Resolving the contradictions

 

JESUS SPOKE TO ONLY
HEARTS/SPIRITS
& RENEWED MINDS

 

On the previous webpage I showed three kinds of contradictions:
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      1)  The big contradiction
            between Judgment and Forgiveness:

                       Humbly doing good & not bad
                       causes us
                       to go to Heaven when we die.
                 contradicts:
                       Gratitude for our new eternal life
                       causes us
                       to humbly do good & not bad.

      2)  The lesser contradiction
            between Judgment and Forgiveness:

                       You must earn your way into Heaven,
                       albeit humbly,
                       and you can be of any religion or none.
                 contradicts:
                        What you’ve done doesn’t matter
                       but you must be a Christian.

      3a) The contradiction within Judgment:

                       Most people have done varying amounts
                       of both good and bad.

                       Hence Judgment,
                       God Judging us according to what we’ve done,
                       would be, for those who won’t quite make it,
                       too unjust for a just God to do.

                       So Judgment is impossible.

      3b) The contradiction within Forgiveness:

                        God will send, to Hell,
                       those who’ve simply never heard/read/seen
                       the Gospel convincingly presented.

                       This would be too unjust for a just God to do.

                       So Forgiveness, too, is impossible.

 

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The un-renewed mind
sees these contradictions as contradictions:

            sees:
                       do good, not bad, so you to go to Heaven
            &:
                       do bad, but later be sorry, so you go to Heaven
            as:
                       contradictory, cannot both be true.
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        The un-renewed mind sees that,
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        if our rewards & punishments are according to what we’ve done,
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        that God cannot simply let anyone off.



But the renewed mind
and the heart/spirit, 
see these contradictions as not contradictions:

            sees:
                       do good, not bad, so you go to Heaven
            &:
                       do bad, but later be sorry, so you go to Heaven
            as:
                       somehow both true.
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        Yet, when a spiritually mature Christian
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        sees that someone is genuinely broken with remorse,
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        then,
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        even if their crime is bad (such that the law would never let them off),
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        they can see that God would let them off.


For scriptural examples
of the above two principles,
see later section: VARIOUS GENERAL CONTRADICTIONS OF JESUS. ,,,,,

 

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JESUS SPOKE
THROUGH THE MIND
TO THE HEART/SPIRIT

 

 

Jesus spoke:

            Not to the mind.

            But through the mind, to the heart/spirit,
            to make sense to both of them.

 

 

 

 heart/spirit  soul  mind  Jesus’ spoken words

 

 

            The un-renewed mind sees that:
                       world makes sense to:    mind           not heart/spirit,
                       Jesus makes sense to:     heart/spirit    not mind.

            The renewed mind sees that:
                       world makes sense to:    heart/spirit    and mind,
                       Jesus makes sense to:     heart/spirit    and mind.

,,        ,,        For clarification, see last cell (starting The un-renewed mind), ,, .
,,        ,,        of previous section:
               JESUS SPOKE TO ONLY HEARTS/SPIRITS & RENEWED MINDS.

 

 

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WHAT IS A RENEWED MIND?

 

 

The Gospel is the good news
that Jesus was Punished in place of all of us:

            His Punishment made all our sins (before God) vanish
            even though all our wrongs (before each other) remain.
,                  Perhaps see earlier section: WHY WAS JESUS EXECUTED?
,                  and
,                  later section: THE TWO ACCOUNTS, , , ,

 

 

You become a Christian:
            not when you only know the Gospel, in your mind,
            but when you also believe the Gospel, in your heart/spirit.
                                                                                                             Rom c10 v10  


            On believing – your heart/spirit becomes grateful
            and so renews your mind:
                 1)  Duplicates its belief into your mind
                       so that even your mind believes.
                 2)  Establishes the pattern of that belief,
                       the pattern of the Gospel, agape love,
                       throughout your mind,

            then:
                       your heart/spirit
                       & your mind
                       & God’s Spirit inside you
            become alike,

            then all three of you can live & work together
            without getting in each other’s way.

