Genesis 3:8 -- A Better Translation Indicates That God Was PISSED.

This isn't my next post. That is still forthcoming.

I invite you to watch and listen to this video: Genesis 3:8 Sound of the Lord Walking in the Garden "Most Mistranslated Series"

Adam and Eve desired independence from God and acted selfishly, disbelieving and rejecting God. God knew it, and was PISSED! He came angrily thrashing in a thunderous storm to confront Adam and Eve: "Where the heck do you think you're running off to?" He turned Adam and Eve over to Satan--ignorance and death. Illness and suffering, pain, confusion and despair (all this living hell we're in in our worlds without God) were God's retribution for man's rejection of the Great King. The Great King nevertheless came to earth as man and kept all the Law (don't say that it can't be done; Jesus says, "Oh, really?" - there is no excuse), AND DIED IN OUR STEAD TO SAVE US FROM HIS RETRIBUTION FOR REJECTING HIM.

THAT is a loving and merciful God. He did that for us, and you, having heard of it, still reject Him, the eternal, infinite, all-powerful King of Kings? You still disbelieve and reject His words? You've got more balls than you've got common sense. Go selfless, man, go selfless, before you have to face Him in an even more pissed off state.

A Lesson From China

You might have noticed I took quite a hiatus from early September to late October this year. It was not just because my wife and I went to Taiwan for a couple of weeks and got Covid on the way back. I have really been distraught over what I have seen of T. L. (and Daisy) Osborn's version of the Gospel, which I discerned from several of his books (and from several other authors) I read before our trip to Taiwan, and the factor of our living our everyday lives without God. I am not sure just what to do about it.

For I had also been watching many videos on mainland China's rapidly deteriorating economy and its effects on the general population (whether they be true or not I do not know, though I do know that they are propaganda). A basic doctrine in Marxism (as I understand it) is that there is no God, therefore there is no judgment, no morals, and no right or wrong--belief in them is "reactionary." The only thing that matters is the State (which, if you are an elite, you read as control by the elites). The people are very distraught, and they have no knowledge of the real God to call upon.

Now, I had just been reading and listening to the Osborns' testimony, their essential and effective understanding of the Gospel, and I had been recounting my own evidentiary experiences with God for my sisters, and in Taiwan I encounter unnumbered cases of the ill effects of lives without God--almost as bad as that in the United States, and of the blessed effect of having a life WITH God. So I am wondering, how do I promulgate the saving, healing Gospel in a Godless and closed nation (people) like mainland China? How can they be saved if they cannot hear?

Maybe I had better explain/draw out Osborn's Gospel (please see the next post, forthcoming).

The Milta (Miltha) is Right, Proper, and Fitting Relationships

John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Milta." That is how the Aramaic reads. The Milta was before the beginning. The Milta is the Beginning of all things: nothing has ever come into existence without being from and of the Milta.

The Milta is the manifestation of the consciousness of the Ineffable Being we call God. The Milta is not just "like" God, He IS God manifest--not two, but one in two forms. And what do we find the Milta to be? Right relationships. Why? Because all that God is . . . is right relationships. There is no disharmony, no wrong or improper relationship within Him.

When the Milta became physically manifest in our history, He was all right relationships. All the relationships man had been wrong in, the Milta did again . . . all right. This doctrine is called recapitulation (For students of theology: Irenaeus' Recapitulation). I.e., what we have stated wrong with our lives due to ignorance and disbelief, Christ restated with His in wisdom and faith.

What are we as Christians called upon to do? Maintain all right relationships. Why? Because God manifests as people in right relationships.

Bible: Summary Analysis

As the Beginning, the Milta (Miltha, God's Manifestation) became unlike God THROUGH us.

As the Messiah, the Milta died for OUR faults.

As the End, the Milta acts TO GOD-LIKE-IFY us, to make us HIM.

The Milta is generative, God's "get it; got it; good." He made everything "good" in the beginning. Our sin separated us from cognizance of God's presence and work in us. Our worlds became bad. Hearing God's Word gives us that "oh, yeah," perception of His intention. The choice is to love Him for His forgiveness and to start a new life with Him, or hate Him to keep our own, independent way. There isn't really much of a choice in this really big choice.

The Story Is Enough

I wrote this for my sister on one of my other blogs, a personal blog for her. I think it holds true for everyone else, too.

Regarding the Bible, I have got 49 years of studying theology, and 49 years of reflecting on apparent "reality" and the Bible. Of the two, I'd say that reflecting on the Bible and reality were the more important and fruitful undertakings. Reality comes in three forms: 1) what the Bible says is going on, 2) the reality we experience, and 3) the ontic spiritual reality.

My impression is that the spiritual ontic reality is a field of consciousness that wants to be known so that it can exist in "form" via its knowers. In the reality we experience, we are agents of this form's manifestation. Trying to pick this apart would drive us mad, as it has (reportedly) some people. Does anything really exist? Are both God and ourselves imagination? You can write books endlessly on the questions that arise; philosophies--some conflicting--complete with proof texts, and not get one inch closer to what anything is really about.

The Consciousness and Its mission are not really that complex. We are to live in a consciousness of faith, of expectation of the Consciousness being what It says It is. We are to rely on Its reliability, to be in the state that It is in, to trust and obey. All of this is to be a state of mind, an attitude that no matter might come up, the Field and the Consciousness are right, because they were first, and the Ineffable was before them.

