Scripture with Scripture. But no one does that. It's not even possible to misinterpret Matthew 16:18 once you looked up those 77 verses.

So, sure: the Roman Catholic Church is flat lying, the way it uses Matthew 16:18; but what's the excuse for everyone else aping what the Roman Catholic Church says? Bible proves that contention, a lie. So no excuse then, for the RCC-bashers to agree with the Roman Catholic Church interpretation, thus proving themselves twerps. Sorry, no kind words can be said. Further still, Bible proves every doctrine Roman Catholic Church promulgates as a lie: takes between 10 minutes and an hour, to prove each one almost 100% anti-Biblical. Yet no one trying to 'beat' the Roman Catholic Church even consults Bible? No, of course not. Because it's not the Roman Catholic Church which Satan & Co. are after. It's the Bible that they're after. It's to accuse the BIBLE. Bible is the target, not the human agents. For only the Bible is from God.

Scholars can have differences, and that's fine. What's not fine, is when no one does his homework, but everyone pretends to have done so. You'd get an "F" in school for that. Fibbing. Cheap fibbing. Fibbing so bad, the above has to be an amalgamated sketch of the claims, rather than the more scholarly specificity -- lest the specific authors and their claims, be exposed. Sometimes truth must be sketched, kinda like God did to Adam, in Genesis 3:11. We accuse God, but He won't accuse us back. Who denounces us for being naked, then, isn't God. God made Adam naked, no shame in it, Genesis 2:24. God then gave Adam the clothing his fallen religious soul craved. So He covers all our sins, too. Thank God He's not like people, huh.

Thus mankind battles over the Fake Groom, the two antichrists of politics and ego:
thereby missing the Real Groom, Christ --
to prepare for the Rapture, 🤣!

So it's not God anyone on either side of the Grail debate, cares about: but only politics and ego. These latter two are our antichrists, Philippians 3:18-19. God is just a designer label for each side to 'use'. So the lie, and not the truth, is exciting. So the lie, and not the truth, is promulgated. Just as it was, during His Incarnation, so even until today, only His political status is desired. His Real Person, everyone patently hates; were it not so, you couldn't tear people away from Bible study in the original languages (which conclusively prove that they are from God, given the perfect brilliance of word usage, consistency across 1500 years of compilation, and wit). So, we crucify Him, still.

In Greek the term translated "Anti-Christ" really means "instead of Christ", and hence "against Christ" everywhere you see it in the Bible; Greek preposition "anti" means "instead of, replacement for, to replace (adversarially)", and hence "against". Substitution.

Lies are substitutions for truth; problem with the lie is that since it is false, nothing true supports it, so it must keep on adding to itself, for survival. For this, it requires prejudice, which is a type of desire for a lie which feeds ego. Hence those who believe a lie seek to promote it to others, and must -- for belief in a lie, needs external support, to sustain that belief. So, those who believe a lie -- and we all do, at times -- are under a tremendous sin-nature, demon-enhanced urge, to 'proselytize'. But those who believe a truth, realize truth needs no defense, so don't care if others agree with them. So those who believe the lie are hostile to the truth, and feel threatened by it (Romans 8). So since hostile to the truth, they will not hear the truth, and anyone imagining he can 'convert' them to the truth, is dreaming (1 John). Again, you don't attack these people. You walk away. They can only learn truth, the hard way. And who among us, hasn't repeatedly had the same need to be spanked, in order to awaken to a truth?

Promotion is the hallmark characteristic of all religious adherence, and patently demonstrates the evil idea that God is here to glorify man, instead of vice versa. Satan's claim of ASCENDANCE (allah, in Hebrew) is thus portrayed, since Satan believes a set can contain itself. Hence a political Messiah (Third Temptation) is promulgated, rather than the One Who Heals you inside. 'Salvation' in the Grail version, is but outward, curing nothing, fomenting antisemitism and every other kind of factious warring. All in the name of God, of course! So the only way to deal with those so addicted to self-ascendance, is to give them enough rope to hang themselves. And then pray that hope replaces the rope -- Hope in God's deliverance, when they finally realize they are choking. Who among us, hasn't had that choking experience?

But God cares about informing us, and Bible anticipates and explains every jot and tittle of the Grail game, from the beginning; if we would but seriously read what the Holy Spirit wrote, so we don't end up with a permanent memory of how we wasted our lives in delusion. God doesn't warn because He's a sadist -- He foreknows how we will be affected by our own bad decisions, and what we will freely conclude as a result. Like any loving parent, He would spare us the agony. But to get what God means, you gotta seriously study, what He wrote. You can't be cavalier with Scripture; you can't read the Bible like a novel: it's meant to be studied, and daily for years, in the original-language texts. That's why God preserved them.

So to the extent you do that, you are interested in God. To the extent you don't do that, you are disinterested, and to be disinterested in the Thinking of God is to thumb your nose at the First Commandment. No "people" are in the First Commandment. God and God alone. All your heart and mind and strength, not just some of it. If you love someone, you spend your time learning them, being around them, fascinated with their THINKING. Else, you do not. So all the good deeds in the world, count for nothing, even if it were ever possible, that man's puny deeds were anything but menstrual rags, Isaiah 64:6 (translations euphemize the term as "filthy"). Thus is our self-delusion, exposed: for if we preen over our deeds but are disinterested in Scripture, we fool and foul ourselves. God would save us from an eternity of remembering, such a mistake. He would rather have us look back on the glory of learning Him. [If you think you haven't the time or the brains to daily and deeply study Scripture in God's System, guess again -- just try to get in God's System, as you can 'now' and watch how God provides both time and brains, no matter what your circumstances now. The God Who parted the Red Sea can part all your obstacles to studying Him. Even if you were brain-damaged (two folks in our congregation had that problem, and guess what -- they learned Scripture in the original-language texts our pastor taught everyone).]

We each will die, one day. So there will come a day when everyone will know the truth. From that moment onward, the person must forever live knowing the truth, as explained somewhat in the Third Aspect, above. Imagine the chagrin, the howling ("mourn" in the Bible is a howling, not at all quiet).. which goes on forever? Luke 16:20ff shows it, in spades. For no one likes to realize he duped himself his whole life -- never mind he had lots of demonic 'assistance' to make the lie so desirable -- missing out on what he could have had, if he hadn't been so prejudiced against God. Even so, believers who largely will have such a memory of wasting their lives, are comforted eternally by God. He really is not out to make anyone suffer. The memory of the delusion will be used to deepen enjoyment of the person's life, forever; if you've ever made a really stupid mistake which cost you a lot of pain, but you learned so much from it you're now grateful, you'll understand the kind of eternal comfort, God will be providing. To each of us. For who of us can say we've never had a bout of colossal delusion?

So when you read the Bible, you need to keep its first purpose of Incarnation-to-buy-salvation, in mind. Sins are a product of thinking, so that's how they are paid for -- depicted by blood, since thought circulates. Depicted thus by the sacrifices, wherein the sinner placed his hand on the animal who was being sacrificed instead of (substitution) him -- hence the carotid artery was cut (cutting animal's pain, that) and the blood drained into a bowl which the officiating priest, caught. Thus you were not allowed to eat animal blood, since it was to become the means of paying for sin: to eat it would be to profane what it represented (for it represented thinking, which is live). Same, for the articles in the Temple and its construction: the lamp stands represented Word-in-believer; the oil, the Holy Spirit's enabling power; the almond/lilly cup which held the oil, the Spirit-enabled believer 'pregnant' with Word cycling in him. For God is all about, making sons from His Son. In the Old Testament, and fulfilled by Christ, to the uttermost-level, in the NT. Paul spends the entire Book of Ephesians explaining this, wittily patterning the book after Euripedes famous play, "Ion", to show the Real Fathering, the Superior Begetting we get in Christ. So "Blood" is not a bloodline of mindless corpuscles: "but we have the Thinking of Christ", and "Christ in you, the confident expectation of glory" (1 Corinthians 2:16 and Colossians 1:25-27, respectively).

