Tuesday, 22 March 2016

Spiritual or Worldly

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. Romans.8:5.

God has a very big purpose in revealing this verse to Apostle Paul. The verse doesn't explain about two types of souls (Spiritual and Worldly), but it draws a circumference to his deeds.

Imagine with me that a man standing before a mirror in a room which is lightened by an electricity bulb. Assume that the man as body, image in the mirror as soul, the shadow of the man is his spirit, the room is the world and the light to as spirit of darkness and to the Holy Spirit in continuation of this article.
The image in the mirror (soul) demands the man (body) all its vices and his shadow (spirit) which depends upon the light (spirit of darkness) emitting from the bulb acts as the body acts. The body which is influenced by the soul which is watching the known world in the emission of light (spirit of darkness) can only fulfill its vices and the spirit (shadow) has nothing to do but just follow the way the body acts. This man who is driven by his soul will live a worldly life.

On the other hand, imagine a man (body) standing in a vast open space (world yet to be evangelized) under the sun light (the Holy Spirit). Because, he is not standing before a mirror, he cannot be influenced by his soul (image in the mirror) and because he is not under the (light of darkness) electricity bulb, his spirit (shadow) is not confined to the room (world) but can reach beyond the horizons and above all his spirit (shadow) is influenced by the sun light (the Holy Spirit). As the sun emits its light (the Holy Spirit) and travels from east to west so the shadow (spirit) spreads; the spreading of the shadow is the thirst of the spirit to evangelize Christ to the nations. This is all what Jesus wanted from us. Because there is no mirror/image in the mirror (soul), the body will be influenced by the spirit (shadow) which is again influenced emission of the sun light (the Holy Spirit). This is living after the Spirit.

Those who live after the Spirit do keep this commandment of the Lord.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Matthew.28:19,20

Saturday, 19 March 2016

The Trinity - very simply explained

Trinity explained in my theology - We come across a question which is there right from the beginning of the Christian era till today; does Christians worship three or one God?

I have a beautiful answer but explained in my own theology. As most part of the sporting world knows, India is a Cricket loving nation. I don't want to go much into it's basics and its form, but I want to make it clear that there will be two umpires to make decisions between the two sides, when game is on. One is the "Main Umpire" and the other is the "Leg Umpire". Main Umpire stands right before the wickets (180°) seeing the wickets parallel to each other, that is, making him see all the three individual wickets separately and the other Umpire stands at exactly the right angle (90°) seeing the all the three wickets aligning as one single wicket (view of wickets provided in photos).

Coming to the point of my theory, all the three wickets have its names as Off, Middle and Leg Wickets like the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Three of the wickets does play their prominent role on both the bowling end as well as at the batting end or the keeping end; as the batsman or the bowler has to give guard to the umpire before their action of play (a technical word used in the game which is not connected to our subject of discussion). As like the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit have their own ways of dealing with time and it's people.

To conclude, though all the three wickets can be viewed by the main umpire individually separated from each other, to the leg umpire they seem to be like one individual wicket, because all the three are aligned in one straight line. To the person who is standing outside the realm of Christianity, they observe God as three individual forms but for a Christian Believer it is One-God who is not separated from each other, either in any of the form.

Most respected theologians have explained the subject of Trinity in their way and this is my way of understanding the Trinity. Hope I explained it in an understandable manner (to the cricket loving nations). Thanks for going through. God bless you.