What To Believe?

 

What should we believe about God? Should we take him at his word that he is Holy? Should we believe he is supreme goodness? Or should we weigh the texts claimed to have been authored by him? Does he want to be judge, jury, and executioner, destroying the disobedient in hell? Is it anyone's guess until we are made eyewitnesses to Heaven by the all-seeing eye?

God repeatedly asks us in the Bible to be Holy because he is Holy. The numerous promises God makes in scripture hint he is a providential God. One would expect a Holy God king forever to have a realm where Justice flourishes. In the Bible, God expresses the perfect law of liberty is the one to be as judged by. Be harmless; the very law itself, in short form, is even mentioned. Even the just penalty of an eye for an eye to the last farthing, nothing more and nothing less, is inferrable. Is God Supreme Goodness?

The books of scripture expose a legal edifice. Laws are given. Penalties are prescribed. Death in hell, at the last judgment, is the final fate of those condemned. The text makes it clear that some are saved, and some are condemned. The letter of the law gives death. Yet the Gospel says the truth will set you free, be as they to be judged by the law of liberty, for the Spirit ministers life. 

Until we are eyewitnesses of Heaven, we may guess either way and risk being wrong. Until God overtly repeals the laws prohibiting harmless liberties, we can fear damnation if we do them anyway. Until then, we can only hope God is a Holy and Just eternal king instead of a lawgiving tyrant looking forward to a reign of terror based on eternal destruction in hell for disobedience.   

   

The Truth Will Set You Free

 

The truth will set you free from the Law Library to the Golden Rule of liberty to be harmless. If you let it and do not stumble on national and local laws or get snared by preachers to religious codes. The Gospel of Truth is in reach and true knowledge if you follow the truth through scripture and all that is taught. What truth you know recognize. What you do not know as true, acknowledge it, and you are on your way to clear thinking. 

Christ did say to obey the king, but it is also written that it is better to obey God than men. No jot or title of law has passed away, but the dietary code has been repealed for some of us following the God of Abraham. If you would be freed from the Law Library, then remember it is also written to be as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. Anarchy happens when too much liberty is granted. Tyranny is the result of too little liberty allowed. All harmless liberty is the right amount.

If you are not careful, you can be overwhelmed by the sheer number of laws given by nations that can be punished if violated. Even preachers can snare you with religious codes that require obedience if you want approval. It is easy to need clarification. Just one golden rule: Everything harmless is allowed. Yet there are law libraries of rules and regulations. The nation Rome did persecute early Christians. The religious scholars of the Jews condemned Jesus. Nations and scholars have not acknowledged the golden rule, but where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, which is written in the Bible. 

A Gospel can be excerpted from scriptures that contain all the truth one recognizes in the texts. True knowledge can be found similarly by concentrating on all the facts in the lessons taught to the student body. Jeremiah warns that even God will lay stumbling blocks and snares before us, from which the father and son will perish. What do you know without knowing the truth behind what you read, see, or hear?