Siti On Our Being Faith Factories

Dan

Interesting post...the medical world would say that iron man had a case of 'hemochromatosis', and  therefore failed his desire to give blood. An over abundance of iron in the body made him toxic.

Our minds being faith factories is a good term...as Neville would say, “be it good, bad or indifferent,” it works! For iron man it worked, but in the opposite direction.

You mentioned “what we believe, accept and assume does exist (or is possible) is what actually does become our experience in our future.” That reminds me of Proverbs 23:16, “My body* rejoices when your lips speak truth” (Alexander). His footnotes regarding this verse reads "'kidneys,' or 'as the poisons (venomous words) are secreted by the kidneys.' The kidneys secrete uric acid and poisonous byproducts." Talk about a factory in your mind that is producing good, bad or indifferent, exemplified in the Bible...Proverbs is full of it.

“What God moves to is the Faith our imaginations have manufactured.” For we are One, every creature God has created has a spirit in them. Genesis 1:26 “We shall make the human being in the image of our likeness, and they shall have authority... Genesis 1:27 “ And God created the human being to resemble His own visage...” we were made Co-Creators as Jesus said, “Amen, Amen, I AM telling you, that whoever believes in me, these works that I do, they will also do; and greater than these they will do, [now] that I go to the Father” (John 14:12 Alexander).

As I read that, I understand that the Genesis 1:26 image is the 2nd Adam/Jesus/Spirit man/me. That the man in Genesis 2:7 is the 1st Adam/man of dust/flesh.

In your fourth paragraph talking about Lazarus and the rich man, Lazarus means El/God, and Azar/to help, or God Has Helped or My God is Helper. It is true Lazarus lived in ignorance with his mind “accepting his sickness, poverty, oppression losing out on this, that and the other.” But scripture says “the angels carried him to the bosom of Abraham Luke 16:22 (Alexander)...the Father, Full of Grace.” The rich man also died and buried...in the dirt.

“If the iron man at the blood drive had always imagined himself grateful to God for his health and well-nourished body,...” you are right, he wouldn’t have needed iron supplements. He would have God, and be grateful for the gift of LIFE. And if he became a serious seeker of Him, he could be blessed by the Power of that gift that would sustain his health, not to mention the transformation that could take place in his mind factory/mental diet if you will. (Edit: readers, please take note of this.)

I say could take place, because the “rich man” of the same culture as Lazarus had opportunity of means and ability to leave his ignorance, but chose to worship his idols: stature, position, wealth physical health/ability, attitude. All external, outside of himself and ignorant of knowing who he is. He almost willfully disregarded the kingdom of God, and chose to follow the “herd.”

“For, amen, I am telling you, that whoever tells this mountain here, ‘take up and fall into the sea,’ and he does not doubt (divide) in his heart, except he believes that what he says shall happen, he shall have what he says. Because of this, I am telling you, that whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you will receive, and it shall be given to you. And when you stand to pray, forgive what you have against people (leave the thing that you have over the human being [have built up in the mind factory]), so that your your Father in heaven shall also forgive your foolishness. If you don’t, He won’t” (Mark 11:23-25 my take on Alexander’s translation).

Siti
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Thank you, Siti. I tried not to change anything.

I realized today that I, too, am a de-convert from modern "traditional" Christianity. I do not believe the empty stuff, but not like those who go to atheism. I am going the opposite way. William Branham rejected the Pentecostal moniker. "The people in the upper room were not the Pentecostals," he said. "The people outside, there in Jerusalem for the Feast of Pentecost, were the Pentecostals. The people in the upper room were the Church of the First Born." Jesus was a de-convert from the Judaisms of the day. He took a higher route. The route He took superseded them all. We are here as the church of the First Born, His body, and His manifestation. God help us find that higher route.