So Many Things To Consider 5: Prayer CHANGED Things
Inspired by the Second Chapter of Acts' "Quickly now, go tell his disciples that Jesus Christ is no longer dead" (which I take to mean that the YHWH-anointed Jew we call Jesus was no longer dead in the ignorance of amnesia, but had evolved to a higher state of consciousness - his disciples being elements of our minds, and if he, then we also . . . if), I found myself reading Victor N. Alexander's translation of Romans 10:9 from the ancient Aramaic: "That God raised him from the House (State) of Dead" (parenthesis mine). I happened to notice in Alexander's translation of verse 8, that Paul does not actually answer the question he raises. "Except what does it say? Hold close this answer to your lips* (mouth) and in your heart, this is the Manifestation of Faith that we preach." The answer to be held close to their lips and in their heart was ASSUMED by Paul to be understood by his readers! It was what he had been talking about. A quick look at Bullinger's Companion Bible's margin note on the verse shows that the King James "word of faith, which we preach," should have been translated, "word of the faith which we preach." Alexander is right, and Christianity has by the King James Version's mistranslation been slung into outer space. Yoohoo, Christianity.
I hope you can see the gaping hole caused here by Paul's assumption and the translators' misstating of what he did say. qAnother way for Paul to have said it would have been, "Hold the word of the faith we preach close to your lips* (mouth) and in your heart." Then Paul laid out the BASIS for the faith which they preached: "If you confess with your mouth our Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the Dead,* you shall Live. For the heart that believes in him, is sanctified, and the lips that confess in him, Live" (verses 9 and 10, Alexander). By this faith the word of the faith they preached would then have effect -- their lips (mouths, which are peoples minds) would Live, i.e., evolve to a higher state of consciousness.
What are we seeing here? The manifestation of faith Paul preached was that if Jesus evolved from ignorance unto consciousness, so are we if we are joined to Christ by the regeneration of the Holy Spirit. I.e., when they prayed, their prayer CHANGED things.
We might not readily see that when we pray and receive the Holy Spirit. But as Merlin Carothers notes in Prison to Praise, we receive the Holy Spirit as the earnest of those changes (Acts ch. 2; Ephesians 1:13-14; 2 Corinthians 1:22 and 5:5; Romans. 8:16, 23). The changes are thus ALREADY HAD, even if they are not already seen. The Manifestation of Faith is your prayer CHANGED things. If you do not see it, wait in faith. For Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever; and he is the attitude of YHWH toward us.
Wait, wait. What? “Jesus” is God’s ATTITUDE. As his imaginings before our embodiment as ignorance, we did his will in perfect, concerted REFLECTION (see Neville’s Unless I Go Away). As his thoughts wiggled, we wiggled. As he grinned, we grinned. But we were not THINKING. We were his ACTIONS. We were unaware of being HIM. By his love -- Jesus -- God is fixing that. He is getting rid of our ignorance and raising us to his standard, except in God's economy, IT IS ALREADY DONE.
These are the four parts of the Gospel to be preached according to T. L. Osborn (the translator's voice is sped up):
1) That God created us. We are God's creation (imagination). That is where we came from.
2) That Satan (ignorance's deception) ruined us and is the problem of our lives.
3) That God, by his loving beneficence Jesus, conquered Satan - ignorance's lies.
4) That we, by faith joined with Jesus, are RESTORED to life as God, whom we are.
It was the loving, beneficent ATTITUDE of God, Jesus, that moved (from before the beginning) to save us unto the consciousness; to evolve us unto the better likeness of God possible within us. It does not matter when, where, why, or how he did it. He did it. The benevolent attitude of God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. THAT Christ manifested as our anonymous “Jesus” 2000 years ago. Our Jesus Christ in the Season of Grace was a picture of the eternal ATTITUDE. He was a symbolic picture of the Truth, the attitude of love God still has today! Righteousness is the rightness of God.
Romans 10 per Victor Alexander's translation:
1. My brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God on their behalf, is that they should Live.
2. For I testify over them, that there are those who are zealous for God among them, except not through knowledge.
3. The righteousness of God, however, they know not, except they want to uphold their own righteousness. Because of this they did not submit to the righteousness of God.
4. For the binding post of the Law is Christ, onto righteousness, for whoever believes.
5. For Moses thus wrote of the righteousness through the Law, that whoever performs these [commandments] shall Live through them.
6. Righteousness through faith, however, says thus, that you shall not say in your heart, "Who goes up to heaven and is with* (under) Christ?
7. "And who goes to sheol's abyss and is raised by Christ from the (House of) Dead*?"
8. Except what does it say? Hold close this answer to your lips* (mouth) and in your heart, this is the Manifestation of Faith that we preach,
9. And if you confess with your mouth our Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the (House of) Dead,* you shall Live.
