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wills apart from means or material, and always in measureless perfection.
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God as “The Absolute,” is an attempt to express the fact that He exists
eternally by no cause whatsoever outside Himself and that He alone is the sufficient cause of all that is.
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ETERNITY – This is the relation which God has regarding duration.
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God as the Author of time is in no way constrained by it or to it.
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He is free to act in relation to time and is equally free to act outside its
limitations.
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The eternity of God is employed to describe that which is from eternity
past, or that which is to come in eternity future.
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Eternity is the designation of God as being from everlasting to everlasting,
existing without beginning or end.
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God as the absolute Spirit exists independent of time and time is in fact
dependent on him.
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God’s exemption from limitation in time does not preclude his presence and
acting in it, so it does not preclude his knowledge of the distinctions of time and
of events as present, past, or future.
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Being Eternal God sees all in the universe in the plan of the Divine Decree
as all that is being progressively realized in time.
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God sees the difference between a being existing in time and another seen
only ideally as about to exist in a future or that has existed in the past and exists
no longer; all which is, has been, or will be, in its relation to time as actually
measured by events.
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Eternity is NOT simply immeasurable time; this is one of the
incomprehensible concepts of the Plan and Purpose of God.
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IMMUTABILITY – Defined as the state or quality of being that which is “not capable
or susceptible of change, either by increase or by decrease, by development or by self-evolution; unchangeable; invariable; permanent”, and God is by this definition immutable.
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God is NOT subject to or capable of change and He cannot be less than He is,
and, He cannot be more than He is.
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His knowledge or Integrity is NOT subject to change.
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He cannot be removed from any place
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Acting in time God remains through all its succession and changes immutable
and the same.
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He is not in the chain of causes and effects and He does not exist in
transition through successive forms of being.
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God is unchanged and eternal not only in his being and his essential attributes, but also in the fulness of his knowledge, without increase or diminution, and therefore without succession.
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Not only is there no change in God Himself, but the principles, policies and
mandates of his perfect plan published in the divine decree are unchanging and abiding.
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Although there is a great change from the elaborate ceremonials of Judaism
into the simple forms of Christianity, the same moral principles abide through all
these and this is entirely consistent with the unchangeableness of God, so that the
changeless principles are a profound reality of his immutability.
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God’s immutability renders it certain that his Righteousness, Justice and Love will
adapt to every varying thought, motivation, decision and action of his creatures, so as to guide, through his Decreed Plan, their steps, sympathize with their sorrows, answer their
prayers and provide solutions to all of their problems.
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OMNIPRESENCE – is the relation God sustains to space.
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God is everywhere present
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This is another concept which is extremely difficult for the finite mind to
comprehend.
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The difficulty arises when revelation and abstract reason assert the
omnipresence of God while all other beings known to man, including angels, are
restricted to a given place at a given time.
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Space exceeds all that it contains but God is the cause of space and is
therefore not subject to it, therefore regarding His creation, including space, God is
both immanent and transcendent and God infinitely EXCEEDS the bounds of space.
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Omnipresence relates God to the universe where other beings are and as being
present with them.
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The exercise of His attributes is not restricted to locality but is ubiquitous,
hence, as He is where His attributes are, He is Himself ubiquitous.
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IMMENSITY – God surpasses all creation and extends on without end.
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The perfection of God demands that He be everywhere present.
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If some place was void of Him, the human mind could conceive of a greater
being who filled all places and thus God would be imperfect to the degree in
which He did not answer the idea of immensity.
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To suppose, therefore, God to exist only in one part of the universe, to be
in heaven but not upon earth, to circumscribe his essence within any boundaries
however widely extended, would be to conceive of him as similar to his creatures.
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The danger is that the human mind, when attempting to make real the ubiquity
of God, will think of Him as diffused abroad in the sense that only a minute part of
Him is present in a given place.
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God is wholly present in every place as fully as though He were nowhere
else, the infinite and simple essence comprehending all things perfectly in himself,
is at all times equally present, by the immediate and perfect exercise of all his
attributes, to every point of His boundless immensity, as if it were all one single
point.
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SOVEREIGNTY – is more properly the prerogative of God, the Free Will Self Determining Decisions of God intertwined and interacting at all times with ALL aspects of
his Essence, ALL of his attributes working together to enact his decisions.
Attributes of the Essence of God
An Attribute or Characteristic is a property which is intrinsic to its subject. It is that by which it is distinguished or uniquely identifiable. God is vastly and infinitely more than the sum of all His Attributes, however, God Himself cannot be conceived by man apart from the qualities Attributed to him. The Attributes of God therefore are the REVEALED FACTS concerning God which constitute His essential Being and those facts concerning Him which characterize His essential Being. The difficulty in comprehension of the Attributes or Essence of God is in the fact that the whole of the divine Essence is in each Attribute and the Attribute belongs to the whole Essence. These Attributes can be characterized under 9 categories which can be to some Page #24 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
degree confusing to the finite mind:
• Incommunicable – those Attributes which can have no extension or degree and belong
only to God
▪ Self-existence
▪ Simplicity
▪ Infinity
▪ Eternity
▪ Immutability.
• Communicable – those Attributes which, to a limited degree, are found in created beings:
▪ Wisdom
▪ Benevolence
▪ Integrity
▪ Justice
▪ Compassion
▪ Truth
▪ And others.
• Natural – those Attributes which are supposed to indicate that which is constitutional in God and which function by the virtue and integrity of the Sovereign Divine Will.
• Immanent or Intransitive – those Attributes which are within God’s own Being.
• Emanant or Transitive – those Attributes which reach out from God and produce effects.
• Absolute – those Attributes which are said to concern God’s relation to Himself.
• Relative – those Attributes which are said to concern God’s relationship to others.
• Negative – those Attributes which are free from finite limitations.
• Positive – those Attributes which to a limited degree may also belong to the creature.
Divine Essence in the Trinity
In the case of the exercise of the Attributes of Essence, both the agent and the object must exhibit intelligence, consciousness, and moral agency. In the experience of interpersonal communion, the necessity is, as much on the object as it is on the agent, that there shall be similarity in thought, disposition, will, purpose, and affection. If the agent be a Person, the object must be a Person also; therefore, whatever pertains to Deity is of necessity Perfect and Eternal. Nothing in God, as has been revealed to man, can be contingent or adventitious.
Every Attribute and divine quality is Perfect and Eternal and, in like manner, the Person, or Persons, to whom these Attributes pertain are Perfect and Eternal. None of the Persons within the Godhead could be lacking in the essential features and Attributes of Deity and maintain any place in the communion which comprises the Godhead. By the most empirical necessity therefore, these Persons are coequal and NO gradations belong to their Perfection or Infinity.
There is no sphere of existence intermediate between Infinite Deity and Finite creature-hood.
Nothing within the Essence of Deity is lacking which belongs to Infinite completeness. All must be equal in power, glory, wisdom, benevolence, dignity, and disposition to engage in interpersonal communion. These Divine Attributes have always been and always will be exercised by each Person within the Godhead. In all the fullness of Infinity, these Divine Attributes, have been Eternally active in each Person of the Trinity. Therefore, as each Person has ever exercised these Attributes eternally to infinity, it becomes clearly evident that each has Page #25 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
been and ever will be Infinitely active as agent and object. It is impossible for the finite mind of man to comprehend the intimate and enduring affection which Infinite Love has generated within the Godhead. Each infinitely loving and each infinitely receiving love in return. Each with infinite understanding appreciating the Perfections of the others. The Sovereign Will of One being in absolute agreement with the Sovereign will of the Others.
Revealed Truth Concerning the Divine Being
The abstract – that which is within Himself, His Person, His Attributes, His decrees, and His names as features of truth relative to God which are grounded in the fact that God is a Unity of Essence.
The concrete – His manifestation of Himself in three Persons, the fact that God subsists in a trinity of Persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Conclusion
The attributes of God form an interwoven and interdependent communion of facts and forces
which harmonize in the Person of God. An omission or slighting of any of these, or any
disproportionate emphasis upon any one of them cannot but lead to fundamental error of
immeasurable magnitude. The errors of all false conceptions of God could be corrected by an explanation of His true character as it is completely and systematically balanced by the communion of these elements of His nature. Orthodox Christian Bible Doctrine is the only field which gives proper and proportionate thought to the character of God as a product of His attributes. Full and complete character cannot be ascribed where only a portion of the attributes of God are considered therefore the Essence or Character of God is the product of all His attributes in their objective relationship one with the other.
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Technically, the absolute attributes of God are intransitive, primary, inherent and incommunicable. They are primary to God and they cannot be related to things actually
understandable to the human mind. Man does not ever come into contact with these attributes which are most important in God’s relationship to God; they are not related to man though
they often involve attributes of God which directly effect mankind. There are 3 absolute attributes of the Essence of God:
• Sp
irituality of God
◦ Eternal Life
◦ Personality
• Inf
◦ Self-existence
◦ Unity
◦ Absolute Consistency
▪ The Essence of God functions are is always coordinated and there never has been,
is or can be independent activity in any of His attributes.
◦ Immutability
◦ Integrity or Holiness
▪ Righteousness of God
▪ Justice of God
▪ Love
◦ Veracity
These absolute attributes imply the necessity for relative attributes.
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God has relative attributes which are technically defined as transitive, secondary, and communicable and explain the absolute attributes. The relative attributes of God are related to creation, especially to mankind. They are transitive, expressing an action which is carried from the subject to an object, from God to Man and are anthropopathic in that God often reveals Himself in terms of man’s experience and activities. Relative attributes are secondary and communicable in that man can define and understand them in terms relative to his existence.
The Relative Attributes related to time and space:
• E ternity related to time
• Imme
nsity related to space
The Relative Attributes related to creation:
• O
• O
• O
The Relative Attributes related to moral beings:
• V
▪ Mercy as Grace in Action
▪ Goodness as his Integrity in Action
• Involves His Love
• Involves His Justice
• Involves His Righteousness
• F reedom
▪ God is consistent with himself and cannot compromise his essence
God is infinite perfection in veracity and faithfulness, which are expressed to man through the Absolute Truths of Bible Doctrine
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Anthropomorphism, Anthropopathism & the Essence of God
God, of necessity, due to the puny nature of the minds of human beings, is disclosed in the Bible through expressions which belong to human life and experience, in order that man can relate to and gain a basic understanding of Him. He is presented in anthropomorphic and
anthropopathic terms. As is to be anticipated, when the finite mind enters upon the contemplation of the infinite, the knowledge gained is, at the very best, partial and incomplete.
Therefore, man’s conception of God is measured by those characteristics which he can relate to and which he can attribute to God but which GOD does not usually possess. The Bible
presents a revelation which, though limited by the restrictions that language imposes, is of a Person, and this revelation attributes to Him those exalted qualities which are His alone.
Because man’s finite mind cannot understand the infinite, anthropopathisms are used reveal divine policies, judgments, blessings, and His Person in finite terms and examples. An anthropopathism ascribes to God human compassions, feelings, attributes and attitudes, which God does not actually possess, but which are used to indicate and describe divine policy in terms of language of accommodation to which man can relate and thus understand: ◦ Repentance, a change of mind
▪ Related to God it demonstrates a policy change from God during Human History
▪ This is related to human instability whether for better or worse
▪ This does not really ever occur for God. (Gen 6:6)
◦ Hatred expresses divine Justice (Rom 9:13)
◦ Love which can express divine acceptance but which is in fact divine Motivation
◦ Anger expresses discontent and dissatisfaction
▪ God’s judgments are never capricious or based on passion. (Rom 1:18)
◦ Scorn (Ps 2:4)
◦ Benevolence (Rom 8:32)
◦ Compassion (Lam 3:22-32)
◦ Longsuffering (Num 14:18)
◦ Jealousy is a Mental Attitude Sin and God cannot engage in sin
◦ Happiness
▪ God is infinitely happy in Himself with absolute freedom from fear, anxiety, regret, foreboding, or annoyance.
Anthropopathisms in scripture are God’s use of man’s frame of reference and human attitudes and characteristics to explain divine policy in terms of that human frame of reference. In anthropopathisms, God borrows from humanity compassion, longsuffering, benevolence, happiness, and even love, disgust, anger, hatred and many other emotional characteristics which God does not possess as we think of them. All of the personality traits and manifestations of human characteristics which describe God must be related to anthropopathic expression to avoid blasphemy and to understand the related divine policy in terms of human modus operandi. Therefore the borrowing of human personality expressions in good and bad emotions must not be construed as conflict or incompatibility with divine absolute perfection.
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which are human characteristics which God does not, and in fact cannot, possess. God does not possess these things, but man can understand these things from his human frame of reference. For example God says in Rom 9:13, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated” are both
anthropopathisms. By these God is expressing His divine policy of acceptance or rejection of each brother based on their regeneration not his emotion regarding them. The real and overwhelming problem is that anthropopathic and anthropomorphic representations of God in
the scripture are totally misunderstood, misrepresented or distorted. They really represent the perfect attitude of God toward variations in man or in history in human language so man can understand God’s pertinent policy for that period of Human History.
Anthropomorphisms are set up when the ‘physical’ characteristics of God are stated in terms of human physical elements. Anthropomorphisms ascribe to God human body characteristics which God does not possess but which again are used to provide an understanding of how God is working. These extend to the human body and its various physical properties. These are declared with reference to God in such passages as: Deut 33:27, John 10:28-29, Is 66:1, 2Chron
16:9, Is 59:1, Is 58:14, Ex 33:11, Ex 33:20, 2Sam 22:9, 2Sam 22:16, Ps 94:9, Matt 18:13, John
3:16, Rom 5:8. Such anthropomorphisms as these are countless in the Bible. It must be clearly noted that where human physical members are thus ascribed to God, it is not a direct assertion that God possesses these members, or even a corporal body with its parts. However, these assertions indicate that He is capable of doing precisely those things which are the functions of the physical part of man.
Objection is sometimes raised to the Biblical conception of God as anthropomorphic, but the objection is not sound because man must use human language to understand God and His
Policies, and the conceptions of man’s physical nature and personality are the highest possible for man to relate to. It is obviously better to use anthropomorphic expressions than zoo-morphic or cosmo-morphic ones. When emotions and sensibilities are attributed to God the purpose is to free Him from all the imperfections attached to the human conception of these elements. Therefore, again because of the Puny Minds of human beings and the inability to understand the infinite and perfect, of God man can speak only in a human manner. If man’s nature is truly related to that of God, how can He be conceived of without the admixture of a single trait derived from human beings? This points to the deep significance of Jacobi’s words in saying, “In creating man God theomorphosized; therefore man necessarily anthropomorphosizes.” The true principle is that God has condescended to man, in order that man may rise to Him. Anthropomorphism and Anthropopathism is, therefore, by no means diametrically opposed to His perfection, but rather is the imperfect approximating expression of eternal truth. In the interpretation of Holy Scripture, the purpose is simply to trace out, as far as possible, the truth underlying such expressions. In doing so care must be taken that the anthropomorphic expressions and conceptions are explained by purely spiritual concepts, not the converse. Care must be taken against thinking after an earthly manner of the supreme majesty of God. The danger is the distortion and misuse of Anthropomorphisms and Anthropopathisms as Voltaire stated: “God made man in his own image, and man has returned the compliment”
(cited by S. Harris, God the Creator and Lord of All, I, 176)
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By this term Simplicity it is indicated that the divine Being is uncompounded, incomplex, and indivisible. Man is a compound of spirit and matter. Angels, if they are without bodies adapted to the sphere in which they exist, would be nearer the ideal of divine simplicity than man, but would lack the perfection of simplicity which belongs to God alone. The point is that there is an erroneous idea that complexity is the highest ideal in any being. As in works of art, the more simplified a thing is the more its properties satisfy and abide. Thus it is with God. He, being the perfect One, is to be worshiped as the finality and infinity of simplicity.
The term simplicity is used as:
• Opposition to material composition, whether mechanical, organic, or chemical.
• In negation of the relation of substance and property, essence and mode in the metaphysical sense.
In the first sense of the word human souls are simple, because they are not composed of
elements, parts, or organs. In the second sense of the word human souls are complex, since there is in them a distinction between their essence and their properties, and their successive modes or states of existence. As, however, God is infinite, eternal, self-existent from eternity past, necessarily the same without succession, theologians have maintained that in Him essence, property, and mode are one. He always is what he is; and his various states of intellectualizing, motivation, and volition are not successive and transient but coexistent and permanent. He is what he is essentially, and by the same necessity that he exists, whatever is in God, whether thought, motivation, volition, or action, is God.
Some men conceive of God as passing through various transient modes and states just as man does. Therefore, they suppose the properties of the divine nature are related to the divine essence just as the properties of created things are related to the essences which are endowed with them. Others press the idea of simplicity so far that they deny any distinction in the divine attributes in themselves, and suppose that the only difference between them is to be found in the mode of external manifestation, in the effects produced. They poorly and falsely illustrate their idea by the various effects produced on different objects by the same radiance of the sun. In order to avoid both extremes theologians have been accustomed to say that the divine attributes differ from the divine essence and from one another, not as one thing differs from another, or in any such way as to imply composition in God. Nor merely as though there were nothing in God really corresponding to our conceptions of his perfections. But they are said to differ in such a way so that there is in him a foundation or adequate reason for all the representations which are made in Scripture with regard to the divine perfections, and for the consequent conceptions which we have of them.
