Dr. Raymond Moody predicts my new book

Last night I was listening to Coast-to-Coast AM with host George Noory on my radio. I was delighted to hear George interview guests Roy Abraham Varghese and Dr. Raymond Moody.

Roy Varghese has authored several books on the interface with science and religion. This topic is of keen interest to me because I belong to two organizations with that same goal—Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) and the Swedenborg Scientific Association (SSA)—plus I have written my own book on this important topic of growing interest and debate.

Dr. Raymond Moody is known worldwide for his research on near-death experiences. Both guest contributed their views of what lies on the other side.

While Dr. Moody does not know I am launching a new book, Proving God: Swedenborg’s Remarkable Quest For The Quantum Fingerprints Of Love, I have been informed that he does know about Emanuel Swedenborg’s books on the afterlife and what lies in the spiritual world.

Moody predicted on George Noory’s show last night that new rational approaches would emerge over the next few years to show that life beyond the physical body could be proved by human reasoning (as opposed to faith). This is exactly what my new book accomplishes. It discusses the afterlife from a scientifically plausible model.

I was disappointed in last night’s interview that no mention was made of Swedenborg’s accomplishments. He was the greatest pioneer in history for describing afterlife phenomenon, including unique descriptions of the geography, minerals, flora, fauna and human societies that exist in the non-physical realm of the spirit. These observations are valuable to any discussion about the afterlife because Swedenborg was a notable scientist of his era.

Dr. Moody has always been impressed by near-death patients of all faith systems, including atheists, describing similar phenomena—like entering into a tunnel of light—and not being able to put these experiences into words of terrestrial language. The “light” these people experienced was not physical light. Rather, these individuals felt bathed in love and new knowledge! Moody felt that his challenge as a scientific researcher was to find some kind of rational approach to these phenomena—which he sees coming in the near future.

My new book addresses Dr. Moody’s challenge head-on. I explain how causal processes, dynamical magnitudes and even human life can continue in a realm beyond time and space. In fact, the spiritual world is the origin of all natural laws operating in the physical world.

I hope this subject interests you. If it does, please visit http://www.provinggod.com

Did Jesus get His message mixed-up?

This would present theologians with a big problem. Inconsistency is imperfection. Imperfection cannot therefore be attributed to God. Furthermore, inconsistencies in God’s message would dangerously threaten the authority, sanctity and inerrancy of Holy Scripture.

Yet we have the Lord God making the following two statements:

I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. (Matthew 10:35,36)

If any man cometh unto Me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own soul also, he cannot be My disciple. (Luke 14:26)

So Jesus states in both passages that He wants domestic disharmony not peace, and warns people that without such family hatred they cannot become His followers.

What gives here? These statements are diametrically opposed to Jehovah’s Fourth Commandment of honoring father and mother (not to mention pooh-poohing spiritual love).

Thankfully, scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg offers us a rational explanation by which we can escape such doctrinal schizophrenia and even strengthen our faith in God’s Word.

Swedenborg claimed that God’s Holy Word was a multi-leveled document. Its stories were more than a literal account of human history. They contained higher levels of meanings that conveyed purely spiritual content (as opposed to merely worldly or materialist content).

So even worldly terms like “father,” “brother,” ”sister,” “mother” and “household” contained richer messages about various qualities of the human spirit. Therefore, the word “father,” understood spiritually, would represent the main values and choices we make in life. These values impregnate the human heart and mind (mother), thus fathering and giving birth to our ideas about reality. One’s household is his or her worldview (or faith-system). “Sons” and “brothers” and “sisters” and “mothers” represent the various feelings (loves) and ideas (knowledge) and their resulting activities that occupy one’s spiritual household.

Knowing this we can now begin to make sense of the Lord’s apparent bad advice illustrated in the biblical verses quoted above. First, if one does not accept the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, then one’s inner household contains a “father” and “progeny” that is opposed to God’s teachings. A household operating under opposing principles to that of spiritual love (which unites) will be divided against itself. It is such a household, that the Lord has issues with, for everything in it represents a man or a woman’s true spiritual foe and enemy (our true spiritual enemy is a worldview that stands in the way of peace and eternal blessedness).

