i want the lord God mentality.
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Webers_Home
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• Jas 1:13 . . God cannot be tempted with evil
• Titus 1:2 . . God cannot lie
I was created with human nature; so it's very easy to tempt me with evil--
and dishonesty in one form or another is my way of life, viz: I have a natural
proclivity for white lies, bald-faced lies, deceit, dissembling, equivocation,
exaggeration, slander, half truths, prevarication, false impressions, omitting
facts, cover-ups, and pretense; etc.
About 50+ years ago I reasoned that were I to be somehow disconnected
from human nature and endowed with the nature of God, then I too would
be impervious to temptation same as He; and I too would be impervious to
dishonesty same as He, viz: my normal proclivity would be honesty instead
of dishonesty, and temptation would bounce off me like a golf ball thrown at
a Russian tank, viz: I would be completely indifferent to evil.
Not long afterwards I discovered that the nature of God is available.
"His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness
through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.
Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that
through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the
corruption in the world caused by evil desires." (2Pet 1:3-4)
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• Jas 1:13 . . God cannot be tempted with evil
• Titus 1:2 . . God cannot lie
I was created with human nature; so it's very easy to tempt me with evil--
and dishonesty in one form or another is my way of life, viz: I have a natural
proclivity for white lies, bald-faced lies, deceit, dissembling, equivocation,
exaggeration, slander, half truths, prevarication, false impressions, omitting
facts, cover-ups, and pretense; etc.
About 50+ years ago I reasoned that were I to be somehow disconnected
from human nature and endowed with the nature of God, then I too would
be impervious to temptation same as He; and I too would be impervious to
dishonesty same as He, viz: my normal proclivity would be honesty instead
of dishonesty, and temptation would bounce off me like a golf ball thrown at
a Russian tank, viz: I would be completely indifferent to evil.
Not long afterwards I discovered that the nature of God is available.
"His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness
through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.
Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that
through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the
corruption in the world caused by evil desires." (2Pet 1:3-4)
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quietthinker
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"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." Matt 7:7-8
"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." Matt 21:22
If you do not believe it when you ask it, should you expect to receive it?
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