As explained in the Four Aspects, DDNA is spiritual, not physical, so has zippo to do with the body; DDNA can only be produced by the Holy Spirit working ON you, in God's System. That has always been true: for Church, the level of spiritual compatibility with Him available NOW is uniquely intimate and high. Highest and most intimate. But it was always to some extent, the spiritual life. All the rituals, all the metaphors in the Bible are used to depict non-body stuff, so that when you did something with the body, you were reminded of the higher value. Hence, metaphors chosen often spoofed pagan practices at the time, to show how non-body stuff was in view. For example, the just-mentioned animal sacrifice was what God Would Do For You, not vice versa (common pagan idea was that sacrificing the animal was a work man did to appease God, so God is spoofing it by having the sinner put his hand on the animal, via the wave offering, etc). For example, you tied leather strips on your arms and head which had little Torah scrolls attached to them, the idea of the Torah guiding your head and hands 24/7 (tassels on garment hems had the same significance for the feet and legs). For example, you were not allowed to work on the Sabbath, nor during the key feast days (which were many, not few) so you could dedicate yourself solely to Torah thinking. Vacation of vacations, that.

God says it all when He uses Passover as the analogy: dining fellowship. Not, ritual or religion. Some day, we will all know that truth. Meanwhile, we are free to distort it into cannibalism, into brownie points for Mass attendance, into all the silly evils religion hawks. Wasting our time and money, we will someday realize that we just bought the lie because it made us feel good, and all our vaunted rationalizations will vaporize. Meanwhile, there's a Bible in every hotel room which we just might pick up, so to escape this Sisyphean view of God. And turn and be healed.

For Satan's overall strategy IS delusion, so to prove God wrong in the Divorce Trial: put simply, his strategy is "DIOS" -- to make God 'foreign' to us, to make a 'foreign' god the one we worship. Satan maintains that God should lie to us, not show Himself as He really is, because we can't take it. So the real goal is to craft substitute ideas about God, sell them to the human race, and then preen before the Most High about how much happier mankind is, with the substitutions. Which is why God never sells any substitutes. So it's not true that any sincere idea of God, is okay. Lies are never okay: they always kill the one believing in them. Which, as noted above, God is keen to avoid, and thus we have The Book to learn The Truth.

The satanic substitutions are intended to kill us, too. That's their natural result, since they are all religious, but that's also Satan's Götterdämmerung plan for the human race, since he well knows he can't beat God, so wants to have as much satisfaction in wrecking God's Enjoyment, as possible. [Satan never did get it about how Infinity can't be dented, so thinks he can really hurt God, given that God's Love is so absolute.] "D" is for Derision, "I" means Imbalance, "O" means Obfuscation, and "S" means Substitution. Satan accomplishes this goal adroitly, by covering up the Cross' Covering of sin (aka "atonement", kippur, covering): to remake sin naked, and thus keep our eyes on it -- especially in others, mind you. So whether he plays the always-popular eyes-wide-shut phallic cults, or the popery, it's always some Revelation 17 harlot riding the scarlet and purple of human affairs. Pitting both genres against each other makes us look at them, and never at God. So whether the Old Testament blunt phallic cults of Mycenaean Greece or Athens; whether the Cybele cults where the men castrated themselves in order to be priests; whether the many ascetic cults which brandish their fake holiness by giving up sex or particular foods or money; whether modern-day equivalents of distinctly Gnostic (i.e., "New Age") or papal character, it's all the same anti-Christ masking.

Notice the Revelation 13-17 character of them, a pitting of two antichrist systems against each other, but which make a marriage of convenience for the purpose of world domination, just as the Holy Spirit had John explain (i.e., in Revelation 17:13,16):

• one side (represented by the Gnostic flavors) is very obviously anti-Bible;
• but the other (represented by the RCC), is even more anti-Bible, but pretends to be God's champion -- the Real Bible being trashed the better, by such 'representatives'.

The apathetic human populace the meanwhile, drools or groans over either side; and at no point bothers to actually study the Real Bible, to see if those self-proclaimed representatives tell the truth. Because, apathy doesn't want truth. Apathy wants titillation. Anti-Bible stuff, hey -- let's spend billions of dollars on books alleging something saucy against Scripture, but no time actually learning what God says IN His Book. Titillation is man's preferred 'grail': so man is Satan fodder. Hence man bleeds to death religiously. And, pointlessly.

Part 4c of the Lord vs. Satan (LvS4c.htm) has a "MEGA" table which shows how Satan & Co. promulgate their DIOS plan upon the human race. The "A" in "MEGA", is apathy: God is only worth a few hours' nominal attention every week, so self can preen about being a good person! So depicted by, engagement in do's which are of petty character and are to be rewarded. Overt hostility accompanies any suggestion that the apathetic person is not a good person thereby. Apathy prides itself on its apathetic attitude toward God, its petty religious practices and observances, its God-is-a-pain message (so 'church' is treated as a chore one must do on Wednesday and Sunday). Because, that's what the apathetic human wants God to 'be': a royal pain, so gimme some reward for all the chores I've done for you! The apathetic person makes a big stink out of how good he is, to cover up how apathetic he is. It's a defense mechanism. So the teachers largely do not teach Bible accurately; in an effort to excite interest, they go in for works and singing and other folderol to excite ego and emotion. Hence religion, "the devil's ace trump" (my pastor's term) isn't so much the fault of the teachers, but of the laity who want all those lies as stars they can pin on themselves, and assuage ego. No love for God is ever present; hence no true love for people, ever exists -- main theme of 1 John. The person who is apathetic to God will never be less apathetic toward anyone else, for he is too self-centered, morphing everything in his life to serve ego. Avoid these people -- well, you can't, since over 90% of mankind is in this 'bracket'!

The apathetic person hides his own apathy from himself, substituting works or being nice to people, as what God wants. Never really learning Scripture ITSELF, but relying solely on others; getting little homilies or snippets, never really curious to know God for Himself. Kinda like marrying a man for his money, the apathetic believer fools himself that he is a good person for substituting the nice things he does for people, as if God was served. Antichrists, these -- by the billions!

So, they flagellate themselves, slowly bleeding to death. Since to them "God" is a pain, whenever they need to feel good about themselves, they will seek something they find painful, and call that serving God. So, having sought all this unnecessary pain for so long, the idea of God becomes ever-more unattractive, and all that suffering wears the body out. All of it, self-induced. Add to this the fact that the person who never learns God never learns how to think well -- witness any TV newscast you like for conclusive proof on man's total inability to discern squat -- and the life becomes inordinately complicated with glitches. (It's hard enough, even without added complications due to human stupidity.) So, over time, the person's self-fulfilling prophecy about God wanting suffering.. proves 'true'. Aha. At which point, God is supposed to reward them, see.

Of course, sooner or later the falsehoods get exposed, and usually because Bible is recognized as disagreeing. Hence, iconoclasm grips the apathetic person. Hence, blaming the teacher who doesn't teach the real God, the person chucks God altogether -- for the teacher, lied! Thus you have the "God is Dead" phenomenon of the 1960's and 1970's. Never mind, that it was the teacher who lied (presume), not God Who lied. God gets cast out, too. And of course the Real God, being adversely judged (Matthew 7:1-2), does nothing. Satan counts on God's Integrity, uses it against Him. But note how man's prejudice is exposed. It was never God they wanted, in the first place, but a teaching which was a lie. They are only mad that the teaching proved to be a lie; had it never been exposed as a lie, they'd have still believed in it. Hypocrites, all.

Or, the apathetic folk suddenly get sick or have a disaster. At which point, God is supposed to deliver, since they have been sooooo good with their petty, vile observances and He's supposed to be grateful! But, He's not. So then they wonder why God doesn't rescue them from their illnesses and bad decisions. God is a dog, supposed to fetch them out of trouble, supposed to serve their idea of what makes God 'good'. And if He doesn't deliver, well.. then the Bible is wrong, or the teacher is wrong, or the one accurately portraying Him is wrong. Doesn't matter, if real wrong exists. It's just an excuse. So it's all God's fault, and they 'fall away', convinced they were lied to. No: they never got close, to start with. They bought the lie all those years, but now conveniently forget that. So they flagellate themselves the more, by attacking others or 'get even' by avoiding God altogether. He let them down, see. Never occurs to them that He can't positively reinforce lies. If you call Him by some other 'god' name, He won't answer. If you believe a wrong thing about Him and insist on it, He won't nag you about the error. Love never nags. Kinda like that movie with Mel Gibson, "Signs", only once Mel's character stopped blaming God, did he see what the 'signs' actually were. When you blame God, you only beat yourself up. Can't see too well, if you've always got a black eye...

