Pictured: Georg Wilhelm Friedrisch Hegel (1770-1831). Quote from snl.no:
Philosophy of religion
There have long been debates about the role of religion in Hegel’s thinking. He has been regarded as an atheist, a pantheist and a defender of Lutheran Protestantism. The complexity of the matter is partly due to the fact that Hegel’s view of Christianity, which he considered to be the highest form of religion, went through several phases.
In early writings such as Die Positivität der christlichen Religion (The positivity of the Christian religion) from 1795–1796, Hegel expressed a critical view of Christianity as an objective religion, that is, as an organized form of faith. As Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) would do after him, Hegel emphasized the importance of subjective faith. In works such as Der Geist der Christentum und sein Schicksal (The Spirit of Christianity and its Destiny) from 1798–1800, Hegel expressed greater closeness to Christianity.
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By blessing Christ, we are blessed, but those who curse him are cursed.
Abraham believed God, and it was counted to righteousness, so that God blessed him, and promised him that in his seed all nations would be blessed. Those who blessed him would be bless, but those who cursed him should be cursed. This promise is fulfilled in Christ, by believing that God raised him up from the dead, we are righteous before God and blessed. God loves the world so much that he sends his only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life. To all who received him (bless him), he gave the right to become the children of God, born of the water of life and the Spirit of God, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. He blessed the little children and said to his disciples that they should let them come to him, for the kingdom of God belongs to such. The grown-up had to repent and become born again, to see the kingdom of God and enter it. This is fundamental Christianity and it is important for us to stay in it, so that we can be in the blessing, even if we learn more later in life, both of Christianity and other subjects.
The ideal for us is to make ourselves small like a child Jesus took in his arms and blesses and to receive others as such little children.
Matthew 18:1 1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them.
3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.
Causing to Stumble
6 “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
7 Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!
8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.
9 And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
The Parable of the Wandering Sheep
10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
There may be many who regard themselves as being so wise that they despise this, so that they do not receive or reject and the apostasy leads to a curse. But then we can use the blessing as a reference, use Jesus’ completed work of salvation as a reference, because on that basis we are reconciled to God and blessed. With that reference we can point out the apostasy and correct people to turn to Christ, so that they can be blessed and saved.
I grew up in the Church and my mother taught me to pray the evening prayer, it was to call upon Christ as our savior and Lord, ask him to save our loved ones and pray like this for the people and the country and pray the Lord’s Prayer. When I was nine years old I acknoledged that salvation was the opposite of being fooled and deceived as in the fall, so I began to ask him to save us from it, as the first priority and to give me a saved woman as a wife as the second priority. When I prayed like this, I felt that he was close to me and so I was acquainted with him as my best friend. He was like a shadow at my right hand, as is written.
This is how I prayed when I was in high school as well, and I imagined that I would receive her as a child of God in accordance with Matthew 18:2-4. He has answered me many times that he is the one who takes care of my cause, and I understand it to be this way. I should come to him with it and surrender myself completely to him, so I imagine that it is by making myself small like such a little child as he takes in his arms. I am sure that Jesus loves me, so he will give me a saved woman as a wife. Then the question is whether the Christians will acknoledge him and admit that he loves me, so he will give me a saved woman as a wife.
Rev.3:8 8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
9 I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.
10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.
11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
Then it turns out that I get resistance from priests and scribes in churches and Christian organizations, as if they have alternatives. That there are others who will take care of my case instead and then makes politics out of it, as if the women liberation is that I shall not get a wife. The fall in the church is like this.
That was probably why the Catholic Church decided that Christ is so strict that common people could not come to him directly, but had to go through the pope, priests and saints. In this way they have preached a completely different Jesus than the one that is told about in the gospel and that the apostles testify to. It is also shown by the fact that Protestants protest against Paul’s teaching that Christ is the head of the man and the man is the head of the woman and so Christ is the head of the church which is his bride.
Sin separated man from God, but with a sin sacrifice Jesus took away the sin once for all. When we confess our sin to Jesus, His blood cleanses us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:5-10). Jesus is our High Priest, who prepared the way for us into the holy place in the heavenly sanctuary, so that we can come after and ascend to the throne of grace and find mercy and receive grace to help in due time (Heb. 4:14-16). This is the priesthood in the new covenant and it applies to all who receive the grace God gives us in Christ.
But the Catholic Church set up confessionals instead, where people could come and confess their sin, and then came the sale of indulgences, so that they might have some kind of forgiveness. But it was to turn to another high priest and Messiah than Christ, so the conclusion was that sin henceforth separated them from God, so that they could not come to Him and pray to Him as His children.
