Exposing
Some Light
I've
been doing research on the internet and through other sources into
what we now know about ourselves and other things. I am trying to see
if what we read in the Bible can be understood better from the things
we now know. For me, I think that pieces of the puzzle, God's plan
for us, are starting to fit. I think God has a plan to save all His
creation, including us humans. When I think about that God has the
power to create all things, He certainly has the power to get rid of
or destroy it all too.
I
am going to just touch on the basics here so I can shed some light on
the puzzle pieces.
A
baby can only start to form when the male sperm fertilizes or joins
with the egg of the female. 50% of the genetic coding (DNA) comes
from the father's sperm and 50% comes from the mother's egg. This DNA
combination has everything needed to build the baby. That DNA not
only contains all the good stuff but it can contain some bad stuff
too, like diseases. I've read that our personality traits are
partially inherited from our parents too; 70% from parents and the
rest comes from our environment.
Romans
5:12a New American Standard Bible (NASB)
12 Therefore, just
as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin,
and so death spread to all men
What
is death? Death is a separation of body and spirit. This is talking
about 'The Spirit' as in Holy Spirit.
Romans
5:19 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
19 For as
through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even
so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.
Just
at the right time Jesus, our Savior, our Messiah entered the world.
Jesus did not have a human father. His Father was/is God (Matthew
1:18). He did not inherit our sin nature, at least not totally.
He was tempted just as we are but was able to be obedient. He is the
obedient one who is able to take our place. So, how does Jesus fit
into the picture? Let me go on to some other stuff I found.
The processes involved in the formation of a baby
are amazing. Once the sperm and the egg unite, the cells start dividing and they somehow know what they will
become, some blood, some heart, some kidneys, some lungs, some eyes,
some ears, and so on. The heart doesn't begin to pump until around week 6 (usually can not be heard by ultrasound until the 8th week). Blood is created within the forming baby. Its blood does not come directly from the mother. The baby's blood circulation is completely separate from
the mother's.
Blood is made up of more than 90% water.
I've
touched on what I found out about water in a previous post “Living
Water”. A couple of things I want to bring out from that post.
Dr. Masaru Emoto's work with water clearly demonstrates that
something exists with or linked to water that is difficult to comprehend. I think
this is The Holy Spirit. Another thing about blood is, it is mostly
water and it gets rid of the bad stuff from our bodies. We use water
to clean our bodies. Now think about what Jesus said about the Holy
Spirit.
John
7:37-39 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
37 Now on the last
day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out,
saying, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He
who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost
being will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 But this He
spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive;
for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet
glorified.
In
Revelation, it talks about water.
Revelation
22:1 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The
River and the Tree of Life
22
Then he showed me (John, the writer) a river of the water of life, clear as crystal,
coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
Revelation
goes on to say this about washing:
Revelation
22:14 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
14 Blessed are
those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the
tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.
If you understand what water does for the human body, then think about that the Holy Spirit does the same thing only much better. Also, the way we receive the Holy Spirit is like the way we take in water; we have to go to a source of water, take it, and drink it.
Revelation
22:17 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
17 The Spirit and
the bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.”
And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the
water of life without cost.
I read this verse this way: To be thirsty, one has to know he is in need of water. Jesus is the source (John 37:37). All that is left is to drink; take in the Spirit.
Now, about fire, often likened to hell.
Here
are some things I found out about fire from “Wikipedia”:
Fire
is hot because conversion of the weak double bond in molecular
oxygen, O2, to the stronger bonds in the combustion products carbon
dioxide and water releases
energy (418
kJ per 32 g of O2); the bond energies of the fuel
play
only a minor role here.
At
a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition
point, flames are produced. The flame
is
the visible portion of the fire. Flames consist primarily of carbon
dioxide, water vapor, oxygen and nitrogen. If hot enough, the gases
may become ionized to produce plasma.
Depending on the substances alight, and any impurities outside, the
color
of
the flame and the fire's intensity
will
be different.
Fire
in its most common form can result in conflagration,
which has the potential to cause physical damage through burning.
Fire is an important process that affects ecological systems around
the globe. The positive effects of fire include stimulating growth
and maintaining various ecological systems. Fire has been used by
humans for cooking, generating heat, light, signaling, and propulsion
purposes.”
That
was a lot of words you probably don't really care about but I would
like to bring up this point. Fire can only start when an external
condition is just right. Just because the two components, oxygen and
fuel, are together doesn't mean there will be a fire. For instance,
there is wood and there is oxygen all around us but a fire wont start
until an external source of heat is added to bring them to its
ignition point. Also, fire will continue to burn on its own
until the fuel is depleted or the oxygen is removed.
Now
consider this:
Luke
3:16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
16 John (the
Baptist) answered and said to them all, “As for me, I baptize you
with water; but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not
fit to untie the thong of His sandals; He will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit and fire.
Something
else to think about is that when Israel set up the Tabernacle, the
original alter fire was started by God Himself.<I'm going to have to do more research on how the original fire was started. The reference often given for this is Leviticus 9:24 which is a fire directly from God but there seems to be some kind of fire already burning????? They were commanded
to not let that fire go out (Leviticus 6:12&13)
Jesus
made a number of references to fire. Here is one of them:
Matthew
3:12 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
12 His winnowing
fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing
floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn
up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Wheat
has a dry, scaly casing around the good wheat seed grain. This is the
chaff. In the winnowing process, that chaff is separated from the
good grain. That chaff has no value to humans and is where the saying
“good for nothing” comes from.
I
know there will be a lot of Christians who will disagree with what
I'm about to say but here is what I think. There are Christians who
will say that the various chaff references in the Bible are towards a
whole person, a wicked unbeliever and there are scriptures that seem
to say so. I think it all depends on how bad off a person's belief
system is. If a person's belief system is way off, there wont be much
left (see “Our
Belief System”). This was also the reason why I emphasized
about the leaves of the tree of life are for healing the nations
(Revelation
22:2)
in the post “God
Will Be All In All”.
