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1. Substitute for God
2. Have
You Accepted Jesus?
3.
God is over All
Thoughts and Primary Attributes
4. The
Face of God's Thoughts
5. Three
Greek Words; Nine Ways to Understand
6.
Bio
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Is there a Substitute for God?
By David Raphael Klein
A provocative inquiry into our present confused state of
belief
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Yes, There
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David
Raphael Klein, a writer of fiction and nonfiction, is currently at work on
a book dealing with what he feels are the least understood of the vital
issuers of our time. The article is a chapter from the
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It
is hard to say where it started. With Gutenberg? Galileo? The industrial
revolution? Darwinism? Somewhere along the way, Western man began to lose
his belief in God as a personal force, as decider of his fate, as ultimate
judge of his actions. The idea that God created man became old
fashioned, we evolved. The notion of Hell was picturesque, but not longer
compelling. Life began to be seen as more or less accidental, sin became a
relative, sociological matter, and to many a pure fiction. After
millenniums of living under gods, man came to regard such belief as
archaic and superstitious. Like a son who decides he need not depend upon
his father any longer, he set forth to make his own way in the world.
He still believed in right and wrong, and he
still knew when he was doing wrong, as he saw it, but he no longer
believed he had offended God by it or incurred His punishment. In fact,
there was no punishment, he only felt guilty, or resolved not to do wrong
again.
The difference between living this way, and
trying to live righteously because God commands it is profound. A man
could now do anything he wanted, subject only to the laws of the land and
his own judgment. Yet this judgment he had formed in
part from parents and institutions whose outlook was still religious. So,
although he has denied the basis of the morality of his forebears, such a
man still acts in its terms. He obeys the Commandments without believing
they were commanded, he speaks of right and wrong in the framework of
conviction he no longer possesses, he acts according to a
Judeo-Christian ethic, although he has abjured the belief.
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The Pollster is the Prophet. Just as some primitive people have
accepted Christianity by transposing their old gods onto the new religion,
so have many moderns transposed their inherited ethic onto another
structure: the needs of society. What used to be an offense against God
became "anti-social"; a sin became a crime; religious
precepts governing conduct became matters of hygiene, efficiency or social
value. Stealing was bad because honesty in the best policy. You
tried to avoid being unfaithful to your mate because it might harm her
relationship. If you attended religious services, it was to respect a
tradition. Virtue became its own inexplicable reward, for there was no
other.
A societally-based ethic such as this is
variable according to time, place and circumstance. There are no absolutes
in it, and it has no clear, codified system. Opinion becomes the
basis of the code, and the pollster the prophet. It is an ethic
without appreciable roots in the past to reassure us, and subject to
change at any time with some new event or scientific discovery--as
Freudian, from example, changed the moral outlook of so many.
Examine one possible consequence. Suppose a
government decided, on the basis of available data, that a new law was required
which would impose the death penalty for an offense not previously
considered capital--as, for instance, the U.S. S R. decreed the death
penalty for stealing from the government.
Once the decree has been granted as .justified by the needs of society,
can anyone within that society believe it ethically wrong, the executions
immoral?
Go a step further. Suppose a government
decided on the death penalty for people whose continued existence it found
contrary to the welfare of its society, as say the Nazi government found
six million Jews undesirable. We recoil from that act--but on what basis,
short of invoking that obsolete concept, Gold's law? If we believe
society's needs to be man's highest law, what can we say was morally
wrong? Every Nazi could maintain, and many did, that since the sovereign
government of Germany made the law, his function was to obey it, in fact,
that he was morally bound to do so. If we no longer believe that God
created man, why is human life sacred?
If the taking of human life cannot be
logically condemned, except as law condemns it, what of lesser crimes:
fraud, embezzlement, rape, adultery, sexual perversion, abortion? Under
our new code, can any act whatever--no matter how gravely offensive--be
logically protested or condemned, except by law? And man-made laws vary.
In fact, have not parts of the Western world already repealed or suspended
their laws against the last three named crèmes simply because tastes and
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The Lame-Duck Parent.
And so man left his father's house
to live on his own. But was he mature enough for the adventure? He finds
his life-held standards dissolving beneath him. Cynicism plagues him, but
he cannot refute it, he rejects pure hedonism as a way of life, but he has
no philosophy with which to dispute its claims. And, beyond all this
another trouble bewilders, wounds, frightens and embitters him in the face
of which he is as impotent as toward all the rest the rebellion of his
children against him.
