March 23, 2026
The Power of Faith - How Jesus Healed
In this episode we discuss the power of faith and how it played a part in the healing phenomena when Jesus began his second tour (his first real tour accompanied by his newly-trained Apostles and the 100 or so Disciples who followed him.
In this paper (Paper 149), the Revelators explain to us how the power faith was involved with the healing Jesus was able to perform.
Plus, what's trending on Social Media and some of the discussions people are having that are truly inspiring.
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Well, it's spring and it feels
different.
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Feels great.
Feels like we got through a
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winter of uncertainty.
Perhaps.
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Maybe there's a light at the end
of the tunnel.
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It's good to have you here.
On the Rancho Radio podcast, we
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talked about the 5th epical
Revelation because it's so
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important.
It's the biggest secret out in
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the open in the last, I don't
know, I don't know, couple
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thousand years maybe.
And we're really getting into it
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and I am encouraged by all the
discussion going on in social
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media.
It's a lot of deep discussion
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going on.
If you follow it, we have some
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of it.
We're going to read actually
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from Paper 149.
And so there's another section
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of the book which talks about
the miracles of Christ, because
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this is the second preaching
tour that's underway in my mind,
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it really opens up the door to
the the question of faith.
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So this this segment, this
episode is really about the
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power of faith.
So let me read from this paper
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and again, it's 149 Section 1.
And then we'll stop along the
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way and and get your opinion and
I'll share some of my insights.
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It reads.
By the time the camp at Beseda
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had been broken up, the fame of
Jesus, particularly as a healer,
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had spread to all parts of
Palestine and through all of
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Syria and the surrounding
countries.
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For weeks after they left
Beseda, the sick continued to
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arrive and when they did not
find the Master, they would go
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in search of him.
On this tour, Jesus did not
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deliberately perform any
so-called miracles of healing.
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Nevertheless, scores of
afflicted found restoration of
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health and happiness as a result
of the reconstructive power of
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the intense faith which impelled
them to seek for healing.
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The reconstructive power of
faith?
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Hang on to that for a little
bit.
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Quote.
There began to appear about the
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time of this mission and
continue throughout the
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remainder of Jesus's life on
earth, a peculiar and
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unexplained series of healing
phenomena.
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In the course of this three
months tour, more than 100 men,
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women and children from Judea,
Adumia, Galilee, Syria, Tyre and
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Sudan and from beyond the Jordan
were beneficiaries of this
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unconscious healing by Jesus
returning to their homes, added
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to the enlargement of Jesus's
fame.
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And this they did,
notwithstanding that Jesus
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would, every time he observed
one of these cases of
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spontaneous healing, directly
charge the beneficiary.
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To quote, tell no man.
It was never revealed to us just
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what occurred in these cases of
spontaneous or unconscious
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healing.
The Master never explained to
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His apostles how these healings
were affected, other than on one
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occasion He remarked when
touched by an ailing child.
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I perceive that life has gone
forth from me.
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Quote.
In the absence of direct word
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from the Master regarding the
nature, it would be permissible
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to record our opinion that,
being the revelators of such
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healing phenomena.
We believe that many of these
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apparent miracles of healing
were the result of the
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coexistence of the following
three powerful, potent and
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associated influences #1 the
presence of strong, dominant and
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living faith in the hearts of
the human beings who
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persistently sought healing.
Together with the fact that such
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healing was desired for the
spiritual benefits rather than
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for purely physical restoration
#2 the existence of the great
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sympathy and compassion of the
Incarnated and mercy dominated
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Creator, Son of God, who
actually possessed the unlimited
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and timeless creative healing
powers and prerogatives. 3 Along
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with the faith of the creature
and the life of the Creator, it
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should also be noted that this
God Man was the personified
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expression of the Father's will.
If in the contact of the human
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need and the divine power to
meet it, the Father did not
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will, otherwise the two became
one, and the healing occurred
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unconsciously to the human
Jesus, but was immediately
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recognized by His divine nature.
Many of these cases of healings
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must be found in a great law
which has long been known to us,
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namely what the Creator's Son
desires and the Eternal Father
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wills is, and they write quote
in the personal presence of
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Jesus.
