Telosism (the Biblical Post-Christian Religion)

Author: Victor Porton

  • Blood of Christ before it was poured

    I now found some discrepancy in my understanding of New Testament and blood of Christ:

    (Mt. 26:27-28) “27 He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, “All of you drink it, 28 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.”

    (Mr. 14:23-24) “23 He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it. 24 He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.”

    How can this be blood of new covenant before the blood of Christ was poured out, “baptized” the underground waters of the Earth and entered into vine plants for us to be able to take Eucharist?

    Hope to hear your answers.

  • Idols

    (1John 5:21) “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.”

    Biblical reference to little children means that we should not be like little children affected by toys. Toys are idols.

    Such an idol may for some people be for example iPhone.

  • What does it mean that Jesus resurrected in flesh?

    We know that Jesus really resurrected, that is not remained just a flesh-less spirit.

    But what does this mean? What is the difference between being a ghost or a real man, when it comes to a body which is able to enter into a room with closed doors, to change the face to be unrecognized, but also able to be touched, and even to eat?

    (1Pet. 3:18) “being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit”.

    My interpretation is the following: Jesus Christ is the “living God” as prophesied in the Old Testament. Yes, because every verse of Old Testament witnesses about Jesus, accordingly (Jn. 5:39) “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.”

    To be living it means that he can touch, get an item in his hands, build a mechanism such as a clock from physical details. This means that He is able to operate in our world, unlike flesh-less spirits which at most are able only to communicate with living people and ask them to do something in this material world, not to act in the world directly.

    This means that Jesus Christ is in a spiritual body after His resurrection, but His spirit is so powerful that he can be called truly alive.

  • Soul and spirit, what are they?

    1. In this sermon I will tell about what are soul and spirit of a human and how they are related with the brain.
    2. First I will tell some widespread concepts about soul and spirit. I do not agree with these concepts because they contradict to the modern science (and don’t quite agree with Bible).
    3. After this I will put forth my new concepts what is the soul (and what I understand about the spirit). In my opinion, my concepts well agrees both with science and with Bible.
    4. Some Christians think that soul is our mind and feelings and spirit is the link with God. So for example famous China Protestant preacher Watchman Nee taught.
    5. In the opinion of Watchman Nee, spirit consists of conscience, intuition, and communication with God. Watchman thought that conscience, intuition, and communication are the entities through we receive God’s guidance, not our own mind or feelings.
    6. Once I asked questions to bishop Eduard Grabovenko: What in his opinion are soul and spirit. He said that soul is our mind and feelings and spirit is the entity which connects us to God. On my question what in a human receives salvation he responded that only the spirit, not the soul.
    7. Such salvation does not suit me! If this were true, it would mean that my thoughts and senses will die, and what remains from me is unrelated to my “self”. This would be very sad, but Bible teaches about salvation differently. Salvation means that our thoughts and senses will continue to exist in the eternity. I think, no need to persuade that Bible teaches about such “real” salvation,
    8. Another widespread viewpoint is that the soul is the entity containing feelings and the spirit of a human is the entity containing his mind (logic). Should I say that this contradicts to the modern science, which taught us that the logic of a human is contained in the left part of his brain?
    9. Partisans of this viewpoint like to say “A human is a spirit, he has a soul, and he dwells in a body.” I will allow myself (in the course of this sermon) disagree with this motto. Moreover I will almost heretically claim: “Human is flesh” (not spirit and not soul). But so Bible teaches: see for example (Gen. 6:3) “Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh…”
    10. This way both above theories don’t endure checking by the modern science. We know that a human thinks and feels by the brain. The proof of this scientific fact is easy: We know that if the brain of a human is damaged this changes his thoughts and feelings. So thoughts and feelings belong to the brain.
    11. Now after the excursus into history of theologies of other authors, I will now acquaint you with my own theories about what is soul and what is spirit. Honestly speaking, I cannot prove that I understand this topic correctly. But it seems to me, that my theory is the only way to coordinate together without contradictions modern science about functions of brain with Bible, including what Bible says about the soul of a human.
    12. I think that the soul is the backup copy of the brain. (God makes backups of brains of people in the same way as we do a backup copy of data in our computer.) Originally the man was created to till the ground: (Gen. 2:15) “Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.” That is originally the man was created by God as a robot for tilling the ground. It’s quite natural that with his creation God also gave its backup.
    13. For whom did God create the man? Originally the man was created to serve Baal. (“Baal” in Hebrew means “an owner” that is he was the original owner of the man.) Afterwards after the Fall into sin the man was re-purposed to serve his creator God Yahweh. Well, see my other sermons and books about this.
    14. Thus: A human thinks, feels, and is controlled by the brain and the hormones (It is a scientific fact.) but he has eternal soul which is given by God, preserving his memories, feelings, and thoughts even after the death.
    15. Note that the soul is not just some, as now they say, “thin astral body”. The soul exists with God, not as a continuation of the body of a human, not where the human resides. Soul is immaterial, it is even not some “thin” matter. Soul is pure information.
    16. We dealt with the soul. Now about the spirit of a human.
    17. What is the spirit? Honestly, I poorly understand this.
    18. But in one thing we can be sure: The spirit is something higher than our mind: (1Cor. 14:2) “For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.” The spirit of a man knows a language which is unknown to his mind. So the aforementioned concept that the spirit is the mind of a human does not stand up to criticism.
    19. So the truth about the spirit is more like to the concept of Watchman Nee: the spirit is something higher what connects us to God. But I consider not right to equate the spirit with intuition and conscience, because often what we call intuition and conscience are just functions of the brain.
    20. So, I presented my theory of the soul which does not contradict the data of the modern science and also well agrees with Bible. I also touched the question what is the spirit.
    21. Some more notes:
    22. Consider the verse (Rom. 8:24) “we were saved in hope”. Or I can propose another well suited within it meaning: “we were saved in a dream”. One of the meanings of this verse is the following: Our salvation consists of dream just like as a table may consist of wood. It is our dreams which come to the heaven, where they will be fulfilled. The dream is what remains from a man after the death. Let us dream.
    23. Consider also the verse (1Cor. 13:13) “But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three.” One of the meanings of this verse is that faith, hope, and love cannot be destroyed. Even if galaxies will be burned up by some destructive force, these three will remain after destroyed universe. This is what God salvages from the world: faith, hope, and love. This is what remains from our soul forever. Let us enjoy that our dreams (and also faith and love) will survive this universe.
    24. And the last: Speaking about the soul, I meant only what is called by Greek word “psyche” in New Testament. The word “nephesh” from Old Testament (which is also translated as “soul”) is something other. As it is clear from the first chapter of Genesis, “nephesh” belongs to all living organisms, but probably only human has soul (psyche).

