Entire report: "Core of New Testament/Covenant" (14§)
Entire report: “CORE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT/COVENANT”
(Thesis report: A Soul-World and a Spirit-World exist!)
Shalom!
^ Get to know here three different worlds around you.
And also get to know your soul and spirit, and the senses of them.
^ Besides, here, three writings are connected and integrated into one another.
First, the virtues as incorporated in the prayer were described and explained as “Spiritual Vitamins”. This connected the chapters 14_B2 and 0_Prayer. (See, for example, my book “Book of Revelation, Explained”, ISBN 9789528096245.)
^ Next, with the following Thesis report without the (*) chapters, it was proven to the academical world that the Spirit-world and the soul-world exist.
Finally, this entire CORE article, together with the drawing, became a summary of the core of the Gospel (and of the Bible).
Copyright: Bert Hovestadt – Lahti, Finland – +358442808142 – gijsberthovestadt@gmail.com
Space for drawing (see back cover)
Thesis report: A Soul-World and a Spirit-World exist!
(Artificial intelligence and its greatest problem)
14_A1: Introduction
¤ The Lord God is looking for people who want to love Him as He loves them and has always loved them. This is based on the most sacred subject that can be found in the Bible, the first and greatest commandment of the Law, see the Bible books Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and Mark 12:28-34, <‘…. Love the Lord your God with all your heart (/spirit), and with all your soul (/understanding) [and with all your mind], and with all your strength! ....’>
How is this commandment to be understood? Let it stimulate and inspire you. Alongside the Source of Love, get to know the wonderful worlds of your spirit and soul, and discover how they form a whole with the matter-world around you!
¤ A clear and reliable scientific basis for the existence of both, including the spirits and souls of human beings, was obtained from written primary sources provided by the Bible and confirmed by a centuries-old tradition of the Jewish people.
Thick books are usually written on subjects like this. Not here. This way, you can judge for yourself whether it is consistent and worth taking seriously. (May God's Spirit also help you to understand everything, that is my prayer for you. Moreover, in section 14_B3, you will find several ideas to follow and from where real hope can be obtained, may it inspire you.)
14_A1*: Divine Love
¤ When we humans were created, our Creator put eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
A person can reflect on his/her past and future. As for his/her father and mother and other ancestors, a process that started a long time ago. And as for his/her children and future grandchildren, a distant future.
¤ Divine Love and Loving are among the possible attributes of us humans. Together with a free moral agency, otherwise this kind of Loving would not be possible. Just as God has an own loving Will (Character/Nature). Am I willing to sacrifice everything for another person or an important subject, if necessary my own life and future, or not?
If someone is forced into this act of Love, it is no longer real love from the heart. This was the plan that the Lord God had had in His Thoughts before creating the earth and man (Revelation 13:8b).
¤ From this Bible text, it can be learned that He knew that this human would be disobedient to Him in a moment of weakness. Therefore, He had decided beforehand to come as a Lamb to be slaughtered, so that the relationship of a fallen man with Him, a holy God, could be restored thereafter. It is Love that sacrifices itself completely for another. A Love in practice experienced and passed on.
For example, with mothers, this Love can be observed on a larger scale. They have carried their children so close to their hearts that, thereafter, many are completely and unconditionally willing to sacrifice their own lives for them.
14_B1: Our soul
¤ When we look in the mirror, we see a miracle we barely understand. Almost all parts work independently and automatically with their own subintelligence, such as the heart, the brain, the cells, the nervous system, the digestive system, the various senses, and so on. Besides, everything emerged from an incredibly small fertilized egg cell with its all-encompassing intelligence.
Compared to human inventions and wisdom, these details may give us humility and respect. It goes far beyond the understanding of us humans!¤ The description of the creation at the beginning of the Bible summarizes important characteristics of a human soul (1 Corinthians 15:45), Genesis 2:7, <Then the LORD God formed Adam (/the human) of dust from the ground, and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and Adam (/the human) became to a living soul.>
More wonderful than the chemicals of our body is the automatic breathing and living of our bodies, the physical (and Spiritual) life in our body. Here this combination is called our (Living) soul.