Certain forms of profound human
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faith were literally and truly
compelling in the manifestation
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of healing.
Many others sought healing for
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holy, selfish purposes.
They write.
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For example, a rich widow of
Tyre continued to offer more and
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more money to Jesus, as if the
power of God were something to
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be purchased by the highest
bidder.
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But never would she become
interested in the gospel of the
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Kingdom.
It was only the cure of her
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physical ailments that she
sought.
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And that paragraph speaks to
motives.
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The rich widow wanted to be
healed, but her motive was
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self-centered and had little to
do with spiritual desire.
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By the way, in the Urantia book,
the word faith appears 750 times
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Quote.
Only the personal experience of
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the faith sons of the Heavenly
Father can affect the actual
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spiritual realization of the
personality of God.
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End Quote.
In another quote, it says in its
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true essence, religion is a
faith, trust in the goodness of
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God.
God could be great and absolute,
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somehow even intelligent and
personal and philosophy.
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But in religion, God must also
be moral.
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It must also be good.
The entire experience of
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adjuster or spirit communion is
1 involving moral status, mental
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motivation, and spiritual
experience as pertains to mortal
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minds.
Among the mortals everywhere is
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this.
We are also told mind alone
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cannot survive mortal death
without spirit.
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Mortal mind without immortal
spirit cannot survive.
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They say the mind of man is
mortal.
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Only the bestowed spirit is
immortal.
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That statement literally means
that your faith does save you
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from material cessation.
It does save you from mortal
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death.
Faith.
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How many times did we hear from
even Melchizedek who taught
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Abraham by your faith you are
saved.
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In the Bible and churches
everywhere they tell us it is
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your faith in God that saves
you.
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Jesus said that many times to
his apostles and his followers.
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It is your faith that saves you.
And faith, what do they refer to
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it?
Before reconstructive power,
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It's tapping into spiritual
energy.
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So we've looked at Jesus's
miracles and how faith is an
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adjutant factor, and we've also
differentiated between mind and
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spirit and how faith connects
the two.
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Faith is a willful act of the
mortal mind in willing
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partnership with the Spirit to
join in that eternal adventure.
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And I sort of think of it as
wings.
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Faith are wings.
It allows the eagle to soar just
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like the faith of a man makes it
possible for the miracle of
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Jesus to have healed them.
We, we spent a little bit of
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time on on faith.
And I also want to give
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attention to something that's
kind of new to this program.
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We haven't done it a long time,
but with all of the different
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conversations that are going on
in social media, and that's what
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they really are.
They're they're conversations.
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I want to roll out a couple of
interesting conversations that
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caught my eye.
And here this week, here's one
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from author Eric Metaxas.
I I know Eric, I've worked with
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him briefly and he's a great
writer, great Christian, always
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has interesting things to say.
And he's interviewing A
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theologian about Adam and Eve.
Take a listen.
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Adam and Eve, what's your best
guess when they were alive?
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Well, the best scientific date
we got is 150,000 years ago
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±100,000 years.
We don't have a really good It's
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because there's no radioisotope
clock between 50,000 years ago
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and 250,000 years ago.
We have to use indirect methods
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and often in the literature they
give you the statistical error,
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but they don't give you the
systematic error, which could
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shift things by 50,000 years up
or down.
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So I actually argue we get a
more accurate date from the
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Bible than we get from the
scientific evidence.
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And we also get more of an
accurate date from the Urantia
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book than from the Bible because
they put it at about where he
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pegs it around 50,000 years ago.
Actually, the Urantia book says
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about 40,000 years ago, that's
when Adam and Eve arrived.
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They were the third epical
revelation of revelatory truth.
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And their blood survives in most
of humanity, probably all of
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humanity on some level.
So they are still a big
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contributing factor to our,
maybe not as much as our
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spiritual development, but
certainly our intellectual
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development.
OK, here's an interesting one
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for those of you who listen to
Tucker Carlson.
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This is him having a discussion
about the Nephilim.
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You ever had conversations about
the mighty men of old, men of
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old mentioned in the Bible and
the giants of those days
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mentioned in Genesis?