When attempting to define or describe simplicity as manifest in God, confusion sometimes arises in several considerations. The Simplicity of Being in God is not a contradiction of the Trinity of Persons in which mode He subsists. The fact of the Trinity does not predicate three
Essences; it rather predicates one Essence and the one Essence is simple in itself. The whole of the Essence is in each Person. The attributes of God are not detached portions of His Being which when compounded compose God. His Essence is in every attribute and each attribute
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Divine attributes belong to God, not as though they make up His nature, nor as though His whole being consisted only of the combination of the same; but because they are the forms and outward expressions, in which His Being is revealed and becomes manifest. Therefore, God, being infinite simplicity, is not diffused as an efflux of particles might go out from a source to form new entities of existence. As Creator, He is the Author of all things. He breathed into man the breath of life at his creation and subsequently at each and every physical birth; and man was so made that he manifests the “image” and “likeness” of God; but human life is not a part of God as a contributing element in the Being of God. Whatever is God retains its uncomplicated absolute character as God, indivisible and undiminishable. The point is that NOTHING can be compounded without the possibility of its being divided. Added to this is the fact that a thing which is compounded is the workmanship of some other being and God is the First Cause of all things and Himself compounded or created by none. Therefore, the simplicity of God is essential to the very mode of His Being.
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Closely allied to the attribute of simplicity is that of unity, the difference being that even though God were compounded in contradistinction to His simplicity, He would still be a unity, or one in Himself. He would still be a unity or single entity if He, like man, were composed of matter and spirit. If there were but one man in the world, to him the word unity would apply, and if there could be but one man in the universe to him the designation essential unity would apply. Similarly, the word unity is to be distinguished from the fact that God is a Spirit because He could be more than pure Spirit and yet retain His unity. ‘Jehovah Elohim is one Jehovah’. (Deut 6:4) There is one perfect absolute spirit. (Is 44:6, John 5:44, John 17:3 1Cor
8:4) Therefore, the Unity of God only applies to the divine Essence of God, not to the 3
persons of the Godhead. All the attributes of divine Essence are ascribed to each person of the Godhead therefore, within each, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit there is Unity. (Deut 6:4, Mark 12:29)
The correlation between Essence and the Trinity is clarified by the fact that God exists in three separate and distinct persons as documented by such passages as Is 48:16, John 10:30, Ps
110:1, 2Cor 13:14, 1Pet 1:2. Though each member of the Godhead is a separate person, each has identical Essence and Attributes therefore has within Himself Unity. The scripture emphasizing Essence always declares that God is one but that does not infer just one person, it means one in Essence. “One” is a numerical adjective, it must have a modifier and it modifies the Essence of God, not the persons of God. While all three persons of the Godhead possess to the same degree the Divine Essence and Attributes, they are never in conflict, nor do they produce any schism between God the Father, God the Son, or God the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, Unity means that God is consistent, not that there is only one Person in the Godhead. There are three Members of the Trinity, and unity means that each of those Persons is consistent with Himself AND with the other Two Divine Persons. They are a perfect Team.
Neither the Father, the Son, nor the Spirit ever violates or compromises any divine attribute, and together their activities are always perfectly coordinated. They think the same way and there never has there been the slightest disagreement among them, and there never will be.
This is the source of the security for the individual who has made Salvation Adjustment to the
Justice of God. These believers have entered a personal relationship with the Members of the Trinity, and it is consistent in every way. When each individual makes Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God by faith alone in the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on the cross for all sin, all three members of the Godhead agreed that he was to be Eternally and permanently saved. Upon entry into heaven the believer will not discover that God the Father or God the Holy Spirit has some additional requirement yet to be fulfilled for Eternal Salvation! They all agreed from Eternity Past that Faith alone in The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone would result in each new believer possessing Their own Absolute Righteousness Page #34 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
and Eternal Life for an everlasting period. The Plan of God for the DEMONSTRATION OF
GOD, which is all of Human History, has been laid down totally and permanently in the Divine Decree from Eternity Past and there can no dissension about whether a believer is fully qualified to live with them forever or not! Therefore, There is one perfect, absolute, infinite Spirit (Is 44:6) and Divine Unity means that 3 Persons of the Godhead possess it equally. (John 5:44, John 17:3, 1Cor 8:4) This alone refutes all principles and ideas regarding polytheism or tritheism.
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God lives eternally and infinitely, (Jer 10:10) He does not possess life as we do; He is, always has been and always will be life. Therefore, God is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable life.
To say that “God exists” does not imply but rather states with absolute confidence that God always has and always will exist infinitely and eternally. (Ps 90:2, Gen 1:1, Deut 32:40, Job
36:26, Ps 9:7, Ps 102:27, Ps 135:13, Is 43:13, Lam 5:19, Hab 3:6) To say that God exists eternally is not a figment of one’s imagination, but the reality of a divine being in the status of absolute eternal existence. (Ex 3:14) God has revealed Himself to mankind, however, the system of perception for understanding this revelation is faith. Faith is a system of perception which makes it possible to come to an understanding of the Absolute Truth found in the Word of God, Bible Doctrine. Rationalism and Empiricism cannot break into infinity and gain any level of true understanding. Therefore, if God has always existed, and He has, and if He is going to reveal Himself to mankind, and He has, then He must reveal Himself in a way that makes sense, and He has.
If God exists eternally, unsustained by anyone or anything else, and he does, then we can
assume that God had something to do with man’s existence. Man is not a rational creature by accident. To consider that man evolved from mud slime in ancient history is so idiotic that it is difficult to comprehend anyone who could in any way accept it. To accept this premise and THEORY one is saying that given enough time and nothing else, the chair he is sitting it can become him. THAT TAKES UNIMAGINABLE FAITH! Furthermore then, if God has something to do with man being here on planet earth, and He does, it is only on God’s part that He
reveals Himself to man. Then, IF, God has always existed, and he has, and IF God is going to reveal Himself to mankind, and He does, then He must reveal Himself in a way that makes
sense, so that man can understand in some simple basic way His divine nature or Essence.
Each member of the Trinity has eternal, infinite spiritual life (J ohn 4:24 ) and God’s life as spiritual life is immaterial and invisible but real life. This eternal life of God is imputed to the believer at his making Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God through faith alone in the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ for his sins, ALONE. (John 6:47, 1John 5:11-12) Technically, there is a difference between the “eternal life” which God possesses and the “everlasting life” which, according to God’s plan, members of the human
race can possess. (John 3:16) Everlasting life has a beginning but no ending whereas Eternal life has no beginning and no ending. For both the believer and the unbeliever eternity is everlasting; but the unbeliever who fails to make Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God by his personal decision accepting the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of Jesus Christ during his lifetime will suffer everlasting punishment and regret. (Matt 24:51, Matt 25:46) However, the believer has the assurance of everlasting life and joy in the presence of the eternally existing God. (Matt 25:46, John 8:51) God is eternal and infinite, therefore, God’s life is from within Himself, it is not something that has a beginning in either space or time, (both which God himself has created specifically for Man’s existence). God has no beginning and no period of growth and no end, God is not
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Since God is immutable, He cannot change His personality, virtue, integrity, or rationality, therefore, God is infinite personality. God recognizes Himself as a person and as such, He functions with perfect integrity and perfect rationality. Personality at its best must have integrity and rationality where rationality means that one thinks, and integrity means one applies what he thinks. Therefore, Bible Doctrine as the THINKING of Christ (1Cor 2:16) clearly demonstrates that God is infinite personality and He is perfect and eternal virtue, derived from the Absolute Righteousness and Absolute Justice of his Integrity or Holiness.
Human personality is characterized by inconsistency and inner conflict. However, the attributes of God always function as a unified whole without inconsistency or conflict under the Unity of God therefore, the life and personality of God contain no inconsistencies and no conflicts in the possession of these eternal and infinite perfect attributes.
Therefore, it must be concluded that the personality of God must be studied in the light of man’s own being and consciousness. This process is by necessity according to the essential principle that things which manifest the same underlying qualities are in fact the same. Man’s personality is based on the essence of man’s soul, his self-consciousness, mentality, volition and emotion. There are many people in the human race but all human beings have the same soul essence. Therefore mankind is one with regard to the essence of his soul, the construction or components of his soul, but has many personalities. While, mankind is possessed of the essential elements of personality and is capable of their nominal exercise within a limited sphere, God is the embodiment and the source of these essential elements which He exercises in the sphere of Infinity and to a limitless degree Eternally. Nothing is clearer than that personality is a part of the Unity of Essence. God is a Person with those faculties and constituent elements which belong to personality. These faculties and elements in God are perfect to an infinite degree, but in their underlying nature they sustain an extraordinary resemblance to those imperfect faculties and elements which belong to man. This is inevitably because God, Himself, proclaimed that he had decided to create man in His own image, after His own likeness. (Gen 1:26-27)
Because man is created in the image of God, both man and God have invisible attributes and this is where the real man exists. From this invisible soul of man comes the personality of man:
• Self Consciousness
• Mentality
• Volition
• Emotion
All of the functions and interactions of these attributes are what is manifest in the personality of man. Therefore, the personality is the manifestation of how the attributes of man function within the soul.
The image of God also has invisible Attributes and this is the Essence of God:
• Integrity:
◦ Absolute Love
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◦ Absolute Righteousness
• Omniscience
• Omnipotence
• Omnipresence
• Veracity
• Immutability
• Eternal Life
• Sovereignty
Therefore the Absolute Infinite Personality of God is manifest clearly in his creation and the Protocol Plan of God.
As a part of the thinking aspect of Personality, all its past is gathered into itself by the faculty of memory, its present by its immediate consciousness, and its future by its method of planning and by the faculty of anticipation. Apart from the recognition of the Unity of all parts in one personality there could be no analysis of human life or any science of psychology. Those elements which combine to form personality are: • Intellect
• Rationality
• Free Will / Volition
These acting together require freedom of external action and internal choice of the ends toward which action is directed therefore:
• Intellect must direct
• Rationality must desire
• Free Will Volition must determine the direction of rational ends
There can be no personality, either human, angelic, or divine, apart from this complex of
essentials. The concept of a CREATOR of all things is solidified as reality because:
• According to the cosmological argument it is abundantly clear that there is a Creator
possessed of self-determining will.
• According to the teleological argument it is clear that there is a Creator possessed with mental powers which design and determine means to an end.
• According to the anthropological argument it is clear that there is a Creator possessed of rationality.
It is declared of God that He is intelligent in fact He possesses all categories of knowledge and always has and is omniscient with regard to his creation, having ALL knowledge of all things in creation. (Ps 147:5) It is further declared of God that He possesses Rationality, Logic in his Thinking, because He loves righteousness and hates iniquity. He is said to be of tender compassion because His infinite love has moved Him to the supreme sacrifice of the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ by which redemption is provided for fallen man. (1John 4:16) The Sovereign Will of God is demonstrated clearly in all that is, has been and will be involved in His creation of which man and Human History are only a part. (Ps 115:3, Is 46:9-10)
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which belong to His life and to His person. The Personality of God is therefore related to His Eternal Life and he always has had personality, therefore, God is, to an absolute degree, all that constitutes personality. God knows Himself to be beyond any comparison with any created beings. So that, as a part of His divine self-esteem, God never feels threatened by any creature or situation. Almost every page of the Bible asserts the personality of God. God designs and executes and empowers, this is personality. God in His revelation speaks of Himself as “I”, therefore, He is self-conscious and Eternally Himself. God thinks; God makes sovereign decisions; God acts rationally. The person and substance of God is the superstructure of His divine Essence therefore, God is a personality because God has personal characteristics or attributes.
God being omniscient, has total and complete knowledge of everything related to creation. God recognizes His own glory and claims His glory in the interest of absolute truth. Knowledge is always a part of one’s personality, therefore, because God’s knowledge is absolute and is a part of His personality, it is the basis for this thoughts, motivations from love, decisions from sovereignty and righteousness and actions from omnipotence and justice and is the basis for the mandates directed toward mankind. (Is 44:6, Is 45:5-6, Deut 6:4, 1Tim 1:17) Therefore, in God, all truth and every form of knowledge dwells in absolute form.
Intellectually, God is omniscient, wise, and faithful. Therefore, the sovereignty of God must be related to the personality of God because the decisions one makes on a daily basis mold his personality. All of God’s decisions regarding Human History were made in eternity past,
therefore His personality is immutable. God, in His infinite personality, has perfect Integrity and virtue and this combined with His Sovereign Self-Determination, defines His purpose, His provision, His plan, and its Execution as supported by the portfolio of invisible assets provided for the believer in eternity past as well as the guidelines of the Protocol Plan of God for time.
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Under the term incommunicable are those attributes of God which admit of no extension or degrees and belong only to God and include self-existence, simplicity, infinity, eternity, and immutability. By Infinity is meant that God is without boundary or limitation. He unites in Himself those perfections which belong to His person and to His character but these all coalesce into His essence and all are without boundary or limitation. God invented space and time as boundaries for creation and He exists outside of these. Therefore, God cannot be complicated by ignorance or absurdities, nor can mankind superimpose his silliness (such as legalism) on God. That is, God is not to be thought of merely as extending infinitely beyond time and space but must be considered as possessing within Himself infinite resources. He is the perfect Person who passes beyond all phenomena and constitutes the basis for them, possessing within Himself a boundless supply of infinite energy in His spiritual life and personality. (Ps 8:3-4) He does not sleep; He never gets tired; after billions of years He is still not worn out, and He never will be. The believer must adjust to the fact that God is compassionate, but He is not absurd. Therefore, the believer should never expect God to sympathize with his lame excuse of being too tired to engage in the Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine or to fulfill any of his responsibilities in life. When one needs energy for doing His will, He provides the energy. At the point of Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God, God the Holy Spirit makes available POWER from God, energy for the individual believer to fulfill the Plan of God. By applying what one knows of the Infinity of God, he can see that God will always provide and that he must therefore simply carry on. God’s promises and the Faith Rest Drill (5 Stages) are all related to His Infinity. God has no limitations, and the believer can rest in that fact. Recognizing His Infinity, one can understand that He has a perfect plan for one’s life. Therefore, he can reverse concentrate to draw out from his own soul the principles of God’s plan and his logistical grace provisions. The believer can then reach doctrinal conclusions and take control of any situation he encounters in life. When the believer can recognize the Infinity of God’s energy and resources, he never construes, as a result of the faith-rest rationales, the actions he takes or the human energy he exerts, to be a means of gaining God’s approbation.
Infinity of God
Infinity is all that God is and does including His Self Existence which is eternal and unsustained by any source. Because His perfect personality is derived from His essence, ALL of His perfect attributes overflow from His essence into His personality undiminished. In other words, even though all His perfections coalesce into His personality, no divine characteristic is in any way limited by being related to the other divine characteristics. Furthermore, space is no boundary to Him; neither is time as he created both simply to supply boundaries to which His creatures are related and limited to.
God is infinitely perfect and cannot be tempted, nor can He sin, in other words God cannot violate his own righteous standards or values in any way, however, He can recognize sin in his creatures, angels and man. God cannot be complicated by ignorance or absurdities any more than with temptation, sin, or the approval of sin, because all are occurrences which are obstructed by the standards and values of the Absolute Righteousness and restricted functions of Page #41 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
the Absolute Justice of God. Absurdities are fantasies, and God is never involved with fantasies, which are alternative realities, because he knows all alternative realities. He is totally related to and has total knowledge of reality without having even the minutest area of ignorance. He has a MONUMENTAL sense of humor, but it too is perfect and does not fall back on absurdities. For the individual believer to even approach to a minimal level the understanding of the infinity of God and how far above us and beyond us He is, he must
understand that GOD is free from ignorance and absurdity. In His infinity, there has never been any ignorance to overcome because He never had to learn anything because He has
always known everything there is to know. These seemingly simple concepts are in reality TOTALLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE PUNY MIND OF MANKIND.
God’s promises and the Faith Rest Drill (5 Stages) are all related to His infinity. When the believer recognizes His infinity, he can then begin to understand that He CAN and WILL work all
things, situations, events and conditions, together for the absolute good for those who have developed the capacity for that blessing by reaching and holding a status quo in Maturity
Adjustment to the Justice of God. Infinity also characterizes not only what God is but also all that God does, moreover, all His characteristics and their functions require energy, and His energy is infinite. His justice is characterized by infinity so that there is no room for absurdity, distortions based on sentimentality, or imperfect motivation, when perfect motivation is provided by his Perfect Love. This means that all His judicial verdicts and sentences are always true and correct. In fact, reality is the function of God’s justice toward the individual believer so that his reality is by extension the divine discipline or the divine blessing in his life.
The divine motive is for His own glory, not for self-praise, being based on his own internal personal love or Divine Self Esteem. He recognizes His own glory, and He claims all glory in the interest of absolute truth. Therefore, all things have been caused to exist for the glory of God (Ex 33:18-19, Ps 19:1, Is 6:3, Matt 6:13, Acts 7:2, Rom 1:23, Rom 9:23, Heb 1:3, 1Pet
4:14) The only thing that impresses God and glorifies God is what God Himself does or provides the entire means of doing. Because the believer is a creature with free will, when he is positive toward Bible Doctrine to the point of a saturation of Metabolized Bible Doctrine into the Right Lobe of the Soul and reaches Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God, God is then free to do many things for that believer that GLORIFY HIM.
