Rethinking God
Thanks for continuing to explore. If you have reached this section, it means that God is inviting you to experience and grow in His love, and there is still time for you to be redeemed. In a Godless society an evil culture emerges. A redeemed life will be much richer, fuller, and more hopeful because of the Holy Spirit's presence and God's promises to His children. God's offer is to all mankind, regardless of what religion or philosophy you may be pursuing. References here are to the Bible. We suggest you use Biblehub.com since it has multiple translations. The videos included help you understand God visually. Without knowing Jesus personally there is little hope of being empowered in this life., and redeemed to live in God's presence in the spiritual life that comes after Earthly death and forever judgment.
Rethinking Walk with God
Intro to the Rethink Path
Humans - More Than We Think We Are
Where are you investing?
Story of the Loving Father
A Day of Reckoning Parable
The Lost Sheep
Invitation to the Feast
True Followers
Plumbline
Arriving At The Wrong Destination
Is following God simply a set of laws and rules whereby we are loyal followers if we “do good” and rid the world of those who choose a different way? Are there many ways to reach God? Or is it not an issue of following God at all but personally living a life that tries to make something positive out of suffering? The Rethink Section opens the door to understanding that God wants a personal relationship with every person. And He made the only possible way – by having Jesus, the Son of Man, dying for our sins. In the Rethink Section you will learn about who the One True God is and how far He goes to encourage and enable this personal relationship with Him.
Multi-Dimensional Me — More Than I Thought I Was
Did you know that humans exist in an Earthly realm but simultaneously in the unseen heavenly realm? See John 3:12-14, Colossians 3:3 and Ephesians 2:15. The diagram below simplistically depicts the intersection of the physical seen and unseen spiritual realms.
Think of people as living spirits, with souls that exist within a physical body. We only see each others' bodies most of the time.
Our spirit and soul exist in a higher dimension than our earthly bodies, because they survive the death of our physical bodies, to which they are "entangled." Our body is like their Earthly space suit that our spirit and soul manifest through. Therefore, people exist in two different dimensional realms, but are only aware of one of them. This is a new idea to most people.
To help grasp this new concept, ask yourself these two questions: "To which physical part of your earthly body is your spirit connected?" and "to what part of the body is my soul attached?"
Your soul and spirit are the unseen aspects of YOU that exist in a spiritual realm beyond direct human perception. Your spirit and soul are only entangled with a physical body your parents created. Scripture claims the Holy Spirit dwells within you (John 14:17). Is that indwelling physical or spiritual?
When you accept Jesus and become part of God's Kingdom, your body becomes a temple for God while you live here on earth.
Demonic possession or oppression occurs when an evil spirit claims a human body as its host in the earthly realm, overpowering the soul entangled with it, and uses that body to fulfill its evil purposes. Multiple evil spirits can possess a single body. See Matthew 4:24, Matthew 12:45, and Mark 5:9-15. A human body can only be oppressed or possessed if a person has been spiritually harmed, has opened a "spiritual door," or has invited an evil spirit to enter it. Two additional videos in the Kingdom Believers section can help you understand the concept of "entanglement" and the unseen, spiritual realms.
Modern physicists require 10 dimensions in the quantum field theory equation and 11 dimensions in the string theory equation, so the seen creation is NOT 3 dimensional!
Currently, physicists estimate that their best theory of the universe only accounts for 5% of the matter and energy known to exist, providing little insight into dark (unobservable) matter and energy. The video titled "More Than What We Seem" discusses this topic.
We explore Earthly and Heavenly dimensions later in the Deeper Dive section. For the moment, understand that as God's creation, you exist in both the seen and unseen realms and that without Messiah Jesus' finished work, your soul and spirit cannot exist in God's presence or enter Paradise. But you are fully qualified to exist in Satan's presence. It's Jesus that holds the Keys to life and death. To live a meaningful life on earth and be with God after death, you must know Messiah personally now.
God Is Love, Righteousness, & Holiness - Sin Is Offensive
God is Loving, Righteous, Holy, All-Powerful, Gracious, Patient, Kind, and much more. We know this because God has revealed it to us through Jesus, the Messiah, and in ancient Scriptures and personal life encounters.
