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Yes I certainly do, but I want to hear what others have realized or will realize.

Let's say that we are fallen and have not known the Lord. Is there anything which governs who we are from day to day, what keeps a person from changing into someone else from day to day? And is that important, or should there be far more flexibility, like a reset button?

I am eager to hear something from people who love the Lord. You have said something which speaks of the mystery of godliness - "the purpose of my being is to focus on Jesus" allowing self to be lost in love and admiration. "The old self has passed away" Where was the new self before this began to happen?

Well I'm glad I am not left without a challenge to keep me in check. I could be way off track, and possibly don't even know how I got here, but for the time being I love what has been introduced to me through years of interest. Thanks for your input.

Yes, the strivings are resisted creating a battle in the heart. Thank God for such trouble, to keep our eyes upward. Choosing to be in harmony with God, and living without any consideration for truth makes a vast difference in destiny, but it does not change the fact that God gives gifts of righteousness through humanity, goodness belongs to Jesus, it comes from Him and is freelt distributed to humanity, but it is not appreciated by the world. All good gifts come from the Father of lights in Whom there is no shadow of turning. On the day of Judgment, it will not be contested whether a person is a sinner or not, but what did they did with the righteousness of God, through the grace He has given the world, and for the striving of the Holy Spirit to rebuild a right character and heart for every human being, through the merits of Christ's sacrifice.

For sure, and sorry if I mistook the direction of your post.

Absolutely, but a child is innocent until he or she is aware of the issue at stake, and has made choices about it. One can only be guilty of sin with the knowledge of it. Sin can be committed in ignorance, but guilt does not apply, even though the consequences of sin come upon all who sin, regardless of their knowledge. I know that there are arguments that sin is a condition which can be inherited with the guilt applied, but I disagree with that philosophy and don't want to go into it here.

"Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." Proverbs 4:23. What makes you - you? Do you really know? "As a man thinks, so is he." Do you have a more authenitic self, what is that person, and who would know that? Does anyone know who you are supposed to be? "A man's heart devises his way, but the Lord directs his steps" Proverbs 16:9. Who do you think you are now? "There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it is death." Are you at home with your life now? What makes you know that you are the same person after a sleep, after unconciousness? And who will you be in the resurrection, a clone, another you, some of you, or a part of you, someone else? I Corinthians 13:12 "But then shall I know, even as also I am known." Are we supposed to be changed before that day? "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." How do we become what we are supposed to be? "Let this mind be in you which was in Jesus Christ..." What makes you who you are today? Is it inheritence, is it God, or sin, or your own life?

If people were not behaving themselves under the strivings of the Holy Spirit upon all men, then the world today would be in the condition when God will no longer strive with men, and all kinds of evil will come to fruition. That time has not yet come, but we are seeing an increase in crimes by people who have given themselves over to be controlled by Satan.

Children mostly follow examples around them. Jesus said "Unless you become as one of these little ones you will not enter heaven." A child is not evil and set in their ways as an adult who has developed their tendencies through many opportunities and choices against the Holy Spirit. When a society denies the basic innocence and rights of a child it has gone past the limits of God's mercy.

Goodness comes from God and is given freely to men, and there is far more goodness in the world than evil, that is why it can still have some functionality. Pain often comes as a result of already having something good, and then having it go wrong. So the goodness of God is in the world, freely distributed in nature and for men, through the power of the Holy Spirit. My post still shows that I did not make men good of themselves, but that they are upheld by God to be half decent.

I did not say men are basically good... "So while all men are fallen and evil by nature, all men are touched by the gifts of God, and therefor are basically kept good. It just happens that sin is so degrading that life is ruined because of it, so that even paradise can be living hell with sin around." There is a difference between being "kept good" by God and being "good." Only God is good. And behavioral training does not make a child good, it just makes them well behaved. Nevertheless a child is generally better than an adult, because they are allowing more of the life of God flow through them uninhibited. That is why doing harm to a child, or trying to use them for personal gain is unforgivable.

