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it isn't my 'philosophy' that i'm providing but my means of coming to investigate gods. anybody could and has followed it that way. those who seem to have i've pointed out for any that are interested. Sounds innocent enough, or is it? I could be just another materialist who defines the word god to mean some invisible divinity in the sky. For what it's worth I will provide you with the definition Jesus Christ gave the word god and He was expert enough in the subject of gods to found a whole major religion on His definition. Pastor Frank GOD THE CHRISTIAN MEANING OF THE WORD ACCORDING TO _script_URE: The word God is not a proper name but a _title_ of a position of whatever is your standard of virtue and ideal of perfection against which you measure all behaviour. (Jesus in Matthew. 5:48) I.e. In 2 Corinthians 4:4, Paul says that Satan is: ...the god (theos) of this world , i.e. reality. And again in Philippians 3:19, Paul says there are people: ...whose God (theos) is their belly , i.e. pleasure. Jesus tells us in Jn:4:24 that His GOD IS A SPIRIT , (i.e. akin to a quality of attitude, like love and care in a person), and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Jesus explains further in John 14:6-10: Jesus saith unto him: I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also, and from henceforth YE KNOW HIM AND HAVE SEEN HIM. Philip saith unto him: Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him: Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? HE THAT HAS SEEN ME HATH SEEN THE FATHER; and how sayest thou then: Show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the FATHER THAT DWELLETH IN ME, HE DOETH THE WORKS. Jesus in Jn:10:30: I and my Father are one. Jesus in John 12:44-46`Then Jesus cried out and said, He who believes in me, believes not in me but in Him who sent me. And he who sees me sees Him who sent Me. I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me should not abide in darkness. Jesus in Lk 17:20-21: And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with observation. Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of GOD IS WITHIN YOU. 1Jn:4:8: He that LOVETH not, knoweth not God; for GOD IS LOVE. 1Jn:4:16: And we have known and believed the LOVE that God hath to us. GOD IS LOVE; and he that dwelleth in LOVE dwelleth in God, and God in him. Jesus in Jn:13:34: A new commandment I give unto you, That ye LOVE one another; as I have LOVED you, that ye also LOVE one another. Jesus in Jn:13:35: By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have LOVE one to another. Jesus in Jn:15:12-13: This is my commandment: That ye LOVE one another, as I have LOVED you. Greater LOVE hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Acts:17:28: For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring. Proverbs 10:22 God is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts. Heb:1:8: But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
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