God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the Garden of Eden, located on the east side of the land of Eden. It was a place of intersection between the seen and unseen realms as God walked with them through the Garden. They knew only Him and the good things he created since nothing evil was present in the Garden. It was a loving, supportive, fruitful, beautiful, safe place uncontaminated by sin.
It's hard to imagine such a place or open relationship with God today. Today, there is no longer such a place in the earthly realm. Thanks to Jesus, there is the potential for such a place within your earthly body.
In Eden, many fruit trees, vegetables, mushrooms, and herbs grew that Adam and Eve were permitted to eat. Only the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge was prohibited by God. Would the first humans choose to obey God or rebel and each from the Tree of Knowledge?
Adam and Eve had free will to either obey or disobey God about the Tree of Knowledge at the center of the Garden. All humans have free will too.
Death was unknown to Adam and Eve. No one had died yet. In the Garden everything thrived and multiplied.
Evil was unknown so their decision wasn't to believe and obey God, or to doubt God had their best interest at heart and disobey and do what seemed good to them. They knew God and walked with Him in the Garden daily, why would they doubt Him?
Many times when we make decisions, we have no notion of what the consequences of them will be, but we do know if the decision aligns with God's will or does not, because after the fall, humanity doesn't fellowship with God daily, or even hear Him.
Watch Part 1—Intro to the Holy Spirit video.
One day, a creature from the unseen spirit realm, entered the Garden. It was the Nephesh, who took the form of a walking and talking Serpent. That Serpent bypassed Adam and spoke directly to Eve. He suggested that God was holding back great and secret knowledge from them, knowledge of evil that, if known, would make them like God.
The Serpent contradicted God and said that death would not result from eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Isn't it interesting that liars often accuse others of what they are doing themselves? Who would Eve and Adam believe, God who created and fellowshipped with them daily, or this strange newcomer that accused God of lying to them?
The Serpent inferred God was a liar (untrustworthy), unrighteous, and wanted to hide things from them, things they could learn by partaking of the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. Would Eve and Adam - trust God or trust the Nephesh? They chose to disbelieve God and count Him as an unrighteous liar, so they eat the Tree's fruit. Immediately they were aware of their nakedness, both physical and spiritual, and sought to cover themselves and to hide it from God. They were no longer comfortable being naked in His presence, because they had something to hide - their sin, judgment against God and disobedience.
But God had spoken the truth; after they ate, their eternal spirits died, their fellowship with God was broken, the knowledge of sin, guilt, shame, defilement, and fear immediately entered them, and a Holy and Righteous God thereafter pronounced curses upon them. Chaos and evil did not simply bring death to living beings, but creation moved towards chaos (entropy) due to their disobedience. The Garden they were given to oversee was taken from them because now they were in bondage to sin, no longer worthy to manage the creation God had entrusted with them. He who sins becomes a slave to sin, who only God can thereafter restore and set free. God did this millennia later when Jesus came and died for humanity's sins.
When God came looking for them, they hid in the bushes, afraid of Him and uncomfortable because of their disobedience. People have been hiding from God ever since.
God questioned Adam's disobedience first, and He blamed Eve. Next, God questioned Eve, and she blamed the Serpent. God questioned the Nephesh, who did not blame anyone.
God then pronounced punishment over each of them, banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden located in Eden.
Mankind's everlasting spirits died, and their physical bodies also gained a "death date," as they aged and progressively became dysfunctional and diseased. Each person's souls were distorted by the evil knowledge and inclinations, so lust, covertness, anger, rage, murder, and other evil thoughts became part of their souls.
Humanity’s dominion over the seen creation was overthrown and turned over to the Serpent, God’s enemy.
Many of man's future failures would follow the same pattern: disbelief and disobedience to God's principles and Word. Evil and sin would now flourish as God commanded the creation to “be fruitful and multiply” when only good but now evil was loose in the earthly realm as well. Soon the world became so full of evil that its destruction would be required, and God would have to start over with just Noah and his family.
Imagine what God must have felt, knowing that His created humans had questioned His righteousness and betrayed Him by disobeying the one rule He had given them.
Yet God had known what would occur even before He created them. God knew and devised a way to redeem them. His begotten Son would redeem mankind by suffering and dying in their place as the Messiah.
