Today’s Shabbat Thought: Man’s Sovereignty And Free Will

Today’s Shabbat Thought

Even Though God Knows
And Can Do All Things,
He Does Not Actively Impede
Or Intervene In
The Actions Of His Creation
Due To His Commitment To

Man’s Sovereignty And Free Will.

Prophesy Fulfilled - Emannuel's Childhood And Subsequent Judgement Of Israel

Everyone knows and reads Isaiah 7:14, but rarely reads the rest of the prophecy, which is equally amazing and accurate. Nowhere else, but in the Bible, is this level of accuracy.

He will eat Curds, Honey,

in order to know evil 
and choose good

Before knowing how to refuse evil 
and choosing good, 

the land, 
by which two kings you dread, 
will be forsaken.

Yahweh will bring upon the people, 

your father’s house, 

days that which never have come, 

since the day that Ephraim 
was separated from Judah, 

even by the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 7:15-17

Curds are symbolic of tested Words or Doctrine, while Honey is symbolic of an abundance of good things and prosperity. 

The scriptures tell us, in Luke 2:40, 

“And the child grew 
and was made strong in spirit, 
being filled with wisdom 
and the grace of God was upon him.” 

Before this occurred, two kings, the Greeks and the Romans, who were despised by Israel, forsook the Land of Israel, ushering in days , never seen by Israel, even leading to their diaspora and the destruction of the Father’s House, the Temple.

Prophecy Fulfillled- Emmanuel

Adonai will give a sign.

A virgin maiden will become pregnant,

bearing a Son,

Calling out the Name,

Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:14

Immanuel means “with us is God” or “God is for us” or

“God will keep us(safe)”.

All three are acceptable interpretations.

Jesus is the Latin version of the Hebrew name, Y’shua, which means “God Saves” or “God is our Salvation” or “God will keep us Safe”. 

In Hebrew, Immanuel and Y’shua(Jesus) means the same thing.

Interesting...New Science Study Shows That Our Consciousness Could Continue To Exist After We Die.

Amazing, anything, that's anti-God, coming out of any kind of research, is immediately plastered all over the news, as fact. However, anything that supports the Bible is buried. Check this out. A study from The Prestigious Oxford Unvisersity shows that it's a great possibility that the soul does exist and most likely continues to exist beyond death, a fact that Bible believers know, since that's exactly what the Bible says. Why isn't this front page news?

Since 1996, Dr. Stuart Hameroff, an American Physicist and Emeritus in the Department of Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematical physicist at Oxford University, have been working on the Quantum Theory of Consciousness in which they state that the soul is maintained in microtubules of the brain cells. Their interesting theory says that the human heart or soul is being contained by the brain cells in structures inside them.

The two researchers believe the human brain is, in fact, a biological computer and the consciousness of people is a program run by the quantum computer located inside the brain that even continues to exist after we die. Both scientists argue that what humans perceive as ‘consciousness’ is, in fact, the result of quantum gravity effects located within the so-called microtubules. This process is named by the two scientists “Orchestrated Objective Reduction – (Orch-OR).”

Amazingly, this quantum quality is code for explaing our interdimensional reality, which is exactly what how the Bible hints toward, when discussing prayer, God speaking, Y'shua's ability to pass through walls of a locked room, interdimensional travel, such as Jacob's Ladder and so on.

The theory indicates that when people enter a phase known as ‘clinical death,’ the microtubules located in the brain lose their quantum state but maintain the information contained within them. In other words – as experts explain it after people die, their soul returns to the universe, and it does not die’.

In a Science Channel’s Through the Wormhole documentary, Dr. Hameroff said:

“Let’s say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing; the microtubules lose their quantum state. The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can’t be killed, and it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large. If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can go back into the microtubules, and the patient says ‘I had a near-death experience.’ If they’re not revived, and the patient dies, it’s possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul.”

According to this theory, human souls are more than just ‘interactions’ of neurons in our brain and could have been present since the beginning of time. Again, that's what the Bible says.

See you at the Ressurrection.

