Answering Weird Questions in the Bible 2011 by Mannaseh Benjamin

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EXODUS 20

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

1 And God spoke all these words:

2I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land ofslavery.

3You shall have no other gods before[a] me.

4You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heavenabove or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to

them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishingthe children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of thosewho hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love meand keep my commandments.

7You shall notMisuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will nothold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor anddo all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On ityou shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your maleor female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in yourtowns. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and
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all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessedthe Sabbath day and made it holy.

12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the landthe LORD your God is giving you.

13You shall not murder.

14You shall not commit adultery.

15You shall not steal.

16You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

17You shall not covet your neighbors house. You shall not covet yourneighbors wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything thatbelongs to your neighbor.

18 When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet andsaw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a

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and said to Moses, Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do nothave God speak to us or we will die.

20Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so thatthe fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.


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21 The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darknesswhere God was.

Jesus summarized the ten commandments into two main laws of love. In fact,Jesus didnt change the ten commandments but He used the language of the

Heartin conveying the message of the laws. Jesus summarized the first fivepartof the Mother Laws as Loving God wholeheartedly whereas the second fiveparts of the ten commandmentshe called them as loving each another.

Jesus rephrasedthe 2nd five parts of the ten commandment using withthe language of the heart and He said, A new command I give :Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one

another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if youlove one another

( John 13: 34 35 ).


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The ten commandments are, in fact, the very laws of loving God andloving each another. Jesus rephrased them as new commandmentsinto two summaries of laws of Love. He didnt cancelled out the tencommandments , he rephrased them as in accordance with the newcovenant.

Matthew 22: 36 - 39 written by St. Matthew conveyed the samerephrased of ten commandments where Jesus replied to the anexpert of the law question with the same answer.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your souland with all your mind(vs.37 ) . This is summarized from Exodus 20: 3 12. Such summary He called the first greatest commandment.

Love your neighbor as yourself. (vs.39) This second commandment issummarized from Exodus 20: 13 -17. All the law and the prophetshang on these two commandments. (vs.40)

Why God doesnt give us divine healing even after all goodconfession have been done in accordance with Word ?


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There are many witnesses about divine healing/miraculous healing.But why He doesnt heal you ?

In answering this question, we all know that the atonement of sinsthrough Jesus blesses us even with divine healing..for it is included in

that atonement. It is prophesied by Isaiah that through His woundswe are healedand when He incarnated as human divine on earth, hehealed all sick peoples who came to Him. And since he is the sameYesterday, today and tomorrow..so we still can received Hismiraculous healing through the manifesting works of the Holy Spiritwho is the Representative.

In my personal conversation with God, he told me that I inherited thegenetic codes from my ancestor (Adam and eve) which are subjectedto alterations, diseases, infections, and etc..etc. The consequences ofadams sins and my sins caused my physical limitations..i.e. deathand diseases. To be atoned doesnt mean that Im going to experienceimmortality on earth and freedom from diseases since mygeneticcodes are the corruptible seeds from fallen Adam. The prerequisite

of entering heaven doesnt mean that you are free from diseases anddeath.

Entering heaven is having the purity of heartwhich is only attainablethrough the atoning Bloodof Jesus and cleansing power of theWord. The main agenda of the salvific work of Jesus ON THE CROSSis to teach our hearts to love Godand tolove each another.in


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others wordhaving the Purity of Heart. (Matthew 5:8) And westumble on this commandments ..even we need the afterlife processin purifying OUR Heartsi.ein purgatory. The lesson of the heartpurity on this earth might be incomplete in such a way that we evenmight need another dimension of existence for heart purification i.e.purgatory as taught by Catholicism.

To experience divine healing is truly a blessing but to learn the lessonof heart purity is Blessedness as in a sermon of beatitudes of Jesus onMt. Olive. Even

St.Paul himself who prayed many miraculous healings for other

peoples testified that he had infirmity in his body which God neverhealed even he had requested and prayed many many timesand yethe was not offended for he had learn the lesson ofheartpurity..which the reason of salvation for it is the hearts of men thatGod tries to teach every human being.

In St. Paul case, God intentionally let that infirmity inflicted upon hisbody so that as the chosen disciple of the gentiles, he must have thatheart that always hoping for the things above which is incorruptible.Such infirmity safeguarded his hearts dependency upon God.

( Heaven) lest he be tempted and be ensnared by the desires of theflesh. Such infirmity reminded him of his corruptible earthen vessel


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and conditioned his heart as always treasuring the things abovethathelped him kept his Heart Purity.

To co-exist with Almighty God means that our hearts vibrate the samevibrations with the energies of Gods heart for how come we come we

to live with God if our hearts vibrate differently or oppositevibrations? how come we co-exist with God if our hearts are not pure.For it is written be holy for God the Father is Holy and holiness isthe matter of heart purity as conveyed by Jesus who said, blessed bethose pure hearts for they shall see God. To see God meanscoexisting with God.

Why Jesus commanded us to love God with all our hearts and lovingour neighbours as ourselves ? Because that is the very laws ofcoexisting with the Tuhan -Holy Spirit.