Small picture 1 (see back cover):
The calyx may clarify differences and similarities between temporal life and Eternal Life.
In itself it is a mortal flower of the soul-world.
But the dove formed from it also symbolizes God's Holy Spirit and shows beauty and peace of a divine Spirit world (Matthew 3:16).
Within the matter-world consisting of incomprehensibly small and large ball seas of rotating atoms and planets and stars, it is a miraculous soul-world.
¤ Too, it is our normal daily food in all its diversity. Food that first lived and grew, and then was killed, for example grain on land, or a fish in the sea. Too exceptional for science to make or even to copy.
See also under the heading “God’s Spirit-FOOD”, how soul-food for our bodies can be compared with Spirit-food for our souls and how both approaches and analyses confirm each other.
14_B2: Our body and its senses
¤ Through the senses of our body we have contact with earthly things. Five physical senses lust for and “eat” these material things. Food for our senses. However, these senses also have deeper spiritual needs and functions, which can be noticed when talking about spiritual eyes or ears or hunger. For each of those senses I have thus indicated an important essential virtue/“Spiritual Vitamin”, respectively GRACE, LOVE, PEACE, HOPE and FAITH {Romans 1:(1-) 7 (-17), and 1Cor. 13:13}.
1. Sense of touch. We feel in many ways and on many levels, where feeling pain is an extreme and negative experience. We need pain as a warning and to take immediate action. On the other hand, hugging or touching friends, or spending time in nature is a good way to forget or alleviate pain and other worries. In other words, MEET AND HELP PEOPLE AND NATURE AS GRACEFULLY AS POSSIBLE, AND ENJOY EACH OTHER AND LIFE! (Human Grace, Titus 2:11-14; GOD’S GRACE, Titus 3:(4-)7.)
2. Sense of sight. Looking far, looking at beautiful things in nature, or sleeping relaxes. Conversely, wrong sight food, is when you focus on enjoying just yourself, as with porn, or with only entertainment. ACCEPT WITH GOD'S LOVE PEOPLE AROUND YOU AS TRULY SPECIAL PEOPLE, AND LOVE THEM AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF! That also helps you relax. (Human Love, Mark 12:31; GOD’S LOVE, Rm. 5:(1-)8.)
3. Sense of hearing. BY LISTENING TO FAMILIAR SOUNDS IN NATURE, OR BY PRACTICING A SILENT PRAYER LIFE, YOU CAN EXPERIENCE SOMETHING OF GOD’S PEACE! Likewise, by listening carefully to other people, you can help both them and yourself to find suitable new solutions. Loud music, on the other hand, makes deaf, not only physically, but also spiritually. (Human understanding of Peace, Luke 8:10 and 18a (9-18a); GOD’S PEACE, Rm. 5:1.)
4. Sense of smell. The house and the environment we dwell in used to have their own safe familiar scent. A fishing family had the smell of fish, a farmer's family the smell of manure, a baker's family the smell of bread, and so on. But in our urbanized and industrialized world, many familiar professions and smells have disappeared, and the family institution and our own culture have been constantly weakened.
¤ We are living in a temporary end-time, where life is threatened in many ways. Scientists have discovered what awesome powers have been put into nature. And on a massive scale these energy sources are used, up to and including the gigantic forces between and within atoms. This has resulted in enormous environmental problems, and in feelings of unsafety and insecurity among more and more people.
But there is also DIVINE HOPE, GOD'S ENCOURAGING PROPHETIC WORD! Soon there will be a secret rapture of those Christians who have prepared themselves for the return of their Bridegroom and King and Lord, Jesus Christ. And behind the coming terrible night for our globe, one more cleansed and sanctified day of rest, the thousand-year Peace Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, and after this an Eternal Future can be noticed. (Human expectancy of Hope: the Apostle and High Priest of our confession Christ Jesus, Hebrews 3:1-6; GOD’S HOPE, Rm. 15:4-13, 2 Peter 3:8-13 and Revelation §19-22.)