Does Man Percieve Their Own Ignorance? (A Little Fun With Cartoon Creation)

Having a little fun with cartoon creation. Even though we may laugh at the arrogance of man, it should sadden us as to how out of touch they are to what they actually say and how far Salvation is from them. If the individual boxes are hard to see, click on the first one and use the right cursor to go from frame to frame. I hope you enjoy.

Did Adam And Eve Die The Same Day They Sinned?

When you are out evangelizing for the Lord, it won't take too much time, before you run into an unbeliever, who will point out that there are many inconsistencies. Atheist love to point out perceived errors, within the Bible.

I ran into one recently, that I honestly haven't heard before. This individual pointed out the God said, to Adam and Eve, that they would die the day they ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They didn't. Adam supposedly lived to a thousand years old.

For reference, this is found in Genesis 2:18 and in Genesis 5

Well, my first response was that God didn't tell that to Adam and Eve. He just told Adam, just before creating Eve. That's the first thing she was wrong about and technically Adam only lived to be 930 years old.

I went on the say that the Bible clearly tells us that time, within God's reality and Adam's original reality, is and was different than ours. In the Bible, we are told,

"A Thousands Years In Your Eyes is a day. A previous day as though it passes like a watch in the night."

Psalm 90:4

"Moreover, not this one thing to be hidden from your knowledge, beloved, that with the Lord, one day like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day."

2 Peter 3:8

You see, when Adam and Eve, disobeyed, they were immediately tossed out the Garden's dimensionality. Within the Garden of Eden, only one day had passed, while outside the Garden, around 930 years has passed, exactly what the above Bible verses tell us above. Therefore, Adam did die within the same day, within God's dimensionality, as when he was told of the penalty for disobedience, but it seemed like almost a thousand years, in this reality.

In the end, there are no errors, within the Bible.

Shalom.

Is John 1:14 Mistranslated?

One of the most famous verses, in the Bible, John 1:14 has been debated over the centuries. On one side, the verse has been translated, from the original languages as:

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

While the other side insists that the verse is translated as:

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

One declares the divinity of the Messiah, while the other states that the Messiah was created.

Which one is correct?

Well, the word, in question, is "ginomai". It means "to come into being". It can be an active or passive verb, in the Greek. However, how is it being used here. If we go to the writer, who is the Apostle John, then we find that he used it consistently as an active verb, ocassionally using it as a passive verb. For example, he used the word "ginomai", in John 1:3, in the active voice, while switching to the passive voice, in verse 6, then back to active, in verses 10, 12 and 14.

Translators agree that John used the active voice, every time he talked about the Word of God, except, for some reason, in John 1:14....an so the debate continues.

However, may I suggest that almost every time he talks about the Word of God, he references Genesis 1. If so, why would he change, in verse 14? If you look at Genesis 1, Bara and Asah are the equivalent Hebrew words to the Greek, "Ginomai". Bara and Asah means to create, either out of nothing or available elements.

As a side note, the Hebrew also has "Yatsar", which means to create out of available already created things.

Bottom line: In the Beginning, Bara, Asah and even Yatsar, are used as active verbs. Therefore, it should be translated as such, even in the Greek.

With all that said, it brings us back to the original question. Which one is correct? Is it passive, as most translators insist or active, as portrayed in the Genesis ?

Well, if we use the available tools God has given us, we can easily perform a basic Word for Word translation and find the truth. John 1:14 is translated as:

Even so, the Word created a living creature, a body of a man, subject to suffering and desires and dwelled among us and we beheld his glory. The glory of the only one born of the Father, thoroughly permeated with merciful kindness and what is true in things appertaining to God and the duties of man, moral and religious truth.

Yes, this created man had and has the fullness of God dwelling within him, but also had the frailties and compacity to sin, if he chose to, which makes what he did of the cross, so amazing and wonderful of full of Agape. That man, the only begotten Son of God, was so committed to the Will of God, that he freely went to the Cross, to die as a Sin Offering for us all. Amen!

In the end, it's your choice to decide, whether ginomai is active or passive, in John 1:14. May I suggest reading it in context and with the whole of scripture in mind? 

Search out the Truth, for Yourself.

Shalom!