I've heard that, in some cases (eg, potatoes), farmers refuse to eat "organic" foods they grow, because they MUST use certain substances on them--but even in cases where they don't "have to", they are allowed to use synthetic substances--so they grow three crops, so they can eat something (conventional, organic, personal use).
I didn’t know that....but, sadly it doesn’t surprise me...the “food” industry is dictated to, just like everything else. I wonder if it’s the same in Australia? Nothing in this world is as it appears to be.
Jesus chose me, I didn't choose Jesus.
I know it's a hard truth to accept, but it's not about us, it's all about God, from start to finish. This is all about God, not us. We did not choose God. The fruit of accepting God's Word on such matters is humility and peace.
I kinda got the same feeling, but it was only in hindsight that I saw God’s hand in my life....so many times I could have got myself into trouble as a teen, but was always prevented somehow.
I know that I was searching for meaning to our existence, but never found that the churches could explain it logically. None of it made sense....and I could see the hypocrisy in the church, the clergy, as well as the members of the congregation who seemed to pick their Christianity up at the door, and leave it there on their way out....
I knew there was a God because creation taught me that, even when I was studying evolution to see if it held the answers I was looking for....the design in the natural world screamed of a designer....but it wasn’t until I started to study the Bible, apart from church theology, that I got excited.
Unfolding before my eyes was what I had been searching for!......the truth! From Genesis I learned why God put us mortal humans on this carefully prepared planet, providing for our every need and giving us meaningful work to do.
Paradise didn’t mean sitting around doing nothing all day, but there was an assignment for the human race.
We were to “fill the earth” with our children and “subdue” the land outside the garden, spreading the boundaries of paradise until the whole world looked like the garden of Eden. There was no mention of going to heaven because we were given “heaven on earth” to be our permanent home. There would have been no aging, sickness, disability or death in that world....the one we are programmed to live in. So everything in this world is the exact opposite of the life we should be living.
A derailment took place because one spirit son of God thought too much of himself and wanted worship for himself. His fellow angels were his equal in power so he could not become a god to them, but the new humans?.....a lower creation with limited power and intelligence...these would fit his purpose nicely, so he planned his attack, not a kidnapping exactly but an enticement to disobedience, aimed at the woman first (the newest and least experienced of the pair) and this started a domino effect that separated them from God and eventually resulted in success as he planned. What he underestimated was God’s response.
The first thing God did was to evict the humans from the garden to cursed ground outside...barring the way to “the tree of life”. No longer free to access that tree and live forever (Gen 3:22-24) or the delicious fruit in the garden, they now had to cultivate the soil to produce grain and make “bread”....but the ground was now cursed and so little would grow for a lot of effort. We can only imagine the realisation of where their disobedience was taking them...yet there was only quiet resignation....not a word of remorse was said.
But this was not a permanent situation, because God had planned a rescue mission for the children that these two would produce in “filling the earth” with their now defective offspring. Such was the power of sin that within one generation a premeditated murderer was produced! The humans experienced death for the first time among their own kind.
Learning about God’s solution to the fall was so exciting that I could hardly wait to get all my questions answered....using Genesis as a basis to begin my journey, I discovered so many things that the church was missing, corrupted over centuries of introduced man-made doctrines, that just muddied the waters and caused confusion as men took others after themselves and carved up the Christian Faith to the point that Jesus would not recognize any of them. (Matt 7:21-23)
I cannot tell you what the truth did for me.....it’s just as Jesus said....
“So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”. . . . “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” (John 8:31-36 ESV)
I felt the shackles fall off and release me from the doctrines that were ingrained in me from childhood....the ones that never made any sense to me.
The “church” you see in the world today is a million miles away from the one Jesus and his apostles started....but it was all foretold. An apostasy was going to take place and it happened gradually, over centuries, right under our collective noses.
We have a bumper crop of “weeds” in the world pretending to be “wheat”.
Who rules this world? (1 John 5:19) And why did God allow him to. (Luke 4:5-7)
My questions kept coming but so did the answers.....solid Bible based answers that all fit into one “big picture”.
God’s spirit unites his people...it doesn’t divide them. Disunity is what the devil created....the master of deception who can make what is black look white.
Genuine seekers will find what they are looking for, but it will not be found in obvious places.