5. Sense of taste. Sugar and fat taste good, but in large quantities it is not healthy. In a time when people know better than ever how to live, the more they eat wrong types of food. While there is also a lot of good tasting healthy food. We do what we should not do, and NOT do what we SHOULD do. For the same reason, ask the Lord Jesus to come into your life as your personal Saviour and Leader, now because tomorrow it may be too late! And have faith that God's Spirit wants to help you live responsibly! {PEOPLE, WHO IN DIVINE FAITH CONFORM TO CHRIST’S DEATH AND ARE BORN AS GOD’S CHILDREN (AS NEW CREATURES) (John 3:3-6; Philippians 3:7-10; GOD’S FAITH, Rm. 7:14 – 8:17)!}
¤ Worldwide, almost 400 million Christians, one-seventh of them, are terribly and massively discriminated and persecuted. HELP THEM IN SOME WAY, SO THAT THEY WOULD PRAY FOR YOU, AND ALSO PRAY FOR THEM YOURSELF! {Human Faith, Mat. 6:6; Rm. 6:13 (1-14); James 2:5 (1:25 – 2:17); GOD’S FINE-TUNING, 1Cor. 12:(11-)26.}
See for example: https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/
14_B3: Our spirit and it’s relation to God’s Spirit
¤ The first thing that was told of a human was that he (and she) was created in the image of God, Gen. 1:26-27, <Then God said, ‘Let Us make Adam (/a human) in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.’ 27. So God created {something completely new} Adam (/the human) in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.>
About four thousand years later, Jesus Christ passed on that God is Spirit and that He seeks people who love the truth, what gave an indication that first of all the human spirit was created as a small part of the Spirit-world, together with a sense for having contact with its Creator. As well as with a godlike identity, with an own character/nature, and with authority. And as well as with male and/or female attributes (Luke 23:46; John 4:23-24).
¤ A spirit consisting of only two genders, male and female. Is that correct?
Here in Finland, a formerly Christian country, where the Bible was the most important book, today the exact opposite must be taught in schools..... All kinds of intermediate forms of gender are talked about. However, in Finland with a population of about 5.5 million, only about ten babies are born each year, of which it is not easy to determine whether it is a boy or a girl.
¤ Feelings would be more important than biological truths. Either way, it is not a basis for a new gender or a trans-human. Such a baby is deformed or has a defect that limits or prevents it from reproducing later!
Think for yourself and take action! Children have the right to hear the truth!
14_B3*: Marriage
¤ The marriage relation of a man and a woman is a complex sexual relationship. For men, it is difficult to understand the thinking of their wives and women in general. And conversely, women have the same difficulties as regards men. Anyway, the Lord God wanted to show something important about Himself through the becoming one flesh of a man and a woman (Mat. 19:4-6).
A similar becoming one flesh of Jesus Christ and His church bride can be observed when He allowed Himself to be crucified. In Him as a man and as a representative of His heavenly Father, there had been no sin for which He had to die. But regarding the female side of His being God, He had been willing to take the sins of His Bride upon Himself and to suffer and die for them. His Bride, the church, represents all men and women who want to believe in Him for the forgiveness of their sins {John 3:16; 1John 1:7}.
¤ According to the Bible, there is a symbolic connection between Jesus Christ and His church/congregation consisting of this kind of men and women. He is her Head, while the church/congregation represents His Body, God’s family/household (1Cor. 11:3; 15:45; Ephesians 2:19 (11-22); 5:23).
Within (both spiritual and natural) families, men and women can find their own unique characteristics and tasks. By serving, each learns in his/her own way to sacrifice for each other and their children and many others. Something of the loving attributes and deeds of our invisible Creator can then be seen and experienced. Worthy, their tongues and themselves controlling, sober, and in all things faithful men and fathers, and women and mothers (Mat. 12:50; Rm. 11:29; 1Cor. 4:15-16).
14_C1: Three different worlds and laws
¤ In Genesis §1, in which is told how God created Adam in His Image, the Hebrew word for creating something completely new, “Bara' ”, was also used in two other places. First (maybe many millions of years ago) God created the globe and everything around it, and after this (maybe many years later) He created the first beings of the soul-world (Gen. 1:1, and 1:21).