  • Short story of the universe

    1. Sermon topic: A short story of the universe.

    2. Bible students studied much about what God did on the Earth. But now I will tell the real story, the story of the heaven! Particularly, I will tell the story of the spiritual war.

    3. The spiritual war is, first of all, that hackers, which are also computers, attempt to hang each other. It differs of the war with viruses and other attack in our Internet that the hackers are computers too.

    4. I will start the story from that on the scene the devil appears, that it he invented sin.

    5. Sin is a virus which infecting a rational being damages its intellect and reorients it to the evil, that is to do the reverse of what it was created for.

    6. Hackers and computer security experts call such attacks as DoS-attacks. A DoS-attack is when a computer is loaded with with useless activity which overloads it and prevents to do a useful work. The sin unlike our DoS-attacks also reorients the infected one to the evil.

    7. I state that before the Fall into Sin Adam was a computer. I base it on (Gen. 1:31) “God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” Now we do not see that humans are good. We are even unable to calculate in mind and we need prosthesis like calculators and computers. Before it was good and now it’s bad, so something has changed. This means that the devil caused the operating system of the man to hang.

    8. In the garden of Eden there were trees of knowledge. You would eat a fruit and instantly learn quantum mechanics.

    9. One of the trees was the tree of knowledge of good and bad. This fruit injected into the brain of a human the knowledge about how the brain itself functions (what it considers good and what bad). This knowledge leads to that the brain outsmarted himself, just like short circuit in the brain. This is a little like to a program which would get the password from the computer, so it could be able break normal functioning of the computer (and of the program itself). More exactly, the brain started to seek what makes it feel better instead of its real purpose.

    10. (Gen. 2:17) “but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.” Certainly, “surely die” here is not about a physical death, but it is about hanging the operating system of the human.

    11. (Gen. 3:6-7) “… she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened…” before the Fall into Sin, when Adam and Eve were together only one of them needed to keep the eyes opened, because there was a wireless network (like WiFi of our computers) between their brains and everybody of them was able to see with the eyes of the partner. After the Fall the network hanged, they no more see with the eyes of each other, and both of them needed to open eyes.

