The will,
and the free will.
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WILL
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Perhaps see earlier section: SPIRIT & SOUL for background.
In a non-Christian:
genes
culture
education
upbringing
environment
circumstances
influences from people
temptations from demons
encouragements from God
all feed into
your soul.
So your soul acts.
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But it’s only your soul that acts.
Your heart/spirit does not act.
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soul
heart/spirit mind emotions
output line is thick because of the emotions
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This is the will in action:
It’s what advertisers, businessmen, politicians, etc,
predict & manipulate.
The will forms slowly,
with experience.
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Even
a neurologically complex animal has a will.
, , Perhaps see earlier sections:
, , ANIMALS ,,,
, , and:
, , REACTING AND RESPONDING. ,,,
Even an artificial
intelligence has a will.
(It seems like a free will,
but actually it’s a will
because it’s subject to the
programmer’s free will.)
, , Perhaps see seventh to ninth cell (starting To
have to ‘lobotomise’)
, , of earlier section: SELF-TEACHING COMPUTERS
, , and the link within
them.
, , (This link does not
open a new tab.)
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FREE WILL
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If you’re bothered about the word ‘aliens’ in the next paragraph
then see second cell (starting I reckon
that God deliberately designed)
of earlier section: WE ARE BETTER
EQUIPPED NOW TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH.
Beings (God, angels, demons,
humans, aliens)
have both:
a will
&:
a free will.
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In a non-Christian:
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world
God’s absence
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activates
dampens
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will
free will
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In a renewed-mind Christian:
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world
God’s presence
then: free will
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activates
activates
overrides
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will
free will
will
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John c8 v36:
If the Son therefore shall make you free,
ye shall be free indeed. KJV
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Inside a renewed-mind Christian:
You (i.e. your
heart/spirit)
&:
God’s Spirit inside you:
Both
agree on everything.
Both are right.
Both say what they both want to
say.
Both do what they both want
to do.
Both express themselves through your soul.
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soul heart/spirit mind
emotions output line is thick
because of the emotions
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The will forms slowly,
with experience.
But free will comes into existence as soon as we decide
whether to eventually become
completely constructive or completely destructive:
This is because making that
decision
then gives a bias to all
other moral decisions.
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If
the big decision could be affected
by anything we know
then God would have:
o made something
that we then all know about,
o or told us all something
so that we all know it,
such as to cause all of us to decide
to eventually become
completely constructive.
But he didn’t.
So, the big decision cannot
be affected by
anything we know.
So we must make the big
decision
before we know anything.
So the big decision must be,
or be part of,
the first moral decision we
make.
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YOU INHERIT THE QUALITIES
BUT NOT THE PREVIOUS CHANGES
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The
changes a person makes in
themselves
show in their own life
but not in subsequent generations.
The qualities you get:
are genetic,
you pass them on.
The changes you make to
them:
are not genetic,
you do not pass
them on.
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Genetic qualities:
Usually don’t
have much
rightness or
wrongness about them.
You
pass them on to the next generation.
Virtues or vices:
Are the changes we
make to those genetic qualities.
You do not pass them
on to the next generation.
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Hence someone may inherit:
Their father’s
hastiness. But not his spontaneous
generosity.
Their father’s
hastiness. But not his sudden anger.
Their mother’s
quietness. But not her callous
plotting.
Their mother’s
quietness. But not her serving
attitude.
Only qualities like hastiness & quietness get inherited.
Not the virtues or vices we make of them.
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LOVE
& FEAR
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God has had
to do many unloving things.
But, actually, he loves us.
Perhaps
see earlier section:
IN JESUS, THE FATHER REVEALS HIS HEART TO US.
Indeed, he loves us unconditionally, self-sacrificially.
This is called agape love.
If you are a believer, who has renewed their mind,
then God’s Spirit is in you.
Hence agape love is how God loves:
others
and you
from inside you.
And, if you are a believer, who has renewed your mind,
then agape love is also:
how you
love others.
