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It is hard to convert anyone to believe matters contrary to one's fixed mindset. My seven years old grandson once asked me if I believe in God or the big bang. I answered that I haven't enough faith to believe that matter and human beings were formed from an explosion and then from expanding gas without God. It is easier to believe that there is suction in gas bottle due to the fluctuation of gas molecules into the same spot than the forming of solid material in an open system from expanding gas. It is much easier to believe that mankind and the world was designed and made by God if only one is emotionally ready to accept it and particularly it's consequences.

The condition of our heart dictates our reasoning especially in the matters of faith and consequently our destiny: heaven or hell. One reason I prefer to stick with the Bible is that it is the only given information matching with reality and which explains our existence and struggle.

There exist thousands of man-made philosophies and religions and I don't like to add one home - made idea to the list. I also do not desire to twist the message of God's word to match with my whims and desire. Many "Christians" don't believe in hell at all or alternatively embraced the concept "once saved always saved" contrary to the doctrine of the Bible. (ex. Matt 13:42 & Rom. 11:21) " Hold fast the pattern of sound words" as " all those in Asia (nowadays Muslim Turkey) have turned away from me." (2Tim 1:13,15) "Christians " in Asia Minor (Anatolia) thought that Paul's teachings were heretical.

If you haven't the stomach for the idea that you might end up on the wrong side in the afterlife: Instead of adding or taking away from the Bible put your trust to the merciful nature of God. "His mercy is on those who fear Him" (Luke1:50)

The essential part of the Bible is the Fall of man and God's plan to save him through the everlasting life of Christ in Him.

Wood is the symbol of the human mind and Jesus is the carpenter who works with it by his sword. The tree represents the mindset of man. So the fruit of the wrong mindset is obviously sin.

One suggestion (William Branham) about that first sin is that Eve had a sexual relationship with serpent (Lucifer in human form). "Who is joined to the harlot is one body with her" 1Cor 6:16. Adam out of his love to Eve chose to sin as well by knowing his adulterous spouse. Out of politeness on God's side this incident was hidden in allegorical form. Note that before this incident Lucifer was still (spiritually) standing before God as he still had his feet. This explanation is supported by Gen.6:2,4 and Job 1:6 ..."sons of God come in to the daughters of men"...(Septuagint translation: "angels of God")

Spiritually it makes sense even this interpretation is very doubtful on natural level. If one allows a spirit other than the Holy Spirit to posses him or her it is adultery. Spiritual adultery is unfaithfulness towards the union and agreement with God; it is idolatry turning to follow another than one's own husband. To believe and trust an intruder instead of one's own husband will only lead to the marriage breakdown. "How the faithful city has become a prostitute" ( by disobedience) (Isaiah 1:21) If you love your wife or husband you don’t like to hurt her or him.

Disobedience towards God is in essence to have a different view of what is good and what is evil. If we agree with Him with the concept of morality we don't like to act against His will. In this world man made faulty devices end up in the rubbish bin if we can not repair them. In the kingdom of God; Fallen and perverted living beings end up under the wrath of God if they don't repent and get their burden of sins removed. Matt.3:7 NASB "Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath (=everlasting hell) to come."

In Christ we (imitate) God (by our thoughts and behaviour) instead of the devil with different standards. The devil chose to have his own way and to be god himself and set the standards according to his own will and desire. Greediness,self promotion,pride and hate are the fruits of this mindset. God's mind is set to "give" out of love and devil's is to"take" out of selfishness. Whoever looks at a woman to "take" her in the lust has has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Mat. 5:28 own translation)

Disobedience towards God promotes anarchy and indifference towards one's neighbour as opposite God's commandment: "Love your neighbour like yourself". The disobedient person actively destroys the harmony and happiness God likes to have in His realm. Deviation from God's will leads us to a downward path relating to your mental well-being: "Let him who is filthy be filthy still".

Humanity got contaminated with mental cancer and cure for it is the life of Jesus Christ by faith in His promises. He took me into Himself on the cross that I can participate His existence and life in Him after resurrection from the death. . He who loses himself and his own life by joining with Christ will save himself inside Him by owning His life.

Unfaithfulness is in God's eyes evil. Deceiving one's partner only egoistically thinking of one's own pleasure is not good according to God's standards. He who practices it allows wrong spirits like hate, contempt and perversity to enter into him. "All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, But the Lord weighs the spirits" Prov. 16:2 NKJ

Worship of idols is not limited to human-sacrifice of children for Moloch according to ancient habits and culture of Canaanite s. Even "greed amounts to idolatry"(Col.3:5)

Marriage between man and woman represent the relationship what humanity should have with God or what Christ's bride (church) should have with Christ. God in His love is jealous and possessive God just like we are made according to His image. Even more so as we are degenerated emotionally from the original state.

