Milk is the liquid nourishment, especially important for sustenance of newborns. Milk is a basic human need. In the Old Testament the goat was the primary producer of milk. The Promise Land is called the "land flowing with milk and honey" referring both to the fact that God would nourish His people there and the land will never lack its agricultural bounty of life.
The first letter from Peter was addressed to Christians, called "God's chosen people," who were scattered throughout the Northern part of Asia Minor. The main purpose of the letter is to encourage the readers to accept and endure their suffering, confident that it is a test of the genuineness of their faith.
Along with his encouragement, he also urges his readers to live as people who belongs to Christ.
"Rid yourself, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language. Be like newborn babies, always thirsty for the pure spiritual milk, so that by drinking it you may grow up and be saved." 1 Peter 2:1-2.
The prophet Ezekiel who lived in exile in Babylon during the period before and after the Fall of Jerusalem, give in his message warnings to the people about God's judgment on them and to the nations that oppressed and misled them and also messages of comfort for his people after the Fall of Jerusalem and the promise of a brighter future through the Ezekiel's picture of a restored Temple and nation.
"The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the Valley, it was full of bones. And He led me round among them; and behold, there were very many upon the Valley; and lo, they were very dry. ... Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. ... Then He said to me, Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the Four Winds, O, breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. ... and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great host. ...
"Thus He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. ... Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the lord God : Behold, I will open your graves, O my people; and i will bring you home ... . I will take my people from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all sides, and bring them to their own land ... they shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the backsliding and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. Ez.37.
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
MEN 'S FATE WHEN HE SHAKES HIS FIST AT GOD.
That character of that man is proud and rebellious; he stubbornly holds up his shield and rushes to fight against God. That is the type of man who captured cities and seized houses whose owners had fled... .
He will not remain rich for long; nothing he owns will last. Even his shadow will vanish, and he will not escape from darkness.
He will be a tree whose branches are burned by fire, whose blossoms are blown away by the wind.
If he is foolish enough to trust in evil, then evil will be his reward.
Before his time is up he will wither, wither like a branch and never be green again. He will be like a vine that loses its unripe grapes; like an olive tree that drops its blossoms.
There will be no descendants for godless men, and fire will destroy the homes built by bribery.
These are the men who plan trouble and do evil; their hearts are always full of deceit. Job 15:25-35.
The wicked men who oppress others will be in torment as long as they live. Voices of terror will scream in their ears, and robbers attack when they think they are safe.
That men have no hope of escaping from darkness, for somewhere a sword is waiting to kill them, and vultures are waiting to eat their corpses.
They knows the darkness of their future. Disaster, like a powerful king, is waiting to attack them.
That is the fate of men who shakes their fists at God and defies the Almighty. Job 15:20-25.
If God looks at you closely, will he find anything good? Do you think you can fool God the way you fool men?
Even though your prejudice is hidden, He will reprimand you, and his power will fill you with terror. Your proverbs are as useless as ashes; your arguments are as weak as clay. Job 13:9-12.
God is strong and always victorious; both deceived and deceiver are in His Power.
He takes away the wisdom of rulers and make leaders act like fools. He dethrones kings and makes them prisoners; he humbles priests and men of power. Job 12:16-20
He makes nations strong and great, but then He defeats and destroy them.
He makes their leaders foolish and lets them wander confused and lost; they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards. 12:23-25.
But there is hope for a tree that has been cut down; it can come back to life and sprout. Even though its roots grow old, and its stump dies in the ground, with water it will sprout like a young plant. 14:7-9.
He will not remain rich for long; nothing he owns will last. Even his shadow will vanish, and he will not escape from darkness.
He will be a tree whose branches are burned by fire, whose blossoms are blown away by the wind.
If he is foolish enough to trust in evil, then evil will be his reward.
Before his time is up he will wither, wither like a branch and never be green again. He will be like a vine that loses its unripe grapes; like an olive tree that drops its blossoms.
There will be no descendants for godless men, and fire will destroy the homes built by bribery.
