SONSHINE: ETERNAL ............ YOU SAY WHAT!

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I have another blog on a place that is much like "My Space." The main difference being that it is made up of Christians with most espousing the orthodox and traditional views that have corrupted the real "Good News" of the Gospel of Christ. The one thing I have learned for sure since I have been there, is that you had better never ever touch these folk's doctrine of "Hell, a place of eternal torment." Should you ever address their view of "Hell" you yourself will pay Hell with much fire and brimstone raining down on your head. This I now know lol, Anyway this is one of my messages that I posted there yesterday. I pray you would see another crack in the orthodox doctrine of "eternal torment."

God bless,
Jack

ETERNAL ............ YOU SAY WHAT!

In our discussions on "Hell, a place of eternal torment" I have alluded to the fact that most bound with the orthodox view understand little of "time" in relation with "eternity." I spend much time studying the concepts of time and eternity in realation with the Kingdom of God. The reason being, because without understanding the difference between the two we lessen the attributes of an infinite God and make Him in our image rather than the other way around. Our image and carnal mind are bound by time and space where as the Spirit and Image of our God has no boundaries. We must learn to walk in the Spirit to know God and His Infinite Kingdom!

Having said that, I found this neat piece of writing in my readings this morning. This is taken from an examination of the teachings of Jacob Boehme. Boehme was "a Christian mystic, who wrote 30 books in the 1600’s. A mystic by definition is “one who partakes of a mystery.” As Christian’s we are all “mystics.” "

ETERNITY AND TIME
As human beings we are creatures of time. Our mental process understands things in a logical, linear, fashion. We have to start at the beginning and build in an orderly fashion to have understanding of a process. The difficulty Boehme faced in trying to explain what he saw in the life of God, who exists outside the realm of time, is that he had to break it down and explain it in linear terms for our understanding. So Boehme describes the inner working of God’s life as a process. He said that you almost have to have a devilish thought as if God had a beginning. However, we know that God did not have a beginning for He dwells outside the realm of time. Time is a created phenomenon and is only relevant to this universe. This universe is not God, but is a form or medium by which God can express Himself. In Sunday school I had been taught that eternity is time without end, however that is a misnomer, for eternity is a much higher realm than time and has no restrictions placed upon it in a linear fashion. Eternity is a state of there being no time. Many of the early church fathers also defined eternity in this manner.

THE CROSS IN THE HEART OF GOD
by Don Godfroy

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http://www.gem-international.org/kingdomlife/boheme.htm

(I want thank one of our most faithful readers and a
dear friend of Joian and myself, Florian,
for turning me on to this wonderful writing
on Boehme by Don Godfery. Florian also has a blog
himself, where he shares God's Love. One day when
I can understand German I shall read it ; - )

Joian Ruth Schroff

God is good. And Joian, more than any of us, knows this. Our sister, and my best friend, rests in the Father's bosom, today. Dear Joian's sojourn, on earth, ended early last winter, after a period of illness.

Together, Joian and myself began "SONSHINE" in "07". Last June, we took our rest from the blog.

Great battles, were waged this last year, by both Joian and myself. One was taken and one was left. Neither, the taking, nor the leaving, lacks in His perfect providence, afforded each. I can't explain, nor fully understand, how each can be perfect. Never the less, I do know, Joian understands it perfectly.

Today, Joian, more than any, knows God is good.

Jack

PS. Thoughts of your joyful rest relieve my tears, tonight. I miss you, my friend. I'll see you soon.

Great Quotes

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God, Himself. Madeleine L' Engle
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"If anything about my salvation or right standing with God depends on my faithfulness, I'm toast, damned to hell." Gavazzoni
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Any infinite Being who feels it is their duty to torture me for eternity, should switch to decaf. Joe
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Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to God. -- Lennie Bruce
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"He took responsibility for all the evils that have befallen man that day He gave His life. This has never been adequately appreciated by religion. It needs to be appreciated." (Roy)
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"Isn't that what man always wants- a divine force he can control? That's actually the definition of witchcraft." (Florian)
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"Christianity is not about polyester and pot roast. It's about Christ and what He's doing in you and me at the moment." (Holly)
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"It's his life for ours. We die, he lives, and then the mystery is that we live again." (Joian)
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"God's Spirit, is a pure motive" (Cardinal)
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"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach. A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray." (H. MacGregor)
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Pretty soon, everybody will get what they deserve, which is Salvation, Reconciliation, Restitution, Restoration, Immortality and Incorruption - now ain't that the coolest thing! (Keith)
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The bible is not an owners manual and trying to apply it to our lives reeks of salvation by works. (Cam)
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I live all the daytime
In faith and in might
And in holy rapture
I die every night (Novalis)
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Where shall we find an abandonment that is as comprehensive as the will of God. (Fenelon)
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He wanted no one but God to witness what he did, just as the only reward he expected was God Himself.(description of Bro. Lawrence)
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The humility of the cross became more desirable to him than all the glory the world had to offer. (description of Bro. Lawrence)
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Prayer is helplessness casting itself upon power; it is misery seeking peace; it is unholiness embracing purity; it is hatred desiring love. Prayer is corruption panting for immortality; it is the eagle soaring heavenward; it is the dove returning home; it is the prisoner pleading for release; it is the mariner steering for the haven amid the dangerous storm; it is the soul, oppressed by the world, escaping to the empyrean, and bathing its ruffled plumes in the ethereal and the divine.(unknown)