Paul told about the old evil nature that with the lust of the flesh resists the Spirit of God, so that we should think that it is crucified and dead with Christ and that in baptism is buried with him, there we are also raised with him by the power of God. Jesus is the bread that came down from heaven to give life to the world, it is the new nature that God gives us from heaven, the word that Jesus has spoken to us is spirit and life. And then we are to let the Spirit that he gives us prevail in our body.
In Genesis 2 it is said that God saw that it was not good for the man to be alone, so he wanted to give him a help that suited for him. Therefore he created a woman from the man’s side bones and brought her to him, so that they would be one flesh. This was good for man, and it should not be so difficult to understand that it was good for woman as well. But it seems that envy and pettiness are some of the percistant in the old evil nature, so that a woman has been taught that she should be envious of the man, and so petty that she does not grant him the good life, despite the fact that she herself renounces it, will not allow him to be saved, and does not lead others to it, in that she herself renounces it and tries to draw more people with her in her fall. Because of envy and pettiness towards man who was saved, they went forward with their fall, to try to draw more people with them.
God created the man and put him to cultivate and protect the garden and that was what his wife was supposed to help him with, so it gave them meaning in life. It is of course a struggle for existence, but his wife was supposed to be a help to him, so they would work together for a common cause. But she is seduced and it is so fundamental that it is as if there is a divorce before it is a marriage, yes, before they have come so far that they have talked about it. It has been demanded that she should be allowed to “live as she wants” without caring about him and then they call it liberation. In this way right to freedom of speech is overridden and eliminated. Instead of being a help to him, she opposes and it is organized, the hatred against him has been organized, so he will be hated and persecuted for the rest of his life. She should live as she wants, morally or immorally, without caring for the man, and then he is regarded as accountable for it. For the serpent’s strategy is to lure, deceive, and seduce the woman as in the case of the Fall, and then use her to entice him, he claims her, and then tries to claim the man as well. o shall act as he wishes, moral or immoral.
Therefore, we must take refuge in the Lord and seek salvation by Him. Christ is the Lamb of God who bore the sin of the world and who atoned for it by dying instead for us on the cross. So I must come to Him with my case and surrender myself completely to Him. God is spirit and He cages in me, and He who cages in me is greater than He who cages in the world. Therefore I have victory.
Speaking in tongues by Mari, interpretation by John Miland:
“Yes, says the Lord, I have said in my word, that you shall rejoice and be glad in my salvation. Delight yourself in me, says the Lord, and I will give you the desires of your heart. Do not be concerned with what is around you, do not look to the right or to the left, but keep your eyes fixed on me, says the Lord. Be concerned with what is above. I have said in my word, if you are raised with me, then you will seek what is above. But one thing is necessary, says the Lord, that is to be filled with my Spirit, filled with my anointing and power at this time. For behold, the evil one is against you. But with my power and my anointing, you will overcome, more than overcome, says the Lord. For behold, the spirit that is in you is stronger than the one that is in the world.
Many are those in these days who look back and who are lagging behind on the road. Therefore, my children, you shall cry out to me and pray for them, that they may receive new strength and new courage and I will meet them again, says the Lord. For behold, there are many who are wounded, there are many who are in pain and suffering. But you, my children, you shall go out and comfort them. And you shall help them on the way, for I have said in my Word that the strong, those I owe to carry the weak. For behold, there are many weak among my people. But I, the Lord, desire to call them in these days and I, the Lord, will fill them with my anointing and power. And then the weak will say, I am a hero. For behold, it is only with my strength that you can win victory.
Yes, I will praise and exalt you, my Savior and Lord, because you have saved me, because you have written my name in the book of life. And I know that when you come, I will be with you. And I will be among the multitude that shall enter into the city with the secure foundations. Oh, how I long to see thee, whom my soul loveth. Amen.”
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Philosophy and metaphysics; what is most fundamental?
With the Universal-discussion in the 1100s e.Kr, metaphysics got its heyday, it was doctrinse of what is most fundamental in existence and goes all the way back to ancient philosophy, which started as natural philosophy, first as mathematics and then came Democritus with his atomic theory. In the Renaissance this was developed to modern science and later came modern technology as well. But what was left of the rest of metaphysics? Many thought it to be uninteresting and unimportant, useless and meaningless speculation. But in our time it is as if many fundamental questions appear and those who want to pretend to be wise, come with answers on behalf of people, to gain power. Answers may be foolishness, so it goes against both Christianity and scientific thinking, because the most important thing for them is not to seek something that is true and right, but to gain power.
Shouldn’t both Jews and Christians know what is most fundamental and acknowledge it in churches and synagogues and tell it to those who are outside as well?
In the Bible we have the law of Moses and the prophecies, with history writing and the creation stories from long before antique culture, so both Christians and Jews should be able to know what is most fundamental and acknowledge it in church and synagogue and tell it to those who are outside as well? Surely they should!