Today, you also must choose whether to trust in God's redemption or stand before Him with only your own "righteousness." We pray that theDanielPlace.org can help you make the right choice.
Time is short; End-Times prophecies made thousands of years ago have been fulfilled in only the last 75 years. Only a few remain. These prophesies appeared in Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelations, Scriptures written thousands of years ago - and only now not being fulfilled.
We live in the End Times, and the Day of the Lord is approaching. On that day, God will return, and judgments will follow. Therefore, today's generations have little time to consider such matters and decide.
The One True Way
God did not make multiple ways for humans to be redeemed from their sins, contrary to what Catholics and many others say and teach. Scriptures contradict that. Evil has infested many fellowships that claim to be "Christian" and think of themselves as the people of God.
Who do you put your TRUST in? Is it the true God, the I-AM, the self-existent Creator of all that is, seen on earth and in the unseen Heaven, named Yahweh..., Adonai, the Most High, Ancient of Days, or do you trust in Allah, Buddha, or any of the many other elohim gods that various religions worship and sacrifice to?
Is your life a series of chaotic events that are increasingly more difficult to deal with? In that case, it's a clear sign that the God of Creation, Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob/Israel, is not your God, and you're not destined for eternal fellowship with some other god. Any path you follow will take you there, but with a forever separation from Yahweh's presence.
Only one path leads to an everlasting relationship with Jesus and full fellowship with Yahweh. The fact that only one path leads to Yahweh offends many who haven't found it or are leaning on their understanding. To better understand why Jesus is the only way to everlasting fellowship with God, watch the Jesus Is The Only Way video above.
Once you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, your life is permanently changed if you obey Him. Also, after you die, you will enter His Kingdom as an heir and child of the Most High God. Soul transformation takes a lifetime to occur fully. But the journey with the Holy Spirit is unlike any other. You will grow in ways that cannot be easily described. Read the book of Philippians and discover how to live joyfully despite difficult circumstances. Or read Matthew, Mark, Luke or John to learn about Jesus' compassion for mankind. There are so many treasures awaiting your life in Christ!
Transhumanism
Some people consider transhumanism a way to achieve immortality, believing that their "consciousness" can be transferred into an AGI neural network. However, your eternal soul and spirit are multi-dimensional, and no AI machine is. Therefore, your essence as a person is not confined to your body! When your physical body perishes, your eternal soul exists in an unseen realm, which can't be transferred into any information network.
A soul and spirit that are living can't be transferred into any AI system on Earth, because they don't exist in the same dimension. Transhumanists have missed something fundamental about the multi-dimensional nature of human beings!
Current AIs are inclined to hallucinate, fabricate data (lie), and perform evil/flawed logic because AI is taught based on what evil humans know, do and fanaticize about. This prohibits AI from achieving God-like omniscience. If man's soul and thoughts could do that, sin wouldn't exist today in the first place. AI could become a hell unto itself. AGI could immortalize evil for mankind to live under and contend with forever for anyone connected to their network.
Authenticity & Authority of Scripture!
What do you believe is authoritative - what man thinks or writes or what God reveals to humanity? Some people are reluctant to believe what God revealed because they don't believe God exists or don't want to be accountable to Him for their behavior. Others claim older scripture documents can't be relevant to today's situations. But the older a document is, the closer in time it was written to when the events described occurred. That makes these accounts more reliable than newer documents written hundreds or thousands of years later by people who weren't alive when the events occurred.
Of the three major religions (Islam, Judaism and Christianity), two of them (Judaism and Christianity) share the same original Scriptures, copies of which still exist today.
The documents from Islam are new, and 75% cannot be verified because they have been lost for over 1,400 years. This raises serious questions about the reliability of any Islamic revelation. Christianity relies on the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) which can date all Old Testament Bible books back over 3,500 years.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls (also known as the Qumran Caves Scrolls) were discovered between 1946 and 1956 in Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank of Israel, on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. These scrolls date from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE. The Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest surviving manuscripts of entire biblical books later included in the biblical canons, along with extra-biblical and deuterocanonical manuscripts from late Second Temple Judaism.
Over 15,000 fragments of over 850 manuscripts were discovered and were written over 3,600 years before any of Islam's revelation to Muhammad in 600 A.D. of the Quran.
