June 2020 – Past the Surface

Two Single People As One

We all would love to have someone who totally gets us. The type of humor, the concerns, the personal needs, the perceptions, and the understanding of goals in life. For two people to be as one is a relationship with very low divisions and misunderstandings between them. It is like the old saying, “united we stand, divided we fall” meaning together you can make a solid stand in life and divided you are on your own.

“Two People As One” is the perfect dream relationship. It is a relationship in which two parties act as one mind, heart, body, and spirit. It is a relationship you know what the other is going to say before they say it. It is like those people you meet that can finish each others sentences. They know to do things without any words being said and the moods they are in even if they are trying to hide them.

A term we all have come to know over the years about a relationship being one has been called, “soul mates“. Some call the oneness in temperament, attitude, or beliefs as “soul mates“. It is a connection in perception and understanding of your spirit to the other person’s spirit – all the inside stuff. Does this not sound like “Two Single People as One“?

WHAT YOU DON’T SEE

There are multiple factors involved with dating and courtships. The majority of us only see the basics we are looking for in a person. Our bodies is the first thing everyone sees, which is surface judgment. The activities you are doing is another aspect and the talking also plays a part. You see how they handle themselves, interact with others, and what they have that you like known as the attraction.

This is where a certain blindness occurs. All of us have two influential sources voicing their opinions in our minds. These influences will guide us to certain areas of our bodies. Our eyes will narrow down to certain areas we want the most to have in our lives. Our ears will hear only the things we want to hear oblivious to other truthful hints to their personality. Our nose will draw in the enchanting aromas we love to smell. Our taste buds will absorb the flavors we love the most ignoring any bad things. Our sense of touch will arouse feelings of addictions.

The phrase “love is blind” is a reference towards a narrow focus a person may have towards someone or thing. You are locked on one/two aspect(s) of a person or thing. The blindness is in “the source” guiding us towards the person we want to date, get with, or even to marry. Knowing the source is the “what we don’t see“. Our personal goals we want to achieve and/or the physical pleasure is the deception making “love is blind” to other things that could actually be deal breakers.

MANY SOURCES BEHIND YOUR EYES

This is where all of us differ in the sources inside of ourselves we listen to the most. This is where you can imagine what percentages of the sources you give permission to guide you. If you don’t know your sources. I hope at the end you will see these “behind the scenes” sources that have been influencing your decisions.

The first and foremost hidden driving source/reason is the flesh. Some people get in their heads they want to be one with someone because of their body only. This is the source of the flesh wanting flesh. The depth of becoming one is based on the level of your flesh wanting their flesh without knowing their sources/reasons for desiring you. You are looking from one angle while they might be looking from another angle. For some this is all they want, which reveals the source they live this life by. Flesh on flesh is a natural thing that everyone can do just like nature, but the inside attitudes comes with those bodies you have to deal with on a daily basis.

The flesh source/reason can focus a certain color of hair and length it wants. Do you like a certain color of hair or even baldness? A certain kind of height and weight can be a preference of the flesh source guiding your eyes. Your flesh source can watch certain activities the person is doing and narrow your vision to those things whether it is how they carry themselves, body parts, dance, sing, play sports, art, special programs, church activities, politics, and many other things I am sure you can think of.

This is only one part of yourself seeking to be one with someone else based on the flesh source. This is a drawing power you feel from your flesh wanting to be one with their flesh. This is only your flesh source, excluding your spirit side and NOT truly knowing their source for wanting you. Your flesh is not all of you. You have your spirit side of ways of thinking when your flesh is talking so much.

LOPSIDED UNBALANCED RELATIONSHIP

Once you achieve what your flesh source guided you into believing you wanted a reality sets in about what they truly wanted. Your flesh to flesh may not match their flesh and spirit desires. You find out the hard way their attitude, way of thinking, way of doing things, and mannerisms do not match any of yours. In this relationship all you have is a flesh to flesh and their desires are not at your level of desires. You find out that you two cannot be one because what you want to be one with the most is not what they want to be one with.

Their spirit is the temperament, attitude, beliefs, habits, and mannerisms source guiding them along with their flesh source. Everybody wants an idea body for a mate, but their attitude maybe focused on something else. People who have goals, certain careers, and status in life could be looking at you past your body into what you would bring to their goals in life. What would you add in support to their career. Your body may not be the main source of their focus on you. It could be focused on who you are connected to, what you represent, or the status you possess.

You could be 80% flesh driven and they maybe 20% flesh driven with an 80% attitude driven, but this is not discovered until way later in the relationship when the truth comes out. The flesh driven could be like the girl who wants the quarterback and will do whatever to convince him to look in her direction. Her point of source could be unbalanced to the career the quarterback wants to have in a woman or vice versa. It is a tricky deception that can be in both people.