In short, the Bible has been routinely abused in translation and teaching for centuries, but even were it not -- the apathetic, would still find another excuse. They want God to conform to THEM, not vice versa. So, not good people, but haters, 2 Timothy 2:26-3:7. Satan fodder, then, bleeding themselves to death, fancying their many little works as deserving credit, fancying themselves martyrs of a heavy-handed and aloof God. From Whom they divorced themselves, oh so long ago. Gleeful eaters of the Grail myth, these folks, oh so au courante, now. "Always learning, but never able to come to an EPIgnosis of the truth. Avoid such persons as these." 2 Timothy 3:5-7, playing at a neighbor's house, near you. [EPI means "upon", connotation of building on a foundation. Totally unlike the "masonic" ideas promulgated in the world, true Spiritual Masonry is a major topic of both Old Testament (i.e., the Temple depicted it), and New Testament (i.e., Ephesians 2, 4:11-16). It's not at all mystical, but learning the Bible itself under God's System: viz, under the power of the Holy Spirit, which is utterly unfeelable -- learning, not earning -- learning, and rather prosaically.]

So the history of the human race, is the history of self absorption, and hence Satan & Co.'s success. We call 'love', what pleases US, never mind how perverse the 'love' might be. God is supposed to conform to OUR standards, not vice versa; for, when we claim to conform to His Standards, we pat ourselves on the back! As if, all His Standards were worth, was to praise our obedience. So, when we demonstrate our intense apathy by allotting no or little time to learning the Word versus what we think we do for people, hence what we do for people, damages them by selling the to-people lie; so, when we demonstrate our intense hatred of God by nodding at Him on Sunday, expecting goodies and blessing in return; so, when we enjoy blaming others or self when things violate our standards, well -- clearly we are flagellating only ourselves. As one thinks, so he is, Proverbs 23:7. And the thinking, is empty and vile; but feels good, so we keep on doing it. marionetted. Trapped. Loving our self-absorbed prejudices, nurturing them in others. Viral RNA, never DDNA. With disastrous true consequences God will never override.

Ergo, albeit one can well argue "Hoax!" in the recent years' recycling of the Grail myth, the underlying claim is not a hoax, but a satanic strategy you can prove in real time. For as 1 Thessalonians 4, 1 John, and Revelation 13-17 explain, there are many antichrists in the world. Satan keeps on trying to maneuver the time as if it were the official Tribulation, not knowing when God will actually call the Church (body of believers, not a building or a religion), home. You can quickly prove this fact, since people are so intensely mesmerized by the Grail idea, which is exactly the sales pitch Satan needs to produce a "king of the West": anything anti-Christ or anti-Bible captivates man's attention. So once again, the enemy testifies to the accuracy of Bible prophecy, even going to the trouble of delineating step-by-step, how he'll pull it off. Satirizing us, for not noticing his bald explanation. If he wrote with a skywriting airplane, "this is how I'll create the antichrists of Revelation 13-17", it wouldn't be clearer. [Two antichrists, a Christ-claimant and his Jewish prophet, are in Revelation 13-17. A Fake Church also serves to buttress the Christ-claimant. So the world will believe, so Israel and the West will temporarily make a pact -- see Daniel 9:27, also -- and then the rest of the world will be motivated to destroy them, which results in the Armaggedon Campaign. RevPlay.htm has more details on the latter, and it's part of Part V of the Lord vs. Satan (page name is LordvSatan5.htm). So right away you can see how all the Tribulational movies ever made, and the now-popular "Left Behind" series, didn't consult the Bible, either. Oh well.]

Satan & Co. don't have to be so bald about it; so disclosure is their goal, too, since they pick the baldest, most slapstick story they can concoct -- replete with lots of fornication among the higher-echelon 'initiates' (a satanic signature characteristic) -- to leave no doubt that God is not in the story. To point by derision, to what IS the truth, "Christ in you, the confident expectation of glory", Colossians 1:25-27, "and to come to know the Love for Christ, which goes beyond gnosis [tweak at the Gnostics]..." Come to KNOW. Not bloodlines, but the Blood of His Thinking, which paid for our sins, Isaiah 53:11 (in LXX, chiefly, and never translated). So both God and Satan & Co. in their opposite ways, testify to the truth of the Bible.

You'd think this confirmation of Bible prophecy, particularly one folks drool over, would be front-page news. But since it illustrates Truth, it's boring; so no one recognizes it (I can't find anyone who notices the bald 'coincidence'). I mean, people have puzzled for centuries how it could happen that some guy in the future, could claim to be Christ; how a Fake Church could ever exist which likewise would endorse such a liar. Sheesh: and here all along, this European bloodline claim, is how old? Recycled every now and again, racing across the world like the plague it is?

Yet now that the false Grail story is popular again, does anyone look at the BIBLE? Oh no: the Grail story is about Christ, yet no one looks at the Book to see what The Book might say about it -- or, when they look, they read something weird, as mentioned above in the subsection about pro-Grail, anti-Bible, prejudicial 'scholarship'. How amazing! And instead, people focus on whether the Roman Catholic Church persecuted, on whether He had kids -- with a fiendish glee over the famous having 'flaws'; thus, making many a fortune for the writer who promulgates them, whether via 'harmless' fiction, or no. Because to the sin nature, it feels good to rebel against authority, and particularly, against God. Hence the glee over 'discovering' the Catholic Church's murderous crusades against those who believe(d) in a from-Christ bloodline; since in their lust to blame the RCC, they gleefully lump Bible and God in their accusations, as if the Catholic Church ever properly represented either; so you know the prejudice is really fueled demonically, not rationally. Thus you can come to see how folks in the Tribulation, will fall for the very same claim. What's past, is prologue.

So it's not surprising that real people lay claim to the House of David, leaving implicit the legend: psst, we are also descended from Christ Himself! "Prince Michael Stuart" (or Stewart) claims to be descended from David -- though his spokesman, Sir Lawrence Gardiner (or Sir Laurence Gardner), doesn't claim he's from Christ's loins. At Amazon, you can buy the latter's books on the subject. Of course, another claimant was Plantard, who (hoax or no) obviously thought it propitious, just after the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, to use the pro-royalty climate for a claim of his own (he died in 2000). Then there's the House of Hapsburg, who had been largely the ruling house of Europe, almost until WWII ended. They don't themselves trumpet a claim, but you can find many who claim it about them. Doesn't matter if any of these claims were true. Does matter that people are obsessed about the idea. Generation after generation.

Thus you see today, how people will be obsessed by the same lie, in the future. So, we're looking at demonic herding -- there's no other rational explanation for so much lasting attention on a dusty country's ancient prophetical king, is there? Do you see this much attention focused on any other king or faith, over so many centuries? Who's busily out debunking Krishna or Shiva? Who's obsessed with disproving Allah, or Zeus? How many books are written claiming to be updates of the Bhagavad Gita or the Tibetan Book of the Dead? When has anyone spent their lifetime trying to prove Gautama, a mere philosopher -- even though he himself, claimed that's all he ever was? Oh, but only the Bible gets scads of counter claimants specifically focusing on it or its characters, like the Book of Mormon, the Koran, all those fake Gospels and other counterfeit tripe (Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha -- read for yourself)? The Mary Sura is positively obsessed with Him! Book of Mormon's clever misuse of Old Testament and New Testament is so genius, I wish I could meet the demon who called himself Moroni -- clever name, since 'moron' partly means demon, a son of darkness, in the Greek, and the "-oni" ending is a respectful diminutive, in the Hebrew/Aramaic of Jesus' day -- to congratulate him on his wit! Oh, but only on Christ! is this kind of negative, obsessive attention focused. Now do you see how it must be demonic? Man isn't capable of that much focus, hostile or otherwise, century after century...

So the Grail myth is Satan & Co.'s Number 1 'pick' for the rollout of the Tribulation, which the Lord warned about, beginning circa Matthew 24, when warning people to NOT believe Christ had returned. To best promulgate this myth, Satan & Co. must keep on promoting the Roman Catholic Church and whatever independent churches or other denominations, act like it. Which is most of them, today. Which you can see on all the major news networks and cable, with all their fawning attention on the RCC, today. So many competing religious harlots will wail or join the RCC, in 2005. All of them, cannon fodder, a setup for a wedding to some fake future 'descendant' of Christ, see. Heralded, if Satan & Co. can swing it, by a Jewish supporter those in Israel, respect. To bring peace into the Middle East in our time, yes! So to justify building that fake Temple of Revelation 11, with the Fake Church, smiling upon it.