These are the men who plan trouble and do evil; their hearts are always full of deceit. Job 15:25-35.
The wicked men who oppress others will be in torment as long as they live. Voices of terror will scream in their ears, and robbers attack when they think they are safe.
That men have no hope of escaping from darkness, for somewhere a sword is waiting to kill them, and vultures are waiting to eat their corpses.
They knows the darkness of their future. Disaster, like a powerful king, is waiting to attack them.
That is the fate of men who shakes their fists at God and defies the Almighty. Job 15:20-25.
If God looks at you closely, will he find anything good? Do you think you can fool God the way you fool men?
Even though your prejudice is hidden, He will reprimand you, and his power will fill you with terror. Your proverbs are as useless as ashes; your arguments are as weak as clay. Job 13:9-12.
God is strong and always victorious; both deceived and deceiver are in His Power.
He takes away the wisdom of rulers and make leaders act like fools. He dethrones kings and makes them prisoners; he humbles priests and men of power. Job 12:16-20
He makes nations strong and great, but then He defeats and destroy them.
He makes their leaders foolish and lets them wander confused and lost; they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards. 12:23-25.
But there is hope for a tree that has been cut down; it can come back to life and sprout. Even though its roots grow old, and its stump dies in the ground, with water it will sprout like a young plant. 14:7-9.
Sunday, 16 August 2015
LIVE AS FREE MEN.
To experience this freedom we have to submit ourselves to every human authority because all of them are exercising power because God appointed them to punish the evildoer and to praise those who do good. For He wants us to silence the ignorant talk of foolish people by the good things we do. That is the meaning of being free, do not, however, use this freedom to cover up any evil.
God will bless us if we endure the pain of undeserved suffering because we are very conscious of His will. It will not be necessary for us to use words because our conduct will win over the unfairness of anything and the people around will see how pure and reverent our heart is about God.
We all have to have unity of the spirit, sympathy, love of one another as brothers, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not return evil for evil or cursing with cursing; but on the contrary pay back with a blessing, because a blessing is what God promised to give us when He manifested His Spirit in us.
Who will harm us if we are eager to do what is good? Be ready at all times to answer anyone asking to explain the hope we have in us, but, be careful to do it with gentleness and respect.
Keep your conscience clear, so when we are insulted by those who speak evil, they will become ashamed of what they say because of the goodness of our conduct. It is better to suffer for doing good, than for doing evil.
We must live the rest of our lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires. Our lives are not spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of our own idols. People who spend their life in this way are very surprised when we do not join them in the same wild and reckless living.
The end of all is near. We must be self-controlled and alert, to be able to pray earnestly. Above everything love one another with a sincere heart, because love covers over many wrongdoings. Open your homes to each other without complaining.
Whoever preaches must preach God's messages; whoever serves must serve with the strength that God gives him. In all praise must be given to God through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and power forever and ever.
God will bless us if we endure the pain of undeserved suffering because we are very conscious of His will. It will not be necessary for us to use words because our conduct will win over the unfairness of anything and the people around will see how pure and reverent our heart is about God.
We all have to have unity of the spirit, sympathy, love of one another as brothers, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not return evil for evil or cursing with cursing; but on the contrary pay back with a blessing, because a blessing is what God promised to give us when He manifested His Spirit in us.
Who will harm us if we are eager to do what is good? Be ready at all times to answer anyone asking to explain the hope we have in us, but, be careful to do it with gentleness and respect.
Keep your conscience clear, so when we are insulted by those who speak evil, they will become ashamed of what they say because of the goodness of our conduct. It is better to suffer for doing good, than for doing evil.
We must live the rest of our lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires. Our lives are not spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of our own idols. People who spend their life in this way are very surprised when we do not join them in the same wild and reckless living.
The end of all is near. We must be self-controlled and alert, to be able to pray earnestly. Above everything love one another with a sincere heart, because love covers over many wrongdoings. Open your homes to each other without complaining.