So there's still the question of
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not only who were the Nephilim,
but what were the Nephilim?
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And here's a little interesting
conversation.
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And then I'll give you a Uranti
book footnote at the end of
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this, because we know, of
course, hold on, here we go.
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The Nephilim, as described in
Genesis 6, this race of giant
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people who are hybrid between
the spirit world and the human
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world, and they're the reason
that God sent the flood.
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This is all described in
Genesis.
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They were giants.
The claim from some people is
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that's actually real, and the
fossil record proves it's real
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because giant bones, human
bones, have been found through
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the years and that some or a lot
of them wind up with the
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Smithsonian where their
existence was suppressed.
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Yes.
You're saying there's actually
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documentary evidence that that
may be true?
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Yes, there's documentary
evidence that Smithsonian has
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received bones and large coffins
from that that long ago.
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We're talking maybe the 50s or
60s.
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And there was one case where the
Smithsonian said we did receive
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the bones, but we don't know
where they are.
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Well, if you received human
bones that were larger than any
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human bones ever described in
literature ever, other than
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Genesis 6.
Kind of a big story.
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And you see that story repeated
over and over again, especially
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in America, for hundreds of
years.
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OK, so here the quote from 77,
Section 2, paragraph three of
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the Urantia book where it tells
us specifically who the Nephilim
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are.
And you can take this to the
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bank, share it with all your
Christian friends if you ever
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get into an interesting
conversation.
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And Tucker Carlson, if you
happen to perchance be listening
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to this podcast, you can find
what I'm reading in paper 77
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from the Urantia book where it
talks about the post rebellion
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era on Urantia.
This is after the fall of the
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Calagasia 100.
And while I'm not sure about
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this, I, I tend to believe that
the Anunnaki were probably
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descendants of the 100.
And and the reason for that is
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because the root word of
Anunnaki were the Anon, which
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means 1.
And I relate that to the 100.
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And we know the 100 went on
after the rebellion, after
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Kalagastia, you know, threw in
his lot with Lucifer and Satan.
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And this was what 250,000 years
ago when there was war in
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heaven?
And the result of that is
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described in paper 77 of the
Urantia book.
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The post rebellion era on
Urantia witnessed many unusual
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happenings.
A great civilization, the
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culture of the Dalmatia was
going to pieces, the Nephilim.
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And they specifically used the
word Nephilim.
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And then in parentheses they
write the Nodites, which is
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derivative of the land of Nod
from Genesis, where Cain is
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banished, to the land of Nod
where the Nephilim live.
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Where on earth in those days and
when these sons of gods went
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into the daughters of men and
they bore them children, their
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children were the mighty men of
old, the descendants of the
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Nephilim, the men of renown.
And while hardly the sons of
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God, the staff and their early
descendants were so regarded,
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regarded by the evolutionary
mortals of those distant days.
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Interesting.
A pastor is asked.
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This is one of my favorites that
I've seen recently.
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What is God?
Can you explain that to me?
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I am confused being
philosophically consistent and
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being very honest person.
I'm sure you can tell me where
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God came from.
Please try to clarify how you
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can figure that a spiritual
force can have an impact on a
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material universe to create it.
All right, your question, where
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did God come from?
Assumes that you're thinking of
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the wrong.
Obviously it displays that
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you're thinking of the wrong God
because the God of the Bible is
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not affected by time, space, or
matter.
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If he's, if he's affected by
time, space, or matter, he's not
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God.
Time, space, and matter is what
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we call a continuum.
All of them have to come into
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existence at the same instant.
Because if there were a matter
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but no space, where would you
put it?
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If there were a matter in space
but no time, when would you put
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it?
You cannot have time, space, or
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matter independently.
They have to come into existence
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simultaneously.
The Bible answers that in 10
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words.
In the beginning, there's time.
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God created the heaven, space,
and the earth.
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There's matter, so you have
time, space.
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Matter created a Trinity of
trinities there.
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Just as you know, time is past,
present, future.
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Space has length, width, height.
Matter has solid, liquid gas.
