Melt the Ice of Form and Become a Blessing to the World

In our capitalist consumerist world, lots of people have the light of their hearts extinguished to feast their eyes on the light of all that is without substance and as such there is by many no natural urge anymore that lives in their hearts so that they are not strengthened.
But each person has the possibility to light a fire and meditate in prayer. Many have to find the light that has some heat to melt the heart of ice and have the warm blood running again through the veins.

Putting the world aside and giving space to yourself again in time, that is where the secret lies hidden, to getting to know that true self and coming closer to the One Who is The Being, The I Who Am, The Eh-heh-yeh ashair Eh-heh- yeh.

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Isaac said,

Let’s speak about the water of life. Water comes in several forms. But it is still and always Water, just as the One is always One. Water can be ice, liquid or steam. Consider that ice is form; water could represent consciousness; steam represents awareness.

We humans are all three of these: form, consciousness, awareness. But we have focused upon and become fascinated with our “ice” form – our body and our physical world. We tend to think the body is us, the body is all we are.

But as we know, whatever we focus upon becomes more solid and more real.

In coming to earth, we have put virtually all our attention into our form, our “ice.” That’s why we appear to be in these bodies.

As the Baal Shem Tov teaches, wherever your mind is, there you are.
Even though we exist as consciousness and awareness…

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A New Year festival to bring better times

According to Mishnaic teaching, the New Year festival ushers in the Days of Judgment for all of mankind. Despite its solemnity, the festive character of Rosh Hashana is in no way diminished. In Scripture it is called “a day when the horn is sounded”; in the liturgy “a day of remembrance.” Again this year there…

Genesis 2:5-9 Theological terraforming and the Genesis worldview.

Our understanding of Scriptures is received by our different characters with different views and necessarily conveyed in human words and imagery.

Out of nothing, using nothing, from nothing, simply by God’s Word speaking ‘Into Being’ everything came into being.
Theology should simply be understood to be the ‘study of the Theos,’ The God Who gives a theological illumination in chapter 1 of Genesis.
Even when we do not know how God made everything, it is not as such something to know, but something we have to accept and believe.

In the end, people shall come to understand that “Its all up to God. God’s will be done.” People also shall come to see that everything is connected and that by following God’s advice, given in the many assembled books, man shall be able to make the best of his life, capable for the challenges of our lives in corporately challenging times and circumstances.

Underneath you may find Stephen Thompson’s interpretation of Genesis 2. He looks at it and at Tate Modern and the Clore Gallery and the multitudes of sketches and watercolours by the English Romantic landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, who created expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.

For him we are invited in this Genesis 2:5-9 passage into a personal viewing of God’s creative studios at the start of time as we might think of it, now having the curtains and canvas being pulled back and we get to see something of what is going on, behind the dashboard as it were.

He looks at the introduction of the El or the Mighty – high-ranking god, YHWH or Jehovah and compaes Him with the heathen’s el (or god).

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To remember:

• we can only know the One who was called ‘El’ by men if the real God chooses to reveal their Reality. And so YHWH does!
• God = explicit first cause
• ground described metaphorically = having a face which God has tended with gentle moisture >God takes dust of the ground + forms an animate being with a face that is really sensitive + responsive +> first conception: ‘God formed… God breathed… > the man became
• scope for an ongoing relationship with God as equals in nature in some vital respects.
• God = only One capable of making a universe or matter with capacity to form life
• God’s world = placed under our authority + control > our delicate stewardship, which must consider whether this plant is to be made a crop or a weed, and whether this bush will live here or there or not at all.
• God’s creation = designed to point to a quality of life which reaches beyond our physical existence for a few short decades, + a quality of wisdom which is grounded in simple knowledge but then goes beyond what we might find out for ourselves.

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On the 17th of January 2021 the article we reblogged was not anymore to be connected. Well are the following articles there to be read where he a.o. mentions that God is a hard worker and that it is how the universe got to be here.

God is an abundantly creative worker: that’s how the world with all its variety (including you and me) came to be here.

For him, it is also clear that Jehovah God doesn’t want us to ‘’die’’, but remarks:

That, of course, is what did happen when the first people trespassed across this known boundary. They sinned to their own eternal harm. We break God’s commandments and find that we ourselves are broken on them. If we break them, it is even more the case that they break us.