WHAT YOU HEAR

You hear from people throughout life saying different reasons why they married the person they married. Some would bluntly say, “I married her/him for her body“, “I married him/her for the stability“, “I married because of a career goal“, “I married because I did not have a any or better choice“, “I thought we would make beautiful children“, “…because of kindness“, “…we completed each other” “… I did not want to be alone“, “…a sure thing and security“.

You can break down everyone of these reasons to the hidden sources driving the decisions whether good or bad. You will find out shocking truths. If you are an accountable person the reality could be hurtful or good. No matter how noble or selfish the long term relationship will not be “Two People As One“.

AWFUL TRUTH

My flesh and your flesh has its own agenda. If we did NOT control it to some degree. We eat all the cookies, ice cream, candies, and other foods in the world we want. This same fleshly source is speaking to your mind its own agenda of pleasures convincing you about another person you think you want or have got to have. What the flesh wants is not always good for you, especially if you are looking the ideal of another person completing you as one.

My spirit and your spirit has its own agenda. If we did NOT control it to some degree. We would mentally lock onto things convinced into the mind to the point of total blindness to reality and truth. Our spirit can become so jealous or envious the thoughts can easily imagine dangerous ways of forcing things in our direction. What we focus our minds on are not always meant to be for us, especially if it is a person we “think” will be a certain way matching our fantasies.

We have our spirit and flesh deceptions within ourselves and they have their spirit and flesh deceptions within themselves bringing together two blind people who are only seeing one thing.

TWO PEOPLE AS TWO

After you get with someone the hidden sources in yourself come to the surface of your expectations and the hidden sources they live by come to the surface revealing you are NOT as one as you first thought. After the dating is over and the day to day routine sets in some unexpected traits emerge exposing their reason of getting with you. Your first year of marriage is always the toughest because these things come out now that you feel you got them.

Your 80% reason of getting together does not match their 80% reason. You may have been after their body, but their body does not want that part from you as much. They wanted more of communication and let the other happen every once in a while. You may have been after them for a career they knew you liked, but their career was to play house and not go anywhere in life. These are devastating discoveries.

The relationship you thought was going to be as one turns out to be two people with separate goals and needs. Your needs does not match what they think are needs and their needs do not match what you think are needs. The hidden sources driving you towards them and their hidden sources driving them towards you come to the surface as opposites.

Two people that came together as one end up as two separate roommates in the same home sharing the needs of the bills and chores of the home. One may become more of a caretaker of the other making up for the hidden truth of themselves during the dating period. One may become a constant teacher to the other explaining things that would normally be understood by an average person. One may become the manager of the money because the hidden source in the other was to spend money today and worry about it tomorrow. It becomes a roommate sharing a place doing the things expected for maintaining the place and not the relationship.

THE GOOD ONES

The good ones put up with the hidden sources of their mate. They are always being there for them when an average person would need no help. The good one is always being resourceful and a solutionist for the mate they thought would be a partner of completion. One mate ends up with 80% (this percentage may run higher or lower) burden of the other instead of sharing a life equal one with another leaving them lacking with life they wanted to live.

The good ones are the ones that hang into the relationships as long as they can. Some actually are so committed to the relationship that death from either one and/or divorce from the other is what they are waiting for. The good ones have fallen victim to the hidden sources in themselves misleading them about the other and the other hiding their motives for wanting to be with them.

It is a terrible thing when you finally see the hidden sources/reasons after the fact and you find out you were partially at fault. Especially, if you are a person who takes responsibility for your own actions.

THE KNOWING/NOT KNOWING BAD ONES

In this search for a mate to “complete you” runs into those who are looking for someone to be a slave to their desires. Some know purposely what they are doing to trap the good ones and some subconsciously act out the part the good ones are looking for hiding their own hidden agendas. The bad ones have a hidden “my way the highway” and “it is my world and you live in it” attitude, but it is not revealed during the dating stages. The hidden sources in both parties unrevealed.

The bad ones are the ones that hang into a relationship because they know they have a good thing and why would they leave. Some are aware of their selfish ways and some are oblivious to the hurt and pain of their selfishness. Some bad ones have a “don’t care” that was no where around in the facade of “love you” front during the dating.

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD SPOT

The common factor of the hidden sources are founded upon “selfishness“. You are listening to your sources as you are looking for the person that matches your ideas. They are watching you to see if you match the ideas of their hidden sources. All of us are drawing our desires from the hidden sources within ourselves not knowing completely our flesh is wanting a flesh relationship, our eyes are wanting a certain status, and our pride is wanting a specific matching level. This creates a tough spot between seeing and hearing with clear perception and understanding of the person you are interested. This is the blindness battleground inside of us if we are aware and “if not” then the tunnel vision of our desires takes over.

“Selfishness” can hid itself in good intentions or purposely known with bad intentions. Bad “Selfishness” is the kind that refuses to change. It wants what it wants. It is the kind that demands you to adapt to their ways forsaking your thoughts or ideas. Good intentions “Selfishness” may have a noble cause in mind, but that is all it sees and it will miss any clues that will be toxic to the cause. The merging as one is lost and the fight for happiness becomes a survival daily task.