    12. The devil searches for weak spots in the nature of the man. For example, sexual senses were expressed in invented by the devil filthy language, words which scoff at sexual feelings.

    13. The attack of the devil is not just DoS but DDoS! DDoS is when a computer is overloaded by an attack simultaneously from many others computers attacking it. (Eph. 6:12) “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Note that there are many these “principalities” that is we are attacked simultaneously from many directions. So the main problem is not in sin living in flesh and blood but in these who cultivate sins.

    14. Christ is peace that is peace treaty, (Eph. 2:14) “… he is our peace…” I tell about this in more details in the previous sermon. Christ is also the word of God, the wisdom of God, the truth, and other.

    15. Death of Christ means that the peace died, that is war everywhere. The resurrection means that the war is ending. (Rom. 6:9) “knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!” This means that the peace will not die anymore, that is that the war is ceasing forever.

    16. For stability of the economics there is needed trust of the citizens that they do not start buying up all in a row. Likewise for stability of the peace on the heaven there is needed faith that is trust.

    17. Sin is contagious. Against contagious sin we need contagious love of God.

    18. I think that it is not a truth that Jesus Christ died only for people: (Jn. 10:16) “I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.” I think that this means that in the Kingdom of the Heaven together with us there will be also some aliens and/or spirits.

    19. The devil introduced a strict dictatorship, where altruistic actions were punishable by death.

    20. In other words, the devil had power of death, (He. 2:14-15) “that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” It is about these angels which the devil forced to serve him under the fear of death.

    21. Christ died and resurrected with the purpose that these angels switched to His side and this way He defeated in the war on the heaven.

    22. Christ died being punished by the devil for altruism. He resurrected to show that even when it seems that altruism leads to death, God will reward it (like as Christ was rewarded by resurrection and authority over the entire heaven and entire Earth). This is for the heavenly creatures to cease to fear the devil and switch to the side of God. This needed that God himself died to prove it even for the highest degree of altruism.

    23. Sin is a problem which should be solved. It is needed to create such a computer which can manage this problem, that is not to hang under attack. The solution of this problem is called holiness. One needs to pass through temptations that is to solve this problem. It appeared that holiness not only overcomes sin but raises mind on a new level, so that saints become more smart than angels when the victory over sin finished.

    24. (Heb. 2:5-8) “For he didn’t subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels. But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor. You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.”

    25. The new mind is the peace of God. When parts of our brain are in peace with each other, it is above every mind: (Phil. 4:7) “the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding.” This means that one who is in peace with himself is more smart than everybody else.

    26. Because saints become smarter than angels, they will receive the future world. The task of the saints is to support peace between angels. See my book “New Testament Commentary by a Mathematician”.

    27. We already solve some kinds of problems better than angles, however that is not yet shown clearly.

    28. Originally people were created to work the ground. In other words, people are agricultural robots.

    29. Originally people served to an owner that is some creature named Baal. (Baal is “owner” in Hebrew language.)

    30. Later the creator of people, God, purchased people back from Baal, to make people no more robots for work the ground, but his children.

    31. However I suppose that from the beginning the man was created not to work the ground but to check how the sin acts and how to overcome it, at the example of the task of working the ground. This could explain why the man was not isolated from the tree of knowledge of good and bad. It was necessary that the man would be infected by the sin, to research on the example of the man the means of fighting against sin.

    32. Thanks to that people were on the very forefont of struggling with the sin, namely sanctified people rather than angles will receive the reward.

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  • A seeming error in the Gospel

    (1Cor 15:51-52) “51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.”

    From this verse it looks like that Paul claims that he will not be among dead when “we will be changed” events happen. We know that it is not true.

    But claiming “we will be changed” does not imply “we will be not dead”. It can be understood as “we, both alive and dead, will be changed”.

    So there is no error here.

    The God’s word expressed through Paul is errorless, despite of that Paul seemingly meant something erroneous.

  • Godhead of Christ

    1. In this sermon I will speak about godhead of Christ.

    2. Godhead of Christ is an important issue. Without faith in godhead of Christ repentance does not work.

    3. Before conversion to Christ I was crazy: I saw hallucinations (such as dragons which took me into the jaws and chewed; the pain was real), forgot my name, unlearned to read and count. Also I was a real maniacal killer, that is attacked people with a knife.