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Your
agape love is not:
Mere human love.
A mere emotion
amongst the other
emotions.
The will in action.
Your agape love is:
Your heart/spirit having renewed your mind
with agape love
throughout it.
Free will in action.
, , , , Perhaps see earlier section:
, , , , DO
THE EMOTIONS NEED RENEWING? , , , ,
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Fear may stop
your mere natural, human, love.
But fear does not stop your agape love.
On the contrary: your agape love stops fear:
1 John c4 v18:
There
is no fear in love;
but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment.
He that feareth
is not made perfect in love. KJV
,, ,, In the above Bible verse
,, ,, all three instances of the word love,
,, ,, are, in the original Greek, agape.
,, ,, Perhaps see:
,, ,, Interlinear Bible, showing the original Greek: 1 John c4 v18, ,,,,,
,, ,, and:
,, ,, Encyclopaedia Britannica’s definition of the word 'agape'. ,,,,,
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Fear
is in nature.
Hence fear is in the world.
,, ,, Perhaps see earlier section:
,, ,, IN WHAT WAYS DID GOD MAKE THE UNIVERSE SECOND CLASS? ,,,,,
But believers have replaced:
their
concentric circles of selfishness
with agape love.
Hence they’ve also replaced:
fear
with agape love.
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Renewing our minds
won’t make us believers robust, like
God.
But will make us believers
not care
that we are currently
temporary & fragile.
And this frees us – from fearing others
to loving others.
1 John c4 v18:
There
is no fear in love;
but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath
torment.
He that feareth is not made perfect in love. KJV
, , , , See the full logic of
this
, , , , in the last eight
cells
, , , , (starting: Technically speaking, you renew your mind)
, , , , of earlier section: HOW TO RENEW YOUR MIND.
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I personally
find Stephen’s forgiveness
of those who were stoning him to death
an inspiring example of agape love in a believer:
Acts c6:
Stephen,
who was a food distributor, a servant by nature,
turned out to be
one of the greatest doers of
miracles. my
abbreviation
Acts c7 v60:
And he kneeled down, and
cried with a loud voice,
Lord, lay not this sin
to their charge.
And when he had said this,
he fell asleep [died]. KJV
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Technically
speaking:
It’s
not:
fear – stops – miracles.
It’s:
belief – causes – miracles
&:
belief – stops – fear,
in detail:
belief – causes – love & power – causes – miracles
&:
belief – causes – love & power – which stop – fear.
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This assumes the believer has renewed
their mind.
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Andrew
Wommack, ever practical, says:
“Fear is faith in reverse”.
I add:
Fear is produced by a faith
that:
nature
and the world we’ve
built from, & on, nature,
is stronger than God.
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Perhaps see:
YouTube: – Dan
Mohler on Fear.
I don’t also include a link to Andrew Wommack’s material
here
because it’s so thorough & lengthy.
Ideally, go to: A better site than this one
and from there to Andrew’s site.
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TO OUR HEARTS/SPIRITS – JESUS GAVE FREEDOM.
TO OUR SOULS – JESUS GAVE REST.
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By getting
God’s Spirit into us
Jesus gave, to our hearts/spirits, freedom from the world.
For our hearts/spirits, then:
Renew our minds, which control our
souls.
Take
away, from the world, its control of our souls.
Matt c6
v33 (Luke c12 v31):
But seek ye first the
kingdom of God,
and his
righteousness;
and all these things
shall be added unto
you. KJV
John c8 v36: (John c8 v32):
If the Son therefore
shall make you free,
ye shall be free
indeed. KJV
John
c14 v27:
Peace I leave with you,
my peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid. KJV
Gal c6 v14:
[Paul wrote] The world means nothing to me. my abbn
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By getting
God’s Spirit into us
Jesus gave, to our souls, rest from the world.
For our hearts/spirits, then:
Renew our minds, which control our souls.
Take
away, from the world, its control of our souls.