NO FIX FOR SOME

“No Fix For Some” are the ones who are in denial or cannot see themselves at all in actions or process of thought. All the helps in the world cannot fix the hidden sources in a person if they are “NOT WILLING” to compromise into a mutual agreement. If you marry such a person you will never be on equal ground. They will always be in their world doing things their way and you are left with getting on their highway regardless of what you think. This is a person conscious or subconsciously concerned with themselves, concentrating on their own advantages, pleasures, and well-being without regard of others. Changing is totally their choice and God’s department.

It is like the old saying, “you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink“. You can try all kinds of different methods to try to help them for years and only see a tiny change if any. You can go to all the marriage counseling, if you can get them there, all you want, but it will still be based upon a “willing to change” factor. The people who have a “Two People As One” marriage or relationship have NO CLUE or experience to advise those who are in a divided personality and physical goals in life. You can read a book, but it is dead without real life experiences. You can have all the faith in the world, but without some works or actions that faith is dead.

A person cannot be fixed when they are locked onto the desires of their selfish flesh, desire of their eyes, and the selfish pride of their life (1 Jn. 2:16). It is a clash of their hidden sources they draw from to your hidden sources you draw from opposing you both from becoming as one – the soul mate relationship. Optimistic is great, having faith is great, but there are still people today who act like Pharaoh did towards Moses refusing to change.

Sad Side Note: Unfortunately, it is sad to say some people fall into the category of a relationship they were to be the caretaker of the other because without your goodness God gave you they would be lost and possibly abused by someone else with less understanding of their issues.

TWO PEOPLE AS ONE

You cannot follow your heart alone and end up with the right person. You cannot follow your mind alone and end up with the right person. You cannot follow your spirit alone and end up with the right person. Each one of these alone WILL guide you into the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. The desire of the flesh, eyes, and pride of life are not only inside in you, but also in the one you locked your eyes upon to date and marry.

To find the person God meant for you takes your mind, heart, and soul while listening to God. A clear mind is essential in seeing the clues of the raw truth about the other person discerning what things would be a deal breaker that you could not tolerate or live with the rest of your life. The controlling belief of the heart watching for parallel desires and passions because the needs of the two must be able to support, satisfy, and complete each other – not one sided. The soul must maintain a clear connection with God patiently listening and willing to accept truth that may be hard, but none the less the truth that leads to a freedom in the relationship of becoming one.

TAKE THE TIME

The sources within our flesh put a pressure of hurry up and find someone or you will never have anyone. The flesh will lie with it is better to have anyone than no one. Taking the time to see with perception and watch with understanding goes against that “hurry up” feeling. Patiently, finding the right one is better than the wrong one and even if you end up with no one. If you end up with no one you will find there are people in your life that need you and rely upon you like that special someone in your life.

Taking the time will help you sift through the person who is looking for a marriage of flesh to flesh only and not realizing it until after some time in marriage when their needs are not being satisfied. Anyone can have a physical flesh to flesh relationship, but it is the spirit to spirit that NOT everyone finds. You better count yourself extremely blessed if you have a relationship that is flesh to flesh needs and spirit to spirit fellowship – EXTREMELY BLESSED.

The ratios in marriages today of being uneven are more than ever before if you look at the divorce rate. This is because the “Take the Time” factor was overtaken and the “need it now” pushed it aside and charged forward. Your 80% fleshly needs could be conflicting with her 20% fleshly needs, while she is wanting the 80% companionship to be satisfied with your hidden 10% companionship desires.

START AN UNSPOKEN TEST

You need to come up with a good and not a hurtful test. This is just an example and not a complete answer. (1) On the first date see if they will go out with you and just have fun as though you were both best friends with no real physical contact or a kiss at the end of the date – watch their body language and reaction. This could be applied to several dates to see if they like you for your fellowship or is it your body they want.

(1a) If they are upset with you afterwards or you hear they have talked about you later then their source of influence was more than likely 80% and higher from their flesh. They wanted a flesh to flesh relationship. Flesh to flesh relationships make you just a number added to their bragging rights.

(1b) If they were fine with no physical participation it could be patients on their part of the 80% flesh or there is more to their hidden source than 80% flesh. There could be a mixture of spirit to spirit relationship. Some of the most successful “Two People As One” marriages have come from being “best friends” foundation. Someone you can laugh with, share your deepest feelings and thoughts with them understanding equally with you.

(2) On the date you feel it is alright you could test them with a holding of hands. At this time there will be a stress on those who are 80% wanting a flesh to flesh relationship or if they truly enjoy your spirit (way of thinking, humor, personality, etc) they will count holding your hand as an awesome thing and no problem if it goes no further than that on the date. Take the time to find out what they truly want from you and at the same time asking yourself what you want from them.

