(Rom 2:12) “For there is no respect of persons with God.”
There is no concept of reputation in the life with God.
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(Rom 2:12) “For there is no respect of persons with God.”
There is no concept of reputation in the life with God.
(Mat. 5:25-26) “25 Agree with your adversary quickly, whiles you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. 26 Truly I say to you, You shall by no means come out there, till you have paid the uttermost farthing.”
(Luk. 12:57-59) “57 Yes, and why even of yourselves judge you not what is right? 58 When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, as you are in the way, give diligence that you may be delivered from him; lest he hale you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison. 59 I tell you, you shall not depart there, till you have paid the very last mite.”
This means that you should judge even of yourselves you not what is right, that is claim to a court on yourself that you did a wrong. Otherwise God will punish you much more harshly than a court.
One of the reasons why the world economy is slowly but quite confidently moving towards a catastrophe, the following two philosophical concepts that occupy most of the people together (except for the last idiots who have no philosophy at all):
Each of these two concepts leads to a catastrophe, but each in its own way:
Moreover, both concepts contradict the facts:
If a person is confused in the contradictions of science, his personal experience, and religious revelations, this can lead to even greater problems than each of these concepts separately, such as: apathy from not understanding what needs to be done, harsh, fanatical actions, despair, absurdities such as “rejection of death”, and sometimes suicide.
I offer a way out, a philosophical concept that better explains the world and, as far as I know, does not create such problems: the soul exists, but the soul is nothing but a backup copy (in the “computer” sense) of the brain or electromagnetic radiation of the brain that continues to exist in the universe.
This makes our material and spiritual life much more understandable: We can compare ourselves with what we know well, ordinary computers.
Nobody stops taking care of his computer just because he has a backup, because we know that the computer itself and its restoration from a backup copy are worth something. And we can not despair that in three years the computer will surely break and we will lose all our files, which would make all our work useless.
Similarly, if we accept this philosophical concept, we will neither neglect our health nor be depressed by the fear of death or dementia. We understand that nothing on Earth can truly harm us: we have a backup in the sky. Even if our thoughts and feelings deteriorate, we will be restored to heaven.
And, in my opinion, this new philosophical concept is in good agreement with the Bible. We are waiting for the resurrection of the dead – restoring from a backup with a new brain that will work without bugs, like a good computer.
If you do not promote this concept, the global economy will inevitably face a catastrophe. Like this post. Promote it.
Can a hardship deprive us of salvation? (Rom. 8:35-39) “35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Suppose that a fall caused by hardships can deprive us of salvation. In this case a hit by head could deprive us of salvation even more.
I think, soul is a backup copy of the brain, just like as for our computers. Then a hit by head cannot damage the soul. If even hit by head cannot damage our position in the heaven, how less could loss of job, debts, etc. How less could becoming a homosexual because of hormonal damage?
So, now I think the reverse: A fall caused by hardships advances our position on the heaven. It is because of (Ps. 103:6) “The Lord makes righteousness and judgment to all who are offended,” (Psalm 146:7) “makes the judgment to the offended, giving bread to the hungry. The Lord permits the prisoners.” See here about how my offence caused me good.
One more question: Can a human lose his faith in Christ due to hit by head? If he loses, will he anyway go the heaven? Or will he be considered dead since the time of the hit and go to the heaven that time leaving a “zombie” on the Earth?
St. Paul considered himself dead. I also consider myself as a half-zombie, because my “spiritual” state was much better before the hits. I remind that Paul was also beaten by the head, no wonder he considered himself dead.
(Rom. 6:11) “Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
I think, God saves us sinners not for our sake but for the sake of the process of salvation itself.
