The will,
and the free will.
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WILL
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Perhaps see earlier section: SPIRIT & SOUL for background.
In an unbeliever, a non-Christian:
genes
culture
education
upbringing
environment
circumstances
influences from people
temptations from demons
encouragements from God
all feed into
your soul.
So that 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
neurologically complex animals each have 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 (i.e. God, angels, demons, humans, aliens)
each have:
a will
and
a free will.
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In an unbeliever, a non-Christian:
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world –
and:
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 –
and:
God’s presence –
but:
free will –
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activates
activates
overrides
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– will
– free will,
– will.
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Hence:
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)
and:
God’s Spirit inside you:
are both right,
both
agree on everything,
both say what they both want to
say,
both do what they both want
to do,
both fully 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:
I write as soon as we make that decision
because making that decision
then gives a bias
to every other moral
decision.
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Conversely, if that big decision
could be affected by
anything we know:
then God would have made something
that we then all know about
or would have told us all something
that we then all know,
all in order 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
(part of)
the very 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 that we make of them.
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CHANGES A BELIEVER
MAKES IN THEMSELVES
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Jesus died for everyone.
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 out of 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.
Believing that Jesus died for everyone:
also makes your primary relationship – with God
and your secondary relationships – with people.
Believing that Jesus died for everyone:
also 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. See: 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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FEAR & AGAPE LOVE
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For various
reasons, God has had to do many unloving things.
Perhaps
see earlier webpage:
The
good & bad that God does.,,,
But, actually, his
heart towards us is one of love.
Perhaps
see earlier section:
IN JESUS, THE FATHER REVEALS HIS HEART TO US. ,,,
And it’s an unconditional, self-sacrificial, love
called agape love.
If you are a believer, who has renewed their mind:
Then
you love others with agape love.
Also, God’s Spirit, who is inside you,
Rom c8 v9, ,,,
loves you,
and others through you, with agape love.
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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 that’s now throughout your
mind.
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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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 stops – fear.
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This assumes the believer has renewed
their mind.
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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 freedom, from the world, to our hearts/spirits.
Our hearts/spirits renew our minds.
Our minds then control our souls.
Hence our hearts/spirits 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 rest, from the world, to our souls.
Our hearts/spirits renew our minds.
Our minds then control our souls.
Hence our hearts/spirits 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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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,
and a king to everyone, not only to 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 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:
o God being more intelligent than anyone else.
o God knowing
more than anyone else,
having the greatest
database (even past & future).
Hence each being has a free will.
Yet God can, and often does,
get us to do his free will.
For example:
God designed the universe
so that Satan
would encourage people
to crucify Jesus
(if you hate
something: – you attack it, destroy it).
, , , , Perhaps see earlier section:
, , , , IN WHAT WAYS DID GOD MAKE THE UNIVERSE SECOND CLASS?
, , , , and perhaps see earlier section:
, , , , WHY
WAS JESUS EXECUTED?
Only
after Jesus’ crucifixion and
resurrection
did Satan realise
that God’s kingdom, ways, plan,
was
counterintuitive, opposite to the world, etc,
and
that he’d actually helped God.
So, 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, likewise, in your life,
God can, and often 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 & believers
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.
Indeed, God weaves his
activities into demons’ activities:
uses demon’s
activities, and our failures,
in conjunction with his own
activities.
Or, as Wommack says:
“God is like a master chess player.”
, , See earlier section: PATHS & DETOURS. ,,,,,
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So, God never gave you bad things.
, , See earlier section:
, , SO,
WHERE DO TODAY’S BAD THINGS COME FROM?. ,,,,,
, , and its subsections.
Indeed, God wants to correct bad
things,
or may want to use those
bad things, to good ends.
, , See earlier section:
, , GOD IS ALWAYS CONSTRUCTIVE IN THE LONG RUN. ,,,,,
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All this makes sense
only if you see
that God does not run this place:
God gave this place to us.
But we then 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
and God has to
invade it
to be in it.
Hence God is on a rescue
mission.
, , , , Perhaps see earlier
section:
, , , , WE ARE BETTER EQUIPPED NOW TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH.
Hence God, Father Spirit
& Son,
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 Jesus met.
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God the Father first designed matter,
then created matter,
then made us out of matter.
Perhaps
see first half
of earlier webpage: Making the universe.
So, God is the overall planner.