The Infinity of God involves His eternal self-existence, His immutability, His perfection, His Absolute Veracity, His Eternal Love and Absolute Integrity, ALL aspects of his character. God knew infinitely about every individual believer in infinite, Eternity Past and provided everything each of them would ever need in time at that point. The believer alone can have personal rapport with infinite God by means of consistent Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine as the mechanism to reach Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God.
Infinity Related to Divine Attributes
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all things perfectly. By means of his infinite actions He is able to bring all things to pass, even to create as He wills apart from means or material, and always in measureless perfection. In every moral quality He is complete to Infinity. God as “The Absolute,” is an expression of the fact that He exists Eternally by no cause whatsoever outside Himself and that He alone is the sufficient cause of all that is. This is Infinity in its outmost demonstration. There is no sphere of existence intermediate between infinite Deity and finite creation. Whatever is within the Essence of Deity is lacking nothing which belongs to infinite completeness. The infinite Attributes of God forever have been and forever will be exercised by each Person within the Godhead. Therefore, in all the fullness of Infinity, these Attributes, have been eternally active in each Person. Therefore, as each Person has ever exercised these Attributes to Infinity and Eternally, it becomes evident that each has been and ever will be infinitely active as agent and object.
Infinity characterizes all that God does: His sovereign will, the function of His love, His perfect integrity, His omniscience, and His omnipotence, His policy of grace, how it works and how it doesn’t work. Divine Infinity is intensive rather than extensive. Since divine Infinity is unlimited Eternal Wisdom and Virtue, it is impossible for God to ever be wrong, do wrong, or sponsor wrong. Therefore, God can’t tempt or be tempted or sin and He does not engage in fantasies and does not care for emotionalism. The Infinity of God is therefore, characteristic of the other divine attributes including:
• Sovereignty
• Self-existence – which is Eternal
• Immutability – which is unchangeable
• Unity or Consistency
• His integrity – composed of:
◦ Eternal Love – which is His Motivation
◦ Perfect Righteousness – which is His perfect standards
◦ Perfect Justice – which is his Perfect function
Infinity Related to Limitations
Infinity infers that God is limitless, however, God may be self-limited as in the case of the incarnate Christ in the Hypostatic Union under the principle of Kenosis. The divine motive from his Love is for His own pleasure and glory, but not His own self-praise.
Infinity Related to Self Existence
The Infinity of God related to His self-existence means there never was a time when God did not have perfect divine self-esteem. He is and always has been and always will be aware of His self-existence, and He sees it in its true, Eternal, Infinite perspective.
Infinity Related to Immutability
Though God is Infinite He is unchanging, He cannot be better or worse than He is. The
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hate, get angry, change His mind, have hands or eyes. When man changes God seems to change, but in reality God ALWAYS remains consistent with His own essence. This can be
illustrated by a weather vane, which changes direction depending on the direction of the wind, yet it is still a weather vane. Immutability is consistent with God’s freedom and His ceaseless activity. God is free to do anything according to His own Sovereign Will, therefore, salvation is not God’s second best, but a part of the eternal purpose of his DEMONSTRATION of His character consistency.
Infinity Related to Unity
This means that to an infinite degree all of the attributes of God are consistent with each other and there never is or can be any compromise. When God blesses His unity is not destroyed
when God disciplines his unity is not destroyed. The Believer’s relationship with God is secure because it is based on God’s consistency.
Infinity Related to Integrity
Integrity or Holiness refers to God’s Virtue which God is able to express and function under consistently to an infinite degree. God being Infinite Personality has perfect Integrity and Virtue which combined with His Sovereign Self-Determination define His purpose, design and the execution of His Protocol Plan. The Motivation from His love, the Functions of His Integrity in the dissemination of His Truth, are all accomplished under the principle of Infinity, so that absolute authority and absolute thought emanate from absolute Infinity.
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Time, which is finite, has both succession and duration but in contrast to infinity, Eternity, which is infinite, has duration only. Duration without succession is still duration, but it is immeasurable. Therefore, God, who is infinite and also is eternal and has duration only. In fact, Eternity is infinity in its relation to time. Time is a line of progressing procedure as far as man’s concept is concerned. But Eternity may be a circle reaching into infinity. By the word Eternity, the relation which God sustains to duration is denoted. God, being the Author of time, is in no way conditioned by it. (Deut 32:40, Ps 90:2, Ps 102:27, 1Cor 2:7, Eph 1:4, 1Tim
1:17) He is free to act in relation to time and is equally free to act outside its limitations.
Acting in time He said to Abraham, “Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time
appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son”.
(Gen 18:14) Then, “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son”. (Gal
The word Eternity is employed in two ways:
• To describe that which is either from Eternity past, or that which is unto Eternity to
come.
◦ Creation has no part in the Eternity which is past, since it had a beginning.
◦ On the other hand, both men and angels have a relation to Eternity to come, since
they can never cease to exist.
• Eternity is more properly the designation as gathered into one conception.
◦ It is in this aspect of Eternity that God is said to be “the Eternal God”.
◦ He is from everlasting to everlasting.
Eternity as related to Time applies to the Being of God and Eternal life belongs to the very essence of God. Eternity means that God has always existed and will always exist; He had no beginning and will have no End so there was never a time when He did not exist. Time is the way God manifests His Eternity to his creation, and man must adjust to an Eternal God so that he can be given Eternal Life. Therefore, both time and space, though without substance, are objects of His creation. The principle that believers must come to terms with is that IF God was gracious and thoughtful enough to give us time, AND HE IS, ONE DAY AT A TIME, the believer must give time back to Him, A PORTION OF ONE DAY AT A TIME.
God is not in time, but time is in God because God transcends all creation, including time.
(2Pet 3:8) Time, which is finite, has both succession and duration so that its duration is measured by its successions. Eternal God being logical, therefore does not need to be chronological (Rom 12:2), but He can be chronological if He so chooses. Time began with creation, and the successions of history truly exist and God recognizes them as successions.
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God always accomplishes in time what has to be done in time as part of His Grace plan.
Therefore, the variations of blessing and adversity that come in man’s ‘one day at a time’ life are merely part of an overall plan to bless him in eternity as well as to provide security and blessing for him in time.
With regard to the Essence of God, every attribute and divine quality is eternal, and also the Persons, to whom these attributes pertain are eternal. None of these Persons within the Godhead could be lacking in the essential features and attributes of Deity and maintain any place in the relationship which comprises the Godhead. By the most empirical necessity these Persons are coequal. God has no beginning and no end, however, believers have a beginning at the moment of Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God through faith in the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ, but they have no end. God invented time so man could have a progressing frame of reference therefore, time is designed for man’s convenience, for man to orient to life in the simplest possible way. When God revealed to man through the Word of God in the Canonical Bible His Eternity, He declared it so as to unveil to mankind something of the peculiarity of the Divine nature, that He is the fountain of being to himself, and that He is eternal. The Eternity of God is therefore involved in his self-existence. He is uncaused, therefore, he must be without beginning. He transcends the whole chain of successions, causes and effects, therefore, he can never cease to be.
Idolatry rejects the Eternity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit and
substitutes creature worship which is always the objective of Satan, himself a creature. The student who meditates on the Person or Essence of God, His Eternity, Omnipotence, Sovereignty as Creator of, and Ruler over, all things, and the elective purpose of God, will be fortified against that form of rationalism, which is very subtle in character and natural to the human heart, which imagines that, in His creation, God has unwittingly so tied His own hands that He cannot with the absoluteness which belongs to infinity realize His eternal purpose. The believer must recognize the significance of Divine Essence, because the Eternity of God always knew ALL things and when He planned creation he planned ALL of it, all at one time. The part of mankind in this overreaching plan is entirely the DEMONSTRATION of God and he set this and all creation up to end just as he has laid it out in his plan WITHOUT DEVIATION IN ANY
WAY. Therefore, this plan which was laid out in Eternity Past will extend unending into Eternal Future for all Angelic Creatures, both elect and fallen and all human beings, both believers and unbelievers.
Eternity of God & the Believer
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Righteousness of the divine nature at Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. The fundamental distinction, beyond that of inherent character, is the fact that the one has a beginning though no ending, the Human Essence, while the other, the Absolute Righteousness of God, has in reality no beginning or ending. In this temporal earthly sphere, men are affected by prejudices, opinions, and estimations which constitute but a mere shadow of that which is truth. In the coming Eternal sphere and position, all things will be seen, and it may expand human capacity to understand as God sees them, as God understands.
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As part of the relative attributes of God there are the divine attributes that relate to time and space. Space, though without substance is one of the objects of His creation as is Time. The concept that God is also Immensity describes God as not being subject to space. God cannot be more or less than He is. God is the cause of space, therefore, in relationship to space God is both Immanent and Transcendent. God is the cause of space and He put order into space, which extends for billions and billions of light years. Therefore, in relation to space, God is Immanent (in space) and Transcendent (outside of space). Therefore, Immensity is a descriptive theological term for God’s relationship to space. If space were defined in terms of boundaries, God would exceed those boundaries to the point of infinity. (Rom 8:29) Omnipresence is the term descriptive of space in relationship to God while Immensity is the term descriptive of God’s relationship to space. Therefore, something which is very difficult for the finite puny mind of man to comprehend is that God is everywhere present. Dr. Samuel Clarke wrote, “The Supreme Cause, God, being an infinite and most simple essence, and comprehending all
things perfectly in himself, is at all times equally present, both in his simple essence, and by the immediate and perfect exercise of all his attributes, to every point of His boundless immensity, as if it were all but one single point”.
God is not subject to the laws of space because he invented and created space. Space is large, but not as large as God, God is NOT in space but Space is in God. Therefore, Space is one of the two boundaries God has given to creatures, the other being time. Between Physical Birth and Physical Death, the believer operates within both space and time exactly as the unbeliever does. Creatures, both angelic and human cannot ever escape time or space, and it would be a disaster to do so because the very existence of created beings is totally dependent on a proper orientation in life which is tied to time and space. Therefore, Space is one of the 2 boundaries given by God to creatures so that all creatures must operate and are bounded by both space and time. Reality for Creatures is related to both space and time and they cannot escape either. Therefore, as an ‘invention’ of God, within the space provided for mankind, God provides all that is needed to protect and perpetuate the Human Race totally apart from man’s idiotic concepts of environmentalism which are Human Viewpoint thinking totally derived from Evil.
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Related to his Infinity, God is Self-Existent, which means He is Eternal. God exists eternally unsustained by Himself or any other source therefore God cannot be better or worse than he is because of His character. The Hebrew word for Jehovah or the tetragrammaton ‘JHWH’ means
the self-existing one which infers that God’s existence is unalterable. He is the cause of all existence outside of Himself. Therefore, the one to whom the believer is related and who provides for him constant Logistical Grace to SUSTAIN him does not even have to be, himself, sustained. God being Eternal had no beginning, and He is the source of sustaining but does not need it Himself. In other words, God Eternally exists as an Infinite Person who does not need help from anyone, ever. Man must have help from God, and since He is the infinite Source with infinite capacity, He provides for all man’s needs. God’s existence is unalterable and this is why man must adjust to Him and He does not ever adjust to man. By making
Adjustment to God the believer has a relationship with God, and there is no higher relationship in the universe. There is nothing beyond God and a personal relationship with Him through the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ is the peak. Therefore, the believer, the one who has chosen to make Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God, is related to the One who has no cause. He, God, is, in addition, totally familiar with every secondary cause outside of Himself, each and every creature, which means that He has every attribute necessary to make Him the perfect Supreme Court Judge. This is clearly something Lucifer should have known but obviously totally ignored when he revolted against his creator.
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God is perfect and cannot be anything less than perfection because of his Infinity and Eternity.
(Deut 32:4, Ps 7:9, Ps 11:7, Ps 97:6, Ps 113:3, Ps 119:137, Jer 23:6, John 17:25, Rom 1:17,
Rom 10:3, 1John 2:29) Unfortunately, man being imperfect in every possible way cannot truly comprehend PERFECTION. Because of God’s Integrity, Immutability and Eternity, it is impossible for God to be imperfect. Therefore, God always has perfect Righteousness as the perfect standards and values of God. Therefore, the Righteousness, Love and Grace Policy and Plan of God cannot ever be in conflict. Divine perfection includes every aspect of the Essence of God particularly divine Truth, Veracity, and Integrity as His Love, Justice and Righteousness.
Therefore, the intellect, character and affections of God are perfect.
The perfection of God is the complete lack of defect in all of his essence. The intellect, affections, and character of God are perfect; His perfection involves Absolute Truth, Love, and Holiness or Integrity.
• Truth (Ps 25:5, John 17:17, 1John 5:6) is God not being merely true to other beings, He is true to Himself.
▪ The fact that God is perfect veracity toward others is secondary as a relative
attribute related to moral beings. The primary fact is that billions and billions of
years before any creature existed, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit were each
true to themselves and therefore always has had perfect Integrity based on Absolute Truth.
• Love (1John 4:7, 1John 4:16) as with all the absolute attributes of God, Love belongs to the Being of God.
▪ God’s love cannot be disassociated from His eternal Being (1John 4:8), and never is His love diminished or improved. Thus, God is love whether or not He has
something or someone to love.
▪ God’s Love as part of the Integrity of God is his MOTIVATION in all things which
is the expression of the Righteousness of God and Justice of God and therefore
must always remain aligned with the absolute Norms and Standards and Scale of
Values of the Righteousness of God.
• Integrity or Holiness (Lev 11:44-45, Deut 32:4, 1John 2:29) is composed of God’s Righteousness, Justice and Love
▪ He has had Absolute Righteousness, Absolute Justice and perfect Love from eternity past. (Ex 15:11, Ex 19:10-16, Is 6:3).
▪ The Righteousness of God is the perfect Norms and Standards and Scale of Values
of the Integrity of God and the foundation of the Love of God.
▪ The Justice of God is the perfect function of the Integrity of God.
▪ This perfect Integrity of God is based on His Veracity, Perfect Truth.
▪ The Love of God is the expression of the Righteousness of God and Justice of God
toward his creation which in conjunction with the Sovereignty of God initiated the
development of the Grace Policy of God through which the Justice of God is
directed to function toward God’s Creation.
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Perfect Truth is not merely Veracity toward other persons, but God is true to Himself, His own essence, His character. God is Truth from eternity past and in God every truth and every form of knowledge dwells in absoluteness and perfection. This absolute guarantees the genuineness of divine revelation. (Deut 32:4, 1John 5:20, John 6:32, John 15:1, Heb 8:2) Love as part of His absolute perfection like all the divine attributes belongs to God’s being. God is absolute Integrity or Holiness from eternity past. (Ex 15:11, Ex 19:10-16, Is 6:3) The Perfection of His Integrity is maintained by His Sovereign Will and is the result of his Immutable character.
Because it is a part of the perfect Integrity of God, God is perfect Righteousness, He has perfect Norms and Standards and Scale of Values reflected in His attitudes and in actions. Therefore, God rejects all relative standards of righteousness, and therefore, all human standards of righteousness, with the one exception of human compliance with the laws of divine establishment. (Is 64:6) In addition and also because it is part of the perfect Integrity of God, God is perfect Justice and thus absolute and perfect fairness in all his Sovereign decisions and actions.
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The true theistic concept of the universe is that the universe is composed of material and immaterial, having its source from God. Matter is material, but God is immaterial (John 4:24) in contrast to all living creatures who are both material and immaterial. (2Cor 4:7, 2Cor 4:16) God is life (Jer 10:10, 1Thes 1:9, John 1:4, John 3:16, John 3:36, John 5:24, John 10:10, John
14:6, John 20:31; 1John 5:11-12); God lives, He is Alive. He does not possess life as we do, life that began at some point and has a terminus at another point. There never was a time when God did not live. He has always existed; His life is called eternal life. Eternal life has no beginning and no end, in contrast to the temporal life of man which has a beginning and end and is related to Time. The Life of the new believer, technically called “everlasting life,”
which has no end, begins at the moment of Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. It is the eternal life of God imparted to all who accept the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on the cross for all their sins. All life is from God, but all life is not of God (does not belong to Him) as pantheism claims. Being Life and Alive God therefore is a Person and has infinite personality. (Ex 3:14) He has self consciousness and self determination and recognizes himself to be a person and always acts in a rational manner characteristic of his Infinite Perfection. God is invisible but He is a living active Spirit Being and is also personal.
Therefore, as a spiritual being God is Immanent and Transcendent and the attributes or qualities of His Essence are invisible.
“Spirit” means ‘breath’ inferring something invisible but real; therefore God as a spirit being is invisible but real. The Creator, the Deity of The Lord Jesus, The Christ, is immaterial as a spirit. (2Cor 4:7, 2Cor 4:16) This does not keep God from being even more real than are
visible, material things. It is a fact that He is a spirit and that God is life. Furthermore, as the Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ is the Source of all life from the standpoint of the original creation. (Heb 1:2) God the Father is also the Source of life from the standpoint of physical birth as the One who breathes the “spark of life”, (heb) Neshemah, into the fetus when it emerges from the mother at physical birth. Moreover, God the Holy Spirit is the Source of life as the Agent of regeneration creating a new Human Spirit as the home for his “everlasting life” from God for the new believer at the point of Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God.