Consider the dilemma of the modern parent in
the Western world. If, atypically, he is still in possession of his faith
that God knows, watches and punishes, then his child growing up in today's
world is being alienated from him. The situation resembles that of
American immigrant families a few generations ago: the parents spoke a
foreign language, the children rejected it, and spoke English. The child
cannot help seeing what others are doing, in the secular society, and he
cannot help but absurd its outlook and values, Parochial child, bar
mitzvah, the threat of Hell, personal example--these may delay the
secularization, but carrot prevent it.
Meanwhile, the non-religious parent, or one
content merely to observe the forms of a faith has literally no way to
influence his child. He recognizes the utter vacuity of no belief at all,
yet he can hardly hold up as a model the peculiar lame-duck
proposition his own life has become, one foot in materialism and one in
old-fashioned morality. How can he teach a child to do right if he cannot
justify the right?
This parent is in an even worse situation
trying to answer the first question that religion used to answer:
What is the meaning of man's existence? If a parent must tell a youngster
that his life has no meaning, how can he tell him that he should not
take drugs? In fact, how can he convince him that he should not commit
suicide outright? If the youth does stay alive, it is because he wants to
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"Give
Me a Reason." Pursue a discussion with any rebellious youth
as to why he commits acts that the older generation regards as depraved,
self-destructive or irresponsible, and again and again you will hear the
reply, "Why not?" Try to answer "Why not?" If you are
a transitional creature living in a halfway house, one who has given up
faith while continuing (in order to hold your life together) to act as if
you still had it, you have no answer. True, you still--by and large--live
by certain moral principles, but you cannot say why. Therein lies the
basis of the curious guilt so often felt by parents in the face of
insufferable behavior by their young, and their consequent indulgence of
children who reject them.
The young rebel's "Why not?" has at
least two meanings: not only "what's to stop me?" but
simultaneously, "Give me a reason I can accept." For the young
person wants, needs, is in fact desperate to believe in
something. He is in constant search of it--in "Mind-bending"
drugs, in Zen Buddhism, in love, astrology, the Peace Corps, a new
society, radicalism, hedonism, nihilism-- anything but his parents' ism,
which he regards as dishonest and cowardly.
The young rebel has not found his
belief yet. The experience of learning that an entire civilization is
founded on nothing solid morally, that it is shot through and through with
what he regards as hypocrisy, that he finds nothing in it to give his life
meaning--this has been so overwhelming a shock that it has lift him
largely mute, inarticulate, confused, unable to cope. He can literally be
sore of nothing. And if there is one word that most aptly describes the
emotional reaction of the young to finding society without a usable moral
basis it is disgust.
There are still other consequences of man's portentous leap into materialism. In freeing himself of the terror of
Hell, he gave up his hope of Heaven: you live, you die, that's the end of
it. Your grandfather had the tremendous expectation of a life everlasting.
Your, typically ambivalent, still hope that somehow it may turn out to be
true after all, but your children are, in the most direct sense, hopeless,
except for what they can get out of life materialistically.
Further: if man is his own moral judge, and
governments derive their powers "from the consent of the governed," then
there exists no effective authority. Behind you and me there is only the
government we have created; behind the government only the nightstick and
the gun. Children are born to parents not as part of a
divine plan, but by biological accident. Does that accident confer any
authority on the parents? The teacher knows more facts than the
pupil--does that make him an authority? The police, called pigs. The young
sneer at Presidents, manhandle deafs, burn the nations flag and display that
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Profound
Questions. The idea that man is morally responsible only to
himself has been behind the creation if whole new societies: communist,
fascist, socialist and shades between--while the order societies are being
shaken, changing in nature even as they retain the old names and forms. In
the new societies, a kind of morality has been built around protection of
the state in what seem like perpetual emergency conditions. But that
cannot last, already hippies are plaguing the authorities in Leningrad,
Moscow and Prague, and for behind the various curtains we hear protests
against the meaninglessness of life
Meanwhile, Western man finds it increasingly difficult to create for
himself a spiritually satisfying life. The traditional religious
institutions offer little. Houses of worship have become basketball courts
and bingo parlors and places in which to serve a wedding dinner. Already
the churchmen, startled by their immense distance from the realties of
today's life, have begun to mount the barricades of social protest: you
ordain a preceptor of right and wrong, and you get a jazz impresario or a
street demonstrator.
