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    Freedom In God's Spirit
    Freedom In God's Spirit
    Freedom In God's Spirit
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    Freedom In God's Spirit

    By Joseph Torie

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    Many associate sex with sin, but is it good or bad, and why did God create it? Was sin the original sin or the original blessing?
    Are women spiritually inferior to men or there is no difference between male and female through Jesus.
    Do we need religious ceremonies, places of worship and temples or is a relationship with Jesus enough? Is God looking to acquire some more real estate property or is He looking for a relationship with us in our hearts?
    Was everything that Paul taught right, and or right for today? Should there be a discrepancy between their teachings, should we follow Paul or Jesus?
    Was Paul right when he stated in one of his letters that women shouldn’t talk in the church? Or was he contradicting the teachings of Jesus, the New Testament and his own by saying that?
    And if so, where do we stand? Could it be that some of the Bible heroes made mistakes or were wrong in some points of what they taught? And if they did, should we follow their wrong teachings?
    And if Paul was wrong in some of his teachings, wouldn’t that prove that the Bible is wrong? And how could that be? Aren't the Scriptures infallible? And if Scripture is infallible, aren’t the Bible’ heroes infallible also?
    Read on to learn about these and and to find out why the Bible doesn’t cover up the mistakes of its heroes...and much more in Freedom in God's Spirit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph Torie
    Release dateNov 1, 2012
    ISBN9781301624171
    Freedom In God's Spirit
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    Joseph Torie

    Joseph have been writing for a few decades, first as a journalist, then as a freelance travel writer and finally, as a full fledge indie writer. He offers his books about Jesus, about spiritual subjects and about intelligent design FREE to download, as in "free you have received, freely give". His work focus on the words of Jesus and sometimes refer to other portions of Scripture, when needed for reference.The author neither belongs, nor identifies himself, nor is associated with any Christian organization or denomination, nor tries to defend or attack any of them, nor this or that school of theology. Instead, he aims to follow Jesus through His words, which are His Spirit, as Jesus said to His disciples, “... the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are Life” (John 6: 63) and as the apostle Peter answered, when Jesus asked His twelve disciples, “Will you also go away? ... Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” (John 6: 67 and 68).You may find other articles, blog and stuff in his website, josephtorieauthor-dot-com or by searching online for some of his older publications.

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      Freedom In God's Spirit - Joseph Torie

      Freedom In God’s Spirit

      By Joseph Torie

      Copyright Joseph Torie 2010-2020

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      Also by Joseph Torie, published at Smashwords:

      Talk with Jesus (English version)

      Coming soon: Talk with Jesus (Chinese Simplified version)

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 — The Original Blessings

      Chapter 2 — God Is Right There... Wherever You Are

      Chapter 3 — XX & XY

      Chapter 4 — Does The Bible Contradict Itself?

      Chapter 5 — The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

      Chapter 6 — Man Wasn’t Made For The Law

      Chapter 7 — New Testament of Love!

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      Chapter 1 — The Original Blessings

      And God blessed them (Adam and Eve), and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth (Genesis 1:28)

      Jesus readily forgave People that the Religious People had condemned

      TINA: So, Jesus -in both cases we discussed- forgave people who had broken the Law and were ‘sinners’.

      TIM: Yes, once when the woman who was a ‘sinner’ (Mary, -Lazarus and Marta's sister-) kissed Him and washed His feet with her tears (John 11: 1 and 2, Luke 7: 38).

      TINA: The other when they brought the married woman caught making love with another man.

      TIM: Yes, in both cases Jesus acknowledged that they were sinners, but He promptly forgave them.

      TINA: Jesus forgave people for sins that many religious people would consider almost unforgivable?

      TIM: Yea... but Jesus forgave people for all kinds of other sins and offenses too, not only in those cases. He forgave countless people on the spot, and on demand healed many that were sick.

      TINA: While some of the religious people wanted to kill the woman caught in adultery, Jesus forgave her.

      TIM: Yep... and -as we saw- He said to Simon the leper about the woman who kissed His feet: Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little (Luke 7: 47). It showed that perhaps Simon's sins were not as many or so obvious, but neither had he loved the Lord much.

