THE BREATH OF LIFE

 

 

 

THE BREATH OF LIFE

 

The breath of life.  Have you ever considered what this breath of life is ?  In order for a soul to be alive it must have the breath.  Your body was created by GOD with lungs that take in air to oxygenate the blood that is pumped by the heart through the body to sustain the body’s operation.  Now, this breath of life is a spirit especially designed to induce breathing to provide the necessary oxygen to keep the body functioning.  Dead people don’t breathe, only living people breathe.  This is how the spirit of the breath of life imputes what seems to be life to the body.  The body is composed of matter which has no life or intelligence.  The spirit of the breath of life has life and intelligence.  

“It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing.”  John 6:63

Psalm 150:6 “Let everything that HAS BREATH praise the LORD..”

Acts 17:25 “And HE is not served with men’s hands as though HE needed anything since HE gives LIFE AND BREATH to all things.”

Job 33:4 “The spirit of GOD has made me and the breath of the ALMIGHTY gives me life.”

Job 7:7 “Remember O GOD that my life is but a breath….”

Ezekiel 37:9 “Then HE said to me prophesy to the BREATH , prophesy son of man, and say to it, this is what the sovereign LORD says; come breath from the four winds and breathe into these slain THAT THEY MAY LIVE.”

Revelation 11:11 “But after three and a half days the BREATH OF LIFE from GOD entered the two witnesses and they stood upon their feet…”

The breath of life spirit cannot operate unless it has a body to operate in.  If the breath of life spirit has no body to operate in then it becomes inoperative, can do absolutely nothing.  This breath of life spirit is not immortal because it only provides intelligence breath to the body. Human beings have the same breath as any animal, all animals and humans are souls or a living BREATHING creature. The only differences between a human and an animal is that humans were created to have a relationship with GOD and possess intelligence above all other animals having a human spirit, animals were not and each of the lower animals have their own unique spirit and are guided by instinct not intelligence. 

This is how GOD designed and created a human being.  Without the breath of the spirit the body is dead, the breath of life spirit stops operating and is dormant or as many scriptures say is asleep.

 James 2:26 “As the body WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD…..”

Solomon informs us that at death the breath of life spirit returns to GOD.

 Ecclesiastes 12:7 last part ……”and the spirit goes back to GOD who gave it.”   

Now you must remember that this breath of life spirit requires a body in order to operate therefore the body and breath of life spirit are mutually dependent upon each other to have mortal life.

Perhaps you have heard of the lie of the immortal soul.  There is nothing about the soul that is immortal.  Perhaps you know that the soul is the complete mortal person, the union of the body with the breath of life spirit.  It is a lie to say that a human being has three parts; body, soul and spirit.  Humans, all humans, have only two parts; the body and the breath of life spirit.  If in 1 Corinthians 15:53 KJV last part “and this MORTAL must put on immortality” then humans are not immortal.  

What we learn from all this information is that death is not life, that humans have no part of themselves that is immortal.  Therefore, when anyone dies, even Jesus Christ, there is no immediate life after death.  

The message of the gospel is that if we in faith believe the truth of the gospel then even if we die GOD will resurrect us when Jesus returns. To believe the lie of the immortal soul or to think that there is immediate life after death is not the gospel, it’s a lie. 

WHAT IS LIFE AND HOW DID IT BEGIN

 Life, why are we alive ?  Why do we die ?  Is life an accident of nature or a planned event ?  

I watched a documentary called “Uncommon Knowledge” sponsored by the Hoover Institution hosted by Peter Robinson who is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.  Mr. Robinson had three guests; John Lennox, Stephen Meyer and James Tour all distinguished in various scientific disciplines.  All three guests had a belief in intelligent design, that there was a creator that brought everything into existence.  All three based their beliefs in how the human body or any living organism has an extremely complex structure that goes far beyond what current scientific theories suggest.  During the course of conversation scripture was mentioned several times.  What I noticed throughout the entire discussion was that the word “spirit” was never mentioned at all during this particular conversation although in other episodes of Uncommon Knowledge it has been.  

The main focus of the discussion centered on the body, the DNA, molecules, atoms etc and how that the human body as well as all other types of life show a similar extremely complex design thus indicating the existence of a designer.  The physical universe was discussed in the same manner. 