Adam was the beginning of humankind just like second Adam (Jesus) was the beginning of new creation and new (spiritual) world starting from born-again experience. Individually membership (name in the book of life) begins when one first crucifies Jesus ( it is: confess Christ to be his Lord who was crucified for our sins [Heb. 6:6]) and then one enters into the new world as a just born baby.

Jesus married humanity on the cross and become contaminated of it's sin. He was rejected by the Father because the repulsiveness of the new sinful creature resembling the serpent. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3:14)

However like in earthly marriage so it is in heavenly marriage: The bride needs first to confess that she is willing to accept her Bridegroom. Between Christ and His church stands the wooden ark of covenant representing our faith. We choose if we put our trust on God's Word or the devil's deception. It is what one is willing to believe. Man believes what he wants to believe and that's why faith between man and God preserves our free will. One's religious opinion tells us if he really wants to follow God.. Not only that but faith preserves also God's will and selection: mercy to the humble and rejection of the proud. The mental state of the proud person does not allow him to select Jesus because of the apparent shame that is connected to the one confessing Christ as his Lord. A proud person doesn't like to change his opinions and his position of "director general" by agreeing that he was wrong. To be a believer, it means too that one is surrendered to Christ.

Of course God is constantly working to humble us as His will is that nobody get lost.

I once read that some Japanese soldiers stayed in Indonesian jungle even years after second world war did refuse to believe that war was over and Japan had lost it... They choose to believe deception.

When wind blows in the Australian desert and uncovers old dinosaur bones the age is evaluated to be around 100 000 000 years. One can only wonder how much is based on scientific facts and what part one's belief-system plays in the evaluation of the age.

Contents of ark of covenant (our faith): manna ( food from heaven = teachings and doctrinal contents of Bible), rod of Aaron (evangelical word by which the evangelist catch the sheep) and tables of law all are symbols of Christ who is the Word.

Note that you are not allowed to touch upon the ark. It means that you are not allowed to support your faith by your deeds like the foolish (deceived) Galatians did. The result is spiritual death loosing the new life (by allegory speaking our new child) which we have in Christ. In that case Christ needs to be formed again in the believer by pangs of childbirth (by distress and agony) until new eternal life appears again. "My little children, for whom I (God) labour in birth again until Christ is formed in you." Gal.4:19 NKJ)

"(Spiritual) (deceived) woman will be saved through (spiritual) childbirth". It is when the new LIFE , the everlasting life of Christ appears one is resurrected from the death (or by the words of Jesus: waked up from the sleep). So Adam, Eva and posterity were saved by the appearance of Christ and His life in them. 1Cor.15:22 "...in Christ all shall be made alive." Hab.2:4 NASB "But the righteous will live by his faith."So the question is to build our faith by the life-giving words of God.

However many times the belief-systems we are nowadays feed up do not match the faith God is looking for and don't produce life. "You shall build with the whole (uncut) stones (words) the altar of the Lord (= our faith)" "You shall not use an iron tool on them." (Deut.27:5,6 NKJ)

"The one believing into Me, as the Scripture said (without adding or taking off anything), out of his ( by allegory speaking) belly (= food processing body / centre of reasoning) will flow rivers of living water." John 7:38 Lit + With this verse we can test if our faith is proper and our table (eating place = Sunday sermon) is not "a snare and a trap".

But as it was at the time of Paul so it is now. Resurrection from the death is refused by many teachers by claiming that believers are only human beings not Gods. How you can own Christ's life if you are separate from Him. If you don’t own His life you are still sleeping (=dead). Originally God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life and Adam became a living being but after eating the forbidden fruit he died spiritually losing the life.

1Kor. 6:17 NKJ "But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him." God is spirit and He made man according to His image spirit who owns soul and body. If God and man become merged one on the cross then the new creature (believer) is both God and human being or Christ and man just as the originator and beginning of the new creation (and spiritual new world) Jesus Christ is the son of man and God at the same time. Am I heretic when I believe that the Tree and it's branches are one and the same material?

Mat. 9:29 NKJ "According to your faith let it be to you." John 10:35 Lit.+ "He called those gods (or Gods) with whom the Word (or word) of God was..." not those who haven't the understanding and/or will to believe as the scripture said.