Matt c11 v28-30:
Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are
heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and
learn of me;
for I am meek and lowly in
heart:
and ye shall find rest unto
your souls.
For my yoke is easy,
and my burden is light. KJV
, , A yoke is the collar on a beast of burden (horse, ox)
, , which is connected to the burden (cart, plough).
Heb c4 v9-11:
Let us rest from our earthly effort (which
is hard)
and do God’s work (which is
easy). my
abbreviation
, , Perhaps see earlier section:
, , SOME
OLD COVENANT LAWS SERVE AS SIGNS, SHADOWS,
, , OF
THE NEW COVENANT. , , ,
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THE
NEW YOU
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Any sinful ways you currently have
Or,
to be precise, any wrong actions.
See earlier section: THE TWO ACCOUNTS.
spoil
your perfect relationship with God.
But your sins and sinful ways
do not spoil
God’s perfect relationship with you.
A relationship that was made perfect – by Jesus.
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Jesus died for everyone.
1) But believing that he died for everyone
makes you want to do right, and not wrong, out
of:
gratitude:
, , , , As compared to:
obedience, duty, social acceptance, guilt, law, force, etc.
, , , , Perhaps see earlier section: WHY CHRISTIANS AVOID SINNING:
, , , , and
, , , , the section after it: HOW
CHRISTIANS AVOID SINNING.
and a renewed mind:
, , , , Perhaps see earlier
section: WHAT
IS A RENEWED MIND?
, , , , and
, , , , immediately after
it: DOING MIRACLES
, , , , and:
, , , , immediately after that: WHAT IS A RENEWED MIND: SOME DETAILS
, , , , and
, , , , earlier section: YOU MUST RENEW YOUR MIND
, , , , and
, , , , earlier section: HOW TO RENEW YOUR
MIND
, , , , and
, , , , immediately after it: HOW TO RENEW YOUR
MIND: SOME DETAILS
, , , , , and
, , , , earlier section: PRAYING
& FASTING.
2) Also, believing that he died for everyone:
Makes your
primary relationship
to be with God.
Your secondary
relationships
to be with people.
3) 1) and 2) mean that
believing that Jesus died for everyone:
makes your sin
consciousness disappear
(though not your
wrong consciousness).
, , , , See earlier
section:
, , , , THE CONVERSE DEFINITION OF A CHRISTIAN
, , , , See section in webpage
after this one:
, , , , SIN CONSCIOUSNESS. , , ,
Hence you become a new creature. 2 Cor c5 v17
Gal c6 v15.
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Perhaps see:
YouTube: – The best description of the Gospel – Dan Mohler, , , ,
and:
YouTube: – What
believing the gospel really means - Dan Mohler, , , , , ,
Perhaps
see earlier section: TECHNICALLY SPEAKING: SINS NO LONGER EXIST
to
understand the difference between: Wommack & Mohler, and Hemans.
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Perhaps see:
One
of Andrew Wommack’s TV programmes on spirit, soul & body.
(link repeated from earlier).
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GOD’S FREE WILL & OUR FREE
WILL
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GOD’S
SOVEREIGNTY
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I wrote this section particularly for
the readers of
the New International Version
Bible.
See earlier section: WHICH VERSION OF THE BIBLE TO USE.
Before this Church Age
God was much like some of the kings & queens of old:
Benevolent to his own
nation, Israel,
but decisively brutal to
those that threatened it
since only decisively brutal
seemed to work.
Exercising justice within
his own nation
but it was often a harsh
justice
since only a harsh justice
seemed to work.
But during this Church Age:
God
is entirely loving
a king to everyone, not only the Jews.
, , Perhaps see: YouTube:
– Bill Johnson || DECEMBER 11, 2017 -
, , , , , What Jesus Accomplished Now ||
Teaching Truth.
, , , , , From
37m 15s to 47m 30s
is particularly pithy.
