About Trent Fuller Expertise Does God love you? How can I experience God now? How is God relevant moment by moment? I can help you find the answers about God`s grace and forgiveness from my personal experience and God`s word. If you are looking about how to be religious or general doctrine, I may not offer the help you were looking for.
Experience I am a Bible School graduate who found Christ's sufficiency after burning out on religion I have helped numerous individuals find real meaning and purpose in their relationship with God through Truth that sets you free.
Organizations I am a member of Christ's body. I am restfully available for Him to live through me. Currently, I collaborate on www.GraceHead.com.
Question Who then has the least power against The Creator,if His Will Were to destroy Christ,The son of Mary,his mother,And all-everyone that is on the earth?For to the Creator belong the dominion of the heavens and the earth,and all that is Between.He creates what He pleaseth.For The Creator has power over all things.
"we are sons of The creator, and His beloved" (anticipating this to be your comment)
My next question is-
-Why then does HE punish you for your sins? Nay,ye are but men,-Of the men he has created:he forgives whom he pleaseth.And HE punisheth whom he pleaseth:And to The creator belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth,and all that is between:And unto Him is the final goal .
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Are you christian?
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I hope you wont mind this question .I am just trying to understand your society.Muslim men ask their women to cover up their beauty while non-muslims
force(directly/indirectly) their women into dressing in revealing
clothes.Who is better?
Answer -
Why is it important to be better?
... or to know better from worse or good from evil?
Isn't God alone good? Comparisons of one man to another, would be like comparing grains of rice. One rice might be slightly less brown then the other, but God's glory is such that we should compare the rice to something of the majesty of the solar-system to a grain of rice.
Common assertion: "God could love me, but then I might do something that gives God no other choice but to rightfully hate me. Likewise, God could hate me now, but I might do something that obligates God to love me."
The above sentiment is "common" among the shallow-thinking (superficially comparing) religions of the world.
If I address this topic directly, then I am avoiding the deeper issue. There is a perspective from which these comparisons between lovely and unlovely, or between "good" and "bad" are made irrelevant.
The deepest comparison is between what is in "Alive with God" and what is not.
Contrary to this deepest comparison of life and death ... Religions (in whether Islam or Christian) is cetered on what is good and evil. The key for shallow religion is then to relatively do good and relatively avoid evil, if that sounds good to you, then triple your efforts and try to earn God's favor. However, the key to authentic Christianity is to become Alive with God, and by His Spirit to arise from our current condition of death.
In the Bible we are confronted with the perspective that we are "dead" even though we seem to be alive ... and that only God has "real life." This is what Jesus was trying to explain in John Chapter 3:
(6)Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' ... (16)"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not *perish* but have eternal *life*.
And again about "life and death" in Chapter 5:
(24)"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has *crossed over from death to life*. (25)I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when *the dead* will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear *will live*. (26)For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.
I could go on and on, but I'll leave you with only one other quote from John Chapter 6:
(47)I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting *life*. (48)I am the bread of life. (49)Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, *yet they died*. (50)But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and *not die*. ... (53)"I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, *you have no life in you.* (54)Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood *has eternal life*, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Now if the verdict is that we are dead, then what does it matter if we have a pungent death-stench or if we are perfumed? What is really a "bad" death, as opposed to a "good" death?
Death is death.
It doesn't matter how bad we stink ... if we are dead, then the answer is no real solution other then the impartation of LIFE. So, cleaning up (or comparing) our dead corpses is simply an avoidance of the deeper issue. The corpse needs LIFE, not perfume.
Jesus even confronted the hyper-religious who were wanting to clean up their death stench through a bunch of pious acts of devotion as recorded by Matthew in Chapter 23:
(27)"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
I invite you to read the rest of Matthew chapter 23 to see the full context, and echoing statements.
So, we can go round and round talking about how relatively clean one dead man's tomb is to another dead man's tomb, that is a superficial argument. They are both full of dead men's bones.
We all need the same thing, and it isn't a superficial solution that can be accomplished by behavior modification (like covering ourselves with cloth from head to toe.) We are as flowers in a vase, detached from life. We bloom for a season, and soon ruin and decay and are among the perishing, but those that are taken from the vase and are attached to a vibrant living plant will soon spring to life, and their vital signs will slowing begin to match that of the plant's vital signs. In short, a grafted branch will become as alive as the vine. And that kind of connection to real life doesn't avoid the deeper issue, and it doesn't pathetically try to fool the Gardener by trying to paint up and perfume a rotting branch in a vase. The Gardener is no fool. No amount of perfume or paint will confuse Him about what is living and what is dying.
John 15:4-6
(4)Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
(5)"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. (6)If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
Lets go back to your question: "Who is better? ... those that cover theirselves or those that do not?"