Whoever preaches must preach God's messages; whoever serves must serve with the strength that God gives him. In all praise must be given to God through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and power forever and ever.
Thursday, 13 August 2015
AMON, AN ANCIENT EVIL THAT STILL CONTROLS THE WORLD.
A'MON means "the hidden master workmanship or builder." It was the (female) entity in control of Thebes who rose to the position of "king of the gods of the world" under the (male) name Amon-Ra and whose high priest became head of all the Egyptian priesthood.
The office of the high priests became hereditary, exercising even greater power than the pharaohs. Whatever the High Priest wished legally to effect were determined by the oracle of A'mon at any time. All wills and property conveyances of members of the High Priest's family were oracles of A'mon, and civil documents thus became divine decrees.
It today's religious world we have the some distribution of power in which the priesthood rest in the hands of one human being and the rest revolve around it.
A'mon (the female entity) is represented by an image of a man wearing a crown surmounted by two tall parallel plumes, holding the crux ansata, the "sign of life in the world." A'mon in her human personification was a male figure with a female wife named Mut and Khonsu the son of both, made up the Theban triad.
The many gifts collected by this entity, and the large part of the Egypt's spoils of war that found its way into the treasure room of his dominion, made this entity very powerful. The High Priest and his office devoted to the service of this deity, therefore, became very powerful and wealthy as well.
They were the ones who encouraged wars since they benefited from it. Many of the Egyptian raids in Syria and Nubia were made for the purpose of supplying funds for the maintenance of the temples, and services, and for the glory and prestige of Egypt. The slavish homage which the Thothmes kings, and the Amon-heteps, and the Ramessids paid to this entity for her rendered services, and their lavish gifts sent to the sanctuaries give us prove that it was the High Priest and his office the makers of war and peace.
In our today's world nothing is being changed, we continue with the same template and it will be as long as the world exists until the power of this ancient evil cease to exist.
In the same way that a number of adversities came to Thebes and her god, razing the place to the ground and stripping her of all her wealth, it will be repeated in the end of times.
The office of the high priests became hereditary, exercising even greater power than the pharaohs. Whatever the High Priest wished legally to effect were determined by the oracle of A'mon at any time. All wills and property conveyances of members of the High Priest's family were oracles of A'mon, and civil documents thus became divine decrees.
It today's religious world we have the some distribution of power in which the priesthood rest in the hands of one human being and the rest revolve around it.
A'mon (the female entity) is represented by an image of a man wearing a crown surmounted by two tall parallel plumes, holding the crux ansata, the "sign of life in the world." A'mon in her human personification was a male figure with a female wife named Mut and Khonsu the son of both, made up the Theban triad.
The many gifts collected by this entity, and the large part of the Egypt's spoils of war that found its way into the treasure room of his dominion, made this entity very powerful. The High Priest and his office devoted to the service of this deity, therefore, became very powerful and wealthy as well.
They were the ones who encouraged wars since they benefited from it. Many of the Egyptian raids in Syria and Nubia were made for the purpose of supplying funds for the maintenance of the temples, and services, and for the glory and prestige of Egypt. The slavish homage which the Thothmes kings, and the Amon-heteps, and the Ramessids paid to this entity for her rendered services, and their lavish gifts sent to the sanctuaries give us prove that it was the High Priest and his office the makers of war and peace.
In our today's world nothing is being changed, we continue with the same template and it will be as long as the world exists until the power of this ancient evil cease to exist.
In the same way that a number of adversities came to Thebes and her god, razing the place to the ground and stripping her of all her wealth, it will be repeated in the end of times.
Monday, 10 August 2015
Is the SOUL in the BLOOD?
Blood is truly the river of life. It is the red liquid that circulates in humans and other vertebrate animals. Without it our body could not function at all. It does have a way of purifying itself. It is a crafty human tissue made of millions of microscopic elements which use as an element of suspension the liquid called plasma and also as a source of transportation to circulate throughout the body and do all the functions that it requires in order to be balanced and healthy.
