A Different Perspective

The Bible can seem to be a complicated book with many contradictions.

It doesn't have any, it really doesn't, but to understand how and why it seems so, you have to understand, and accept, the perspectives.

God is outside of time and space.

We are not.

We are in time, the 4th dimension. Basically, we are a 3-dimensional object moving in a straight line.

Time is change, the measure of matter in motion. Without matter, you cannot tell time. If you have matter, but no motion, the same.

No, if a rock in space doesn't move, the electrons the rock is made of still move, so there is still motion... change. For matter to be still, all of it must be frozen like a picture, then you have an image but no time, a 3-dimensional universe.

Make sense?

Now, if you are told of something from a perspective outside of time, but think in a 4-dimensional way, you will never understand the point and by applying only the way you understand, you cannot accept that truth.

Most of Jesus' teaching exposes the vast perspective of God, The Father, and makes it understandable from a 4-dimensional perspective.

Predestination is the way the story is laid out before or outside of time, like the way an author has written a novel.

Keep in mind, God doesn't change, which this view is impossible to grasp for beings that can only think progressively. We think and act in change. This is why we must learn.

God is not this way. He is outside and above time. So, He wrote the entire story all at once and always had it...

See, you are not going to grasp this. The best you can do is come up with a child-like way to understand it. Trusting in God, through scripture, is necessary to accept it. "He said it, so it is true, even if I don't get it."

Trying to limit God and place Him in time, whether our time or some "other" higher form of time, is not biblical. It may be more comfortable, but it is not God.

He does not change. Time is change. He does not time!

Choice, is our perspective.

A laid-out plan, is His perspective.

In the losing salvation issue.

On one hand, it seems that people can. Paul does speak of "those who walked away, they were with us, but not part of us."

This is an expression of both perspectives.

You see, God, as clearly written, chose the saved before the world began, predestination. So, the choice of a man to follow Him was an outward expression, or in time action of the out of time command.

Simply put, God chose, we are simply acting out what He wrote. So, if someone walks away from God, it doesn't mean God failed, but that God never chose them to begin with.

You cannot lose your salvation, you can only prove you never had it. Or you cannot choose to change God's choice.

This Biblical understanding is directly opposed to the concept of Free-will. Free-will is just not biblical... at all.

When looking at much of scripture, it will help to accept and understand the difference in perspectives.

How God gets mad but doesn't change.

How God thinks like us, but then His "thoughts are NOT like ours".

So, when you run into a scriptural problem, try to consider the vast difference in His perspective. This should help you, at the very least, accept some of the harder teachings.

You never will... if you can't.