"Time is just an illusion"???......How insightful is the philosopher's eye!!....(you found the 'God seed', the "anointing").
In scripture (neither the word "Christianity" nor the word "bible" are in scripture), God is informing the insightful and sincere how to be more fully human (a SELF), but only those who are "true" and courageous ever see it (there shall be NO "self abasement", Colossians 2:18).
1 John 2:27......"the anointing which you received from him abides in you, and you have no NEED that any one should teach you".....
............(believers have always pridefully WANTED to be a FOLLOWER of someone).
Ephesians 1:10....."as a plan for the fulness of time" (the completion/END OF TIME).
Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection ushered in the 'age of eternity' and ended the 'age of time' for all who choose to live spiritually inside His body (the new worship temple). In "eternity", there is no such thing as "future", only FOREVER.
John 2:19
"and in three days I will raise it up"......verse21 "he spoke of the temple of his body" (He is the OUTER temple, we each are the inner temple, 1 Corinthians 3:16 and 6:19).
.....Neither is the "strong delusion" future, the strong delusion has always been around for those who keep idols IN THEIR HEARTS.
It's not as though time is completely irrelevant to God (a day is as a thousand years), it's simply that "God" is not a product/entity of "time".
In honoring/worshipping God, it is only with biased and self-serving rationalization that it can be argued that the 'glorification of MAN' is not innately evil.
Humanity's "glorification of man" (subconsciously motivated or not) has always been the 'wall of darkness' that has prevented humanity from knowing the REAL truth about God.
Romans 1:21 "although they knew God they did not honor him AS GOD"..
God spoke to Ezekiel about the insincere hearts that became their own stumbling block. God said He would answer them Himself (with "ALL WICKED DECEPTION", 2 Thessalonians 2:10).
Ezekiel 14:3
"Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces; should I let myself be inquired of AT ALL by them?".
Sigmund Freud helped society realize that not all pride is bad (only VAIN pride is bad...every human being needs an "ID",...pronounced like "is"). Solomon summed up human nature as "All is VANITY" (Ecclesiastes 2:17).
The glorification of man is not only the ATTITUDE that causes one to be "puffed up" with the pride of being a 'bookmaster', but it also causes us to be a "FOLLOWER" type of person and seek the approval of those in the pulpit (as you will see, Paul was not a "follower" of anything, but a MEMBER OF "the Way").
Acts 11:26...
"and in Antioch, the disciples were first called Christians"........ Before this, SAUL, the chief Pharisee, persecuted "the Way", when Saul became PAUL, he became a MEMBER OF Jesus's body...."THE WAY" (John 14:6).
Acts 9:2 (who SAUL persecuted)
"that if he found any belonging to THE WAY, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem".
Acts 19:9
"but when some were stubborn and disbelieved, speaking evil of THE WAY...".
Act 24:22 "But Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of THE WAY".
Fifty years after the crucifixion, the Jews that came to Christ decided at the "Incident at Antioch" (a meeting of the Council of Jerusalem) to no longer be of "THE WAY" because they still wanted to follow MOSAIC LAW.
John 14:6 "I am THE WAY...".
As for Peter...
.....Peter was the one who denied Jesus (all 3 manifestations of God), misused the powers of the Holy Spirit to kill Ananias and his wife (they lied to PETER), gained followers by the use of fear and allowed himself to be glorified instead of God (Acts 5:15 "his shadow might fall on some of them"). Jesus characterized Peter well when He said....
"you are not on the side of God" (Matthew 16:23).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_at_Antioch
God does not want the "follower" type of person, He wants us to KNOW WHO WE ARE and BE WHO WE ARE so that the REAL person can relate to and identify with the Father of creation (the Father's real name is "I AM WHO I AM")....
Exodus 3:14, 15 "God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM."....."this is my name FOREVER, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations".
In the old testament, the Jews had only the FATHER and HIS SPIRIT for worship (God had not yet revealed His Son to humanity). When "I am who I am" sent His Son to earth, God had finally been revealed to humanity IN ENTIRETY/completeness and salvation/purification became AVAILABLE to "ALL" humanity (whoever chooses to live spiritually inside Jesus's body as an inner temple)....