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You have a Trinity of trinities
created instantaneously, and the
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God who created them has to be
outside of them.
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If he's limited by time, he's
not God.
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The guy who created this
computer is not in the computer.
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He's not running around and
they're changing the numbers on
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the screen.
OK, the God who created this
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universe is outside of the
universe.
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He's above it, beyond it, in it,
through it.
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He's he's unaffected by it.
So for and the I the concept
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that of a spiritual force cannot
have any effect on a material
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body.
Well, then I guess you'd have to
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explain to me things like
emotions and love and hatred and
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envy and jealousy and and
rationality.
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I mean if your brain is just a
random collection of chemicals
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that form by chance over
billions of years, how on earth
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can you trust your own reasoning
processes and the thoughts that
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you you think?
OK so your your question where
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did God come from is assuming a
limited God and that's your
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problem.
The God that I worship is not
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limited by time, space, or
matter.
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If I could fit the infinite God
in my 3 LB brain he would not be
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worth worshipping that's for
certain.
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So that's the God that I
worship.
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Thank you.
That's a good good and you know,
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if anyone a good starting place
for the rancher book.
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I've always, I believe, were the
first five papers if you if you
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if that part grabs you, then the
rest of the book is pure joy and
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from paper 2, Section 1,
dovetailing on what this pastor
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just said quote how pure and
beautiful, how deep and
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unfathomable is the supernal
ancestor of all things.
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The Infinite is most excellent
in that He imparts himself to
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men, is the beginning and the
end, the Father of every good
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and perfect purpose.
With God all things are
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possible.
The Eternal Creator is the cause
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of causes.
He stands outside of time,
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space.
He is the creator of time and
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space and matter as well.
Last note.
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This I found to be inspiring.
Trust God.
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Trust where you're being pulled.
Trust what you're being asked to
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let go of.
It's not the faint of heart that
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follow this narrow path.
It's the courageous soldier that
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knows that God is going to work
through you and impact many,
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many people on this planet.
So stay focused.
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Stay on this narrow path.
You're deeply, deeply loved.
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Say, if you like what you're
hearing on this podcast, the
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best thing you can do to thank
me is to share it with another
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truth seeker.
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And that's it for this episode.
We'll see you again here on the
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Rancho Radio Podcast where we
celebrate the 5th epical
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revelation.
Music.
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Well, it's spring and it feels
different.
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Feels great.
Feels like we got through a
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winter of uncertainty.
Perhaps.
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Maybe there's a light at the end
of the tunnel.
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It's good to have you here.
On the Rancho Radio podcast, we
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talked about the 5th epical
Revelation because it's so
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important.
It's the biggest secret out in
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the open in the last, I don't
know, I don't know, couple
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thousand years maybe.
And we're really getting into it
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and I am encouraged by all the
discussion going on in social
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media.
It's a lot of deep discussion
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going on.
If you follow it, we have some
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of it.
We're going to read actually
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from Paper 149.
And so there's another section
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of the book which talks about
the miracles of Christ, because
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this is the second preaching
tour that's underway in my mind,
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it really opens up the door to
the the question of faith.
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So this this segment, this
episode is really about the
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power of faith.
So let me read from this paper
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and again, it's 149 Section 1.
And then we'll stop along the
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way and and get your opinion and
I'll share some of my insights.
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It reads.
By the time the camp at Beseda
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had been broken up, the fame of
Jesus, particularly as a healer,
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had spread to all parts of
Palestine and through all of
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Syria and the surrounding
countries.
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For weeks after they left
Beseda, the sick continued to
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arrive and when they did not
find the Master, they would go
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in search of him.
On this tour, Jesus did not
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deliberately perform any
so-called miracles of healing.
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Nevertheless, scores of
afflicted found restoration of
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health and happiness as a result
of the reconstructive power of
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the intense faith which impelled
them to seek for healing.
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The reconstructive power of
faith?
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Hang on to that for a little
bit.
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Quote.
There began to appear about the
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time of this mission and
continue throughout the
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remainder of Jesus's life on
earth, a peculiar and
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unexplained series of healing
phenomena.