The Pharisees and the scribes wanted to judge Jesus because he healed on the Sabbath, as if it was a job he was doing, but it was God who did his work and Jesus said that the Father still works, therefore the Son also worked.
John 5,15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
The Authority of the Son
16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.
17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”
18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.
21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,
23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.
24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice
29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.
30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
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Through faith in Jesus we get to come into God’s rest (Heb.3-4), His work of salvation is finished and perfect, so we get to rest both on the basis that God completed His creation and Christ completed His work of salvation. This is most fundamental, it is a foundation we have to build on, so by God’s grace man can build his life on that foundation, with education, work, marriage and family life, house and home, church and society. Yes, the church is built on that foundation. Though maybe she shouldn’t know? Should she perhaps take away the foundation of her own existence? Aren’t there others who are trying to undermine her existence and replace the foundation with something else (Rev.17-18)? Should she perhaps not know what is most fundamental?
Kettle with the living water and God’s Spirit.
In the second story of creation, it is a dry and lifeless earth, but then there was a spring and God created man out of soil from the field and breathed the breath of life in his nose, so that he became a living soul. I take this as a symbol of the water of life and the Spirit of God.
Genesis 2:4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
7 Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Isaiah 12: 2 Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense ; he has become my salvation.”
3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
Isaiah 44: 1 “But now listen, Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
2 This is what the LORD says— he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: Do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
4 They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.
Jer.2: 13 “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. 14 Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?
John 4: 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 7: 37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
This kettle has to do with the love relationship between man and woman. We see this in Genesis 2, John 4 and
SO.5, 15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
2 Cor.4: 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
5 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
I have asked Jesus to give me a saved woman as a wife, then she is born of the Spirit and what is born of the Spirit is spirit and she lives in a love relationship with the Father as his child and a love relationship with Christ, as his bride. She is to me like such a precious treasure that God has given me in my heart by the Holy Spirit, a song of praise to God and a dream that Jesus has given me. And then I shall look after that I contribute in the church with what He has given me in my heart.
Quote from 2015.03.29.M. Life, revival and renewal. – Blessing from heaven through faith in Jesus. :
Speaking in tongues by Aud, interpretation by Thore:
“In the midst of my congregation I have decided there shall be a revival, in the midst of my congregation I have decided that there shall be life. It is not something that a person has, but it is something that my congregation shall have in its midst. There shall be life, there shall be abundance, there shall be renewal. Therefore look after that you contribute with what God has given in your heart, and I will rake together the embers, and then the fire shall begin to burn, and the fire shall begin to burn, and you shall know that the day of Pentecost is not over, it is still available.
Do not stand on the bank and look at the river of grace, but throw yourself in, and you will know it will carry you, it will sustain you, and you will experience a joy in your heart such as you have never known before, for it is not by works that you receive it, but you receive what is given by pure grace. And my treasury is open, and all riches and treasures are present, hidden in me. But you must have appetite, and when you have longing, you shall go in, and then you shall partake of what is finished, and I will give it to you as an inheritance, and then you will rejoice. Because I, the Lord, will fill you with abundance.
I will give you feet like hinds, you will be set up on the hills, and you will see the vast land, and with your eyes you will see it, and with your faith you will take it, for the land is open to you, the enemies are defeated, there is not a wall that will be too high for you. But you will know that with faith you will take it, do not pay attention to the circumstances, but be busy with me, and I will lift you up into an atmosphere, and you will become a new man.”
2 Cor.11: 2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.
3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
4 For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
Gal.1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!
9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!
1.Kor.12, 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
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12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
Christ is the way to the Father, by walking that way we come to the Father and get to experience His love and care and it is clear that a child can come to his father and ask for good gifts. We come into the freedom in the childhood with God.
Rom.8,12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.
Luke 11:11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
The Catholic Church decided that Christ is so strict that common people could not come to pray to him directly, but had to go through the pope, priests and saints. But this is to preach a different Jesus than the one we read about in the gospel and that his apostles preached.
This is the case in the church and we see it in the Church of Norway as well, in that “learned” people despise the teaching of childhood by God, which is fundamental Christianity, especially in that they protest against Paul’s teaching that Christ is the head of the man and the man is the head of the woman and so Christ is the head of the church who is his bride. In this way they make people turn to priests, scribes, politicians, kings and “emperors” as if they were gods.
God is spirit and He does His work with us by His Word and His Spirit, it is not physically visible, It is a spiritual voice and it is for us an invisible rationality. The kingdom of God is a spiritual reality, we must repent and become like children, yes, be born again of the water of life and the Spirit of God, in order to see it and enter into it. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
My case; I have asked Jesus to give me a saved woman as a wife and believe he will give it to me. I have received opposition, but he is my high priest with the Father, he takes care of my case.