The passages which lead up to the verses quoted above make it more clear that Jesus is referring to individuals whose household is not based on God’s spiritual tenets (and therefore adopt a different family of qualities into their household—qualities unworthy of spiritual love). This difference in orientation is the reason for the seeming discrepancy between Jesus and Jehovah—a discrepancy that cannot be reconciled with a simple terrestrial understanding of the terms “father,” “mother,” “brother,” “sister” or “household” used in Scripture.

I have shown you just a glimpse of the deeper revelations that are contained within God’s revealed wisdom. The Lord God has promised to return and reveal His true glory. It is by means of the deeper teachings and levels of meaning contained within Scripture that the Lord God’s true glory will unveil itself. How else can a finite book like the Bible hold God’s Infinite Wisdom?

My upcoming book Proving God will not only discuss these deeper teachings, it will actually show that this scaffolding of the biblical architecture also provides the means by which religion can interface with modern science in a most rational and orderly way!

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Can dysfunctional families lead to cannibalism?

If you read God’s Holy Word, what other conclusion could you come to? In Mark 13:12,13 we read the Lord’s warning about awful families who will kill each other!

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father his children; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death; for ye shall be hated of all men for My name’s sake.

Such family disputes and abominations can get even worse!

Therefore the fathers shall eat their sons, and the sons shall eat their fathers . . . (Ezekiel 5:9,10)

No wonder a growing group of “enlightened” individuals have properly reasoned that a God of Love could not wish such things upon humanity. But they also make the mistake that such biblical passages prove that there is no God, and therefore, they can reject the supposed inerrancy and authority of Scripture.

Scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg would say that the problem here is not religious faith versus reasoning but human reasoning based on a materialistic philosophy. Such worldly ideologies judge Scripture from a mere literal interpretation of its narratives (so do those who defend Scripture from blind faith).

Materialistic and terrestrial ideologies do not engender true enlightenment, whether you are a believer or atheist.

Swedenborg claimed that the Lord’s Holy Word was a spiritual document because its stories contained spiritual meanings. What is a spiritual meaning? It is a symbolic language that uses physical things, events and historical characters to represent qualities of the human heart and mind (a person’s spiritual reality).

Brothers killing each other as well as fathers and their children killing each other represent what happens when we adopt false ideas from evil or hurtful motives. A “father” represents the heart of the matter (in this case an evil heart). So spiritually speaking, the quality of one’s chosen values (derivatives of love) “fathers” a certain kind of progeny (mental ideas). Ideas are the progeny (sons) of some love, which rules the heart (father) as head of the family.

Therefore, an evil heart will produce thoughts that will engender destruction. Evil and its derivative false thinking bring its own punishment upon itself. The biblical passage above concerning the unlikely literal scenario of fathers and sons eating each other is another use of symbolic spiritual language to convey the more relevant lesson that evil and hatred breeds negative thoughts that will ultimately consume each other. This predicament is opposite to all true religion, which promotes mutual love, goodness and unity.

We instinctively understand this symbolism of the heart and mind when we say that a political ideology will eat its own children. Everyone can grasp the idea that if a political party “fathers” lots of different factions, its household will eventually turn on itself.

According to Swedenborg, all the stories in the Holy Word carry deeper meanings about the more important drama that takes place within the human heart and mind (and its relationship to God). We’ve all heard the expression that a divided house will fall. This notion has even greater spiritual relevance if applied it to the inner cacophony of ideas and feelings that inhabit the troubled mind (spiritual household).

God wants us to get our spiritual house in order.

The purpose of this blog is to express the richness of God’s Holy Word to those who take pride in their reasoning. The truly “enlightened” will embrace the profound and inexhaustible depth of Holy Scripture (God’s Infinite Wisdom).

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Spiritual Complexity Theory

One of the newest branches of study is the science of complexity. Some call it a scientific revolution in the making. Complexity theory deals with study of how simple elements in nature spontaneously organize into complicated structures, ranging from galaxies and ecosystems to the human brain.

As physicist M. Mitchell Waldrop, author of the book Complexity puts it, nature has an “incessant compulsion for self organization.” It is as though the universe has a yearning for order. Order means rational and intelligent structure.

While complexity theory poses a challenge for a science that embraces a materialist philosophy that rules out purpose in nature, it offers very little knowledge about how the natural world can help us discern the glory of God.

Scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg may well have provided the theological dynamics behind nature’s endeavor to grow structure spontaneously. He stated that “endeavor” was a spiritual force and not a force that could be ascribed to inert matter.

Even more profound, Swedenborg claimed that order, structure and complexity glorified God’s Divine Love and Divine Wisdom.

How?

If we contemplate organized structure, we will observe that all complexity consists of two opposing and ridiculously improbable functions supporting each other—differentiation and unity.

Complexity evolves into new orders of structure, as new things become both increasingly distinct and increasingly unified. Differentiation and unity exalt each other. Put another way, complexity involves subordination and coordination of successive (differentiated) process that gives birth to the dynamics of simultaneity (uniformity). All group structures (systems) consist of successive events creating wholes.

Swedenborg showed that this scheme displayed God’s divine nature and character because Truth distinguishes and Love unites. So nature’s endeavor towards self-organization is creation becoming a more perfect image of the Creator. Even the human mind follows this design because the human intellect both discerns information (thinks) and unifies what it values (loves) into real structure called a belief system or worldview.

This is where religion enters the picture of complexity theory. Swedenborg goes even further by stating that the purpose of religion is to allow for the human heart and mind to self-organize into non-physical bio-complexity capable of living in a spiritual realm (heaven). When we adopt Gods tenets of truth and love into our lives, we create spiritual bio-structure. This new structure serves as a spiritual body for the soul and survives the death of the physical body.

Swedenborg’s spiritual complexity theory takes the trajectory of evolution all the way to the spiritual world (sorry Darwin). God’s PURPOSE in creation is to create a heaven from the human race. Human evolution exalts God’s Love and Truth by creating angelic bio-structure.

This is just one of the challenging issues I address in my upcoming book Proving God in my humble attempt to unify science with theology.

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Are heaven’s angels in agreement with quantum physics?

Yes and no. Terrestrial scientists are not even in agreement as to what is really going on in the quantum world. That is why several different models have been developed over the last 80 years to express different interpretations.

While scientists do agree that the quantum micro-world represents a strange realm where primal entities exist in a non-local state of potentials (superposition), they are unsure whether this state is something strangely physical or completely non-material. Adding to this difficulty, scientists cannot grasp how the indeterminate and schizophrenic world of quantum froth (wave/particle duality) gives birth to the determinate properties of larger scale systems (like solar systems and galaxies). What is the causal connection between these opposing situations?

Simply throwing up one’s hands and chalking up everything to irreducible chance means there is no rational reason for why the universe is structured so rationally and orderly. Which is awkward since science believes it has reasoning on its side (rather than faith and religion). Furthermore, if scientists cling to the notion that the universe appeared out of nothing (ex nihilo) then creation could not have had a physical cause!

If the laws of physics ruling the universe on the fundamental level of reality, emerge out of a non-material, pre-space and pre-geometric realm beyond time and space, then you open a door for God to enter into the equation.

So if angels actually exist they would live in a non-local realm and would know which approach to quantum physics was most correct. Angels would have first-hand experience in observing creation and causal process from non-material first principles.

For assistance in helping us understand angelic perception, I believe that scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg offers us the most complete and rational approach. He claimed that angels perceive dynamics, process and action totally removed from their involvement with time and space. While most scientists who cling to materialistic philosophies see action devoid of time or space as impossible, Swedenborg offered an abundance of rational approaches to this problem. By the way, eminent physicist John Wheeler theorized that spacetime might have arisen out of a pre-geometric realm.

Swedenborg would have described Wheeler’s pre-geometry and the Spiritual World as one and the same thing. This means that he would have identified pre-geometry as spiritual forms resulting from spiritual forces and activity. To form a picture of this non-material realm we merely need to focus on our own thoughts. We can be standing at a bus stop in winter but our mind may be on a Caribbean beach. Our thoughts have real trajectories, directionality, and targets. Mental activity is non-physical and not constrained by physical laws. More intriguing, thoughts can be arranged into real order and coherent structure, giving rise to human understanding and belief-systems (worldviews). This non-physical structure and order is oriented towards our life-choices and values.

To sum all this up, Swedenborg claimed that complexity (including bio-structure) emerged from non-material complexity in a non-spatial and non-temporal realm. An Infinite Creator, like God in heaven, certainly fits the bill for representing a non-physical source of irreducible complexity. Nature’s incessant drive for self-organization comes from a creative, unifying force from the non-physical realm of heaven. This force, or first principle in the universe is LOVE!