Perhaps inevitable, when man no longer needs
to beg God for enough food and protection from the elements, he stops
begging God. As their material meets become satisfied, all people seem
headed for the stage in which western society now finds itself.
And yet the questions remain. Anyone who can contemplate
the eye of a far from personifying authority, are housefly, the mechanics
of human finger movement, the camouflage of a moth, or the building of
every kind of matter from variations in arrangement of proton and
electron, and them maintain that all this design happened without a
designer, happened by sheer, blind accident--such a person believes in a
miracle far more astounding than any in the Bible. To regard man, with his
arts and aspirations, his awareness of himself and of his universe, his
emotions and his morals, his very ability to conceive an idea so grand as
that of God, to regard this creature as merely a form of life somewhat
higher on the evolutionary ladder than the others is to create questions
more profound than those answered.
Is there no more use for the
astonishingly complex human brain than to assure continued existence of
the species? Can we not see in the capabilities of the brain some function
greater than mere self-preservation? If all species seek to preserve
themselves, what mindless chemistry created that prodigious urge? If the
universe is finite, what exists beyond it? What existed before it began?
If it is eternal and limitless, is it not thereby beyond our power ever to
know, leaving key questions forever unanswered?
Schoolboy questions, granted; but they will
not down. Our materialism is itself so shallow, based on blatant
assumptions that are hardly more than guesswork, impalpable and
unsatisfying, demeaning, flagrantly incomplete and yet arrogant in its
premises. The idea of God deserves a better substitute.
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God - God is a
religions term for the "supreme reality". In many religions, God is
the creator of the universe and the ultimate source (Authority
{Jt.}) of Knowledge, Power, and
Love (n.)
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2. God is over All
Thoughts and Primary Attributes
Please notice the colors:
The Blue!
The Red! and
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THE
Thoughts OF gOD and
HIS Attributes
are one:
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God,
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Time
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Known as "The Ancient of Days," God The Father.
It was Daniel talking to E. G. White in.The Great Controversy. pg. 453
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"And, behold, One like the
Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came
to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him." Dan. 7:13. . . . The
coming of Christ here described is not His second coming to the earth. He comes to the
Ancient of days in heaven to receive dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, which will be
given Him at the close of His work as a mediator. It is this coming, and not His second
advent to the earth, that was foretold in prophecy to take place at the termination of the
2300 days in 1844. Attended by heavenly angels, our great High Priest enters the holy of
holies, and there appears in the presence of God . . . to perform the work of
investigative judgment, and to make an atonement for all who are shown to be entitled to
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God,
The
Holy Spirit
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Space
- Known as "The
Spirit," God The Holy
Spirit.
It was Jesus, talking
to Nicodemus , who said that the Spirit moves as
space (Holy Bible. John 3:8).
E. G. White. Advent Review and Sabbath Herald 05-05-96. Operation of the Holy Spirit Made Manifest in the Life.
pg. 02
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Those men who calculate just how religious exercises should be conducted, and are very
precise and methodical in diffusing the light and grace that they seem to have, simply do
not have much of the Holy Spirit. If they had more of the Spirit of God, they would meddle
less with the experiences of men who have received this divine gift in large abundance.
There is much need of the testimony that was given to Nicodemus. Jesus said unto
Nicodemus, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot
see the kingdom of God." Nicodemus was astonished as well as indignant at these
words. He regarded himself as not only an intellectual, but a pious and religious man. But
Christ said again to him, "Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell
whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so [are a few who profess to believe the
truth?--No.] is every one that is born of the Spirit.
` The God of heaven uses his Spirit as it pleases him, and human minds and human
judgment and human methods can no more set boundaries to its working, or prescribe as to
the channel through which it shall operate, than they can say to the wind, "I bid you
to blow in a certain direction, and to conduct yourself in such and such a manner."
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God,
The Son of
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Light
"The Light of Life"
[This chapter is based on John 8:12-59; E.
G.
White.
The Desire of the Ages pg. 463.
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Then spake Jesus again unto them,
saying, I am the light of the world:
he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of
life." John 8:12.
When He spoke these words, Jesus
was in the court of the temple specially connected with the services of the
Feast of Tabernacles. In the center of this court rose two lofty standards,
supporting lampstands of great size. After the evening sacrifice, all the
lamps were kindled, shedding their light over Jerusalem. This ceremony was
in commemoration of the pillar of light that guided Israel in the desert,
and was also regarded as pointing to the coming of the Messiah. At evening
when the lamps were lighted, the court was a scene of great rejoicing.