Luke 3:6 "and all flesh shall see the salvation of God".
In the NEW devotion, God's spirit was not given to us (the "TRUE worshipper", John 4:23) until Jesus was glorified....
John 7:39
"for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified"....
....Jesus is 'THE REVEALING WORD' that became flesh (not text).
Colossians 2:9 "For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily".
.....It is only by being AWARE ('study, study, study' is not really necessary) of the 'JESUS scriptures' (doctrine/teaching of Christ) that we know that we now have "God in entirety".
"Babes in Christ" (only recently introduced to Jesus, young in the faith) still think in worldly ways ("men OF THE FLESH", 1 Corin. 3:1) and were "trained" (2 Timothy 3:16 in the BASICS of devotion ("fed milk"), but the world's "flesh" system never taught that we need to MOVE ON ("go ahead") to a "more excellent" devotion that is based on "the greatest of these" (1 Corin. 13:13) so that we can be fed "solid food".
1 Corinthians 3:2
"I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it".
Hebrews 5:14
"But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to DISTINGUISH good from evil".....
God's "VOICE" will teach us the "sword" of PROPER discernment that a Godly person/spirit should have (as long as we become GOOD LISTENERS/students).
The "sword of the spirit" does not have/make multiple divisions between right and wrong, it only makes a DISTINCTION between the two standards (with NO middle ground between the two, "no variation or shadow").....In other words, the "change" from right to wrong is CLEAR AND ABRUPT.
Ephesians 6:17 "sword of the spirit".
James 1:17 "no vartiation or shadow due to change".
"My sheep HEAR my VOICE" (John 10:27).
Our devotion to God should not be based on SIMPLY KNOWING and UNDERSTANDING the doctrine of Christ (we must always "abide" in it), but the mature devotion is one of having JESUS as our ONLY foundation (no longer should we have a FOUNDATION OF "REPENTANCE", the performance of 'righteous deeds'/self "works" is "DEAD"/useless), neither should we any longer have mere "faith TOWARD" God, but we must have "FAITH FOR faith".
Romans 1:17 "the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith".
The 'textbook' should no longer be OUR TRAINER/TEACHER, the SPIRIT must now be our trainer/teacher.
"Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God" (Hebrews 6:1).
Jesus did ALL the "works" that are necessary, OUR only obligation is to TRUST those "works" to be sufficient (let them be "manifest" in our lives so that we RELAX/REST in The Lord....
John 6:28 "Then they said to him, "What must we do, to be doing the works of God?".
"that the works of God might be made manifest" (John 9:3).
We have no obligations except to be peaceful and just (the "spirit") and to have peaceful regard for each other (loving others ONLY as much as we love ourselves, but I don't have the need to show love to myself....I just AM).
When and IF I decide to be helpful to someone, I'm not giving them assistance GRUDGINGLY (I 'm not a hypocrite), I will only "give" assistance when I will be "CHEERFUL" about it (The Lord doesn't want us to be hypocrites)....
2 Corinthians 9:7
"Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver".
...do you see?.....this verse has NOTHING to do with MONEY, but the modern day moneychangers want us to think it does (they don't realize that they also have been taught lies, but they still have to pay their bills).
The 'Jesus scriptures' (gospel) tells us what we need to know about Jesus's time on earth and what He did for us (the "works of God") and that now we have the fulness of God.
The doctrine of Christ must not be discarded or ignored, but the printed words (TEXT) must not replace the SPIRIT as our teacher/trainer...(in order to have a more excellent RELATIONSHIP DEVOTION with God (not aBOOK DEVOTION)..
2 John 1:9
"Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has BOTH the Father and the Son".
So, live the LAW of LIBERTY (it is God's DESIRE....you do care about His WILL, don't you?, James 1:25 and 2:12)......He abolished the old law of rules/ordinances and commandments....
Ephesians 2:15 "by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances".
Now that you know it's there, let that "God seed" grow.
All verses are from the RSV.
.....(many versions of scripture have been corrupted somewhat, especially the newer ones from today, BEWARE!).
http://www.av1611.org/nkjv.html
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/NLT/nlt_exposed.htm