Michael McLean
2023-02-07 23:36:15 UTC
A disclaimer: with all of these chapters, it is impossible to mine their
depths. They are God in description; there are not enough books in the
world for that. So, I just pass on the moment.
"I merely speak the truth, what is revealed to me, and the cards fall
where God intends."
And so...
Gen 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain,
and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
She pointed out that the child is a gift from our good-hearted Creator.
Eve understood that the child did not come from them.
And what about from an impersonal "environmental nature" or from an
impersonal "evolution"? You can't get a personal being from an
impersonal "thing!" Atheists conveniently ignore that fact and choose to
be blind. "What you sow is what you reap."
So Adam and Eve were gifted with a couple of sons, both with different
propensities as we are about to see; reminds me of Jacob and Esau. Both,
however, acknowledged God, which is significant in terms of a man's free
will and personal decision of priority.
Abel's offering to God was accepted; Cain's was disrespectful.
Notice God's advice to Cain.
Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou
doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his
desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
We have a "well-doing prioritized" God; a reflection of His nature.
Also, we have a choice of masters, don't we.
However, Cain has chosen the delusion that he is of greater value than
His Creator...even in the presence of a GOD [God], no less!!! The clay
in saying I am greater than the potter. It is easy for the fallen man
(clay) to rise up and become inflated with self because the clay is the
focus of the potter (God). Hence, a sinful man easily persuades himself
that he is the most important.
What he is missing out on, though, is the incredible, infinite love of
God, and he is replacing it with the love of self.
Anyway, Cain has not shown true respect for God and His worthiness.
It is all going down hill now; Cain slew Abel. It doesn't appear
exactly why, but I suppose it can be assumed that it was envy. However,
it does say, curiously, that "Cain talked with Abel his brother." I
wonder what that conversation would have been.
Moving on.
God knows, of course, of both the conversation and the death of Abel.
But God still asks Cain, "Where's your brother?" giving him the
opportunity to speak the truth.
Truth is all essential to God because our God is a God of truth and
light, and that ain't no lie.
Now, look at the stinking attitude of Cain. In the blink of an eye, he
went from making an offering to God to spitting in His face!
God says, "Where's your bro?"
Cain says, "I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?"
Insult upon injury. Just look at the disrespect!
Cain has now laid down the deeds of a liar and a malicious contextual
twister, a maker of lies using truth – mendacious and nefarious.
Who "keeps" us all?
Extremely wicked, what Cain did!
It is like two boys playing in the back yard, and one puts an axe
through the other's head, and then runs inside. The father asks,
where's your brother, and the child says, I don't know, you're the one
who provides a hedge of protection around him; he is your responsibility.
Extremely wicked.
I am not going on any further with Genesis 4 at this point (it is just
too much information); the rest is for the person I am going through the
Bible for and with.
However, I will say this: Above, you have the epitome of how sinful man
treats God (the contempt) and how he goes about to and fro on the earth
to this very day.
Also, notice this: Cain did make an offering, but it was not from the
heart. God is all about the heart; He is all heart!
What does that say about His expectations of you? Cain shouldn't have
bothered with the pretence, and neither should you.
It is all or nothing.
Rev_3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
will spue thee out of my mouth.
Atheists are foolish, ignorant, willfully acting wrong, plain stubborn,
and uncaring for the truth. However, God prefers it this way over men
coming to Him with a motive other than FOR HIM (e.g., Cain); such men
mock Him, make Him out to be a fool, even more than atheists.
That doesn't let you off the hook, though, Mr. and Mrs. Atheism.
Michael
--
Jesus is the everlasting Father, Jesus is God, Jesus is the Lord.
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were
YET sinners, Christ died for us.
Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it
is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
"To seek your own will is to seek your own glory."
"If God is not first in everything He is not first in anything."
"What makes the bible the truth? The resonance of God."
"All men were born sinners. Why? Because all men were born not loving
God with all their heart, soul and mind. An abomination. Therefore,
sin is not what you do, it is what you are."
"Compromise will condemn you."
"There are no sinners in Christ Jesus."
"My sons are born of Me. In them is no darkness at all."
"You can't learn righteousness. Haven't you had enough time already to
know that?"
"The way of truth is the testimony of life."