Gray-haired men, the priests of the temple and the rulers of the people,
united in the festive dances to the sound of instrumental music and the
chants of the Levites.
In the illumination of Jerusalem, the people expressed their hope of the
Messiah's coming to shed His light upon Israel. But to Jesus the scene had a
wider meaning. As the radiant lamps of the temple lighted up all about them,
so Christ, the source of spiritual light, illumines the darkness of the
world. Yet the symbol was imperfect. That great light which His own hand had
set in the heavens was a truer representation of the glory of His mission.
It was morning; the sun had just risen above the Mount of Olives, and its
rays fell with dazzling brightness on the marble palaces, and
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lighted up the gold of the temple walls, when Jesus, pointing to it, said,
"I am the light of the world."
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God,
The
Son
of Man
Jesus!
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"The Created Son of Man". E.G.
White. The Signs of the Times. 11-22-99. pg. 09.
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Christ's prayer to His Father for His disciples was, "Sanctify them through Thy
truth; Thy Word is truth." The sign of God is sanctification through obedience to the
truth. This sanctification makes the loyal subject like his great Head, Jesus Christ. He
is brought into peculiar and eternal relations to the Saviour on condition
that he maintains his allegiance to the end. When we are thus sanctified, we
shall not have a spurious faith, a spurious doctrine, a spurious experience.
In
coming out from the world
and accepting the Sabbath of creation,
which God has blessed and sanctified, we give evidence of true conversion. We are stamped
with the mark of God's government. As we accept the Sabbath to keep it holy unto the Lord,
we are sanctified, soul, body, and spirit.
"But if you had known what this means, "I desire mercy and not
sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord even of
the Sabbath day. Matt. 12:7 - 8.
"The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the
Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath." Matt. 2:27-28.
And He said to them, I "The Son of Man is
also Lord
of the Sabbath". Luke. 6:5.
His Form
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Known as "The First Form,"
and
"The First Sabbath".
By Mrs. E.G.W. The Spirit of Prophecy, Disguised Infidelity. Chapter VIII.
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The first week, in which God performed the work of creation in six days and
rested on the seventh day, was just like every other week. The great God, in
his days of creation and day of rest, measured off the first cycle as a
sample for successive weeks till the close of time. "These are the
generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created." God
gives us the result of his work on each of the days of creation. Each day
was accounted of him a generation, because every day he generated, or
produced, some new portion of his work. On the seventh day of the first week
God rested from his labor, and then blessed the day of his rest, and set it
apart for the use of man. The weekly cycle of seven literal days, six for
labor and the seventh for rest, which has been preserved and brought down
through Bible history, originated in the great facts of the first seven
days.
E. G. White. Periodical- The Signs of the Times - 11-12-94
Article- A Perpetual Memorial. Pg- 08
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From that day to this the knowledge of God's law has been preserved in the
earth, and the Sabbath of the fourth commandment has been kept. Christ has
given no hint that the seventh-day Sabbath has ever been or ever could be
changed, and no apostolic example for the change from the seventh to the
first day of the week can be cited. The custom of observing the first day of
the week instead of the seventh day of divine appointment has no authority
save that of tradition, popular custom, and the command of the Church of
Rome. The Church of Rome has been the agent by which Satan has made this
breach in the law of God, and turned the professed Christian world away from
the precepts of Jehovah. Through his insinuation men made the claim that
because Christ rose from the dead on the first day of the week, therefore
the first day of the week should be celebrated as the Christian
Sabbath, but
the Scriptures give no authority for this manner of reasoning. The prince of
evil well knew that could he set aside the true foundation for Sabbath
observance, he could make the fourth commandment of no significance in the
minds of men. Thus, under the pretense of honoring Christ, Satan succeeds in
tearing down God's great memorial, turning the minds of men away from their
Creator in a false zeal for a spurious institution. He led the Jews to have
a false zeal for the Sabbath, and then induced them to reject Christ, the
Lord of the Sabbath.
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Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man
in our image,
in our likeness, and
let them rule (authority)
over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock,
over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the
ground."
Man
was created: He was created
mentally, physically
and spiritually .
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in our image |
(and) in our likens
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spiritually |
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and let them rule...
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1. They
are in one,
2. They
are as one, 3.
They are
ONE.