There are some things about God which are not beyond human reasoning, and there are some things which are beyond our capabilities to know. Job 11:7,8 "Canst thou by searching find out God?...what can you know?" One of hundreds of texts with the same message, that God is unsearchable and incomprehensible. Col 1:15 "the invisible God..." "No one has seen the Father, except the Son." No one can see God as He is, except one equal with Him. John 14:17, "...the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot accept because they see Him not..." There are no texts which suggest that God is without form, but in the second law of God, it forbids making any image whatsoever of God, and the grounds for that, God said to Moses "Ye saw no form...on Mt Sinai." They only saw the sapphire pavement under His feet and nothing else, and that was considered "seeing the Lord God." There are many reasons for not making an image, the most obvious is idolatry, and that is why the Bible gives the features of God such as His hand, in the moral and spiritual sense, and not in the physical sense of an attribute. For eg, He says that He hates the smell of their sacrifices, this does not mean that God smells the altar, but that the offering is senseless and meaningless because of the ritualistic nature of their offerings, instead of heartfelt repentance and gratitude.

Many creation legends in different ancient cultures, provide the idea that God creates by "that which proceeds" from God. But specifically "that which proceeds from His mouth." The Bible gives the right answer to this concept, so we can forget the pagan ideas. The Lord creates by His breath, His Word. The Lord is life and so is His breath. The Word of God is also living, and it contains the thoughts of God, in a living sense and not just representationally. The Word produces what the Lord thinks and desires to exist. It is everlasting, life itself, wisdom, intelligence, guidance, protection, it is the cause of all realities in creation, and it has all the attributes of the Lord's great Character. It does not matter whether the Lord speaks a single word or a sentence, every breath of God produces eternal living results. The believer is required to trust and have faith in the spoken Word of God, because it cannot lie or fail. Even the written word of God, the Bible is as sacred and dangerous as the breath of God to the sinner. To tamper, change, misuse, mistranslate and disbelieve the Bible is a sin that God will not forget. The Word of God is as sacred as His name. While the Word is able to create and maintain creation forever, it is also able to reserve the unjust for destruction, and is able to destroy and recreate any creation, such as the earth.

Note in the top section of the chart the 7 or 8 kingdoms as decribed in the Bible. The last one is of the seven. This is how the beasts are arranged. The lion, bear, leopard, the dreadful beast, the horns in Daniel. In Revelation the same themes are picked up. The first beast of Rev 13 is the Papacy, the second is the US. The beast out of the bottomless pit in chapter 11 is France. From this stems communism, which ends up disappearing, while at the same time becoming globally absorbed through socialistic and draconian anti terrorist laws/ideologies. There are the seven beasts/heads which we are supposed to think about when it says "five are fallen, one is and the other is not yet come" Five fallen, includes the bear, lion, leopard, dreadful beast, and the papal power, which had a deadly wound but survives it and heals. Note the little papal horn power lives until the end. "One is" the US, and "the other is not yet come" - the world revolution (out of the bottomless pit), the scarlet beast.

Thanks for that, I wasn't aware that the AC is human. That means I have been wrong in a few of my posts. I have to rethink. I'm really glad.

I agree, all three are invisible, God has hidden Himself from our view, because we are not ready to see Him. But ofcourse we can see Jesus without any danger, He is God made flesh. Nothing of God in the physical sense can fit into our comprehension and thinking. We cannot know God any more than a clock can understand its maker, and it never will. To preserve our sanity, we are forbidden to attempt to think about the physical nature of God. To respect the name of God we focus on the character of God, which we are invited to know, and know more of throughout eternity. Nevertheless, before Jesus became a man, He as God talked with Adam and Eve face to face. Our parents came up to His chest in height, and Adam was about 7 or 8 cubits tall, or about 4 meters. The angels are slightly taller than the original man. While God is not confined to our plane of existence, we meet in those proportions, and there is nothing pretentious or false about it on God's behalf, but it is "God with us," as fully as God may be to creation. The meeting of God in Christ is another step down, where God is able to be with sinners who cannot see His face and live. When Jesus became flesh, it was and is truly God in the flesh. All of these condescentions on our behalf, I accept by faith, I know it is true, but my mind has never been able to grasp it in the slightest degree. Meeting God may be my heart's longing and desire at times, but I cannot see myself surviving it, I am happy in a sense that He has hidden Himself. "The great and dreadful God" as Daniel names Him, full of pure and honest love, the thought of meeting Him is not something I entertain. I think it is a real priviledge to be able to communicate with Him while on earth, far away as it seems, the Spirit giving us His gentle protection and discipline.