1Kor.15:13,16,17 "But if there is no resurrection of the dead then Christ is not risen"(in you)...and "your faith is futile" We should be imitators of Paul and believe that "I don’t live any-more but Christ LIVES in me." !Cor.15:22 "In Christ all shall be made alive."

Eph.4:17,18 NKJ ..."you should no longer walk as the rest of Gentiles (or nations) walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the (EVERLASTING) LIFE of God, because of the ignorance that is in them..."

I suggest that you make the same confessions to your heavenly Father like Jakob made to his father in order to receive his blessings which belong ONLY to the first-born. You should not make them before "non-believers" to avoid being stigmatised as a heretic and stoned by words by being an imitator of Christ. "You being a man make Yourself out to be God"( John10:33) By the confession through your mouth and by believing the God's promises you are saved and also made alive. That is relevant too when moving from the holy place to the holiest place. Remember that only our High priest (Jesus with" His branches") can enter there and not those who don't believe the unity with Him. (Heb.9:28)

I would like to remind you that " without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that HE ( HIMSELF) IS" (owning the name of Christ: I AM) Heb.11:6 + Some translations change the original text and state that we must believe that God is. Even demons believe that GOD IS but that is not what is specified here. "If you do not believe that I AM (including My branches), you will die in your sins." (John 8:24)

Acts 4:12 NKJ " Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name (than Jesus Christ / I AM) under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Eph.3:15 NKJ "...from whom (Jesus Christ) the whole family in heaven and earth is named." John 20:31 NASB "...and that believing you may have life in His name."

In the Old Testament it is repeatedly specified that the Lord's temple ( which we are in New Testament) must be built in God's name.

According to the Spirit (or inward man in unity with Christ) we are complete but according to our soul we are just pottery in the process of renewal of mind by drinking the blood of Jesus. " Increase of His dominion and peace there will be no end."

At the threshold of the new world the unbeliever will decide if he likes to have what the messenger (the evangelist) has. If answer is yes the Spirit of God will enter into him and he will be one with Christ including His life. Top of that he gets as a birthday- present the first-fruits of Christ, it is one talent of God's mind. Gal.3.27 NKJ "For as many of you as were baptized (by born-again experience) into Christ have put on Christ."

After that it is important to stay on the Road and don't get stacked to the desert without life by daily eating the life-giving word of God and especially not to drink contaminated milk.

After born-again experience the devil will send special demons to divert you from the Road. The purpose is to get you to deny your Lord. Peter did it by saying: "Man, I AM NOT" and "Woman , I DO NOT KNOW HIM." (Luke 22:58,57 NKJ) So the opposite confession is: I AM and I KNOW HIM (including the Way, the Truth and the Life).

The worst example I heard was about just born-again couple who went to the meetings of rival pentecostal church. The pastor when realising that they become Christians in a competitive church said loudly about his thoughts: "You are not children of God but devils bastards." After that the couple didn’t want to have anything to do with these "lunatics" not with the first or the second church. The bible specially warns us: "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk." (Ex.23:19)

A denominational spirit can not tolerate the Real Spirit and it's victims develop hate towards genuine Christians. All is about whom you like to hear and believe. The fallen angels (demons) chose to believe Lucifer instead of God.

Is.42:8NKJ "I am the LORD, that is my name; And My glory (unselfishness, humbleness, love...) I will not give another," but (only) " I (Christ) revealed Your (Father's) name (personality) to the men whom You gave to me out of the world" "that they also may be one in us","And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, as We are one: I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected in ONE."(John 17:6,21...23)Lit.

The heavenly Father gave men to Christ, so "He may give to them everlasting life. And this is everlasting life, that they may know You,..." John 17:2,3 Lit.

So the main points are faith by proper confessions and knowledge of Him. Without knowledge of personality of God we can't love Him as one can not love the golden calf (Old Testament example) or image of beast (= wrong image of God by the New Testament hypocritical brothers and their ostensible "Christian" organisation. Tares will be collected into the bundles).

So confessions like "I AM" and " I AM CHRIST (as well as man or woman) " are mere words if one does not know God and has another spirit than the Holy Spirit. Adam did know Eve meaning he had sexual relationship with her. For New Testament believers that means that we should know God intimately inside us.

At the end-time the devil will change his strategy and many will come in my name making correct statements ( like I AM) and are still possessed by deceiving spirits. However if we know God and make proper confessions we have His love and life inside us.

24/07/19 Erno Miettinen

Unless stated otherwise the verses in this bible are referenced from a public domain bible.