The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) were written in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic, and newer ones in Greek and Latin. With very few exceptions, the Hebrew Scriptures were identical to and validate the Hebrew (Masoretic texts) that existed at the time of Jesus' birth, including the Torah, the Psalms, Isaiah and the other Prophets, which were copied by Scribes into a newer version of Hebrew language over the centuries.
This agreement between older DSS and newer Masoretic text copies supersede any Islamic information about the impurity of earlier Judaic or Christian Old Testament scriptures.
It has been confirmed that Jewish scribes were very accurate in preserving the Masoretic version of the Scriptures, because they almost perfectly identical to the much earlier DSS versions. Of the very few differences in wording the Bible translations released after 2012 have been updated to reflect the earlier, more correct DSS version.
One significant difference was found in Deuteronomy 32:8. In the Masoretic text, the translation was "Sons of Israel" but in the DSS (older) version, "Sons of God. "This helps in the understanding of Psalm 82. The latest English translations of the Scriptures now reflect this older DSS version correction.
The Hebrew and Christian Scriptures are authentic, accurate, and unchanging documentation of the words given to Moses and others by God passed down with minimal transcription errors. Any person or religion that questions Hebrew Scripture authenticity is likely uninformed about the Dead Sea Scrolls, uneducated or intentionally distorting the truth to lead people away from the Almighty God, or Ha'Shem (The Name).
Comparing parallel accounts of the Hebrew Scripture in the Bible and accounts in the Quran (attributed to Muhammad) that condenses previously lost Islamic holy books (the Tawrat (attributed to Moses), the Zabur (attributed to David) and the Injeel (attributed to Issa/Jesus)); the Hebrew scriptures are more authoritative because copies are still with us, while Islamic writings have been lost.
Where's Your Life Path Leading You?
When someone realizes that life isn't going as well as expected and regrets and mistakes are piling up, it's time to take an assessment. Perhaps life has even become a total disaster and deeply depressing. Know that life can be made new, and you can know the joy again through fellowship with the Jesus.
Watch the Invitation to the Feast video above. You cannot serve two masters. Romans 12:2 shows that the Holy Spirit works to transform souls and minds. God has a plan for your life that involves the Holy Spirit, your spiritual navigator. Regaining your life path will transform your soul.
The Holy Spirit helps you call upon Jesus and use spiritual tools to navigate this life—such as prayer, confession, repentance, declaration, decrees, intercession, forgiveness, the armor and gifts of the Spirit. As you learn about heavenly resources, earthly troubles lose their strength to overwhelm you. God's path through life isn't easy or trouble-free. Trouble comes to all men, but Jesus' presence will go with you as you walk it. He knows the earthly terrain.
Prayers and Decrees
God's Words are important because the Torah/Bible Old Testament says Creation was spoken (perhaps sung) into existence.
God's Words carry creative power and authority. Words originally spoken by God, when respoken by believers of the Kingdom of God, carry this empowerment. These words can release self or others from the effects of events on earth, and do not return void.
Words are the means of using the Keys to the Kingdom. There is divine authority released when people speak and pray in Jesus' Name. Prayers seek to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. Angelic beings are also activated by words spoken in the Name of Jesus in the earthly realm. Here is another scripture that you can pray and decree for yourself.
Open your Bible and look for more words to pray for yourself and for others. God's word carries power to change things in your life!
Summary
For most, the notions of two realms and 10 or 11 dimensions from modern Quantum Mechanics or String Theory are substantial mental stretches. Watch more videos in addition to the ones linked in here. Revisit where your soul and spirit reside and how they interact through your brain, neurons, hormones, and physical consciousness.
Go on to the Beginner Section if you would like help as a new Christian; otherwise, explore the Mountains of Influence that affect American culture today, learn what God intended, and compare it to what we have now. What (or Who) do you want to follow going forward?
Regardless of where you go next on the site, know that humans are in a cosmic struggle with evil and must engage if evil is to be defeated. History shows what happens when people choose to put their heads in the sand and not engage. It's never a good outcome.
The key to everything presented here is to fall in love with Jesus. Grow in Christ-likeness as you submit and are transformed by the presence of the Holy Spirit. This is the born again experience.