(2a) Their words and personality will change applying pressure and the “whys” pop out. This is a clue their hidden source to being with you is a higher percentage of their body wanting your body and not so much your personality inside. Anyone can be physical with one another because it is nature at work, but what nature does not consider is the afterwards when spirit to spirit have to get along with the pressures of life.

(2b) If they are happy with you and your limitations with a “just glad to be with you” attitude. You may have someone who is more balanced with their hidden sources guiding them. It could be a 70% flesh and 30% spirit. You will not truly know until you continue to watch and listen.

(3) If they have lasted a long time with the limitations. You can start testing the goals in life they have, get them talking about what they love the most, find out their hobbies, and anything they focus their hidden sources of influence on. Try to see them in all situations before committing yourself further. For example try to see them in a sad, frustrated, mad, pet pees, and stressful moments to see their true nature. Everyone tends to put their best side forward during the capturing you stages.

People can hold up an outward appearances very well and it is up to you make them feel free to be themselves revealing their true nature while you are deciding if you match them equally. The hidden sources can deceive them and yourself if you allow them to go unchecked. Spare yourself from a life-time commitment to someone who is 90% about themselves and 10% about your needs.

If you are trying to live up to marrying one person for the rest of your life, a careful and watchful approach may save you from being miserable, incomplete, and starving for a fulfilled life. No one truly understands Apostle Paul when he said, “Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.” (1 Cor. 7:8) until they are in a marriage that is difficult.

May God bless you with overflowing wisdom in finding your “Two Single People As One” and for those who are in the situation of being “Two People As Two” (like roommates), the extra wish of an inward deep fellowship of God’s Spirit upon you in a double portion measurement.

Bible Versions – Which One

One of the traps of the devil and others about Bible versions is one version has a scripture and the other one has something totally different or it is missing some things. This can be be devastating to a child of God. It can cause doubt and wavering in their faith in God. Confusion and frustration sets in to the hungry heart for God’s salvation of a second chance. Do not worry God is not the author of confusion (1 Cor. 14:33). It will be alright.

The Bible is the one hope for all of mankind to find the truth about the One true All Present God who created all things and to discover how God feels about things. We are all starving for something that is perfect in this world of chaos and false fronts pretending to be being perfect solutions turning out to be lies. God not only saves, but brings balance to your life.

I am here to help you if I can. I faced this very same thing and it caused some trouble in my life concerning God and His Word. I love how God will explain and open our minds to things we never thought of. As He did for me, let us simply divide the writers from the translators. This is key to seeing past the questions you may have of the different Bible versions you see today. God’s writers verses the translators.

PREFACE – THE PLAYERS

There are two kinds of angels. The good angels flow with God’s word in truth as it is and the evil angels try to stop the truth twisting it to their evil ways. No matter what God says from the beginning of time when Lucifer and his followers thought they could handle God and the knowledge of evil mixed with their created good have been twisting the translation of God’s word deliberately since the beginning. Eve was the first victim to the devil of twisting the translation of God’s word with Adam following, which affected all of mankind to this day.

There are basically four types in mankind: The chosen of God, good intentions, on purpose, or the ignorant. All four types are not smarter than God. The “good intentions” person(s), no matter how noble their mind and heart is the fallible shortcoming is still in them. The “on purpose” (deliberate) persons are tainted with selfish fleshly goals attempting to dilute the translation of God’s word, which are in line with the devil. The “ignorant” person(s) come across so smart as though they know what they are talking about and you are beneath their intelligence, but are clearly far from God’s common sense. The “chosen of God” simply keep it as it is no matter how much the truth may hurt mankind’s ideas and traditions. As always, keep in mind the “chosen” are surrounded with the other types, but God can fix anything.

WRITERS

God chose people to write His word because they were receptive to His Spirit. God saw past their flaws to the elements within them to simply write what His Spirit told them. The individuals He used, what the people called prophets, did not write with their own interpretation or translation of things. None of the writers wrote the words from their own thoughts or will, but from God as He lead them along with each word through His Spirit (2 Peter 1:20, 21).

God found individuals that would work with Him in speaking His words as His Holy Spirit led them even though they did not get to see or hear with their own eyes and ears what God promised through His words (Luke 1:70; 10:24). They spoke God’s future plan for mankind without staining it from their own thoughts.

The things written about the writers (prophets) God chose to speak through to the people and to write God’s words down are full of accounts of murdering and torturing them because of the words of God. The words they were speaking and writing did not match what the people wanted to hear or read, therefore murdering them and changing God’s word was their answer.

TRANSLATORS

Don’t be discouraged by the different things said in the different Bible versions. Try to acquaint yourself with other versions closer to the pure translations of the Bible and practice checking between them as a reference. Don’t be surprised about the Bible versions, preachers, pastors, and teachers because they are humans with shortcomings like us all. Don’t lift them up so high that if they should be wrong or fall out with God they would take you with them. Love God above man, man’s work, and man’s ideas. DON’T LIFT THEM UP SO HIGH – man is man with flaws, mistakes, and shortcomings.

