I feel it is time to write down what I believe, and why I believe what I believe. I think that somehow it will be important in the future, and quite often I find that it is an important process in working out thoughts, and even finding misperceptions in beliefs, ideas, or thought processes. Writing also has a nice way of solidifying things in the mind and memory when writing them. If I were to forget for some reason, this is a good way to remind myself as well. Below are the points that I plan to expand on, and for the title, shorten up.
- I believe in the spiritual world.
- I believe Jesus Christ is the son of God
- I believe in creation of the world as it is reflected in the Bible including it’s timeline
- I believe that evil spirits can prophesy about God and truth
- I believe that God limits Himself by the rules He has put in place for free Will’s sake
- I believe God gave us free will
- I believe that the law of free will explains why things happen
- I believe in miracles in the modern day and that God is active with us constantly
- I believe that every prayer is heard and God acts even if we don’t see it
- I believe God talks to us and communicates with us on a regular basis and sometimes we don’t even know it
- I believe Satan is the destroyer and a legalist, the ultimate lawyer and Heaven has been turned into a sort of court room as a result
- I believe the spiritual world has rules and those rules allow for quantifiable things like multiple people praying together having more effect than a single person
- I believe that the closer you are to God the more intense the spiritual and physical world results of stances, decisions, and actions.
- I believe that the 7th day is the Sabbath, and that is Saturday, and I do not believe that God or Jesus ever authorized it to be changed to Sunday
- I believe that Elijah was torn between 2 spirits, the spirit of God, and another spirit at times. The disciples asked if they should call fire down from heaven to consume them, Jesus said, “you do not know by what spirit you are of”. They were referencing the historical acts of Elijah, and I believe that this shows that it is a mistake to assume all the things that the prophets have done are of God, spiritual yes, but of God, not all of it.
- I believe Satan has had a lot more to play in biblical history accounts than we know, reflecting again that the simplistic view of the infallible bible just messes your picture of God up. I believe that all of the fire consuming people acts were from Satan, as a legalistic move due to the seriousness of our close interactions with God. I believe he is allowed to play in an equal access duality as to be legally fair to the legalistic Satan, so a person can be working powerfully for God, and yet be a part of something that is not of God, or even on the other hand call on ungodly powers for wonders.
- I believe that God never intended for the people of Israel to kill their way through the promised land, but it was a concession for their hard hearts, and their war cultured minds.