Three different phenomena or possibly worlds were created out of nothing and linked together. A chemical matter-world with God’s physical laws, an intelligent soul-world with God’s genetic laws, and a divine Spirit-world with God's eternal absolute laws (Mat. 24:35).
¤ About a hundred years ago science in the person of the Jew Albert Einstein discovered a summarizing fundamental formula for the matter-world of stars and planets, E=mc². With his Jewish understanding of the Bible, Einstein had understood that the world around him was not the result of a great explosion and chaos, but of a carefully designed entirety (Rm. 3:1-2).
In accordance with this, he had conceived and defined his theory of relativity, with all its appendices. And gradually his ideas have been confirmed with all kinds of observations. On the other hand, many properties of the atoms, and of the soul-world and Spirit-world are still great mysteries. The great difference between God's different worlds and the material world with its limited human science, is also evident here.
14_C1*: The Spirit-world and the sense of our spirit
¤ The soul-world and matter-world are visible to us humans. The Spirit-world, connected to God and His Heaven, is invisible. It is the most highly developed World around us, full of God's majestic eternal righteous Works and Laws (Psalm 111).
There our Creator can be found by seeking and by feeling around (Acts 17:22-28).
¤ Through the sense of his/her spirit, a human can get messages from his Creator. Either he/she chooses to believe in Him, or goes the broad and easy way of doubt (Mat. 7:13; James 1:6-7).
In accordance with this, it is the only sense of his/her spirit / spiritual heart.
¤ The spirit is centered in the heart of the soul (Mark 7:14-23 and 11:22-23).
The human soul resides in the blood, in other words is centered in the fleshly heart (Leviticus 17:11).
¤ Does a person surrender completely to the divine guidance of the Holy Spirit / Jesus Christ / our heavenly Father? This cleanses, sanctifies, and renews all his/her other senses (Eph. 4:31 – 6:18).
It makes him/her a new creature (14_B2 and 14_D3)!
14_C2: Turning back to the Truth
¤ In the first nine chapters of Genesis we find what God had wanted to tell Moses, His prophet of that time, about His creation and the first generations of us humans (Deu. 34:10-12).
As mentioned in these last verses, after Moses' time, the first five books of the Bible, which also contained God's Law, were put into a slightly different form. In any case, the Jews have done this copying so carefully that Jesus Christ pointed out that not one jot or one tittle of the Law will pass away until all is accomplished (Mat. 5:18)!
¤ When God had created and made everything, He declared that it was “very good”. Only from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil He had forbidden the first people to eat (Gen. 1:31; 2:16-17).
Sadly, by eating the only thing forbidden, Adam and Eve, and all humans after them, lost their direct contact with God and their Eternal Life. With their free will they had decided to disobey God. Aging, dying, as well as awareness and knowledge of good and evil have been the consequence of this (Isaiah 59:1-2; Rm. 5:12-14), Ezekiel 18:4b, <The soul who sins is the one who will die.>
¤ Return to God and His eternal truths! For example by noticing and acknowledging, that everything around us is “very good” {Rm. 1:20 (18-23)}!
Next, I approach and deepen the concept of truth with words of the Jewish prophet Isaiah. It is a summary of the core of chapter (52/)53. For the Jews a difficult prophecy, because it foretold how their Messiah and King would come, and how He would be despised and rejected by them. After this, the Jewish people itself was put aside and suffered terribly for two thousand years (Rev. 5:5; 19:(1-)16).
Next, I approach and deepen the concept of truth with words of the Jewish prophet Isaiah. It is a summary of the core of chapter (52/)53. For the Jews a difficult prophecy, because it foretold how their Messiah and King would come, and how He would be despised and rejected by them. After this, the Jewish people itself was put aside and suffered terribly for two thousand years (Rev. 5:5; 19:(1-)16).
14_D1: God’s Spirit-FOOD
¤ Isa. 52:13 – 53:12, = First, he deals prudently as a servant [of his LORD and God], after which he is very high exalted. First, he bears sicknesses and sin debt of mankind. First, he accepts to be slaughtered as a lamb, after a life without violence and deceit. Then through his knowledge he justifies many.=
About seven hundred years later, on the Good Friday of Passover, this prophecy came true and was fulfilled. God, the Heavenly Father, had delighted His Son Jesus Christ, GOD IN HUMAN FLESH, to be murdered in the most gruesome way that mankind had hitherto invented, by the death of the cross. It had been the only way to redeem us mankind from our sinfulness and to offer to us Eternal Life again (John 3:(14-)16; Acts 13:(16-)39; Rm. 5:(15-)21; Heb. 9:(11-)15)!