The overall importance of the circulatory system is that it transports gases like oxygen from the lungs to cells around the body and carbon dioxide from the cells to the lungs. It also transport the waste from the cells to organs in charge of elimination, helps the cells in their task of fighting off infections and in the elimination of foreign molecules, maintains healthy pH levels and ionic concentrations of fluids, and helps maintain body temperature.
In the Bible, the soul is said to be in the blood because blood is so intimately involved in the life processes of all the cells in the human body. Blood, like the soul, is the most commonly tested part. Every cell gets its nutrient from blood.
God's Word says :"An Israelite who kills a cow or a sheep or a goat as an offering to the Lord anywhere except at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence has broken the Law. He has shed blood and shall no longer be considered one of God's people."
The meaning of this command is that the people of Israel shall now bring to the Lord the animals which they used to kill in the open country. They shall now bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tent and kill them as fellowship offerings.
The priest shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar at the entrance of the Tent and burn the fat to produce an odor that is pleasing to the Lord.
The people of Israel must no longer be unfaithful to the Lord by killing their animals in the fields as sacrifices to the goat demons.
The people of Israel must keep this regulation for all time to come. Leviticus 17: 3-7
"If any Israelite or any foreigner living in the community eats meat with blood still in it, the Lord will turn against him and no longer consider him one of his people.
The life of every living thing is in the blood, and that is why the Lord has commanded that all blood be poured out on the altar to take away the people's sins. Leviticus 17: 10-11
For that reason Jesus said, "Whoever loses his soul for the sake of me, the good news will save it. Really, of what benefit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul? What, really, would a man give in exchange for his soul?" Mark 8: 35-37
Similarly, he stated, "He that is fond of his soul destroys it, but he that hates his soul in this world will safeguard it for everlasting life."John 12: 25
Soul is used to express in a symbolic way the life in the spirit, while blood represents life in the physical body.
The overall importance of the circulatory system is that it transports gases like oxygen from the lungs to cells around the body and carbon dioxide from the cells to the lungs. It also transport the waste from the cells to organs in charge of elimination, helps the cells in their task of fighting off infections and in the elimination of foreign molecules, maintains healthy pH levels and ionic concentrations of fluids, and helps maintain body temperature.
In the Bible, the soul is said to be in the blood because blood is so intimately involved in the life processes of all the cells in the human body. Blood, like the soul, is the most commonly tested part. Every cell gets its nutrient from blood.
God's Word says :"An Israelite who kills a cow or a sheep or a goat as an offering to the Lord anywhere except at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence has broken the Law. He has shed blood and shall no longer be considered one of God's people."
The meaning of this command is that the people of Israel shall now bring to the Lord the animals which they used to kill in the open country. They shall now bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tent and kill them as fellowship offerings.
The priest shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar at the entrance of the Tent and burn the fat to produce an odor that is pleasing to the Lord.
The people of Israel must no longer be unfaithful to the Lord by killing their animals in the fields as sacrifices to the goat demons.
The people of Israel must keep this regulation for all time to come. Leviticus 17: 3-7
"If any Israelite or any foreigner living in the community eats meat with blood still in it, the Lord will turn against him and no longer consider him one of his people.
The life of every living thing is in the blood, and that is why the Lord has commanded that all blood be poured out on the altar to take away the people's sins. Leviticus 17: 10-11
For that reason Jesus said, "Whoever loses his soul for the sake of me, the good news will save it. Really, of what benefit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul? What, really, would a man give in exchange for his soul?" Mark 8: 35-37
Similarly, he stated, "He that is fond of his soul destroys it, but he that hates his soul in this world will safeguard it for everlasting life."John 12: 25
Soul is used to express in a symbolic way the life in the spirit, while blood represents life in the physical body.
Is JESUS greater than MOSES?
We can say little for certain about the historical Moses, not even when he lived. He can only be known through the Biblical Chronicles that focus more in the templates that belong to the spiritual world rather than the physical one.