This doesn't sound very romantic, but it is. It is a love story, a romance: we're a bride. Our husband is our maker, and he has paid EVERYTHING to win us. Even to the simplifying of all the complexities of our formation and ascension via the qualities and interactions of forces in the ontic reality, into a simple, simple story about people getting through this life and accomplishing what the Consciousness wants and its mission fulfilled. Do I believe in a "fer real" historical human Jesus Christ--Eashoa Msheekha in his language? Yes, I do. But I do not think a historical HUMAN Christ is necessary. It is the Jesus Christ QUALITY the bible story is ABOUT that matters. That spiritual-reality QUALITY created us, died for us, justified us, provides the spiritual breath's enlivening of us. WE ONLY HAVE TO BELIEVE THE STORY ABOUT THE MILTA AND IT MISSION, ITS MAN. The reality is behind Him. We believe the story, and the GOD-QUALITY accounts it as believing Him, which is where we went wrong in the first place. This puts us back where we should have been when we became humans, even a little bit better: we graduate from here as the man.

It matters that we believe, for that is the scientific adjustment of our spirit to being like the Consciousness. It is our faith that His Word is true that saves us. We do not want to pass into that world without matching its quality. That Quality is with us all the time, monitoring us 24/7 from within, influencing us, guiding us to the Life It desires for us. I'd think that for you girls/women it would be easy to accept this marriage, for that is what it really is: Someone loved you enough to die for you.

Matthew 7:22 Why Is What They Do Lawlessness?

"Many will say to me on that day, 'My Lord, my Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name perform great powers?' And then I will declare to them that, 'I never knew you, go away from me, workers of abomination'" (Matthew 7:22-23 Alexander).

What is the "abomination" they work? Here is a hint from the Book of Daniel: "...So as the obligations may be concluded, and the sins may be curtailed, so that the abominations shall be abandoned, and that they may usher in the eternal righteousness, such as the vision and the prophesies* may be fulfilled, and to the Anointed One we may commit our blessings" (Daniel 9:24 Alexander).The abominations abandoned when we usher in the eternal righteousness are OUR independently directed lives. Abomination is our taking credit for what He does. We must recognize that these lives, "our" lives, are HIS life, that we are NOT independent. The workers of abomination, aka evil, iniquity, and lawlessness in other translations, make the mistake of seeing themselves as independent of Jesus, as working for and with Him, but not seeing that their works are HIS works: "Did not we . . . "

It's the same fault Nebuchadnessar committed: "King Nebuchadnasser was walking on top of his kingdom's temple, when he declared and said, "Was not this the Babylon that I built as the seat of my kingdom,* of my stronghold* and of my honor?" And while the manifestation was still in his mouth, the voice came from heaven, "I say to you, Nebuchadnasser the king, that your kingdom has been taken* from you" (Daniel 4:29-31 Alexander, emphasis mine).

Kind of short on the humility. Nebby. "WE" do not do anything of ourselves. All power, all work, all glory is God's. We are His Manifestation, manifestation of Him, not of ourselves. Being Him is a GIFT. So do great things for Him, AS Him, submitted TO Him.

We go to hell for what "WE" have done; We go to heaven for what HE has done.

God TAKES all the credit, all the blame, all the sin, all the punishment. Give it to Him, so that He can give you all His Life.

"The Kingdom of God has to do with attitudes." -- We aren't us, we're Him.

A New Blog: Letters For A Sister, A Personal Communication

I got saved in 1975, and as Jesus literally SPOKE to me at the House of Praise, I set off to find what else He had spoken to other people. I had barely qualified to graduate from high school in 1967, and one of God's miracles was my matriculating university at Melodyland School of Theology as a junior. My elder sister didn't care anything for religion. But as I am now 75, and she is in her 80s, I am compelled to communicate to her what I have learned. So I have started a new blog, Letters For a Sister. I have stories to tell, evidence, of events in the present which have proven to me that Jesus Christ--Eashoa Msheekha--IS God AS Man.

I sent my sister Victor Alexander's translation of John and Story of Jesus From His Own Words. Knowing that even these will need explanation, I sent her a brief treatise of my theology, and, knowing that that will need explanation, started this new blog of stories: Letters For A Sister. I call them my "80 Papers," from David Crosby's observation that when you turn 80, you are going to die pretty soon: "That is how that works," he said. So, I've got to get serious, and get things done. I might have to send her a smart phone so she can read them, as she doesn't have smart phone, e-mail, or Internet. I don't know if she can get data. Maybe I can get her a data sim card. I'd seriously appreciate your prayers.

Why Christ Could Pay the Price for Our Sin and Took Our Punishment

This is a little hard to follow. The question is: how could Jesus Christ pay the price/ take the punishment for our sins unless they could be attributed to him? For the wages of sin is death to the sinner, not to someone else. The principle of justice is: "HE did it; HE pays!" Mama can't do it. This will probably raise the ire of some Christians, but I contend that "our" sins ARE Jesus' sins.

My point is that the two of us--Jesus and ourselves--are one. We are the Milta (Miltha), the Word or Manifestation of the Ineffable Most High God, in the process of becoming God manifest. The two of us are together AS ONE. And He ain't done yet; i.e., the Milta is not yet complete with our being Him becoming the Manifestation of the Ineffable. The qualities and characteristics of the Ineffable have to GENERATED in us through experiences with Him over an expanse of TIME. The Ineffable is already well along in the process of becoming manifest AS THE MILTA, to the extent that I believe the Milta is now the one doing it. That is, the Ineffable's imagined/ assumed manifestation of Itself is Itself agent to Its fulfillment in and through us. HE'S DOING IT, SO "OUR" SIN IS HIS. So He could take "our" sin and pay the price, take the punishment WE deserve upon Himself before God, winning our forgiveness, which is given unto Him to dispense as we submit to Him to become the fulfillment of the Milta.

That seems simple enough.

"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me" (Matthew 25:40 KJV). "And the King replied and told them, 'Amen, I am telling you, that whatever you do for one of these my little brethren, for me you have done that' (Alexander). They (we) are Him, and He we. Be sure you are part of the family, His Body.