¤ The slaughter of this Spirit-LAMB confirmed and proved the more than thousand-year-old (and of the last two thousand years without a temple and therefore only maintained with symbols) tradition of the Jewish people to sacrifice and eat on Passover a young male cattle, and to prepare and eat unleavened bread. It was the first and second feasts (of seven major feasts) of the Jewish biblical year, which got their fulfillments on that same day (Exodus 12:1-28; Leviticus 23:5-8).
With this, anyone who is looking for the meaning of his/her life, or for Absolute Truths, could notice God's Hand and Explanation in history. Also because in the same way as with the soul-food, is spoken of living/killed food. It is living/killed spirit-Food.
¤ The coming into being and becoming visible of this Food on exactly the right day and place, and in all other ways as indicated in advance in the Old Testament, was and is the best proof of the materialization and fulfillment of this Food (as well as proof that the entire Bible is a scientifically historical book)! Too, it strengthened and confirmed what the Old Testament Law and Jesus Christ had said about spirit-Food (Deu. 8:3b), Mat. 4:4, <“It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”>
In addition historical sources confirm Jesus Christ's existence and being murdered. And in the same way one can wonder how, after His death and resurrection, Sunday became a symbol of the resurrection, and how the faith in Him spread through Christianity from nowhere in a non-violent way and despite all oppression (Lev. 23:9-14).
14_D2: Spirit-FOOD for our soul and spirit
¤ JESUS CHRIST’S SLAIN BODY is the CORE of all biblical Word-food. Also symbolized by THE LORD's SUPPER, in which Christians remember and commemorate Christ's suffering and death with unleavened bread and wine (1Cor. 11:23-26).
In the same way, Jesus had spoken during His life that His Flesh had to be eaten and His Blood to be drunk to have Eternal Life (John 6:1-59).
¤ Eating IT can raise up a dead soul, and make it spiritually Free and Healthy (John 8:28-32; Rm. 5:9-11; 1Cor. 6:11-17, Rev. 22:2).It is called our sanctification {Rm. 6:22 (15-23); 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24; Heb. 12:(1-)14}.
¤ The relationship of the Holy God with us sinful humans was renewed on THE BEST POSSIBLE PROMISE, FULFILLED BY JESUS CHRIST, AND WORKED OUT BY GOD'S SPIRIT. It is the CORE of God’s New Covenant between God and man, promised before, and represented by the wine. FIRE OF THE HOLY GHOST burns everything clean and puts God's laws in our minds, and writes them in our hearts {Mat. 3:11; John 16:13; Acts 10:44; Heb. 9:22 – 10:18 (Jeremiah 31:33-34 and Heb. 8:8-12)}.
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The Lord's Supper and the “torch” of the Gospel
It is a personal spiritual heart-to-heart relation of God’s Divine Spirit with our godlike spirit. A reality for God's sons and daughters who are willing to bear one another's burdens, thereby fulfilling the Law of Christ. Then His church moves, lives and walks in the Spirit {John 17:21; Rm. 8:14, see also 5. Sense of taste (Rm. 7:14 – 8:17); Galatians 6:1-2; Ephesians 3:10-12}!
¤ The Holy Spirit baptizes a believer into Jesus Christ's Body. It is His worldwide Church of the last two thousand years. In that way your soul is adopted by God, is born in Heaven, and is ready for service (John 1:13; 1Cor. 12:13 (1-26); Gal. 4:(24-)26; Eph. 1:5-12)!
It is a judged and crucified Body, whose members call on the Name of the LORD and have found Him as a strong Tower (Proverbs 18:10; Eph. 2:4-10; Heb. 6:6b-12)!