Those last three sentences take quite a lot more political maneuvering to accomplish, but now that 9/11 has so discredited Islam its own adherents are awash in argument with each other, don't be surprised if there is such a 'breakthrough'. It can happen at any time. The more terrorists pursue their stupid goals, the more Islam as a whole gets discredited in the eyes of the world. So the more they advertise themselves in Iraq and on Al-Jazeera, the more a westernizing world will come to loathe them. So the more Islam will have to reform itself, which means giving up the Dome (Koran has nothing requiring it) -- or, there will be a religious war between Islam and Christianity much like the old days (700 AD+), which the Moslems will eventually lose. Satan wants them to lose: they are just cannon fodder to him, since they are other sons of Abraham, and Satan wants to kill ALL sons of Abraham (especially the Jews, of course).

All this happens before the Tribulation begins, and there's no guarantee how long before it needs to occur; nor is there any guarantee that it need remain. The fake Temple could be built, then lots of war after that -- for the purpose of rebuilding the Temple is to create massive destruction of the Jews. So, when that attempt fails (as they all do), the fake Temple can be destroyed yet again. Then, after some years, victory again gets it rebuilt. This scenario has already occurred repeatedly: Hadrian rebuilt a fake temple in 135AD, and Justinian tried to rebuild it. The Arab Dome was built 685-691AD. So more destructions and rebuildings, don't tell you anything but that it's a tool of Satan & Co. No one knows, not even Satan, how much longer history goes on, before the Rapture occurs -- so he's been trying since the Crusades, to rebuild the Temple. All he's been able to manage, is the Dome of the Rock. Well, at least he can protect that Rock, pending his intended world-hegemony political gambit.

For Satan loves a rich joke: use a FAKE Christ to kill interest in the Real One. Especially, if a real bloodline member of the Royal Family can be used -- that's a way of 'returning' Christ, right? Especially, since the Real Messiah was rejected by Israel, already. Especially, if a lie about Christ having kids can be used against Christians: for that ploy obfuscates the entire Church Age Doctrine of the Bride of Christ and the 'sons' plan which the New Testament exhaustively explains. Since the True Grail is to get His Thinking in you, if a fake Christ is lauded, then the Christian can easily substitute for that fake 'grail' of political rule. Heck, the Christian right already thinks political rule is God's Plan -- proving they are Satan's pawns, and that they don't even remember Christ's famous statement to Pilate, "My Kingdom is NOT of this world" (i.e., John 18:36).

Most of all: do you see the potential for war, here? No one could be neutral to Christ's Birth in the first century, which Daniel had predicted to the very year, almost 600 years prior. No one can be neutral, even now. Ever. Satan & Co. go to the Lake of Fire, if they don't prevent His Second Coming. Which they seek to do, by means of the ribald lie that Christ has returned, get it? [You'll notice that none of the Tribulation movies 'remember' that the antichrist King of the West poses as Christ: shows that none of them do their homework. If you read books like Holy Blood, Holy Grail with this Tribulational plot in mind, promulgated from the Crucifixion onward to have a valid paper trail, you'll see clearly the demonic conspiracy, so will avoid getting upset with mere humans. This plot began way before the Incarnation, by the way, but it's too convoluted, to explain. Suffice it to say you can readily prove that many folks claimed to be the Messiah even before Christ was actually born, so that when He was born, it would be easy to conclude even Him an impostor, if you were sufficiently ignorant of the facts. That ploy continues, and will keep on being played, until He actually returns.]

Substitute Christ, substitute Mission, substitute salvation. So you never get, the Real One. Again, it's a rich joke: before the Incarnation, it was a real bloodline persecution, going so far as to break Trial rules in Genesis 6, with the demons (who are now in Tartarus) deliberately copulating with as much of the human race as possible, to get rid of purely-human DNA. They almost succeeded (which is why phallicism has been a ploy ever since): only eight pure humans, were left. Hence the Flood. Post-Cross, the physical bloodline gambit -- which had been a real issue but is no longer, now that Christ completed the Cross -- today the world has this nice paper trail of the past, so a mystical physical bloodline can look like the truth. So, what was once the truth (sans the mysticism) can be built on, by appeal to our prejudices, and thus blot out the new and real 'bloodline', the production of Pleroma believers by means of learning Bible in God's System. How apt: Isaiah 53:11 in LXX, which is all about how this thinking gets DDNA-reproduced, uses the preposition "anti" to show how Christ is a Substitute for our sins, so we can substitute our thinking for His, once saved. So notice the Satan & Co. wit on that preposition: they aim to substitute a DIOS for Him, in our minds. He paid for us with His Thinking, so that "Blood" is mockingly made physical, such that we get 'saved' politically by mindless corpuscles which have magic properties. Heh.

Since God's Plan is intimacy via shared Thinking, and since the main Biblical metaphors used to explain that Plan are sexual (euphemized in all translations), the anti-Christ 'spin' must bang the drum on sex in order to spoof the real and Holy meaning behind the metaphor. God invented sex for pleasure in marriage, not for procreation (Genesis 2:18-25 is well before Genesis 3:15ff)! When you compare the nouns and verbs used for marital intimacy with the ones used for the relationship of the believer TO God, you see that the reason why God invented marital sex, was as an analogy to the pleasure in knowing God, so you could understand God's will was not religion.

Hence, the Garden couple: marriage is altogether part of the nature of being male or female, indissoluble from it. As my pastor likes to say, "Adam wasn't just created a male, but a Husband. Isha wasn't just created a woman, but a wife." That's why homosexuality is not only a sin, but until the New Testament, a crime as well. To teach how the sanctity of marriage, isn't an obligation, but the fulfillment of the soul. To depict, fulfillment with God. The obligation, protects the soul from temptation. Commandments are designed for the same purpose, hence the First Commandment, is to Love God. So to become ascetic, is also against the Law (always has been, which is why even Onan was killed by God). So adultery and fornication, were also against the Law, though Christ changed the 'crime' rule (i.e., with the woman caught in adultery, general principle there) to be a matter only the Supreme Court of Heaven, can decide -- and it's thought, not merely the act, which governs (see all "adultery" verses in the Gospels). Now note the analogy, which Christ prayed for using marital terminology, in John 17: Church (believers between Pentecost and Rapture) is the "Bride" of Christ, as Paul explains in 1 Corinthians, Ephesians (not only in Ephesians 5, for he uses marital vocabulary throughout). 'As John deftly explains, in 1 John (also using marital vocabulary, when you look up the etymology of his stressed terms, like μένω).

So here's the antichrist: politics and religion are all about, harlotry. Congregations of bodies, preferably in adversarial relationship to each other, so can instead war. Politics is easily seen as a form of prostitution, when you examine what people will do to gain political power. Religion, too. Not too much different from the ancient phallic cults, really. Phallic cults were never pleasant affairs -- sex was mandatory, thus poisoning the concept of sex as a marital intimacy, between two people, male and female, devoted exclusively to each other. But Religion is just another type of adultery, since the couple trying to be religious, eventually view their activities as more important, than the soul bonds between them. Most divorces occur due to a 'growing apart' between the spouses. And religion is all about, divorce. For the more religious you become, the more you focus on yourself, even and especially when you imagine you are being 'good' to people. So you become addicted to being 'good', and hence farther apart from your mate, who by the way won't be properly grateful for all the sacrifices you see yourself making. It's the oldest reason for divorce, and the most potent one. Infidelity isn't just a fling with some hussy, y'know. [Fornication and adultery program the soul to regard the act more and more as a body thing, so with repeated engagements in either one, the sex act degrades; it becomes a religified standard of huffing and puffing, how you look or 'perform'; the act de-personalizes the other person, to the extent that eventually love and sex separate in meaning. It's not at all like the movies. Trouble is, one doesn't realize how jaded an attitude one derives from promiscuity, as the subsequent addiction to the sex act -- rather than to your mate -- takes over all else. Sex was designed to bond a married couple to each other, soul and body. Once you divorce sex from marriage, you divorce the soul from the body, so eventually your soul cannot integrate with your body in sex. So true intimacy, which is a soul function, remains frustrated. It's no coincidence that sexual dysfunction is so prevalent today. God explained the problem all over the Bible, to protect the human race -- but who listens to Him Who Invented Sex? Pretty graphic depiction in Ezekiel 16 and Hosea (whole book), plus passim verses in Proverbs, are there to warn of the problem. That's why adultery, fornication, pederasty, homosexuality, etc. are all sins. They harm those who engage in them. God is not trying to deny anyone pleasure, but to increase its enjoyment. For, intimacy with God, is 24/7 cycling of "Christ in you" -- the Seed in you, the oneness of John 17, "sanctify them in the Truth", verses 17-19, since the Husband sanctifies the Wife, Ephesians 5 (etc) -- get it?]