"I merely speak the truth, what is revealed to me, and the cards fall
where God intends."
"Nothing that is produced is produced without first being faith."
"You can only find proof of God through faith because that is how we all
live, by faith."
"It is not what you do that matters, it is how you treat Me."
"Keep going forward. Forget about the past. Lift up your head, look
ahead."
"You cannot be free with guilt in your heart."
"Priority is everything."
"The truth doesn't need evidence, it is evidence."
"There is no greater possession a man has than his own will, to squander
it or to place it where it truly belongs."
"An atheist is a fool who thinks truth is found in living a lie."
"Saying "prove it" [as a foundation] is merely an ignorant straw man, to
an ignorant straw man."
"Wait, rest, be still, and know."
"No man can wash his own hands!!!"
"I find this in the Christianity religions: 'Nobody's perfect' they say,
and they use that as an excuse not to do what is perfect."
The Atheist: "They don't believe and put their faith in a Creator (the
obvious). So no evidence and proof is to be found!!"
"The world is the way it is because God can't compromise who He is."
"Man is not the centre of being."
"Man is incompatible with the natural world because of his sinful nature."
"And then the Lord said, "I see everything."
"Man has no greater idol than his own will."
"Where is God hiding? He isn't."
"If you don't keep all the scriptures, you can't keep any of them."
"You can't prove anything because everything depends on a person's
willingness to believe."
"Atheists are ultimately trying to be pointlessness, meaninglessness,
and purposelessness in their point, meaning, and purpose."
"The last day of creation will be the last day of time. God is always
full of hope."
"The veil of the temple was rent in twain, not to have a book pass
through it so that you could play God."
"A phylactery does not a heart for God make. Not back then, and not today."
"The Bible cannot baptize. No one was ever saved by reading the Bible.
Mechanical or methodical salvation is just more Pharisee bureaucracy.
Men are saved after their conviction, death sentence, and resurrection
in baptism--the baptism of the Holy Spirit." - Nightbulb
"No one in heaven is better (or higher) than what makes it heaven. Such
is the love of God."
"The definition of an atheist: A man full of bluster and bullshit
pretending he is the meaning of life."
"Free will is not power; it is the choice that I allow; that choice is
still according to my power," says the Lord.
depths. They are God in description; there are not enough books in the
world for that. So, I just pass on the moment.
"I merely speak the truth, what is revealed to me, and the cards fall
where God intends."
And so...
Gen 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain,
and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
She pointed out that the child is a gift from our good-hearted Creator.
Eve understood that the child did not come from them.
And what about from an impersonal "environmental nature" or from an
impersonal "evolution"? You can't get a personal being from an
impersonal "thing!" Atheists conveniently ignore that fact and choose to
be blind. "What you sow is what you reap."
So Adam and Eve were gifted with a couple of sons, both with different
propensities as we are about to see; reminds me of Jacob and Esau. Both,
however, acknowledged God, which is significant in terms of a man's free
will and personal decision of priority.
Abel's offering to God was accepted; Cain's was disrespectful.
Notice God's advice to Cain.
Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou
doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his
desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
We have a "well-doing prioritized" God; a reflection of His nature.
Also, we have a choice of masters, don't we.
However, Cain has chosen the delusion that he is of greater value than
His Creator...even in the presence of a GOD [God], no less!!! The clay
in saying I am greater than the potter. It is easy for the fallen man
(clay) to rise up and become inflated with self because the clay is the
focus of the potter (God). Hence, a sinful man easily persuades himself
that he is the most important.
What he is missing out on, though, is the incredible, infinite love of
God, and he is replacing it with the love of self.
Anyway, Cain has not shown true respect for God and His worthiness.
It is all going down hill now; Cain slew Abel. It doesn't appear
exactly why, but I suppose it can be assumed that it was envy. However,
it does say, curiously, that "Cain talked with Abel his brother." I
wonder what that conversation would have been.
Moving on.
God knows, of course, of both the conversation and the death of Abel.
But God still asks Cain, "Where's your brother?" giving him the
opportunity to speak the truth.
Truth is all essential to God because our God is a God of truth and
light, and that ain't no lie.
Now, look at the stinking attitude of Cain. In the blink of an eye, he
went from making an offering to God to spitting in His face!
God says, "Where's your bro?"