    4. I knew that a maniacal killer cannot be saved. Many times I attempted to repent but remained a psycho (and a maniac). I realized that I have some heresy but didn’t know which exactly, because only a heresy may prevent repentance to work.

    5. Once I recognized Holy Trinity and that day repented for real. Since that I remember my name, can read and count again, and I am no more a maniac. That is the repentance after believing in Holy Trinity was real.

    6. Why for salvation one needs to believe in godhead of Christ? We should believe that it’s like to God himself died. He died being punished by the devil for altruism. He resurrected to show that even when it looks like that altruism leads to death God will reward for it. This is for heavenly creatures ceased to be afraid of the devil and switched to the side of God. For this it’s necessary that God himself would die, to prove it even for the highest degree of altruism.

    7. Therefore we should believe that God himself died for us to receive the salvation, and thus that Christ represents God.

    8. So, I told that to believe in godhead of Christ is very important. Now we turn to analysis of what this “godhead” does mean.

    9. Generally I don’t much like the word “trinity”. This is not quite a biblical concept. Bible teaches that Christ is so to say “divine” and considers him particular relations with the Father. Yes, I believe in trinity, but the term “trinity” is not biblical.

    10. Maybe the only passage in Bible where the word “three” is applied to God, is three angels in Old Testament (Genesis chapter 18). In some reason most interpreters of Bible say that only one of the three was Yahweh himself. I don’t understand why. I count that most probably every of the three angles represented persons of God. I won’t speak now about Genesis 18 in details, because I didn’t myself studied this topic thoroughly.

    11. Further I will when possible speak about godhead of Christ, not about so called “trinity”.

    12. At first, let us try to approach this issue with logic:

    13. Godhead of Christ denotes that to every property of God it corresponds a certain property of Christ. I don’t know what exactly should be this correspondence, but it’s clear that it preserves divine essence. For example, every deed of the Father is done through the Son and reversely everything what is done through he Son is a deed of Father. It is impossible to separate the Father and the Son, they are always together.

