How might it also prove to be that just as many have and hold to their own interpretation as to all that truth is at any given moment?
The word genre' when used in artistic circles suggest the essence of ones own personal taste.
Imagine trying to find the art work of Picasso and Rembrandt in the same art gallery where Railroad art is the headline attraction?
Even better imagine trying to find Chitterlings on the menu of a fine French restaurant?
Would the enjoyment of a specific genre' suggest that all other opinions outside of our own are of lessor value or would it be more accurate to say ones own personal interest (opinion) dictates the value of art?
We've all probably heard "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", yet does that saying maintain its consistency with respect to the person which desires in earnest to discover the truth?
I suppose it would depend upon just how beautiful truth is to that individual?
Having either forgotten, over looked or just devalued the thought of what the Lord detest, where has that lead any of us? As if taste testing the different genre' of belief systems which can be found among humanity?
Far too many seemed to have placed more importance upon what their own preferences are instead of investing their time seeking out the sweet savory smell as to what the Lord enjoys.
The Lords appointed author of Proverbs uses the expression of something being considered as sweet. That inference can also interpret "Fancied, liked or enjoyed" dependent upon its surrounding words.
Some refer to the surrounding environment of a word as its "Context".
Allow this question to be asked if you will, "What is the context of this single text below from Proverbs 13:19"?
Can what is being expressed through words stand on its own merit (authority) or does it need your opinion being added before you accept what's been said?
Once again I suppose it would depend upon the truth and who YOU believe establishes every consideration as if the only "Truth"?
Prov 13:19
A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.
NIV
The person reading this can make some sense of it based on how they relate to the words they understand, yet what about those words they don't seem to have a grasp of?
My point is that 100 different people could be asked to define the words in bold print above, yet how many differing understandings (interpretations) might be expressed as their response?
As if to ask, "What is a longing in specific terms? What is a soul? What is evil?
Now lets ask the last word a little differently as, "What do you consider to be evil?
Basically, does man suggest that each word requires it's own judge (interpreter) before there is a mutually understood power to be found within a given word?
In order for each word to be mutually understood that notion then requires two or more coming into agreement, yet is THE question "Who have you agreed with"?
The point I'm trying to make is, "Do you see how adding the single word "You" changes the whole dynamic of the question being asked? As if to say, "The question asked is only governed by one opinion which is your own (alone)"?
If you'll allow this question having also set to the side your personal thoughts concerning religion the way you've historically understood it, how would you interpret what you read, "What is being suggested through the use of the words you see below"?
2 Cor 2:14-16
For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task?
NIV
What all religions seem to enjoy fighting over (even to the point of death at times) is, "The Who and or What is it that defines the ONE true God"? The same God that hung the stars, divided the oceans, gave shape and form to earth as well populated its surface with different creatures.
Basically, who can establish, reinforce and who gets to wield this authority as if to speak for an otherwise invisible God?
If you were to manage your thoughts to where you do believe in the 'Need" of a savior, what is your opinion of the person that exalts their own opinion above ALL others?
The opinion whose hope is to deceive not only ones self but others? To deceive in such a way as if to somehow alter the outcome of the future by way of exalting their own valued opinion today?
Such an opinion which requires others to agree (be popular) as if it gives strength to it. Where then is there room today for the opinion that will prove itself to be righteous as if leading to the final outcome?
Can you see how each can also be differently defined based on what we each hold as an opinion that we believe which then dictates how we handle each of the above considerations (life, death, eternity)?
Many have a deep longing to taste a sweet eternal "Life" after their physical body dies because that thought provides the comfort of somehow being found as if they were "Right", while others see death as simply the dark matter where all lights go out.
What if you were to consider that a mans Soul never dies whether you're found right or wrong?
How would you then find the need to understand not only what a mans soul consist of, what happens to that Soul AND "Who" then determines (Judges) what happens to that Soul once the body does die?
How would you then find the need to understand not only what a mans soul consist of, what happens to that Soul AND "Who" then determines (Judges) what happens to that Soul once the body does die?
I think it safe to assume that most at least believe that our bodies all eventually die as each then finds some degree of comfort in knowing where their bodies will then rest in a grave or in a urn on a fireplace mantle.
Yet, they'll not truthfully consider or acknowledge "What does man know beyond doubt about where the soul goes?
Yet, they'll not truthfully consider or acknowledge "What does man know beyond doubt about where the soul goes?
I urge you to investigate where your soul goes after the bodies death yet more importantly to investigate beyond all doubt. Why? Because when your soul does meet with its eternal destination the only choice(s) which matter then are the ones you've already made.
Until you know beyond doubt, most people's faith has been based on fear. A fear of all that you don't "Know" beyond doubt while "Choosing to believe" all that you've been told about all that "Love" is and does.
