Spiritual Growth

Though it is important to tolerate theological mistakes here and there, so people can have time to spiritually grow right and their heavenly egg can be hatched from the inside rather than being broken from the outside, it is important to stand and oppose the prosperity gospel and associated faith on materialism without any hesitation.   I do think and I do know there are several “persons of God” who are talking to the evil one rather than God. When you listen to what they say and talk about, you can sense the radioactive trace of the evil one in their assumed communication with the Heavenly Father, the Holly Spirit, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and some even claim that they talk to old prophets from the good book (the Bible). With proper noise to smell, the stinky odor of the evil one is not hard to trace within them.    Yet, I don’t think such influence is only concentrated on those who advocate the prosperity gospel and I don’t think all those who focus on the prosperity ...

  How can God be one if he can be three? This is the paradox of the Trinity. Imagine a God who says that I am one saying I am three then after. How is this possible? This is possible because what we are looking is at the anatomy of one God. As the classic Greeks love to call it, this is God’s economy. It was economical, efficient, and practical to express, toward us, his single nature in three forms. The nature of the place where God lives forever is hard to understand. This is because understanding God’s relationship with this eternal space is a challenging idea in many ways. Say we can say that if that space is eternal and not created, is it God? But how can God have another God? See it takes us to endless contemplation. Though we cannot understand that point, we can be sure God does not live in created heaven for eternity. If earth and heaven are created, and since God was alive before he created heaven and earth, for sure there is another uncreated heaven where God lives fore...

    Is our fate written before we are born? If life is written and predestined before it happens, we will be hopeless actors in God’s prewritten script. We will kill because it is written, we will lie because it is written, we will steal because it is written, and our holiness/rightness will be also predestined. God plans evil and good, writes it in his book, and we act accordingly because it is written, without any freedom to choose otherwise. If this is so, God will be playing with dull and mindless poppets, who live without free will. Adam ate the forbidden fruit because it was written in advance. The devil became the devil because it was written in advance. The Jewish people and the Roman Empire crucified the lord because it was written. All seems predestined and planned so that some of us should play villains, some us heroes, and some are cast to play supportive roles in this big drama written by God. In this setting, we, the hopeless actors, cannot even reject the ...

  There are some basic differences between the born-again faithful of this age and the born-again faith of the first century. The first and most important difference is that Peter, Paul, John, and others do give very high recognition and worship to the Heavenly Father as much as they recognize and worship the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Before they honor and worship our lord Jesus Christ, they do honor and worship the Heavenly Father, first and foremost. In this age, our lord is loved well by many faithful; yet we forget that our lord is a witness to our Heavenly Father. The purpose of the lord is that through the lord we will have a chance to know the Heavenly Father’s nature and perfection so we can worship him with knowledge and understanding. That is why we should use our knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as an instrument to know the essence of Heavenly Father to worship him, in spirit, right. Justifying the central place of the Heavenly Father is not my main issu...