Clint's Reposts

Response to Who is the One True God?
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(Original post in italics.) Answers in non-italics.

It was written in Jer 31:31-34 that God would make a New Covenant or Testament with the "House of Israel" that symbolizes GOD'S CHOSEN.

One wonders about the pride in that statement. I always thought that pride was something to avoid in most religious circles. But in any case "GOD's CHOSEN" simply refers to those, and they are few, who have penetrated the misdirection inherent in the mystery surrounding the perception of being. The truth does not go out of its way to hide itself; most of us go out of our way to hide from the truth.

This is the NEW TESTAMENT that we all claim to benefit from it with our salvation. In that covenant, God promised that His chosen people,"will all know Him from the least to the greatest of them."

Who is greatest? What definition, and from what source defines "greatest"?

We are now in the NEW TESTAMENT therefore we can claim this promise of KNOWING the One True God. How do your reconcile the following?

1 Cor. 8:4 "...that there is NONE OTHER GOD BUT ONE."

That of course is true if by GOD you are willing to recognize GOD in all things.

1 Cor. 8:6 "But to us there is but ONE GOD THE FATHER of whom are all things..."

Like I just said in the previous statement.

1 Joh 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. THIS IS THE TRUE GOD, and eternal Life."

This is fairly easy to apprehend for those with eyes and ears. It means that your personal recognition of eternal life is bound to your understanding that you are part of the everything. The everything for the christian devote equates to "the Son, the Father, and the Holy Ghost" in words. Eternal life means there is no non-life possible, because no life would mean nothingness--endless void--which concept cannot exist without its opposite. Therefore there must be eternal life, i.e., endless non-void. (It's a hard concept to put in words.)

Do we now accept and appreciate that to recognize JESUS it needs the "revelation of the Father, and should never come from flesh and blood?"

That would be true since "the Father" and "JESUS" is a concept rooted in a personal faith of the realization of a larger purposeful cosmos, whose point of origin is far removed from puny flesh and blood experiences, or even scientific analysis.

Please read: Matthew 16:15-17 how Simon Peter recognized JESUS, saying, "Thou art the CHRIST, the son of the living God."

It's always nice to recognize those people who seem to have a great "connection" to the spiritual, and Simon no doubt was excited by that. It's not a particularily unique position to be the son of the living God, since the living God is inherent in all that exists. Without getting too carried away about the explanation, Jesus was the figurehead of the cult of spiritual understanding of the place beyond dogma.

But everybody is professing this!

And as it was promised, it is written in Heb. 8:11 "And they shall not teach everyone his neighbor, and everyone his neighbor, Know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest of them."

It's a slam dunk that "all shall know me". It's like asserting to those walking toward a rainstorm that they will get wet if they continue to walk. All shall know me means that everyone eventually "gets" the spirtual part of life.

Something to think about.

Right you are!