Sex thus becomes a rallying point for politics and religion to form their opposing forces. Yet when convenient to both sides, sex is also what will unite them: that's how the Chinese Communists were able to enlist the support of China Inland Mission, for example, in their bid to beat the Kuomintang. Thus the Bible is cheapened into a politico-religious tool, as if it were 'Christian' to ban all the Chinese brothels. The KJV translation was another such compromise, so is conveniently lying or vague where needed, to allow both sides (RCC and Calvinist) to claim their interpretations are correct. So of course, all its sex references which clearly mean Fellowship With God are euphemized; all out-from-womb verses (which you need to know, to realize how God births Christ's thinking IN you), are reversed to in-womb verses, as if life were in the womb (making God a sadist, at the expense of peace between two groups who believed the lie of life-in-womb, never bothering to check what Bible said in its inspired MSS). So, see? asceticism is the worst type of harlotry, which is why the Lord so excoriates the Pharisees, and you have scathing verses like Isaiah 1:13 and 64:6. For asceticism is a substitute mate, substitute for Knowing your Husband. Many is the divorced husband at the bar or golf tee whose ex-spouse nagged him to death with how good her deeds were (meaning that he was no good, or didn't reciprocate the high value of what she did for him)! Of course, many is the divorced woman who finally couldn't live with the know-it-all, anymore. Infidelity by nagging, is far more destructive. And murderous.

Christ was crucified the first time by ascetics who distorted everything He said, into a political bid for power. That was never the goal, since He already IS God, and doesn't need political power. Task was, could He without using that Godness, pay for sins? As a result of which, we could get His Thinking IN us, and thus become like Him, hence a worthy Kingdom Of Priests For Father? That was first Israel's lot, which she refused at the First Advent, preferring a political kingdom to an eternal spiritual one. So, Church was born Out From Christ, Matthew 16:18 (always egregiously distorted, by the Catholic Church and everyone else who quotes it). So, of course now that He won and is risen, the same distortion Satan used so well in the first century, continues: Revelation 13-17, politico-religious gambits. So, of course Christ is spun as having had kids, or the Disposyni (royal family, i.e., His brothers) are spun as wanting political power. Nice petri dish for more pogroms. Satan's macro tactic of antisemitism and like machinations are covered in the Appendix of the Lord vs. Satan; again, Part 4 of that series explains more how the torch of priesthood passed from Israel to Church (which is a different priesthood, so never usurps Israel, see Hebrews 5-10).

So really, Satan just keeps on playing the same ol' tired game he played at the First Advent, which we have in writing in The Book God Wrote. But we don't read that Book, so fall for the Grail myth pandered by folks who prove conclusively they couldn't read the Bible if it was spoon-fed them. But we don't care. We like the lie. Because we hate God. So, the myth will keep on being popular, more pogroms will come from it, and apathetic humanity will squeal at all the carnage, wondering how it all could happen. Yet another holocaust, yet more hand-wringing, then back to the myth because it feels good.

In sum, you are seeing the Real Grail Story, play. On the one hand, the True Grail is getting the Word in you. Quietly learn, never earn. On the other hand, you see via the fake Grail and Revelation 17 fake church ploys (not merely the RCC), how the "King of the West" is being formed -- as has happened already in history. Demonstrably, today's demonic hunger for anything which debunks Bible (i.e., the popularity of the false Grail story), is an orchestrated affair; which helps the one positive to Bible, see how well Satan played the same game, in the first century. It worked then, and you can see how it still works now. So you can see how it will work during the Tribulation.

For the True Grail, the Real Holy, Royal Blood, is His Thinking, 2 Corinthians 4:7 (using the body as the 'female' for the Seed, very witty, great setup for 2 Corinthians 5's themes). This, you are given to know right away, in Genesis 3:15 onward. And yes, the Bible deliberately uses sexual vocabulary, to convey it: God Wants Equals And Intimacy, not distance and aloofness. Religion chops down God's real and Holy Purpose into a body circus of either pain or prurience.

Thus it happened in the first century, and thus it happens ever since. For what happened to Christ, happens to us all; only Bible is a defense, and only then, after some while spent in God's System. Think of living in God's System as a castle fortress, besieged. Outside the castle (1 John 1:8 or 10), everyone wars, hence the hunger for war remains, and grows stronger, never satisfied. Like the Battle of Berachah, the enemy are all killing each other, and the believer within God's System, doesn't do a thing.

So when you see people gleeful over alleged 'contradictions' in Bible, or waxing self-righteous over the lies of the Catholic (or any other denomination's) Church yet treating that same church as if it were the arbiter of Bible, well.. you are watching Satan's success in action. You have the True Grail, if you are in God's System. And they are out to destroy it. But you just stand still, and watch the Deliverance of the Lord... And if you got stung and had bought the lie, well.. don't wring your hands, or look for some mea maxima penance to do. Instead, just use 1 John 1:9 and cling to God's System. Yes, "cling" is a euphemism for 'have sex', Hebrew word davaq (i.e., Deuteronomy 10:20, 13:4, 30:20 a command -- compare to Genesis 2:24), God's quintessential word for spiritual intimacy -- learn His Son. Do what Paul did, and forget what's behind, move on (Philippians 3:13-14, a favorite passage). The sting will be healed over time. It's only too late to start over, if you were already dead!

About Bible Mistranslation

An Appendix to DDNA

Man is helpless. Satan & Co. are not. The reason I spend so much webspace on Bible mistranslation, is to show a continuing pattern, such that the translated Bible verse has the opposite meaning, compared to the inspired original. For no human being is smart enough to comprehensively mask Scripture in translation; no set of human beings could so consistently mount that conspiracy, century after century. We flat don't live long enough!

So don't blame the translators and teachers as you see the blasphemies below. If each of us got a nickel from God for every mistake or blasphemy we've committed or believed, we'd all be richer than Croesus. The problem is not the mistakes and blasphemies, since those can be fixed; but rather, our refusal to acknowledge and fix them. Which refusal -- as you'll see below -- lasts for centuries.

And because the refusal persists for centuries, God really makes our knowledge of Him even richer than Croesus could have dreamed: for by seeing these many mistranslation errors, you see how a) He's the Real God, boy oh boy! And b) Satan & Co. are running this mistranslation scam! It's always nice to see the Invisible by means of the visible...

• For no Bible lexicographer ever born, gets up in the morning and sighs "Oh, to make the Holy Spirit sin, in James 4:5!" -- yet he does so when mishandling pros pthanon, forgetting all about
  1. the accusative of hostility,
  2. indirect discourse introduced by λέγω;
  3. that the inspired text had no punctuation or capitalization beginning sentences, or rarely even spaces between words, so you automatically suspect them when you find them in copies;
  especially given verse context. Look at its translations and commentaries throughout history in any language you can read: see for yourself. Sorry, man isn't smart enough to cover this up; and in fact doesn't cover it up, but puzzles over the verse, to this day! [Lacueva's Greek Interlinear of the Spanish Regina and the Latin Vulgate seem to get it right. Lacueva uses the clever "hacia", which in Spanish has an "against" connotation, and doesn't stop the sentence at "λέγω", which he shouldn't. Latin "ad" also has an accusative of hostility, and Jerome didn't make the following text a direct quote, nor did he stop the sentence at λέγω. I'm not sure if "concupiscit" back in Jerome's day had any sin connotation, or whether the true double-entendre that resides in "ἐπιποθέω" was also in the Latin.]

