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Need is a Creature's Word

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The Doctrine of God's Aseity and Self-Suffificenty   “To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relation to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can bring to Him who is complete in himself.” ―  A.W. Tozer,  The Knowledge of the Holy Today we will address two additional attributes of God, His Aseity and His Self-Sufficiency. Because these two are so closely related. I will address them together. Both Aseity and Self-Sufficiency are attributes of God that express is perfection within Himself, and by Himself and even for Himself. The Un-Caused One The notion of Aseity is the highest concept of God that can be imagined by man....

God's Omnipresence in Us

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God's Omnipresence in Us When we think of Omnipresence we think as God being everywhere this was addressed earlier in the “ Everywhere of Omnipresence ” or as God incarnating God’s self for man to interact with, this was addressed in the “ Theophany of Omnipresence”  but there is another form of omnipresence that I think should be cleared up. And it is even more complicated than all the rest and of all the Attributes of  God , this is the one that we have power over. This being the incarnation of God which is beyond the physical to the spiritual, it lives in us and speaks to us, and through us, it exists to comfort us, and guide us into full maturation in the works of God. This incarnation is called the Holy Spirit  ( Ruah HaKodesh;  Hebrew ) (Pneuma Hagios;  Greek ) it is given to the believer of Christ as a promise from Jesus Christ. And because every man, woman, and child that walks on this earth has within him the free will to...

Duct Tape Stupid

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Please leave a comment at the bottom of the page   I was surfing the internet the other day and I was completely discussed with what the world thinks of Christians in general. What I was upset about was those thing which are just blatantly wrong that the world, (and most Christians) held as true. Internet apologetics is hard, you need a very thick skin to not get depressed, you can become angry and sometimes it actually causes you to sit back and cry. Not for the hurt but for the loss. Yet, sadly many Christian are as much to blame for our condition, as those that have yet to come to believe. In an effort to mitigate our gushing ignorance in the present of a non-believer, we twist the scripture to save the impression of piety rather than search the scriptures to tell the truth reveled in them.  So as to mitigate this foolishness and to cut short the mental assault on logic. Let me bring to light this day two of the stupidest things we say concerning our...

When Church Leaders are the Enemy of God

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Please leave a comment at the bottom of the page   Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show his works by a good life in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14   But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15   Wisdom of this kind does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16   For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every foul practice. 17   But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or insincerity. James 3:13-17 (NASB) I get calls from church members quite often, sometimes they just want someone to pray with them, and sometimes in their voice I can tell they just need someone to encourage them in God's Word. But occasionally they call to tell me about someone in the church that hurt them, seldom is it a physical hurt, most of...