14_D2*: From God's heart to our hearts
¤ God's Son, Jesus Christ, had been completely surrendered to the Will of His heavenly Father. At the same time, He had thereby set the best example for His followers. As He is the CORE of the New Covenant between God and man (John 4:34; Heb. 10:7-10).
Striving to do God's Will and to become conformed to Jesus Christ is a higher way to walk (Isa. 35:8; John 14:6; Rm. 8:18-25), Rm. 12:1-2 (-15:3), <Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, {which is} your spiritual service of worship. 2. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
14_D3: Spirit-FOOD for our body
¤ Every person is unique, with a wonderful body, an intelligent soul, and an own identity. But just being unique is not enough. As long as our own free moral will and our intellect, and not God's Will/Intellect, controls our lives and everything we do, we cannot please God {Mat. 7:21 (-23)}.
Our whole being must accept God's Guidance. Also our bodies need the bread of God's Word, just as some Spirit-vitamins for our body were discussed under the heading “Our body and its senses”. Only then are we as God’s children (as strangers and pilgrims) on our way to a Heavenly Fatherland (John 1:12; Heb. 11:13b-16).
¤ God looks at your spirit/heart/soul, whether you are truly sorry and have truly repented, whether you are truly examining His Word and Will. Only those who had understood that God is the SOURCE OF LOVE and not the source of evil, and who sighed and groaned over the abominations around them, were marked with God's Seal (Eze. 9; Eph. 1:13-14 and 4:(22-)30)!
In that way, you are God’s light and letter of love to the people around you, God's living word-food and at the same time a part of Jesus Christ’s Body. Together with the Holy Spirit and His spiritual gifts, we are then candidates for Heaven, new creatures (Mat. 5:14-16; Acts 2:38 (17-39); 1Cor. 4:9; 2Cor. 3:2-3; Gal. 6:15-18)!
14_E1: God’s Law and His other laws
¤ Without Jesus’ Sacrifice, every person born is a soul without a Future, a spiritually dead soul (as described previously). However, this has especially to do with persons, who have heard something of the Gospel. We then live under God's moral Law, and later on we are judged more severely on the basis of that Law. For the same reason, a God-predestined temporary Last Judgment threatens in particular our Christian world (Rm. 2:12-16; Rev. 18)!
It is in contrast to someone who has never heard Jesus Christ’s Gospel, Rm. 2:14-15, <For when Gentiles, not having {the} Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these not having {the} Law are a law to themselves, 15. who show the work of the Law, written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and the thoughts between one another accusing or also defending {them}.>
¤ Moreover, this text teaches us how under the guidance of the Holy Spirit God’s moral Spirit-laws and especially the Law of the Ten Commandments live and work in the spirit/heart of a true Christian. In the same way, all of God’s other physical and genetic laws have been made subordinate to this Law (Zechariah 4:6).
The first verse of the book of Revelation shows something of the origin of God's laws and everything. First came God's prophetic thoughts. Next, they were transformed in words through Jesus Christ (as He is the Word), after which His angel passed on and confirmed these future images and descriptions to Jesus' last living apostle, John (John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:16), Rev. 1:1, <A Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and signified {it} by His angel to His bond-servant John,>
¤ A Living soul is someone who has surrendered his/her life to Jesus Christ and who, SERVING IN LOVE, SPEAKS AND BELIEVES all that He has said. Suddenly he/she experienced something of the Living God and the purpose of his/her life that made him/her want to eat and drink spiritual Food every day {Gen. 2:9 (-17); Ps. 42(:7); Luke 24:45; John 14:9; 17:3; 1Cor. 15:31 (-34)}.
GOD’S SPIRIT, your HELPER, then builds God's Kingdom and Gospel and Power in you (Luke 17:21; John 16:7-15; Acts 1:8; Rm. 10:8-17)!
14_E2: The senses of the soul, and artificial intelligence
¤ Our soul has senses, which can be called the senses behind our matter-senses. They add an extra dimension to our life and to everything around us. In a positive or negative meaning. Soul’s senses “eat” all kinds of mental food. All kinds of evil lust, unhealthy food, that destroys our life. Or HEALTHY (DIVINE) FOOD, WHAT HELPS US TO HELP OTHERS AND OURSELVES.