Christ in us is a dream (“hope” in most Bible translations) of glory (Col. 1:27). Christ lives in us as “something” and this something, it is nothing but a dream of glory. So the meaning of life in achieving glory, that is, hype on the heavenly Internet. Heavenly Internet is called Christ. Christ is the light of the world (John 8:12; 9:5; 12:46), that is, the electromagnetic radiation of the universe. Thus, all the electromagnetic radiation of the universe is a carrier of information, the cosmic Internet. But the glory of God is almost the same as Christ. Christ is mathematics: (John 1:1-3) “1 In the beginning was mathematics, and mathematics was with God, and mathematics was God. 2 It was in the beginning with God. 3 All through it began to be, and without it nothing began to be, that began to be.” That is, we are talking about the dream of mathematics, the dream of studying and realizing it. Christ is the most important thing in us, which means that this is the main purpose of life. We will endlessly travel like electromagnetic waves on the Internet space, looking for hype, that is tough mathematics.
So, the most important thing in us is the dream of fame.
(Rom. 8:24-25) “24 For we are saved in hope. Hope, when he sees, is not hope; for if anyone sees, then what shall he hope for? 25 But when we hope for that which we do not see, then we wait in patience.”
“We are saved in hope” means that our salvation consists of a dream just as a table can consist of wood. That is, our dreams will go to heaven. But I’m not about this now. When a person with a dream of glory already sees glory, this is no longer a dream, and therefore it is not Christ in us. Christ in us is only a dream of glory that is not yet visible.
So, our task is to give an opportunity to become famous, to those who dream but still do not see an opportunity to become famous.
For example, I have (among other things) the following three topics for PR (really cool news, by the way) for which I collect money:
But I have no money at the moment to make these press releases.
I write about this well I understand that most of you do not care before Christ in me or in someone else. But you should care, you have to fulfill the dream of glory.
(Jud. 1) 2 Mercy to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints. 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
“Common” in verse 3 can be literally translated “shared by all”. Does this mean that everybody will be saved?
What is to be saved, isn’t it preservation of the information in the brain forever? See this sermon for more details. Not knowing how to apply Bible, I will use science: Quantum mechanics teaches (among other) that no information in the universe is ever lost, that is having enough powerful measurement instruments and enough powerful computer one could be always able to reconstruct what was in the past from the future. If nothing is ever lost, then no information from our brain is lost. Does this science mean that everybody is saved?
Not quite. To be saved seems to mean not only not to be lost but to remain alive. The information lived in our brains needs to be preserved alive (continue the live).
The salvation is multiplication of mercy, peace, and love (verse 2). We need (verse 3) to be exhorted about low quality salvation. One may preserve life but live in eternal fire (verse 7).
So what being born again, born from above, and be saved really mean? I confess I don’t really know what it means. I just remind that you can be truly saved only by faith in Jesus Christ.
Suppose you are a Christian. Suppose you are put in a situation when to save the world from a nuclear war and complete destruction of the mankind you need to lie. Should you say truth or lie?
I will repeat my earlier blog post:
Why God denounces lie? I think one of the reasons is the following:
If we play chess, we can easily move the pieces not by rules to win, but we don’t do this.
In the same way, honesty sometimes makes our task (and the task of God himself) more difficult, for greater glory of God that is more interesting party, and thus greater reward.
But if a nuclear war happens then the game on the Earth ends. If the game ends, honesty does not make any sense anymore in the framework of the game.
Well, it would make sense to keep honest even in this situation for the sake of the heavens, but do we know what honesty really means in the framework of heavenly concepts enough good to try to be honest in heavenly meaning?
So does it make sense to be honest in the situation of nuclear war? Now I think, no, no reason to be honest in this situation.
Bible says to have love. But “love” can also be translated from Greek as “charity” that is NGO (non-governmental organization) in modern language.
Isn’t the author of this blog post too radical? Isn’t love something great and NGO just a common thing?
Not quite so. It may be a very hard task to register an NGO following all rules and procedures without a formal violation of a law.
For example, the author faced the following problem: He wanted to do good but didn’t well understand how to do good. For example, he wanted to get profit to register an NGO, then he would like to get money from the project to register another NGO to do more good, etc. Needless to say, I was unable to invent how to fill the official documents on this topic. It turned be as hard as to fulfill the Gospel.
If you don’t have an NGO, your life is useless. Dot. (I don’t mean that the project necessary needs to be officially registered.) So says Bible:
(1Cor. 13) 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing.
