GOD is SPIRIT, Part 2 ******* As mentioned before, Wisdom in the Old Testament was discussed as feminine, even as a feminine personification. And Wisdom (sometimes also called by the name Sophia, derived from the Greek word for Wisdom) was associated with Spirit, often also considered to be feminine.[i] Thus Spirit, based upon both ancient …
GOD is SPIRIT, Part 1 ******* God Is Infinite Spirit ******* Besides the names God and Lord God, perhaps Spirit is the next most frequently mentioned name for God in the Scriptures. It appears about forty times in the Old Testament, often as Spirit of God or Spirit of the Lord, with Spirit either capitalized …
GOD is TRUTH, Part 2 ******* So how does what these men of authority who have written about God as Truth relate to how we view women? ******* Thomas Aquinas, for the most part, was brilliant in expressing theology, but his views of women were contaminated by ancient Greek mythology, especially, Aristotle’s works. He began …
GOD is SPIRIT ******* So, to the question again: How does prophecy work? When one’s thought is so spiritual that it is living in “eternal life” (Romans 2:7), in “the mind of the Spirit” (Romans 8:27), in the forever NOW, one sees things as God sees them. Then when that one translates the language of …
GOD is TRUTH, Part 1 ******* God as absolute Truth references throughout Championing Womanhood ******* Athanasius (298? – 373), Bishop of Alexandria — Defence Before Constantius, the divine referred to as Truth. St. Basil the Great (329? – 379), Archbishop of Caesarea — “He is Himself truth….” St. Augustine (354-430) — Confessions. God being …
GOD is TRUTH ******* By turning away from physicality to God, Daniel’s consciousness rose to its zenith—as can be seen throughout the book of Daniel—enabling him at various times to see into the “eternal now” and to explain certain aspects of eternal Truth in such terms that humans could comprehend them at the appointed time. …
GOD is MIND, Part 2 ******* We continue with how this understanding of God as Mind affects our view of women: So if God is divine Mind, is Deity masculine, feminine, or both? Today, those in the West who need not subjugate women to psychologically justify their own self-worth recognize that women can think as …
GOD is MIND, Part 1 ******* Let us examine from Chapter 5 several names for God as they have developed over the millenniums and how they have been interpreted. God as Divine Mind … Over the centuries of the Christian era, a number of both Catholic and Protestant theologians and literacy scholars have addressed Deity …
GOD is MIND ******* In his lengthy poem Paradise Lost (1667), John Milton wrote these lines: The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. (Book I, lines 254 and 255) If Milton is correct, perhaps then that salvation comes by exchanging the mortal …
GOD is LOVE. ******* Could not the Almighty, who changed time by making the sun and moon stand still (Joshua 10:13), interrupt any individual’s timeline at any point, before or after that person’s passing, to exercise His grace as the One too pure “to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity” (Habakkuk 1:13), to …
GOD is LIFE Part 2 ******* Ages ago women were honored as the source of life. But with the coming of patriarchy, men were thought to be the only contributors to the fetus’ life and thus Life itself must also be only masculine. And the image and likeness of this male Life must be men …
GOD is SOUL, Part 2 ******* Spiritual Harmony from Water ******* I was thinking through why Daniel took leave temporally of his duties in order to rest on the shores of the Hiddekel River in Daniel 10. At this point in my study for this book, I went with my wife to a concert in …
GOD is ETERNAL LIFE, Part 1 ******* Plotinus — Definition of Eternity would be that it is a life limitless in the full sense of being all the life there is … To the notion of a Life (a Living-Principle) … Life is instantaneously infinite. ******* St. Augustine — Confessions “Thou Thyself art supremely Essence …
GOD is SOUL. Chapter XIV in the study of Daniel 10: Since the God of the Mountains is reported to have established the Garden of Eden in eastern Eden near the source of the Euphrates and Hiddekel rivers, then the question arises as to whether these rivers represent not only the …
GOD is LOVE, Part 2. Today the biblical words “God is Love” are carved into or painted on the walls of many Christian churches and Sunday schools. Men in the past have tried to usurp “God is Love” as being totally masculine, but there can be no denying this name for Deity as …
GOD is LOVE, Part 1. God is Divine Love. Gregory of Nyssa (331?-394?), a Greek father of the church — On the Making of Man after identifying God as Mind wrote, “Again, God is love, and the fount of love. John Cassian (4th-5th century), a reclusive religious writer — …
Names for GOD, Part 2. Shaddai What is this mountain from which the Christ Stone is hewn without hands? James A. Montgomery wrote that the term is generic, meaning “mountain mass” (180). Can the mountain be Shaddai, an Old Testament term for God? It is usually translated the Almighty, but …
GOD is SOUL. Elohim not only has had to face down the idea of an anthropomorphic god. A pantheistic Greek philosophical god evolved known by the expression, “God is the soul of the world.” Marcus Varro (116-27? BCE), a Roman scholar and writer, along with others, brought this philosophy to Rome. (Chapter …
Names for GOD, Part 1. Elohim and El. One problem with interpreting these verses literally is that the reader has forgotten that the book of Daniel, being written well after the Babylonian captivity, follows the Hebrew concept of God developed during that captivity—that God is Elohim, a non-anthropomorphic Being, that …
Introduction to the Understanding God Series. We are now beginning a series of ideas from this book on understanding God. We will look at where many very meaningful names for God have been explored. These ideas have continued to develop over the millenniums. In the first chapter of Genesis (verse 27), man …
Introduction to the Understanding God Series. We are now beginning a series of ideas from Chapter 5 on understanding God. We will look at where many very meaningful names for God have been explored. These ideas have developed over the millenniums. First, we will look at who amongst the many …