Their Creation of the Universe is Great. |
They are mentally free,
independently (physically) powerful, and
spiritually praiseworthy. |
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Joy
of the Family!
by
President G.B.Patterson,
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So crucial is the family relationship that
our concept of God rises or
falls with it. In the same way that children relate to and understand their
parents we relate to and understand God. God designed it that way. The Bible uses the
experience of family as a helical loop illustration: God is as family, and family is as
God. When God wishes to describe His love for His people He calls them His bride and His
children. And conversely, when He speaks of the love that should exist in families He
urges, "Husbands, love your wives,
even as
Christ also loved the church" (Eph. 5:25).
Family
Experience
Neither God nor family can be understood properly
without the other.
Our family experience draws on our God concept and our God concept is informed by
the relationship that exists in our families.
Either these two concepts contribute to the up building of each
other or they become a black hole, drawing us into a pit of destruction. It is
absolutely crucial; it is absolutely mandatory; it is absolutely determinative,
that the future of our church as a whole and our salvation individually rises or falls
with the family relationship.
JT
emphasis), G. C. Conference. SDA. Advent Review. 9-24-1981.
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The Son of God, talking To the
Father, saying "My I?" (He was "obedient unto death").
"And being found in human form, he humbled himself by
becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of
the Father's
decision (John 3:16), He became
The Son of
Man. Amen! |
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The Face of God's Authority. |
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3. Please notice the colors:
The
Blue!
The Red! and
The
Green!
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(Authority)
"Agape" is not for "love of man"
toward God, but of man toward man, including Jesus, A MAN/ AMEN!
WHAT A CHANGE!
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The Face of God's
Thoughts
Starts with His Word mentally physically and spiritually
The Father
and The Son and The
Holy Spirit are ONE!
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1. Time |
2.Former/Light |
3.Space |
ONE! |
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Filoς |
'Eroς |
Agaph |
ONE! |
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Love and
Lust 
If you can,
change your
unconditional
Thoughts! |
Love is the Turning Point of Authority where you obey the
thoughts and actions, including Jesus,
or to accept the thoughts and actions of the Devil as a father. |
Love that
brings the conditioned response and acceptance of the
Authority. "That" was your choice. Amen! |
ONE! |
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God,
The Father |
God,
The Son
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Satan |
God,
The Holy Spirit |
ONE-ness. |
They are
in One, Mentally.
They
are as
One, Physically. They
are
One, Spiritually. Amen! There are two Greek
words,
fhiloς,
eroς,
and
one Turkish/Hebrew word,
aga/pe,
written with
Greek
letters.
(Why did Jesus use the Turkish
word for Lord?). Notice: aga (a-ga) n. Also a-gha.
A high official of the Ottoman Empire. [Turkish aga,
"lord." {"root word"} Jt.] The
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 1969 pg. 23.
Love is
Love
(Eros).
The
other two words are Philos
and Agape.
Filoς
{Mental}
The Father gave Permission, Jesus spoke the
Word and the Holy Spirit produced all Creation. They
made us. We were created for Their pleasure. They are our
"Father", and are concerned about our well being. We
sinned.
They
still Love us as Philos
(Unconditional Love). They provided a Plan of Salvation that
made Jesus the Product of Love, Eros. From its source as Our
Authority, Please accept Jesus,
not Satan,
as a choice.
Forgiving
us Agape (Positioned as a Father, King or Lord) God accepts our
abeyance. When you had done what God has asked, your Position is
Conditioned.
From
"Unconditioned Love" to Unlimited Conditioned Love you
made a Positive Choice and you will be better off for All
Eternity. Amen!
Eroς
{Physical}
Just like human beings,
Jesus
was born.
The Son of God allowed
The
Holy Spirit to fashion the Love relationship with a virgin and
He
was born of natural process to enter this world.
He
lived and died and was sealed a second time in the earth (first time
in Mary) to be "born again" from whence
He
walked in "Newness of Life".
He
has offered it to us in Love,
Agape.
From its source, God Loves us to decide which way we want to go. You
can accept
His
Authority or let you die in your sins. The choice is yours.
Agaph {Spiritual}
The Father's compassion shown to us from the "foundation of the
world" can be given only if we obey, only if we choose
Him to be our
Authority, only if we let
His preference be first. All that
Jesus has done is
of no effect if we do not surrender all.
He died to make Salvation possible, There is nothing
He can do until,
and unless we accept
Him. This Love is so conditional that it is totally ineffective
unless we totally let
The
Holy
Spirit (The Comforter)
have
His way with us. From
His source,
He has given man the conditions of accepting His (man)
Salvation for Sin. If you want
His Authority, ask
Him.
