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Allegory
Since the Bible defines itself as "allegory" in both "covenants", and as "mystery" to solve; I spend time on biblical allegory, and on connecting the biblical dots to solve the biblical mystery. Eg: Galatians 4: what saith the script-u-are? It saith: "cast out the bondwoman and her son". It's allegory for cast out law and result of law: sin and death.
If law is both natural and spiritual, would these phrases describe it?
- natural disaster
- spiritual wickedness
- dung, to be flushed
1 AnswerReligion & Spirituality9 years agoQuestions regarding the human "race"?
If Paul The Apostle notes this: in a human "race"
they/we both "run", but only one of such gets the prize:
- they who run it to obtain corruptible law get the surprise.
- we who run it to obtain incorruptible grace get the prize.
Then why would anyone run it to obtain corruptible law?
Surprise, which law has for it's runners? 1Thessalonian 5:3.
When they shall say "Peace and safety" in 'rule of law', then
sudden destruction comes upon them, and as if by surprise.
What then? They shall not escape the consequential shame.
So why would anyone wanna play this blame game, which
ends up being ouched & numbered with the transgressors?
If first "finished" a "race" = "win", and
second "finished" a race = "place", and if told what
"it is finished" gives place unto is death: James 1:15,
then why do many flock to the 2nd "finished" in John 19:30,
instead of the first "finished" in John 17:4 before the cross?
Doesn't will of God say: "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice"?
Why would anyone take the sacrifice batton and run with it,
if sacrifice is offered by the law: Hebrews 10:8, and
no man is justified by the law: Galatians 3:11,
which included Jesus = division, not peace?
If grace is said to be "much more" abounding
than law, why would any run on the side of law?
Perhaps that's why Paul The Apostle cleverly
turned CJ around to JC in Philippians 3,
to turn a suffering loss into a gainful win.
So why do any still say CJ instead of JC,
especially if the law of CJ is against us
and the grace of JC is with you all?
Doesn't Hebrews 12 say lay aside beseting laws
in order to do the end run the race with patience?
And if the end of the race has no mention of law,
only of grace, why would anyone run the law race?
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoAnyone notice God is not the LORD in Noah's Ark allegory. They're 2 different Commanders?
God says two will do, to keep seed alive.
LORD says clean by 7s, unclean by 2s.
Clever Noah did both:
all God commanded + all the LORD commanded.
But it got Noah into to a hall of shame, not fame.
Eg: He's listed in Hebrews 11, which notes this:
these all died...and...received not the promise,
so God hath provided some better thing for us.
Galatians 1:8 says it this way:
blessed + cursed = accursed
Galatians 5:4 says it this way:
grace + law = fallen from grace,
then Christ is of no effect to you
Jude 1:5 says it this way:
saved + destroyed ends badly
Which things are an allegory,
and also a mystery to solve
4 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhy a life with an expiry date doesn't have peace, but if talk of decease were to cease, then we'd have peace?
Perhaps the 2011 movie clevery called 'In Time' has
a biblical moral to it, contained in this clever movie quote:
'No one should be immortal if even one person has to die.'
~ Justin Timberlake.
It seems to echo many biblical themes in one clever quote.
- eg: Romans 2:11 says there is no partiality with God,
which is a constant biblical theme throughout the Bible.
- eg: the biblical mention of "in time" occurs in Heb 4:16,
which talks of "find grace", and to "obtain mercy"; And if
Romans 2 is applied, said mercy is for all, else not you.
- eg: 2Cor 5:14 clarifies that if even one died for all,
the result is accounted as if "all dead", not all alive.
- eg: Mt 22:32 clarifies he is not the God of the dead,
but is the God of the living, which is to allegory say
he is not Law = all perish, but is Grace = none perish.
So perhaps talk of decease should cease to have peace.
Perhaps crucifixion is not what God will have, if
the will of God is: "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice",
which is to allegory say I will have grace, and not law,
which is to also allegory say I will have life, not death.
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhy does BC have condemnation, but AD no condemnation?
Eg: Romans 4:15
where no law, there no transgression
Eg: Romans 5:13
when no law, then no sin is imputed
Eg: Romans 8:1
there is therefore now no condemnation
not even to CJ folk who think
law makes them free of law;
which is as absurd as thinking
death makes you free of death
Hint: John 3:17
God did not send his Son to condemn
but Jesus condemned: Mt 23:14 & Mt 25:46,
and Christ would not condemn: John 8:11
so BC means Before Christ,
when even Jesus condemned
so Jesus had to go away for comfort to come
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhat do these seven "gnashing of teeth" verses portray?