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In the course of this three
months tour, more than 100 men,
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women and children from Judea,
Adumia, Galilee, Syria, Tyre and
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Sudan and from beyond the Jordan
were beneficiaries of this
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unconscious healing by Jesus
returning to their homes, added
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to the enlargement of Jesus's
fame.
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And this they did,
notwithstanding that Jesus
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would, every time he observed
one of these cases of
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spontaneous healing, directly
charge the beneficiary.
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To quote, tell no man.
It was never revealed to us just
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what occurred in these cases of
spontaneous or unconscious
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healing.
The Master never explained to
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His apostles how these healings
were affected, other than on one
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occasion He remarked when
touched by an ailing child.
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I perceive that life has gone
forth from me.
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Quote.
In the absence of direct word
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from the Master regarding the
nature, it would be permissible
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to record our opinion that,
being the revelators of such
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healing phenomena.
We believe that many of these
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apparent miracles of healing
were the result of the
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coexistence of the following
three powerful, potent and
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associated influences #1 the
presence of strong, dominant and
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living faith in the hearts of
the human beings who
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persistently sought healing.
Together with the fact that such
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healing was desired for the
spiritual benefits rather than
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for purely physical restoration
#2 the existence of the great
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sympathy and compassion of the
Incarnated and mercy dominated
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Creator, Son of God, who
actually possessed the unlimited
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and timeless creative healing
powers and prerogatives. 3 Along
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with the faith of the creature
and the life of the Creator, it
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should also be noted that this
God Man was the personified
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expression of the Father's will.
If in the contact of the human
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need and the divine power to
meet it, the Father did not
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will, otherwise the two became
one, and the healing occurred
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unconsciously to the human
Jesus, but was immediately
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recognized by His divine nature.
Many of these cases of healings
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must be found in a great law
which has long been known to us,
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namely what the Creator's Son
desires and the Eternal Father
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wills is, and they write quote
in the personal presence of
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Jesus.
Certain forms of profound human
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faith were literally and truly
compelling in the manifestation
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of healing.
Many others sought healing for
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holy, selfish purposes.
They write.
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For example, a rich widow of
Tyre continued to offer more and
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more money to Jesus, as if the
power of God were something to
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be purchased by the highest
bidder.
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But never would she become
interested in the gospel of the
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Kingdom.
It was only the cure of her
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physical ailments that she
sought.
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And that paragraph speaks to
motives.
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The rich widow wanted to be
healed, but her motive was
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self-centered and had little to
do with spiritual desire.
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By the way, in the Urantia book,
the word faith appears 750 times
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Quote.
Only the personal experience of
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the faith sons of the Heavenly
Father can affect the actual
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spiritual realization of the
personality of God.
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End Quote.
In another quote, it says in its
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true essence, religion is a
faith, trust in the goodness of
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God.
God could be great and absolute,
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somehow even intelligent and
personal and philosophy.
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But in religion, God must also
be moral.
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It must also be good.
The entire experience of
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adjuster or spirit communion is
1 involving moral status, mental
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motivation, and spiritual
experience as pertains to mortal
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minds.
Among the mortals everywhere is
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this.
We are also told mind alone
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cannot survive mortal death
without spirit.
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Mortal mind without immortal
spirit cannot survive.
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They say the mind of man is
mortal.
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Only the bestowed spirit is
immortal.
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That statement literally means
that your faith does save you
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from material cessation.
It does save you from mortal
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death.
Faith.
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How many times did we hear from
even Melchizedek who taught
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Abraham by your faith you are
saved.
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In the Bible and churches
everywhere they tell us it is
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your faith in God that saves
you.
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Jesus said that many times to
his apostles and his followers.
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It is your faith that saves you.
And faith, what do they refer to
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it?
Before reconstructive power,
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It's tapping into spiritual
energy.
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So we've looked at Jesus's
miracles and how faith is an
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adjutant factor, and we've also
differentiated between mind and
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spirit and how faith connects
the two.
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Faith is a willful act of the
mortal mind in willing
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partnership with the Spirit to
join in that eternal adventure.
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And I sort of think of it as
wings.
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Faith are wings.