Mercy
1.
Compassion and mercy can be shown for the enemy.
2.
This Love (Philos) cannot be shown to God (Obedience
is given to Him).
3.
Compassion and mercy can be shown to your fellowman.
4.
Liberty is the same as tolerance.
5.
Compassion and mercy can be given only by an
authority.
6.
Exercising this Love (Philos) makes us perfect.
7.
This love is non-intoxicating.
8.
This relationship is given strictly as a matter of
choice.
9.
You, who have mercy, have to be sober to exercise it
properly.
Trust
1.
Trust has no super-sensual involvement. It's Trust (Philos) is a
primary factor from it's Authority.
2.
This Trust (euphoric or/and intoxicant feeling) is related to
eros,
3.
The euphoric
(good feeling) comes because you have obeyed.
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These relationships are about Man
as
a "source" of Love
(including Jesus
as a man, not God).
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filoς
Philos [Mental]
1.
This
love, from its source, is unconditional. The relationship is a
"one way street, going down".
2.
This love is to
be given toward the inanimate: like “I like stamps”, or “I
like my country”, or “I love people”, etc…
3.
It has no other absolute authority than its "given"
source. It is selfishly satisfied, and has no
"preferences" involved.
4. It is affection for the created. (God can have for
man, not man toward God.)
5. This love is not given to enemies, but to friends ONLY.
6.
This affection is comparable to passion: Greeks were good
statesmen, sportsmen, etc.
7.
It is referred to a general love.
8.
There is no intoxication without giving "my
permission".
9.
Trust is not primarily necessary, and it is dependent on its
source’s decision.
Eroς
Eros [Physical]
1.
This
relationship, from its source, is "a conditioning" or
"equalizing" love.
2.
Absolute authority is compromised (eye for eye).
3.
Satisfaction is mutual (you please me, I will please
you--maybe!)
4.
With this love, my preference is as good as yours.
5.
The only way one can have this love for your enemy is through
mistrust (tooth for tooth).
6.
It is referred to a passion and can be spiritualized to a
euphoric experience, an intoxication.
7.
Trust for you is
only as far as it can be seen.
8.
With this love, mutual decisions become passionate passion (a
good relationship, not love).
9.
The Greeks played all over Mount Olympus with their gods!
Agape
agaph
[Spiritual]
(See
Resource)
1. Totally different from
the other relationships. This love, from its source, is
very, very
conditional.
2.
To use this love, one has to relate to a chosen
authority
first.
3.
It is the recognition of total authority vested to one by a
census of two more persons (Him, you, and me). My relationship
toward Him is "one way going up".
4.
This love involves a total giving of "all"
obedience with the mental, physical, and spiritual powers in order
to receive "all" compassion from your chosen authority. (1
Cor. 13:1-13).
5. There is no compromising in this love.
6.
Since my
authority's preference is first, I will present my preference and
according to his will, he will make my preference his preference
first and answer me.
7.
Obedience is compared to "members of one body "as
"hand to head, feet to head, etc.
8.
The stress is on
(a) compassion given for (b) obedience.
9.
Because of my love for
my
authority, I will depend
on
him for all
decisions.
NOTICE!
It is when we give "all" to receive "all" as
a baby that The Plan of Salvation with Love is accomplished.
This is the Love that
is to be taught in our homes (Heaven and Earth), schools (in Eden
and in Church Schools), and in our Churches (Who is The Bride)! It is
different from the world (eros and philos where each person is
seeking his own selfish satisfactions).
May God, Our God, grant us Mercy, and may we accept His Grace as one
of His children (babies) of the King. AMEN!
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SEE:
G. KITTEL, THEOL. DICT. NT. V.1 P. 35-37 & V. 9 P.
119-123.
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Please
notice another Greek word for Love: stabetar
(now four Greek words). We are suggesting
that this word is a part of Eros.
It is the "maintaining relationship toward taking care
of the baby", or a positive relationship for a person in
the family. Until the "baby" is grown, the physical
eros, without making
children, is a part of the process of the family
(man, woman, and Jesus). The relationship of eros is still in vogue. It would be nice to continue with the
Three Greek Words as the Bible says: philos,
eros, and agape.
Using
the same idea of the four English words
as mental, physical, spiritual, and social
relationships, we notice that it would be hard to use the
word, "social", with out using the mental, physical,
spiritual powers of these relationships separately.
Jt.
fitnfreejt@msn.com.
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4.