, , Perhaps also see
earlier section:
, , GOD DOES NOT CHANGE
BUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH US CHANGES
, , and earlier webpage:
, , The Church Age
, , and earlier section:
, , IN JESUS, THE FATHER REVEALS HIS HEART TO US, , .
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But is
God your loving king?
Do you subject yourself to
him?
Can he do anything through you?
During this Church Age:
God no longer
acts by himself
or, perhaps, with people.
, , , , As he did in the Old Testament and in the four gospels.
God acts through people,
principally through believers.
Jesus is the head, believers
are the body:
Col
c2 v9-10:
For
in him dwelleth
all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
And ye are
complete in him,
which is the head
of all
principality and power: KJV
Eph c1 v19-23
& 1 Cor c12 – c14
combined:
Jesus
is now the head.
And you, the
church, are now the body.
Hence you, like
Jesus,
have been given
the Spirit
so that you too
can have the gifts of the Spirit
including doing
miracles. my
abbn
, , , , Perhaps see earlier section: CONTINUING
THE SON’S WORK.
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God’s sovereignty is:
God being more powerful than
anyone else.
But, unlike us:
God doesn’t necessarily use that power.
God can do anything.
But he doesn’t, necessarily,
do anything.
We want to do
more things than we can do.
Our tightest limit is what
we can do.
God can do more things than
he wants to do.
His tightest limit is what
he wants to do.
(Hence I often use the word want, for God,
as one would use the word can, for a human.)
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God’s sovereignty is also
God being more intelligent than anyone else.
And, more to the point, knowing more than anyone else,
having the greatest database (even past & future).
Hence each being has a free
will.
Yet God can, and
does, often get us to do his free
will.
For example:
God designed the universe
so that Satan
would encourage people
to crucify Jesus.
, , , , Perhaps see earlier section:
, , , , IN WHAT WAYS DID GOD MAKE THE UNIVERSE SECOND CLASS?
, , , , and perhaps see earlier section:
, , , , WHY
WAS JESUS EXECUTED?
Then,
after Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection,
when
Satan realised he had actually helped
God,
he was
angry with himself:
God
had got Satan to do what he, God, wanted
even
though Satan had retained his own free will
throughout.
, , , , See item 2)
, , , , of earlier section:
, , , , HOW DO DEMONS SEE THE FUTURE? , , , , .
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Hence also in your life, God can, and does,
turn the victories of:
nature (perhaps see earlier webpage: The design
of everything)
and
the world, the flesh, & the devil (demons),
into the victories of:
God, & your heart/spirit.
Rom c8 v28:
And we know that all things work together for good
to them that love God,
to them who are the called
according to his purpose. KJV
For God:
o Sees the future better
than demons do.
Perhaps see earlier webpage: Time travel occurs in Heaven.
o Is much more able than demons.
, , Perhaps see earlier
section: GOD: THE CONSIDERATE DELEGATOR.
He weaves his activities into
demons’ activities;
uses demon’s activities
in conjunction with his own
activities.
Or, as Wommack says: “He is like a master chess
player.”
, , See earlier section: PATHS & DETOURS.
Hence
never be thankful for bad
things/events.
God did not give them to you.
See
earlier section:
SO,
WHERE DO TODAY’S BAD THINGS COME FROM?
Instead,
believe that God:
wants to use those bad things, for good,
or:
wants to correct them.
, , See earlier section:
, , GOD IS ALWAYS CONSTRUCTIVE IN THE LONG RUN, , , , , ,
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All this makes sense
only if you can see
that God does not run this place:
God gave this place to us.
But we then we gave it to
Satan.
, , , , Perhaps see earlier
section:
, , , , THE
IMPORTANCE OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN,,,,,
, , , , and third cell
, , , , of earlier section:
, , , , THE KINGDOM OF THE WORLD & THE KINGDOM OF DEMONS. ,,,,,
Hence this is enemy territory.