Cain says, "I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?"
Insult upon injury. Just look at the disrespect!
Cain has now laid down the deeds of a liar and a malicious contextual
twister, a maker of lies using truth – mendacious and nefarious.
Who "keeps" us all?
Extremely wicked, what Cain did!
It is like two boys playing in the back yard, and one puts an axe
through the other's head, and then runs inside. The father asks,
where's your brother, and the child says, I don't know, you're the one
who provides a hedge of protection around him; he is your responsibility.
Extremely wicked.
I am not going on any further with Genesis 4 at this point (it is just
too much information); the rest is for the person I am going through the
Bible for and with.
However, I will say this: Above, you have the epitome of how sinful man
treats God (the contempt) and how he goes about to and fro on the earth
to this very day.
Also, notice this: Cain did make an offering, but it was not from the
heart. God is all about the heart; He is all heart!
What does that say about His expectations of you? Cain shouldn't have
bothered with the pretence, and neither should you.
It is all or nothing.
Rev_3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
will spue thee out of my mouth.
Atheists are foolish, ignorant, willfully acting wrong, plain stubborn,
and uncaring for the truth. However, God prefers it this way over men
coming to Him with a motive other than FOR HIM (e.g., Cain); such men
mock Him, make Him out to be a fool, even more than atheists.
That doesn't let you off the hook, though, Mr. and Mrs. Atheism.
Michael
--
Jesus is the everlasting Father, Jesus is God, Jesus is the Lord.
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were
YET sinners, Christ died for us.
Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it
is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
"To seek your own will is to seek your own glory."
"If God is not first in everything He is not first in anything."
"What makes the bible the truth? The resonance of God."
"All men were born sinners. Why? Because all men were born not loving
God with all their heart, soul and mind. An abomination. Therefore,
sin is not what you do, it is what you are."
"Compromise will condemn you."
"There are no sinners in Christ Jesus."
"My sons are born of Me. In them is no darkness at all."
"You can't learn righteousness. Haven't you had enough time already to
know that?"
"The way of truth is the testimony of life."
"I merely speak the truth, what is revealed to me, and the cards fall
where God intends."
"Nothing that is produced is produced without first being faith."
"You can only find proof of God through faith because that is how we all
live, by faith."
"It is not what you do that matters, it is how you treat Me."
"Keep going forward. Forget about the past. Lift up your head, look
ahead."
"You cannot be free with guilt in your heart."
"Priority is everything."
"The truth doesn't need evidence, it is evidence."
"There is no greater possession a man has than his own will, to squander
it or to place it where it truly belongs."
"An atheist is a fool who thinks truth is found in living a lie."
"Saying "prove it" [as a foundation] is merely an ignorant straw man, to
an ignorant straw man."
"Wait, rest, be still, and know."
"No man can wash his own hands!!!"
"I find this in the Christianity religions: 'Nobody's perfect' they say,
and they use that as an excuse not to do what is perfect."
The Atheist: "They don't believe and put their faith in a Creator (the
obvious). So no evidence and proof is to be found!!"
"The world is the way it is because God can't compromise who He is."
"Man is not the centre of being."
"Man is incompatible with the natural world because of his sinful nature."
"And then the Lord said, "I see everything."
"Man has no greater idol than his own will."
"Where is God hiding? He isn't."
"If you don't keep all the scriptures, you can't keep any of them."
"You can't prove anything because everything depends on a person's
willingness to believe."
"Atheists are ultimately trying to be pointlessness, meaninglessness,
and purposelessness in their point, meaning, and purpose."
"The last day of creation will be the last day of time. God is always
full of hope."
"The veil of the temple was rent in twain, not to have a book pass
through it so that you could play God."
"A phylactery does not a heart for God make. Not back then, and not today."
"The Bible cannot baptize. No one was ever saved by reading the Bible.
Mechanical or methodical salvation is just more Pharisee bureaucracy.
Men are saved after their conviction, death sentence, and resurrection
in baptism--the baptism of the Holy Spirit." - Nightbulb
"No one in heaven is better (or higher) than what makes it heaven. Such
is the love of God."
"The definition of an atheist: A man full of bluster and bullshit
pretending he is the meaning of life."
"Free will is not power; it is the choice that I allow; that choice is
still according to my power," says the Lord.