This is a continued thread on aspects of God which stemmed from some responses here,
They came from an article I did on Jack Dorsey of Twitter telling a story of Mark Zuckerberg killing a goat, then serving it for dinner.
Still getting interesting comments pertaining to God and our purpose. Many interesting conversations transpire out of the comments from post. This is why I share this with you. Perhaps many of you have pondered these concepts and attempted to seek the answers also.
Here are the posters comments
It only poses a problem when I try to EXPLAIN things. I live. The universe lives. The BEST I can do is describe my PERCEPTION of what is happening -- a very limited proposition. Creator is the only One who can explain. That's fine with me.
Is man created in the image of G-d, or is G-d created in the image of man? I have absolutely no desire to create a G-d in my image. But LOTS of people do -- whether or not they are aware of it.
Is Peace grace? As I see it, yes. The only peace is in grace. And grace is in peace. NOT the 'man kind' of peace...the Ultimate and Eternal Peace.
As for I Thes. 5:3, The narrow minded view of 'peace' is not one of surrender to Creator and to Creation that reveals Creator's glory...
Psalm 19:1: The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
John 1:3: Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
Psalm 95:3-5: For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
Romans 1:20: For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Psalm 104:24-25: How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number – living things both large and small.
Isaiah 40:26: Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
Psalm 139:14: I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Psalm 96:11-12: Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, and all that is in it. Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.
Psalm 8:1, 3-4: Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens... When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
Colossians 1:16: For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
We cannot have it 'both ways' -- either Creator, by his WORD*, created ALL of what we are now experiencing as Life and The Universe...or Creator did not. To imagine that someone (mankind, Lucifer, Satan, or whom or whatever) has added to or taken from Creation, negates the ultimate Source and primacy/supremacy of Creator. This IMAGINATION clearly exists, and is evidence of mankind's attempt to create a god in his own image.
*"Then God said... (Gen. 1:3). "For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm." (Ps. 33:9)
My Response
So here's the deal,
I like to think of it as. . .yes, God is the overseer, the one looking down.
We absolutely are created in His image and Not the other way around as satan is already fooling people into believing. He is leading them into transhumanism and being a god unto themselves with super powers.
We realize and see God Knows all (omniscient) and is everywhere (omnipresent).
But with that given, He makes it clear He gives us a choice along with many other choices as we are Not puppets.
He didn't want to be a controller, so our choices though, have consequences. Does He choose the bad for us, or could we have chosen a different way and possibly not experienced as Much bad. Choices have consequences just as they did for the people in the Bible, we are seeing that today also.
I see it as. . . God allows us to make choices within an environment. Now there are multiple choices, but if we keep our eyes on Him and obey, the consequences will produce good rather than bad. Within all of that there are tests to strengthen us and make us stronger in our faith. Because without faith, it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:6
As God Is, Was and Always Has been, we are clearly in His image and not the other way around. I think I see what you mean though.
Many try to put God in a box (their own box and perceptions) I get it. But God Does tell us Who He is. Many choose Not to see it.
He is love, mercy and offers grace, but God is Also a God of Judgement!
Psalms 145:20
“The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.”
Psalm 9:5
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
Ezekiel 3:18,
When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Matthew 7:23
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
I'm just going to admit, I don't know what you mean by this,
The narrow minded view of 'peace' is not one of surrender to Creator and to Creation that reveals Creator's glory..
Because if you look at the verses that come before I Thessalonians 5:3 you get,
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
So it's showing us precisely what the New World Order, the globalists Have been doing and continue to seek to do.
"Pretend to be bringing us peace and safety. But it is the Opposite and it is God who will put a stop to it by destroying Them and all who fall for the deception as their master planner and overlord is that serpent of old, also known from heaven as the Dragon.
Now you are correct that God's peace is not a man made peace. As God tells us,
Philippians 4:7
“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Now as far as you seeing peace as. .. . 'peace' is not one of surrender to Creator and to Creation that reveals Creator's glory...
The verse above as do many verses give that constant reminder that All things are through Christ; therefore, all glory all power given goes back to Him and only Him.
1 Corinthians 10:31 - Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
This shows we are to glorify God in all that we do.
Hebrews 1:3 - Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right
Habakkuk 2:14 - For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Philippians 2:11 - And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Colossians 1:27 - To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Psalm 19:1, I can't say it out loud without saying it like this because it Points directly to hidden truths, not that God has tried to hide, but rather the infiltrators.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
The Firmament!