The Bible versions are translated by people who were trying to please a king, authorities, a body of certain religions, and God. God’s writings are in there by majority for most Bible versions with a minority of their insertions of personal beliefs. You can sift out the fleshly personal beliefs.

In this day and time people do not want to hear God’s sound, complete, and whole doctrine. They want watered down versions with less condemnations. Today is a day people having itching ears for pleasant and easy ways to serve God (2 Tim. 4:3), even though they are not on the true path God has laid out a path for all of us to walk. They have sugar coated with smooth spoken words that we all are headed to the same place no matter what you believe. God was, is, and always will be specific. God is not a sloppy God, but a God of detail. The order of creations shows us this truth.

GOOD INTENTIONS

Through out time there have been many sacrificial people who have dedicated themselves to translating the Bible, but no matter how smart or their good intentions they are still people receptive to mistakes. For us to believe they are perfect is our fault to esteem them beside God. We are to do our best to study the word of God rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Tim. 2:15). Good intentions can still make mistakes no matter how noble or honorable their effort may be.

Actually, some people started revering individuals with their understandings making them equal with the scriptures and accepting their understandings as scriptures. Apostle Peter is what the Catholic church claims as their first pope, but they do not obey his teachings in Acts 2:38. As men were nominated over time by other men to be pope whatever he says is counted equal to the scriptures. Other religions have exalted men after the apostles to be equal with the scriptures creating their own translations, additions, and subtractions of the Bible.

ON PURPOSE

The “on purpose” translators are people who set out intentionally changing the Bible to meet their needs in convincing the world their way is perfect and everyone else is wrong. They cannot support their beliefs purely with the Bible as it is and it needs to be changed to appease the need. They want the world to see they are the majority, which to them makes them right and changing the Bible is alright because they are the largest in the world.

This is the group of people translating on purpose fall under the action of Deut. 4:2 that plainly says, do NOT add or subtract from what God gives you. The book of Revelation has it if you add to this book God will add the plagues described in this book to that person. It is dangerous to your soul and to those that believe you in the changes you make in the translation of God’s word. Changing God’s word is what the devil wants to do to condemn as many souls as he can along with his demons to dwell together in hell. Also, common sense would say, what human being has the right to change what God says, even Jesus did not change, but fulfilled God’s word.

IGNORANT

This is the people among us who have the superior thinking within themselves and everyone else is below them and not worthy of their high intellect. They recklessly write down what they think the high intelligence should be written. The power of the human brain needs more than fleshly intelligence translating the word of God because it is spiritually discerned (1 Cor. 2:14). The smart men in Jesus day had him crucified not knowing He was God in the flesh. Being naturally smart can make a person spiritually dumb because the flesh is against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh (Gal. 5:17).

It is common for people who believe they are superior to think their thoughts are absolutely correct, but truly any smart person would want as many verifications as possible and would not be opposed to other things if they believe it is one hundred percent true.

CHOSEN

People who God found to be more receptive to His Holy Spirit. They would simply follow and obey the leading thoughts of God onto paper without any personal will of their own mixed with the words they were writing. God found people who would surrender with the attitude “not my will, but Your will God be done.“

The chosen translators have more than enough of God’s translation mixed in with the others to override their personal opinions about God’s word. You can find a great deal of pure translations in the King James version from that day. You can find a great deal of pure translation in the older New International Versions (not the newer ones), New American Standard Bibles, and Complete Jewish Bible. You can even have a Interlinear Bible version with the original language paralleled for the Bible books. There are others you can collect as a comparison to the original language of God’s word that will help sift things out. Just remember, the Bible versions today are being changed to match society’s fleshly opinions. So, be careful in your choices because your soul is on line.

NOTE

The end game is to NOT give into the flaws and fallibleness of mankind. Do not let anything stand between you and the Almighty God. There are more right than there are wrong with the translators. You can develop a rule of thumb to sift past the added or subtracted things in the Bible versions comparing them with others who are close to the pure translation. Remember, it is NOT God’s writing, but the translations that have troubles.

Things have not changed today like the people in Jesus day when they paid the soldiers to lie that the disciples stole Jesus body and he did not rise from the grave. There are people who act like that when it comes to the raw truth of God’s Word. It is simple do you want a true God fix in your life or do you want a false traditional fix of man in your life?

RULE OF THUMB

MATCH COMPLETELY – O.T. & N.T.

I have found that when a scripture is different in the Bible version I am reading then it is time to compare it with others who are close to the pure translation. It is best to keep it simple than to fall into the traps of mankind and the devil. Asking questions is one of the best things to do when it comes to differences. Does the difference match completely with other scriptures in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation? If it fits without issues then that is the pure translation.

You have to come to the place when it fits scripturally and you are not doing it do you hold man’s ideas above the true revelation of God? Do you hold God’s word above all people? If you discover a way of God more perfectly will you die honoring mankind or live dedicated to God above all?