I have asked Jesus to give me a saved woman as a wife and I believe He will give it to me. We get to come to Jesus to drink of the living water, so it will become in us a kettle that wells up to eternal life. This is salvation and it is a gift. So when He gives me a saved woman as a wife, she becomes for me like a well of living water, from which I can drink, as we saw in SO.5.
Jesus is my high priest and advocate with the Father, so he takes care of my case, so that I will come to him with it and surrender myself completely to him. Then it is and will be by walking the way he has prepared for me into the heavenly sanctuary and ascending to the throne of grace.
Heb.4,14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.
16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
2.Kr 16:9 9 For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.”
So I expect that God will come to my aid with His power and so He will give me help in the form of a wife. This should then agree with Paul’s words that Christ is the head of the man and the man is the head of the woman and so Christ is the head of the church who is his bride, so that he is presented to him as a pure bride (2 Cor.11:3).
1 Thessalonians 4:1 As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.
2 For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;
4 that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable,
5 not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;
6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before.
7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
8 Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.
Paul said that they tolerated well that they received another spirit (2 Cor.11:4), as if they did not notice a great separation, that is, despite the fact that there was another Messiah and another gospel, but whoever preaches another gospel will be cursed (Gal.8-9). How are we to understand the word “spirit” here, it is doctrine and way of thinking. We meet much knowledge and learning in the world and have to sort through it, but it is only one Messiah who has died for our sins, risen from the dead and sat down at God’s right hand in heaven and as God anointed to the Messiah, our King of salvation. So it is only He that we should turn to and bow down to as our Savior and Lord and it is only He that we should preach.
1 Cor.1:12 What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas ”; still another, “I follow Christ.”
13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul?
2 Cor.10:3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Human assessments and seeking advice and help from the Lord, to get a spouse.
When a young man wants a girlfriend and a wife, then it is an important choice and an important matter for him. He makes his human assessments, it can be difficult, but as a child of God he gets to go to the Father with it and Christ is the way to the Father, so he is right to go to him with it. I have written and explained this many times, I write as a man, but it applies to a woman too, when she wants a husband. It is important for her to go to Christ with it, so she enters into a love relationship with him, as his bride and a love relationship with the Father, as his child.
But then it turns out that there are many priests and scribes in the church and in Christian organizations who do not understand what the love relationship between man and woman has to do with God. As if it were strange, they will not accept it, so perhaps one should rather beware and be careful with what you say. Do not throw pearls before swine.
Matthew 7:6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
But let me rather ask a counter-question, is it possible that you who are a priest and teacher in churches and Christian organizations do not know that? What do you have to do with it, if God does not have something to do with it? It was He who created man in His image and created them male and female and who created the love relationship between them, so that they were one in marriage (Genesis 1-2). Jesus’ work of salvation is complete and perfect, in that God saves marriage also, so that He is the head of the man and the man is the head of the woman and so Christ is the head of the church who is His bride.
They have such a much interest in power in churches and Christian organizations that they will not accept that God should have anything to do with it, so when a man wants a wife, it is a matter that he is not allowed to have anything to do with either.
When I want to find a girlfriend and a wife, I will think about whether we fit together, whether I am good enough for her and she is good enough for me, of course she will also think that way and consider it, more precisely if we fit together. But God wanted to give the man help that suited for him, so he created a woman from his side bone and brought her to him, so that they should be one flesh. Therefore, they fit together and God is the same now. He looks to the inner human, he looks to the heart, so that he knows this better than we do ourselves. It is he who does his work, so we are right to go to him with it and go forward with it.
With Hans Nilsen Hauge came a Christian revival in Norway with training in God’s Word and then he was a pioneer in starting companies that used modern technology. From before, the family was the fundamental social and economic unit, which revolved around agriculture, fishing and crafts, but now it was so with industry as well. So it gave both spiritual and material blessing and did its part to make Norway a free and independent nation. It was very fruitful in Sunnmøre, where I live, with much private business.
This was one reason why the left-wing radical women’s movement fought against the man, as if he were the capitalist who wants to exploit women, so they fought against marriage as well.
It is so fundamental as be hostile to them cultivating and protecting God’s garden, cultivating the earth as well, as free people, as they have done for a long time. The alternative is from old times by an aristocracy that owns the land and that runs it with slaves. As if, contrary to the national liberation, they would make Sunnmøre and the whole of Norway a colony.
In comparison, they are hostile to the Jews being able to settle in their land, cultivate the land and make it fertile. It is destructive thinking and work that is the opposite of constructive thinking and useful work.