The Three Greek Words
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Please notice the colors:
The Blue!
The Red! and
The
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Love is explained with 3 Greek Words in 9 ways!
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The First Word
Filoς
philos
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Greek language, only. |
1.
This relationship is Un-conditional.
2. It is love for
the inanimate.
3. It is non
intoxicating and has
no
authority of its own.
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1.
Phil-ately.........
2. Phil-adelphia....
3. Phil-anthopy ... |
........... "-love of collating stamps"
..........."-love of brothers"
............"-love
of mankind" |
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The Second Word
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Eroς
eros
(male)
Agape
(female)
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Greek God
(Eros)
Egypt Goddess
(Icon)
Latin
(Sex)/(Thoughts) |
4.
This relationship has an equal
conditioning component.
(I give to you as you give to me. NO MORE, NO
LESS.)
5. It is love for human kind (including
Jesus and Angels).
6. It is intoxicating, and has no more
authority than mine.
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Trust is suspect. |
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1. I Love You! (Maybe!).
2. My Pleasure is Our Command!
(Maybe).
3. You send me! (Maybe).
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The Third Word
Agape
Aga-pe
A compound
word
Aga---Turkey
pe---Hebrew
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
1969 pg. 23 and pg. 963. |
7.
This relationship must have a very,
very, very conditioned response. As in
Psychology, a new or modified response elicited by a
stimulus after conditioning.
It was the relationship of god to the other gods, not
Jesus only, but all gods--Greeks and Roman, and other
goddess, too. The word and relationships were at least
599 years before Jesus' birth.
8. The Greek gods were over every thing
animate and inanimate. They were over everything on the
earth and under the earth. Some languages may not
have this concept in their words, but Jesus used it. "If
you love (aga-pe) me, keep my commandants
{words of my mouth} (John 14:15;). Notice: In Ex 20:6,
He not only
said
the words, but He also
wrote the words (commandments) and He became The
Word in Flesh! Amen!
9. The gods
were more than mere man. When the Greek gods wanted
something done, it was done!
Their gods (Zeus) had
absolute authority!
The Greeks wanted to "See" Jesus. They wanted to
see
some one who was
more than
their thoughts of
their god. John
12:20-50.
Complete Trust
is necessary.
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1.
Zeus, the Father
of the Greeks gods. |
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2.
Jesus, the Son of God. (Jehovah)
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3.
Adam, the Son of Mankind. (Jesus). |
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G. KITTEL, THEOL. DICT. NT. V.1 P. 35-37 & V. 9
P. 119-123.
fitnfreejt@msn.com.
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Agape
received a broader usage under later
Christian writers as the word that
specifically denoted "Christian" love or
"charity" (1
Corinthians 13:1–8). The
New Testament provides a number of
definitions and examples of agape,
which generally expand on the meanings
used in ancient texts, denoting
brotherly love, love of one's spouse or
children, and the love of God for all
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Notice again:
1.
aga
(a-ga) Also a-gha. n.
Used as a title for a male
civil...leader, esp. in Turkey.
2. In English, notice the word "lord
(lord) n. A man of high rank in a feudal
society or in one that retains feudal
forms and institutions, esp.: a.
A king.
b. ...
3.
King
(king) n. A male sovereign.
4.
pe
(pa) n. The 17th letter
of the Hebrew alphabet. [Heb. pe <Phocnician
*pe, "mouth", 17th letter of the
Phoenician alphabet.]
The American Heritage Dictionary
of the English Language 2004; pg.
25, 817, and pg. 1023.
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**Please
notice that "aga" and "lord
(King)" were given to those who
received authority. These
titles were given to those
who were chosen with
two percent of three persons
with in acceptance of the
program, or, by conquest.
For example, by choice: A
President is chosen by
two
(%)
out of
three
choices where the third person is
chosen to be the leader; or, by
conquest of war; or both,
as of the U.S. President's
Campaign. These are
people who were
given
authority.
With this title and
authority, he could help others
as a "aga"; a feudal form
leader. Where this word, "aga-pe"
is given, the person who has
this title has Authority (mentally),
Power of Authority (physically),
desire Choice of Other's of
Authority, (spiritually),
not chance.
Notice: Our concept of
God,
of His
Love,
and of our
Family form
with Him, and even of the Devil,
too, has connection with
our
thoughts.