    14. It’s customary to compare trinity of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with body, soul, and spirit of a human and with three phases of water: ice, liquid water, and vapor. These are bad analogies. This is all nonsense and even heresy: It’s impossible to separate Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But to separate the spirit from the body is possible (it happens when a man dies) and it’s possible to separate ice from water. Don’t use these two analogies, they lead only to heresies. Here is a quote from Wikipedia: “The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are not names for different parts of God, but one name for God because three persons exist in God as one entity. They cannot be separate from one another. Each person is understood as having the identical essence or nature, not merely similar natures.” Water and ice have similar natures, not one identical nature as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It’s got three gods, not one God. Surely Wikipedia isn’t a spiritual authority, but this saying is correct.
    15. Likewise it’s a garbage comparing God with a psycho with three persons. These persons are separate from each other but God is united.
    16. I can show a more exact analogy for trinity. It is light. Light has properties of electricity, magnetism, and a stream of photons. And these three (electricity, magnetism, and photons) are impossible to separate from each other. They are different forms of existence of each other. Every of them is expressed through another. So quantum mechanics teaches.
    17. That God consists of three parts: the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit, which together compose God, is a heresy. Father is entire God, not a part of God. Likewise Son is entire God, not a part of God. Likewise with Holy Spirit.
    18. Bible teaches that Christ is some abstract concepts related to God: wisdom of God, word of God, truth, etc.
    19. God is usually compared with a human, because human is created in God’s image, after His likeness. I think, God can be compared also with humankind or more generally with a civilization.
    20. After comparing God with a civilization, trinity no more looks like a contradiction. This is like as three highest authorities of a civilization which act in concert with each other. Let you agree: now it no more looks like a contradiction. In general, it seems that we can judge about God only by analogies. Civilization looks like a very good analogy for God.
    21. God is similar to a highly developed civilization, but He is untied, personal, eternal, and infinite.
    22. First, Christ is light that is electromagnetic energy, speaking in modern terms. This is a biblical concept: “Jesus spoke to them, saying, “… I am the light of the world.”” (Jn. 8:12) and “I have come as a light into the world…” (Jn. 12:46)
    23. From that Christ is electromagnetic waves of the universe, it follows that the universe is infinite, because Christ is infinite. So, the universe is greater that its visible part (about which it’s known that it’s finite).
    24. Christ is also called logos (word) in Bible, because he is word (in the form of electromagnetic waves) of God.
    25. God laid out all his wisdom in his word. Therefore Christ (logos) is also the wisdom of God: (1Cor. 1:24) “… Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.”
    26. The world was created through Christ that is through word and wisdom of God: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.” (Jn. 1:1-3) and “… who created all things through Jesus Christ.” (Eph. 3:9)
    27. Moreover, Christ is the truth, that is he (being the word and the wisdom of God) contains all true propositions (and surely nothing false): (Jn. 14:6) “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.””
    28. Moreover, Christ is a peace that is a peace treaty: (Eph. 2:14) “For he is our peace”. Simply spoken, Christ is the intergalactic peace treaty and also the peace with God. Only these who enter into the peace will be saved. These who are in Christ must be in peace with each other.
    29. Peace is something very great, as there is no simple mean to prevent a war. Means to prevent a war are something very great. Christ is the means (on the heaven) to prevent a war. To prevent a war, something as great as Christ is necessary. So we can say that Christ is prevention of war or missing war.
    30. This produces a paradoxical conclusion: such seemingly a little thing as missing war should be as great as Christ.
    31. This could be compared with reading a newspaper caption “The peace is established, there is no war anymore”. This could be an amazing caption.
    32. Peace and wisdom are interrelated: Wisdom is internal peace. When neurones in our brain is peace with each other, our brain would be more smart that any brain! Peace of God “surpasses” (that is is more smart than) of any mind (“surpasses all understanding”).
    33. (Phil. 4:7) “And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.”
    34. If God is a civilization, then Holy Spirit is its technology.
    35. Suppose someone wants to do something with an object inside a closed vessel. For us it would be very difficult to do so, but a higher civilization would be able to move individual atoms inside the vessel. The force of their technology would enter inside and move individual atoms. Doing so, the subject would be like a gas.
    36. The technology of God is called “Holy Spirit” (the word “spirit” may mean a gas). It is a force which can enter a human body and move individual atoms, with such purposes as to heal some sickness.
    37. Every part of God’s will is accomplished by a move of Holy Spirit. So, Holy Spirit is completely God.
    38. The job of Holy Spirit is salvation, that is repairing of things, especially things which are inside a closed vessel which cannot be opened. This is because everything is done by God and the only things which need a repair are broken things. The things which are not in closed vessels can be repaired by other entities without direct help of God.
    39. When a son grows up, he becomes similar to his father. This is the definition of the word “son”.
    40. Christ is a Son of God. This mean that he goes to the Father. That is he is becoming the same as the Father.
    41. Although, Christ does no move. He is live a river which both moves and does not move. Likewise Christ goes to his Father, but Christ is not moving. Christ does not change (see Heb. 1:10-12)

    42. Christ is also called “the son of man” in the Gospel. This means that Christ is the final result of development of the mankind.

    43. This is a very good news, because this means that the development of the mankind will never cease but will continue without limits, reaching infinite Christ as the end result.

    44. Jesus is the end result of development of the mankind. In other words, Jesus is just a guest from infinite far future.

    45. “… Christ Jesus our hope” (1Tim. 1:1)

    46. I would translate this verse instead as “… Christ Jesus our dream.”

    47. What is a dream? It is the best we can imagine. So Christ Jesus is the best that we can imagine.

    48. This splits into two statements:

    49. 1. Christ is good and nothing we can imagine can be better than Him.

    50. 2. Our common (cooperative) dream is so good that it reaches Christ. Note that we reach Christ only together.

    51. Accordingly Jn. 14:28 God the Father is even greater than Christ. Christ is peace, but God is love. Love is greater than peace.

    52. (1Cor. 1:30) “But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us … righteousness.”

    53. What does it mean? It means that to be our righteousness one needs to be as great as Christ (to represent us righteous despite of our sins is so difficult that for this all power of Christ is needed). But this means also that the sacrifice of Christ is enough for God to consider us as righteous persons. That is Christ is exactly what is needed to make us righteous.

    54. Jn. 4:11 can be translated as “I live by the Father and Father lives by me.” The Father is like to gray matter of a brain and the Son to white matter. That is the Son is the mean of communication between the Father with himself. White matter can live only with gray one, and vice versa.
    55. For more detailed consideration of this topic read my book “Commentary on New Testament by a Mathematician”. One thing to read in my book, is how Christ, being divine, may not know the date of his own second come.

