On Our Oneness With God

My understanding of the Oneness of God--and our being included in that Oneness--is a compilation of thoughts. I mean like line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little, built up over a long stretch of time. The Holy Ghost is a good teacher.

A YouTube.com video I saw not long ago stated that the Bible is not a record of history; it is an introduction to God. Consider Deuteronomy 6:4. I personally translate 'Israel' as "God's Prevailing." Bullinger (The Companion Bible) notes that in composite names like Isra-el, it is God who is the DOER of the verb. So in Jacob's struggling with God and prevailing: "I will not let you go until you bless me," it was God who prevailed in getting what HE wanted--Jacob standing in faith. And in Deuteronomy 6, Israel is told that God, our God, is One. The idea is that Israel (like everything and everyone else) is INCLUDED in that Oneness. Israel has the purpose of presenting this relationship to the rest of mankind. Their experience in presenting it is revelatory, too.

My theology has one pre-God stuff in infinite time becoming conscious and over ages of time thinking everything out. The pre-God stuff in infinite time cannot be known, but Its consciousness, "God," CAN be known by inference by what It does. The Milta is what It is doing, God's ACT. God planned the Milta from BEFORE eternity started, and all (including us) comes from it to eternity's end; it is the Beginning and the End--the whole history of the universe. Simply put: the plan is being executed, the end of it all being the completed Milta, God having prevailed completely. Prevailed against what? The darkness of human ignorance and inclination toward doing everything for itself and by itself, as if God wasn't even there. The pre-God stuff wants to be known and appreciated by us as is right and proper.

We worship the Son (the Milta) because He IS the Father (the pre-God stuff) manifest. I see Adam and Eve as human consciousness. I only saw Dr. Roy Blizzard on TV once, but in that one lesson he taught that the 'dam' in Adam meant blood, and that the 'A, aleph', represented God in the possessive; i.e., 'Adam' means "God's Blood." I think Adam is God's consciousness in man, and Eve is his imagination, the mother/cause of all living. We are given God's Life in our mental garden, but in our ignorance we turn aside wanting to do everything for ourselves. We control "our" lives, directing them as WE see fit, misusing GOD'S Life. Satan is resistance to submitting to God's way. (Sorry Frank, you just can't do things your way.) Our allowing God's way is the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden, and doing our way is eating/deleting His part. This is rebellion, sin as witchcraft. We do not even say, "Thank you," for the life He gives us, nor ask what purpose He created us for. 

"Take no thought of your life" and "Your heavenly Father knows what you need" are just two of many, many expressions of the same thought. After Jesus appeared to T. L. Osborn, Osborn KNEW that Jesus is real and risen and that God is real and powerful and faithful. THAT world is the real one. Now Osborn's daughter LaDonna leads Osborn Ministries. There is a wealth of wisdom and lessons there in the AUDIO button at osborn.org. LaDonna has a lot of her videos available, too. I've got a good dozen of Osborn's books, and am ashamed I haven't read them and lived them as thoroughly as I know I should. I hope you won't make the same mistake I have. My most recent purchase is The Power Of Positive Desire. T. L. went the right way after the evidence of Jesus being real, trusting God to DO what He said He would do if T. L. did what he was told to do. GET OSBORN'S VIEW OF CHRIST'S REDEMPTION OF US. In Messiah Jesus the Milta Itself manifested and died for us as our substitute, and SUCCEEDED COMPLETELY IN OUR DEATH. It is done. All OUR guilt is gone, if we are in Christ knowing that He is in us. In His forgiveness we are restored to pre-fall Life with God, an open and clear relationship with God our Father. Be sure you've got that forgiveness and Life. Do not be calling God a liar.