 

 

            When all of your mind
            is as Jesus’ mind:
                       o    Full of belief.
                       o    Containing no unbelief (doubts) about:
                                   God’s unconditional love for us
                                   and his great knowledge, wisdom, & power,
                       o    Grateful to, and allied to, God.
            then your mind is completely renewed:


            Your un-renewed mind saw the Lord’s prayer:
                       Matt c6 v12    (Luke c11 v4):
                       And forgive us our debts,
                       as we forgive our debtors.   KJV
            as true, literal, a deal:
                       the cause is in you,
                       the effect is in God.

            But your renewed mind sees the Lord’s prayer:
                       Matt c6 v12    (Luke c11 v4):
                       And forgive us our debts,
                       as we forgive our debtors.   KJV
            as wrong:
                        for, actually,
                       the cause is in God,
                       the effect is in you.

,                                      Perhaps see later section: THE LORD’S PRAYER. , , , , ,



            Your un-renewed mind
            saw:
                       sins, sickness & the natural world
                       as greater than
                       God’s love and power.

            But your renewed mind
            sees:
                       sins, sickness & the natural world
                       as weaker than
                       God’s love and power.

 

 

First, your heart/spirit
            believes
            that Jesus was Punished in place of all of us.

Secondly, your heart/spirit
            starts to renew your mind

Then, ideally: your heart/spirit:
            continues to renew your mind
            until it’s completely renewed
            so that your entire mind, as well as your heart/spirit, believes..

 

 

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Perhaps, for my definition of the word holy,
see earlier section: FIRST COMPLAINT.,,,,,

 

Just as there are two accounts,
Perhaps see first two cells
of later section: THE TWO ACCOUNTS.  

so also there are two kinds of holiness:

            God’s Forgiveness of all of us
            (i.e. the Son’s willing self-sacrifice in our place)
            made all of us holy
            in the Father’s eyes & mind.
            1 Pet c1 v18-19,,,
            1 John c4 v9-10,,,

                       Hence the Father was then able:
                                   to become a loving heavenly Father to all of us
                                   and to give his Holy Spirit to all of us.
,         ,         ,         ,         ,         ,         Though see sixth cell (starting Mind you)
,         ,         ,         ,         ,         ,         ,of earlier section: THE LOGIC OF THE CROSS.


            Then, when you’ve renewed your mind,
            you will have made yourself actually holy.
            1 Pet c1 v13-16,,,
            1 John c2 v15-17,,,
            1 John c4 v17,,,

 

 

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Someone who has renewed their mind:

            Is constructive to the max:
                       Wants, above all, to do natural & miraculous good.
                       Do whatever will have an eternally good effect.
                       Is not interested in the world; it’s too temporary.

            Rom c12 v2:
            And be not conformed to this world:
            but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
            that ye may prove
            what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect,
            will of God.   KJV

      o    Hears (from) God.

                       1 Cor c2 v16:
                       For who hath known the mind of the Lord,
                       that he may instruct him?
                       But we have the mind of Christ.   KJV

      o    Adopts Jesus’ ways:

                       You love everyone,    Luke c10 v25-37   
                       even your enemies.    Matt c5 v38-48    Luke c6 v27-36,,,

                       You’ve forgiven everyone
                       for all they’ve ever done to you    Matt c18 v21-35.  


                       Hence you are like a child.
                       Matt c18 v1-3    (&  Mark c10 v13-16) 
                       Luke c9 v46-48    (&  Mark c9 v36-37  &  Matt c18 v4-5) 
                       Luke c10 v21 ,
                       Luke c18 v15-16    (Matt c19 v13-14)

                        You’ve got used to his voice,
                       i.e. the Spirit’s voice,
,                                      Perhaps see last two cells (starting The following parable)
,                                      of earlier section: THE BASIC MECHANICS.

                        and are used to the ways he operates.

      o    Still has knowledge of the world
            but no longer indulges in the world:

                        1 John c2 v15-17:
                       Love not the world,
                        neither the things that are in the world.
                        If any man love the world,
                       the love of the Father is not in him.
                        For all that is in the world,
                             the lust of the flesh,
                             and the lust of the eyes,
                             and the pride of life,
                        is not of the Father, but is of the world.
                        And the world passeth away,
                       and the lust thereof:
                        but he that doeth the will of God
                       abideth for ever.   KJV

                       You used to walk with the world.
                       You were going in the same direction as the world.
                       But now, you’ve turned around, repented,
                       and walk with the Spirit,
                       go where the Spirit leads you.
                       (There’s no limit to the number of times
                       you can repent.)
                              