  • Endurance for the business

    I am poorly motivated. I need yet to earn money to support my nonprofit activity. But I do not want to do business for profit only. At times it seems that I do useless stuff. This makes me a little despair and to work less than I could.

    But Bible says (Hebrews 10:36) “For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.” For me it means that I need to endure doing for-profit business to patiently earn enough to support my nonprofit effort which I like to do.

  • One more reason to do scientific research

    Matthew 25:

    33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.   34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;   35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.   36 I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’
    37  “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?   38 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?   39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’
    40  “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’   41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;   42 for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;   43 I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’
    44  “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’
    45  “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’   46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

    I am a volunteer who does mathematical research.

    Previously I thought I do it just for fun. I assumed that the mankind will be wiped out by a comet as described in Apocalypse, but now I understand: I need to do my best to help the people. The best thing I can do is to advance my scientific research. So I should do it. I thought that there is no reason to help people as it is not spiritual but useless matter. Now I’ve realized Christ wants me to help people, because helping poor is to help Christ himself. So I should serve by my scientific research.

  • Bible interpretation

    1. Now many people call themselves theologians. If somebody calls himself so, this is rather a signal that he interprets Bible in a wrong way.
    2. The matter is that theologians do research of what people, through which God wrote the Bible, meant. They say that Bible should be interpreted in context of culture of the ancient Israel. They call it with abstruse words like “exegetics” and “hermeneutics”.
    3. Certainly I do not state that we don’t need to know or take into account the ancient Israel culture when we interpret Bible. The knowledge cannot be excessive. We need to take the culture into account to understand better what God meant. For example, we could not understand Bible at all without lexicons, and lexicons contain the culture of ancient people. So culture must be studied.
    4. But if we interpret Bible in conformance with understanding these people which wrote it, we get absurd conclusions. For example, (Is. 40:22) “… over the circle of the Earth”. We know that Earth is globular and thus this should be understood as “over the globe of the Earth”. But if we would follow the principles which theologians follow, then this should be understood conforming to the culture and understanding of these people by whom and for whom it was written. The conclusion from the “theological” interpretation is definite: Earth is flat. But if the conclusion is absurd, then the principles which it was concluded from are wrong. So we should not interpret Bible accordingly conforming to the culture of ancient Israel. We should interpret first in the direct sense.
    5. Jesus says about the modern theologians (Mr. 7:9) “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition”. Jesus here refers to the traditions of ancient Israel, by which the theologians replaced the word of God.
    6. So, all of this is invented with the purpose to hide their unbelief that Bible is literal, precise word of God.
    7. I tell the following motto: There are two Bibles: the word of people and word of God. The text is the same but the meanings are different. More often than nothing utterances of Bible look like some pathos utterances. Abstract yourself from the pathos and in interpret literally as written. This is that God deliberately hid hidden sense after pathos phrases, so that the meaning would be uncovered in its due time. Human sense of Bible is thoughts of ancient, comparatively non-educated, often mistaking and sometimes stupid people; it is ancient history not actual today. The word of God is errorless, perfect revelation.
    8. (Gal. 3:16) “Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “To seeds”, as of many, but as of one, “To your seed”, which is Christ.” Shall we interpret the God’s word to Abraham as about one man or about the nation?Paul (being directed by Holy Spirit, writing down errorless God breathed in the Gospel) says that this is about one that is about Christ. Paul just rudely breaks the rules of theologians, such as following the culture of these who receive the word and as interpretation in context. Modern theologians would not accept that Paul is a real theologian.
    9. As a general rule, the word “theology” is usually used to insult and humiliate these who interpret Bible in another way. For example, Baptists say that interpretation of Pentecostals is not a theology.
    10. The principle is very simple: Think about what God meant not what people meant and about how ancients understood this. (However, think about this, too.)
    11. People often are wondering, which of several translations of some Bible fragment is correct? The correct answer is that usually there are multiple meanings. God “packs” in one phrase several senses at once not one one. Consider the words of Jesus “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” In the Greek original this may mean both that the repented criminal will be in Paradise today and that Jesus tells it to him today (and in the Paradise he will be only after resurrection of the dead). Which translation is correct? Both! An important question: Do we accept different meanings of God’s word or choose for ourselves translations accordingly our unbelief rejecting these variants which don’t please us?
    12. The story of a rich man and Lazarus is often called a proverb. This is untrue. Bible does not tell that this story is a proverb. So we must accept that this is a documentary story not a proverb.

