Now that we’re God’s family, through getting born above and adopted, we don’t have to pay for our keep, WE GET PAID (better: REWARDED) FOR OUR WILLING OBEDIENCE. WHAT A GRACIOUSNESS! [7/12/07]
In God’s Grand Champion Tournament with Satan, His opponent had chosen his heaviest club for a shoo-in shot and NAILED it! But God, Who seemed way behind in the game, with steady gaze and measured gait, commencing “with unhurrying chase and unperturbed pace” (with apologies to Francis Thompson’s “The Hound of Heaven”). picking up “deliberate speed,” with calculated deliberation, reaching for His elegant, pristine 5 IRON with “majestic INSTANCY” and GRACE SWUNG FOR A LONG SHOT.
WHOLE IN ONE!!! GAME SHOT! [7/13/07]
WHOLESOMENESS CODE: CREATIONAL RESPECT
Could “unclean spirits” actually gain access to an Israelite by the latter’s violation of Israel’s laws from Moses concerning touching unclean things? Was this maybe one of the reasons why God gave them such detailed and wide-ranging wholesomeness laws? Moreover, was this perhaps a principal reason for the prohibitions against idolatry and all its associated practices? To go a step further, is a primary result of idolatry demonization?
The entire Levitical “holiness/wholesomeness code” was to instruct Israel in respect and honor for the integrity of God’s creatures. It promoted life and fruitfulness and prosperity and harmony on earth. Especially it was to warn them against idolatry, which would open the door to demonization, i.e., the invasion of bad, vicious, unclean, unwholesome spirits to rule the human order, thereby displacing God’s highest creature from that noble estate. In short, the wholesomeness laws constituted a hedge against decadence and its consummation in death (the greatest defilement of all, 11/10/15). [7/13/07]
The Premial Atonement 