Everyone can agree that the essence of Love is to unite. Love unites people as well as creates the non-physical structure of our worldviews from the values we choose. What we love, we value. Similarly, all order and orientation in the physical universe comes from Love’s non-material endeavor to unite things into coherent structure.

Love in heaven corresponds to harmonic principles in the physical universe.

So, physicists will be challenged in the future to see that within their idea of quantum foam lay deeper worlds of order and process—including non-physical process. Physicist David Bohm had similar ideas of a hierarchical or layered design of reality.

This is just a small taste of the issues I will be tackling in my upcoming book Proving God. It will be available mid-March.

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The Minister’s Thorny Dilemma

Once upon a time there was a church minister faced with a great dilemma. He had successfully built up the size of his congregation. Because of this growth the minister had the funds necessary to help those who were less fortunate in society. This goodness in turn brought in new members into the church.

He had preached that everyone was loved and important to God. He improved everyone’s self-image, esteem, confidence and self-worth. Everyone in his church had a strong sense of belonging and community.

But he had noticed over the years that when he wasn’t telling people how wonderful they were, or constantly helping to improve their external conditions in life, he would lose members.

So he began to wonder what real spiritual growth was actually taking place in his church. He knew that heaven and its eternal blessedness went much deeper than seeking social justice or making people feel good. Was church just a place for people to come together, observe ritual and hug? Or should it also be a center for spiritual challenge and evolution?

So he put his head down, closed his eyes and prayed.

Suddenly a beautiful angel appeared in the minister’s rectory, lighting it up like the mid-day sun! “I am here to help you out of your dilemma,” said the smiling angel.

The minister was only momentarily shocked, since he believed that God had responded to his prayer. “I know that my church helps people. I just do not know if I am offering them deeper spiritual help,” questioned the minister.

“What you are doing is correct. All love starts from the level of self-interest. Self must be cared for first. Similarly, the first step towards true spiritual growth is to help others regardless of their inner character or quality. The next step is to provide help for those who want to change the qualities of their hearts and minds,” answered the caring angel.

“Isn’t that why people attend church?” asked the minister.

“Maybe,” quipped the angel. “Many people see spirituality as simply feeling good. But few people take the time to contemplate their darker side. It is much easier to cover up one’s darker side with image-reinforcing get-togethers—like church.”

“If I concentrate on people’s darker side, I will scare everyone away and lose all my members,” responded the minister.

“Yes, you always have to be careful. There are people who will always require that their hands be held. Some will even hold your heart hostage until you meet their subjective demands. But some, having inner sincerity, will notice that their behavior in the world—even after hearing one of your sermons—is still less than angelic,” pointed out the wise messenger from heaven.

The angel became quiet and thought some more, then said, “Spiritual growth is not adding good behavior on top of one’s negative aspects. That would be like painting over rotting meat with gold paint. The purpose of religion is to allow God to give each of us a new heart and mind. This means total ‘destruction’ of our former self.”

“I would like my church to help God do that,” said the minister excitingly!

“It isn’t a pretty process. So start to write sermons that not only comfort, but also challenge your parishioners. Those who resonate with your challenge will make themselves known to you. These individuals will be glad to form special groups to discuss and take seriously their individual character faults and the real obstacles to genuine happiness and spiritual goodness.”

Hearing these words, a big smile grew across the minister’s face.

Then the angel paused and made a final statement. “The world fails to see that even those who have adequate clothing, food on their plates, a roof over their heads, an education and a good job, can still represent the poor, the sick, the crippled and the blind.”

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Have you been hacked?

I suspect many of you have. I was hacked not long ago but it was quickly caught and dealt with. Hackers can be mischievous (looking for a challenge) or downright evil. This is the price we pay for the huge benefits of living in the Informational Age of the Internet.

Far more sinister is the fact that the human race has been hacked even before computers were invented. According to scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, the human mind gets hacked by evil spirits in hell. Deep within the human brain and mind we all share a similar mental plane with the inhabitants of the Spiritual World (because, inwardly, we terrestrial humans are all spirits covered in a material body-suit).

This situation allows both evil entities and heavenly angels to have access to the information of our memories. Evil spirits hack in to find and excite the worst in us while angels serve to provide spiritual security software from heavenly principles of love.