Paul teaches us that Christ is the head of the man and the man is the head of the woman and so Christ is the head of the church who is his bride. But they protested against this, as if the man is not good enough for her and as if Christ is not good enough for them either. It was fundamental, like religion and politics, as if the Norwegian man is not good enough for the Norwegian woman as a husband. But this is religious superstition and far from knowledge.
It should not be difficult to understand that marriage and family life between a Norwegian man and a Norwegian woman is the good life for both of them, it is in fact completely natural. The resistance is motivated by envy and pettiness, unfortunately the woman has been seduced into agreeing to it, despite the fact that it is not in her best interest either. This envy and pettiness seems to be the most recistent old evil nature, so they envy the man to be saved, not only do they envy both man and woman to be saved, but woman is stupid enough to go along with it, so she is about to perish, in order to envy the man to be saved. It is the Devil who lures and seduces woman, to use her to lure the man with.
In February 2011, Jesus called the Daughter of Zion to free herself, as if she were still in bondage in Babylonia and in December of the same year he calls her out in the dance with the joyful, for he is the Lord her bridegroom and husband. In this way the Daughter of Zion is the identity of the church that is the bride of Jesus and it applies to both Norwegian and Jewish women.
On 19.3.2011, Norway was involved in a war against Libya and in 31.3.2011 NATO took over the warfare. The Christian Democratic Party’s first deputy Dagrun Eriksen justified it with women’s liberation.
Quote from When Norway went to war against Libya – Radikal Politik
In the winter of 2010-11, mass demonstrations against the authoritarian authorities arose in many Arab countries, mainly those with republican governance. On 14 January 2011, Tunisia’s dictator Ben Ali resigned, and on 11 February he was joined by Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. In Yemen and Bahrain, the demonstrations led to Saudi intervention in support of the current regime. In Libya and Syria, the demonstrations led to civil war and Western intervention. In Syria’s case, there was also a subsequent Russian and Iranian intervention.
At that time, there was a strong conviction in Norway that the Arab countries were on their way to Western-inspired freedom and democracy. A telling example is the Christian Democratic Party’s MP Dagrun Eriksen, who read the uprising in Libya and the Norwegian war in support of it as an expression of “a reformation in which tyranny is not only replaced by popular rule, but where arbitrary abuse of power is replaced with respect for human rights, the oppression of women is replaced by equality and equality, prejudice is replaced by education, corruption is replaced by the rule of law.”
In retrospect, it is probably more accurate to conclude that what was called the Arab Spring was first and foremost a rebellion against incumbent corrupt and authoritarian governments, rather than that they were a rebellion for either democracy or Islamism, as was often portrayed by supporters and critics of the time, respectively. The storm troopers of the Libyan rebels consisted of disgruntled youths, defectors from the regime, tribal militias and militant Islamists with experience of jihadism in Afghanistan and Iraq. The latter group included the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which had links to al-Qaeda.
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This is what she said instead of preaching the gospel as the liberating message. Why? For the typical Norwegian Christian woman despises Norwegian men, because they are trained to humble themselves before the Lord and ask for mercy. So they appear as frail outwardly, as Paul said.
2 Cor.12:9 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
But then they also despise Christ, as if he is not good enough for them either. Hence the Christian Democratic Party’s declaration of war against Libya was an expression that a Norwegian woman wanted a husband. This, inspite of turning to Christ with that need.
In this way, they are similar to Israel’s fall away from faith in the Old Covenant. “Mother Israel” was God’s wife, so her children were to be God’s children. He protected them them and took good care of them, but she did not understand that, so she became a whore by worshipping the idols of the people around her. And her children rebelled against him. Then he took away his care and protection for them and then things went badly.
This is also the case with Norwegian politicians interest in Iran, especially in the Labor Party. The problem is that their politics are dominated by destructive thinking, so they are not able to think and work constructively for the building of society. They need to turn to the God of the Bible, so that they can become his co-workers with building and planting, so that they can experience that he gives growth.
The fall and the curse.
The fall from the faith in Judaism and Christianity is like the fall in the garden of Eden, it led to a curse. The serpent lures and seduces the woman and then he uses her to lure the man along. In this way he tries to gain power over them, he brings complaints against them in order to claim them and condemn them to death. In Norway it is called women’s liberation, that she should be free and do as she pleases, without caring about a what a man says when he acknowledges Jesus’ name for her, in order to propose to her and win himself a wife in sanctification. It is so fundamental that it is as if they are complaining against him without him being allowed to talk for himself. Completely contrary to the freedom of speech that the first Christians took advantage of, when they built churches and preached the gospel to those who stood outside.
