Telosism (the Biblical Post-Christian Religion)

Author: Victor Porton

  • What is evil?

    In this post I want to present my opinion on what is evil and how there can be evil in the world created by good God. I don’t quote Bible in this post, it is mainly a philosophic assessment (however without trying to prove that it is correct).

    First, evil is mainly related with Satan and sin. Sin is a denial of service attack (something what prevents a computer or in our case a brain to function properly), which attempts to reverse the function of an entity to do the opposite to what it should do.

    It is essential to note that sin is a problem which needs to be solved. It needs to be dealt with on a certain stage of the development of the universe.

    In my opinion, there is no absolute evil. An evil is a part of bigger good or not clearly seen good. Consider sin as a problem which needs to be passed through. “Evil” is seeing good not clearly. God does no evil.

    Everything what God created is good. Bad things are only parts of God’s creation separated from the entire system. Even sin is in some sense good as it is a problem and a problem with solution is good thing. A bad thing is a problem without solution.

    Another thing I want to note is the following: In an entity struck with sin, every small step of its behavior is correct. The system is wrong on large scale.

    Reversely, acts of God are correct on the large scale despite small fragments of the work of God may look like wrong.

    Comments are welcome.

  • Notes on predestination and Calvinism

    First I am not a professional theologian. The following may contain factual errors. However, I am a mathematician and can formulate my thoughts exactly.

    As far as I know, there is no free will for salvation of a man or woman accordingly the teaching of the Protestant reformer John Calvin.

    I think we should accommodate that “free will” can be interpreted in different ways:

    1. We have free will in that sense that God does not change our character by just moving atoms in our brain to erase our old mind and create a new one with destruction of our former mind. Instead God communicates with us with words, visions, etc., all of which are accomplished as influencing our brains with information contained in cosmic electromagnetic waves. Cosmic electromagnetic waves are called “Christ” in Bible (see my book). So God decided to save us through Christ instead of erasing our mind with brute force and starting it anew with old mind erases. In this sense we have free will.
    2. Another meaning of “free will” is that we could be able to resist God’s influence to save us. I doubt whether we have free will in this sense. (Rom. 9:18-19) “18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. 19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?” From this verse it seems that a human does not have free will in the sense to withstand the decision of God to save him.

    It seems that all mainstream and evangelical Protestants believe that God has predestined who to save.

    Another “feature” of Calvinism is that God has predestined also who not to save.

    Do I agree with this? It seems that this question is even more difficult than it seems:

    I suppose that people are born accordingly natural laws of biology and sociology. What is predestination for salvation of a particular person then? In my opinion it is “fitting” of a particular “natural” (stochastic that is randomly borb) person into the scheme of one of a big but finite number of a “new creations”.

    Then the main point of the discussion of Luther and Calvin becomes: Does God predestine only fitting particular persons into the scheme of saved “new creations” or does He also predestine into another scheme of non-saved people? I don’t know the answer but suppose that it is likely that God in this sense predestined only “new creations” and has not predestined not saved people.

    Another question: How can predestination fit together with the fact that people are saved when they willingly accept Christ into their hearts?

    I think the main part of the answer to this question is: (Is. 65:24) “It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer…” This means that our prayers can be heard by God even before the world begin, when He does our predestination.

  • Relationships with God (a short sermon)

    1. In this short sermon I will tell about relationships between people and God.
    2. In the beginning God created people to work on the ground: (Gen. 2:15) “Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.”
    3. But the man was damaged by the devil. Initially the brain of the man was a hardcore computer (see my other sermon “Short story of the universe”). Under influence of the devil the man almost completely hanged, the good and the evil were confused with each other and the man became unable to work in a right way. It is called “sin”.
    4. God appointed the task to withdraw us from the hangup (save from the sin), make us able to work effectively again.
    5. God could be able just to get atoms of our body and create from them a new body and a new brain without the bugs, or completely erase our memory and begin everything anew. But the Lord loves us: this means that He does not want to erase our memory. He wants to correct us through a dialogue with us (not only through words but also through telepathy).
    6. So now God works as a system operator which connects to our brains and corrects them by the way of mild informational interaction, without erasing our memory.
    7. The task is made difficult by that we do not hear well or do not hear at all the voice of God. God sees our heart, but we do not hear the electromagnetic signals God sends us. This is a vicious circle: For us to be corrected we need to receive the correcting signal from God, but to receive the signal it is necessary first to correct our inability to hear. This makes the task of our salvation very difficult and its solution stretched for millennia.
    8. God communicates with us through electromagnetic radiation. Electromagnetic radiation of the universe in Bible is called Christ: (Jn. 8:12) “I am the light of the worlds”. So God appointed the task to save us through Christ, without erasing our memory.
    9. The task is that we could again effectively work on the Earth, not to make harm as the mankind does now.
    10. This is a very difficult problem: To teach us to withstand against sin and the devil. The problem is so difficult that after its solution God has for us a work even not on the Earth but on the heaven, and he grabs us to the heaven. That is the grace of God is the solution of this problem but it is more than solution just of this problem but a way to the heaven.