,                                      See all my notes
,                                      to the Mark Hemans’ teaching:
,                                      YouTube: – Spiritual sight and praying for the sick,,,,,
,                                      and the links within it.
,                                      (This link does not open a new tab.)


      o    Has faith in God   (faith = belief acting):

                 Mark c11 v22-24    (Matt c21 v21-22):
                 And Jesus answering saith unto them,
                       Have faith in God.
                       For verily I say unto you,
                       That whosoever shall say unto this mountain,
                             Be thou removed,
                             and be thou cast into the sea;
                       and shall not doubt in his heart,
                       but shall believe that those things which he saith
                       shall come to pass;
                       he shall have
                       whatsoever he saith.
                 Therefore I say unto you,
                       What things soever ye desire,
                       when ye pray, believe that ye receive them,
                       and ye shall have them.   KJV

      o    Lacks unbelief in the mind  (lacks doubts in the mind):

                       Belief (or faith), certainly initially,
                       is only ever in the heart/spirit.
,         ,         ,         ,         Later – your heart/spirit copies its faith/belief to your mind.


                       Whereas unbelief:
,         ,         ,         ,         ,         o,      All the knowledge you have about cancer.
,         ,         ,         ,         ,         o,      All the prayers you’ve never had answered.
,         ,         ,         ,         ,         o,      All the reasons you have
,         ,         ,         ,         ,         ,         for thinking God does not love us
,         ,         ,         ,         ,         ,         (when the cross proves he does).

                       is only ever in the mind.

,         ,         ,         ,         ,         ,         Perhaps see later section: UNBELIEF 
,         ,         ,         ,         ,         ,         and its subsections.


      o    Has demons fearing them.
            (Whereas before, when they had an un-renewed mind,
            they feared demons.)
,         ,         See four gospels and Acts.

 

 

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The Bible says that Christians should renew their own minds,
not expect God to do it:

            Eph c4 v23-24:
            and be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
            and that ye put on the new man,
            which after God
            is created in righteousness and true holiness.   KJV

            Col c3 v9-10:
            Lie not one to another,
            seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
            and have put on the new man,
            which is renewed in knowledge
            after the image of him that created him:   KJV

 

 

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If that sounds like hard work to you
bear in mind that God did the hard bit.

            God the Father let his only begotten Son be crucified
            and Jesus, that Son, endured it.

            We only have to believe it.

            John c6 v28-29:
            Then said they unto him,
                 What shall we do,
                 that we might work
                 the works of God?
            Jesus answered and said unto them,
                 This is the work of God,
                       that ye believe
                       on him whom he hath sent.   KJV

            This was Jesus’ entire answer.
            Believe is all we need to do
            (if you can call believing doing).

 

 

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DOING MIRACLES

 

If the Cross is anything to go by:

            God is more keen:
                       to heal you
                       (& heal others through you)
            than you are keen:
                       for him to do it.

However, God’s Spirit inside you
and you
are two separate persons.

This means that,
if you haven’t yet completely renewed your mind,
then switch yourself off
so as to make yourself available
for God’s Spirit to, literally, use you.

 

            Think of the Holy Spirit, in you – as the Father’s tool
            and yourself – as the tool bag.

            Now imagine the job is not DIY (rough)
            but surgical (detailed).

            Now imagine the job is supernatural, indeed miraculous.

            Such invisible, precision, supernatural, work
            means all you need to do is:
                 1)  Not sin at all, so as to be a home for the Holy Spirit.
                 2)  Do & say only whatever he tells you to do & say.

,                  More women believers should do this.
,                  We men believers are often so full of our own thoughts & intentions
,         ,         that we get in God’s Spirit’s way.