Still she and they need someone to blame and it is as if the complaint against the man is most fundamental. That is how it is and so it will be when they have turned away from Christ and denied the Father and the Son. Hence the Christian Democratic Party woman needed someone to blame and therefore they went to war against Libya.
Jesus said that those who had come before him were thieves and robbers, the wolf had come only to steal, slaughter and destroy, but Christ had come so that they might have life and abundance, he was the Good Shepherd who provided life for the sheep. He is still the Good Shepherd, who will gather them and shepherd them. But there are still those who will reject him, for the Devil has come to steal, slaughter and destroy.
This is shown by the fact that priests and politicians are not able to think and work constructively, to build church and society, it shows both in this country and in their foreign policy, especially in Middle East and Iran.
The curse after Israel’s fall.
This is a big topic, so I just have a few key points.
Because of Israel’s fall, they were cursed, so that the land was no longer so fertile for them, the country was conquered and the people were carried away as slaves. Jeremiah was a prophet just before the fall of Jerusalem, and he prophesied that the king of Babylon would take the city and said that they should surrender voluntarily. Not everyone complied, and then it did not go well.
Jer.29:15 You may say, “The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,”
16 but this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David’s throne and all the people who remain in this city, your fellow citizens who did not go with you into exile—
17 yes, this is what the LORD Almighty says: “I will send the sword, famine and plague against them and I will make them like figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.
18 I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them.
19 For they have not listened to my words,” declares the LORD, “words that I sent to them again and again by my servants the prophets. And you exiles have not listened either,” declares the LORD.
20 Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
21 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to you in my name: “I will deliver them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your very eyes.
22 Because of them, all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned in the fire.’
23 For they have done outrageous things in Israel; they have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and in my name they have uttered lies—which I did not authorize. I know it and am a witness to it,” declares the LORD.
The fall in German Protestantism.
Protestantism was evangelical and personally Kant and Hegel were Protestants, their philosophy was a different matter. Nevertheless, German philosophy entered Protestant theology and supplanted the evangelical doctrine.
Zeitgeist and German unification.
Metaphysics is a subject of doctrine of what is most fundamental, and it reached its heyday in the universal debate after 1100 AD. But should not the church know what is most fundamental, with the creation history and the gospel? Empiricism and liberalism became a disaster for the pietist Immanuel Kant, so he concluded that the church’s rationality did not exist. He developed his transcendental philosophy and with it meant to save the mind as well. He postulated immutable transcendental forms that are common to all of us, but some of this was physics. After him came Hegel and added changeable transcendental forms. It was characterized by morality, especially to secure the priest salary and privileges. He was a priest, both he and Kant were personal Protestants, their philosophy was a different matter, but later their philosophy entered Protestant theology.
Hegel envisioned a dialectical transformation between lord and jack, where the lord was king, nobility and maybe priest, even though he as a private “tudor-priest” didn’t regard himself like this. The jack reaches businesses who were closer to nature, but who were beginning to use modern technology and became richer and more powerful. Together the lord and the jack constituted an intersubjective spirit of the age that brought history forward. God and individual man had little or no significance for this. This assessment was probably related to the fact that he wished German unification and wished no opposition should stop it. And it so happened that Bismarck united the German states by force and became a national hero.
But what did Hegel’s call spirit here, which had nothing to do with God? Did he know what he was talking about? Did he know God? Quote from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica :
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (born August 27, 1770, Stuttgart, Württemberg [Germany]—died November 14, 1831, Berlin) was a German philosopher who developed a dialectical scheme that emphasized the progress of history and of ideas from thesis to antithesis and thence to a synthesis.
Hegel was the last of the great philosophical system builders of modern times. His work, following upon that of Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and Friedrich Schelling, thus marks the pinnacle of classical German philosophy. As an absolute idealist inspired by Christian insights and grounded in his mastery of a fantastic fund of concrete knowledge, Hegel found a place for everything—logical, natural, human, and divine—in a dialectical scheme that repeatedly swung from thesis to antithesis and back again to a higher and richer synthesis. His influence has been as fertile in the reactions that he precipitated—in Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish existentialist; in the Marxists, who turned to social action; in the logical positivists; and in G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, both pioneering figures in British analytic philosophy—as in his positive impact.
This article treats Hegel’s life, thought, and influence. For discussion of the various schools of Hegelian thought, see Hegelianism.