Between the evil spirits and angels, God keeps us in equilibrium between good and bad choices—to protect our free will. Over time, our individual life choices and inclinations determine who gets greater access to our personal info.

Temptation is nothing more than a battle between spiritual hackers and opposing security strategies for our hearts and minds. Within this scheme, religion can be looked at as God’s operating system.

By using the analogy of hackers, we can explore how Emanuel Swedenborg provides us with deeper insights about the Lord’s Advent and its true mission.

By coming into the world and taking on a material brain and body, Jesus not only could interface with and teach terrestrial humans, he could be hacked by the hells.

Since God is Infinite, no finite power can ever hope to attack the Divine. Swedenborg informs us that at the time the Lord came into the world, hell’s growing influence was upsetting the cosmic equilibrium and human free will was threatened.

While the Lord was on earth a hidden battle was raging. Evil spirits could now attack and tempt God through his finite material brain and human hereditary traits (received from the mother). Every time Jesus overcame an influence from hell, He perfected His human nature until it became perfectly united with His Divine Nature on the Cross (glorification).

The Crucifixion was not salvation in itself. It was the means by which the Lord endured his final temptations of the human flesh from hell and forever gained the power to restore cosmic equilibrium and protect human free will. Without free will the human race cannot be saved from the spiritual hackers who are constantly trying to gain access to our memory and manipulate it. Heaven (or hell) is a choice.

How do you feel about this unique interpretation?

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Planting seeds in people’s heads

We have all either heard or used the expression of “planting an idea in someone’s head.” It is a wonderful metaphor that is rich in meaning.

Metaphors are a symbolic language used to explain the invisible world of human mental activity in terms of visible things found in the physical world. For instance, the expression stated above treats an “idea” as though it were a “seed.”

The symbolism is easy to follow and makes perfect sense. An idea can be planted into someone’s mind, take root, grow, blossom, and finally bear fruit. “Fruit” represents the goodness of an action produced from the original implanted idea. If other people benefit from this fruitfulness (good works) it will create new seeds in their minds as well.

A seed perfectly portrays how goodness is made fruitful and information is multiplied within the human heart and mind. Nature and human nature are equally prolific!

What I find miraculous in such metaphors is how Mother Nature lends herself so perfectly to helping humans express mental processes with terrestrial processes. The metaphors that can be made between the two distinct worlds are innumerable. To offer a few more simple examples, we can be described as having a “sunny” disposition, a “cloud” over our head, or as a “diamond in the rough.”

The second thing I find miraculous about this procedure is that humans instinctively grasp this transcendental relationship.

According to scientist/theologian, Emanuel Swedenborg, God created things to be that way. The natural world is a physical analog of all the things that can take place in the human mind and spirit.

Evidence for this Divine scheme is that Jesus used parables to communicate deeper messages during His ministry. The irony is that while metaphor is instinctive to humans, such language escapes our everyday habitual minds. This is why many of the fanciful Bible stories have led “reasoning” individuals to challenge the inerrancy and authority of God’s Holy Word.

Every story in Scripture, whether historical or prophetical, contains deeper messages about God’s relationship with each of us. In fact, the Second Coming commences as individuals open up to these deeper teachings and allow for greater understanding and intimacy with the Divine Creator.

The purpose of this blog is to help the Lord God plant new spiritual seeds.

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When armies attack nudists

It seems that God gives some people good advice for escaping an attack by an enemy army and other people bad advice. For instance, in Matthew 24:15-18, Scripture states:

When therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation which was told of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place, let him that readeth understand, then let them who are in Judea flee into the mountains; let him that is upon the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house; and let him that is in the field not return back to take his garment.

It makes perfect sense to warn people to run for the hills to find safety. But God’s advice for others to stay on their rooftops and even for nudists to keep their clothes off at the approach of an attacking army seems a bit risky.

Those who stay on their roofs can at least delay their inevitable capture. But God’s counsel for those running around in the field nude to simply keep their clothes off during an attack only adds a sense of awkwardness to a bad situation.

Since God is All Wise, this advice should not be questioned, even if you are a nudist (nor should anyone suddenly put their clothes back on and claim to be an atheist).

Jokes aside, what are we to learn from God’s revealed wisdom?

