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The tree of the knowledge of good and evil as a metaphor shows that we are capable of both...and in fact both are entwined in all human endeavours. We see this continuing with the stories of Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, Isaac and Ishmael...etc

Welcome here! :) The woman choosing to leave her husband gives her the power she needs to avoid brutality and unfair treatment from her husband. A woman is nor permitted to choose another husband. She is married to her husband as long as he lives. If a women forsakes her husband and marries...

This is always overstated. It seeks to place people in the seat of God...to make us gods. God (not us) can see the beginning from the end. So then a misreading of this verse points to US thinking we are justified by our beliefs while not doing anything. However even the angel of the Lord didn't...

A certain degree of truth can be received psychologically to some benefit. But the bible is about an absolute perfection. A man can't do that. We need His grace to go beyond our human limitations. It's not that it's bad to only go partway. It's just not complete. And who measures the...

God does this so that it is no longer I but Christ. The power of the cross takes away the self with it's reliance on ego. Ego goes into a storage box so to speak because Christ is fully in control. Our identity is with Christ because of this. It is miraculous....beyond human power to...

Crucified means dead....dead to sins...fully. If being crucified was a once for all event then no Christian would ever sin again because of the death to self that the power of the cross brings. When we speak of a "positional" crucifixion we are dealing with a dogmatic ideology that has no...

Of ourselves we can't worship in Spirit and truth. We need to go through (overcome) the pull of the world and our carnal natures to have that kind of freedom and grace. We are slaves to sin and the law of sin and death until a greater law causes us to overcome that law. It's like the law of...

We as humans...especially men...tend to put things in boxes. We don't really do this consciously....but it's how we get by in the world. All the things we have to deal with necessitate that we need to put things away for their proper time. We are known for what is always loose from the...

Nice! Now imagine that the city was floating in the air so that only the angels and saints could enter into it. The other people...the righteous and the eternal outcasts would have no way of entering in.

Have you considered that the new earth is somewhere else in the galaxy....or even beyond this galaxy? There is nothing limiting God to remain in this location. God is God of the whole universe. My estimation is that this world will become the lake of fire...a planet that is destroyed...but...

The faith of Christ is not about religious observances. It's about knowing our need of God and approaching Him with a trust in humility and fear making our requests to Him according to His will. If that doesn't work right away...repeat with more and more of yourself engaged until you succeed. :)

Well, Godzilla, Thor and the Easter bunny can definitely be ruled out.

It was Jung that said that in order to be enlightened we must first pass through hell. Acts 14:22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.” If enlightenment was easy then more...

The Hebrew word for life in humans is "Hayim"....or lives in the plural. That means we are to have faculties in two dimensions : we have animal carnal senses in order to be in this world and experience that... AND (at least when we walk in the Spirit) we have spiritual senses that cause us to...

God has to get involved by our asking, seeking and knocking. Perseverance is required. There are three things I have discovered as requirements in those tasks that we need to have to be "heard" by God. 1 We need to know our need of God. IOW we need to ask seek and knock with an intensity that...

There is no universal holiness. Of course the holy ones are going to be an incredibly small number. Jesus said so Himself. But you have to realize that any kind of productivity or advancement in the world is the result of a very tiny minority doing all the inventing, or the implementing. If...

God is holy. In the past God allowed unholy men to worship Him in a certain location...the temple. It was the temple that was holy...not the people. But now WE are the temple and WE need to be holy in order to carry God's presence with us. So we are to walk in the same anointing as Jesus...

Slow...had a bad cold for a few weeks which set me back. And I'm trying to finish the jazz project before tackling the new guitar project. Until all the elements are present...it's hard to not postpone the final release. It will happen...Lord willing! :)

Worship music is directed at God. Spiritual songs are for other people in the sight of God. These may be edifying or instructional....inspirational. Paul says...to sing with hymns AND spiritual songs. And not just to God but also to one another. But all as unto the Lord. Eph. 5:19 Speaking...

As with all biblical polarities....this statement is to be weighed with other scriptures. As such, it simply means that no one seeks hard after God without help or inspiration. People do end up seeking God...or else the biblical admonition would be pointless. So then the first time we find God...