It allows the eagle to soar just
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like the faith of a man makes it
possible for the miracle of
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Jesus to have healed them.
We, we spent a little bit of
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time on on faith.
And I also want to give
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attention to something that's
kind of new to this program.
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We haven't done it a long time,
but with all of the different
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conversations that are going on
in social media, and that's what
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they really are.
They're they're conversations.
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I want to roll out a couple of
interesting conversations that
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caught my eye.
And here this week, here's one
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from author Eric Metaxas.
I I know Eric, I've worked with
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him briefly and he's a great
writer, great Christian, always
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has interesting things to say.
And he's interviewing A
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theologian about Adam and Eve.
Take a listen.
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Adam and Eve, what's your best
guess when they were alive?
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Well, the best scientific date
we got is 150,000 years ago
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±100,000 years.
We don't have a really good It's
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because there's no radioisotope
clock between 50,000 years ago
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and 250,000 years ago.
We have to use indirect methods
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and often in the literature they
give you the statistical error,
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but they don't give you the
systematic error, which could
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shift things by 50,000 years up
or down.
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So I actually argue we get a
more accurate date from the
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Bible than we get from the
scientific evidence.
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And we also get more of an
accurate date from the Urantia
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book than from the Bible because
they put it at about where he
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pegs it around 50,000 years ago.
Actually, the Urantia book says
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about 40,000 years ago, that's
when Adam and Eve arrived.
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They were the third epical
revelation of revelatory truth.
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And their blood survives in most
of humanity, probably all of
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humanity on some level.
So they are still a big
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contributing factor to our,
maybe not as much as our
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spiritual development, but
certainly our intellectual
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development.
OK, here's an interesting one
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for those of you who listen to
Tucker Carlson.
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This is him having a discussion
about the Nephilim.
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You ever had conversations about
the mighty men of old, men of
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old mentioned in the Bible and
the giants of those days
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mentioned in Genesis?
So there's still the question of
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not only who were the Nephilim,
but what were the Nephilim?
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And here's a little interesting
conversation.
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And then I'll give you a Uranti
book footnote at the end of
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this, because we know, of
course, hold on, here we go.
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The Nephilim, as described in
Genesis 6, this race of giant
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people who are hybrid between
the spirit world and the human
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world, and they're the reason
that God sent the flood.
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This is all described in
Genesis.
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They were giants.
The claim from some people is
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that's actually real, and the
fossil record proves it's real
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because giant bones, human
bones, have been found through
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the years and that some or a lot
of them wind up with the
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Smithsonian where their
existence was suppressed.
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Yes.
You're saying there's actually
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documentary evidence that that
may be true?
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Yes, there's documentary
evidence that Smithsonian has
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received bones and large coffins
from that that long ago.
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We're talking maybe the 50s or
60s.
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And there was one case where the
Smithsonian said we did receive
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the bones, but we don't know
where they are.
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Well, if you received human
bones that were larger than any
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human bones ever described in
literature ever, other than
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Genesis 6.
Kind of a big story.
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And you see that story repeated
over and over again, especially
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in America, for hundreds of
years.
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OK, so here the quote from 77,
Section 2, paragraph three of
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the Urantia book where it tells
us specifically who the Nephilim
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are.
And you can take this to the
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bank, share it with all your
Christian friends if you ever
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get into an interesting
conversation.
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And Tucker Carlson, if you
happen to perchance be listening
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to this podcast, you can find
what I'm reading in paper 77
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from the Urantia book where it
talks about the post rebellion
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era on Urantia.
This is after the fall of the
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Calagasia 100.
And while I'm not sure about
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this, I, I tend to believe that
the Anunnaki were probably
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descendants of the 100.
And and the reason for that is
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because the root word of
Anunnaki were the Anon, which
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means 1.
And I relate that to the 100.
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And we know the 100 went on
after the rebellion, after
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Kalagastia, you know, threw in
his lot with Lucifer and Satan.
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And this was what 250,000 years
ago when there was war in
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heaven?
And the result of that is
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described in paper 77 of the
Urantia book.
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The post rebellion era on
Urantia witnessed many unusual
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happenings.