Even The Father was given permission by
The Son of God and of
The Holy Spirit to
be a Family Firm Creator. "Aga-pe" was put together by
The Godhead saying,
"Do what I say (by
my mouth ), for I have
Position (mentally), Power (physically),
and have
been given Permission of
"one out of three" as one who
has The Authority (spiritually). John 14:15 and Exodus
20:2-17.
In the Greek New Testament
Dictionary (13 to 75) suggests
that the word "aga" or
"ag" shows good
relationships of the Leader
(King/Lord/Father) for those who
are given respect, obedience
and reciprocity. For instance
in 1 Corinthians 13:. It starts
with a person (male), a "lord
relationship" (A)
who is willing
to listen to
others and (B)
who give respect and obedience
(1).
It is nice to know that it (aga)
started in Heaven where
Jesus talks to
the
Father (John
1:1). The conversation continued
with Jesus (The Son) asking the
Father to LET HIM become man.
The Reciprocity was not finished
until YOU have accepted His
blood on Calvary. At begins with your own Authority. At ends
with His Authority. Have you
accepted Him? You don't know?
Then ask Him.
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1. Authority--Farther |
2. Obedience--Jesus |
3. Oneness--Holy Spirit |
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With out God, the Devil
will be your Fiend, not a Friend. Don't try it,
My Friend. Amen! |
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Willingly Accept
Authority as a Father has His Children
of whom you must are one.
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5.
HAVE YOU
ACCEPTED JESUS?
The relationship for "The Son" towards the "Father" is
the same Love Relationship and
Respect that we should have for each other, man to man. This is the same
relationship that we
should have towards Jesus as a man, a man like us, not for God, but for man
towards man. The relationship would be the same as Mother towards Father.
This Love is not for babies or children, but for adults, only. "Grown-upers".
Children are to be taught how to respect Jesus and His Father. If not, we
show that we have not accepted Jesus. Father, Mother and Jesus are as One,
Mentally, Physically, and Spiritually. When Jesus lived on earth, men did
not accept Him as God. Now that He has been Resurrected and has come back
into the "God towards God Relationship" in heaven, man calls Jesus "God and
Man". Jesus now has both, but we (man) still do not accept Jesus as man, as "man
towards man". Have you, man, accepted Jesus as man, not God? The Jews,
then, didn't
accept him either; as neither God or man.
If you really want to go to heaven (even now), you would
be equal to Jesus on earth as a man. If you plan to accept Him in Heaven, you will
need to know His conception of Love here on earth: man to man. Amen!
LOVE (agaph,
agape)
ONE ANOTHER.)
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Is there a
"Father" in your family?
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The Face
of Love: A Code of Ethics for the Family; (inserts from fitnfreejt.org.
a. Willingly
accept authority from your parents, or "Uncle Sam"
may force his.
b. Maturity is
measured by your ability to accept responsibility.
c. Your identity
is established by your association with the Authority of your
choice.
d. If you refuse
to be responsible to
authority, authority cannot be responsible
for you.
e. Your
authority began with your birth and is to "be taught of the
Lord."
f.
Your first word
was "WOW!
I am here!
Your second word was: "Come! And start taking care for me!"
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6.
Bio |
John H. Tillman,
Jr. Founder
John H. Tillman was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina where
he was very active in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He attended Oakwood College in
Huntsville, Alabama.
He graduated from Regent College of the State University of New York with a
Bachelor of Science Degree in Liberal Arts, June 1994. He majored in Psychology with a
minor in Business Administration. He also received a Certificate in Alcohol Counseling
from Marymount College, New York City.
Mr. Tillman became know as the "Smoking Sam" man. He vigorously promoted the Temperance Oratorical Contests and the Poster Contest. He also
gave new meaning to the Temperance Motto: IN CHRIST, WE'RE FIT AND FREE!
His Home Church is now found in the Bronx Temple Church Community Sevres's
Department, 495 Willis Avenue in The Bronx, New York, 10455.
1-718-402-1989, Cell 1-718-902-7152.
Mr. Tillman has authored the unpublished book entitled, The Face of Love: A
Code of Ethics. His "Love Message" embraces the concept of the
mental, physical, and spiritual connections with Three Greek Words
for Love: Philos, Eros,
and Agape.
John H. Tillman continues to support Christian education as a "Lifetime Member"
of the National Oakwood College Alumni Association and as a member of the A. Samuel
Rashford Chapter of the Oakwood College Alumni Association. They presented him with a Certificate of Merit in recognition of his outstanding support
and loyalty to Oakwood College on April 3, 1999. |
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