It seemed to me that the ideas all three had were based solely upon the physical and ignored the spiritual.  It must be asked, is matter alive, is matter intelligent ?  

Scripture plainly says that the spirit is what gives life and intelligence and that matter does not. To answer the questions what is life and how did it begin lies with the spirit, not the physical.

In the creation of Adam GOD first formed the body but before the breath of life was given Adam was not a living breathing creature, a soul.  A soul is the combination of breath and body.  People don’t have a soul they are a soul. 

 Life and intelligence is by the spirit not the flesh.

  Job 32:8 says, “There is a spirit man and the breath of the ALMIGHTY gives them understanding.”  

John 6:63 “It is the spirit that gives life the flesh profits nothing. The words I speak to you are spirit and are life.”  

After sin entered the world the tree of life was sealed off, the way to immortality was closed and death was the fate of humanity because the tree Adam ate the fruit of produced death.  It is impossible for matter to be alive and intelligent therefore the life and intelligence of humanity is from the human spirit, the breath of life.  Since GOD sealed off the tree of life, that would have given immortality, then there is nothing about humanity that is immortal.  

Scripture says that immortality, everlasting life, is a gift from GOD to the elect saints.  The incorrect idea that the soul is immortal is actually saying a person, the complete person, body and spirit that together is a soul, is immortal.  Are you who are reading these words immortal ?  If GOD gives immortality as a gift at the first resurrection when Jesus returns then how could we have it now ?  This gift is given at the resurrection of the dead when Jesus Christ returns. 

There is just no way we can know the intricate details of how GOD creates life or anything else that GOD has created.  This awesome knowledge is unattainable therefore the answers to the questions what is life and how did it begin must be by faith and what GOD has revealed in the scriptures.

On this blog I have written about things like this.  That the human brain doesn’t think or store information, like the soul is not immortal, that the destiny of GODS saints is immortality as a spirit being, that Jesus was the very first human being to receive immortality and many other articles. 

Deuteronomy 29:29 sums up for us the way things known and unknown operate.

“The secret things belong to the LORD our GOD, but those things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever…….”

Then Job asks, “Can you fathom the deep things of GOD or discover the limits of the ALMIGHTY.”

Another extremely important question, why did GOD create humanity ?  The short answer is that GOD wanted to create other beings similar to HIMSELF; immortal Beings composed of spirit that would have GODS character of love and righteousness and this is why humanity was created.  Scripture informs us that GOD is love, that GOD is spirit, therefore if we are to be recreated to be in HIS image and likeness then we must become love and spirit.  Jesus Christ was the only human being thus far to achieve this transformation and if we are in Christ we will be transformed into the image of Christ who was the image of GOD. 

Presently we all are mortal humans but this mortal must put on immortality and through Jesus Christ. GOD has provided two resurrections of the dead; the first for those in Christ only, to love and righteousness as immortal spirit beings and the second resurrection is back to mortal existence again and to be instructed in the way that leads to the things the saints received a thousand years previously.   

What determines this immortality is love, GODLY Love, which is far above human love.  This part of GODS character was displayed to us by HIS son who was created by GOD in HIS express image.  John tells us GOD is love therefore to be recreated in HIS image we must become the same love as GOD. All other gifts of GODS spirit pale in comparison to GODS love because without it we are nothing.  No human being will ever be in GODS kingdom without GODS love in them.  Romans 5:5 tells us plainly how a human being receives GODLY love.

“And hope does not disappoint because the love of GOD has been poured out within our hearts (the human spirit) by the Holy Spirit HE has given us.”

GODS love empowers the believer to love GOD, Jesus Christ, the saints and our neighbors which are the two greatest commandments ever that Jesus gave us.  These two commandments replace the old covenant Ten Commandments that did not give this GODLY love.  To not love with GODLY love is sin as James says; 

“To know to do good (love) and do it not is sin.” James 4:17

Another scripture; Philippians 2:13

“For it is GOD who works in you both to will and to do HIS good pleasure.”

The love we desperately need for salvation is from GOD and if any of GODS saints fall short of it they need to pray to GOD and confess this and ask for more of HIS love to work in you.  