The human intellect is the most highly developed and most central intellect of the soul-world, and God's Intellect is the most highly developed and most central intellect of the Spirit-world. Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, one of the last inventions of us humans, belongs only to the material world.
¤ Artificial intelligence systems are copies of human intelligence and intellect. A soul with a life of its own is missing. Therefore, they have no self-developing consciousness that came out of nowhere, and consequently no independent living intellect of their own. A spirit is also missing. They have no sense for a possible exchange of thoughts with God, and no real identity of their own (14_B3).
The memory capacity of a single human is much larger, more energy-efficient, and more independent than the memory capacities that current artificial intelligence systems have at their disposal. And the magnitude of the memory capacity of God who created everything, we cannot even imagine. God's Intellect and Intelligence is therefore left out of the following consideration.
1. Corresponding to the first sense of touch, a person has a similar all-encompassing sense/inlet, the memory of his/her soul, in which all kinds of information is stored. This happens especially in the brain and is a part of our (temporarily) living soul. It is the soul’s intellect of our all-encompassing soul’s intelligence.
Artificial intelligence is set up in a similar way. With unimaginable numbers of physical measuring devices it “eats” all kinds of observations, which we humans can then comment on and store. Useful information and unnecessary useless information.
2. The second sense of the soul is reasons / the reasoning faculty. With this, a person learns to organize as well as possible all the information he/she perceives. He/she who has learned to LOVE SERVING, as described under the second sense, the sense of sight, benefits greatly from this. By focusing our attention on people other than ourselves, we help both others and ourselves to give and get the best possible answers.
In the same way, artificial intelligence has been developed to give the best possible answers, precise, direct, exact, qualitative and objective answers.
3. Conscience of the soul is part of the sense of hearing. Someone listens to the quiet voice of his/her conscience, or not.
God's Intellect, and the intellect of a human, and thereby also artificial intelligence, all automatically store important major events, which can later serve as a basis for making RIGHT (or wrong) DECISIONS, or for evaluating these decisions (Rm. 2:14-16).
4. Affections, in other words the affections inlet/sense belongs to our fourth sense of smell and is a part of our character/nature. EVERYONE LONGS FOR AN OWN FAMILIAR-SMELLING ENVIRONMENT where he/she can retreat and rest every day.
Artificial intelligence systems, for their part, can be programmed with ideals and preferences for different kinds of goals. Ranging from the best and most friendly robotic systems guided by well-intentioned people, to perfect robotic control for dictatorial leaders, or to perfect robotic viruses for individual criminals. Ultimately, however, people and their communities determine the boundaries and possible applications. Without electricity, nothing happens. Everything operates solely within the realm of computers.
5. Imaginations can be linked to our sense of taste. From the world-famous painter Pablo Picasso is the saying: “Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain one when you grow up.” Every human has been given godlike creative powers with which he/she may propagate his/her ideals and spiritual gifts.
Likewise, artificial intelligence is capable of helping anyone create fantastic music, extraordinary works of art, perfect graduation reports, and so on, in an instant, TOP PIECES OF WORKS. Although, in essence, it is plagiarism. Creativity or knowledge created by other people was used for this! Who honestly tells where his/her inspiration came from?
14_E2*: Humility
¤ By accepting the facts of the soul world, a person can bring one's life to a higher level. All of nature's genetic information of nature / of natural life was written by our Creator in the DNA computer language. For a human being and every animal, plant, bacterium and other living organism its own information. Seeds and cells were the covers of these instruction books (Gen. 1:11, 20, 24 and 26).
Books, in particular perfect manual books, have never come into existence without a writer/expert. Believing in a Creator is a normal thing. Not wanting to believe is contrary to life and science. Bill Gates has compared genetics to programming, famously stating: “DNA is like a computer program, but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”
¤ In nature, each item has its own specific intelligence, and thus its own identity and function. It is a perfectly self-sustaining system, also with regard to all our food. Consequently, nature is the best example and an inexhaustible source of inspiration for our science and art. However, the use of it, for example by many top painters, is so normal that few view it as plagiarism. Anyway, it is precisely that acknowledgement that can make a person free.