Matthew 5: 8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God

TOPICS

The Fall of Man


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Q1. What really happened when Adam and Eve ate the forbiddenfruits of the tree of knowledge ?

A1. To answer this question we must know their original conditionsof physical bodies,soul and spirit before their fall. The scripture

tells us that Jesus is considered as the second Adam whichmeans the first Adam was like Jesus . This is true because Adamwas created by Gods WORD just the same as Jesus who was bornby the power of the WORD. Jesus was sinless and so did the firstAdam (before the fall). Before Adam transgressed the law of co-existence with God in Eden, he was holy- - sinless. In otherwords, he was full of the Holy Spirit. His spiritual ears can hear

God even he could spiritually converse with God. They hadcommunion - - fellowshipwhich meant they were talking toeach another. Adam was a vegetarian.he was naked and hewasnt ashamed of that nakedness for nobody instigated him ortold that being naked was wrong so his conscience was very pure.

He didnt experience diseases and his mind and emotions were

divine conscious 24 hours. He was a Kadamuh kadmon( Spiritual man). Please refer to the below table as to see thechanges of his conditions after the Fall.


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BEFORE THE FALL (SPIRITUALLY -ORIENTED -

MAN)AFTER THE FALL (5 SENSES-ORIENTED-MAN)

PHYSICALBODY

SOUL SPIRIT PHYSICAL BODY SOUL SPIRIT

1. Healthy Mind is able tocomprehend God.His inclinations wereguided by the Spiritrather than the 5senses.

Holy spiritindwelling infullness and co-existed withAdams spirit.

Subjected todiseases. Whenthe Holy Spiritdeparted , 99.98 %of his DNAs turnedoff(becamejunkyard deactivated).Scientistsconfirmed that

human being relyupon the 0.02 % ofactive DNAs. Theturning off wasdue to the lostLight (truth-- HolySpirit.)

Mind waseventually losingcomprehension ofGod and his 5senses began todominate hisunderstanding ofhis surroundings.The absence of theholy Spirit

gravitated hismind in defininghis surroundingswith 5 senses.The Philosophiesof educations wereborn out of 5senses.

The Holy Spiritdeparted. Hisspirit no longerable to hear Godsince the H.Spiritas the conduit offellowship alreadygone. He wasspirituallydeadlost

fellowship withGod. ( Spiritualdeath).

2. DNA sperfect

100 %active.

Conscience was pure Fellowshipping24 hours with

God like Jesus

DNAs darkenedand altered

Conscience was nolonger guidance of

his actions for hismind changed intoindependent fromGods

3. Naked Emotions were fullyconscious of divineomnipresence having theaccessibility of

He was living inHoliness=LIGHT =TRUTH = Therealities of God

he was ashamed ofbeing naked for hisconscience was nolonger pure forsins make us

He began to livewithout The HolySpirit which meantDarkness enteredinto his life.he had


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supreme happiness existed in hislife.

ashamed ofourselves.

no light=truth(reality ofgod). Theexpulsion of Adamand Eve from Edenwas the beginningof losing touch of

realities of Eden.The reality of Edenfaded into oblivionfrom thememories of his 5senses-orienteddescendants .

4. and having freewill His descendanteventuallyconsidered Eden

as non existence.This lost resultedthe emergence ofatheistic societieslike communism.

5. he was living the reality(truth) of gods presence inEden


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Q2. If God is omniscience why did He seek Adam by calling Where are You? And even making the sound of walking in thegarden ? In genesis 3: 8-9

A2. It was not that God didnt know the whereabouts of Adambut it was due to Adams inability to listen Gods spirituallyfor he was already spiritually died; the consequence of histransgression resulted the holy spirit to depart from him.

The holy spirit was no longer available to Adam as theBRIDGE of COMMUNICATIONand thus forced God to makesound of walking (verse 8) in the garden and even usedaudible voice to seek his attention otherwise he(Adam)wouldnt be able to detect Gods presence. He was no longerspiritualbut reduced to 5-senses-oriented man only so God

have had to use noises and audible voice.


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Q3. If God commanded the Israelites as not to kill asmentionedin Exodus 20 :13 thou shall not kill Why thenthat YHVH commanded them to kill the heathens as in theirconquest of the promised Land ? Doesnt it contradicting thegiven Law ?

A3. In Genesis 9 : 6 God said, Whoever shed the blood ofman, by man shall his blood be shed ; for in the image of Godhas God made man. God is the giver of life and thus man is

forbidden to kill as according to their own judgement. Onlygod who has the right to takes ones life. In referring to theGen. 9: 6 , it is understood that those who kill would be killedby men also. Originally, god created man because of His Lovebut since the fall of Adam it is understood that men wouldkilled each another for they were descendants of transgressor.

But when God chose the ancient Israelites as his chosen peopleHe gave them commandment which including thou shall notkill for such act defiled the holiness of the heart as the sonsand daughters of God. The very distinguishing mark as thechosen people of God, they must practice loving each anotherwhich prohibited killing i.e. the very act of hatred and LOVE.