This is why life doesn’t originate by physical means but by spiritual means.  Our GOD given potential is to be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, from a physical human being into an immortal spirit being of love and righteousness.  Jesus was called the first born of many, the first human being to experience this transformation.  Out of necessity Jesus had to be created by his GOD and FATHER perfect in love and righteousness but as a human being.  This perfect human was then offered as a sacrifice to pay the penalty for the sins of humanity so that all who believe he did this could have an opportunity to follow him later on into his FATHERS kingdom.  This is the human potential and in order to achieve it you must be love as GOD and Christ are love. 

This current physical existence is temporary and is where GOD gets the “raw material” as the potter gets the clay to shape it into what HE desires. In Jeremiah 18:1-3 is a parable with a message. 

Jeremiah 18:1-4  “The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying; arise and go down to the potters house and there I will cause you to hear MY words.  Then I went down to the potters house and there he was making something at the wheel.  And the vessel that he made was marred in the hand of the potter, so he made it again into another vessel as it seemed good to the potter to make.”

The first vessel that was marred is Adam, the second vessel is Jesus Christ.  Just as GOD created Jesus from the same clay as all humans are HE will take our marred clay and reshape us into another vessel that pleases HIM. 

Isaiah 64:8  “But now O LORD you are our FATHER; YOU are our potter and we hare the clay and we are all the work of your hand.”

Romans 9:21  “Does not the potter have power over the clay to make from the same lump one vessel of honor and another for dishonor ?”

These few verses of scripture contain much information about what GOD has done.  Beginning with Genesis 1:1 and ending with Revelation 22:21 there is a tremendous amount of spiritual information and only by the FATHERS Spirit in us can we even begin to comprehend the width, length, depth and height to know the love that passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of GOD.” 

 

 

THE ANALOGY OF DEATH AND SLEEPING AND DREAMING

 

John 11:11 “These things he said, and after that he said to them, our friend Lazarus sleeps but I go to wake him up.”

This scripture is an analogy or a comparison between two different things to show how they are similar usually to help explain a complex or unfamiliar idea.

An analogy can be taken to far by falsely claiming that every minor detail or hidden feature of the analogy must also match.  The parable of Lazarus and the rich man is an example of this.  It is obvious to the one with the Holy Spirit that everything in that parable cannot be taken as fact.  

Jesus had to explain to his disciples what he meant by saying Lazarus was sleeping;

“So Jesus told them plainly, Lazarus is dead…”  John 11:15

Now the only point to consider in this analogy is that Jesus compared sleeping to being dead.  The one who would take this analogy too far would say, “we can move in our sleep, we may talk in our sleep and we still breath while we are sleeping”, but the focus of Jesus’ remark about sleep has to be the unconscious state of the dead because don’t we know the dead don’t move, talk or breath ?  Now, we also know that dead people do not think or have thoughts because they are unconscious so then, if you try to use this in the analogy Jesus gave it is like trying to use moving, talking or breathing, it ruins the analogy.  Consciousness is not sleeping because you’re unconscious just like the dead are. Don’t we know the dead are unconscious and so is a sleeping person?  So then in order to not disturb the analogy by adding something to it that doesn’t belong unconsciousness is common to both death and sleep but moving, talking or breathing is not.  

Now, going a bit further, someone who has died cannot sin because they are unconscious so if you analogize regular sleep with death, both being unconscious, then just as the dead person cannot sin neither can the sleeping person sin.  A dead person cannot think at all.  Thinking is a function of consciousness but a sleeping person may dream which is also not consciousness.  This aligns perfectly with the analogy.  Consciousness is the state of being awake and aware of your surroundings and able to function alone or with others in reality.  You cannot do that if dead or sleeping.  Dreams are a part of unconscious sleep that you have no control over.  

Weather dead or sleeping you are unconscious but if you try to add dreaming into the sin category then you violate the analogy Jesus gave.  It’s sleep compared to death, period.  The entire idea of dreams being sin is like saying the dead can move, talk and breathe. Dreams can’t be sin anymore than dead people can dream.  Sin requires conscious awareness and free choice both of which are absent during sleep or in death. 

Dreams come from your SUBCONSCIOUS MIND.  You can’t plan or control what happens in them. Sin is being fully aware that a thought of evil is wrong but freely choosing to think that way.  This could be called daydreaming, your awake but in your mind you think evil.

