Divine DNA! Doctrinal DNA! The LOVE Contract of Isa53:10-12

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 Gen3; 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, Gen3:5. 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, Gen3:5 and Gen 3:11. "Who denounced you for being naked?" the Lord rhetorically asked Adam. [Corrected translation. See last bullet in "About Bible Mistranslation" link at pagetop, 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 eirene, 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, 1Cor7:11, 2Cor5:20. [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, Heb12:5-11, James 4:6, 1Pet5:5-7. 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 eirene, 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, Gen2:17+Rom5:12+1Cor15:22+"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, 2Cor5:17+:21, aka "sons of God in Christ Jesus", Gal3:26 -- 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, Rom6-8. So we can grow UP, 2Pet3:18, Eph3:15-19, Eph 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, Isa53:10-12 & 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...

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 2Cor13:14 says in the Greek via the deft placement of Greek monadic articles, see DueDisclosure.htm. 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 2Cor5, Rom6-8, 12 (especially Chapters 8 and 12), Hebrews Chaps 5-10, all of Ephesians (esp. 3:15-21, 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. [Someday I need to amalgamate the physics analogy into one page, but that will take a long time for me to do.] It's faster to just type in the page name at the end of the address line in your browser, so the html page names are here listed.

• Fixes.htm, first four bullets (quick link is at pagetop, "Transmuting.. Physics").
• 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 (rightmost quicklink at pagetop) 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).

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 lifeforms. 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, Rom5:12, 1Cor15:22), 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 figleaves? At least BEFORE Adam started sewing, he only had a sin problem. But now Adam's WORKS URGE is driving us crazy, too!

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 Isa53:11 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!

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., 1Cor13:4ff): God BEING Love, doesn't even need an object, to express Love. As per 1Cor13:4ff, 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!

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 Isa53; 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, Eph4:16). 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, 1Cor15.

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, Isa53:10-12.

Isa53 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. Isa53:11 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 NT look at this one verse and expatiate on it. You can see its shorter translation by clicking the "Isa53:10-12, this page" intra-page link (near page top); or you can review the longer explanation and exegesis by clicking on the higher "Isa53:10-12" link (at pagetop). Since any standard translation of the OT won't cover the LXX text even though that's what the Lord and the apostles used when they were alive, here's 'my' translation. Pay close attention to the five astounding infinitives (in caps). Please take time to think them over while breathing 1Jn1:9, to get the spiritual equivalent of a bizillion 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 ranks as inspired because the Lord used 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.]

Isa 53:11, the missing-from-translations 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."

Now it's kinda obvious why the Hebrew OT lacks this verse: who could read it and not recognize the Cross? But the LXX is centuries older than the Hebrew OT (aka "Masoretic") texts we have; the LXX was made from the Hebrew OT Alexandrians had circa 300BC; for, the Hellenized Jews of Alexandria wanted to learn it, but didn't know Hebrew. So, the Lord and the apostles, and most of Judaism used this Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Many quotes in the NT are from the LXX, not the Masoretic text (though some quotes are from the Masoretic, also). 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 Isa53:11, 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, inter alia, 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 Col1:16. 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 Isa53:11, the words autoi and auton bug the scholar, given their placement in the text. It would take too long to explain the problem here, but the higher "Isa53:10-12" link at pagetop, provides a brief refutation of scholar objections. 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.]

Due to His Eternity-past contract (i.e., the 'if You will give' clause in Isa53:10ff), anyone can be "Born again" via John 3:16. At that point, you instantly become a New Spiritual Species (Greek of 2Cor5:17). 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 (2Cor5:17, 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 1Jn1:9; v.8, 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 OT, His Names were variantly known, as He was progressively revealed. See Gen15:6, 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.

• Isa53 (see Isa53trans.htm for a better translation of that chapter); 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 Matt24-type content, as it had already been fulfilled when he wrote); so next,
• John Chaps 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 (hupomone, endurance, like labor) and implanted Word and how-sin-born and mirror 'threads'; then
• 1 and 2 Cor, each about the building and uniting of Head and Body (Greek is clear, English is not), especially 1Cor1:5,10,1Cor6, 1Cor12 (esp. 12:31), 1Cor13 (Head=Christ=Love=Canon completion), 1Cor15 (spiritual body is the body of His Thinking); 2Cor5 (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 Rom8:28ff).
• 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" plotline '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.)
• 1Jn3. Really, all of 1Jn 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 bizillion 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...]