  • Pray for me, to get rid of negative thoughts

    Many years ago (I probably was yet a teenager) I endured very hard life circumstances. It seems that something broke in my head with the following result:

    I often have negative thoughts. It is often that I remember the rave I had before the conversion to Christ. Or just bad thoughts. Sometimes it is the thought to kill myself or somebody other, sometimes it is something indecent, or like this. I don’t kill or do any such things but the negative thoughts disturb me.

    Please pray for me to get rid of negative thoughts and too often remembering the rave which I had before conversion.

    I think, God allowed me to break a little because I thought too high about my own mind, such as being very positive was like an idol for me. But now I think, I already repented of this.

    Also pray for my financial welfare for me to have money and free time to work in nonprofit/charity for benefit of others.

  • Bible on abortion

    The following may look “not enough conservative”, but my purpose is to strictly follow the Bible:

    (Job 3:16) “or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.”

    Bible seems to say (if I understand it correctly) that unborn embryos do not have soul.

    I do not say that abortion is good. I just try to make a biblical point on it.

    Is killing an unborn embryos well a killing? I do not know, but it seems not to be sending a soul into separation of body, because there is no soul in this case.

    The above is just my personal opinion and it may be wrong.

  • Love is a simple thing

    What is love? What the word “love” means in New Testament? These look like very difficult questions.

    But the Greek word “agape” for “love” also means “charity”. So love is simply ability to do charity.

    (1 Cor. 13)

    1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. 3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

    In the past it was about me. I had faith, I was baptized by Spirit and fire and prayed in tongues, I knew more than most other people. I even wanted to help the poor. But I didn’t have charity.

    I was seeking for ways to get money for my ministry. It was a business, business attempting to serve God, but not a charity.

    I was heavily pressed by the contradiction that I need money for my ministry but should not be greedy.

    I was divided between God’s commandments and between my desire to get money for my ministry by any means (such as cursing other people and making them to die because of my curse).

    At last (quite hilariously) I tried to put my hope on conforming to the Russian law (I’m from Russia) about charitable organizations. I tried to make me conform to this law, because I saw no other way to overcome my “holy” greed.

    I found myself a modern kind of a Pharisee.

    But now thanks to End of Gospel teaching I am free from being a Pharisee and have charity in my heart. Read this book.

  • What should we do?

    Many preachers teach that for each deed we need first receive a revelation from God and not to do what God has not explicitly requested us to do.

    But what God wants us to do?

    (John 6)

    28 They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?”
    29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

    There is no concrete deed we should do, but we should do anything and everything what conforms to the faith. The only good deed we can do is to believe. A deed with faith is good and a deed without faith is not good whatever we do.

    (Heb. 11:6) “Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him…”

    (Heb. 6:1) “Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God…”

    Our works are “dead”. This means that we sinners cannot do good by our deeds. Our psychic is too broken for us to do good deeds. But Christ opened us another way to serve God, we serve God by our faith.

    Faith is implemented in deeds, however:

    (Jam. 2)

    20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? 21 Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”;*x4 and he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. 25 In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

    Also:

    (Ecc. 9:10) “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might…”

    We should do everything we can do, this verse teaches.

    I do accordingly my faith math research, writing free software, and writing sermons like this one. These are important good deals of faith which change the world. Please support my good deeds with any sum of money.

  • Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!

    Joshua 10:12-13 says:

    12 Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”
    13 The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day. 14 There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.

    This is the greatest miracle described in Bible. (“There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man.”)

    I believe Bible, it has really happened, despite it is hard to believe, especially knowing modern science which looks to make it totally impossible.

    But what is its “least miraculous” (and thus “most scientific”) explanation? I propose the following explanation:

    A big alien spaceship with a giant solar sail came near to the Earth. What Israelites really saw was the reflection of the sun and the moon in the sail.

    This looks improbable, but at least this is not totally impossible. I believe it has really happened in this way or another.

  • Why we need to believe to receive God’s promises

    Why do we need to believe to receive God’s promises?

    A promise is void if the person who promises knows, that the one to whom the promise is addressed won’t believe.

    For example if I were pretending to be a madman who assumes to be much more rich than I am and I promised you 10 billion dollars in my imitated rave, then my promise to you is void because you would assume that I am a madman and thus I would not expect you to believe me.

    In the same way, if you don’t believe a God’s promise in Bible, God has no obligation to fulfill this promise for you.

    So to whom Bible is addressed? It is addressed to these who believe. If you don’t believe, the promise is not addressed to you.

  • How Baptists are different from Charismats?

    How Baptists are different from Charismats?

    Both pray for the same (here there is no difference). They pray for money, health, etc.

    What is then the difference? The difference is that the Baptist does not believe that his or her prayers will be accomplished.