 Ecclesiastes 5:3,7 “As a dream comes through many cares so the speech of a fool comes with many words. For as many dreams bring futility so do many words. Therefore fear GOD.”

GODS saints , who have grace, sleep sweet.

Ecclesiastes 3:24 “When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.”  

Proverbs 3:24 “When you lie down you will not be afraid, when you rest your sleep  will be sweet.”

How would it be to try to sleep but fear that you might sin in your dreams ? Would your sleep be sweet ?

Psalm 4:8 “I will lie down and sleep in peace for you alone LORD make me… in safety.”

Ecclesiastes 5:7 “Much dreaming and many words are meaningless.” 

Dreams that come from GOD are obviously not our dreams and usually convey a message and GOD can use many different ways to make you dream but these dreams are not sin and NOT YOUR DREAMS IF GOD CAUSES THEM. 

Even if you do have a dream that’s evil and you wake up remembering it, it only becomes a sin when you consciously plan to do it.  There is a fine line here between the unconscious and conscious between being awake and aware or NOT. Consciously Planning to do what you dreamed while you were unconscious is sin, but the dream itself is not because it never happened in reality. 

 If I dream of murdering someone then wake up and remember the dream I would not consciously consider doing the murder, but if I was an evil person and planned out how I could murder and not get caught then that is sin, even if I didn’t actually carry out the murder.  It’s all in how you respond consciously to a dream not the dream itself that will be the sin.  To respond, to make the dream a conscious thought and choice is the sin.

MATTHEW 24:1-22 THE OLIVET PROPHECY

 The following is my interpretation of  Matthew 24:1-22

When Jesus left the second temple and was walking away his disciples came to him and were pointing out its buildings.  Jesus said, all these things will be destroyed. Then later on the Mount of Olives the disciples were wondering when the temple would be destroyed so they said, tell us when will the temple be destroyed and what is the sign of your return and the end of the age ?  Jesus knew that there would be deceptions about what he said concerning the destruction of the temple, that false ministers and prophets would confuse the second temple for the third, and warned them about this.  He also told them that many would come actually saying that Jesus was the messiah but at the same time deceive many people.  That wars and rumors of wars would happen after Jerusalem and the second temple would be destroyed but they were not to be alarmed by this, that is the destruction of the second temple, (they were not to be alarmed by the destruction of the second temple—think about that) as these things must happen but the end is still long after that.  Jesus told us plainly that the destruction of the second had nothing to do with the end times.  Later in his remarks Jesus mentions the third temple saying; 

“the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place, the holy of holies of the third temple.” Matthew 24:15

Jesus said there would be wars by nations and kingdoms with famines and earthquakes but this is only the beginning of sorrows and troubles.  Carnal people who worship Satan will deliver true Christians to persecution, death and being hated because of Jesus. This will cause many people to fall away and hate one another because they will have false shepherds rise and start false churches that hate each other and they will all have their false ministers, doctrines and prophets.  Wickedness will multiply and the love of most grow cold as they will be rich and increased with goods having need of nothing.  

But the remnant of the elect 144000, that have persevered to the end will be saved.  Then this gospel of the kingdom will be preached as a witness to the nations by two witnesses and an angel of heaven and then the end shall come.  So, When those elect of that day see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (the third temple) they will know that Jesus was not speaking about this second temple being destroyed but the one that comes after, the third.   You will know the great tribulation is coming and if you happen to be in Judea get out because Jerusalem will soon be surrounded by armies and it will be horrific times and the worst in all of human history.  This tribulation will be shortened by 220 days for the sake of the elect remnant still alive and remaining in those days otherwise no human would be left alive.  

