- Jan 31, 2006
- 44,327
- 14,493
- Country
- Canada
- Faith
- Christian
- Marital Status
- Private
Imagine, if you will, God containing fragments of Himself into vessels so as not to lose anything. The Logos, with a word, gathering together those whom had joined satan’s rebellion into vessels of dishonour and those who had not into vessels of honour.
Misuse of freedom. Evil was not part of God’s original creation. Evil is destined for destruction when God will be “all in all”. They cannot ultimately co-exist. Embodiment functions as a necessary phase of the soul’s return to God. The dishonour serves to instigate honour within that which will remain. In the end God will restore the harmony, but meanwhile we get to choose what constitutes … me. We determine our destiny thru the exercise of our freedom. The use or misuse of that freedom constitutes the benevolence or wrath of divine providence.
All is gathered up so that nothing is lost of the fragments. The spoils from going out are taken to build a new and better form of worship. The worship of spirit and truth. Without the dross. Returned to the former estate. Stemming from proper use of freedom.
So we see the devil, created good, but thru the misuse of freedom originating evil. Humans can and do propagate evil thru neglect of cooperation to seek and return to perfection, which is being one with Him. No doing anything that misuses other’s freedom. Seek first the kingdom of God, and all will be added to you.
As Eve was contained within Adam so is the church contained within Christ. Levi was in the loins of Abraham when the tythe was made to Melchezedec. Our Melchezedec has carried us home again. Praise God!!!
Discuss.
2 Timothy 2
20 A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use. 21So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.…
Romans 9
20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?” 21 Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? 22What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker--one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands’?
20 A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use. 21So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.…
Romans 9
20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?” 21 Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? 22What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker--one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands’?
Misuse of freedom. Evil was not part of God’s original creation. Evil is destined for destruction when God will be “all in all”. They cannot ultimately co-exist. Embodiment functions as a necessary phase of the soul’s return to God. The dishonour serves to instigate honour within that which will remain. In the end God will restore the harmony, but meanwhile we get to choose what constitutes … me. We determine our destiny thru the exercise of our freedom. The use or misuse of that freedom constitutes the benevolence or wrath of divine providence.
All is gathered up so that nothing is lost of the fragments. The spoils from going out are taken to build a new and better form of worship. The worship of spirit and truth. Without the dross. Returned to the former estate. Stemming from proper use of freedom.
So we see the devil, created good, but thru the misuse of freedom originating evil. Humans can and do propagate evil thru neglect of cooperation to seek and return to perfection, which is being one with Him. No doing anything that misuses other’s freedom. Seek first the kingdom of God, and all will be added to you.
As Eve was contained within Adam so is the church contained within Christ. Levi was in the loins of Abraham when the tythe was made to Melchezedec. Our Melchezedec has carried us home again. Praise God!!!
Discuss.