, , , , Perhaps see whole of
earlier section:
, , , , THE KINGDOM OF THE WORLD & THE KINGDOM OF DEMONS. ,,,,,
John c18 v36 (John c8 v23):
Jesus answered,
My kingdom is not of this world … ctd KJV
The Earth
is God’s,
the planet is
God’s,
nature is God’s.
But the world is
not God’s,
the world is
Satan’s.
The world is enemy territory
that God has to
invade
to be in.
Hence God is on a rescue
mission.
, , , , Perhaps see earlier
section:
, , , , WE ARE BETTER EQUIPPED NOW TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH.
Hence God, Father Son &
Spirit,
is automatically undercover.
, , , , See earlier section:
, , , , WHAT’S
WRONG WITH A VISIBLE SOLUTION?
See:
C.S.
Lewis: Enemy-occupied territory.
,,,,,
All this becomes obvious
when you consider the resistance that Jesus met.
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We make the, spiritually intuitive, choice, –
to believe.
And, from then on, God guides us.
Perhaps again see earlier section: PATHS & DETOURS.
God the Father didn’t tell
Jesus everything.
He didn’t tell
Jesus, in advance,
that there’d be
no fruit on the fig tree.
Matt c21 v17-22 Mark c11 v11-25
He didn’t tell
Jesus who it was, in the crowd,
who had touched
him. Mark c5 v25-34 Matt c9 v20-22
God only told Jesus what he
wanted him to know.
And we should expect the same
treatment.
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God the Father designed, then created, matter.
Then he made us out of it.
Perhaps
see first half
of earlier webpage: Making the universe.
So, God is the overall planner.
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But God is not controlling everything:
For example, God chooses us
but only like Jesus chose
his twelve disciples:
Independently of Jesus choosing his
twelve disciples,
eleven of them chose
Jesus, one chose Satan.
God foresaw
that Judas would
choose Satan. Zech c11 v12-13
But God did not make
Judas choose
Satan.
, , Perhaps see earlier
webpage: We choose where we go., , , , , ,
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You may argue that, in Rom c9 v1-25,
Paul does say that:
God is sovereign,
controls everything &
everyone.
But I say that Paul wrote Rom c9 v1-25
because he could not see hearts/spirits.
, , See earlier
sections:
, , THE THIRD REASON
PAUL PREACHED ONLY FORGIVENESS
WAS THAT HE DID NOT SEE HEARTS/SPIRITS
, , and:
, , SEEING
HEARTS/SPIRITS
, , and:
, , SOCIALLY
CONSTRUCTIVE & SOCIALLY DIVISIVE.
This meant that thinking of God as completely controlling
was the only way Paul could understand people’s behaviour.
This was exacerbated by him having killed Christians
then changed 180 degrees due to God’s intervention.
More about seeing hearts/spirits in the
section after next.
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REGARDING MIRACLES,
GOING TO GOD IS BEST.
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Arranging things so that the sick must
come to Jesus, or to a believer,
means that there are fewer cynical, unbelieving, spectators
because there are fewer spectators:
This stops the patient ‘catching’
unbelief
from such spectators.
, , , Perhaps see earlier section:
, , , UNBELIEF IS A BREAK IN THE CIRCUIT
, , , and perhaps consider
, , , earlier section: GOD’S SPIRIT
GROANING.
A healing service is best.
, , , Perhaps see earlier sections:
, , , UNBELIEF,
& LACK OF BELIEF, WITHIN THE CHURCH
, , , and:
, , , GREAT FAITH
, , , and:
, , , GOOD RELIGION & BAD RELIGION, , , ,
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Conversely, this is one reason why,
when Jesus went to the equivalent of a hospital of his day,
he healed only one of the many sick people there:
John c5 v1-9:
Jesus
visited the pool of Bethesda
where many sick people lay.
(They were all waiting
for a rare moment
when the water moved,
all on its own,
and the first one in it
got healed.)
But, Jesus healed only one
of them, a cripple. my
abbreviation
, , The last seven
words of v3, and all of verse 4, are, I reckon, forged.