• No teacher awakens at dawn wishing, "Oh, to cut Christ's head off in 1 Corinthians 13!" -- but yet does so, year after year. For centuries. Translations always cut The Word's Head off in 1 Corinthians 1:5,10, by ignoring the famous moniker for Christ, ho Logos; and in 1 Corinthians 12:31 and Chap13, by ignoring Paul's 'surpassing' wordplay in a 'Body' context.

• The translation committees of all Bibles over the last 500 years! didn't travel in time and have a breakfast video conference, at which they decided, "Let's make Christ a sinner in Mark 3:5", by ignoring the antecedent of "μετ᾽ ὀργῆς" (should be "their anger", not His, sheesh). But at least all the English translations since 1550 make Him into a sinner, in that verse! [Spanish, Portuguese seem to also. French, Italian and German are more vague? There are about a dozen similar constructions in the New Testament which are correctly translated to prove that the nearest prior antecedent noun is the referent for the meta phrase; here in Mark 3:5, the nearest antecedent noun is the people, so it's THEIR anger, not His. So here in Mark 3:5, the 'scholars' just mistranslated, no big deal; mistakes happen. What is a big deal: no one will ADMIT the error; there are even internet blogs by respected scholars claiming the Lord IS angry. Why cover it up? Do you want to make the Lord a sinner to mask a past translation error? Admit the error, and move on!]

• And having done that, they surely didn't conspire, "Let's now cut God's Head off wholesale, all over the Bible! Let's translate every Greek verb or noun with a Divine-Actor embedded, heading it -- with man's head, instead! Yet they all do cut His Head off, and replace man's head atop, year after year, century after century, in thousands of verses: by ignoring the Greek Divine-Actor meaning in Greek words agape, αγαπάω, συνεργέω (all sun-prefixed verbs), etc. ad nauseam.

• And while at that mythical conference, you just know all those translation committees didn't scheme, "Let's make the God Who Gave the Mosaic Law, the First Breaker of it, in Exodus 6:20", by mistranslating "dodato" and ignoring the LXX of Exodus 6:20!
  This example is so important, and has screwed up the faith of so many for no other reason than bad scholarship, we need to spend time on it. It's as though everyone for centuries didn't know that Moses wrote about his own parents, under God's Own Power! So incredibly, this relationship between Amram and Jochebed is MISaccounted: so Bible debunkers droolingly use the persistent translation error to claim God a liar (technically, to claim the Bible errs); since by their MISaccounting the MIStranslation, Israel couldn't have thus spent 400 years in Egypt. And those seeking to defend the Bible, come up with the most insane justifications imaginable, or just dismissively treat the debunkers. So everyone learns nothing of what God is saying!

  You wouldn't believe the number of insipid commentaries on this 'problem' verse over the last two centuries. Yeah, it's a problem if you don't Learn What Real Bible Says! [For much more on God's Accounting for the Exodus, click here: see the whole picture, which you can even confirm from an encyclopedia plus a nice stroll in Central Park. Stay across the street from the Park at the Westin Essex House (great staff, beds and showers).] Yeah, and if I base my accounting on lies, I can pretend my answer proves the Truth wrong, too.

  If my pastor said it once, he said it a thousand times: It's a cardinal principle of Biblical hermeneutics to always apprehend the exact thought of the writer. If you don't know where the writer is 'coming from' (the why of a verse), you will screw up interpretation. Ok, then: clearly, Moses would know his own lineage, and since God is making him write about it, and a lot! God has something important to impart to us. Moses' parents were Jochebed and Amram. Two Bible verses on Jochebed are in Exodus 6:20 and Numbers 26:59, both mistranslated. Another passage not naming her is Exodus 2:1-10, and it confirms the interpretation below. Per the Real Bible of Exodus 6:20 (not the horrible translations), that couple were cousins through their fathers who were not Levites, and also via their mothers, who were. You know this for sure, because in Exodus 2:1, Amram is treated as a no-status Levite, but Jochebed, as a "daughter" (a title; means also descendant, but here used in comparative primogeniture rank) of Levi. Notice how Exodus 2:1 precedes all the genealogies, so tells you Amram's status before God appointed Moses. And whaddya know, it's properly translated! The ranking matters: for if Amram were a direct son of Kohath (i.e., not through a daughter of Kohath), the Levites as a tribe couldn't be adopted by God. Why, will hopefully become clearer in these indented paragraphs.

  So Moses' paternal grandmother was a daughter of Kohath, and his maternal grandmother was a daughter of Levi. Which is why his maternal grandmother was the aunt of his paternal grandmother. These two women were not sisters to each other; but the much-later-born daughter of Levi would be considered the aunt of the daughter of Kohath, since the daughter of Levi was the much younger sister of Kohath. You can't see any of this in English, because Exodus 6:20 is egregiously mistranslated, putting in words which aren't in the Bible (i.e., there's no "father's sister" anywhere in the text). The female line is in the Masoretic text, and the male line is in the LXX. Same bad translation problem as with Isaiah 53:10-12, where you need both texts.

  Satan & Co. are so clever. Look: the blasphemous MIStranslation of Exodus 6:20 to say "father's sister", makes it look like God breaks his own Law in order to set UP the Law! See Leviticus 18 and 20 prohibitions against marrying one's aunt, which prohibition the Bible restricts to the sister of your father or mother. Worse, there is more than one way to be an "aunt", which anyone (like me) who has great-uncles only a few years older than the uncles, knows. That's what's happening here: the "aunt" is through the grandmother (Levi's daughter would be the daughter-of-Kohath's aunt, so Jochebed would be Amram's cousin, not aunt). So why MIStranslate Exodus 6:20? God is saying Amram married on his great-aunt's 'side'; you don't make distinctions in writing between great-aunt and aunt, it's known by the names of the people (even today, one still calls a great-uncle, merely "uncle"). Obviously, since it was against the law (even though the law didn't yet exist) to marry one's own aunt? So why make a translation which 'makes' God break His Own new Law? For Amram and Jochebed are the parents of the adopted originators of that Law, Moses and Aaron. Do you see? It takes effort to make this mistranslation, and effort to keep it going.

  Understand too, that many commentaries through the centuries are made about this relationship, everyone blithely assuming that the Exodus 6:20 is correctly translated (i.e., TWOT, Easton's Dictionary, ISBE Encyclopedia; and Fausset's Dictionary has to posit seven or eight generations, using modern-day ideas, not Bible's). Feels like Twilight Zone, then, to say hey, why not just examine the Bible itself. For example, I've searched in BibleWorks for any verse claiming that the Amramites numbered 2,000 in Moses' day, like Fausset's Dictionary claims -- but I don't find any count of only the Amramites, anywhere. Do you? Moreover, because the Kohathites at the time of the Exodus number about 8,600 males, it's assumed that seven or eight generations ensued between the time Kohath entered Egypt with his dad (Genesis 46), and 430 years later, when Israel leaves. Excuse me? 430 years is plenty of time to have 8600 sons, even in only five or six generations; Jacob himself re-entered Canaan with 12 sons, but 70 years later, the brood numbered 70 when he entered Egypt (75, including the women). [See Mirroring.htm on Jacob's timetable: I had to back into it via Scripture verses.] Within less than one century (17th-18th) one branch of my own family had too many sons for me to trace (i.e., the routine number in a family was ten children)! Not to mention, the "mixed multitude" verse, who by the time the Kohathites were actually counted (in the wilderness period of 40 years), would have been in the various tribes by however-distant ties of marriage and blood, or counted as part of the tribe, being adoptees and/or servants (remember, any non-Jew could become a Jew by circumcision, for males; faith conversion, for females). So when you also consider that women gave their servants to their husbands, as competition to get more sons versus other women, sheesh: rabbits!

  Notice how Satan & Co. aren't really to blame, then: for does no human bother to care what God is saying, so to research the why of this emphasis on Jochebed (i.e., how she outranks her husband in terms of God's accounting of primogeniture, in Exodus 2:1ff)? God makes a stink about this, to invoke the daughter inheritance clause of Numbers 27:8 and thus assign otherwise-ineligible family members to Moses and Aaron, the two He chose. So, all of Scripture will only record them as such: legal status, inheritance, appointed by God Himself. Notice how it's the FOURTH generation via the mother Jochebed, thus accounted to Moses, thus fulfilling Genesis 15:8-16 promise to Abram. So Moses and Aaron are FOURTH and FIFTH generation Levite, but solely through their mother (and paternal grandmother, who doesn't rank as high). So God promotes them, gives Aaron the entire tribe of Levi, thus fulfilling Jacob's "Joined" (=Levi) prophecy of Genesis 49. You can see this explanation in many passages, but Numbers 18 is the quickest in translation. Search on "Moses", "Aaron" and "Amram", see the other 100+ verses for yourself.