What difference could it possibly make whether we are "good" or "bad" by comparison? It isn't that any of us are more deserving of death in hell, for we are already dead, and the dead don't belong with God. But, this offer remains to all that are willing, and it doesn't matter if you are a stinky branch in the vase or a branch perfumed in religious good-deeds in the vase ... come as you are willing let yourself be born a second time by the Spirit of God. Take the Life of God that spilled forth from His Son, and be renewed and quickened from a current condition of death, for this blood can vitalize even the most withered among us.
Titus 3:5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
Ripening for the harvest,
Trent
www.GraceHead.com
Answer -
ir relevant,
Hello.
Yes, I am a Christian.
No, I am not religious. (anticipating your next question.)
In early church history, we discover the trouble that the Romans had condemning the first Christians. Provided that they could define these people as a religion, then they could outlaw the religion and kill the Christians. That was found to be impossible.
Why?
Christians after the Holy Spirit came upon them at Pentecost, had only the Spirit of God. Not a single "sacred" day, nor had they a "sacred" place. They didn't even have a "sacred" book. They defied everything that identified them as a religion, because in-fact ... Christianity is NOT a religion.
Christianity is the Spirit of God that was in Christ Jesus imparted into the innermost being of men. In short, Christianity is simply the out-living of the Lord Jesus in the mob of people so willing to have the Lord Jesus worked inside them by the Spirit.
Now, I know there is a religion that is called "Christianity" these days. I am just pointing to the beginning to find the highest revelation of what Christianity really is ... because that initial classic version of Christianity still exists apart from religion.
Romans found it easier to accuse and condemn these early Christians as "atheists" based on their lack of religion, and thus many Christians were put to death, because they could ascribe to themselves no formal religion. They only had the Lord Jesus living in them ... and nothing else.
There are many people that have the culture of Christianity, and they have the right ways of expressing their system-of-belief. But, if they do not have the Life of Jesus by the Holy Spirit within them then they have nothing. They are simply dead without Him.
You can be an insider of the Christian religion ... and have no part of true classic Christianity.
1 John 5:11-13 (New International Version)
11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
As we say ... "you can spend your whole life inside a garage, but that does not make you a car." Likewise, you can grow up attending a church, but that does not make you a Christian.
Answer It is hard to answer questions when the premise is off. So, one cannot answer how hot their T.V. cooks a turkey, because the question falsely presumes that the function of a television is to cook food. Let me try to explain how your questions have premises that likewise make them hard to answer.
It seems to me that you are assuming that all of men are descendants of the Creator. They are not. Even Adam was formed from the dust (not birthed from God, as a legitimate offspring (as in the case of The "ONLY begotten".)
It also seems to me that you think that Jesus is likewise mere man descended from men. He is not. Jesus created His own mother.
It also seems to me that you think that I would support the notion that any of us creatures have the least bit of standing to demand that God behave toward us in any manner different then His is inclined autonomously to behave. We have no such basis to make any such demand. Rather we can be thankful for the days allowed for our existence, and the realm in which to live. We are wholey incapable of influencing Him against His inclinations.
It also seems to me that you think that man is to be punished for misbehavior. That is a religious myth.
I quote from 35:5-7 (New International Version)
Look up at the heavens and see;
gaze at the clouds so high above you.
If you sin, how does that affect him?
If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
If you are righteous, what do you give to him,
or what does he receive from your hand?
Behavior (ie. sins) is only truly relevant in revealing the inner condition. God already knows the inner condition ... that we have no substance of being. However, it is our inner prideful deception that deludes us into thinking that by behaving good and avoiding evil, we can rise above our current condition ... and as the snake whispered in Eve's ear "become like God." ... and so many religious folk still gobble up the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Thus it is written that the Law was a gift to men so that trespass might *increase*. Religions, in general, do not apprehend this and are still attempting to rise above their innate condition by obedience ... as if that were possible.
In short, no punishment is to be rendered upon review of behavior (good or evil). God is not a controlling parent threating us with holy-spankings.
Contrary to popular opinion .. "Judgement" is a revelation / exposure to man what God has always known ... that man is not godly ... and only God is Holy. Those that cannot embrace the revelation of truth through exposure will find the truth of their condition a bitter pill to swallow. The weeping and gnashing of teeth is a symptom of disillusionment not torment. They would simply rather believe the illusion then the reality.
"Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed." - John 3:18-20
Nevertheless, this judgement has already been embraced by each heart that calls Jesus the Lord. "For it is time for judgment (revelation / exposure) to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?" 1 Peter 4:17
So, with regard to your questions ... I cannot answer them directly because the premise. Hopefully, the context of my above remarks explains how so. But do not be shy, in asking these things. I only ask that you rephrase your questions if I misunderstood them.