It was nearly about me: I prayed tongues, had the gift of prophecy, understood many mysteries and am a great mathematician, I had great faith, following the letter of Bible especially thoroughly and fanatically, and produced real wonders. I did math research to profit people in a trillion dollars. I was not burned, but suffered hunger, beating, etc.
It “profited me nothing”: I was unable to do neither commerce nor charity. Having no good opportunities of a job, I almost died from hunger.
Later God taught me something (read my blog and books) and now I have NGOs (not yet officially registered though).
Want to start working for a charity? For a start consider this list of projects. It was very hard for me because of being a religious fanatic. But for you it can be much easier, just take today the decision to start work or donate for a nonprofit project today.
(1Cor. 13:13) “And now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
(1Cor. 14:1) “Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts…”
(1Cor. 16:14) “Let all your things be done with charity.”
(Gal. 5:13) “For, brothers, you have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”
(Col. 3:14) “And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfection.”
(1Th. 3:12) “And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you”
(1Pet. 4:8) “And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves…”
(1Jn. 4:7) “… for love is of God…”
By the way God is an NGO (1Jn. 4:16).
So the brothers and everyone else betrayed me.
Like Joseph from the Bible, it did more good than harm. My torment and offences led to the fact that (after torment, hunger, offences, blows by a frying pan to my head, huge losses for me and for many others) I corrected an important theological mistake (and this is much better than becoming a prime minister), because I was forced to a narrow path, being driven by other people to extremes.
So the people have fulfilled God’s will.
And, weidly enough, they did it on purpose so that I could correct the error, and not just like stupid puppets. There is nothing to blame them for: by large, they acted correctly and wisely.
Some of the arguments of the “clergy” (for example, Bishop Eduard Grabovenko) are understandable: they wanted God to experience the young minister by suffering. But to implement this “plan” there is only one way: to offend, betray, commit violations of the laws, stand in the battle on the same side as Satan. If we reformulate the arguments of the “churchmen”, what it is: the one who has more money (the “senior minister”) should cause damage to the one who has less money (the “junior minister”). Where this “principle” comes from is well understood – these are the principles of the US Republican Party (do not think that I am for the Democratic Party). It became a church doctrine, because many preachers are American Republicans.
Speaking of Republicans: I think their main principle is that if a person is poor, then he deserved it, it means that the rich should humiliate the poor so that they become even poorer. (At the place of Donald Trump, I would adopt an official resolution “we don’t anymore follow this principle, convicted in following this principle will be excluded from the party”.)
If someone has at least some intelligence, after reading this my sermon, he will never do that again. You did this to correct my mistake – a good deed, but a mistake can be fixed only once. That is why I called this sermon the “principle of the second time”. It is all the same, as if Joseph’s brothers, having learned that they had “made” him prime minister, would again betray their comrades saying “such is God’s will.” In other words, you will no longer pass the junior minister to the devil in order to “test” him: the test has already been passed and the error has already been corrected. Moreover, the younger brother can become a blogger and declare your sin to the whole world.
By the way, why did God have the clergy establish their “control” over all? It’s like a stretched thread, which, if overdone, breaks completely and will not be stretched anymore. So I came out completely out of control: why stay under control, if control prevents you from doing something useful. It is reasonable to come out of control. The control was established by God in order for me to go out from under it.
And what would I do in the place of Bishop Edward? I would leave the post if necessary (or maybe I would not leave), because anyway, someone else could take this post and join me. One of the reasons: God intercedes for the offended, and he seriously offended me in the past. Better not go against God. Has not God exalted you for this day?
And how exactly did Edward do his deed? After the blows with a frying pan, I can’t remember exactly (maybe specifically so that Edward could not be judged by an ordinary criminal court), but as I remember, he violated the signed contract by which I could preach in a certain church building, and using physical force forced me out of this building, as a result of which I lost my salary and almost died of starvation. Or was it not? Can’t remember exactly. Maybe he did it somehow differently, but the insult took place.