- Matthew 8:12
- Matthew 13:42
- Matthew 13:50
- Matthew 22:13
- Matthew 24:51
- Matthew 25:30
- Luke 13:28
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhich is correct, of these contradicting things: as in heaven, so in earth -or- as in earth, so in heaven?
Matthew 6 (Luke 11):
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as in heaven.
Matthew 16:19 (18:18)
whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth
shall be loosed in heaven.
Should heaven be like earth,
where law gets loosed
or
should earth be like heaven
where law gets flushed
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhich "converted" is correct, of two mentioned by Jesus?
Matthew 13:15 = epistrepho "converted"
Matthew 18:3 = strepho "converted"
one seems to be child-->man, as if law-->grace
one seems to be child<--man, as if law<--grace
Clarity: Luke 22:32 notes Peter was prayed for
to be epistrepho converted, so he
would strengthen brethren, which
he wasn't doing while strepho,
for when strepho he
dissimulated, so
Paul withstood him
to the face at Antioch
Hint: Genesis 1:26
God said: let us make man (not child).
Hint: Psalms 32:2 (Romans 4:8)
Blessed the man to whom no sin imputed
Hint: Matthew 8:12
Child-ren of the kingdom get cast out
Hint: 1Corinthians 11:3
Christ is the head of every man (not child)
Hint: 1Corinthians 14:20
be not children
Hint: Ephesians 4:14
be no more children
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoIf first finished called win, second finished called place, how does such apply to John 17:4 and John 19:30?
John 17:4 = first "finished" (before the cross)
John 19:30 = 2nd "finished" (at the cross)
Lo, I come to do thy will, O God
But which will of which God?
seems like
- God is one: Grace: will have mercy, and not sacrifice
- one God: Law: will have sacrifice, and not mercy
Come on, people, it is a mystery to solve in time
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhy do <>< swim from right to left?
Are they Hebrew, which is read right to left?
Isn't that kinda back-ward <--BC, especially
if it's now AD--> only goes one way: for-ward?
Could it have something to do with
Jesus<--Christ isn't Jesus-->Christ?
6 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoHow does the God of Jacob differ from the God of Israel?
Matthew 22:27-32;
Mark 12:24-27;
Luke 20:34-38
Hint: one is God of the living,
and one is God of the dead.
Which things are an allegory,
and a mystery to solve in time.
6 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoIs the concept of an angry God kinda like the concept of a flat earth, now so old it's ready to vanish away?
Yet there seems to be some still hell bent on
keeping this angry God: Law: worketh wrath,
even though the Bible says, in 1Thess 5:9,
that "God hath not appointed us to wrath";
which is like saying not appointed us to law,
since law worketh wrath, grace worketh mercy,
and it's been the age of grace for 2000 years
as noted in places like Luke 16:16 which says
the law and the prophets were until John; (but)
since that time the kingdom of God is preached.
So the kingdom of God
is about grace and truth,
not about law and prophets.
And it's also notably global,
not flat earth you can fall off.
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhy don't worst occur in New Testament where even a worse case scenario ends well for you all begins with you?
The word worst doesn't occur in the NT
where plural God provides better for us
so we may compare worse/better of
such old/new time past/last days;
And even when such worse/better
gets reversed to better/worse (new/old) by
them saying "the old is better", by saying
'rule of law', peace and safety in the law,
even a last state worse case scenario
ends well in the end already written
where its only JC grace with you all
and also the you all begins with you
applying what you learned with all
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoIs God at war with science, or science so earthy it can't see God isn't author of confusion, but of peace?
Seems to me God is one has neither any sides to take,
nor does Grace-->Mercy-->Peace have any war to fight.
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
Perhaps: science without religion is lame, and
religion without science is blind. ~Albert Einstein
So perhaps: there's a flaw to both sides of
this war: atheist (science) vs theist (religion).
Perhaps: Peace is the absence of war, and
neither of science (lame) vs religion (blind);
like man is neither of children vs children; So
God said let us make man (not children), and
blessed the man to whom no sin is imputed.
Man-kind, to whom no sin imputed;
What an interesting concept, having
neither ills to cure nor any blindness.
11 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhat sort of changed: transformed is described by phrases "from faith to faith" & "from glory to glory"?
Are two faiths and two glories mentioned
like being changed from the law to grace?
Law: blind faith, no questions, just obedience
Grace: seeing faith, as "born again" is to "see"
Law: was glory them
Grace: is "much more" glory us
Is that why it's 'amazing grace'?