ABOVE SCRIPTURE & BELOW

Keeping scriptures in its content is very important to maintaining the proper translation. People will tend to take single scriptures with other single scriptures forming their own translations and versions of God’s word. This is why there are so many religious establishments. They are formed by their like-mindedness of translating God’s word, therefore their Bible versions reflect their own interpretations, which is possibly a tainted form of “good intentions”, “on purpose”, or “ignorance”.

Finding a church that tries to be as close to pure translation of God’s word is hard to find. Almost everyone has tossed the book of Acts to the side as a dusty old history book and not the living word of God. The book Acts is the church wanted established by His chosen Apostles. Does your church follow the teachings the apostles established under the command of Jesus? This is a very hard question for some.

If any religion does not like you asking questions about their doctrines and translations of the Bible then you have someone who does not have the complete translated understanding of God’s word. If you are solid with God’s word as it is meant to be, you will have no fear of any questions. People get angry and furious when you simply ask questions about certain things in their church doctrine. It is possibly not their fault because that is all they have known. They may have accepted the churches or pastors traditions as absolute truth even though it is slightly off from God’s word and that is where they were saved along with their families.

All people must be willing to study out what someone says concerning the translation of the Bible because if they don’t they could miss out on the ways of God more perfectly. Acts 18, a eloquent man named Apollos was well-versed in the scriptures only knew John’s teachings of baptism. He spoke with enthusiasm and taught accurately the things John said about Jesus. Two people heard him speaking took him aside and explained the way of God more perfectly. He was willing to change. The next chapter, 19, those people were willing to change just like Apollos. Are you willing to change if you come into more truth concerning God’s word? Don’t let the translations of mankind detour you from as pure as a walk you can have with God.

NOT THE WRITERS FAULT, BUT THE TRANSLATORS

Also, keep in mind mankind is buying the rights to some of these translations and changing them in our day and time to their fleshly beliefs. They are inserting and deleting things they don’t want regardless of what the actual original Bible text reads. You will see God’s wrath fall on them in due time if it has not already occurred and if it has not in this life it will be on the day of judgment.

For an example: In the King James version 1 John 5:7 reads, “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” The Complete Jewish Bible reads, “There are three witnesses“. The New Revised Standard reads, “There are three that testify“. The New American Standard Bible reads, “For there are three that testify:“.

The people back in King James’s day believed in three separate Gods, which God never said to His chosen people of Israel. He taught them there is only one God. God taught Israel over and over that He is God alone, there is no one beside Him, He alone created the heavens and the earth. It is even the first of the ten commandments. Three gods is not enough to count an All Present God everywhere at once at the same time. They translated the Bible inserting what they thought was not harmful adding “…the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost…“, but attempted to confirm their personal beliefs of a trinity of gods. The number One covers all numbers inside itself no matter how many numbers when it comes to an All Present God.

The first thing you have to sink into your mind Apostle John is writing this to believers who are already saved (1 Jn. 5:13). If you read above this scripture and below it you will find they are talking about the Spirit, the water, and the blood agreeing as one. John is explaining the incarnation of the Word. God, the all present Spirit was inside the man Jesus who had the water and the blood to be Lamb of God for the sacrifice redeeming mankind for all eternity.

Jesus is the salvation of mankind through water baptism in Jesus name applying the blood washing away all sins and being filled with the Holy Spirit for the inherited redemption (Acts 2:38). Jesus was the One true God in flesh (Col. 2:9) that had water and blood. These three elements were in one body to witness to all of mankind you can be saved through water, blood, and Spirit through Jesus.

FINAL SHARING THOUGHT

Bible versions are man’s translations. Mankind is flawed and needs the help of God to overcome those shortcomings. What we think is right as individuals does not mean it is 100% purely right in reality. I would be the first to tell you, I am not perfect, but I do love for my eyes to be opened to God’s pure translations.

Why do you think I got re-baptized in Jesus name and sought after God for the infilling of His Holy Spirit? One reason God never changes nor does His word, which means the book of Acts is still an active part of God. Man changes God’s word to his own translations. Acts 2:38 was the only way the apostles presented salvation to people. It was all related to the death, burial, and resurrection; and the water, blood, and Spirit of Jesus Christ. Mankind has translated God’s word away from many things that are essential to a soul who wants a second chance to start over.

Who do you trust? Start you a system with picking at least three very close translations of God’s word and compare them when studying. Read above and below the scripture that caught your attention for an idea of the content and subject.

Don’t sweat the different Bible versions because God loves those that seek after Him consistently for His truth. “For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.” (2 Cor. 13:8).

Seeing Beyond Yourself

Did you know you have four eyes and four ears? The four eyes is not a reference to glasses. If that were the case, I guess you would have six eyes like me. When you see someone you can only see two of their eyes and two of their ears. The extra set of eyes and ears can only be seen by spending extra time with them.