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Yet God is not controlling
everyone:
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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To conclude: God is not sovereign,
not the way most people today
think of the word sovereign:
Strictly speaking, sovereign means
that you have supreme power
even though you’ve decided
not to currently use it.
God is like that, yes.
Well, he’s using it
minimally.
But most people think of
sovereign as meaning that
the king, or God, is currently using
his supreme power,
as he wishes,
probably to the max.
And that – God is not like.
, , See the four cells
(starting My
1988 NIV concordance)
of earlier section: WHICH VERSION OF THE BIBLE TO
USE.
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You may argue that,
in:
Rom c9 v1-25:
God
simply chooses who to love & who to hate,
God made Pharaoh evil,
God controls us like a
potter controls the clay. my abbn
Paul is saying that:
God is sovereign.
Or, more to the point, God
is like a dictator
who controls 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 changing 180
degrees
due to God’s
intervention.
, , More about seeing
hearts/spirits in the section after
next.
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GOD’S KIND OF LOVE (AGAPE LOVE)
AND
MERE HUMAN, NATURAL, LOVE
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For various
reasons, God has had to do many unloving things.
Perhaps
see earlier webpage:
The good
& bad that God does.,,,
But, actually, his
heart towards us is one of love.
Perhaps
see earlier section:
IN JESUS, THE FATHER REVEALS HIS HEART TO US. ,,,
And it’s an unconditional, self-sacrificial, love
called agape love.
If you are a believer, who has renewed their mind:
Then
you love others with agape love.
Also, God’s Spirit, who is inside you, Rom c8 v9, ,,,
loves you, and others
through you, with agape love.
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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 that’s now throughout your
mind.
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 in their emotions.
, , See 30m 55s
to 46m 30s
, , of: YouTube: – Ch4, PSYCHOPATH NIGHT! [Channel 4], , , , , ,
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But, if they become
believers, and renew their minds,
they become agape loving
throughout.
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Psychopathy
& sociopathy are in the mind
which is in the soul, not in the heart/spirit,
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.
,, , See: 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
believers,
had no normal empathy & love.
Psychopaths don’t love other
people.
They try to own other people, by one means or
another,
so as to control other people
rather
than relate to them the way most people do.
So, when Peter became a
believer
and eventually renewed his
mind,
he made his whole mind constructive
regardless of its psychopathic configuration.
Indeed, with no other
persons in his mind, not even God,
only things, &
yourself, (as is the way with psychopaths),
Peter had far fewer
distractions
and therefore much more
focus
than other Christians would
have.
Agape love,
throughout the mind, & therefore also the emotions,
more than makes up for
the absence of normal love & empathy
in mind & therefore also
emotions.
, , See earlier section: MIND AND 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?”
though non-verbal,
high-speed.
Your focus continuously
going to & fro:
to them, to you,
to them, to you,
building pictures
of their interiors,
seeing
whether they’re 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 few people to
see the heart/spirit.
It’s a natural ability.
Not the miraculous one,
not the discerning of spirits. 1 Cor c12 v4-10,,,
, , 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, by far, cannot see other
people’s hearts/spirits.
Peter & Paul even more so.
Hence Peter & Paul (& many others I’m sure)
assumed, & felt,
that they could not see their own hearts/spirits either.
Hence when
they looked inside themselves,
they thought that:
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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on first seeing God’s kindness,
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 Simon [i.e. Peter]
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 (&sociopaths)
don’t possess empathy-facilitating mental models
of other people & of God.
I reckon they merely 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,
others don’t exist.
Or rather, they don’t exist
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.
So, as psychopathic (&
sociopathic) Christians:
o don’t believe that people, as such, exist,
o believe in God, but as a mechanism not as
a person,
then their faith is fully focussed.
,, ,, Psychopaths see that God has a ‘you’ve done no wrong’
button.
,, ,, And they also see that he has a miraculous power button marked
‘faith’.
See: Acts c5 v12-16 &
Acts c19 v11-12.
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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
& in Paul,
in the next two cells.
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Peter, before
Pentecost: Dave here: edit
point
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 the 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 v1-11:
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, steer
him away from your home.
Peter had already been changed by
God’s Spirit Acts c2 – c 3
when, by the power of God’s Spirit,
he killed Ananias & Sapphira.
N.B. This is not the New Testament way.
See first two cells
of earlier section: THE CHURCH AGE.,,,,
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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