, , So I omit them in
my abbreviation.
, , Perhaps see
earlier section: BIBLE VERSES THAT I OMIT, ,
Jesus was not able to separate:
the cripple (who
had some unbelief)
from the other
patients (who had even more unbelief).
Not like he was able to
separate:
the surrounding
crowd
from the
synagogue ruler’s dead daughter.
Mark c5 v35-43 , , ,
Nor:
the blind man of Bethsaida
from the town of Bethsaida.
Mark c8 v22-26. , , ,
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If Jesus had physically carried the cripple out,
perhaps with help,
it would’ve given the
cripple the impression
that Jesus could not heal
him.
That would have increased
the cripple’s unbelief even more,
perhaps putting his healing
beyond reach.
, , See fourth and fifth cells
, , (starting Hence, if there was unbelief)
, , of earlier section: UNBELIEF IS A
BREAK IN THE CIRCUIT.
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GOD’S KIND OF LOVE (AGAPE LOVE)
AND
MERE HUMAN, NATURAL, LOVE
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God has had
to do many unloving things.
But, actually, he loves us.
Perhaps
see earlier section:
IN JESUS, THE FATHER REVEALS HIS HEART TO US.
Indeed, he loves us unconditionally, self-sacrificially.
This is called agape love.
If you are a believer, who has renewed their mind,
then God’s Spirit is in you.
Hence agape love is how God loves:
others
and you
from inside you.
And, if you are a believer, who has renewed your mind,
then agape love is also:
how you
love others.
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Your
agape love is not:
Mere human love.
A mere emotion
amongst the other
emotions.
The will in action.
Your agape love is:
Your heart/spirit having renewed your mind
with agape love throughout it.
Free will in action.
, , , , Perhaps see earlier section:
, , , , DO
THE EMOTIONS NEED RENEWING? , , , ,
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You can have agape love
even if you have no normal empathy
& love.
Psychopaths, for example,
have no normal empathy &
love, anywhere within them.
, , See 30m 55s
to 46m 30s
, , of: YouTube: – Ch4, PSYCHOPATH NIGHT! [Channel 4], , , , , ,
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But, if they become believers
& renew their minds,
they acquire agape love
throughout their mind &
emotions.
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N.B.
Psychopathy & sociopathy:
Are in the mind, which is in the soul,
are not in the heart/spirit.
So they are
flesh, not spirit,
temporary, not
eternal,
of this life, of
no eternal significance.
So, don’t worry if you are a psychopath or a sociopath.
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Peter, before & after becoming
a believer,
was a psychopath. (Proof in
next section.)
And Saul (later named Paul),
before & after becoming
a believer,
was, I suspect, a
high-functioning sociopath.
,, , Proof: Acts c9 v1-2 2 Cor c9 Philemon note v18-19
, , (N.B. If Paul had been a psychopath
, , he wouldn’t have written: 1 Cor
c13 NIV.)
Hence Peter (& perhaps
Paul, to a degree)
before & after becoming
a believer,
had no normal empathy & love.
Psychopaths don’t love other
people,
they own other people,
or not, as the case may be.
And those they own,
they can use; life is a game you can win,
and they get a big
dopamine kick from winning:
getting what they need,
& want, from others.
So, when Peter became a
believer and renewed his mind,
he made his whole mind constructive
regardless of its configuration.
Indeed, with no other
persons in his mind, not even God,
only things, &
yourself, (as is the way with psychopaths),
Peter
had much more focus than other Christians would.
In short, agape love, throughout their minds
& therefore emotions,
more than made up for
the absence of normal love & empathy
that a normal person would
have
in their mind, & therefore
emotions.
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Peter
& Paul had controlling personalities
before & after becoming
believers.
But, when they became
believers and renewed their minds,
Jesus’ lordship transformed
their controlling
into good, strong, Christian
leadership.