ACCORDING TO DANIEL AND REVELATION THERE ARE 2520 DAYS IN THE COVENANT ANTICHRIST MAKES. THE FIRST THREE YEARS ARE THE FALSE MILLENNIUM BUT IN 70AD THERE WAS NO FALSE MILLENNIUM. THERE WAS NOT EVEN AN ANTICHRIST OR A TEN NATION COVENANT.  THE TEMPLE ANTICHRIST DEFILES MUST BE STANDING AND NOT A HEAP OF RUBBLE.  THE EVENTS FOLLOWING THE SECOND TEMPLES DESTRUCTION IN NO WAY FOLLOW WHAT JESUS TOLD HIS DISCIPLES IN MATTHEW 24. THEREFORE THE BOOK OF REVELATION WAS NOT WRITTEN PRIOR TO AD 70 AND THE EVENTS AFTER  AD 70 WERE ONLY MORE WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR.  THERE WAS ONLY ONE TYPE OR SHADOW EVENT THAT DIFFERS FROM THE FUTURE THIRD TEMPLE AND THE SECOND TEMPLE IS/WAS DESTROYED IN 70AD BUT THE THIRD IS STILL STANDING IN THE FUTURE WHEN CHRIST RETURNS AND WILL BE CLEANSED. 

DANIEL 8:14  “AND HE SAID UNTO ME, UNTIL 2,300 DAYS THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY BE CLEANSED.”  

The tribulation temple is not destroyed therefore the second temple cannot be connected in any way with end time events.  This fact alone destroys Preterism. 

Ezekiel 40:5-49  &  Ezekiel 41 to 43:6-9   describes the third temple that will exist throughout the millennium.  Later, after the millennium there will be no temple.  Revelation 21:22  “But I saw no temple in the city.”  

TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU.

SPIRITUAL BALANCE BETWEEN SIN AND GRACE

 

With respect to sin, what all of GODS elect saints must remember is Romans chapter 7.  

“So this is the principle I have discovered; when I want to do good, evil is present with me.  For in my inner being I delight in GODS law.  But I see another law at work in my body warring against the law of my mind (human spirit) and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.”  Romans 7:21-23

All of GODS elect saints have a strong will and desire to do good which is governed by our thoughts.  If we think good we do good but if we think evil we do evil.  What Paul is saying here is that we go against our own will and think and do the evil because of the desires of the flesh, the body of death.  Verse 24 continues; 

 “What a wretched man I am !  Who will save me from this BODY OF DEATH ?”  

The answer to this question is verse 25; 

 “Thanks be to GOD through Jesus Christ our Lord.” 

 Willful sin is when a person is in agreement with the body of death to have their thoughts in agreement with their words and deeds. The other side of this is a person who truly desires to do good but because of the body of death our thoughts are not always pure thus having the opportunity to lead us into words and or deeds that are evil.  The conclusion of this condition is given in the last part of verse 25; 

 “So then, with my mind (human spirit) I fulfill the law of GOD but with my flesh (the body of death) I serve the law of sin.

The elect are yet sinners but under grace that allows for repentance and forgiveness of sin.  This is what Paul is explaining here. We need not live in fear of sin but rather as conquerors of it because of GOD and Christ.

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through HIM who loved us.” Romans 8:37

 Romans7:4-6. “Therefore my brothers, you died to the law through the body of Christ that you might belong to another, to him who raised Christ from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to GOD.  For when we lived according to the flesh the sinful passions (evil thoughts an desires) aroused by the law were at work in our bodies bearing fruit for death.  But now, HAVING DIED TO WHAT BOUND US WE HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM THE LAW SO THAT WE SERVE IN THE NEW WAY OF THE SPIRIT AND NOT THE OLD WAY OF THE WRITTEN CODE (the Ten Commandments).”  

This is not a license to sin because if we died to sin and now live in Christ how can we any longer live in sin.

The elect saints are not under the law because the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ has purchased us out of the old covenant and brought us into the new covenant.  We have PASSED-OVER.  We are dead to the law so that we may live in Christ. 

Galatians 2:19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to GOD.”

Romans 6:11 “So you too must count yourselves dead to sin but alive to GOD in Christ Jesus.”

As GODS elect saints we know that we still sin but because of what GOD did through Jesus these sins are forgiven upon sincere repentance.  This body of death is going to be replaced with a body of life, a spirit body, and we live even now in this hope.

  “We have been sacrificed with Christ and no longer live but Christ lives in us.” Galatians 2:20

That deserves a repeat.

“The life we now live in the body, we live by faith in the son of GOD who loved us and gave himself for us.” Galatians 2:20 

As long as we do not commit the unpardonable sin this amazing grace is always there for us; so then, in the matter of sin and how this grace applies we have no worries, no fear.  If GOD through Christ forgives then we are confident and secure in this to the end. 