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 OT and NT. In fact, the PROMISE in the OT was that this Word would be WRITTEN in our minds and hearts (both 'lobes' of the soul), Jer31:31-34, which itself is playing on Isa53:11. Best-loved promise in the Bible, was this one, as David reveals, in his breathless Psalm 138:2b (and 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: see partial exegesis and translation in NoWombLife.htm's "Don't Abort My Word" table.]

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 (Ps32:5, 66:18, 1Jn1:9, 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 1Jn1:9, so keep breathing it!

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, esp. between Heb8:8-12 and 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.

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 Gen1:2! Think this paragraph over. It's worth a bizillion 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 Gen2:7 and NoWombLife.htm (available from the Home Page).]

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: 2Pet1:9 flatly says that absence from His System comes from FORGETTING to "grab" (labwn, in Greek) what we know as 1Jn1:9 (katharismos in 2Pet1:9, cognate of katharizw in 1Jn1:9). Better to have been an Auschwitz victim, than to live outside God's System. [TrueSpirituality.htm goes over the 2Pet1:9 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 1Cor2 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, Isa54:1! Due to, that Eternity-Past Contract to make the Son, Isa53:10-12!

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, usu. 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 (esp. the mangling of the very graphic Eph4:11-16). All this, a "system" (Greek term "henotes", usu. 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.) 1Cor6 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 Rom8:11ff. 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. Rev17 makes it clear that Fake Christianity is all about religion and politics and visibility. Harlotry is always depicted in Bible as religion; the OT has so many scathing passages on it (i.e., Hosea and Eze16), 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.

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 OT the same way the OT folks used it, i.e., with rituals. Christ fulfilled the Law, and "the Law of Christ" uses the OT 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 OT 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 OT rituals are obsolete, Heb7:18 (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 1Jn1:9, so can't read the adamant message about this change, which is in every NT 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 (Eph5:18) 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 1Jn1:9 -- 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 1Jn1:9, 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 entreé 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 Gal5:1 are real, but they take time to develop; and they only develop, in God's System.

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 electrico-chemical 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 skleros, aka "scar tissue"), and "darkening" (medical terms for "darkening" vary; Greek terms in Bible are cognates of skotos and mataiotes -- 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 Gen1), 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 Gen1:2; elsewhere in Heb OT, just "tohu" is used as shorthand, looks like. Depending on the meaning, Greek uses variantly skotos, mataios, or even outhen (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 (1Jn4:17-19, 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: Isa53:11 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 (2Tim4:7-8). 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 1Jn1:9 and stay in God's System; especially, if you develop the Three Habits in #5 of the "God's System" link at pagetop, 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, Heb12:5ff. 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 Matt7:1-2. Satan&Co. administer this, so far as I can tell (I can't see any verse in Scriptute 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 1Jn1:9 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. Matt7:1-2 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.

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 scalawag 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, Gen1:2, 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 IV of the "Thinking" series).

So how should you think of yourself.. As You Really Are, a "son of God in Christ Jesus" as Paul explains in Gal3; 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 2Pet3:11b: "what sort of persons must you become, in a dedicated-to-God lifestyle?" Keyword "eusebeia", usu. 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: 1Jn3. 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 1Cor13:12 ("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 Rev20:11-15, 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, Gen1:1 (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, 1Cor1:18. [In context of v.17-21, very clever wordplay on Ho Logos, in 1Cor1:5 (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 v.10! See how he uses katartizw 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 Isa53:11! God committed Himself, so you cannot lose! Paul exults about this fact, playing on the pregnancy metaphor in Isa53:11 at the end of Romans 8 (beginning at 8:11). Check it out, even in translation!

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, Rom8:4 (really, whole chapter), and Eph3:15-19. 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. 1st Aspect (DDNA1.htm, link near pagetop) will explain the dimensions as 1Jn4 records them. Parallel passage is Eph3:15-19.