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Empathy, which
is in the mind, which is in the soul:
is helpful for seeing other
people’s souls
but vital for seeing other people’s hearts/spirits.
Empathy = continuously putting yourself
in other people’s places.
Continuously asking
yourself:
“Why do they think/feel/act the way they do?”
“Would I think/feel/act
that way?”
“If not, why not?”
Your focus continuously
going to & fro,
to them, to you, to
them, to you,
building pictures of
their interiors,
seeing
whether they’re morally inside out or not,
something you either see straight away or not at all.
So, ironically:
though
empathy is in the soul,
it enables a very few
people to see the heart/spirit.
It’s a natural ability.
Not a supernatural
(miraculous or demonic) one.
, , , Perhaps see earlier section:
, , , CAN WE SEE THE
HEART/SPIRIT?
, , , If you think you can see people’s heart’s/spirits
, , , then you must see earlier section:
, , , FOUR REASONS WHY WE SHOULDN’T TRY TO JUDGE
, , , OTHER PEOPLE’S
HEARTS/SPIRITS. , , , ,
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Most people cannot see other
people’s hearts/spirits.
Peter & Paul even more so.
Hence they assumed & felt
that they could not see their own hearts/spirits either.
Hence when
they looked inside themselves,
they thought:
they were looking
inwards
at their hearts/spirits,
when it was actually:
their hearts/spirits looking outwards
at their souls.
, , , , See (diagrams of)
, , , , first section of
earlier webpage: Looking inside yourself
, , , , and of
, , , , earlier webpage: How God Forgave us all.
Hence they concluded,
wrongly, that:
just as:
you judging yourself
ends with you
hating your heart/spirit
so also:
God Judging you
must end with God
hating your heart/spirit.
Blue
text copied from earlier section:
THE THIRD REASON
PAUL PREACHED ONLY FORGIVENESS
WAS THAT HE DID NOT SEE HEARTS/SPIRITS, , , ,
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Hence psychopathic Peter,
on first seeing God’s kindness, in Jesus,
suddenly saw his own sin
and concluded that God/Jesus had it in for him:
Luke c5 v1-8:
A miraculously huge catch of
fish
prompted Peter [i.e. Simon]
to say to Jesus:
“Get away from me Lord, for
I am a sinful man.”
, , [Whereas other
sinners immediately warmed to Jesus’ love for them.] my abbn
Consequently, Jesus later prayed against this weakness in Peter:
Peter’s loveless,
self-conscious,
lack-of-God-conscious,
state of mind.
Luke c22 v31-32:
And
the Lord said,
Simon, Simon, behold,
Satan hath desired
to
have you [disciples],
that he may sift you
[disciples]
as wheat [i.e. relentlessly mention your faults to you] :
But I have prayed for
thee [Peter],
that thy faith fail
not:
and when thou [Peter] art converted,
strengthen thy brethren. KJV
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MORE ABOUT PETER, PAUL, & PSYCHOPATHY ETC
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I
reckon that psychopaths, & to a lesser degree sociopaths,
don’t possess empathy-facilitating mental
models
of other people & of God
but instead have mental lists
of other people & of God.
So it’s not that they don’t love other people
(they don’t hate them
either).
It’s simply that, for them,
other people don’t exist, not as people.
Everyone else are things: potential possessions,
working toys,
that they understand the workings of
but don’t
personally relate to:
Hence psychopaths
& sociopaths
like people who
have a lot of buttons to press.
However, God is a person too, with buttons.
Hence, if
psychopaths & sociopaths:
have
good hearts/spirits,
believe,
and
have renewed their minds,
then their faith
is powerful.
See: Acts c5 v12-16 & Acts c19 v11-12.
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(In comparison, we ‘normal’
believers:
having
mental-models of everyone,
notably of God,
will take a while to catch
up.)
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Psychopathic
(& sociopathic) believers,
if spiritually immature,
try to be in control
of even the way God relates to them:
They insist, more than most:
that they are not unconditionally loved,
that they must do something,
that Forgiveness is not entirely free.