If I only see two eye balls where are the other two eyes? The same question for the ears if only two are seen. How does spending time with them reveal the extra eyes and ears? Where are my extra eyes and ears? Does this mean we all have superhero powers with the extra parts?

There is no mystery behind you having two extra eyes and extra ears. You are actually using all four eyes right now. How can that be if I am only reading your words on this page? Yes, you are and you are using both sets of eyes.

You are using the first set of eyes to physically see the letters of these words being typed side by side with breaks in between forming a physical type of communication. Everyone who has physical eyes that can see have this first set of eyes. You can see where you are going. You can see all physical things around you. Your first set of eyes is the physical eye balls everyone sees when looking at your face.

Your other set of eyes are discerning the set of words translating them to make sense to you with your understanding connecting to what the author is trying to convey to you. Everyone has their spirit eyes behind the physical eyes taking in the information from the physical realm it sees and translating them into possible understandings.

The same goes for the ears. Your physical ears on the sides of your head captures the sound traveling into the curvature designed ear channeling it into your brain. The second set of ears translate the sound into possible understandings.

Now, you see your extra eyes and ears. One set is physical and the other set is spiritual seeing and hearing intelligence. Both the physical and spiritual has levels of abilities. It takes time with someone to learn a little of their level in the spiritual eyes and ears. You have no idea when physically looking at a person the level of their seeing perceptions and hearing understandings until you spend time with them. Just like the old saying, “never judge a book by it’s cover” for you will truly only know it after reading the pages on the inside.

People can have fantastic eye sight and hearing range, but that does not make them intelligent. The same of the opposite in having poor eye sight and hearing range does not define the level of intelligence. As was said in a movie, just because someone can speak does not mean they are intelligent. The physical and spiritual eyes and ears are from completely two different realms.

Most people that can see and hear with their physical eyes and ears does not mean they are seeing with their spiritual eyes and ears in perceiving and understanding. You and I know people who look at you with a blank face at what you are saying. They are seeing and hearing you, but they are not keeping up with what is being said. You and I know people who see and hear what they want to hear regardless of the real truth. Some people live with the attitude of “it’s my way or the highway” for you. Our eyes are from two different realms. One is physical and the other is spiritual.

THE BATTLE

A highly educated man and a leader in the religious Pharisee Jewish council named Nicodemus came in the night to talk with Jesus. I want you to keep in mind Nicodemus had his physical eyes and ears watching Jesus, but at the same time he wanted his spiritual eyes and ears to understanding.

I see them sitting there by the fire with the stars above them twinkling in the night. Nicodemus reveals to Jesus that his physical eyes have seen him do things no other man could do except God be with him. Nicodemus saw him to be a teacher of God with God’s backing doing miracles before the people’s physical eyes. This was all Nicodemus could see with his physical eyes, but he wanted more.

Nicodemus has only one set of eyes seeing Jesus – his physical eyes. His spiritual eyes and ears want to know. He is a man divided with only sight of the flesh and blindness of his spirit. He is convinced on the level of his flesh “…no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” The physical eyes can see undeniable things happen, but it is the spiritual that can perceive and understand the source from which the miracles came.

Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” This is where you can see the sight of Nicodemus was relying upon. He was staying in the physical realm of the human body. His mind locked onto the “born again“. His physical eyes were trying to see and perceive, yet the physical birth from his mother was the only sight he could imagine.

Nicodemus having no where else to go with this physical hearing said to Jesus, “How can someone be born when they are old?” His spirit was asleep inside him. He had studied and trained his physical mind through his fleshly eye balls of the Jewish people’s teachings as we know as the Old Testament. If you notice he did not refer to Jesus any scriptures of the Old Testament for the “born again” question.

I can see Jesus patiently waiting as Nicodemus is busy running through his mind all the pages of the Old Testament scriptures he memorized. Finally, Nicodemus continues with Jesus saying, “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!” He is stumped with this “born again” statement. He is trying to bring down into the level of the first set of eyes what God is trying to tell him to understand in the second set of spiritual eyes.

NOTE: This is a danger for all of mankind continually trying to bring God down into the level of the first set of the physical eyes and ears. God wants us to awaken our other set of spiritual eyes and ears to clearly perceive and understand what He has for His children.

While Nicodemus was searching so intently for an answer in his fleshly mind Jesus said, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.” Now, Nicodemus has the hint of the born again experience is not entering into his mother’s womb a second time as an old man, but the second birth is by “…water and the Spirit“.

God is trying to pull Nicodemus out from thinking on the level of what his physical eyes and ears retained from the letter of the law. Jesus was on the level of fulfilling the law. Nicodemus is like many of us today. We lock our minds on things we hold in God’s face on this is the way we believe it. While Nicodemus is still thinking on the level of his physical eyes and ears Jesus continues clarifying the being “born again“.