Genesis 1:6-8
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
From God's mouth to our ears. . .or was it actually distorted and restructured along the way, somewhere, but Why?
What would be the purpose?
Why Was firmament changed to skies in the other translations? It is rather a Key word isn't it, when you look at how Scientists did all they could to change it up.
Even on this platform built on 666 constructed by DARPA which began as the arpanet, they admit this,
In biblical cosmology, the firmament is the structure above the atmosphere of Earth, conceived as a vast solid dome. According to the Genesis creation narrative, God created the firmament to separate the "waters above" the earth from the "waters below" the earth. The word is anglicized from the Latin firmamentum, which appears in the Vulgate, a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible.
Now upon further reading what I'm seeing here is Science. . .Science became the New god and many tried to reconcile God's ways with man's. Is that ever possible. Are God's Ways man's ways? No, God told us they are Not!
Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.”
The Greeks and Stoics adopted a model of celestial spheres after the discovery of the spherical Earth in the 4th to 3rd centuries BCE. The Medieval Scholastics adopted a cosmology that fused the ideas of the Greek philosophers Aristotle and Ptolemy. This cosmology involved celestial orbs, nested concentrically inside one another, with the earth at the center. The outermost orb contained the stars and the term firmament was then transferred to this orb. There were seven inner orbs for the seven wanderers of the sky, and their ordering is preserved in the naming of the days of the week.
How egocentric is it, and how fitting the Whole world revolves around someone. . .as these scientists were proposing God's creation revolved around the world. Really? Is that not humanism in it's most blatant form?
Now I realize I'm in territory that is Almost forbidden. Kind of how talk of the talmud being mud is not allowed, but there it is. . .I said it.
People don't like their constructs being messed with. It's been the same since birth and is upsetting to think of a different model.
Sort of upsets their Entire World doesn't it?
I've been called a Q head, big deal, so has every other Patriot worth their salt, but even Q heads get unsettled when talk of this begins.
So I comprehend where I tread. But I'm not the one who said there was a firmament. And I'm not the one who decided to change it up on everyone.
Once again, why? Why did that need to be changed from flat with a dome to spherical with space and no literal waters above. . .what is the big deception beyond that?
Are there possibly saviors or a false savior coming from another planet? Will he, she, they, (perhaps their cis, I don't know) be accompanied by a sub? Firmament, divide the waters.
Why also did God say four corners in this verse?
Revelation 7:1
“And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.”
Now I'm just writing out loud as I digress terribly, but how in the World do you get 4 corners on a sphere? Well, then again, perhaps you do with today's curriculum that's been changed up, spun around, discombobulated for kids to spit back out with no "Thinking outside of the Box allowed!"
Now Where did that phrase come from?
So as I've digressed all over those four corners of the earth and the foundations. . .well, that's One more right there,
Why did God say to Job in chapter 38:4,
“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.”
How can you have foundations on a suspended in space sphere?
Now I'm not saying I'm a flat earther, I'm just saying these verses and the fact the "Scientists" tried so hard to change up what God's Word says, makes it appear Someone has something to hide and we all Know it's Not God! Who Always hides, deceives and keeps truth from us? You know who!
Now I'm not saying God didn't create evil, God said He did. He Still commanded us to Hate and despise evil. That is where I couldn't agree to be thankful for evil, but felt I should think it over. So far, I see evil still being abhorrent and causing those who choose Not to turn against God, to see God in all of His glory because He is the opposite of evil.
He is righteous and just!
So, God's handiwork. . .what is it really all about and why have the "scientist" tried so hard to hide the truth from us and create their own little world and universe?
Satan doesn't keep using the Same old, tried and true tricks now does he?
Somehow he Did convince Adam and Eve that a beautiful garden wasn't Good enough didn't he?
He slick talked them out of that beautiful place and right smack into satan's domain. Interesting. You don't suppose satan has done the Very same thing to people for generations through, gasp. . .Science. . .the humanists almighty god do you? Satan surely won't dupe so many people into thinking they not only can become God themselves, but are a god.
What is that trendy belief. . .we are all gods, we all make up the universe and that is how god is everywhere in. . .was it Jim Carey's thing of , "little dots or orbs?"
Hmmm. . . isn't that what the scientists were trying to do back in Aristotle and Ptolemy's time? I find that very interesting.
Stay safe, likely past time for sleep and Godspeed!
Please let me know your thoughts on this topic and what you all have discovered. Godspeed Fine Patriots!