Exposing Some Light - Edited 4/21/16 to add and clearify

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 the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.

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”.