(no song called amazing law)
Is that why a renewing of the mind, also
results in a change, transformation of the heart;
Or is it a change of heart that renews the mind?
1 AnswerReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhy is there two of everything to sort out in the Holy Bible containing Old and New until the end is only one?
- two gardens
- two trees
- two Adams
- two testaments
- two Enochs
- two Antiochs
- two worlds: this world and that world
- two kinds of gospel: one and another
- two kinds of time: time past and last days
- two kinds of faith: from faith to faith
- two kinds of glory: from glory to glory
- two kinds of "converted": epistrepho & strepho
- two kinds of "blessed": Ps 32:1,2 (Rom 4:7,8)
- two kinds of "Lamb": amnos and arnion
etc etc etc
Yet in plural God mode it's worse/better, and
better is not yet best, nor yet true rest; So
there's also what's best to go on unto
by leaving worse/better mode, since
it can reverse to better/worse when
people say the old is better, and
start saying 'rule of law' again
instead of grace and peace
So beyond the plural God mode,
which only provides better things;
beyond both time past and last days;
like the third day now is neither such;
there still seems to be two choices yet:
- God is one: Grace void of law: no mediation
or
- One God: Law void of grace: mediation of law
So, iff Jesus returned, 2nd time as 'arnion' Lamb,
Revelation 1:7 notes the result would be ww "wail",
notably "because of him" also having "greater damnation"
by uncovering sins that didn't get taken away, just covered up.
It kinda sounds like Mt 18's forgiven + unforgiven = tormented,
where Jesus' Father isn't merciful like your Father in Luke 6:36.
So then, two Fathers to sort out, in a Bible containing Old & New.
Go figure.
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoTwo Religions: Vain Religion and Pure Religion: James 1:26,27. Is James allegorically talking Law and Grace?
James 1:26,27
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
It seems Solomon said, about the Law:
It's all vanity and vexation of Spirit x7
It seems the Law
- criminalizes everyone
- is the accuser of the brethren
- is the ministration of condemnation
- eventually the ministration of death
- being the strength of sin's death sting
So law is the root source of sin and death.
Where no law, there [is] no transgression.
When no law, then sin is not even imputed.
Therefore there is now no condemnation.
For Christ is the end of the law.
Grace does not criminalize anyone,
and does not accuse any: John 5:45,
and does not condemn: John 3:17; 8:11,
and does not talk of decease: John 10:10,
and does not impute sin: 2Corinthians 5:19.
Pure Wisdom, from above: James 3:17
Allegorically Grace unto you, and peace,
from God, our Father, and the Lord JC:
- is peaceable
- is gentle
- is easily intreated
- is full of mercy
- is full of good fruit
- is without partiality
- is without hypocrisy
So why do people still say 'rule of law',
instead of Grace unto you, and peace?
4 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhat is God's will that's to be done in earth as in heaven?
I will have mercy, and not sacrifice
- Psalms 40:6
- Psalms 51:16
- Hosea 6:6
- Matthew 9:13
- Matthew 12:7
- Hebrews 10
The Allegory:
I will have grace, and not law.
I will have life, and not death.
Matthew 6
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.
Luke 11
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Luke 22:42
not my will, but thine, be done.
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoHas saying 'rule of law' moved the doomsday clock away from or closer to midnight?
Queen: 'rule of law'
Prime Ministers: 'rule of law'
Vladimar Putin: 'rule of law'
Obama: 'rule of law'
Obama's Clinton: 'rule of law'
News: January 2012
Doomsday clock moves 1 minute closer
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhy are there five different kinds of "master" in NT?
master: didaskalos: teachers of babes, doctors of law
master: oikodespotēs: householder, master of house having servants
master: rhabbi: who love to be called "Rabbi, Rabbi": double minded
master: kyrios: a possessor: mingled mixture of God and mammon
Master: kathēgētēs: your true spiritual guide, the Christ: one-ness
No man can serve more than one master,
but children tend to serve more than one.
So Christ is called the head of every man,
but children tend to have several heads,
tudors and governors they're under.
mastery: agōnizomai: strives, fights adversaires, contends: battle mode.
But Christ, y(our) master, is our peace, above and beyond battle modes.
In Christ mode there's no battle to fight,
for the adversary: the law: is abolished;
so it's more like awaring then like fighting,
not now as a servant, but above a servant.
Servants are know nots in John 15:15, and
children differ nothing from servants: Gal 4.
So a man should put away childish things
like striving, and fighting, and contending,
as it's left vs right divisional, not peaceful.
Harmless: is above of under/above,
not just right to make others wrong.
4 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years ago