10. For the heart that believes in him, is sanctified, and the lips that confess in him, Live.
11. For Scriptures says, "Whoever believes in him shall not perish."
12. And through this, He does not differentiate, neither the Jews, nor the Aramaic speaking people.* For One is He, Lord of all, who is bountiful to all who call on Him.
13. For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall Live.
John 20
31. But these that are written, [are] so that you believe that Jesus was the Son of God, and whoever believes shall receive* (have) in heaven Life to [the end of] the universe (everlasting Life).
Per Robert Young in his introduction to Young's Literal Translation of the Bible, the ancient Hebrew had no future tense. Therefore, whoever believes HAS in heaven (the mind) everlasting Life (consciousness).
I hope you can see the gaping hole caused here by Paul's assumption and the translators' misstating of what he did say. qAnother way for Paul to have said it would have been, "Hold the word of the faith we preach close to your lips* (mouth) and in your heart." Then Paul laid out the BASIS for the faith which they preached: "If you confess with your mouth our Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the Dead,* you shall Live. For the heart that believes in him, is sanctified, and the lips that confess in him, Live" (verses 9 and 10, Alexander). By this faith the word of the faith they preached would then have effect -- their lips (mouths, which are peoples minds) would Live, i.e., evolve to a higher state of consciousness.
What are we seeing here? The manifestation of faith Paul preached was that if Jesus evolved from ignorance unto consciousness, so are we if we are joined to Christ by the regeneration of the Holy Spirit. I.e., when they prayed, their prayer CHANGED things.
We might not readily see that when we pray and receive the Holy Spirit. But as Merlin Carothers notes in Prison to Praise, we receive the Holy Spirit as the earnest of those changes (Acts ch. 2; Ephesians 1:13-14; 2 Corinthians 1:22 and 5:5; Romans. 8:16, 23). The changes are thus ALREADY HAD, even if they are not already seen. The Manifestation of Faith is your prayer CHANGED things. If you do not see it, wait in faith. For Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever; and he is the attitude of YHWH toward us.
Wait, wait. What? “Jesus” is God’s ATTITUDE. As his imaginings before our embodiment as ignorance, we did his will in perfect, concerted REFLECTION (see Neville’s Unless I Go Away). As his thoughts wiggled, we wiggled. As he grinned, we grinned. But we were not THINKING. We were his ACTIONS. We were unaware of being HIM. By his love -- Jesus -- God is fixing that. He is getting rid of our ignorance and raising us to his standard, except in God's economy, IT IS ALREADY DONE.
These are the four parts of the Gospel to be preached according to T. L. Osborn (the translator's voice is sped up):
1) That God created us. We are God's creation (imagination). That is where we came from.
2) That Satan (ignorance's deception) ruined us and is the problem of our lives.
3) That God, by his loving beneficence Jesus, conquered Satan - ignorance's lies.
4) That we, by faith joined with Jesus, are RESTORED to life as God, whom we are.
It was the loving, beneficent ATTITUDE of God, Jesus, that moved (from before the beginning) to save us unto the consciousness; to evolve us unto the better likeness of God possible within us. It does not matter when, where, why, or how he did it. He did it. The benevolent attitude of God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. THAT Christ manifested as our anonymous “Jesus” 2000 years ago. Our Jesus Christ in the Season of Grace was a picture of the eternal ATTITUDE. He was a symbolic picture of the Truth, the attitude of love God still has today! Righteousness is the rightness of God.
Romans 10 per Victor Alexander's translation:
1. My brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God on their behalf, is that they should Live.
2. For I testify over them, that there are those who are zealous for God among them, except not through knowledge.
3. The righteousness of God, however, they know not, except they want to uphold their own righteousness. Because of this they did not submit to the righteousness of God.
4. For the binding post of the Law is Christ, onto righteousness, for whoever believes.
5. For Moses thus wrote of the righteousness through the Law, that whoever performs these [commandments] shall Live through them.
6. Righteousness through faith, however, says thus, that you shall not say in your heart, "Who goes up to heaven and is with* (under) Christ?
7. "And who goes to sheol's abyss and is raised by Christ from the (House of) Dead*?"
8. Except what does it say? Hold close this answer to your lips* (mouth) and in your heart, this is the Manifestation of Faith that we preach,
9. And if you confess with your mouth our Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the (House of) Dead,* you shall Live.
10. For the heart that believes in him, is sanctified, and the lips that confess in him, Live.
11. For Scriptures says, "Whoever believes in him shall not perish."
12. And through this, He does not differentiate, neither the Jews, nor the Aramaic speaking people.* For One is He, Lord of all, who is bountiful to all who call on Him.
13. For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall Live.
John 20
31. But these that are written, [are] so that you believe that Jesus was the Son of God, and whoever believes shall receive* (have) in heaven Life to [the end of] the universe (everlasting Life).
Per Robert Young in his introduction to Young's Literal Translation of the Bible, the ancient Hebrew had no future tense. Therefore, whoever believes HAS in heaven (the mind) everlasting Life (consciousness).
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