Hnovilla
07-09-2003, 10:36 AM
His NAME is Jesus!
I have read many posts that would 'spiritualize' the scriptures, and many others which would keep the scriptures in the natural realm; as a history book, so to speak. I will maintain that the spiritual realm and the natural realm run parallel, and will not contradict one another. God is SPIRIT, and it pleased him to reveal himself in the natural realm. It also pleased Him that natural man be brought to a spiritual level. Thus these thoughts.
"And God said, 'Let the waters under the heavens be gathered unto one place,and let the dry appear'...the earth brought forth grass , the herb yielding seed, the fruit trees yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, AFTER ITS KIND..."
This Law commands that everything bring forth after its own kind, and in the 'natural' realm we see the obedience. Everything is according to genus and species. Even man has 'seed in himself'.
I say this to bring out the fact that man and angels are NOT of the same genus or species. Even if angels could reproduce, as some in this forum erroneously teach, we are not of the same 'species'. Note that the the Law of Reproducing is in the NATURAL realm. This is because of our temporal existence. In the resurrection, "...they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels..." We are to be eternal, therefore not needing to reproduce. If the angels have no need to reproduce because they are eternal, it is because they have not been so endowed. Else, they would have reproduced to replace the third that rebelled against the Lord.
Beloved, it is easy and quite natural, to judge the things that belong in the spiritual realm by the natural order of things.
In the spiritual realm, there is one major difference. Things are begotten by the spoken word. Lucifer saw how God just spoke things into existence. Of course, Lucifer could not. But he found he could change the order of things by speaking! So he spoke to the woman, "So, God has said..." He planted doubt, and sewed unbelief. What? Does not man do the same thing today?
Do God-fearing parents not plant faith in their children; and abusive parent beget abusive children/adults? Has not even man recognized this and calls it a 'cycle'?
Notice, also, that the Law was given to the "...waters that were under the heavens..."
So in the natural realm, we are to plant and sew WITH our bodies
(reprpduction); in the spiritual, we are to reproduce with our words. You got the idea. As the prophet said, "...take the vision and run with it."
Brother Villa
I have read many posts that would 'spiritualize' the scriptures, and many others which would keep the scriptures in the natural realm; as a history book, so to speak. I will maintain that the spiritual realm and the natural realm run parallel, and will not contradict one another. God is SPIRIT, and it pleased him to reveal himself in the natural realm. It also pleased Him that natural man be brought to a spiritual level. Thus these thoughts.
"And God said, 'Let the waters under the heavens be gathered unto one place,and let the dry appear'...the earth brought forth grass , the herb yielding seed, the fruit trees yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, AFTER ITS KIND..."
This Law commands that everything bring forth after its own kind, and in the 'natural' realm we see the obedience. Everything is according to genus and species. Even man has 'seed in himself'.
I say this to bring out the fact that man and angels are NOT of the same genus or species. Even if angels could reproduce, as some in this forum erroneously teach, we are not of the same 'species'. Note that the the Law of Reproducing is in the NATURAL realm. This is because of our temporal existence. In the resurrection, "...they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels..." We are to be eternal, therefore not needing to reproduce. If the angels have no need to reproduce because they are eternal, it is because they have not been so endowed. Else, they would have reproduced to replace the third that rebelled against the Lord.
Beloved, it is easy and quite natural, to judge the things that belong in the spiritual realm by the natural order of things.
In the spiritual realm, there is one major difference. Things are begotten by the spoken word. Lucifer saw how God just spoke things into existence. Of course, Lucifer could not. But he found he could change the order of things by speaking! So he spoke to the woman, "So, God has said..." He planted doubt, and sewed unbelief. What? Does not man do the same thing today?
Do God-fearing parents not plant faith in their children; and abusive parent beget abusive children/adults? Has not even man recognized this and calls it a 'cycle'?
Notice, also, that the Law was given to the "...waters that were under the heavens..."
So in the natural realm, we are to plant and sew WITH our bodies
(reprpduction); in the spiritual, we are to reproduce with our words. You got the idea. As the prophet said, "...take the vision and run with it."
Brother Villa