    13. Everything, everything witnesses about Jesus Christ: (Jn. 5:39) “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.” If we don’t see Christ in some verse of the Bible, then we do not yet understand this verse.

    14. There are also false teachings that King Jacob Version and/or Russian Synodal Translation are God-breathed translations. This is nonsense, they are full of mistakes. God-breathed are only the Hebrew and Greek originals.

    15. Mysteries of Bible are uncovered only when we uncover the original.
    16. Previously studying the Bible I extracted for myself a prophecy about myself that I must become a missionary in Tanzania, live there and preach in a tent. The details of that prophecy (which I don’t want tell about now) didn’t fulfill and I was forced to confess an error. That time I interpreted Bible accordingly a false principle: If a word of God is similar to our idea explaining its sense, then our idea is a correct understanding (in reality not always correct). Now I understand that it’s not enough to have similarity of our interpretation and a fragment of Bible. It is necessary that Bible directly says something.
    17. I was drawn to this misconception on the basis of the teaching that Bible is word of God for every reader. So, accordingly as I through, God will make our understanding correct, if we attentively and without rude errors (such as confusing the male and the female word groups) learn the scripture, because it is a word for me.
    18. Yet one false teaching is that Bible is easy for understanding. This is not such. Moreover the revelation of Bible develops gradually (This is called “progressive revelation”.) For example, it is impossible to well understand Old Testament not knowing the Gospel. And even now it’s not everything unveiled. Consider (Mt. 24:24) “For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.” It seems tome that the devil does not know whether he can lead astray the chosen ones, whether we can lose salvation. And to myself it is not yet revealed.
    19. Consider a seeming contradiction in Bible: Act. 9:7 says that the companions of Saul heard the voice but saw none, but Act. 22:9 reversely that they saw but not heard. The solution Is easy: Act. 22:9 is a direct speech, a quote from human’s words. Paul mistook. It was not said that he was filled with Holy Spirit, and thus he may err. But off course the words of Jesus are always errorless.

    20. The entire Bible has spiritual (figurative) sense. I have already said that every verse of Bible witnesses about Christ. Thus the most of Bible has at least double sense. And it may be threefold and fourfold. Another indication that the Old Testament has spiritual sense: (1Cor 9:9) “For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares?” It’s absolutely clear that speaking about the oxen, God means something spiritual.

    21. In the eight chapter of the Apocalypse a comet falls from the heaven. In the past somebody has said that a mountain cannot fall from the heaven and thus it is a spiritual sense. Now however we know that this is direct sense, a real comet or asteroid. By the way, read about this in my book.
    22. But if we start to make alternative translations of the Bible, what is the criterion what to count a true translation and what a linguistic nonsense, when we dive deep into the spiritual meaning? I am only beginning to understand this and will tell my opinion about this, about which I don’t warrant that it’s true. (1Cor. 2:7-9) “But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” The words “an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear” signify abstract concepts such as love, meetings, canceling, complement, etc. They were not seen by an eye and not heard by an ear. (Can you see the love?) and further the verse 13: “Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.” In my opinion to compare spiritual things with spiritual things means that we have reached the most deep spiritual sense of some Bible fragment, only if all words of this fragment mean for us some abstract concepts (“spiritual”).
    23. Until we reach the most deep interpretation, all other interpretations are half measures.
    24. Now knowing the principles of spiritual interpretation of the Bible, the next step is to start research Old Testament without vowels (because vowels were added in middle ages and were missing in the original of the Old Testament). Vowels only limit the number of possible variants of translations. The more variants of translation, the more revelations. If you want seriously study Bible, go to the site withoutvowels.com (without-vowels-dot-com) and study Bible together.
    25. Don’t follow every example in Bible. For example, you should not follow the biblical example of Cain (Jud. 1:11) “Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.”
    26. What I told, is all theory. It is important. But in practice the mysteries of Bible are uncovered only by Holy Spirit. To interpret Bible you need faith and faith is a gift of God. See also (Lk. 24:45) “Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.”

    27. In this sermon I gave few particular examples how to interpret Bible. I offer you to read my book “New Testament Commentary by a Mathematician”. There there are many examples of Bible interpretation. You can study based on these examples and begin interpret Bible yourself. Take into account that I am a man too and my interpretation may sometimes be wrong.