You do live your spiritual life IN your soul, and nowhere else. But your soul BY ITSELF cannot process spiritual information, 1Cor2. 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 1st 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 Eph3! We are meant to grow to the fullness of Christ (Eph4:13)! 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 miniscule 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 Matt7:1-2 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 Matt7:1-2 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. Matt7:1-2 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 OT and New uses "oil" to designate His Filling Ministry (LXX verb pimplemi, in OT; pleroo, in NT). Hence the need for 1Jn1:9, 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!

Isa53:11, 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" (Rom8:4, post-salv). We are justified that first second we believed in Christ (Eph2:8-9, Rom5:1), 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 Isa53:12, 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 1Jn). 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 Isa53:10 ("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 "Thinking" series, 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 (2Cor5:21), and you do have eternal life (i.e., John 3, 1Jn). 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 eusebeia). So, Royally-Replicating Nourishment Added. Really Royal Nourishment Added, Matt4:4, 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 (covered at length in Paradox.htm) 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, 2Tim2:26-3:7, 1Jn2, Phili3:18-19, 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 US 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 US 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, 2Cor5:21, 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 1Pet5:5-7. 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 Gen1:2. 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 bizillion 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, Sheparded, 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 "megalunw", 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, Isa54:1, 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 1Cor12:23). 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 1Cor12:23, "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?]

Notice two types of choices affect how DDNA replicates. First, you have to keep on choosing 1Jn1:9, 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 1Jn1:9 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. 2nd Aspect (DDNA2.htm, link near pagetop) 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 1Jn1:9. 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 1Jn1:9 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 bizillion light years ahead of even those babies. The difference? Getting More DDNA, baby. On top of your baby spiritual life. Romans 8, 1Jn, 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.]

1. First Pairing Issue, POSITIVE VOLITION, failed;
2. Second Pairing Issue, SPIRIT-SOUL SYNC, failed;
3. Third Pairing Issue, UNGUENT, failed because 1Jn1:9 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 1Jn1:9. Devastating, when that happens.

   Better to be boiled in oil, than to suffer prolonged failure, so that 1Jn5:16'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 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 US 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 II of the "Thinking" series, 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 bizillion times worse for Jesus, had He ever sinned. First four bullets in the "Physics" link at this pagetop, 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 US 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 1Jn1:9, you will accumulate insane thinking, viz., all that religious insanity which people imagine 'spiritual' in Churchinanity, today.

   It's a life or death matter, 1Jn1:9. Notice how you must keep Believing to stay in God's System. Believing in using 1Jn1:9 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 1Jn1:9, 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 1Jn1:9 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 OT 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 Heb7:18 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 1John). 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 OT 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, dingdong.

So, as 1Jn 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 "adikia": 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 (Gen2:7, "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, 1Jn2:2, 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!

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 accomodation, 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 "adikia", 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 IVa of "Thinking" series explains God's re-routing of blessing system). Does matter that you refused. You can immediately cancel that refusal by using 1Jn1:9, 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 1Jn1:9 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 1Jn1:9. Which you reject, if you don't stay in all four post-salvation Elements of God's System. So let Him carry you. See 1Pet5:5-7 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 v.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, Isa53:6ff. 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., 2Tim4:7-8), then God will use you to help heal all those poor unfortunates, who didn't grow up in His System. So the contract of Isa53:10-12, applies to everyone of us (Fourth Aspect) -- a legacy of Christ, designed by Father in eternity past (see Eph1, 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 OT, "not willing that any should perish", echoes 2Pet3:9. 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 Rom8:28. God sunistemi's His Son to demonstrate His Utter Love, Rom5:8. That we may turn and be healed.

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, Isa55.

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 Isa53:10-11), 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 (2Cor5:21), 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 Matt7:1-2, we will be distant, aloof. Forever, if we don't get in and stay in God's System. Part III's "Corollary 3B" covers this issue in more detail, for the believer.

Hence Peter's love of hupo-prefixed words in his Greek. He seems to use at least one in every sentence. In 1Pet5:5-7, 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 hupo-) 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.

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, Eph2:8-9, the excoriating-Pharisees verses, John14-17, Phili2:5, Zech 7, Isa1:13, Matt15:11&18 (etc).

The primary NT 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 figleafing 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 2,9,11). 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 "Adikia" ("wrongdoing", in English Bibles). "Adikia", 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 Isa1:13...

The Three Temptations in Matt4 are temptations to DO works. Read them yourself. Use 1Jn1:9 and think them over, toward Father. See for yourself!