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He also studied the critical philosopher Immanuel Kant and was stimulated by his essay on religion to write certain papers that became noteworthy only when, more than a century later, they were published as a part of Hegels theologische Jugendschriften (1907; Early Theological Writings). Kant had maintained that, whereas orthodoxy requires a faith in historical facts and in doctrines that reason alone cannot justify and imposes on the faithful a moral system of arbitrary commands alleged to be revealed, Jesus, on the contrary, had originally taught a rational morality, which was reconcilable with the teaching of Kant’s ethical works, and a religion that, unlike Judaism, was adapted to the reason of all people. Hegel accepted this teaching; but, being more of a historian than Kant was, he put it to the test of history by writing two essays. The first of these was a life of Jesus in which Hegel attempted to reinterpret the Gospel on Kantian lines. The second essay was an answer to the question of how Christianity had ever become the authoritarian religion that it was, if in fact the teaching of Jesus was not authoritarian but rationalistic.
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He read and made clippings from English newspapers, wrote about the internal affairs of his native Wurtemberg, and studied economics. Hegel was now able to free himself from the domination of Kant’s influence and to look with a fresh eye on the problem of Christian origins.
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It is impossible to exaggerate the importance that this problem had for Hegel. It is true that his early theological writings contain hard sayings about Christianity and the churches; but the object of his attack was orthodoxy, not theology itself. All that he wrote at this period throbs with a religious conviction of a kind that is totally absent from Kant and Hegel’s other 18th-century teachers. Above all, he was inspired by a doctrine of the Holy Spirit. The spirit of humanity, its reason, is the candle of the Lord, he held, and therefore cannot be subject to the limitations that Kant had imposed upon it. This faith in reason, with its religious basis, henceforth animated the whole of Hegel’s work.
His outlook had also become that of a historian—which again distinguishes him from Kant, who was much more influenced by the concepts of physical science. Every one of Hegel’s major works was a history; and, indeed, it was among historians and classical scholars rather than among philosophers that his work mainly fructified in the 19th century.
When in 1798 Hegel turned back to look over the essays that he had written in Berne two or three years earlier, he saw with a historian’s eye that, under Kant’s influence, he had misrepresented the life and teachings of Jesus and the history of the Christian church. His newly won insight then found expression in his essay “Der Geist des Christentums und sein Schicksal” (“The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate”), likewise unpublished until 1907. This is one of Hegel’s most remarkable works. Its style is often difficult and the connection of thought not always plain, but it is written with passion, insight, and conviction.
He begins by sketching the essence of Judaism, which he paints in the darkest colours. The Jews were slaves to the Mosaic Law, leading a life unlovely in comparison with that of the ancient Greeks and content with the material satisfaction of a land flowing with milk and honey. Jesus taught something entirely different. Humans are not to be the slaves of objective commands: the law is made for them. They are even to rise above the tension in moral experience between inclination and reason’s law of duty, for the law is to be “fulfilled” in the love of God, wherein all tension ceases and the believer does God’s will wholeheartedly and single-mindedly. A community of such believers is the Kingdom of God.
This is the kingdom that Jesus came to teach. It is founded on a belief in the unity of the divine and the human. The life that flows in them both is one; and it is only because humans are spirit that they can grasp and comprehend the Spirit of God. Hegel works out this conception in an exegesis of passages in the Gospel According to John. The kingdom, however, can never be realized in this world: humans are not spirit alone but flesh also. “Church and state, worship and life, piety and virtue, spiritual and worldly action can never dissolve into one.”
In this essay the leading ideas of Hegel’s system of philosophy are rooted. Kant had argued that humans can have knowledge only of a finite world of appearances and that, whenever their reason attempts to go beyond this sphere and grapple with the infinite or with ultimate reality, it becomes entangled in insoluble contradictions. Hegel, however, found in love, conceived as a union of opposites, a prefigurement of spirit as the unity in which contradictions, such as infinite and finite, are embraced and synthesized. His choice of the word Geist to express this his leading conception was deliberate: the word means “spirit” as well as “mind” and thus has religious overtones. Contradictions in thinking at the scientific level of Kant’s “understanding” are indeed inevitable, but thinking as an activity of spirit or “reason” can rise above them to a synthesis in which the contradictions are resolved.
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What he said about abolition (“Aufhebung”) corresponds to the fact that in the natural sciences hypotheses have been put forward and tried, if they do not pass the tests they are “repealing” (“aufhebung”) in the meaning rejected, cancelled. Then we try a new hypothesis and test it. If it passes the tests it gets “aufhebung” in the meaning advance to theory. In many cases, the new hypothesis can just be small adjustments to the old one. Otherwise, logical thinking does not lie in this, but in deduction, in the mathematical abstraction. Aristotle was called the father of logic, but he made the mistake of applying it to physical objects instead of applying it to ideas, so here I would warn against making the same mistake. That is precisely how people are alienated in Marxist theory. Some take advantage of it, to gain power over the people, others try on the contrary to enlighten the people so that they learn to think independently.