But, when they finally
believe,
in their hearts/spirits and minds,
and so have the real God (i.e. God’s Spirit) in them,
then their God complex can’t
help but vanish.
I show this change, in Peter
& Paul,
in the next two cells.
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Peter, before
Pentecost:
o Was the only
disciple to walk on water. Matt c14 v29
o Angrily refused
Jesus to, humanly speaking, fail.
Matt c16 v22 Mark c8 v32
o Argued against
Jesus washing his feet. John c13 v1-17
o Peter, though standing next to Jesus
and having heard all of
Jesus’ preaching
on loving your enemies,
tried to cut someone’s
head off.
Though Peter was a
fisherman, he had a sword,
and cut off the ear of
one of those sent to arrest Jesus.
He was probably aiming for
the head or neck
since
it’s hard to
cut off an ear.
And the sword was sharp
so Jesus’ command to stop
was timely.
John c18 v10-11 and:
Luke c22 v35-38 & v47-51 combined.
o Peter led the other disciples
in confessing
allegiance to Jesus.
Matt c26 v31-35 Mark c14 v27-31.
Luke c22 v31-34 John c13 v36-38.
o But later, after
following Jesus to his accusers,
came out with a
bald-faced lie
that he didn’t even
know Jesus,
in order to save his
own skin.
Matt c26 v69-75 Mark c14 v54-72.
Luke c22 v54-62 John c18 v15-27.
Peter, after Pentecost:
o Was the first to miraculously heal &
preach. Acts c2
o Continued in that fashion.
Mind you, Peter’s change and
growth were not instant:
o Acts c5 v1-10:
Peter, by the power of God’s Spirit,
punished Ananias
& Sapphira, for lying to God,
by making them drop
down dead. my abbreviation
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o Peter was readily sucked into
legalism, ‘man
pleasing’,
which led to a
rebuke from Paul Gal c2 v11-16
which, it seems,
Peter accepted 2 Pet c3 v15-16, , , , , ,
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Paul, before his
Damascus
road experience:
o Was a destroyer of the
church. 1 Cor c15 v9 Acts c22 v4
o Oversaw
Stephen’s killing
with satisfaction. Acts c7 v54 – c8 v1 Acts c22 v19-20
, , o, Also click on Bible
references in fifth cell
, , , (starting Peter, before & after becoming a
believer,)
, , , of previous
section:
, , , GOD’S KIND OF LOVE – AGAPE LOVE, AND MERE NATURAL HUMAN LOVE.
, , , (This link does
not open a new tab.)
Paul, after his Damascus road experience:
o Was
(one of) the leading builder(s) of the church.
o Readily suffered persecution
(as promised by
God Acts c9 v16)
perhaps more than any
other believer. 2 Cor c11 v16-33
, , , Perhaps
read about Christian ‘violence’
, , , in: Wommack’s online commentary on Matt c11 v12, , , , , ,
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To conclude,
the apostle Peter,
being psychopathic,
when he was a new Christian:
was not the kind of person
that most Christians today
would invite round for tea,
ask him to heal your sick or
raise your dead
Acts c3 v1-8 Acts c9 v32-43
but, other than that,
not let him into the house.
He had already been changed, by God’s Spirit, Acts c2 – c 3,
when, by the power of God’s
Spirit,
he killed Ananias &
Sapphira.
Either that,
or he approved of God doing it. Acts c5 v1-10,,,,,
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But,
happily, Peter eventually mellowed & quietened down.
Perhaps
see the cell, starting For example: with the perspective,
of earlier section: THE EFFECT OF THE
BIBLE WRITERS ON THEIR OWN WRITING.
Perhaps also see Peter’s epistles: 1 Pet c1 – c5
and 2 Pet c1 – c3. ,,,
So, Peter must have gradually changed,
must have managed his psychopathy.
Indeed, he eventually loved
people
with an agape love.
(His epistles are
brilliant.)
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