The old world was was practically one continent, with many smaller islands around it, and it was built up with an easy gradient, to a grand height, above today's highest mountains. If you say that the maths doesn't add up for our world today, now you are in even deeper water, but you have to know that water does not behave as you imagine on such large scales. It is not something that you can replicate on the kitchen bench. There are many factors of the flood, and ocean behavior, which are generally not known or reckoned.

There are plenty of scriptures, as found by the readers which show that God is invisible, and yet He has the form of a man. Both are true, as well as His presence and omnipresence. For now, we cannot see God, but one day the saints will see Him. You may hold God's hand, and touch His face, and you are actually touching God and not an image or illusion of Him. How that can be, is not for us to worry about. The relationship that God has with us now, is closer and more real than our partners. He knows us very well, and has the dearest intentions and thoughts for us. Jesus prayed that we might know Him as intimately as He knows us, fully accepting and believing His love for us. We are able to connect more closely to God while on earth. Enoch walked with God, unlike the rest of the world at the time. Everyone has that opportunity today, but generally don't take it. Many Christians are not told how to, by the false ministers. Others walk with God in their imagination and in their claims, but not in reality. Does God give us any contact that we may feel? Generally not, because it is unfair, where He can touch us while we can't respond or know where it was coming from. He has reserved that time for when we see Him, and can approach Him and relate naturally. It is worth the wait.

To see if the fish are biting, and if not leave the area.

I came to similar conclusions when I read Revelation, that the sevens culminate at the end of time, with the return of Christ. They all carry the same language. But they don't necessarily follow the exact times at the end, but each have a different perspective of the end. Some specific in time, others general and inclisive of numerous events towards the end, as if all the events in the end times are signs of the end, which of course they are. We find the same tenor in the words of Jesus to the disciples about end times. Jesus told them what they needed to know about the imminent destruction of Jerusalem, but at the same time, Jesus wanted to address the issue of end times to all of His followers in the future, and so He went on to mention how things would pan out in the future on a grand scale, and how the destruction of Jerusalem and the trials that the discipes woud face, are similar to what happens in the end, and infact througout all ages. One of the issues was persecution for His name's sake, other factors were false christs, political unrest, and signs in nature. These can be seen throughout key points in the past. But none woud be so great as in the last days. And Revelation makes that pretty plain. The great tribulation can be applied numerous times. But it refers to the 1260 years of the dark ages rightly so called. And it is interesting that at the end of the dark ages, 1790's to 1830's, the sun was darkend, the moon turned into red as blood, and the stars fell from heaven as fig tree sheds its fruit. Notice that the dark ages are depicted as such in the fours of the sevens. The fourth church mentions Jezebel - see Luke 4:25, a throwback to the 3 and a half years of drought in Israel, 1260 days/years - the dark ages. Jezebel is symbolic of the false Christain church riding on the kings of the earth. She killed over 60 million. The fourth seal - terrible persecution, The fourth trumpet - the sun, moon and stars darkened. Note that the sets of seven in the chart are simultaneous, and not sequential, ie, not 21 eras but 7 eras.

After 62 weeks the Messiah was cut off. Verse 27 tells us exactly when after the 62 weeks are over. Verse 25 tells us there are 69 weeks all up from the rebuilding command going into action, and the appearance of Messiah.That leaves us one more week to fufill the 70 weeks. Once again, verse 27 tells us what happens in that last week, Jesus is sacrificed in the middle of that last week.

I did not say you said that either, I said something along the lines of a ghost. Formlessness etc, no body etc, you made it very clear to the OP.

The trouble is not the words you used, but the understanding of Spirit, which I suspect is something along the lines of a ghost. We have to remember that materials such as we are made of is mostly space, and quite transcient compared to other things God has creaated like angels, which are called spirits. Spirit does not suggest a weaker wafty kind of existance at all, but a strnger more permanent substance which can by pass our materials.