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When God commanded Israelites to wipe out theuncircumcised heathens/ Palestinians he didnt contradicthimself with the law as stipulated by exodus 20 :13 because itwas His command and He had the right to take men lives by

His command. In this case, the Israelites didnt transgress thelaw for they were commanded by god with exact Guidancefrom Prophet Moses for they were governed by God asTheocratic nation. The Israelites didnt convicted murderer inthis case for they were shewing forth the glory of the Lord ofArmies. So, they were only forbidden to kill without Gods

consent. It was very clear that the wiping out business wasGods plan and it was His Divine right to bring punishmentupon the inhumane cannibalistic and sodomisticuncircumcised heathens. We must remember that such Lawwas solely given to the Israelites. Such law was applicablewithin Israelites communities since they were altogether as

chosen race. God permitted them to kill the surroundingunchosen races. Not as Gods family but Enemies of God.Israelites in fact, didnt hearkened Gods command to wipe outthe Palestinians not because they obey the Law thou shall notkill but to spare their lives as concubines and slaves. Theyshould have had wiped the out of the face of the earth since


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they were Gods enemies and trangressors of Gods Laws whichwere rightfully to be punished as outsiders ofGods family. AsGod he had the right to punish by commanding his chosen raceto kill the outsiders family. The law was for men and not for

Him for He was above the Law.

THE TOWER OF BABEL

Q4. Why God was so against with the homo sapiensenterprise in building the city with tower that reaches to theheavens that He even confused their one speech of languageinto multiple languages ? What was wrong with that tower ?and What was wrong with one language ?

To answer this question, I think we have to go back to the pointof beginning of creation when the whole thing is void andblack. As Supreme eternal God, automatically, Elohim Natureare going to create because that is Divine nature. To createsomething which is perfect and life sustaining, He must create


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them with unconditional lovei.e. the highest love..that is theverybackbone of Creations. For we cannot create out of anger.So God must create with the fullness of His love so that thecreations will be perfect and beautiful and full of life

(sustaining.). In order for the Creations to be perfect he mustset in builtlaws that maintain the very life sustaining power ofthe Universe . the backbone law is Unconditional Love.

In the same way, when God created Adam , he had in builtlaws within Adams body and also the laws of interactionsbetween Adam and God and between Adam with His

surroundings. These laws are meant to maintain thatperfection. And the whole laws are tied up with theemanations ofHis infinite Unconditional Love. Perfect love iswithout conditions.

When Adam transgressed the very law that governed his

perfect existence., he already brought forth destructive powerthat contributed disharmony in the whole universe. Everydeed and thought of us contribute something into the universeeither supporting the Unconditional or vice versa. For ourexistences tied up with the whole creations. Any deviationfrom the predestined rules of creations would cause


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disharmonies of the perfection of creations. In order tosafeguard further destructive deviating decisions making byAdam and eve , they must be expelled from Eden.

And God work altogether in all things of the decision making ofmen and make sure that their deeds are not violating the setrules of the universe. That is the reason why God didnt leavehumankind he keeps on intervening according to hiscreativity , wisdom and impeccability in safeguarding the lifesustaining power of the universe.

The angels were created differently than men, for they werecreated without forgiveness and redemption. Since Men werecreators in the image of God , He sees no impossibility of menabilities in creating everything. The ignorance of Gods lawsmean bringing destructive elements to the whole creations andwhen God saw men enterprise at the tower of Babel, Heforesaw the impending powerful destructive power. Theenterprises of men who deviated the laws of creations must bestopped by Gods hand in order to safeguard the wholeuniverse for their enterprises were totally void of Divine wills.

Without the wills of God, men deeds are destructive.


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The unity of men as mentioned in Gen.11, indeed, themanifestations of men selfish agendas that totally deviatingfrom the rules of sustaining life on earth and transgressingthe sanctity of the laws of the whole universe. For menwithout Gods wills are destructive and damaging the veryessence that maintain the life on earth and universe.

Men who inherited the sacred language of Eden had alsoviolated the sacredness ofheaven language for they wereusing that very language in doing all sorts of evil anddestructive things which were deviating the Laws of harmonywhich maintains the life of the universe. Their usage of thatlanguage not only defiling the sacredness of that language butalso powerfully penetrating all layers of heavens with deviatingdestructive energies. For that language was very powerful andwhenever spoken they were like mantras.


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Men had gone mad and evil . All of their deeds, indeed, disturbthe power ofunconditional love which tied up all things in thiscreations. And God said that he must intervene in order tosafeguard the sacredness creations i.e. Unconditional love .

We are not puppets and God is not the Choreographer.

God is not monstrous but men misunderstood for their heartsare darkened. He is not punishing for he is maintaining andsustaining this universe with emanations of His Unconditional

Love.

The phenomenon of gods confusing men at the tower of Babelwith many languages was in fact Gods wise intervention as tosafeguard the harmony and balance of power that holds thisuniverse. Besides, he also safeguard the sacredness of heavenlanguage from being manipulated by those ignorance andunenlightened men at that time. And such acts of Gods wasalso meant to fail human selfish agendas which wereforbidden by God for that agendas causing imbalance anddisharmony of power that hold this whole universe. Amen.


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