  Now do you see why God so favors Israel? Look: a little-noticed awesome fact is that Abram knew his descendants would be enslaved for 400 years, from God's explanation in Genesis 15:8-16. God said that to him before Abram even had kids; it was a condition of the heirs promise. Now think: Abram lived with that knowledge, the rest of his life. So did Isaac. So did Jacob. So did Joseph. Notice how they all obeyed anyway, going back into the Land, staying there, waiting for God to fulfill the promise of enslavement, prior to fulfilling the promise of uncountable descendants, Chief among Whom, would be the ṣūr (= Petra), the Adonai (=Pedestal, foundation (holding pillars), function of Petra in Holy of Holies). Knowing, above all, that Christ would be the Son of Sons. You see their absolute acceptance, generation after generation, going into Egypt, then into the Land (namely, what Jacob says to Joseph in Genesis 48, what he tells the family (lots of not-nice stuff!) in Genesis 49, what Joseph says on his deathbed in Genesis 50:24ff. You can see that Israel kept on believing in that Promise, the whole 400 years (what, can't they escape?) -- i.e., Exodus 13:19. They believed in God's Promise of slavery!

  Could you live knowing that information? Would it matter what works you ever did, compared to such faith? No wonder James says "doctrine works" in the Greek of James 2:22, re Abraham. Such faith is not humanly possible, only the Holy Spirit running God's Word in you can generate the strength! Which at that time, was only a πίμπλημι level, but now, is πληρόω level! [See πίμπλημι.htm.]

  Back now, to Moses' parents. In modern parlance, Jochebed and Amram might be called "cousins once removed". (If that's the wrong use of the term, please correct me.) Meaning, one-generation 'removed'; a gap of a generation is between them (not in age, but in numbers of generations). That gap matters, since separation is wordplay in Jacob's prophecy about his son Joined ("Levi", to you) being separated and scattered, in Genesis 49. So: one generation is removed, get it? Just as Levi removed the entire town of Shechem's males from being able to have descendants (by killing them in revenge for the rape of Dinah), so God removes Levi's sons from the count -- until Moses.

  So God renders judgement ab initio, as if Levi had no eligible sons until Moses; then God invokes His Own Law, the daughter-inheritance clause of Numbers 27:8-11. Which allows Levi to be 'joined' via Moses, and no other way. Which allows Kohath (who is otherwise cut off, since Moses' parents' fathers aren't of Levi) to be joined to Aaron, Amram's other son (Num18:1-2, 4:18-20). Hence God adopts the whole of Levi to Himself, Exodus 32:29, and Numbers 3:6-12, and Levi has no other inheritance (many verses on that). Thus He also forecasts how Messiah, being born of Mary, not the Solomonic line, causes Levi and Judah to be Joined since Aaron married a descendant of Judah, but Messiah Himself is cut off, having no descendants, Isaiah 53. So all the human race can be adopted. In short, God is rather stressing this cutting-off-and-rejoining to tell the biggest story of all: how we can be saved. Always first look for WHY God says something in a verse, else you chase your tail!

  So, just like the Bible (but no translation) says, Jochebed was related to Amram through his aunt, who is not the same person as Jochebed herself, duh, so should be translated "Jochebed of his aunt", or, more idiomatically, "Jochebed on his aunt's side"; which is why, duh, dodato is in apposition in the Masoretic text! Sheesh. Didn't the scholars know the Leviticus 18 and 20 prohibitions against marrying one's aunt, so their stupid translation would give them pause to revisit the original text? And just to help out, the LXX tells you who the dads are -- non-Levites, who are brothers. [dative case of heautou seems to pointedly refer to Amram's natural father as distinct from the primogeniture legal 'father' God gives him via his own mom and Aaron his son. You decide.] So Jochebed's mom was Levi's daughter, Amram's aunt (remember, Levi was in Egypt for 57 years or more until he died and had daughters, so his daughter could be much younger than the sons). Jochebed's dad was Amram's uncle, non-Levite. So the couple were cousins on both sides of their respective families, but the Levite connection was matrilineal only. So because Moses and Aaron are only Levites through their grandmother and mother, God can legally invoke the daughter-inheritance clause of His Own Law (Numbers 27:8-11); thus He simultaneously executes Judgement to fulfill Genesis 49, and can legally gift to Aaron the entire Levite clan (which is a repeated statement throughout the Pentateuch); and thus claim that entire tribe as His Own Property (another refrain, passim in Pentateuch). This sets up the bloodline to be joined (=Levi) in Christ, fulfills Genesis 49.

  Oh, this is so important! Jews account their race via the mother, but primogeniture through the father. So God uses the mother, to make His Choice of primogeniture, so no one gets cut off. So then you can see the crossover of priesthood which is the central theme of the Book of Hebrews (starting in Chap3, on bloodline): Christ is first a King. Judah. So cannot be as Lion of Judah, a priest; yet, He is descended from the sons of Aaron, since from the beginning Aaron married a daughter of Judah. See how consistent God is? Just as He assigned primogeniture through a granddaughter of Levi from a daughter of Levi, so also through a daughter of Judah via David (Mary) who is also daughter of Levi but indirectly so -- a new Priesthood can be crafted this second time, even as it was crafted the first time, with Moses and Aaron; and Aaron got in, only because Moses refused to be God's sole mouthpiece (Exodus 4:13-14)-- so only through Moses, really. So solely Christ! becomes the High Priest of a new priesthood to Father, fulfilling Psalm 110:1-4 (theme of Hebrews 5-10), joining, nonetheless, the previous priesthood. So Levi was Grafted In; so we Church "Now" are grafted in, not replacing Israel, but instead sibling TO her, joined like Temple stones (Ephesians 2). All this, the writer of Hebrews is assiduously explaining. Which continuity you miss, if you leave an errant translation of Exodus 6:20, alone!

  Which of course is exactly how the Jewish race came into existence, in the first place: through the mother, Sarah. Children of the promise, due to Abram's faith. So the father is the cause, but the descendance goes through the mother. So AbraHAM, via faith, not blood; but the blood, comes through the mother. Whole Bible is structured this way: see Romans 4 and 9, Gal 3, Hebrews 3-4. So now the entire inheritance package, by faith and by blood, makes total sense. And tracks perfectly. God is Perfect, so He knows how to track perfectly. Look at His Precision! And to think, He does all this, without gerrymandering anything!

  Inheritance begetting principle: faith is the 'father', and the body is the 'mother'. His Own Faith on the Cross fathered us, Isa exults in passages like Isa 9 and 53. So by faith we are saved, since 'Mom', The Holy Spirit's self-chosen role (Genesis 1:2 mother-hen), takes that faith and Makes It Birth Us, Titus 3:5. Thereafter, His Own Word, DDNA! thus fathers us to father the many, to become the great ones, the booty, the spoil of victory. Which DDNA, we get in our own bodies, so reproduce. Like rabbits. Well, like lambs of the Lamb. Nourishing, all.

  See what gets missed when we prove how we hate God by keeping such terrible, blasphemous mistranslations as Exodus 6:20? Which persist despite believer Bible commentators looking at them, even for centuries?!

• So no Old Testament Hebrew scholar at that mythical time-travel conference would ever muse, "Oh, I've got a such a yen to make God a liar in Genesis 3:11!" -- resulting in a unanimous agreement for all Bibles in any translation throughout history to do just that, by clipping nagath in translation. Yet, every Bible translation I can read in any language for that verse, does exactly that. [Hebrew nagadth in that verse should be translated "denounced", given the end Genesis 2 context of them knowing they were naked and were not ashamed. But instead, they insult God by translating nagadth as "tell/inform/explain" (depending on the language); so now verse looks like they didn't know they were naked; hence either God's Word is a liar, or God Himself is a liar for hiding the information. Either way, Satan wins. Check any translation you like, see for yourself.]

  And you know why, don't you? Oh, better to call God a Liar than to say it was okay to be naked, in the Garden! See, man has an arrogance to tap. Satan & Co. just know how to turn on the faucet. It's bad enough to be a murderer; must we murder God's Word for centuries?