Excess worry over sin is against the confidence that we have in Christ.  The message of the gospel is this very thing.  We must always rely on the grace provided in the gospel message and we believe that GOD forgives us.  We are the clay in the potters hands and are being reshaped to be in the image of Christ.  This good news should make us joyful and happy not sad and gloomy.  Its not taking advantage of GODS grace if GOD is the one who invented grace to give us.  “

“What shall we say in response to these things . If GOD be for us who can be against us ?” Romans 8:31

 There are times that we can be our own worst enemy when we fail to remember that the sin condition has been solved no matter if conscious or unconscious.  To doubt is to come close to calling GOD a liar. 

 It requires spiritual balance to properly view sin and forgiveness. We should be concerned about our sins but not to where it cripples us in the grace given to us. We should always repent and ask forgiveness and then accept that forgiveness and move forward with a clear and clean conscience.  This process can be repeated millions or billions of times.  GOD knows we are weak; 

“HIS spirit was sown in our weakness but if we obey the gospel we will be raised in power.” 1 Corinthians 15:43

I am fully aware that I sin and I have lost many battles in this warfare but Christ has won the victory because alone by myself I cannot. 

“But thanks be to GOD !  HE gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:57

 This is faith that leads to imputed righteousness.  GOD wants us all to believe HIM.  We were not like the messiah when first converted but are to grow to eventually be an exact duplicate of him in love and righteousness. We are mortal flesh and still weak so we need changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye.  

How many of GODS elect saints want to fail, want to perish forever, want to live a life dedicated to Satan and sin continually ?  How many want to willfully and deliberately desire to be evil ?  How  many will refuse to repent or ask for forgiveness ?  Are you one like this ?   Of the elect that I personally know and fellowship with none of them.  If anything we tend to worry to much about sin and forgetting that Jesus conquered sin in the flesh.  As I said before, it requires spiritual balance to deal with the concepts of sin and grace.  

YES OR NO OR AN ANSWER

 Do the scriptures say that the Ten Commandments are the old covenant ?  YES

Are the Ten Commandments the ministry of death ? YES

Do the Ten Commandments have an inferior glory to the ministry of the Holy Spirit ?   YES

Were the Ten Commandments the ministry of the Holy Spirit ?  NO

Will keeping the Ten Commandments give you salvation ?  NO

Will keeping the Ten Commandments make you righteous ?   NO

Will keeping the Ten Commandments justify you in GODS eyes ?  NO

If you violate the Ten Commandments, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the old covenant , what is your fate ?    DEATH      

 Could you repent, be shown mercy and be forgiven for breaking the Ten Commandments ? NO

Have any of the terms and conditions of the old covenant Ten Commandments been changed or altered in any way ?  NO

Do the old covenant Ten Commandments survive even today to condemn all sinners to death ?   YES

Is there any way we can escape the death that the Ten Commandments demands of us for breaking them ?   YES

Once this escape is provided for us should we then return to keeping the old covenant Ten Commandments ?    NO

What is the escape provided for us from the Ten Commandments death sentence ?  JESUS CHRIST, HIS GOSPEL, HIS SACRIFICE, HIS RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION 

If we are offered this escape from death for breaking the Ten Commandments, that have not changed and remain the same even to today, should we go back to keeping them only to be condemned to death again ?  NO

Will we be an heir with Jesus if we keep the Ten Commandments under the terms and conditions of the old covenant ?   NO

Did the Ten Commandments have a way to determine if a person was lusting or coveting ?  NO

Could two human witnesses offer testimony that a person was lusting or coveting in their mind ?   NO

Is lusting or coveting, evil thoughts in your mind, sin that defiles you according to Jesus ?    YES   

  If so, how could the Ten Commandments really address the true problem of sin when lust, the true cause of sin, was unable to be detected by human witnesses in accordance with the terms of the old covenant Ten Commandments ?   THEY COULD NOT AND DID NOT 

Does GOD know the thoughts and intents of the human mind, or is Hebrews 4:12 incorrect ?  YES, GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS.     