He is the One who places each Church Age believer into union with Christ at the moment of
Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. As a result of this ‘baptism’ of God the Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation, the eternal life of The Lord Jesus, The Christ is shared by every believer. Thus the Members of the Trinity are related to life in specific, different ways that never clash and are totally compatible with the DEMONSTRATION of God and the operation of the Protocol Plan of God.
God is also personality (Ex 3:14), because anyone who has life has personality. Thus, all human beings have personality merely as the outward expression of the life and function in their soul. No one has personality until he has life. In other words, you do not have
personality as a blastocyst, an embryo, or a fetus because you do not have life. These developmental states of the human have only reflex biological motility until God provides the spark of life at physical birth. That is when personality begins, but it does not appear immediately. It emerges with mental growth and ideally with mental maturity. God is Page #52 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
personality because He lives and has certain attributes, but His personality never emerged or developed because it has always been perfect, and it is manifest in both his blessing and
disciplining of His creatures. The believer must learn to adjust to the personality of God by applying Bible doctrine under all circumstances. It is extremely important that the believer adjust to the fact that God is a Person and has a personality, including a tremendous sense of humor. God’s personality is always consistent and CANNOT EVER change. God is not going to adjust in any way to the believer’s personality. God is infinite personality; believers are finite personality, so that logically the infinite never adjusts to the finite. God’s personality connotes self-consciousness and self-determination, in other words, God recognizes Himself to be a Person, He says “I even I” many times in His revelations of himself in Scripture, and as such He acts rationally.
God as infinite personality based on His absolute Will and absolute perfection characterizes His motivation and design as well as its execution. (Eph 1:9-11) It is inevitable, therefore, that even the wrath of mankind, as well as anything man does to adjust to God, will praise or
glorify God. (Ps 76:10) As infinite personality God knows Himself to be beyond comparison with any other being and He has absolute self-respect, which is part of His divine Love. This perfect personal love is also toward the other Members of the Godhead. There is, therefore, an interaction among the Trinity, but there is also within each Person of the Trinity a complete self-confidence and totally deserved personal self esteem, love for self.
The individual believer reflects the personality of God in spirituality and this is why it requires God the Holy Spirit to produce spirituality in us. This is why man is not capable in his corrupted human body with an Old Sin Nature to produce spirituality in his immaterial invisible soul. Being pious and phony with verbalizations and superficialities, by meditating on infinity and using bible words does not constitute spirituality. It is the Filling of God the Holy Spirit which is the absolute nature of spirituality as a GIFT from God which the believer acquires first at Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God and may lose when carnal but can recover by the use of the Rebound Procedure.
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God’s affections are the feeling aspect of His consciousness as distinguished from the cognitive aspects. Anthropopathisms are used to ascribe to God human characteristics which He does not possess, but which clearly explain His affections to mankind as divine policy in terms of human attitudes. Affections are defined as emotion, sentiment, love in the human emotional connotation of the word. Affections imply dependence, passion, and possible distress, therefore, the question, “Do affections (or emotions) belong to God?” “Is God emotional?” The answer is UNEQUIVOCALLY NO! The absolute Attributes of God are on a much higher plain than human emotion and affections. ALL of the Attributes of God are internally compatible with each other in His divine person. Therefore, there is no emotion with God because God does not need emotion which was created for man as a means of appreciation for what God has
provided for him. In the Word of God, such things as affections and emotions are ascribed to God only as anthropopathisms which are used EXCLUSIVELY to explain divine policy toward
creation, especially mankind.
The Happiness of God
Perfect God can only possess perfect happiness. He is eternal; His happiness is eternal. He is immutable; His happiness is unchangeable. There is nothing that can make God unhappy.
Satan’s fall did not make God unhappy. The entire prehistoric angelic conflict did not make God unhappy. The original sin of Adam and the woman did not make God unhappy. The
resultant historical conflict has not made God unhappy. No creature has the power to change the happiness of God. Consider that God knew everything which would happen in creation
BEFORE HE CREATED and yet he STILL Created, He still gives each human being Life at
physical birth KNOWING he will inevitably fail in many ways. God is Perfect, Immutable,
Eternal Integrity, composed of His Perfect Love, Absolute Justice and Absolute Righteousness.
Therefore, because God is perfect Justice, His Happiness is always related to being fair. Since God is perfect Righteousness, His Happiness is always related to a perfect Frame of Reference and Scale of Values and perfect Norms and Standards, the basis of his Integrity and Virtue.
The principle is that for any creature, there can never be true happiness without true Virtue or Integrity. True happiness is always related to virtue and they can never be separated.
Mankind, generally, does not know how to produce virtue and integrity and substitutes morality without virtue or integrity.
Because God is perfect Integrity, His Happiness is never built on the unhappiness of someone else. God being omnipotent has the power and the ability to possess and maintain perfect happiness without any form of distortion. However, God’s happiness does not depend on the use of God’s power. This means that God, because of the perfect Norms and Standards and Scale of Values of his Righteousness and the perfect function of his Justice, is ALWAYS fair with every member of the human race. God is perfect Love and His Happiness is expressed in three categories of divine virtue-love. God being Omniscient results in His Infinite and Eternal genius making Him perfectly happy. Furthermore, God in His Omniscience has found a way and designed a plan to provide perfect happiness for the human race, the Protocol Plan of God Page #54 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
with its Problem Solving Device of Sharing the Happiness of God developed from maximum capacity in Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God. Therefore, God’s happiness is based on who and what God is, never circumstances or who and what his creatures are.
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The Authority of God over angels (Mark 1:27, 1Pet 3:22) is the result of CREATION. God created these super creatures, who are far greater than human beings, and this places them under subjection to Divine Authority, even the fallen angels and Satan. Therefore, Divine Authority has always been an issue in creation especially since the Fall of Satan at the beginning of the Angelic Conflict. Satan rejected the Authority of God and exercised independent Authority over any angelic creatures whom he could deceive into relinquishing their freedoms and following him. Therefore, in addition and as part of the DEMONSTRATION
of God, Authority has been an issue since the beginning of the human race. The fall of man in the garden was first rejection of Authority by Ishah. The woman, Ishah, rejected the Authority of Ish, Adam (1Tim 2:11-12), of Bible doctrine and that of The Lord Jesus, The Christ, God, and accepted the Authority of Satan indwelling the serpent. Ish, man, accepted the Authority of the woman whom he was supposed to exercise Authority over and threw away his delegated Authority from God.
Authority and Human Volition.
Definition:
• Authority is defined as the power to command, to judge, or to act wielded by the person
or persons in whom Authority is vested.
• Authority or authorities applies to persons having legal power to make and enforce the
law, to make policy, or to make decisions starting with themselves and for some individuals extending to others.
• Authority is also an accepted source of information, as in the case of the Authority of
the Professor or the Pastor Teacher to provide information either academic or doctrinal
theology from the Scripture.
• Authority also refers to one who can be considered an expert on a subject.
• Under the Bible Doctrine principles of the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions, Authority is defined as that legal power, delegated by God, whereby certain
persons have jurisdiction over and responsibility for others.
The Authority of God is absolute over ALL possible and ALL actual things and it is derived from the sum total combination of all of His attributes.
• Regarding His Authority, God renders account to no one and He always acts in conformity with His own perfect character and consults no one for advice or encouragement
◦ He is perfect and cannot be less than perfect in any decision He makes or action He
takes.
• Over possible things, God is sovereign in that He leaves them as merely possible and not actual or he destines them to become actual at a specific point in future time.
• In relation to all actual existing things, God is the final and absolute Authority. (1Tim
6:15, Luke 8:25, Mark 4:39-41, Matt 8:27, Matt 20:15, Rom 8:20-22)
• God established a system of Authority in angelic creation and delegated the highest level therein to Lucifer who subsequently abused that Authority to revolt against God and his
Grace Plan.
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• God also establishes and entrusts systems of Authority in the human race to human beings as delegated Authority such as in the “Laws of Divine Establishment” and “Divine
Institutions”, which are designed for believers and unbelievers alike and which are essential for the protection and perpetuation of the human race in order to complete the
Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial DEMONSTRATION of God.
• The Authority of God rests in three Absolute facts:
◦ God is the Creator and He gave existence to every creature and to all things; therefore, His Authority extends over them.
▪ He has the right to save, remove, bless, judge, reward, discipline even destroy.
▪ This right, however, is restricted by the constant totally integrated and coordinated
functions of His own perfect essence.
▪ Therefore, He is compelled to discipline Satan, the Fallen Angels, the Unbeliever in
the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial and the Reversionist believer who has chosen to
remain under the influence of Evil and function totally apart from the Plan of God.
▪ He is also compelled to bless and reward the mature believer who has completed
the Escrow requirements under the influence of Bible Doctrine provided by his
Grace for the blessings specifically designed by God in Eternity Past for the individual in time.
• The Creator’s absolute and sovereign ownership of and Authority over all things is contrasted with the secondary rights which men recognize in the ownership of private
property under the Laws of Divine Establishment.
◦ All the wealth of the world belongs to God who created it, (Ps 50:10-11) therefore, consistent with His Sovereign Will and Perfect Character, He can give blessings or
remove them according to His personal handling of each individual as that person is
aligned or misaligned with the standards and values of His Absolute Righteousness
and adjusted or maladjusted to His Absolute Justice. (Job 1:21)
• Under His Authority and according to His Grace Plan for the Human Race, God has
redeemed mankind; He purchased all human beings out of the slave market of sin; He
freed man with the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ at the
Cross from slavery to his Old Sin Nature and Satan, giving ALL individual human beings the right to choose for or against His plan of salvation and subsequently, to choose for
or against Bible doctrine as the means of revelation of that Plan.
◦ He, the Humanity of the Lord Jesus, The Christ, paid the penalty for Man’s Sins with
the Substitutionary Spiritual Death, therefore, He has final Authority over every believer.
• God has provided and preserved Bible Doctrine for all of Human History, so that the
Authority of God is expressed to man through that doctrine, and man’s obedience to His
Authority is related to the level of accumulated Metabolized Bible Doctrine in one’s soul.
God as the ultimate Authority reveals and expresses it today through Bible doctrine; not through dreams, visions, trances or miraculous spiritual gifts. His Sovereign Will and His Grace Plan, as the background for his Authority, are clearly defined in Scripture. Respect for God’s Sovereignty and Authority is learned in one of two ways: • Directly, through the suffering of Divine Discipline or Self Induced Misery. (Heb 12:9)
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◦ Suffering and divine discipline are inevitable to the individual, as well as to the nation which resists God’s Authority and the principles He has laid down in the Laws
of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions.
• Indirectly, through the Pastor Teacher’s communication of accurate Bible Doctrine, which invariably results in blessing.
• Authority is one of the most underrated concepts in biblical theology and every principle of Bible Doctrine is related to Authority; furthermore, all other authorities in life stem from the Word of God, Bible Doctrine.
Categories of Authority:
All Authority in life is divided into two general categories:
• Legitimate
• Illegitimate
Legitimate Authority is established according to the Bible Doctrine of Scripture, the Common Laws of the land derived from the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions, or in accordance with established rules, principles, or standards derived from the Norms and Standards and Scale of Values of the Righteousness of God and revealed through Bible Doctrine in the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions. God has delegated Legitimate Authority in two spheres: • Temporal Authority
◦ The Laws of Divine Establishment & Divine Institutions
▪ This is the function of Legitimate CIVIL RULERS and God requires subjection to
legitimate earthly authority by all living under that authority, and declares that all
rulers are appointed by Him personally. (Prov 24:21, Rom 13:1–7, 1Pet 2:13–17)
◦ There are 5 basic concepts of Establishment freedom:
▪ The right of self-determination from human volition apart from violation of law or
legitimate authority.
▪ Privacy as the right to hold personal opinions, make personal decisions and engage
in personal actions which do not interfere with the rights of others.
▪ Property as the unrestricted right of the individual to possess things he can legitimately acquire.
▪ Life as the sacred function of the Human Being in the Angelic Conflict Appeal
Trial to provide the opportunity and means to choose for or against the Grace Plan
of God.
▪ Authority for the establishment and enforcement of Legitimate Common Law, which is the guardian of freedom, privacy, property, and life when it is based on
the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions.
• Spiritual Authority
◦ The specific spiritual laws, rules or restrictions for man’s function within a particular divine administrative dispensation. (Deut 11:27, 1Sam 15:22, Jer 7:25, Jer 11:4-7,
▪ The Authority of the Protocol Plan of God for this Church Age is found in the
Mystery Doctrine of the Church Age recorded in the New Testament Epistles and
detailed under the Royal Family Honor Code.
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◦ Spiritual Authority is the direct Authority of God found in the Word of God, delegated to the properly prepared Pastor Teacher, who functions effectively in studying and teaching Bible Doctrine to his congregation in an expository way. (Eph
3:7-13, Eph 4:11-16, Col 1:23-29, 2Tim 2:24-26, 1Tim 3:1-9, Tit 1:6-9, Phil 2:16-30,
▪ This Authority is limited ONLY to those who choose to study Bible Doctrine under
his ministry whether it is face to face in the Local Church or by other means.
▪ The Pastor’s Authority cannot function apart from the Power of the God the Holy
Spirit within the Divine Dynasphere, and the positive volition of the Royal Family
of God directed toward the Bible Doctrine taught by the Pastor.
◦ The Pastor Teacher delegates Authority to a very limited degree to Deacons and other
administrators of the local church. (1Cor 16:15-16, 2Cor 10:8, 1Thes 5:12, Heb 13:7,
◦ There is the divine provision of an umbrella of Authority over the mechanics of postsalvation epistemological rehabilitation which resides in the teaching ministry of God
the Holy Spirit who indwells every believer, so that for Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine to occur at all the believer must be
under the Filling of God the Holy Spirit as per the Grace Apparatus for Perception.
◦ Spiritual freedom is the function of the believer while under the Filling of God the
Holy Spirit residing and functioning within the Divine Dynasphere. (John 8:32, Ps
◦ The evangelist also has Spiritual Authority over those unbelievers to whom he communicates the Gospel of Christ.
◦ ALL of this spiritual authority is the result of the Authority of God the Holy Spirit in His formulating and preserving the content of the Canon of Scripture.
Temporal and Spiritual Freedom relate to the two categories of authority, Temporal and Spiritual Authority where the provided freedom has the primary coordinated purpose to provide the opportunity to be evangelized, to understand the existence of God and the principles of
Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God found in the Gospel. Therefore, all Legitimate Authority must follow the system of God and be in subjection to the Authority of God.
Illegitimate Authority is illegal, unlawful, unauthorized authority, generally established by unlawful or illegal use of force or violence used for the attainment of power without the lawful right to possess that power.
• Illegitimate Authority is that Authority established by Satan under his plan of Evil through the function of the Cosmic Dynasphere system.
◦ It is evident where there is the unauthorized seizure of power from legitimate sources
demonstrated in revolution and the rise of tyrannical dictators throughout history.
◦ Illegitimate Authority is delegated by Satan as the ruler of this world in three categories:
▪ Tyranny
▪ False Doctrine
▪ Power Struggles
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Illegitimate Authority is that which is oriented and functions contrary to the Authority of God.
The believer does not owe any allegiance to an illegitimate system of Authority nor the government based on that Authority. There is no allegiance required from the believer toward any system which is antagonistic and in opposition toward the system of God. This includes any Authority which goes against or is antagonistic to the Laws of Divine Establishment, Divine Institutions and the principles and mandates revealed in the entirety of Bible Doctrine.
Rejection of that authority is acceptable for the Christian when that authority interferes with the freedom necessary for the evangelizing of the unbeliever or the provision of Bible Doctrine for the believer and his freedom to live by its principles.
Divine Authority & the Believer
Winners in history never deviate from the divine Authority of God’s directive will and His mandates, which lead the believer to Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God, his personal Escrow Super – Grace blessings, which then lead to the establishment of a pivot, and the
manufacture of invisible heroes to support and perpetuate the client nation to God. When individuals reject Authority in childhood and adolescence and then make Salvation Adjustment
to the Justice of God and become believers, they will reject the Authority of Bible doctrine, which is tantamount to rejecting God’s protection in His directive will. Destruction or rejection of the Authority of God in one’s life is a guarantee of a life filled with disaster and suffering.
When the believer, who is designed to function under the directive will of God, rejects the Authority of the Word of God, Bible Doctrine, and its mandates, he has destroyed the Authority of God in his life and has reverted to the Authority of Satan under the Policy of Evil laid down in the Cosmic Dynaspheres.
The Royal Family Honor Code, the operational code for the Royal Family of God as Church Age believers, demands Authority orientation in the form of academic discipline, either enforced discipline with enforced humility or self discipline with genuine humility, when the Pastor Teacher is presenting Bible Doctrine. This academic discipline is the Authority imposed upon the believer during the teaching of the Word of God so that he and others may be free to learn without distraction, either as a result of the authority of the Pastor Teacher or by his own volition and self discipline.