According to the Bible, Moses is born to Levite parents after Pharaoh decrees the death of all newborn Hebrew male. He, a "divinely beautiful" child, was spared from Pharaoh's genocidal decree by being hidden by his mother for three months, then placed in a papyrus ark on the Nile River where he is discovered by Pharaoh's daughter.
The princess raised Moses as her own. Through the sagacious action of his mother and sister, Moses came to be nursed and trained by his mother as she was hired by Pharaoh's daughter as her wet nurse.
Pharaoh's daughter named him "Moses"which meant to her: "Because I rescued him from the water."
The event as a whole symbolizes future events : Pharaoh's genocidal decree from which Moses is rescued serves as a model in the opposite way. God's rescue of his people from the powerful Egypt and the killing of all the Pharaoh's mighty army at the Red Sea, is the resemblance of Pharaoh, and the genocidal decree against the Hebrew males. The work of his servant Moses deals with the institution of the law because it is the foreshadow of the priesthood of Jesus Christ in the near future.
Then, Moses' symbolic name given by Pharaoh's daughter foreshadowed God's plan of deliverance of Israel, his people, from the waters of Egypt
In the scriptures we can understand this symbolic act when we read the Letter to the Hebrews that was written to believers that were facing an increasing opposition and were in danger of abandoning the Christian faith:
Heb. 3: My Christian brothers, who also have been called by God! Think of Jesus, whom God sent to be the High Priest of the Faith we profess. He was faithful to God, who chose him to do this work, just as Moses was faithful in his work in God's house.
A man who builds a house receives more honor than the house itself. In the same way Jesus is worthy of much greater honor than Moses.
Every house, of course, is built by someone, and God is the one who has built all things. Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant, and he spoke of the things that God would say in the future.
But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.
According to the Bible, Moses is born to Levite parents after Pharaoh decrees the death of all newborn Hebrew male. He, a "divinely beautiful" child, was spared from Pharaoh's genocidal decree by being hidden by his mother for three months, then placed in a papyrus ark on the Nile River where he is discovered by Pharaoh's daughter.
The princess raised Moses as her own. Through the sagacious action of his mother and sister, Moses came to be nursed and trained by his mother as she was hired by Pharaoh's daughter as her wet nurse.
Pharaoh's daughter named him "Moses"which meant to her: "Because I rescued him from the water."
The event as a whole symbolizes future events : Pharaoh's genocidal decree from which Moses is rescued serves as a model in the opposite way. God's rescue of his people from the powerful Egypt and the killing of all the Pharaoh's mighty army at the Red Sea, is the resemblance of Pharaoh, and the genocidal decree against the Hebrew males. The work of his servant Moses deals with the institution of the law because it is the foreshadow of the priesthood of Jesus Christ in the near future.
Then, Moses' symbolic name given by Pharaoh's daughter foreshadowed God's plan of deliverance of Israel, his people, from the waters of Egypt
In the scriptures we can understand this symbolic act when we read the Letter to the Hebrews that was written to believers that were facing an increasing opposition and were in danger of abandoning the Christian faith:
Heb. 3: My Christian brothers, who also have been called by God! Think of Jesus, whom God sent to be the High Priest of the Faith we profess. He was faithful to God, who chose him to do this work, just as Moses was faithful in his work in God's house.
A man who builds a house receives more honor than the house itself. In the same way Jesus is worthy of much greater honor than Moses.
Every house, of course, is built by someone, and God is the one who has built all things. Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant, and he spoke of the things that God would say in the future.
But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.
Sunday, 9 August 2015
JESUS CHRIST, and the prophet Elijah.
In the past God spoke to our ancestors many times and in many ways ... but in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son.
Jesus Christ is the one through whom God created the universe, the one whom God has chosen to possess all things at the end. Heb.1:1-2
The Son was made greater than the angels ... What are the angels, then? They are spirits who serve God and are sent by Him to help those who are to receive salvation. Heb.1:14
Elijah, one of the foremost prophets of Israel, was used by God as a pillar of strength for true worship in a time when the spiritual and moral condition of the world had fallen to an alarmingly low state.