 Is the very thing that GOD will judge us by, thoughts and intents of the mind, the very thing that thing the Ten Commandments could not detect, lust ?   YES

Did the Ten Commandments then address the true problem with humanity, sin, lust, in our minds ?  NO  

If not then what commandments did Jesus give that could,   THE TWO GREATEST  COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE  

And how would his commandments be fulfilled ?  WITH GODS LOVE BY THE HOLY SPIRIT     

Who would fulfill them, the man or the GOD ?  THE GOD      

Would this “work” be done in us by GOD or do we do it on our own ? ITS DONE BY GOD       

  If we do it will GOD consider it to be our righteousness or will HE consider it filthy rags ?  FILTHY RAGS 

Is there an obvious problem with the Ten Commandments when they cannot address the true problem of sin in us and gives us no hope but only kill us ?  YEAH A BIG ONE  

  Should not the Ten Commandments at least teach us these things and show us our need for a messiah ?  YES THEY DO IF YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO UNDERSTAND 

Should not the Ten Commandments be our schoolmaster to lead us to Christ ?  YES

Once the schoolmaster, the Ten Commandments, leads us to Christ are we yet under them or are we now under the two commandments that Jesus gave ?  ONLY THE 2 JESUS GAVE 

So then, once I am in Christ I am no longer under the Ten Commandments but the two greatest commandments Jesus gave and by GODS love in me by HIS spirit the works of love seen in me are really from GOD. I am an heir with Jesus in GODS kingdom and have access to forgiveness of my sins upon sincere repentance and will be changed into an immortal impeccable spirit being when Jesus returns but until that day I will sleep in death totally unconscious. WOW, YOU GOT IT

DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND ABOUT DOCTRINE ?

 

Does GOD change the doctrine that HE has already established ?  

Ephesians 4:4-6  “There is ONE body, ONE spirit, just as you were called TO ONE HOPE when you were called; ONE Lord, ONE faith, ONE baptism, ONE GOD and FATHER of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”

These verses say there is only ONE of all the things GOD has given, ONE.  How about these verses;

“Sanctify them by the truth, Your word is truth.” John 17:17

Isaiah 40:8 “The grass withers and the flowers fall but THE WORD OF GOD ENDURES FOREVER.”

1 Peter 1:25 “but the word of GOD stands forever, and THIS IS THE WORD THAT PROCLAIMED TO YOU.”

Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will never pass away.”

Psalm 119:160 “The entirety of your word is truth and all your righteous judgments endure forever.”

Psalm 33:11 “The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of HIS heart to ALL GENERATIONS.”

2 Timothy 3:16 “ALL SCRIPTURE IS GOD BREATHED and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction and for training in righteousness”

1 Peter 1:23 “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of GOD which lives and abides forever.”

Do these verses say that GODS word or will changes with time or circumstances ?  Does GOD “change HIS mind ?  If you know GOD then you know that HE is omniscient, GOD knows absolutely everything in eternity, why would HE need to “change HIS mind ?”   People who say this are extremely ignorant and would render Ephesians 4:4-6 very differently.  

Did GOD at some point change HIS mind and allow some or all people to either suffer consciously in torment and others enjoy being in Abrahams bosom?

Did GOD change HIS mind to bypass HIS sons sacrifice that gives immortality to the saints and decide to give it to both saints and sinners immediately after death ?   Is judgement day now immediately after death or in the future at the great white throne judgement ?  Even the message of the gospel itself is no longer needed if immortality and judgment is immediately after death.  

Just where are these “dead but somehow alive people” and how can they function when they have no body ?

GOD sealed off the tree of life from humanity after Adam sinned, the living breathing creature called man is a soul that isn’t immortal but when do any humans receive immortality?

1 Corinthians 15:42  “So it will be with the resurrection of the dead.”  Verse 44 “it is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body.”  Verse 53 “this mortal must put on immortality.”  When do these things happen ? Verse 52 “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, AT THE LAST TRUMPET.”  

1 Thessalonians 4:16 “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and WITH THE TRUMPET OF GOD and THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST.”

Dear readers, GOD does not change HIS mind.  GODS doctrines and prophecies stand forever.  As an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent GOD has no need to change HIS mind.  However, there are very spirituality ignorant people that actually think HE does.