God is free to dispose of His creation as He will; but His will, as has been seen, is wholly guided by the true and benevolent features of His Person, His Character or Essence. Therefore God has the right of Divine Discipline for the those who fail to function in compliance with the structure of his Grace Plan and also for the testing of the believer who makes advancements in his Spiritual Life in time. No one ever has the right to bitterness for anything in life, including when under the pressure of either Divine Discipline or Providential Preventative Momentum Testing for blessing. The fact is that when the believer stops obeying the mandates of the Word of God he stops recognizing the Authority of God. When he stops recognizing the
Authority of God He has resisted God’s Authority. When he resists the Authority of God or His Word, God then stops using the believer and starts His process of Divine Discipline to
“encourage” that believer back into functioning under the Grace Plan of God.
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All Authority is related to childhood so that the basic concept one has regarding Authority is developed in childhood. This is where the Authority of God is rejected first. As Temporal Authority, Parental Authority is the first to be rejected and this results in disorientation to Life for this individual. This places him into the Arrogance system and thus total maladjustment to life. Life is not ever fair and the only thing able to stabilize it is one’s ability to orient to Authority. Orientation to Authority is where Humility is developed and this is the only way to advance and move ahead in life. In addition, the ability to face unreasonable Authority and orient to it, is the only basis for maintaining happiness in life. It is the Pastor Teacher who is the spiritual parent of the believer to whom he is teaching Bible Doctrine in an expository way as Spiritual Authority.
If one is to avoid the illegitimate Authority of the Cosmic Dynaspheres of Satan, the Interlocking System of Arrogance and Interlocking System of Antagonistic Emotional Hatred, he must avail himself of the Bible Doctrine presented by his right Pastor Teacher. Bible Doctrine is the mind or thinking of The Lord Jesus, The Christ and this is the Absolute Authority for the believer and this is the basis for all of the authority of the Pastor Teacher who presents it properly and accurately. The Pastor Teacher should not ever try to interfere with the believer's volition in any aspect of life unless he is interfering with the functions IN the Local Church because of his disorientation to Authority. The disruptive believer in the Local Church must be removed if he does not follow the pattern of the Authority of the Local Church but this never gives him the right to criticize the Pastor Teacher he is leaving.
Authority & the Divine Institutions
Authority has been delegated by God to 4 Divine Institutions:
• Volition or Self-determination – the Authority of one’s own soul with emphasis on
volition and freedom to make one’s own decisions.
◦ With this freedom to make decisions comes responsibility.
◦ This is the first Authority in life and making and taking responsibility for personal
decisions, whether from a position of strength or a position of weakness, is a key
part of respect for the Authority in one’s own soul.
• Marriage – the Authority of the husband over the wife. (Eph 5:22, Col 3:18)
• Family – the Authority of parents over children. (Eph 6:1-3, Col 3:20)
• Nationalism – the Authority of LEGITIMATE government over citizens of that nation.
God has ordained under these Divine Institutions the systems of Authority so that the human race can continue in order to complete His DEMONSTRATION for the Resolution of the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial. This requires the freedom of the individual in the Human Race to choose to respond to these authority structures and to CHOOSE which power system he will function according to. The most subtle attacks on freedom originate in either the rejection of the Laws of Divine Establishment or the Divine Institutions and their established Authority.
Response to Authority
Response to Authority is a function of personal human volition where the acceptability of
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Authority in this life is dependent upon personal human decisions. Human Freedom provides the option of accepting or rejecting Authority in life, both legitimate and illegitimate. While God has delegated legitimate Authority in life, these authorities are useless if human volition does not accept them. All illegitimate Authority in life is based upon the Evil Policies of Satan laid down in the Cosmic Dynaspheres. These illegitimate authorities can only function if man’s volition decides to enter and function under Arrogance or Antagonism. One can be bullied into functioning under any system of Authority, but it does no good in the long run because what makes Authority benefit man is human consent, where rational human beings understand the importance of the principle of Authority, regardless of whether they like the personality wielding it or not. Every person is a product of their own decisions under their function in Divine Institution #1. (Historical Trend #4) Good decisions from a position of strength (functioning under the Divine Dynasphere) accept Authority and develop capacity for life. Bad decisions from a position of weakness (functioning under the Cosmic Dynaspheres) reject Authority and become subject to the laws of volitional responsibility. (Hos 8:7, Gal 6:7, Prov
22:8, Col 3:25) Good decisions from a position of strength place the believer under the directive Sovereign Will of God where he is both protected and blessed by God. However, the believer rejecting the Authority of Bible Doctrine, which is tantamount to rejecting God’s protection in His directive will, is a guarantee of a disastrous life. In his Arrogant assumption of independence from God, man generally has lost the sense of the Creator’s rights and looks upon the Authority of God as unjustifiable intrusion into the sphere of human autonomy.
However, the believer being under the Authority of God and the word of God is not demeaning or being intruded upon but is extremely beneficial as designed under the Grace Plan of God.
Therefore, under his sovereign authority and in conjunction and coordination with his entire essence or character, God makes war against abusive Authority as well as against the Arrogant person who rejects Authority.
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Freedom is not truly an attribute of God, however, it is a direct function under God’s Sovereignty or free will. Consistency is the fact that God cannot compromise His essence and must be internally consistent with Himself. The DEMONSTRATION of the Consistency of the
Essence of God under the Freedom of God is the whole purpose of the granting of Satan’s
Appeal to his judgment and condemnation in the Angelic Conflict Trial. It is the entire purpose for the existence of the Human Race. The Grace Plan of God which required the Incarnation and subsequent Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ was the only way the Freedom of God could be exercised by His Sovereignty to provide the potential for eternal salvation for man. In other words, God is FREE to bless man only when man has satisfied the requirements, the perfect Norms and Standards and Scale of Values, of the Righteousness of God and is thereby adjusted to His Justice. This begins during the life of man with Salvation
Adjustment to the Justice of God, then involves post salvation forgiveness for sin by means of the Rebound Procedure, and finally Post Salvation Epistemological Rehabilitation under the Grace Apparatus for Perception. Then upon reaching Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God
and fulfilling the Escrow Requirements set up in the Protocol Plan of God by the Righteousness of God as the accumulating to a saturation level of Metabolized Bible Doctrine into the Right Lobe of the Stream of Consciousness of his Soul he receives his Escrow Super – Grace blessings for time and accomplishes the Tactical Victory of the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial.
It is the Freedom of God to express his Love to mankind without compromising or jeopardizing his Essence, therefore, in order for God to Love man personally man must meet the requirements of the Righteousness of God first. No one can truly give apart from freedom and God does so regarding his Love for the individual believer in total freedom based on the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ for all human sins while on the cross.
The Integrity of God is directly interlinked with the Freedom of God so that the personality of God cannot be arbitrarily free from the Standards and Values of His Absolute Righteousness, Absolute Justice, or Absolute Love as absolute divine attributes. The Omniscience of God always directs the decisions of God to that which he knows to be Right and that which is Right has been discerned and determined from his complete knowledge of all eternity, NOT JUST
THE OMNISCIENCE RELATED TO HIS CREATION. The freedom of God is also restricted by his
Immutability so that He cannot change to function under what he knows is NOT RIGHT.
Grace as the Policy and Plan of God reflects the total Freedom of God to provide anything for the believer, do anything for him, to love him to the maximum at any time after Salvation
Adjustment to the Justice of God and forever thereafter, though there is nothing that believer can ever do to EARN or DESERVE those gifts. This is an incomprehensible freedom. God
desires to save all of the Human Race but He cannot because he gave man freedom of volition and therefore, this would violate His own integrity by compromising the standards of His
Absolute Righteousness. However, the Freedom of God under the Sovereign decisions of God in conjunction with the Love of God as an expression of the Norms and Standards and Scale of
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and Immutability of God, designed a plan whereby the Absolute Justice of God was caused to judge all human sins in the humanity of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on the cross thus making it possible for man to acquire Eternal Life and Eternal salvation from the implementation of the sentence of Spiritual Death of the Lake of Fire, without violation of any part of the Character of God. Therefore, when one makes the decision to engage in Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God through faith in the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone the Justice of God is free to pardon him. Also at Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God every Church Age believer receives from the Justice of God, motivated by the Love of God and Sovereignty of God, 39 perfect irrevocable eternal assets for his Spiritual Life in both time and eternity and also receives the 1st instance of the Filling of God the Holy Spirit, as FREE gifts from God and this is only the beginning of the Plan of God.
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Definitions:
Sovereign Defined
The Highest Ruler, having the highest level of authority and power or being completely independent, thus a king or queen, or any person having the absolute authority and power to govern a nation. God is the supreme being of the universe, (Deut 4:39, 1Sam 2:6-8, 1Chron
29:11, Acts 17:24) He is the King of heaven and earth, (Ps 47:2, Matt 6:13, Heb 8:1, Rev 4:2-3
therefore, He has all authority and infinite power and He delegates power and authority to nations and causes the rise of nations which He wishes. (Dan 4:17, Dan 5:21) Sovereignty Defined
Sovereignty is divine volition, absolute free will in the eternal, infinite Essence of God. The Sovereignty of God is the volition or free Will of God and His absolute will and perfection characterize all he does. Since God is perfect, eternal, and infinite, the function of His self determination or Sovereignty is always rational. Therefore, He is rational in the expression of His Perfect Love, Absolute Justice and Absolute Righteousness. The Sovereignty of God is His eternal, infinite, unchangeable will expressed in the Divine Decree set up in eternity past.
Therefore, the Divine Decree is the eternal, unchanging thinking of God regarding each and every human being especially each believer, and the infinite number of decisions God has made about each one. All of God’s decisions were made in eternity past and His decisions are based on His knowledge and thinking. God has never had to come up with a new thought regarding any person or his problems and their solutions. There never was a thought or decision He didn’t have from eternity past, therefore, considering all of this, it becomes plainly obvious that God has never made, and cannot ever make, a bad decision. (Acts 5:39, Dan 4:35, Heb 6:13,
Job 9:12, Prov 21:1, Ps 8:1, Ps 93:2, Ps 115:3, Ps 135:6) In addition it is lucidly clear that God has known every believer’s problems from Eternity Past and had established the needed solutions for them at that same time.
The Sovereignty of God is His eternal and infinite will expressed in the Divine Decree, manifest in the comprehensive divine administration and interpretation of Human History called dispensations, and the unique plan, Grace, regarding mankind, now in this dispensation of the Church Age. It is revealed to man through the preservation and presentation of Bible Doctrine in His protocol plan. (Eph 1:11) It is the expression of divine volition or the Sovereignty of God as found in Eph 1:5 which has resulted in a divine plan for the human race, for every individual human being personally. (Heb 6:17) In other words, the fact that each believer is in the plan of God right now is because God has volition, His volition is supreme; and since it is supreme He made a Sovereign decision to design such a plan and present this as His Sovereign DEMONSTRATION to both the Angelic and Human Race. Therefore, there never was or will be a person for whom God did not have a perfect plan in eternity past. Under the Sovereign
Authority of God, ALL forms of existence are within the scope of His dominion. Perfection, self-determination and virtue characterize His purpose, design and execution. Therefore, God’s plan for the individual’s life is the only means to bring that individual any happiness, tranquility, and blessing. God’s plan always begins with Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of
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God by faith alone in the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone for all human sins. No one is left out and no one is insignificant because God always thinks in terms of concentration and organization and makes perfect decisions from an organized mind.
God’s Sovereignty is His will, wish, his free volition resulting in His absolute dominion over all created things. Sovereignty is the power and prerogative of God as creator over creature, as Savior over regenerate, as ruler over positive believers, and as disciplinarian over negative believers. God is the absolute authority, therefore, the only legitimate authority in life is what God has delegated under the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions to administer societies in nations. His Sovereignty or authority is manifest as creator, having authority over both animate and inanimate creation. He has authority as Redeemer over all categories of believers. He has authority as the source of all blessing and all Divine Discipline. He has the right to impute blessing in both time and eternity. He has the supreme right to oversee the execution of His plan and to utilize those who are in the momentum of His plan and the right to punish those who fail in and leave His plan. The Sovereignty of God is clearly demonstrated in His role as judge of rational creatures, both angelic and human. His role as judge over mankind is found in Ps 50, in the five cycles of discipline, and in the Great White Throne Judgment. In the angelic realm, God has judged Satan in Is 14 and Ezek 28 and this judgment in prehistoric times separated ALL Elect from Fallen Angels.
Sovereignty & The Free Will of God
Therefore, there is one all inclusive will and purpose of God concerning all that ever was, is and will be. This will and purpose originate within himself and is compatible with and
inseparable from all of His attributes, thus perfection produces perfection in His decisions. The Will of God is objectively designed for his glory, pleasure and satisfaction and could not be otherwise due to his perfect essence. The Will of God related to creation and creatures is extrinsic in that there is free will invented by God, is transient as there is chronology in time and Human History and is objective in the sense that the Integrity of God leads to the ultimate glorification of God. Because the Omniscience of God is all comprehensive and integrally involved with the Will of God regarding His Creation, not the slightest uncertainty could exist in even one of the smallest events in creation without confusion of all. The Will of God is all of His Sovereign choices based on His Omniscience inherent in the entirety of the Essence of God by which all things are brought into being, controlled, made subject to his pleasure, his production and result in His glorification. Therefore, ALL things depend on the Will of God and nothing is certain apart from the Will of God. Therefore, NO ONE can ever escape, overcome nor distort the Sovereignty of God.
God is, therefore, first of all, Sovereign. That is, God has supreme volition. His volition has always existed, and there is no higher volition in the universe. However, when God created both Angelic Creatures and Human Beings, He placed in their soul a facsimile of His own
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Sovereignty, free will volition, and in man the purpose was to resolve the Angelic Conflict which occurred because of the misuse of this imparted Free Will by Angelic Creatures. God provided Man with Free Will to Glorify God, and to vindicate the Sovereign decision of God to cast all fallen angels and all unbelievers into the lake of fire for all eternity. (Matt 25:41) Furthermore, God in His Grace provided everything necessary in Human History for the free will of man to decide for God and God’s plan of Grace and reject Satan and Satan’s Plan of Evil. Therefore, Entrance into the plan of God is based on the principle of Grace whereby the Sovereignty of God and the Free Will of man meet at the cross and they meet without any
merit on man’s part. (John 3:36) If God’s point of contact with mankind were His Sovereignty, HIS FREE WILL, He would choose who would go to heaven; He would have programmed man
to mechanically enact every detail of his life on earth. Man would be an automaton; human freedom would not exist; the angelic conflict could not be resolved in His favor. The Incarnation and Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ was the only way the Free Will of God (His Sovereignty) could provide a means of salvation for man who CHOSE
to become spiritually dead. This salvation potential is based on man choosing to adjust to the Justice of God. In other words, God is free to bless man only when man is adjusted to His Justice, first of all at the point of Gospel Hearing with his expression of Positive Volition, then whenever necessary using Rebound Adjustment to the Justice of God to recover from the failures of personal sin, and most emphatically at Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God as a result of man’s choices to engage consistently in the Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine.
Categories of The Sovereign Will of God
There are 3 categories of the Will of God:
• Directive will
• Permissive will
• Overruling will
These describe the manner in which God’s Sovereignty controls history; they are subcategories of divine action as related to His creation. In particular, these three categories show how divine Sovereignty actually deals with human volition. The Will of God concerning what will exist as per the Divine Decree, calls for God’s Will, His Sovereignty, to function toward mankind in certain ways: • Directly stating what He desires of man
• Permissively allowing man to go his own way
▪ Based on man’s own free will volitional decisions
• Overruling man’s decisions by not allowing them have their intended results
▪ While sin, human good and evil are permitted they are constantly being overruled
by the Sovereign Omnipotence and divine integrity of God.
▪ It is by this means, therefore, that Jesus Christ controls both history and the
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This organization of the function of the Sovereignty of God is so designed in order to protect the Human Race from its own negative volition and inevitable self destruction, to preserve and perpetuate His marvelous plan and to bring about the desired resolution of the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial, His DEMONSTRATION to angelic creation of the consistency of the function of His character.
Consideration of the Sovereignty of God
By many writers, Sovereignty is not included among the attributes of God. It is considered to be not an attribute of God but a prerogative of God and owes all its reality to the divine perfections of the totality of the Essence of God. However, since it is understood that God gave man a ‘facsimile’ of his Sovereignty as Free Will, Volition, and when considering the Essence of Man, the make up of the soul of man, Volition is always included as an attribute, therefore, Sovereignty most likely should be considered an attribute of the Character or Essence of God also. It is the Sovereignty of God the Father which can work all things together under His Free will. (Eph. 1:11, Ps 40:8, Matt 6:10, Heb 10:7, Heb 10:9). The Sovereignty of God the Son, The Lord Jesus, The Christ is in giving life to whom he wishes (John 5:21) and he is proclaimed as the “King of Kings, and Lord of Lords”. (Rev 19:16) The Sovereignty of God the Holy Spirit divides or bestows to each believer spiritual gifts individually as He wills. (1Cor
Sovereignty & Grace
God the Father used His Sovereignty in Eternity Past to come up with a perfect plan. His Essence is perfection, His Sovereignty made a decision, a plan for Creation, including Human History and mankind knowing it would be necessary, and that plan is therefore perfect. The fact that the individual believer has wound up as a member of the Royal Family of God through no ability of his own, through no nobility of his own, through no efforts or works of his own, again indicates the perfection in God’s Plan of Grace. Therefore, as a believer in this Church Age dispensation being part of the Royal Family of God, this emphasizes that God’s
plan, has been carefully designed by God the Father as an effective and efficient DEMONSTRATION, and reflects His Omniscience, His Sovereign decisions, and His Integrity. It emphasizes that this plan does not call for man to operate on personal devices, personalities, concepts, and personal human dynamics. The plan for individual believers requires that they operate under the divine power provided by God. Therefore, under this plan the believer has been given the provision and delegation of that divine power in the Power System of God, the Divine Dynasphere.