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 1Jn -- 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, usu. 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, Eph3:15-19, 1Jn4:12-17 (in context from 1Jn2:28-3:2). [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 2Thess2:6! So no one read 2Thess2:2 or 7, and remembered that "pneuma" is a neuter-gender word? In 2Thess 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 III of the "Thinking" series explains it, and Part IV 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 Isa53:10-12! 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, Isa54:1!

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 ardous. 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 familes 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.

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" (Matt4:13, Mar9:49-50, Luk14:34). 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. 1Jn 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 OT alone, was extreme. If you've read LvS4a.htm, Mirroring.htm and the GeneYrs.xls (all accessible from LvS4a.htm), then you know that the entire world was held together by just one person in a generation (reason for the roster in Gen5); 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 "Methusaleh"). 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 (Jas2:22 is horribly mistranslated).

Wow. Whole lot of blessing just for believing, huh. Of course, it must be said that back in Gen17, 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 Gen3). 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 anephora 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 III and Part IV of the "Thinking" series 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 detailled and difficult it all is, lest the sin-of-Adam nature in all of us (works-oriented, remember the figleaves 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, Isa64:6).

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 US are needed to justify it being blessed with a continued life, for crying out loud! So, as 1Jn puts it in the Greek of 1Jn3:16-18 (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 populus, will be "gumnos", 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 (Isa53:12, 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 Gen3:15 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 2Pet), 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 Luke16:20ff, Isa 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 Gen3:11: "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 figleaves 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 figleaves 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 cannonfodder 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 "Thinking" series, 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!

Now, on to the Four Aspects of DDNA.

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, Rom5:8 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 (henotes 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 Eph4:11-16). 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, Ps89:14-15, 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 (hey agape tou theou), and was encountering that phrase in the first short story of James Joyce's Ulysses. So the structure was well known. So the "Thinking" series was born, especially Part I'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 Isa53:11 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 NT, 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. Rom5:5 and 1Cor13 are famous passages, to be sure. 1John 4 has two verses of "God is Love" bracketing the spiritual life sketch in dynamic relationship. And even in the Rom5:5 and 1Cor13 passages, Love is used as a metaphor of the Completed Canon. But it's definitely more onstage in the NT 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 NT, 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 NT, but you don't find it anywhere in the OT (equivalent phrase). My pastor spent months on 1Jn4:12-19, 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 OT and NT, 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 Eph1:4-5, his fanfare announcement and theme of the book). [That verse pair, like every other Paul writes, 'looks' at Isa53:11'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. Eph1:1-18 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 puppetted 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 "henotes"), 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, 1Jn2:2, 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 Gal5:1? 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 1Cor13 (but in the latter Paul's using Christ's HEAD as the LOVE-Truth, very witty). Tooling around other places in the NT, 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. NT 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 ascetism, 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 hupo-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 1Jn2 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 1Jn2'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 NT writers' vocabularies and weaves them together, in 1John; yet the principal metaphorical source for exposition 'remains' the Lord's Vine speech (John 15). Heh: 'remains' is Greek verb menw, 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 Heb4 which John plays on in 1Jn). 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, hupogrammos) first had to be the Original (Archegos, Heb12:2), else we'd have no way to emulate Him.

So when, for example, 1Jn4 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 90AD, with the rise of the Catholic Church (Revelation 17 harlot, timely warned about the very year Clement I began his bid for power, see PopeMyth.htm). 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 Eph4:11-16. 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 Matt7 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 OT, 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 anti-christs 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. Isa53:12 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 NT Bible phrase "inherit the kingdom" refers to this Isa53:12 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, Eph3:19+2Tim4:7-8. A person forfeits if he quits God's System and instead dies poor, under the 1Jn5:16 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 Isa53:12). 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...

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 Millenium, 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!

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, 1Jn2:2. So He could justify pulling me OUT of hell, if I admitted like Adam admitted, in Gen3. 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 Isa54:1 job (which that verse actually claims, given the context of Isa53).. 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 Isa53:11 in the LXX and kindred verses (most notably, Hebrews Chaps1-2); but if it were not also true that the DDNA value produced as a result of Him in us was mind-bogglingly HIGH (which Isa53:11 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). Ascetism 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 OT 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 ascetism 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 ascetism'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, Heb9:28?