A great civilization, the
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culture of the Dalmatia was
going to pieces, the Nephilim.
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And they specifically used the
word Nephilim.
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And then in parentheses they
write the Nodites, which is
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derivative of the land of Nod
from Genesis, where Cain is
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banished, to the land of Nod
where the Nephilim live.
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Where on earth in those days and
when these sons of gods went
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into the daughters of men and
they bore them children, their
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children were the mighty men of
old, the descendants of the
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Nephilim, the men of renown.
And while hardly the sons of
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God, the staff and their early
descendants were so regarded,
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regarded by the evolutionary
mortals of those distant days.
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Interesting.
A pastor is asked.
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This is one of my favorites that
I've seen recently.
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What is God?
Can you explain that to me?
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I am confused being
philosophically consistent and
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being very honest person.
I'm sure you can tell me where
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God came from.
Please try to clarify how you
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can figure that a spiritual
force can have an impact on a
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material universe to create it.
All right, your question, where
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did God come from?
Assumes that you're thinking of
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the wrong.
Obviously it displays that
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you're thinking of the wrong God
because the God of the Bible is
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not affected by time, space, or
matter.
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If he's, if he's affected by
time, space, or matter, he's not
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God.
Time, space, and matter is what
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we call a continuum.
All of them have to come into
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existence at the same instant.
Because if there were a matter
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but no space, where would you
put it?
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If there were a matter in space
but no time, when would you put
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it?
You cannot have time, space, or
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matter independently.
They have to come into existence
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simultaneously.
The Bible answers that in 10
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words.
In the beginning, there's time.
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God created the heaven, space,
and the earth.
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There's matter, so you have
time, space.
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Matter created a Trinity of
trinities there.
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Just as you know, time is past,
present, future.
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Space has length, width, height.
Matter has solid, liquid gas.
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You have a Trinity of trinities
created instantaneously, and the
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God who created them has to be
outside of them.
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If he's limited by time, he's
not God.
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The guy who created this
computer is not in the computer.
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He's not running around and
they're changing the numbers on
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the screen.
OK, the God who created this
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universe is outside of the
universe.
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He's above it, beyond it, in it,
through it.
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He's he's unaffected by it.
So for and the I the concept
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that of a spiritual force cannot
have any effect on a material
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body.
Well, then I guess you'd have to
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explain to me things like
emotions and love and hatred and
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envy and jealousy and and
rationality.
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I mean if your brain is just a
random collection of chemicals
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that form by chance over
billions of years, how on earth
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can you trust your own reasoning
processes and the thoughts that
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you you think?
OK so your your question where
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did God come from is assuming a
limited God and that's your
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problem.
The God that I worship is not
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limited by time, space, or
matter.
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If I could fit the infinite God
in my 3 LB brain he would not be
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worth worshipping that's for
certain.
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So that's the God that I
worship.
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Thank you.
That's a good good and you know,
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if anyone a good starting place
for the rancher book.
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I've always, I believe, were the
first five papers if you if you
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if that part grabs you, then the
rest of the book is pure joy and
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from paper 2, Section 1,
dovetailing on what this pastor
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just said quote how pure and
beautiful, how deep and
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unfathomable is the supernal
ancestor of all things.
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The Infinite is most excellent
in that He imparts himself to
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men, is the beginning and the
end, the Father of every good
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and perfect purpose.
With God all things are
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possible.
The Eternal Creator is the cause
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of causes.
He stands outside of time,
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space.
He is the creator of time and
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space and matter as well.
Last note.
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This I found to be inspiring.
Trust God.
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Trust where you're being pulled.
Trust what you're being asked to
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let go of.
It's not the faint of heart that
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follow this narrow path.
It's the courageous soldier that
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knows that God is going to work
through you and impact many,
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many people on this planet.
So stay focused.
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Stay on this narrow path.
You're deeply, deeply loved.
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Say, if you like what you're
hearing on this podcast, the
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best thing you can do to thank
me is to share it with another
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And that's it for this episode.
We'll see you again here on the
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Rancho Radio Podcast where we
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revelation.
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