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  • Why I am not yet very rich

    I am not yet very rich. I don’t starve, I have a fast computer with many thousands of programs connected to Internet. We rent a not so small apartment. I have no car but I am not going to learn driving even if I get rich. And I have much more free time than most working people do.

    God promised to make us rich. Why I am not rich yet?

    Now I understand that if I got money earlier, I would not be able to use it for good. I would use it to promote my self-contradictory philosophy and theology, which put me in starving state in the past. I would promote learning Old Testament for my money, but now I realize we need to come holy to this book of God, not just throw resources at it.

    In short, my purposes were wrong and so I would put money into a wrong use. Why God would give me money?

    Now I have a wonder that one man offered me half of his starting business for virtually nothing. Now God is blessing me. Thanks God for making me rich, so that I can get more free time for volunteer work.

  • Idols are nothing in the world

    Continuing this post:

    (1Cor. 8:4) “Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.”

    I think this mean that an idol may have effect in spiritual realities, but this has no practical effect on this world. Idols can rumble with supposed “wonders” they produce, but have no practical effect on our lifes (unless we submit ourselves to serve them and receive a harm).

  • God and gods (idols)

    The below is my opinion, it may be wrong.

    What is a “god” of something? It is the spiritual entity which controls such thing.

    (Psalms 96:5; I Chronicles 16:26) “For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
    but Yahweh made the heavens.”

    An idol is a specifically crafted thing in order to represent a force of spiritual world. An idol is a mean to control spiritual world: It concentrates spiritual forces on a certain topic. If an idol is broken, the spiritual force dissipates.

    So gods of people, they are idols, that is they live only as long as the idol is set up and not broken.

    God of Israel is an exception. He is not controlled by an idol. But He is Yahweh himself, one who created the heavens long before the first idol appeared. He cannot die. For example, losing his ark does not cause Him to dissipate, because He is deathless.

  • What is “strange fire” before the Lord?

    (Lev. 10:1-2) “1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them. 2 Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.”

    What is the “strange fire”? I think one of the interpretations of this are “motivational speech” in the church. God does not want our ministry to the Lord be motivated by anything that the fire from Holy Spirit. Motivating it by something other leads to spiritual death.

  • Theology is broken

    Theological “science” system is broken. It is impossible to publish a Bible-based revelation.

    I tried a little a few years ago to publish my ideas on what Christ is (see my free e-book chapter 5).

    They said it cannot be published among other reasons because it should link to works of other scholars.

    Wait! A revelation is meant to be based on Bible, not on works of other scholars.

    Exact fit of the prophecy of Jesus: (Mark 7:7-8) “But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men…”

    Do not allocate money to support theology PhD programs. Jesus calls this thing “vain”.

  • I heard the voice of the Lord

    Yesterday my business partner from Brazil wrote me he is going to go to a bathroom.

    After some time I felt that I should pray about him for dangers in bathroom. I prayed God to save him from possible dangers in the bathroom, such as electricity short-circuits or falls on the wet floor.

    Soon he wrote me that the tubes in bathroom were broken, all the house was in water and he barely rescued his laptop.

    Yahoo! I hear the voice of the Lord again.

  • Jesus being filled with wisdom

    Some translations (e.g. New American Standard Bible) of Luk. 2:40 say that Jesus was “increased” in wisdom.

    But he is God and already knows everything. How can his wisdom “increase”?

    In my opinion (see my book for more details), Christ limited himself to human senses to perceive the environment. He already knew all mathematics, but he needed to study physics of this region on the universe (as other regions of so called multiverse behave as having different laws of physics).

    (Philippians 2:8) “7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.”

    It means that Jesus researched the world around him and found that now he is in a human body. In the childhood he was busy understanding the laws of physics (which He created) of this part of the world.

  • Existence of evil in this world

    Some Christian teachers (one notable preacher is Kenneth Copeland) teach that the evil exists in this world despite God is good, because God legally delivered the Earth to mankind and has no legal right to control this world without man’s consent and so cannot eliminate the evil.

    Is this teaching right? Honestly, I do not know. We can find arguments in Bible both pro and counter this teaching. We need further analysis.

    However, does this (as of Kenneth Copeland) teaching contradict to my previous blog post? I think, it does not contradict.

    Even if God legally removed Himself from governing the Earth, there must exist a good reason of Him to remove himself. So all arguments of my previous post apply. There must be a good reason for God to remove Himself from governing this world (if He ever removed). So there must be a good reason for seemingly evil.

  • 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.