,                                      See twelfth cell (starting The ability to think)
,                                      of earlier section: NATURE OF SITE,
,                                      and perhaps the links within it.
,                                      (This link does not open a new tab.)

,                                      Also see last three cells (starting Incidentally, God guides us)
,                                      of earlier section: ABOUT AUTHOR & SITE,
,                                      and perhaps the links within it.
,                                      (This link does not open a new tab.)

 

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WHAT IS A RENEWED MIND: SOME DETAILS

 

 

Of the three parts of the soul (mind, cultures, & emotions)
only mind & cultures need renewing.
See earlier section: ABOUT CULTURES 
and
diagram in later section: WILL. ,,,,,
 
            To renew your mind:
,                                      See later section: HOW TO RENEW YOUR MIND,
,                                      and
,                                      immediately after it: HOW TO RENEW YOUR MIND: SOME DETAILS.


            To renew your cultures:
                       Merely dump or exchange wrong (parts of) culture(s).
                       (Cultures are something we pick & choose anyway;
                       certainly we, in the western world, have that luxury.)

            Emotions don’t need renewing.
            That’s because emotions are:
                       Merely tools (or even toys) of the mind.
                       Magnifiers, amplifiers, increasers, of the mind;
                       pre-set by the mind.
,                                      Perhaps see later section:
,                                      EMOTIONS STARTED AS QUICK-DECISION-ENGINES IN GOD,, , , ,

 

 

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Your heart/spirit, in renewing your mind,
changes you, fundamentally:

      A renewed mind is not merely filled with new data:
                 still an earthly mind, but filled with biblical knowledge,
                 struggling to give earthly reasons for loving your enemy.
      A renewed mind is also reconfigured functionally:
                  has, not only new data, but also new processes.

,                            Hence you may be less able to do worldly jobs.
,                            Luke c16 v8:
,                            ctd … for the children of this world are
,                            in their generation
,                            wiser than the children of light.   KJV

 

 

      Your-heart/spirit, and God’s-Spirit-within-you, combined,
                 has your mind
      as its tool.

      Your mind already has:
                 emotions
                 and cultures   Perhaps again see earlier section: ABOUT CULTURES.

      as its tools.

      Hence   your-heart/spirit   and   God’s-Spirit-in-you   combined
      ends up being in charge of all of you.

      Your-heart/spirit   and   God’s-Spirit-in-you   combined
      is able to express itself unhindered.

 

 

The mind’s filter   soul   the world   the emotions’ filter   your heart/spirit & God’s Spirit combined   renewed mind   emotions pre-set by the mind

,,        ,,        I suppose the data of the world gets through both filters
,,        ,,        (so perhaps I should have continued the arrows below the filters).
,,        ,,        However, the data is then processed by the mind & emotions
,,        ,,        such that he world does not influence the believer.

 

 

 

      If all the grey, in the above diagram, were white:
,         I.E. If your heart/spirit had renewed all of your mind:
,         ,         1)    Duplicated its belief into your mind
,         ,         ,         so that even your mind believes.
,         ,         2)    Established the pattern of that belief,
,         ,         ,         the pattern of the Gospel, agape love,
,         ,         ,         throughout your mind,

      then your very first response/reaction
      to a big need/problem/disaster,
      would be to pray or to command.

,         See five cells (starting Jesus explains)
,         in earlier section: WHY GOD’S WORDS HAVE POWER.

,         Perhaps see earlier section: REACTING AND RESPONDING, , .

 

 

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      In the beginning,
      God was:
                 entirely constructive.
,                            Perhaps see third cell
,                            of earlier webpage: God’s origin.


      Then, during the Old Testament age,
      God was:
                 both constructive and destructive.
,                            Perhaps see earlier webpage: The good & bad that God does.


      Now, during this New Testament age, this Church Age,
      God is:
                 entirely constructive again.
,         ,         ,         Perhaps see earlier webpage: The Church Age, , , , , , .

 

 

      If you:
                 are a believer
                 and so have God’s Spirit in your heart/spirit.

      And if your heart/spirit:
                 has renewed your mind accordingly
                 such that God’s Spirit is in all of you.

      Then you too:
                 are entirely constructive
                 forever.

 

 

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