Many artists and scientists have confessed their faith in the God of the Bible, in what Jesus did for them. For example, the world-famous painter Rembrandt van Rijn, who painted many Bible stories and many Jews. This conversion is the most important event in every person's life!
14_E3: Artificial intelligence’s greatest problem
¤ Artificial intelligence is a huge challenge for many. It can explain almost anything quickly and precisely, and in the same way it can make up the best lies. Ultimately, however, it is nothing more than a tool for us humans. The greatest problems stem from our own thoughts.
Artificial intelligence systems have no awareness of God and are not capable of Loving unconditionally. But they do have an influence on people. With their help, someone can get the delusion of achieving and controlling big goals. Unfortunately, whoever thinks he knows everything, is dumber than stupid. In the end, someone is so blind that he no longer knows to be blind (Rm. 1:21-22; Rev. 3:17).
¤ In our current, temporary end-time, the Lord Jesus has been expelled from His own churches and congregations as prophesied by God Himself in the last book of the Bible, with the description of the church of Laodicea. It was the last great church revival, expressly that of the Pentecostal movement, nowadays called Pentecostal churches {Rev. 3:20 (14-22)}.
Wake up and seek the Lord Jesus! Never let your sincerity to Christ die away, but buy for yourself extra Oil, the Sealing of the Holy Spirit (Mat. 25:1-13; Rm. 8:35-39)!
¤ Many people are concerned about the security of their personal and societal information used by artificial intelligence. However, the greatest danger is denied or ridiculed.....
Less than ever is spoken of eternal security. Where will you spend eternity? This should be the most important issue and project of everyone's life (John 12:25-26; Rm. 2:6-11).....
14_F1*: God’s Kingdom and Righteousness
¤ When your whole being has welcomed Jesus Christ, He (along with God's Spirit) becomes your Advocate in Heaven. Your Judge has then become your Mediator (John 5:21 (-30); Rm. 8:(26-)34; 1 Timothy 2:5)!
Your prayers and supplications and thoughts as a man or as a woman then make direct contact with God and should be exactly right. It is our spiritual worship, which also comes with a greater responsibility (Phili. 4:6-9; Heb. 2:1-4), 1Cor. 3:14-15, <If anyone's work that he built up will remain, he will receive a reward. 15. If anyone's work will be burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.>
¤ God's Word and the Holy Spirit teach us TO LOVE our spiritual brothers and sisters above all else, AND TO SERVE them with all our heart and soul and mind and strength (1John 3:14-18 and 4:17-21; Heb. 10:19-25).
This also applies to LOVING AND SERVING the land of Israel and its Jewish population. In 1967 it gained control of the entire city of Jerusalem, despite growing opposition and hatred from more and more states and groups around the world. It was God’s Testimony, that “the times of the Gentiles” were “fulfilled”. Read Luke 21:24b.
¤ Only the rapture into Heaven of the last believer, who will find the Righteousness of God and His Kingdom, is still pending. Investigate it and believe that you may be one of them (Mat. 6:33; 24:36-51; Rm. 11:25; Phili. 3:11-14; Rev. 20:4)!
After that secret taking up, the Holy Ghost will return the “torch” of the Gospel [/Good News] from the Christians to the Israelites/Jews in Israel (Jer. 30 and 31; Mat. 3:11; Rm. 11:12, 15 and 24-36; Rev. 7:4).
14_F2*: Epilogue
¤ This writing was not my wisdom.
The main thoughts came from the following authorities: God’s Holy Spirit, the Bible, and God’s prophet of this end time (Malachi 4:1–6).
¤ William Marrion Branham (†1965) was/is, I believe, this prophet. With the help of his sermon The Greatest Battle Ever Fought (62-0311), I became acquainted with the senses of our soul and spirit and learned to explain all this. However, this is a personal faith, what no human can give you. Everyone should investigate this for himself/herself with the Holy Ghost (Ps. 82 and John 10:34-35; Mat. 10:41a; 24:24)!
Brother Branham's sermons can be found on the Internet, for example:https://branham.org/en/messageaudio
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Drawing "A human is spirit, soul, and body"
Small pictures 1. and 2.
