The following is Blog number fifty and it is entitled: There is Forever One True God and God Controls Time!

There Is Forever

One True God and God Controls Time

First of all dear friends one must embrace a clear and evident truth: there are most certainly things happenings and processes not given to man in their fullness. As such one must declare with some certainty about some things: “I don’t know!” This statement for a true believer that there is a God is also hopefully followed by the declarative: “I have faith and hope!” In this fashion we contend, a human being comes to know God and seeks to be in fellowship with God; for in this there is transformative and productive living on the earth. It is by our own engagement with Jesus Christ over a matter of nearly sixty years that faith has become knowing and events have become evidence of proof.

Without equivocation based on knowledge and interaction we proclaim that “There is One True God!” We declare that God seeks our soul unto perfection and truth! We declare that there are three distinct aspects to the human creature and they are the spirit, the soul and the physical body. We contend that there are also three distinct revelations of the One True God: God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit which is the essence of God.

We contend that when the human creature accepts that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, their spirit which is who humans really are, becomes perfect! The spirit of the human being is life that which was breathed into him at creation and that spirit is the essence of God and the image of God. We contend that the Bible is Holy and is literal truth, not allegory but God’s Holy Word.

The Holy Bible contains deep truth for the times in which it was first spoken; it is for revelation in later days when meanings are evermore applicable. In these latter days understanding is just as critical as it was in the time of beginnings; for continued human existence, perhaps even more critical.

We contend, though metaphor and parables language is often used to make clear understanding of God’s revealed truth, these forms of language always point to literal truths. Jesus Christ as a “shepherd” is a metaphor, while the expression of Jesus as the Light of the world” is an expression of literal truth. As a shepherd of mankind Jesus offers eternal life and protection as the shepherd offers guidance and protection for his flock.

As it is written: “I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.” (John 12:40: KJV) For the true believer Jesus offers a source of enlightenment knowledge and understanding of how to live in a world that is full of darkness: being interpreted evil. We contend that one who studies the Words of Jesus and lives life in accordance with the principles established by Jesus; then their life on a dangerous and volatile earth becomes clearer and productive.

Now unto more complicated matters, i.e. the world being created in six days. Though we accept the account of Moses as literal truth, we also contend that this is a matter of God communicating unto Moses in a manner that Moses could understand. Creation did not occur in a matter of 144 hours as the human being understands time. It would be lunatic to believe such and we contend a useless application of faith. To argue that this is God’s intention for human understanding is foolishness. To demand that the earth and humanity is only six thousand years old is not only senseless it is not declarative by Holy Scripture!

As it is written: “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” 2Peter 3:8 :NIV) In this language of the Apostle Peter there is clear evidence of the principle of time and human’s lack of understanding time as it relates to the things of God and heaven! Clearly, Peter did not think that the world was only 6,000 years old. If he did he was wrong! Peter was suggesting that as it relates to God time ought to be in the thought of man irrelevant beyond the daily focus of living rightly. Peter’s point is that in God all is a blink of an eye and yet God is a patient God. Seeking to give every man the time that they need to work things out unto their salvation and His satisfaction with them!

Therefore as we have progressed unto an age of science let science have its good use and purpose. The purpose of science is not to refute faith but rather confirm truth. Science is discovery and all discoveries begin with faith. Not the notion of this is truth, but the speculation that this is truth. Faith is what exists in the absence of known truth.

Now, science seeks to turn speculation into actual truth by providing concrete evidence of truth.  The expression: “Let me prove it to you” first began with faith not with the evidence of proof. Someone thought or found out something before they could show it to someone else. Without the evidence of actual proof there is only faith on which that someone can rely. Columbus had faith that the earth was not flat; while Ferdinand Magellan proved it by actually being the first explorer to sail completely around the earth

So we see that faith begins the process of discovery; for when one first has an idea there was also some form of doubt about that idea. Still, someone has enough faith that the idea is actually what they believe it to be that the thirst for discovery begins and it begins by faith. For the believer it is actually faith that is the evidence of proof at the beginning of the discovery which takes place over the process of time!

When one has proof then one has knowing; for then one possesses the truth. In the meantime one dwells in faith. As it is written: “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation. By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.” (Hebrews 11:1-3 : New Living Translation)

So while we accept that time involves matters of limited human understanding we still consider time in the things of God and heaven. We know that time is everyday running out for the earth and those who inhabit the earth. We trust by faith that those who believe in the Son of a Living God are availed of time everlasting!

The sum of the matter is this: the entire matter of faith dwells within the complexities of God; for there are complexities in the understanding of the things of God and heaven. Six days of creation in God’s time may compute to something entirely different as humans understand and experience time. By faith we accept the communicated language of six days as being literal and by faith we understand it as truth.

We leave it to God and the curiosity of man for faith to be challenged and understanding to be unfolded over the process of time. There are things of faith that human understanding and what science offers as proofs that will always come into variance.

God has not chosen to reveal the matter of His time; for believers we must never surrender faith to science, but rather let us embrace the reality that God controls time and God is in science.

The Holy Word of the One True God remains infallible with the telling of the “Six Days” account. How long the six days and rising of the sun and the going down of the moon were accounted in hours, we really should say: “I just don’t know.” For you see when God said let there be light do we actually know in science how long it took for the earth to actually travel around the sun? Is the value of twenty-four hours different now than it was originally? Is it possible that originally the distance of earth was so far from the sun that a combination of seconds did not equate to a minute and did twenty-four hours once have a different value? What was time really like when the WORD spoke the universe into existence? Well, we may think we know and we probably just don’t really know. YET!