The lesson here is spiritual—not worldly. The biblical passage quoted above is meant to symbolize a higher spiritual meaning. The attack God is warning people against is an attack from evil and false influences—all the things that attack and destroy the human soul. This symbolic interpretation is what is meant by the words “let him that readeth understand.”

In any community, you will have people representing different levels of spiritual growth. God’s different advice represents lessons for various people on these different levels when they are coming under spiritual attack (temptations). Those on the highest level (Judea—who love the Lord God) must keep their mind elevated towards heavenly things (flee into the mountains). The symbolism here is simple but it gets more challenging.

Those below this level (who love the neighbor) must also keep their mind elevated (stay on the housetop) without going down and taking belongings out of the house. Things “down in the house” represent the “lower” things of our character, which will not help us against temptation.

The final level represents the average good person who respects God’s truth and therefore lives a moral and ethical life. This last group are described as wandering in the field naked because they are more “earthly” (field) yet living in relative innocence (nakedness). If they were to go back to their houses and put their garments back on, this would symbolize returning to former hurtful ideas that they had already stripped themselves of.

So God’s advice and strategy was focused on protecting people on these three distinct levels of spirituality from attacks on their souls. Aren’t you relieved that God would never ask you to do something silly?

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Merry Jehovahmas!

While it is nice and theologically acceptable to say “Merry Christmas” to everyone this time of the year, the actual phrase can lead otherwise innocent holiday celebrators into doctrinal heresy.

The problem with the phrase “Merry Christmas” is that it can lead people into believing that Jesus (the “Son”) was a different person than Jehovah (the “Father”). Or worse, people can make the mistake that Jesus was just a “man.”

The Prophets made no other prophecy than that it would be Jehovah Himself who would come into the world for humanity’s sake.

“Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous offshoot, and He shall reign as king, and prosper, and shall execute judgment and righteousness on earth. In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely; and this is His name whereby He shall be called: JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Jeremiah 23:5,6; 33:15,16).

In other words, Jesus is Jehovah in the flesh!

I am aware that some Bible translations use “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS,” which may lead some to doubt my premise, however, in the next verse (Jeremiah 23:7) Scripture makes it clear that the LORD refers to the God whom brought the Israelites out of Egypt.

Many Christian authorities would argue that there was some kind of mystical (hypostatic) union between the Son and the Father to tip-toe around the irksome and non-rational belief that Jesus and Jehovah are two different people but still ONE God. This divine dynamic is called a “mystery of faith” and Christians ought not give it any further thought other than to believe it, hook, line and sinker. But the purpose of all my blog posts is to make people think!

Further biblical evidence that it was Jehovah Himself who came into the world can be found in Malachi 3:1.

“Behold I send Mine angel who shall prepare the way before Me . . . “

This passage refers to the same angel who informed Mary that she would experience a miraculous birth. “Me” can only mean Jehovah God.

Salvation was not a matter of the Son suffering and dying on the Cross in order to appease an otherwise dejected Father. That’s doctrinal nonsense. The Lord’s great suffering, included more than making Himself the target of human hatred on planet earth. The LORD also suffered a full-blown attack from all hell’s power and fury coming out from the spiritual world.

God needed to acquire a human body (with all its inclinations to be tempted by the vanities and allurements of the world, as everyone else). This provided a medium allowing finite beings and evil spirits to effectively attack an Infinite Being. By resisting worldly temptations and values, and humbling Himself on the Cross (instead of hopping off and providing a show of force to get even with his torturers) the LORD made his “flesh” fully compliant with His Divine Essence of Infinite Love in heaven (the Father). This humility of taking his human nature to task is how the Son glorified the Father (His Divine nature) and the Father glorified the Son (His human nature). Flesh and the Holy became ONE—the Alpha and Omega. This is why there was an empty tomb.

That the LORD was victorious is our hope of peace on earth and eternal salvation. But we must also ask for God’s help in overcoming our own negative traits (no one can take on hell’s influence alone).

These biblical details about the LORD’S life can only be obtained by those who are willing to accept that God’s Holy Word contains deeper levels of meaning. It is these deeper levels that offer proof of the Bible’s inerrancy and authority.

This blog post may have put a dent in your current belief-system. Sorry about that! I am just trying to share with you the true meaning of the LORD’S Advent and life in the world.

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