The symbolic journey of the prophet and his work was prophetic of the things to come in Jesus' day with also a yet later fulfillment which the same Jesus will carry it out in his second journey to this world.
In Heb.3 the scripture says, "The message given to our ancestors by the angels was shown to be true, and anyone who did not follow it or obey it received the punishment he deserved.
How, then, shall we escape if we pay no attention to such a great salvation? ...
God has not placed the angels as rulers over the new world to come ... instead God made man "ruler over all things;" this clearly includes everything. We do not, however, see man ruling over all things now. But we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, so that through the power of God's grace he should die for everyone. We see him now crowned with the spirit of glory and the spirit of honor because of the death he suffered. It was perfectly right that God , who creates and preserves all things, should make Jesus perfect through suffering, in order to bring many to share his glory. For Jesus is the one who leads them to salvation. He is the one who purifies people from their sins, and both he and those who are made pure all have the same Father. ... Since the children, as jesus calls them, are people of flesh and blood Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature.
Jesus did this so that through his death he might destroy the Devil, who has the power over death, and in this way set free those who were slaves all their lives because of their fear of death.
For it is clear that it is not the angels that Jesus helps. Instead, as the scripture says, "He helps the descendants of Abraham." This means that Jesus had to become like his brothers in every way, in order to be their faithful and merciful High Priest in his service to God, so that the people's sins would be forgiven. And because he himself was tempted and suffered, now he can help those who are tempted."
When Elijah was informed about the Queen Jezebel's vow of putting him to death, he fled in fear that his life would be ended by the hand of the evil doers. Jesus took that power away from the Devil.
Elijah's forty-day journey ended at Horeb where God showed him the difference in merely expressions of his active force manifested in an awe-inspiring display in a wind, an earthquake and a fire and the power held by He himself. God showed Elijah that he was not alone in his fight because God had 7,000 who had not bowed to the power of the Devil. Time after Elijah must transfer the mantle of his power to Elisha in order to fulfill God's plan of salvation for all of us who wants to be saved for eternity.
Jesus Christ is the one through whom God created the universe, the one whom God has chosen to possess all things at the end. Heb.1:1-2
The Son was made greater than the angels ... What are the angels, then? They are spirits who serve God and are sent by Him to help those who are to receive salvation. Heb.1:14
Elijah, one of the foremost prophets of Israel, was used by God as a pillar of strength for true worship in a time when the spiritual and moral condition of the world had fallen to an alarmingly low state.
The symbolic journey of the prophet and his work was prophetic of the things to come in Jesus' day with also a yet later fulfillment which the same Jesus will carry it out in his second journey to this world.
In Heb.3 the scripture says, "The message given to our ancestors by the angels was shown to be true, and anyone who did not follow it or obey it received the punishment he deserved.
How, then, shall we escape if we pay no attention to such a great salvation? ...
God has not placed the angels as rulers over the new world to come ... instead God made man "ruler over all things;" this clearly includes everything. We do not, however, see man ruling over all things now. But we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, so that through the power of God's grace he should die for everyone. We see him now crowned with the spirit of glory and the spirit of honor because of the death he suffered. It was perfectly right that God , who creates and preserves all things, should make Jesus perfect through suffering, in order to bring many to share his glory. For Jesus is the one who leads them to salvation. He is the one who purifies people from their sins, and both he and those who are made pure all have the same Father. ... Since the children, as jesus calls them, are people of flesh and blood Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature.
Jesus did this so that through his death he might destroy the Devil, who has the power over death, and in this way set free those who were slaves all their lives because of their fear of death.
For it is clear that it is not the angels that Jesus helps. Instead, as the scripture says, "He helps the descendants of Abraham." This means that Jesus had to become like his brothers in every way, in order to be their faithful and merciful High Priest in his service to God, so that the people's sins would be forgiven. And because he himself was tempted and suffered, now he can help those who are tempted."