It is also by the bond of people:

The marriage of one man to one woman is God’s invention, and like the rest of His creation it is ‘good’. Also, like the rest of the created order, it has been affected by the fall. Sin spoils marriages and ultimately blasts people apart. But if we will keep looking to the One who gave us the gift of marriage, and if we trust in His resources, we can nevertheless know a wonderful harmony and intimacy.

• Daily Bible thoughts 1578: Wednesday 3rd January 2018: Genesis 2:1-7: Knowing God personally.
• Daily Bible thoughts 1579: Thursday 4th January 2018: Genesis 2:8-14: Trees and rivers.
• Daily Bible thoughts 1580: Friday 5th January 2018: Genesis 2:15: God is a worker.
• Daily Bible thoughts 1581: Monday 8th January 2017: Genesis 2:16: Killjoy God?  
• Daily Bible thoughts 1582: Tuesday 9th January 2018: Genesis 2:18-20: Delegation.
• Daily Bible thoughts 1583: Wednesday 10th January 2018: Genesis 2:20b-25: ‘This is it!’

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Preceding

Bereshith 1-2 The Creation of the World – The Seven Days

Bereshith 2 Man and Woman placed in a Royal Garden

Starting from a point in time when two elements existed

Account of origin of man, sin and death

Possible problems with two Accounts of the beginning of human race

The figure of Adam

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Find also to read

1. Stories of the beginnings, and one Main book composed of four major sections
2. Blackness, nothingness, something, void
3. “Before” and “after” the Big Bang
4. A Book to trust #4 Cause of Being and Truth
5. Nothingness
6. Accommodation of the Void
7. Something from nothing
8. 3rd question: Does there exist a Divine Creator
9. Why think there’s a God? (1): Something from Nothing
10. About the Cosmological argument for proving that there is a Creative Deity
11. Consciously or unconsciously forming a world-view and choosing to believe or not to believe in God
12. When no man can say with absolute certainty that God does or does not exist
13. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods – Nothing, none, something or more present
14. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
15. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
16. From nothingness, except an eternal Being, the Ruach brought into being
17. Different principle about the origin and beginning of everything
18. From nothingness and choices being made
19. From nothingness to a growing group of followers of Jeshua 4 Trusting the Right One
20. Scattered, broken, thwarted reflection of God
21. Different principle about the origin and beginning of everything
22. Science, belief, denial and visibility 2

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Related articles

1. In The Beginning. 2021
2. Nothing
3. What is Nothing?
4. There is No Such Thing as NothingNothingness
5. The Profundity of Emptiness
6. The Simplicity of Nothingness
7. The illusion of our own power
8. Creation or Evolution
9. Creation, Part 1: What is a doctrine of creation?
10. God as Creator
11. Genesis 1 – In the Beginning
12. Genesis 1-2: A Harmonised and Historical Reading – Peter Heavyside
13. Beckett: Poetry – No. 2138, Genesis: Creation & The Fall
14. the bible’s big story
15. God Speaks! How to (imperfectly) hear the indirect/subtle voice of God – Part II
16. Evening Sentences

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Artist Illustration of Dragon entering the Martian atmosphere before landing (2015). Original from Official SpaceX photos. Millions of years ago Mars had a magnetic field and an atmosphere, but both are long since gone, so it is not presently inhabitable.

Genesis 2:5-9 (ESV) When nobush of the field^[a]was yet in the land^[b]and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for theLordGod had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no manto work the ground,⁶and a mist^[c]was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—⁷then theLordGod formed the man ofdust from the ground andbreathed into hisnostrils the breath of life, andthe man became a living creature.⁸And theLordGod planted agarden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom…

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Bereshith 5: Adam’s Descendants to Noah #1 The accounting

The fifth chapter of the first book of the Pentateuch brings us the accounting of mankind. Moses gives an idea how the Children of God came one after the other on earth to play their role in history.

The offspring from a tortured generation finding the Word of God again

During the years of Nazism several Jewish children found themselves placed by goyim and several of them got a Catholic education and formation. Years later several of them, their children and/or grandchildren wanted to find their Jewish identity again, others lost faith in God and religion, whilst others went looking for Scriptural Truth. Her we want to offer a place for those searching for Biblical Truth and the possibility to be a Jew as well as a Christian, being part of the People of Israel and a member of the Body of Christ.

Bereshith 1-2 The Creation of the World – The Seven Days

The Bible opens with the story of the beginning of everything, presenting the six periods of development (six days of creation) and the final period of establishment or rest.