Love; the Nature of God

The concept that God is essentially love, in addition to all of His other characteristics, is resolving in my thoughts to a more meaningful place of understanding. His actual nature in eternity is that of love. A dyadic relationship of love is like a developing glimpse of God’s infinite capacity for love. One is very lucky indeed to be brought together with someone personally and intellectually. It is I believe, grace.

I signed up for a brief Christian message each morning from the Billy Graham association. Today it was about love growing in the Christian community. Although I am sure love as a topic is easier to know if one is in love with someone, love may increase in a society too perhaps (though original sin is a mass  governor and delimiter) from social congregations of love.

“Love one another, as I have loved you.”

—John 15:12

Baruch de Espinoza – a Jewish Portuguese philosopher, thought of God in essentially a pantheistic framework- a logical inference yet incorrect in subtle ways, as everything that exists is contingent being, comparable to the Buddhist’s concept of maya.

Spinoza sought to love God through understanding- amor dei intellectualis, and indeed to know God is to love God. Yet one cannot rely on one’s own understanding. Faith is required for, agape love is from and of the Creator- not from oneself. The human condition and understanding remains human and apparently incapable of comprehending fully the nature of love God has, much less omniscience.

Instead, if the Trinity is pure spirit, anything that is created by it is assigned relative values of being and reality. It is as actual as God intends it; inclusive of us.

It is difficult to know all or even most of what God intends, besides what is revealed in Scripture. We may know that He is love of a kind and depth that can’t be understood in the fallen, human condition.

https://suno.com/s/2uVZoxQaa9SqAZF1

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Free spirit is
an essence of the wind
time is a shadow’s net
through which the soul passes

Striking new chords
a pointillist harmony in motion
an essence of the wind
isn’t spirit free?

For God so loved the world
is one’s spirit ever free?
Jesus is His only begotten Son
matter is matter just to be

The Spirit is the comforter
a divine peace, love
to in-dwell the soul
as frequencies assembled seem.

Eternal Hell for the Lost

The divine economy may not tolerate deficit spending, wickedness, sin, error and imperfection through eternity. God is perfect and that which He created that have free will aren't. They need be adopted by Christ's atoning sacrifice so God does not see the sinful character.

Maybe God creates a virtual box for the saved to allow them to exist eternally with Christ's help. For the lost that reject Jesus and go their own way a Universe without God for eternity would become a hell I would guess. Spirits might cohere as the Universe cycles to gravitational collapse and infinite heat in a singularity. Scientists say that below absolute zero the temperature probably is infinitely high. If the Universe with entropy disperses to heat death a phase change may flip it to infinitely hot. Hell for those godless spirits malingering for eternity within the infernal realm.

Post-Tribulation End TImes With Jesus and YHWH

 A Baptist minister said to me once that The Revelation was like a newspaper written for Christians of the time of John of Patmos. It needed to be slightly coded because Nero probably would have had John executed instead of just exiled if John had described Nero as the Beast. I like the partial preterist interpretation of John with the apocalypse occurring in the first century A.D. with the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 and the terrible persecutions by the world government of the region that was Imperial Rome. 

Post-tribulation interpretations differ from pre-tribulation interpretations popularized by Charles Ryrie. Remember that end times pre-tribbers have existed since the first century and they tend to be wrong- except for the one that Jesus said would occur and that did within that generation. Jesus will return some time yet it will be different from the pre-tribber version that some Christians have, comparable to that of Muslim Shi'ite 12ers that believe the hidden imam will return before Armageddon and Jesus will lead the Muslim troops. One might read He Shall Have Dominion by Kenneth Gentry to learn about post-millennialism.

I enjoy being reminded of Christian themes amid all the clutter. I took a two year graduate course in reformed theology on-line in theology and my mentor lost my work. I published my papers in three volumes free to download at my web page. I read people like Thomas Brooks and Shaff’s multi-volume History of the Christian Church (free to download at several sites) https://ccel.org/ccel/s/schaff/hcc8/cache/hcc8.pdf

The post on the meaning of the tetragrammaton was a timely and good topic that led me to learn a little more about it. I found an article on it at The Torah.com with a quote from that below. https://www.thetorah.com/article/yhwh-the-original-arabic-meaning-of-the-name#:~:text=God%20reveals%20his%20name%20to,%2C%20desire%2C%20or%20passion.%E2%80%9D 

“God reveals his name to Moses as “I am,” from the Hebrew root ה.ו.י, “being.” The name YHWH, however, originates in Midian, and derives from the Arabic term for “love, desire, or passion.”

שמות ו:ב וַיְדַבֵּר אֱלֹהִים אֶל מֹשֶׁה וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו אֲנִי יְ־הוָה. ו:ג וָאֵרָא אֶל אַבְרָהָם אֶל יִצְחָק וְאֶל יַעֲקֹב בְּאֵל שַׁדָּי וּשְׁמִי יְ־הוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם.

Exod 6:2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am YHWH. 6:3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai, but I did not make Myself known to them by My name YHWH.

Christian Faith is Not in Worldly Politics

 Worldly ethics differ from Christian. Christians may demure to worldly government for the Lord is Jesus Christ; not the President, Pope, Dictator, King or party. Jesus said to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.

Paul wrote that he was a slave of Christ. Such will spend eternity in heaven, not with the faithless That makes no sense to the faithless sometimes. Worldly government is fallen though moderated by God. Nazis were a minority power. Practically though once Hitler became chancellor he was a dictator. It's wrong to blame the masses for blind allegiance to authority when they had no choice with death a likely outcome. Stalin evolving through killing off communist rivals to leadership had no need for public support from the start. He used raw secular power to subjugate everyone. Stalin was the most absolute mass dictator that has ever existed. In South Africa segregation occurred because race wr was common. Zulus were not tame subjects blindly obedient to government. Eventually the paradigm of race war as normal followed by the inertia of established way of doing things became transcended so apartheid ended.

Slavery was a normal human institution worldwide until the 19th century. Paul's advice was practical then  Rome entirely eradicated Jerusalem in 70 ad with a million dead Jews, and they were the legal authority. Spartacus leading the Roman slave revolt never stood a chance and all those thousands of slaves were crucified.

There will always be secularists willing to revolt. They want worldly power. Jesus said that his kingdom is not of this world. He was not Barrabas, he is God. His ways and wisdom differ from those of the Godless