Therefore the overriding issue in life is not environment or circumstances but volition, which must line up with the Sovereignty, Integrity and Omnipotence of God, resulting in a life beyond (gr) ‘gnosis’ (academic knowledge) which is parlayed into the life beyond expectation. This plan of Grace is the means for the Freedom of God to express His love to mankind without any compromise or jeopardy to His Essence or Character. NO one can truly give or rightly give Page #68 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
apart from freedom and this directly applies to God as well but to an even greater extent. He must be free to give us anything and everything. His Sovereignty must be coordinated with His love, because in love He wants to give and He can decide through his Sovereignty to give but this must not compromise the Standards and Values of His Absolute Righteousness nor the perfect functions of His Absolute Justice. God is able to give out of total freedom under his Grace Plan because of His propitiation from the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on the cross in payment for ALL human sins. Grace is the Plan of God, on behalf of and for the benefit of, mankind beginning at the cross and it is the Policy of God with regard to mankind. Therefore Grace is a Plan, Policy and Mechanic of Divine Modus Operandi toward His creation especially man and under Grace God does all the work and
providing while man does all the receiving and benefiting, NONE of which he ever can earn, deserve or merit. Therefore, Grace is what God can and does do for man and still be consistent with his essence based totally on the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ. Grace is the relationship of God with the Christian by way of his Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. Grace, therefore, is all that God can do for man from Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God through Eternity, totally apart from man’s ability, talent, merit, planning, or ideas based totally on man’s decision to make Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God through faith alone in the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone.
The believer cannot overcome the Sovereign Grace Plan of God by attempting to bribe God
with his good deeds, sweet and loving life or any level of altruism toward mankind. (Deut
10:17) To the contrary, believers are the totally undeserving beneficiaries of His Sovereign Grace decisions and His Grace plan and policy. Therefore, the believer benefits from a relationship with God; He, God, does not in any way benefit from that same relationship. The point is that the existence of the believer, his very life does not depend upon who or what he is, but totally upon who and what God is.
The Functions of Divine Sovereignty.
It was the Sovereign will of God to reveal Himself to mankind through the Biblical Doctrines of the Canon of Scripture. It was the Sovereign will of God to deal with mankind through a
policy of Grace, and to give to man, in this Church Age, the most fantastic and unique plan ever given to believers in any dispensation of Human History, the Protocol Plan of God. It was the Sovereignty of God the Father that sent Jesus Christ to the Cross to provide the universal potential for mankind’s eternal salvation. Divine motivation is the function of God’s Love.
God’s decisions are the function of his Sovereignty based upon his perfect and eternal knowledge, as well as perfect and eternal motivation. God’s Sovereignty, His Divine Decisions, always function for His own glory. Unequivocally the Sovereignty of God always functions in total compatibility with all of His other divine attributes. Therefore, in eternity past, God the Father Sovereignly along with motivation from the Love of God, set up the Plan of Grace for mankind, as the DEMONSTRATION called Human History, for Angelic Creation of the consistent function of His character to refute the allegation of Lucifer that his judgment, condemnation and sentencing to the Lake of Fire could not have involved the Love of God. Based on the Page #69 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
interaction with His Absolute Righteousness and perfect Justice, His design for the Laws of Divine Establishment and the Divine Institutions is flawless. This Plan in some variation will continue throughout eternity future because God Himself is eternal life and because it proceeds from His enduring, uncompromising Justice, this Operation Grace excludes the frailties of human sentimentality or ability.
Sovereignty & Infinity of God
By Infinity is meant that God is without boundary or limitation. He unites in Himself those perfections which belong to His person and to His essence. Therefore, the Sovereignty of God as part of the Essence of God must be related to His Infinity. God’s power, his character and understanding are equal in their eternity and in their Infinity. (Job 36:5) Being Infinite, God can never choose to sin from His Sovereignty nor can he ever use His Sovereignty to tempt to or sponsor sin, nor human good, or any involvement under Evil, the plan and policy of Satan.
Logically, if for no other reason, Sin and Human Good are the results of involvement with EVIL
and Evil is the Plan and Policy of Satan in the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial to rule mankind THEREFORE, these can have no part in the plan or policy of Grace established by God for the benefit of mankind. God cannot be in any way identified with human silliness. In His
perfection, He has provided for his DEMONSTRATION a magnificent plan with magnificent
assets and since God cannot be irrational, He is not going to come up with an irrational or silly plan. Being Omniscient, God is not ignorant; He is not going to tolerate stupidity in Christians which results from ignorance of Bible Doctrine. God dislikes ignorance, and there is no excuse for ignorance of Bible Doctrine because He has provided all the assets needed by the individual Christian to assimilate Bible Doctrine into his soul. Infinity characterizes all that God does as a result of His sovereign decisions, His policies, the function of His perfect virtue, the function of His omniscience, and His integrity or Holiness which characterize His policy of Grace. Within his policy of Grace, Infinity describes how it works and how it doesn’t work.
Sovereignty & Personality of God
The Sovereignty of God must be related to His personality, just as man’s volition is related to his personality. God is infinite and absolute in his Perfection, He is an infinite personality with absolute Free Will or Sovereignty. God’s absolute will and perfection characterizes both His design and His execution of that design. (Eph 1:9, E ph 1:1 1 ) Therefore, God is to an absolute degree all that constitutes personality. He is Himself; He knows Himself to be beyond comparison with any other being. God is a person and this means that God has personality.
But God is an eternal, infinite person, He never had a beginning and will never end. Infinite in relationship to God clearly means the puny finite minds of mankind can never completely comprehend everything about God. God has often explained Himself to man in terms of human activities called anthropopathisms and human characteristics called anthropomorphisms. God has self-consciousness, He is eternally aware of Himself. God has Sovereign self-determination, He eternally has been making Free Will decisions. God recognizes Himself as a personality and as such He thinks and acts rationally in compatibility with His Perfect Integrity. The Page #70 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
Sovereignty of God as part of the Essence of God must be related to the Personality of God and personality always connotes self-consciousness and self-determination. One must first be aware that he exists, then he can make decisions in relationship to that awareness. Self-consciousness and Volition are the key factors in personality. There never was a time when God was not conscious of Himself and when He didn’t make decisions from his Sovereign Free Will. God, in His infinite personality, has perfect virtue. As such, He functions with perfect integrity and perfect rationality. God’s Sovereign self-determination characterizes His perfection, His purpose, His provision, and His plan, and the provision of both the portfolio of invisible assets for the Christian as well as the Protocol Plan of God in this dispensation of the Royal Family of God.
God has eternally had these characteristics to an infinite degree, therefore, God recognizes Himself as a person eternally and infinitely. ALL of God’s decisions related to creation were made in eternity past, therefore His personality is immutable.
Sovereignty & Authority
The authority of God is derived from the Sovereignty of God and his status of being infinite and eternal. The Sovereignty and Authority of God are manifest as creator, He having authority over both animate and inanimate creation. He also has authority as Redeemer over all categories of believers. He has authority as the source of all blessing in creation and He has the Sovereign right to impute blessing in both time and eternity. He has the right to execute His plan and to utilize those who are in the momentum of His plan according to his Sovereign Will. He also has the right to punish with Divine Discipline those who individually and collectively fail to function in His plan. Therefore, ALL authority is from God and he is the ultimate Sovereign absolute authority.
God’s Authority extends to both possible and actual things. Over possible things God is sovereign in that He leaves them as only possible and not actual, or He designates them as yet future. For example, God could have run into the garden and stopped man from committing
the first sin. However, it would have been a violation of God’s integrity to convert possible to actual and violate the Free Will Volition He, Himself gave to man for the resolution of the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial. This would have been totally unfair in the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial. With regard to His Divine Authority, God renders no account to others, but acts in complete coordination and agreement with His perfect plan and perfect Essence. With regard to actual things, God is the final and absolute authority, and has unchangeably established them as Actual within the Divine Decree. (1Sam 2:6-8; 1Chron 29:11-12; Ps 145:14;
God is the absolute authority and the only legitimate authority in life is what God has delegated, to police, judges, military, husbands, parents, teachers, etc. Therefore, when considering authority in Human History, whether hereditary kings or office holders in a republic the source of their authority is the Sovereignty of God. Therefore, the individual especially the Christian is not ever called to 'get rid of his government' and he should never oppose the principle of authority when it is based on the legitimate principles of the Laws of Divine Page #71 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
Establishment and Divine Institutions. Relationship and submission to authority is a matter of orientation to the Sovereign Will of God and Christians are obliged to adhere to the Will of God and Plan of God.
The Will of God always has the highest priority over all else including personal and national freedom. Under the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions God delegates authority to man under the principles involved in volition, marriage, family, and nations:
• Free will volition of the individual over all his life functions
• Husbands over wives in marriage
• Parents over children in families
• Administrators or Rulers over citizens in nations.
This delegation of Sovereign Divine Authority to man occurs according to these principles:
• Government Authority does not ever derive its power from the people but from God.
• All authority of the State is delegated by God under the Laws of Divine Establishment.
• Authority of the local church is delegated by God through Spiritual Gifts Sovereignly
bestowed by God the Holy Spirit at the moment of Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of
God and which function is totally based on the accumulation of Bible Doctrine into that
individual’s Right Lobe of the Soul.
• Authority of the State is designed for all citizens with NO EXCEPTIONS.
• Authority of the Local Church is designed only for believers.
• When Local Church authority merges into civil authority it becomes tyranny for
unbelieving or non-christian citizens.
Sovereignty & Decisions
The decisions of the Sovereignty of God exist in two categories:
• Efficacious, or those things directly caused or wrought by God.
• Permissive, where God appointed certain things to be done by secondary causes or the
volition and actions of man.
◦ Man’s thoughts, actions, motives, and decisions are read by God, but never altered by
God.
God is self-existent, which means He is eternal. His perfect decisions from His Sovereignty are compatible with His eternal and infinite self-existence. God is immutable and unchangeable, therefore, He has never had to and in fact is unable to reverse a decision. God does not have to be flexible, for He is perfect and as perfect, infinite, and eternal God, He never has to withdraw a decision because ALL of His decisions are now and always were perfect in Eternity Past and they remain perfect in time. God’s perfect policy of Grace for creation is based on infinite, eternal, and sovereign decisions. This policy was established as what would be reality in eternity past by the Divine Decree. God’s integrity is incorruptible, therefore, God’s decisions are perfect with regard to His integrity and also incorruptible. God’s sense of humor is also perfect, and there must be incredible amusement in heaven concerning the things man fails to understand especially related to God. God’s gracious love toward man is perfect and is based on the function of His integrity and therefore all the decisions made by God regarding Page #72 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
man have not ever been a bad decision even once. And from His Sovereignty, God has made billions and billions of decisions.
As a decision from the Sovereignty of God, He provides every member of the Royal Family of God in this Church Age with his own portfolio of invisible assets. Every decision that God has made with regard to his Protocol Plan for believers are ones which spell out blessing; for these are backed by His wisdom rather than man’s knowledge, desires or wisdom. No greater expression of the incredible decisions which come from the Sovereignty of God exists than the one found in Col 1:27. This was God’s Sovereign decision to indwell the Church Age believer as the confidence of His Glory and because of the Intensified Nature of the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial in this Church Age dispensation.
It was a Sovereign Decision of God which caused Him to develop a way to communicate and
reveal to mankind himself and the content of his Grace Plan for Man. In this Church Age the believer has the completed canon of scripture as the means by which he does this. In all of Human History, NO ONE can know nor understand God without a saturation of Metabolized
Bible Doctrine accumulated into the Right Lobe of the Stream of Consciousness of his Soul.
Within this plan God communicates the incredible the riches and blessings available to the individual believer based on the unique factors of this Church Age:
• A portfolio of invisible assets.
• Escrow Super – Grace blessings for time and eternity for those who accomplish the
Tactical Victory of the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial.
• The availability of divine Omnipotence under the Indwelling of God the Holy Spirit and
Filling of God the Holy Spirit.
• The Omnipotence of God the Father related to the Portfolio of Assets.
• The Omnipotence of God the Son who both preserves the universe and perpetuates human history.
• The Omnipotence of God the Holy Spirit who provides for us enabling power inside the
Divine Dynasphere.
All divine decisions from the Sovereignty of God are made from a position of eternal and
infinite strength. All divine decisions are based on eternal wisdom and omniscience.
Therefore, it is impossible for God to make a wrong decision.
God in His Sovereignty expresses supreme rulership, wisdom, and justice in His decisions which are based on Grace and relate to mankind. The closer the believer comes to lining up with God’s decisions in time, the greater becomes the blessing in his life. When he fails to align with the Sovereign decisions of God, the greater becomes his self-induced misery and eventual Divine Discipline. The fact is that there never was a time in eternity past and never will be a time when God does not know every thought, motive, decision, and action of every rational creature, angelic or human. Therefore, God has always had complete and total knowledge,
which makes His Sovereignty and His decisions perfect, because HE HAS ALL THE FACTS.
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do, but never coerced those decisions. God setup his plan so that mankind is totally responsible for his own decisions and this is the purpose for the creation of man to resolve the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial.
Sovereignty & the Glory of God
God’s eternal Glory existed in Eternity Past even before creation. (John 17:5) There never was a time when God’s perfect Glory did not exist. Therefore, the Sovereignty of God recognizes His own Glory and claims it in the interest of Absolute Truth, Bible doctrine. Therefore, the function of the Sovereignty of God in human history is for His Glory, to which He has an eternal and infinite right. The Sovereignty of God is never motivated by any form of self-praise. Because of these facts all things exist. (Ex 33:18, Ps 19:1, Is 6:3, Matt 6:13, Acts 7:2,
Rom 1:23, Rom 9:23, Heb 1:3, 1Pet 4:14). The lifestyle of wisdom for the believer begins with the Glory of God (not the believer glorifying God). Absolute truth is Bible Doctrine, and the believer’s lifestyle of wisdom is the metabolization of Bible Doctrine where the believer must learn about and accept the eternally existing Glory of God before he can ever receive the blessings from God which glorify God.
Sovereignty & Judgment vs Deliverance
There is only one critic in the life of the believer and that is God Himself, the perfect critic who is totally and perfectly objective and who can perfectly evaluate and be helpful. Using His Sovereignty, whenever He evaluates, He always accompanies that evaluation with either Grace blessing or Grace discipline. Therefore, in using His perfect Sovereignty based on his omniscience and justice, His criticisms are always excellent and accompanied by whichever is necessary. Because God is Absolute Righteousness, which is the source of his absolute standards and values, He is an objective critic, and because he is Absolute Justice, which is the source of his absolute functions, it is impossible for God to be unfair. Because of His perfect Omniscience whenever he judges He has all of the facts and therefore makes perfect decisions regarding blessing or discipline for the recipient. Because God is perfect Love, He also is motivated to perform whatever criticism is necessary on the basis of the complete unemotional objectivity of His Absolute Love.
Punitive Judgment is the result of the rejection by the Christian of His Absolute Love provisions. The Maximum of God’s Absolute Love is Sovereignly expressed through the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on the cross for all human sins and whether it is collectively a nation’s or an individual’s rejection of the Divine Good production of the sacrifice of Christ or simply ignoring it, this is that which results in Eternal Judgment.
Sovereignty & National Judgment
The rise and fall of nations and empires depends totally on the Sovereignty of God and He can either prosper or judge a nation or an individual. When any nation is judged, just as when client nation Israel was judged, there are two sources of that judgment: (Historical Trend #48)
•
The erroneous decisions of believers. (Historical Trend #4, Historical Trend #26,
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• The wise and Sovereign decisions of The Lord Jesus, The Christ. (Historical Trend #1) As a part of Judgment there are two sources of natural disaster, the volition of man and the Sovereignty of God. Therefore, the Sovereignty of God in the function of historical judgment may cause natural disaster, as illustrated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 which destroyed Pompeii, or the destruction of Sodom during the time of Abraham and Lot.
There are two sources of historical disaster also, the volition of man and the Sovereignty of God. The volition of man as a result of his bad decisions, his Cosmic Dynasphere involvement, produces the environment which results in divine judgment, where the Sovereignty of God
administers the 5 Cycles of National Divine Discipline. (Lev 26) The book of Revelation is filled with historical and natural disasters brought on by the volition of man and administered by the Sovereignty of God.
