Basic Concepts in the Bible
1. There are no errors in the Bible
And before I begin to examine the main question of whether life without disease and death is possible, I will state clearly and categorically — in the Bible the truth is absolute and unconditional. Just as God's love is absolute and unconditional. And if something is not understood by the readers, it is because not enough effort has been made to investigate and understand the true intent of God's Word, and therefore the fault is in us, but not in God. God's Word is the absolute Truth! This does not mean that we cannot discuss and seek explanation for the questions that are not clear to us. In this book I will try to present the main idea of the Bible. I will support my explanations with appropriate quotes in order to substantiate, firmly and although quite briefly, what the matter is about and what God wants to tell us with His Word. Since there are things in the Bible that are difficult to understand, which for clarity God has called solid food, I will try to make the solid food softer and accessible to the majority of people, so that it becomes easier to assimilate, understandable and accessible.
2. Wheat and weeds by birth
In the world there is wheat, there are also weeds — these are the two absolutely separated by character, goals and purpose categories of people — there is MAN and WOMAN in the material world, and in the spiritual world there is WHEAT and WEEDS. And we understand this from the following verses:
Matthew 13
24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.
34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.
35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”
36 Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
37 He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.
38 The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,
39 and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
Romans 9
11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand:
12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”
20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”
21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?
22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?
23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—
24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
25 As he says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”
26 and, “In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
Conclusion:
It depends on God whether a person is male or female, and also whether to be a good person or a bad person — tare or wheat, as each of these categories has radically different marks and characteristics. You cannot choose to be good if the spirit laid in you is evil. And you cannot be bad if the spirit laid in you is good. That is, the determining factor is the SPIRIT. AMEN! What have we, the grandchildren of Adam and Eve, understood? What have we understood about the characteristic marks of good and of evil? What is the difference and how can we recognize people and divide them by SPIRIT, not by deeds. Because there is intentional sin and unconscious mistakes:
3. The structure of God’s body:
For we are one, and the head is Christ, and He guides us and His is the will and our leadership.
Everyone who is of the Wheat is part of God’s body. And this is according to what is said in the Bible. Everyone is part of HIM, and HE is the head. Every person is born with some mission and task, as part of God. One is a hand, another a leg or an eye, and thus all people build the body of the Lord. Can the hand participate in walking or does it have the ability to look and see? No! Therefore everyone has a task that was given to them from birth. And can my hand tell me, as a person, what to do? It can hurt me and then I will pay attention and heal it, but the parts of the body are to serve the whole body and to be obedient and executive.
1 Corinthians 12
14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.
16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.
19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”
22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty,
24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
4. The Spirit comes from above
And so nothing important can happen if it is not foreseen, if it is not determined to happen, therefore it is said:
John 3:
27 To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them from heaven.
For God everything is clear and determined from creation, therefore it is said that He foreknows in advance and those who are foreknown, He also predestines.
Romans 8:
29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
That is: A person cannot determine for himself to be male or female, nor can he self-determine to be a child of God or a child of Satan.
James 1:
17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
Everything that happens and if it is good is planned, it will happen, because God is constant and does not change — neither in His justice nor in His mercy.
I offer an example for recognizing the Spirit:
If you offer a cup of poisonous water to someone, but you do not know that this water is poisonous and you give him the water with the intention of refreshing him and he cools down and refreshes himself and you cause his death from ignorance, then you have no guilt. But if you give him a cup and you think that there is poison in the cup (but there is not) and you give it to him with the intention of killing him, then even if the one to whom you give it does not die, this is already intentional murder and is a sin. Because in your heart you wanted to kill, by which you become a murderer from the point of view of the Highest Power. And God knows everything and also what is in the heart of man.
The first person in this example has a mistake, but not a sin, and therefore God died to forgive our mistakes, but not the sins of the second person, who did not kill but in his heart wanted to kill. Similar is the case with Peter’s repentance, when out of fear or uncertainty Peter abandoned Jesus and even denied Him, and when he realized what he had done he repented and wept. In contrast to Judas, who betrayed Him after he realized that his striving for power had collapsed, and did not repent but committed suicide.