  Doo-doo happens. So, you clean it up: you don't pretend it's 'chocolate', k?

These are just a few of the horrors I can quickly remember and type! See? We weak humans need 'help' to do this kind of stuff. And we only get that 'help' when we are in a state of sin. Moral, or immoral sin: here, mostly the moral flavor is operating (afraid to go against past scholarship, so respecting man more than the Word).

Understand, about 80-90% of the Bible is translated reasonably well; but the mistranslations in mission-critical places change the whole 'face' of Scripture. Scripture is likened to a surgical knife (short broadsword, the machaira, won Rome most of her victories). You know that certain types of very small cuts can kill you, if done rightly. So even though 80-90% of your body is fine, even a .44 bullet hitting just a little bit of skin in just the right place, terminates your life. Terminates the Meaning God wrote. So it doesn't matter that 99.9999% of your body, stays intact. That little bullet hole, killed it all.

Or, think of how glitchy Windows is. It works most of the time: but suddenly for no known reason it tanks, and you have to reboot. Why? Because there are so many little errors in Windows which built up from the original platform from 20 years ago, the code is too convoluted, to properly fix. So Microsoft is coming up with something else, building it from scratch (codename Longhorn). That's a real good example of what's wrong with Bible translations. Strategic confluence of a lot of little errors which alone wouldn't be a problem, is often the cause of the greatest disasters. Errors no one would have felt worth fixing, beforehand. Like, what led up to 9/11. Like, the Titanic. Like, well.. read Normal Accidents, by Charles Perrow. Then you'll understand why Scripture mistranslation can persist for centuries. With devastating results.

In Scripture translations, these glitches won't be apparent, because you don't have the original inspired text, for comparison. And for the better part of 18 centuries, we didn't have access to the original-language texts (copied faithfully, 98% free of copying errors, and in enough quantity we can tell an error from correct text). So now that we have the original texts, we can compare. But ohhhhh, so many translations from centuries ago, are now venerated. So now the only way you can detect the glitches, is to read a passage for stuff which doesn't make sense. But if you are ascetic like the translators largely have been, you won't detect what doesn't make sense. Because Satan's plan is ascetic, see. So when you have a Divine Actor verb like συνεργέω, God is cut out of the translation, reversing the meaning of James 2:22. (Scholars puzzle over that verb, yet know that sun-prefixed verbs only mean God is the Actor, so why don't they ever fix James 2:22?) Thus you have the history of Christianity.

Only Satan & Co. are so smart about the Bible, to know where the bullets should be fired. Heck, they're the only ones who can live long enough, to mount such a coherent conspiracy! We humans are too short-lived, and too dumb to live. So my websites focus on mistranslation to show our unseen enemy is quite active. That, too, was the purpose of 1 John's letter. This war is not with mankind, Ephesians 6 reminds us. It's with the unseen combatants. Whom, we ourselves do not fight against, but instead we stand firm in the Word. The Word is your only defense: so of course, it's the most mistranslated. Strategically. Not so often or so much that people would consider it important to fix the translation. So the errors have gone on for centuries. This is all empirically provable. And here, with respect to Isaiah 53:11, the most important verse in the Bible for the Christian to know for sure what's God's Plan, well -- it's excised from translations (not in the Hebrew text). Of course. It's just one little verse, awwww, with dative and accusative cases no one remembers have more than one usage. Just a little error, don't want to upset the applecart of past scholars who didn't translate those cases properly...

I'm not kidding: two case endings rendered the whole verse suspect to some people. So no one bothered to revisit them, though NIV tried. Yet the Lord and all the New Testament writers constantly reference the LXX words in that verse! It was a cornerstone of understanding of Scripture. So, well.. can't have it be translated, then. Due to two measly cases (on autos, meaning Him, Our Savior). Similar stuff happens every time you have a mission-critical mistranslation. So in 1 John, "sired", not "born of", should have been the translation. But oh -- if you say "born of", then some of the verses make it look like you're not saved, if you ever sin again!

Then, there's the problem with the tenses in translation versus the original -- so that the reader of the translation, gets confused. Much of 1 John should be translated in the English progressive present tense, to match John's dramatic style and the 'flow' of what he's writing. For example, 1 John 1:10 should say, "If we claim we are not sinning, we are making Him out to be a Liar; in fact, His Word isn't currently in us." John's all about the mechanics: which means in English, you have to show ongoingness. Greek does the tense handling well and precisely (the claim precedes and causes the carnal state, so is in the perfect tense in Greek); English, is awful (requires comparison of current-with-current state, to show causality better).

Now, compare with a better translation of verse 8: "if we claim that we have no sin nature [or no sin to confess in our lives, due to Cross], we are deceiving ourselves and the Truth isn't currently in us." Both claims were common at the time of writing: even in the Old Testament it was a problem, and admitting sin was the first meaning of those sacrifices (see Psalm 32:5, 66:18). The false verse 8 and verse 10 claims still are common, and it's incredible how Ephesians 1:7 and Colossians 1:14 are misused, to justify ignoring (what amounts to) all of 1 John! 🤣: if I didn't have my pastor teaching 1 John in Greek, I'd never understand it. [That the Cross provides for the forgiveness of sins per Ephesians 1:7 and Colossians 1:14, doesn't mean you don't name them to God, anymore. Sheesh: your big hint is that 1 John exists; even if you didn't know that Ephesians 1:7 and Colossians 1:14 are in Attic Greek, since they depict the Most Dramatic Event in History! Today's claimants of 1 John 1:8, insist that Ephesians 1:7 and Colossians 1:14 are koine. Wrongo. You just go without 1 John 1:9 and watch how legalistic you'll become, when you interpret Bible...]

Just as in the Old Testament, all sins were paid for to Father on the Cross. But being FORGIVEN for them requires admittance in time: the only time you don't have to admit your sins is in the first second you are saved, since your belief in Christ in the first place, means you know you need salvation (so all pre-salvation sins are blotted out).

Here are some videos to show the Old Testament continuity into the New Testament, and 1 John 1:9 exegesis. Thus you know anyone claiming you don't need to use the verse due to being saved, is unable to read Bible.

So simple to understand. Even in a court case, if you don't admit you are guilty, you can't talk over sentencing or civil fines. You don't end a war without someone admitting defeat. You don't get fellowship with God without admitting sin. So, you still go to heaven when you die, but down here you remain at war: Proverbs 3:34. Stay out of God's System, and you're cooked, 1 Peter 5:5 (great Greek wordplay on the LXX quote of Proverbs 3:34, sheer genius, all that piling up of datives and ὑπό-prefixed words)! [I know people consider Peter to be unskilled in Greek, but he's more deliberately unorthodox, seems to me. Sheer genius -- that's no amanuensis writing the wordplay, sorry. Or if so, then wow -- both Peter and the writer were in incredible sync! 1 Peter 5:5-7 is deliberate wordplay on Proverbs 3:34 in the LXX, and the same kind of style pervades Peter's letters. So it can't be a mere translation from Galilean or whatever dialect Peter spoke. Sorry: that last crescendo of verse 7, "for HIS OWN SAKE He cares for you" is Psalm 23, baby. No one translates it that way, though "αὐτοί" is obvious, and it's an intensive pronoun in Attic Greek -- cute way to incorporate all of Isaiah 53:11 in the LXX (which also uses αὐτοί, no preposition). The same letter which uses hexameter and "ἐπιχορηγέω" ought to be thinking of the Attic "αὐτοί" in a piling-datives triplet of verses, no? Peter seems to be pointing at Paul's Ephesians 4:11-16 (especially verse 16) when he writes 1 Peter 5:5-7. Also, "God" is the antecedent, so "αὐτοί" would be "for Him", the Christ, get it? Since we are His Body? What genius! Playing on so many meanings of the datives!]

In short, it doesn't take much to wreck the meaning -- yet the error is so seemingly small, it's too politically-sensitive to completely scrap the translation. This is how Satan & Co. get away with mangling Bible. In teaching, it's even worse; after all, if your translation makes it look like the Bible wants works, how is a teacher not knowing the Real Bible, gonna teach his translation? From little errors big heresies grow; from little scratches, gangrene takes hold. So that is why all this attention on mistranslation, matters.