Advantages from the Advantage
No nation can have the advantages, prosperity and blessing by association with mature believers, without the advantage, the pivot of mature believers, who as a result of a saturation of Metabolized Bible Doctrine in the Right Lobe of the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul, possess objective reality. (Historical Trend #34) Therefore, the principle is and always will be in Human History, as goes the believer, so goes the nation. (Historical Trend #2, Historical
Trend #4, Historical Trend #27, Historical Trend #29, Historical Trend #32, Historical Trend
#35) Therefore, the nation without the advantage of the pivot of mature believers, loses the advantages and receives from the Sovereignty of God the Judgment of the cycles of Divine
Discipline as Natural and Historical disaster. The principle for the client nation to God is clearly that when the heritage of a nation is based on the Word of God, Bible Doctrine,
rejection of and apathy toward it result in the destruction of that nation as a result of failure to fulfill national responsibilities toward God.
Sovereignty & Deliverance
Divine Omnipotence is never the issue in deliverance, rather, deliverance is a decision from divine Sovereignty. If deliverance is part of God’s perfect plan, a believer will be rescued; if not, God most certainly has another purpose for the continued life or death of that believer or the continued existence or total destruction of the Client Nation. God WILL deliver the believer physically, either through or from disaster, or He Sovereignly permits the death of the believer and his timing and purpose for either Sovereign Decision is absolutely perfect.
Sovereignty & the Divine Decree
No event is directly effected or caused by the Decree of God. The decree itself only provides in every case that the events contained shall be effected by causes acting in a manner consistent with the nature of the event in question. The Sovereignty of God is bound up in self-determination and the Decree of God. In other words God thought out the history of the human race simultaneously in an instant of time and He put all of history into the Divine Decree, understanding from his omniscience what was going to actually occur and what could possibly occur, so that what would occur WOULD OCCUR based on the free causes acting in
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every situation. Technically, the decree of God is his eternal holy wise and Sovereign purpose comprehending at once all things which ever were or will be in their courses, conditions,
successions and relations and determining their certain futurition. Therefore, the Decree of God is His Eternal and Immutable Sovereign Will regarding the future existence of events which will happen in time and regarding the precise order and manner of their occurrence. The Divine Decree is the layout of the DEMONSTRATION of God to Angelic Creation of the integrated consistency of function in his character and essence. Definitively both the Sovereignty of God and Omniscience of God are the basis for the divine decree. Therefore it is the Sovereign decision God made in eternity past, from His attribute of Sovereignty under the total knowledge of his Omniscience, which established that certain things would actually come into being while other things would not and which are controlled and made subject to His pleasure, producing His glorification (Is
46:10 ; Eph 1:9). The Decree of God regarding the completeness of Human History is based on the Sovereignty and Omniscience of God, because He knows the end from
the beginning. The Sovereignty of God is the self determination of God and is bound by the Essence of God to the Decree of God regarding Human History. Thus the Decree of God
expresses the DEMONSTRATION, the eternal plan and Will of God by which God has rendered
certain all events of Human History, past, present and future according to the actions of the Free Will Volitional Choices of mankind.
Long before human history began. God Sovereignly established a supernatural way of life for the Church Age believer and provided the supernatural means of execution. Predestination implies that the only way for the Christian to fulfill the Plan of God for his life is to properly utilize the assets He has given him. He is free to make good use of these assets or to ignore their great potential.
Sovereignty & Immutability
God cannot ever take back what he has given and in Eternity Past He made Sovereign decisions to provide the details of the DEMONSTRATION for the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial, initially the volitional test of man in the garden, then the mechanics for spiritually dead man to make Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God after the failure in the garden, the 40 spiritual assets for every Church Age believer, the provision of either Divine Discipline or Blessing in time based totally on VOLITIONAL choices by the believer and the provision of Escrow Super – Grace and Escrow Surpassing – Grace Blessings for time and Eternity for the believer who
consistently functions under the mechanics of the Protocol Plan of God, and also condemnation and judgment for those who rejected these mechanics. As a result of these mechanics being aligned with the Absolute Righteousness and Absolute Justice of God there is no compromise for God to give these things because the Christian, through making Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God, has ADJUSTED to the requirements of the Norms and Standards and Scale of Values of the Righteousness of God while the unbeliever has chosen condemnation over eternal blessing from his own free will functions in maladjustment to the Justice of God.
Sovereignty & Love
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Divine Love which is in fact his MOTIVATION. Therefore, God’s love is His perfect motivation for His Sovereignty. Therefore, His Love is compatible with the divine decree and is in fact the motivational basis for the divine decree. God the Father in his perfect Essence could have no contact with sinful man except for judgment and condemnation but in Eternity Past he Sovereignly decided to give to man his Love to a maximum but this was to be based totally on the correct orientation and function of Man’s own volition. God could not ever be sentimental or emotional about this desire because if He did He would compromise his Absolute Righteousness and Perfect Justice. If Man is to receive the Love of God to a maximum he must be able to live forever in order to receive it therefore he must be provided the means of obtaining Eternal Life. This means was provided by the Love of God in the incarnation and Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ at the 1st advent of Christ. (John
3:16) However, neither Love nor Sovereignty can go any further in dealing with man than the Norms and Standards and Scale of Values of the Righteousness of God will approve of allow the Justice of God to then take them. God wants the believer to have maximum blessing in life but these are not possible because He wills it or because He loves the believer and God must submit to his own Absolute Righteousness and only function toward man through his own Perfect Justice when the Righteousness of God is satisfied.
Sovereignty & Omniscience
God is sovereign and his knowledge is not only eternal but absolute and infinite and he has placed a limited amount of it in writing for us in the Canon of Scripture. This superior knowledge is not related to either time or space and because God is omnipotent its application is far superior. Therefore the believer using the Grace Apparatus for Perception can learn superior knowledge by learning Bible Doctrine and by functioning under the Protocol Plan of God and residing in the Divine Dynasphere provided by God he can use the power of God in applying this knowledge.
In the divine attribute of knowledge the first category is self-knowledge. Under the principle that God is eternal, therefore His knowledge is eternal. God is sovereign, therefore His knowledge is infinitely superior to angelic or human perception, as well as angelic or human genius. Time has nothing to do with God’s knowledge. In other words, the future is as perspicuous as the past. God is Himself and under the principle of self-knowledge, therefore, He knows Himself to be beyond comparison with any creature who has ever existed, all whom
He has Himself created. Because God is infinite His knowledge has neither boundary nor
limitation. In contrast human knowledge is and must be related to the past or observation of the present through either rationalism or empiricism, and it is always related to speculation about the future. This is not so with the Omniscient Knowledge of God which for the Christian is revealed to some small extent in the Bible Doctrine of the Canon of Scripture.
Both the Sovereignty and omniscience of God are the basis for the divine decrees. Therefore, God foreknows all events as certainly future, because in eternity past He decree them to so be and made them certainly future. Therefore the origin of historical reality was the Sovereignty, Omniscience and Omnipotence of God. It is the Will of God as the Sovereign choice of God and the mentality of God, His Omniscience, which is inherent in the Essence of God, by which Page #77 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
all things are brought into being and controlled and made subject to His pleasure and glorification. Therefore, the Divine Decree, the Plan of God, the DEMONSTRATION of God,
will succeed no matter how many failures exist in either Human or Angelic Creation.
Sovereignty & Omnipotence
Sovereignty is the power and prerogative of God as creator over creature, as Savior over
regenerate, as ruler over positive believers, and as disciplinarian over negative believers. God can do all He wills to do, but He may not will to do all He can. Therefore, the Omnipotence of God must always be linked with His other attributes, such as, His Sovereignty, His Integrity or Holiness, and of course His eternal purpose as put into the Divine Decree which contains the details of the Plan of God DEMONSTRATION. God’s power and authority are always in a state of coordination with His Sovereignty and His Integrity. When considering the Omnipotence of God it is obviously easy for Sovereignty and Omnipotence to link up and produce a miracle, however, it is difficult for Sovereignty to link with human volitional free will and produce the Will of God. The easiest thing God can do for a human being is to perform a miracle. For Sovereign, Omnipotent God, nothing is easier than a miracle. Miracles express only His Sovereign decision and only require the use of His Omnipotence to produce the desired result; they do not require man’s positive volition or any function of human free will. Blessing, however, is far more difficult for God to bestow because the Christian’s volition is involved, yet that is precisely what God has achieved by creating the Protocol Plan of God. Therefore, being Omnipotent, God is able to do everything His Sovereignty desires in the manner or way in which His Sovereign volition decides, in conformity with His Integrity and Virtue, and in compatibility with His love and Grace policy when the Christian exercises consistent Positive Volitional choices regarding Bible Doctrine and function under the Plan of God.
Therefore, miracles are the monopoly of the Sovereignty of God and NO human being, including the humanity of Jesus Christ, has ever performed a miracle. Only the Sovereignty of God, linked with the Omnipotence of God, including those aspects of the deity of Christ in hypostatic union, can perform miracles. Therefore, the Sovereign will of God is backed up by the Omnipotence of God and God has all the necessary power for the execution of His Sovereign Will decisions. God has the power from Omnipotence to execute His will under all conditions and he He has the Omniscience to know what is a good decision and when to make good decisions. Consequently, God’s Sovereign will and his use of Omnipotent power are not arbitrary, but are compatible with ALL of His other attributes. Therefore, Sovereignty of God is very closely related to the Omnipotence of God and, in fact, one cannot function without the other.
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God is not and cannot be complicated by ignorance or absurdities. Therefore, every Sovereign decision in the use of divine Omnipotence under divine Authority, and also in the delegation of divine power and authority, is perfect. God’s Omnipotent power is incorruptible and immutable therefore, unchangeable. The policy of Omnipotence is always related to the Sovereignty of God and when considering the interrelation of these 2 attributes, God does not choose to do everything by His own immediate power. In the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial, the Sovereignty of God delegates His power and His authority to intermediate agents. These intermediate agents include both angelic and human beings. This in fact was the original role in creation of Lucifer, the bright morning star, in overseeing the day to day functions in creation.
God determines some things to occur unconditionally, but many, if not most, things in history are planned conditionally in order to resolve the prehistoric angelic conflict through the free use of human volition. The things which are planned conditionally are designed to function properly through the obedience of individuals to the priorities and mandates of God. This is the proper function of Christians, the few believers executing the protocol plan of God or through the believers & unbelievers functioning under the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions. Other things which are planned conditionally function according to the Plan of God through the permitted disobedience of individuals, such as believers operating under the law of volitional responsibility, or those who choose to be carnal, or to live consistently within the Cosmic Dynasphere system and also through unbelievers in the same Cosmic Dynasphere involvements. Under this conditional planning there is always divine blessing to the believer or unbeliever who is obedient to the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions and there is fantastic blessing for the believer who executes the Protocol Plan of God and achieves the Tactical Victory in the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial. For the disobedient, the Omnipotence of God functioning under the motivation from the Love of God and Sovereign decision of God, is the power and the source that warns in judgment, condemnation, sentencing and the implementation of Divine Discipline all provided through the Justice of God. Therefore, believers, unbelievers and nations who violate the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions come under the Omnipotent power and Grace policy of God, where Divine Discipline results in them sinking into the morass of history, many disappearing altogether.
Sovereignty & Integrity
Divine Integrity or Holiness is maintained by the incorruptible, immutable, infinite Sovereignty of God plus His perfect Veracity, therefore, Divine Integrity is perfectly virtuous. Divine Integrity is a composite of 3 attributes of the Essence of God which will be examined independently:
• Absolute Love – the motivation of God
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◦ The Love of God is the motivation for every decision regarding all aspects of creation and the expression of the Absolute Righteousness of God.
• Absolute Righteousness – the Norms and Standards, Frame of Reference and Scale of
Values as guidelines for Integrity
◦ The righteousness of God cannot be compromised or contradicted by any decision of
the Sovereignty of God.
• Absolute Justice – the function of Integrity
◦ The Justice of God cannot operate apart from the motivation from the Love of God
and Sovereign decisions of God based on constant alignment as approval or disapproval from the Norms and Standards and Scale of Values of the Righteousness
of God.
Therefore, God’s perfect Integrity or Holiness combines with His Sovereign self-determination to reveal, to define, and to communicate His Perfect Plan, His Sovereign Will, and His Absolute Purpose for mankind, as well as His own Divine Essence to mankind throughout all of Human
History. God has absolute and eternal Integrity which the Bible calls ‘Holiness’ which is defined as absolute Virtue and absolute Integrity. (Ex 15:11, Is 6:3)
Sovereignty & Creation
Creation in its entirety was the expression of Divine Sovereignty in eternity past, it was the FREE WILL decision to CREATE angelic creatures, the universe as their abode and after the
revolution fomented by Satan, Mankind to disprove the allegations of Satan regarding the lack of coordination of function in the Essence of God. It was the Sovereign decision of God the Father to compose a divine plan and later a DEMONSTRATION, and it was the Sovereign
decision of The Lord Jesus, The Christ, God the Son, to bring into existence all of creation. It was the Sovereign decision of God the Holy Spirit to empower and reveal all aspects of the Plan of God for creation to the creatures. Therefore, long before any creature, angelic, human or animal, existed or was invented or the universe was formed, they all did exist in the thinking of God. The potential for the existence of all things considered under God’s Sovereign Will and His Divine Purpose in eternity past first was in His mind and came into being only as a result of their Sovereign Decisions.
Sovereignty & Human History
The Existence of Human History and mankind in Human History is the result of God agreeing
to DEMONSTRATE to all angelic creatures, both elect and fallen, that there cannot be a lack of coordination between any part of his Essence. Satan, having fomented a revolution in angelic history against God, when he was judged by God and condemned to the Lake of Fire for
eternity finally had a lucid moment of thought which burrowed through his phenomenal arrogance. He finally realized that being Omniscient, God could not be argued with because he KNEW everything. He decided to use his genius to try to bring God down to his level of
imperfection and accused God of NOT considering his absolute Love when condemning his
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the actual reason for the historic existence of the Human Race.
It has been revealed to man in Scripture that angelic convocations are held periodically in heaven to consider historical trends. (Job 1:6-12; Job 2:1-7; Zech 3:1-7) Therefore, man, being the subject in the DEMONSTRATION of God, is constantly under close scrutiny in Human
History by both elect and fallen angels. (1Cor 4:9) It has also been revealed that since the fall of Adam, Satan is the ruler of this world but that The Lord Jesus, The Christ, the creator, is still the One who controls the DEMONSTRATION, human history, (H
istorical Trend # 1 ) under
the Plan of God to clearly illustrate the exact function of his essence and that both influence earthly events. However, The Lord Jesus, The Christ always has the Sovereign power to
overrule the machinations of Satan and stupidity of man (Ps 33:10-19, Ps 135:5-6) and preserve mankind. Satan frequently motivates and organizes the movement of disruptive militant forces in history. However, The Lord Jesus, The Christ, always maintains control over the affairs of mankind in order to prevent mankind’s self destruction and ensure completion of the DEMONSTRATION. As the Omnipotent Creator and Sovereign God of the universe, He alone has the ability and thus the final word to overrule or to counter every Satanic strategy and every Arrogant Human endeavor.
The Lord Jesus, The Christ controls history, however, He does so in compatibility with human freedom and He does not ever contradict or coerce human freedom. The Sovereignty of God
and the freewill of man are related, not contradictory. He controls history, over, under, around and through the volitional choices of mankind toward Absolute Truth and choosing the Plan of God vs the Plan of Satan. (Ps 93:1) Therefore, human history will continue to exist in spite of the saturation of Evil in man and his propensity to destroy himself using a variety of sophisticated weapons and both Arrogant and Antagonistic Ideals. Human History will not end and the human race will continue to exist and not be destroyed until God sees fit to terminate human history when his DEMONSTRATION has been completed. This has been revealed in scripture to be going to occur at the end of the Millennial reign of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on this earth supplanting Satan as Ruler of this world. Therefore, as a part of the Grace Plan of God the Human Race will perpetuate itself physically and God has guaranteed that the
Human Race will exist throughout Human History to the this conclusion of the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial. Therefore, because of the Sovereignty of God, there will always be people for the next generation. For the nations of man in Human History, if the pivot of mature believers is large enough the client nation is prospered and delivered either through or from historical crises and the option here resides totally with the Sovereignty of God.
