The Bible Says that it is ALIVE; ...and LIVING! If this is true, then, like any living thing, we can RELATE to it as though it WERE Alive. Therfore we can have a 'Re(A)l-ationship' WITH the Living, Written-Word-Will of the Living God. If this seems a bit odd to you, then you have just now come to your first realization of what a Real Mystery, or Revelation, is. And this is precisely What all of God's Living Expressions, or "Oracles", are - they are Mysterious Revelations of a Reality that is Eternal, and very much "BEYOND" that mortal "reality' we Adamic creatures have come to know and cling to in our fallen and lethal state.

But God Said, "LIVE!" And as sure as His Written Word-Will is Alive, it is also LIFE! That is, God Says that it is by "EATING" His Living Word that we come {remain} Alive with His Life inside us {see Ezk 36:25-27}. Jesus Said that man "Lives" {or comes Alive!} not by eating mortal food, but by {Eating} every {Living} Word that procedes from our Father God's mouth. And, as Jesus IS The Living Word Incarnate, He then tells us we must Eat HIM! If these things are Mysterious, they are Spoken and Intended NOT for the flesh in us - that is our carnal mind or understanding - but to the New Creature-IN-Christ all of God's Children MUST become at their New-Birth into The Spirit of God's Own Holines - even His LIFE!

Jesus makes it very clear that Spirit is FOR Spirit {in us-in-Christ}, and that the flesh with profit NOTHING from the Spirit of God, having been Condemned by God to the choice of death which Adam Chose for us all - in the flesh. He States that UNTIL we are Begotten of Holiness BY God's Own Work and become Born Again, we DO NOT HAVE Spiritual Eyes with which to SEE God's Spiritual Kingdom! {See Jn 3:3} And Paul continues this thought in 1Cor 2:14 by declaring that the carnal mind in any of us {even in Born Again believers} simply CANNOT RECEIVE the things of the Spirit, as they are only Spiritually DISCERNED!

Therefore, a word of CAUTION concerning God's LIVING Word-Will, the Bible. If we think to EAT it or to RECEIVE it 'apart-from' God the Author of it's Life, we will not only be disappointed, but we will surely find that such 'man-handling' of God's Own Holiness will surely result in the same Spiritual DEATH today as it always has in the past {see the Old Testament re: "touch not that which is Holy!"}. There is a hardening of the heart that would "traffic in" Holy things. When God invites us to "Come and DINE!", He means WITH-HIM! So it is that we MUST partake of this Holy Communion WITH His Majesty the King in a manner and attitude befitting the Grace of the Call and the honor bestowed upon us in that Grace. These are God's Own Words we "Dine upon". And we do so WITH Him. As we do, let us SHARE then WITH Him. How? As we are drawn evermore deeply into our Sovereign's Reality and are given more and more perception into these Spiritual Truths and Realities, and as His Majesty's Mysteries are Revealed unto us, let us, like Moses at his Burning Bush, take off OUR "shoes" and walk very quietly and patiently and reverently WITH the Lord Who bids us ASK, SEEK and to KNOCK! And to WHOM should we Ask, then, but of the very Author Who Wrote His Words for our ingestion and invites us to share in them at His Own table - WITH HIM! It is God's DELIGHT to Teach us His Ways. It is our's to SHARE-WITH God all that "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard ... what God has PREPARED for those whomlove Him!"

But, having Spiritual eyes and ears, they must then be TRAINED! How many of us who have the eyes to see, yet have never TRAINED them to see as the artist or the photographer or even the poet? And ears? Will we LISTEN? Jesus Says, "My sheep HEAR my Words - and they FOLLOW Me!" How many of us have read God's Word and have yet come away empty? WHAT? Is God's Living Food unsatifying?; not nourishing? No, there is no fault in the Word, but in us. Having been GIVEN eyes and ears, we then must be TRAINED to USE them. But we mature only by DISCIPLINE! How many of us WANT to grow up? As many as want God's Discipline and Tests and Trials and to be Proven by the cauldrons of the fires and crucibles in our circumstances FIT for the Living Faith Christ Bequeathes us in His Resurrection Life! But we must RISE to His Occasion for us. And this requires that we Overcome even as He did!

Even pagans go through the HELL of mortality. It is for sure we can endure this mortal Gift of life-opportunity with, or without the Lord. We can choose. But we cannot grow up; we cannot mature and bear Holy Fruit; we cannot make our Heavenly Father proud of us ALONE. And we were not so Intended! It is one thing to go through trials and snares and vexations and pain and loss WITH Christ - and quite another thing indeed to 'go it alone' without Him! So, we must be TRAINED to USE what God has so Graciously Given us! And we can only do this WITH-Christ!

So, if we are to partake of God's Living Revelation, the Bible, we must learn to SHARE it WITH-Christ - or lose it's very Life-Nourishment. So, when it comes to these "Frequently Asked Bible Questions", the bottom line is, ASK GOD - not man! The Lord wants very much to Teach you these things Himself - PERSONALLY - from the Bible! Will you make and take the time DAILY to sit down with Him and DINE?

PREFACE: How to study the Bible: ...WITH-GOD!		{ABOVE}
Why does God ALLOW suffering?		-- TEXT --
Where does evil COME from?		-- TEXT --
What is FAITH?		-- TEXT --
How can I KNOW its really God's Voice?		-- TEXT --
How can I KNOW that Jesus Christ is Real and Alive?		-- TEXT --
Why does God DISCIPLINE us?		-- TEXT --
What does "BornAgain" MEAN; & why does Jesus MANDATE it?		-- TEXT --
Where does unbelief COME from??		-- TEXT --

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