When Elijah was informed about the Queen Jezebel's vow of putting him to death, he fled in fear that his life would be ended by the hand of the evil doers. Jesus took that power away from the Devil.
Elijah's forty-day journey ended at Horeb where God showed him the difference in merely expressions of his active force manifested in an awe-inspiring display in a wind, an earthquake and a fire and the power held by He himself. God showed Elijah that he was not alone in his fight because God had 7,000 who had not bowed to the power of the Devil. Time after Elijah must transfer the mantle of his power to Elisha in order to fulfill God's plan of salvation for all of us who wants to be saved for eternity.
Thursday, 6 August 2015
PLATO AND HIS THEORY OF FORMS.
Plato (428-348 BCE) was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in classical Greece. He is considered an essential figure in the development of philosophy. Along with his teacher Socrates and his student Aristotle, Plato laid the foundations of today Western Philosophy and Science.
At the heart of his philosophy is his Theory of Forms or Theory of Ideas. His views on knowledge, ethics, psychology, the political state, and art are all tied to this theory.
According to Plato, reality consisted of two realms. First, the realm made of eternal perfect forms or ideas, and second, the realm of the physical world, the world that we can observe with our five senses.
In his realm of forms or ideas, perfect templates were designed to exist that were the perfect ideal form of anything while its counterpart in the physical reality was really an imperfect representation of it.
For him, for example, a horse was really an imperfect representation of some ideal perfect model or template of an ideal horse that existed in the reality of Forms.
The realm made of these templates were for him the ultimate reference points for all things that we observe in the physical world. They were more real than the ones existed in the reality perceived only by our five senses.
Not all of Plato's contemporaries agreed with his philosophy. One of his critics said, "What I see when I observe particular things is his particularity but not the wholeness." Plato replied sharply, "That is because you have eyes controlled by the physical form but not intelligence that belongs to the realm of the non-physical, the realm of forms."
Plato's sharp distinction between the world of perceivable objects and the world of universal forms was seen in these facts : one can only have mere or simple opinions about things perceived only by the five senses of our physical body, but another fact was that one can have knowledge about the template from which that thing is only an imperfect representation of the form designed to existed in the universal world. For him it was not possible to have knowledge of anything that could change or was particular, since knowledge had to be forever unfailing and general. For that reason, his world of the forms was the most important one, like sunlight, while the world of the senses, the sensible one, was only imperfectly based on partiality, like shadows without knowing the source of it.
At the heart of his philosophy is his Theory of Forms or Theory of Ideas. His views on knowledge, ethics, psychology, the political state, and art are all tied to this theory.
According to Plato, reality consisted of two realms. First, the realm made of eternal perfect forms or ideas, and second, the realm of the physical world, the world that we can observe with our five senses.
In his realm of forms or ideas, perfect templates were designed to exist that were the perfect ideal form of anything while its counterpart in the physical reality was really an imperfect representation of it.
For him, for example, a horse was really an imperfect representation of some ideal perfect model or template of an ideal horse that existed in the reality of Forms.
The realm made of these templates were for him the ultimate reference points for all things that we observe in the physical world. They were more real than the ones existed in the reality perceived only by our five senses.
Not all of Plato's contemporaries agreed with his philosophy. One of his critics said, "What I see when I observe particular things is his particularity but not the wholeness." Plato replied sharply, "That is because you have eyes controlled by the physical form but not intelligence that belongs to the realm of the non-physical, the realm of forms."
Plato's sharp distinction between the world of perceivable objects and the world of universal forms was seen in these facts : one can only have mere or simple opinions about things perceived only by the five senses of our physical body, but another fact was that one can have knowledge about the template from which that thing is only an imperfect representation of the form designed to existed in the universal world. For him it was not possible to have knowledge of anything that could change or was particular, since knowledge had to be forever unfailing and general. For that reason, his world of the forms was the most important one, like sunlight, while the world of the senses, the sensible one, was only imperfectly based on partiality, like shadows without knowing the source of it.
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