Sovereignty & Dispensations
God the Father is the Sovereign of dispensations. In this dispensation of the Church Age there exists the record-holders of all time in two areas, the worst sinner and the one who knew more doctrine than any other individual in ALL of Human History. Satan is the ruler of the world since the Fall of Adam in the garden, however God the Father is the Sovereign of the dispensations of history, the ages or administrative periods of history, and The Lord Jesus, The Christ Sovereignly controls Human History. As the Sovereign of the dispensations, having perfect absolute Integrity, Veracity, Righteousness and Justice, God the Father cannot be Page #81 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
corrupted by Evil, the Policy and Plan of Satan. He is totally in opposition to Evil, which, as the Plan of Satan, is totally antithetical to the Grace Plan of God. It is impossible for God to be corrupted or in fact influenced in any way by any creature, and the greatest of all creatures was Satan, the developer of the principles of Evil. God DEMONSTRATES the exercising of His Sovereignty without jeopardizing or compromising His essence to all angelic creatures throughout the entirety of Human History in a variety of different ways under vastly different conditions of the varying dispensations of Human History. (1Tim 1:17)
Sovereignty & Human Life
The origin of human life and subsequent depravity of human existence have both theological and personal repercussions. Passed down mediately to each individual through procreation and genetics is biological life, including a format soul and an inherent genetic nature to produce, particularly SIN. At the physical birth of a human infant, biological life emerges from the womb of the mother, a body with the potential to house Soul Life. At this very point, God creates soul life and imputes that soul life to the newly emerged biological life, thus forming Human Life in a human being. This is termed “Selection”, a technical term related to the divine imputation of human life at the point of physical birth. Therefore, at physical birth Sovereign, Omnipotent God imparts immortal soul life to mortal biological life. There is no such thing as a viable fetus. The Sovereignty of God decides whether the biological life of the fetus is going to be occupied by soul life or not, because God, in His Sovereignty, creates soul life in every case. Therefore, the existence of every human being in all of Human History has been, is, and will continue to be, a matter of the Sovereignty of God in the creation of soul life and in the giving [or breathing (heb) Neshemah] of soul life into biological life, which is the formation of human life. In the original creation of Adam, God did not create soul life and impute it to biological life until the body was completed to the point of being able to function independently on the earth as an adult human. When God gave soul life to Adam, He set the pattern for imparting all human life subsequent to the Garden. The Human Body and Human Soul are joined by God at physical birth and therefore, the Human Body and Human Soul can
only be separated by God at physical death. The Human Body disintegrates and returns to the elements of the earth while the Human Soul will continue to exist forever. At the time the justice of God imputes Soul Life to the corrupted Biological Life, the Human Body, Adam’s original sin is imputed to the dormant genetic Old Sin Nature. This results in a physically alive human being who is spiritually dead, unable to have any contact or relationship with the perfection of God. He possesses human life but he needs to be regenerated, to receive a newly created Human Spirit, called being born again, to enable him to possess eternal spiritual life and be able to obtain a relationship with God. The endless life of the soul goes on in the eternal state with God in a resurrection body for the believer in The Lord Jesus, The Christ.
For the unbeliever, the endless life of soul life goes on forever in Hades and the Lake of Fire.
For every member of the Human Race who has made Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of
God and thereby obtained eternal salvation, at physical death, soul life plus the human spirit leave the body and enter into the presence of the Lord. Just as when God decides to give soul life to the newborn fetal human body to produce human life, the decision as to when the
separation of body, Soul and Human Spirit occurs is totally a matter of the Sovereignty of God.
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huge inequalities produced in biological life. (Eccl 12:7) Because of the Fall of Adam in the garden the genetics of the Human Body were corrupted and this corruption is transmitted by the male gametes in fertilization of the female gamete during copulation. This results in corruption of the Biological Life resulting in Spiritual Death at the very point of physical birth. However, as a result of the virgin pregnancy of the mother of Jesus of Bethlehem, the fertilization of her ovum was a miraculous event caused by God the Holy Spirit so that there was no transmission of the old sin nature from a male gamete.
Therefore, at the point of the virgin birth, when God the Father made the decision to impute soul life to the Biological Life of Jesus, He did so knowing that thirty-three years later He would have to impute to that same person, all the sins of the human race and judge every one of them and cause his Substitutionary Spiritual Death to occur to provide the potential for eternal salvation for mankind. This was a tremendous and undesirable decision from the Sovereignty of God the Father.
Every individual, certainly and especially every Christian should always remember that God did not have to impute soul life to him at birth but He did. Therefore, life is designed to have a special meaning, purpose, and definition for everyone, regardless of environment or circumstances, historical prosperity or historical adversity. The incredible fact is that when a person is born he receives the imputation of human life from God, when he might have been a squirrel, a pig, a cat, or any other type of lower creation, or forever non-existent. This infers that God selected him as category homo sapien, a rational creature, when He imputed soul life to him. Therefore, it becomes clear that God has a purpose for every member of the human race with no exceptions, for both Christians and unbelievers. Therefore, when God selects, He does so from His perfect decision-making process, which is called Sovereignty.
Therefore, God personally gives all life and there are biological functions that God designed as the means of passing traits and characteristics from parents to children, but human life is not simply biological. As He did to Adam so He does to all human beings, God personally imputes soul life. Even after the creation of the original human parents, no human life could exist until God Sovereignly decided to impute it when the fetus emerges from the womb. Furthermore, no life ever exists without a home in which to live; thus, all imputations of life must be real imputations to a residence, a BODY in which it, Soul Life, may be housed.
Sovereignty & The Believer’s Life
The principle of Living Grace is the only means by which the believer can remain alive in the devil’s world. What good is it to have a contract unless one can stay alive to see it fulfilled and benefit from it? Satan would destroy the Christian at the moment of his deciding to make Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God and join the Royal Family of God, IF he could. In fact, he would like to totally eradicate the entire Royal Family of God from this earth, even as he would like to rid the earth of the Jew. The Jew must be destroyed, says Satan, because God has unconditional promises to the Jew and destroying them would prevent God from fulfilling His promises. But God has and is going to keep the Jew alive in spite of ALL Satanic efforts. The very same thing is true of the Royal Family of God and He guarantees under Page #83 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
paragraph two of the new contract to keep every Church Age believer alive in the devil’s world for a determined length of time. The length of time is strictly a matter of the Sovereign policy of God so that how long the Church Age believer lives is strictly a matter of His Sovereign decision.
Sovereignty & Suffering
God retains Sovereign control over individual and collective suffering in the Human Race. He totally controls the undeserved suffering of the believer in the protocol plan, which He will administer only to the right believer at the right time and to the right degree. God, not self, administers this suffering for the intensified blessing and increased momentum in the advance of the Spiritual Life in the believer. Human suffering individually and collectively can be the result of either Self Induced Misery or Divine Discipline under the Law of Volitional Responsibility and is based on the functions of human volition toward the Plan of God but is still the Sovereign decision of God as to its intensity, duration and time of occurrence. In order for the believer to have consistent advancement in the Spiritual Life he must consistently engage in the accumulation of Metabolized Bible Doctrine into his Right Lobe of the Soul but he also NEEDS Providential Preventative Momentum Testing (5 Categories) suffering to TEST his ability to use that Bible Doctrine to solve problems and endure situations and circumstances in his life. Therefore, it is obvious that God has a unique plan for each believer. His timing is perfect for every individual and He makes the sovereign decision to nurture the positive Christian’s growth with the right kind, the right intensity, and the right duration of both suffering and prosperity. Too much or too little adversity, too much or too little prosperity, the wrong combination, or the wrong timing would retard the believer’s spiritual progress and might result in his NOT achieving a tactical victory in the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial.
Sovereignty & Sin
Logically, God cannot be involved in Sin or Human Good because Sin is the result of involvement in Evil and Human Good is the desired production of Evil and EVIL is the Plan
and Policy of Satan to rule this world. Therefore anything involving EVIL cannot be a part of the totally antithetical Grace Plan of God. Therefore, the Sovereignty of God cannot sin, tempt, solicit or condone sin, human good, or any other aspect or function of Evil because that was developed as and resulted in the development by Satan of the Revolutionary plans against God. Being Immutable, the Sovereignty of God cannot change his mind about sin, therefore, Sovereignty would and could never choose to accept sin, and the Righteousness of God could never accept such a decision if it were to be attempted. The perfect Righteousness of God, God’s conscience so to speak, would always reject sin and all temptation and there is nothing in the entire Essence of God compatible with temptation or sin. (James 1:3) In addition, the Sovereignty of God cannot in any way tempt creatures to sin. Furthermore, it is absolutely ludicrous to think that God would tempt or condone anyone producing Human Good, since this is the desired production of the Plan of Satan based on Evil. It is ultimately ignorance which results in the production of human good deed efforts to help assuage the misery of mankind.
Therefore, the Sovereignty of God never makes any decisions to condone ignorance of Bible
doctrine.
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God did not Create Sin, personal sin is the RESULT of the decisions of Adam and Eve to leave God’s plan for Satan’s plan which corrupted the Genetics of the Human Body resulting in the inherent tendency to produce VIOLATIONS of the Standards, Values or Character of God. God is not the author of sin and God is not the author of temptation (James 1:13) and the scripture directly states that God did not create sin, and that God cannot tempt to sin, but in addition Divine Essence cannot be involved in any way with sin except to JUDGE it. Sin is a violation of the Mandates, Priorities and Principles of the Plan of God, Norms and Standards, Scale of Values and Frame of Reference of God and the Character of God. Because God is Sovereign, He CHOOSES not to sin. Because He is Absolute Perfect Righteousness, his perfect standards and values will not allow him to sin. Being Absolute Perfect Justice, perfect fairness, He cannot sin which would result in his being unfair. He is perfect Immutability, he cannot change any aspect of his essence and thereby become a sinner. He is eternal and infinite and will therefore always be sinless and perfect and never could He be anything else. Therefore, God did not and could not create anything that was a part of Evil which was in fact totally the creation of the arrogantly distorted Genius of Lucifer. God, based on his Love and as a result of his Sovereign Decisions in the Divine Decree, provides for the entire Human Race to be forgiven and cleansed of sin if they choose to function in the Plan of God, (John 3:16, 1John
1:9) By acknowledging one’s personal sins already judged by God the Father in the humanity of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on the cross, which penalties were paid for in total by his
Substitutionary Spiritual Death, the Sovereignty of God has chosen to cleanse the individual of all sins, this is the Rebound Procedure.
Sovereignty & Death
There comes a time in the life of every believer when the function of his free will is shut down. This time is the beginning of the death shadowed valley (Ps 23:4) for that believer.
The Sovereignty of God has chosen, in Eternity Past, the time, the place, and the manner of the believer’s death. (Ps 68:19-20, 1Cor 15:55-57) The Sovereignty of God has also chosen what happens to the believer after his physical death, being absent from the body and face to face with the Lord. Additionally, the Sovereignty of God has chosen the time, the place, and the manner of the believer’s resurrection. Therefore, the Sovereignty of God has chosen the eternal state for the believer. Consequently, the believer has only a short time on this earth, only a portion of his actual lifetime, between the moment of salvation and the moment of his death, to glorify God by the proper use of human volition. When it comes time for the believer to die, the time, place, and manner of his dying have been determined by decisions from the Sovereignty and Love of God. The Sovereignty of God as part of the Essence and
character of God is PERFECT! IF, and this is ABSOLUTE TRUTH, his Sovereignty is perfect
then, logically, God cannot make a bad decision. He has never made a mistake or a bad or
unfair decision, especially with regard to the believer’s living, and, therefore, He has never made a mistake or bad or unfair decision with regard to the time, the place, and the way in which each and every believer will depart from this life. Therefore, DEATH is where human volition ends and divine volition is paramount. (1Cor 15:55-57, Job 1:21, Ps 116:15) While Death is God’s Victory he gives that victory to every believer by choosing for him the Time, Place and Manner of his Death. Obviously then, the Grace Policy of God extends to the Page #85 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
dying of every believer. The believer is Eternally Saved by Grace (Eph 2:8-9), and he Dies by Grace. (1Cor 15:57) In the living phase of the Protocol Plan of God, the emphasis is on the believer’s volition in response to Bible doctrine and thus his life under the Grace policy of God.
While the Church Age believer uses his own volition to accept or reject Bible Doctrine and thus to become a winner or looser believer regarding the Spiritual Life, when it comes to dying it is totally the decision of the Sovereignty of God. Therefore, the Dying of the Church age believer is a matter of the Love, Wisdom, Justice, Fairness and Grace of God. For the believer who reaches Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God and achieves the tactical victory in the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial, the ULTIMATE in living is development of Advanced Personal Love for God as Occupation with the Person of The Lord Jesus, The Christ the 10th Problem
Solving Device. This is called the fullness of blessing from God. (Eph 3:19) For this believer, the ultimate in Dying is that Death is God’s Victory and His decision so that the believer in Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God and as a part of his Escrow Super – Grace blessings will leave this world under the last opportunity for God to bless him with Dying Grace.
However, this is not necessarily freedom from physical pain, but pain is negated as a factor by the Grace provision in dying.
The absolute truth of concerning the end of the life of the believer is in Job 1:21 and Rom
14:8. The Believer cannot be removed from this life apart from agreement by the Sovereignty of God. Therefore, until the Sovereignty of God makes that decision nothing can remove that believer from this life. However once the Lord makes that decision NOTHING can keep that
believer on this earth. All the characteristics of the Essence of God combine in giving the victory over death to the church age believer by deciding the time manner and place of the believers death. In all matters of Life and Death TIMING is vitally important. Because God is perfect, his timing regarding our dying is also perfect, therefore, in each and ever case of the death of a believer, “Father Knows Best”, God the Father that is. The Sovereign decision he makes about a believer’s death should never be questioned or second guessed. Those who are left behind have no right to question the Wisdom, the Justice, the Grace, or the perfect timing of God in the death of someone dearly loved. (Ps 116:15, Job 1:21, Rev 21:4, Job 5:19-27) Expressing or feeling bitterness over the death of a loved one is entanglement in Arrogance and tantamount to blaspheme, maligning the Essence of God. The death of a loved one does not stop history, therefore, life must go on for the living. Mourning one’s personal loss of a loved one is completely Normal, but bitterness and resentment toward God is Blaspheme. One cannot resent others who seem to be having a good time in life while he is mourning for the loss of a loved one. Comfort in time of sorrow must come from the Metabolized Bible Doctrine accumulated in the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul. Grief must be a private matter between the believer and the Lord. Always remember, when God makes the decision regarding Death, he does so by always having those in mind who are left behind. Only the ones who
have stability in life will live their life to the fulfillment of the Spiritual Life and they only, because of having a saturation of Metabolized Bible Doctrine in their Stream of Consciousness of their Soul, will derive comfort in that Death. The believer has no right to bitterness, anger, or abnormal grief and it is a saturation of Metabolized Bible Doctrine which gives him the power to rejoice over those loved ones who are in the presence of the Lord. His loneliness, sorrow, grief, memories, and ultimately comfort because of their happiness in heaven belongs Page #86 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
ONLY to him. Having reached Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God and having developed advanced Personal Love for God as Occupation with the Person of The Lord Jesus,
The Christ, the mature believer can remember the profit of death. However, the Believers in a state of carnality, entangled in the Arrogance or Antagonism complexes and in the stages of reversionism cannot be distinguished from the unbeliever expressing hopelessness at the loss of their loved ones and in their failure to recognize these principles.
The believer remains alive in this world ruled by God’s greatest antagonist, Satan, only by the courtesy and Grace provision of God. When He, God, decides that it is time for the individual believer to LEAVE this life, MEDICINE has never found a way to counter that Sovereign Decision of God. Therefore, the believer WILL leave this world at that point NO MATTER
WHAT MEDICAL SCIENCE DOES. One may be in the best health but medicine cannot keep
him here and when it is time to depart this life there is nothing which will keep him here. It is also very important for the believer to realize that the OPPOSITE side of this view is also quite pertinent and ABSOLUTELY true. The believer is on this earth in this Church Age as a member of the Royal Family of God and he is to LIVE like royalty and he must enjoy life and live it to the fullest because that is why God has kept him alive in the first place. The point is that UNTIL it is time for the believer to depart this life under the Grace Policies and Plan of God based on the Sovereign Decision of God, NOTHING CAN REMOVE HIM, EVER! Therefore the Christian Way of Life is pretty simple and the only time it gets complex and mixed up is when the believer gets entangled with EVIL, the Plan of Satan, and when that occurs he is confused all the time.
Developing and maintaining spiritual momentum in order to advance in the Spiritual Life and ultimately reach Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God is crucial so that dying for this believer WILL BE better than Living. By reaching and maintaining Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God or moving on to Advanced Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God the believer WILL have an amazing experience in dying, in fact, the most amazing thing of life.
Maintaining momentum for advancement in the Spiritual Life is the primary issue of the Christian Way of Life no matter the problems one may face, because the farther he goes into completion of the Protocol Plan of God, the greater is going to be his dying experience. Each believer dies for himself in the respect that no matter who is around him, he WILL die alone, no matter how sympathetic they may be. Christians are to Live for the Lord and they also die for the Lord in the Plan of God and both have the potential to result in glorifying God, therefore, this will be the greatest happiness in life. Therefore, DEATH can occur at any time and anywhere, however, the conditions under which the believer will die will be glorious and wonderful under the timing and Sovereignty of God. Therefore, the believer in Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God can have glorious a death in any situation and the only essential thing needed to ensure this is spiritual momentum from consistency and persistence in the Perception, Cognition, Inculcation & Metabolization of Bible Doctrine.
No matter how bad things may become in life, no matter how much pressure or adversity has
overcome one, as long as GOD wants him in this life All of Hell and All of the communists on this earth cannot take him out of this life. The fact for the believer is that every day he lives Page #87 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
in this life is the direct result of DIVINE Sovereign PERMISSION. When one discovers he has some terminal disease he should not panic and try all the tricks and gimmicks for healing.