It may seem that Kant and Hegel were narrow-minded with their faith, but Hegel came out with a wide view, it may be consistent with the fait in God, for God is spirit and he is called the Father of the spirits. There is something that seems paradoxical in Christianity, the way to life is narrow and the gate to life is narrow, but it leads out in the freedom, so we get a wide view with our faith and our rationality. We have our enlightened by God’s Word, Christ is God’s Word and we are right to turn to him and look at him.
Heb.12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
God Disciplines His Children
4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
5 And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
6 because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”
7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?
But here we must be on our guard, for it seems like Kant had not learned to distinguish between clean and unclean (Dan.12,10) and as Hegel speaks about spirit we must know how to test the spirits.
1 Cor.12:3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.The Third Reich and the Aryan race.
The Third Reich had its origins in theological speculation and the Nazis included it in their program. Quote from Third Reich | Meaning, Facts, & History | Britannica :
The Third Reich is a term often used for Germany in the years 1933 to 1945.
Third Reich, official Nazi designation for the regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945, as the presumed successor of the medieval and early modern Holy Roman Empire of 800 to 1806 (the First Reich) and the German Empire of 1871 to 1918 (the Second Reich).
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Third Reich, official Nazi designation for the regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945, as the presumed successor of the medieval and early modern Holy Roman Empire of 800 to 1806 (the First Reich) and the German Empire of 1871 to 1918 (the Second Reich).
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Quotation from Aryan | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica :
“Aryan” has been used for the Indo-European languages of India and Iran. Quote from Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent. The theory of an “Aryan race” appeared in the mid-19th century and remained prevalent until the mid-20th century. According to the hypothesis, those probably light-skinned Aryans were the group who invaded and conquered ancient India from the north and whose literature, religion, and modes of social organization subsequently shaped the course of Indian culture, particularly the Vedic religion that informed and was eventually superseded by Hinduism.
However, since the late 20th century, a growing number of scholars have rejected both the Aryan invasion hypothesis and the use of the term Aryan as a racial designation, suggesting that the Sanskrit term arya (“noble” or “distinguished”), the linguistic root of the word, was actually a social rather than an ethnic epithet.
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Daniel prophesied of four great kingdoms that were to come and the third kingdom was the Persian Empire and the rulers of this kingdom were of Aryan descent and they came from the area that is Iran, the original Persia. So I suspect that they had the ideas from this, especially since they feared that there would be a fourth kingdom afterwards.
But what they call the master race and superman, was then a completely different folk than the Germans and it was as if they were gods to them, as if the Germans were not good enough themselves, as they were. So it was the result of them despising the simple childlike faith that is fundamental Christianity and rejecting the evangelical preaching.
Curse after the fall in the Church in Europe.
In the Old Testament it is told about kingdoms that arose, but they overcame themselves with their idols and by the king making himself god and then they were humbled by the kingdom going under, often by the king falling in war. And then God claimed that it was he who did it all, it was as if creation, the fall and judgment were history repeating itself. We can also apply this explanation to the Nazi era and the fascist era in Europe, as well as to the second world war.
In our time, there are many, especially on the left, who use the words fascist and Nazi as a slur, to curse and judge other people. It is reminiscent of how names the names Zedekiah and Ahab were to be used as a curse after Isaarael’s fall:
Jer.29: 21 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to you in my name: “I will deliver them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your very eyes.
22 Because of them, all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned in the fire.’
23 For they have done outrageous things in Israel; they have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and in my name they have uttered lies—which I did not authorize. I know it and am a witness to it,” declares the LORD.
But then consider that the fall was the cause of the curse, “Mother Israel” was God’s wife, so that her children would be worse than his children, but she became a whore in that she committed adultery with the gods of the neighboring peoples. Even if it has not been said explicitly, we can consider it probable that the women did not think the men were good enough, since they believed in the God of Israel.
After 70 years, they should be allowed to come back to their country and then he would speak kindly to her again, as in her youth, and marry her again (Hosea.2). Like this the daughter of Zion is the bride of Jesus, that is the identity of the Church of Jesus, so it applies to us as well. Jesus is the head of the man and the man is the head of the woman, and so Christ is the head of the church, which is his bride.
Both “much and minor” Christians in this country have protested against this, and it is as if the fall is a continuation of the fall in the garden of Eden, and it is evident that it is to be ashamed of the name of Jesus, and therefore they despise those men who are humble towards him, bow down to him, and acknowledge him as their savior, and call him Lord.
If a young man is trained in the Christian faith from childhood and believes in it, then tell a girl that he loves her and prays for her and clearly wants to propose to her, it is likely that powers and authorities who have come into the church and who are nevertheless in the dark and are occult, will take it as an insult to their majesty and organize the hatred against him, he will be cursed and excommunicated, so that he will be hated and persecuted for the rest of his life.