      TINA: Going back to my previous question: had God changed His mind about sex being good –after Adam and Eve fell from grace-?

      TIM: God had always opposed any kind of sex that isn’t loving, or natural, but –generally speaking- He doesn't see sex and sexuality as bad, but as something very good, something He created for good, as we saw in Genesis 1: 31.

      TINA: So, sex couldn't be the ‘original sin’?

      Sex: the original Blessing

      TIM: Not according to Scripture! If anything, as I mentioned before and quoted from the Book of Genesis, sex is part of the original blessing from God! As it says in that verse in Genesis 1: And God blessed them (Adam and Eve), and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.... God blessed them with sex, so they could be fruitful and multiply, love each other, have children and families. Eventually, as they multiplied, they could ...subdue it (the earth): and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth (Genesis 1: 28). Sex is part of God’s blessing and an integral part of His plan! In addition, it was the means for them to take possession over the earth, in which God had placed them.

      TINA: Was God putting them in charge of the earth?

      TIM: Yes. However, his idea wasn’t for humankind to abuse the earth but instead He put them in charge, as managers. He put humankind in charge as administrators of the earth.

      TINA: But my question was whether after Adam and Eve disobeyed Him, if God changed His mind about sex being a blessing…?

      TIM: One way we know that God didn’t change His mind about sex being very good is that many years after that -and even after people had become so wicked that God had regretted having created man- still God held the view that people should be fruitful and multiply!

      God blessed Noah, saying: Be fruitful... and fill the Earth

      TINA: Even after people had become very bad? Where does it say that in the Bible?

      TIM: After the flood -roughly about 1500 years after God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and to multiply- God told Noah and his family almost exactly the same He have said to Adam and Eve. ...God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth (Genesis 9: 1).

      TINA: That was almost word for word what He had already said to Adam and Eve at the beginning! He blessed them with sex and telling them to have sex and fill the earth with their children.

      TIM: Yes.

      TINA: And what about being rulers? Did God still keep mankind in charge over the other creatures?

      TIM: He didn’t change His mind about that either, in fact it seems He increased the scope of their rule. He said: The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands (Genesis 9: 2).

      Through Noah, God gave Mankind a second Chance

      TINA: So, God kept man as a ruler over all the creatures of the earth! In addition, He said that all others creatures were going to fear and dread them.

      TIM: Yes, and in verse 9: 7, He repeated again what He had said in verse 9:1 about being fruitful and multiply: As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it (Genesis 9: 7). That’s the third time that God said that.

      TINA: So although God had to destroy all living creatures in the whole world -except for Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives, along with a handful of animals floating in a boat- He still blessed Noah with sex again, and told him to multiply and fill the earth with their children?

      TIM: Yes! God still blessed mankind with sex. Although God had regretted to have created mankind... He still gave mankind another chance and kept many of the terms of the first blessing.

      TINA: Where does it say that God regretted to have created mankind?

      TIM: It says it in Genesis chapter 6 –before the flood- that ...God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repents me that I have made them (Genesis 6: 5 to 7).

      The Lord would never punish the Innocent!

      TINA: So, God was sorry and regretted to have created mankind, but did He regret to have to destroy mankind?

      TIM: Yes. He did it with great regret, but had to do it after realizing ...that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually (Genesis 6: 5). As men multiplied, evil multiplied immensely.

      TINA: But I don’t get why -although He destroyed everybody- He still allowed Noah and his family to continue to live and especially to have more children? He allowed men to multiply again! Wouldn’t that had inevitably multiplied evil again?

      TIM: To begin with, Noah was a fairly good man, and the Lord would have never destroyed him. He would have never punished someone innocent, even if everyone else in the world was evil.

      TINA: The Lord would never punish the righteous people with the unrighteous ones? Even if there is only one righteous person left?

      TIM: Yes, the Lord won’t punish someone unjustly. However, righteous people face many troubles in this world, which are not the Lord’s fault, they are not punishments. Jesus told His disciples, These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world (John 16: 33). He had also said, If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you John 15: 19).

      The Lord

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