Jesus lets Nicodemus know you are right “Flesh gives birth to flesh,…“. Okay, he can understand this completely. Jesus has Nicodemus nodding his head by the fire with a motion of, yes, I understand, but you must understand also in a separate way “…the Spirit gives birth to spirit.“

Jesus seeing inside of Nicodemus past his fleshly knowledge with the knowing of his spiritual questions he had inside himself said, “You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.” Jesus saw Nicodemus had the potential within himself to let go of the flesh level of seeing to the spiritual level of perceiving and understanding.

Jesus going further to push Nicodemus as he is for all of us in the future that reads this to wake up our spiritual eyes of perception and spiritual ears of understanding he said, “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.” “

As the words entered into Nicodemus’s ears I can imagine the fire begins to flicker from the slow moving wind around him. Nicodemus hears the sound of the wind and feels the wind, but he cannot tell the direction it is coming from or where it is going. The flickering light of the fire only gives a hint to ever changing direction.

“So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” It is so hard to understand. Nicodemus is still locked into the things of the earth. I cannot figure out the wind. He is trapped inside his earthly mind trying to force the spiritual things of God into it. You and I today try to box in God to our way of thinking and when something new to us comes along we cannot understand we refuse to let go of our fleshly thinking and accept God is above our thinking and our faith should transcend beyond ourselves.

NOTE: Man has trouble with accepting things out of his control and out of his physical box of fleshly thinking. It is a refusal to give up a comfortable tradition to something that is true, but beyond man’s past. It does not make sense if it does not fit inside the physical realm of his mind. God is the wind. The Wind is God’s Spirit. God will send His Spirit to whomever He pleases (Acts 2:39). You can hear God’s Spirit speak (Acts 2:2, 4) through a person, but you cannot physically pin down where God is coming from or where He is going. There is no end to God and His love.

Nicodemus, again struggles to wrap his fleshly mind around these words and he says to Jesus, “How can this be?” Jesus replies, “You are Israel’s teacher, and do you not understand these things?” One of the greatest religious minds among the others can still not know the things of God. No leader, pastor, or any other type of shepherd over people should be exempt from questions. God requires us to know and if we don’t know then we are to ask, seek, and knock for the answers will be given to us of God.

Jesus continued to say to Nicodemus, “Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.“ “I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?” (Jn. 3:1-12)

Note: The words of Jesus pushed Nicodemus into examining himself. Jesus is the bridge between the earthly understandings and the heavenly understandings. We cannot afford to let our spiritual eyes and ears sleep to the leadership of our fleshly eyes and ears to lead the way. We must be born again the Bible way and not man’s way.

Almost all Christian religions are like Nicodemus in thinking with what fits in their minds of being “born again“. I give the hints of Jesus that “…no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.” There is no other born again scripture in the entire Bible that matches this born of the water and of the Spirit perfectly like Acts 2:38 “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.“

IF NICODEMUS MET PETER

If Nicodemus had Peter to talk to after the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ concerning the born again “…of water and the Spirit.” he would have never thought “How can this be?”, “How can someone be born when they are old?”, “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

Peter would have told him Nicodemus to repent of all sins, be baptized in water (born again of the water) in the name of Jesus Christ (applying the blood of the Lamb of God which is in the name of Jesus, not Father, and not Holy Ghost Mtt. 28:19) washing away all his sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:38) like a rushing mighty wind as we did in the upper room (Acts 2:2) filling us with the sound of God (Acts 2:4) for His Spirit comes and goes where it pleases calling all children of Israel and for all that are a far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Acts 2:39) because there is no scripture that says God has stopped pouring out His Spirit.

Note 1: Did you know the majority of Christian religions do not allow God to go beyond their thinking or generations of traditions. Jesus challenged Nicodemus to look beyond his fleshly understandings and to peer into the spirit realm of God. This “…born of water and the Spirit.” is still alive in God’s word in the book of Acts that most Christian religions has labeled as a dead book of the history of the church. Who among men has the authority to call the book of Acts a dead book? There is no record anywhere in the Bible of that which fulfills being “…born of water and the Spirit.” than the book of Acts. They were baptized in Jesus name, not Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, which are titles explaining the Father of creation came in the form of Man, the Son, and now comes to us in the form of the Holy Ghost.

Note 2: Even if you restrict the All Present God to three separate beings you will still see Jesus is the only name to be born again of the water washing away all your sins. The Father is a Spirit that has no blood. The Holy Spirit is a spirit that has no blood. Jesus is the only one that has blood, which is contained inside his name. So, when you speak the name of Jesus over water baptism the blood of the Lamb of God is applied to you washing away all your sins.

What are you going to do with this truth? Do you believe your sins are truly washed away by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost? Did you know “Jesus is “ ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:11, 12.

I plead with you, please have all your sins washed away by being born again in water baptism in Jesus name and pray for the infilling gift of the power of God’s Holy Spirit giving the words sounding out loud God’s voice. He Loves You! I don’t want you lost and alone ever again.