The powerful question should be, "Who told you what you've chosen to believe about ALL that Love is"? Based on what authority has such an opinion found itself powerful enough to remove any doubt(s)?
Until you know beyond doubt, most people's faith has been based on fear. A fear of all that you don't "Know" beyond doubt while "Choosing to believe" all that you've been told about all that "Love" is and does.
The powerful question should be, "Who told you what you've chosen to believe about ALL that Love is"? Based on what authority has such an opinion found itself powerful enough to remove any doubt(s)?
Is what you choose to believe only a simple matter about whether or not you've believed a lie about what does take place after this life OR is about the lie you've believed concerning ALL that Love is, has already done and is prepared to do?
How will you know and what will be the undeniable evidence once your Soul does pass over the next realm?
How will you know and what will be the undeniable evidence once your Soul does pass over the next realm?
People love the analogy where they'll paint "All Men as being equal" yet they'll allow the thought that each man chooses their God differently.
There's a difference between what is considered a God having been created in the "Imagination" of men as opposed to The God as the creator of ALL things both great and small.
What if the qualifying question before all mankind were as simple as, Which God in the mind of men also defines all that Love is and does as if the Only God that is True?
Would that notion then cause YOU to then be the judge which makes the over riding decision concerning your Soul's destination? Would that not assign you as the one which determines who the One true God is?
There are very few descriptions of a man while considering all that God is. There is one that that assumes they are the God of their choices made, there's one that chooses to fear God and there is the one that has been brought to maturity having discovered the true nature of their creator.
The latter now being evidenced by the realization that man is truly nothing without finding himself to be in agreement with the God that is also True.
There's a difference between what is considered a God having been created in the "Imagination" of men as opposed to The God as the creator of ALL things both great and small.
What if the qualifying question before all mankind were as simple as, Which God in the mind of men also defines all that Love is and does as if the Only God that is True?
Would that notion then cause YOU to then be the judge which makes the over riding decision concerning your Soul's destination? Would that not assign you as the one which determines who the One true God is?
There are very few descriptions of a man while considering all that God is. There is one that that assumes they are the God of their choices made, there's one that chooses to fear God and there is the one that has been brought to maturity having discovered the true nature of their creator.
The latter now being evidenced by the realization that man is truly nothing without finding himself to be in agreement with the God that is also True.
There's a lesson to be learned from everything God has created and that includes ourselves (Man) having also been created in His likeness.
Rom 1:20
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse .
NIV
The hearts and minds of men have become consumed with the concern that others are judging them. How does that square with YOUR own consideration for everything which truly defines not only who "Your" God is, but also what your God has done for and through your fellow man which He also created (made)?
Is the God you serve FOR you AND your eternal benefit at all times or do you perceive your God as if only FOR you at differing moments?
Is your God a mystery never to be understood? If so, then what purpose would living life then serve and how could you ever have a true hope of being "Understood"?
Is Your God hard to reach when you have need to make contact with? Does He always confirm what you believe about Him or does Your God let you down because of what you didn't know about Him?
Once the evidence of either of the above does arrive, do you then find the conclusion as if your opinion to be in "Agreement" with Your God?
The way a man gets to know his true God is to willingly allow that same God to mold and make YOU like Him.
1 John 4:16-17
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love . Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.
NIV
If not then how can you call your God Lord of heaven and the earth in which you exist as the God that Loves you?
If every man could have or maybe find himself capable of creating his own God, would it not then make it clear why there seems to be so many differing Gods in the mind of humanity? Enough to where such a broad exception then accommodates everything that is not like God?
As if multiple Gods which then approve of the many different things man seems to enjoy doing while assuming he alone is right?
I encourage you to become not only a reader, but also a believer. Not everything man sets his mind and heart to do is justified as if he alone is righteous in ALL that he does.
Who will approve of what you do as the direct result of what you also believe?
Every religion has its own written doctrine which has been penned (scripted) by the hand(s) of men, yet one opinion will choose not to believe because of what has been written by mere men (alone).
As such that is "Written" which then proves itself to be trustworthy throughout every episode that's been presented by humanity.
So is your opinion of God one that is "Right" only because of what you've based your opinion on or is YOUR God one that is considered to be true
Is the existence of your God one that is based upon what you've been told about Him and choose to believe or is your opinion of your God based on how he's proven Himself to be righteous in ALL that that's been said about Him?
With respect for a God that is true, that consideration leaves zero room for the opinions of man that might otherwise look to project Him as anything but the "Truth" concerning everything He also created.
Rom 3:21-26
But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
NIV
The hearts and minds of men have become consumed with the concern that others are judging them. How does that square with YOUR own consideration for everything which truly defines not only who "Your" God is, but also what your God has done for and through your fellow man which He also created (made)?
Is the God you serve FOR you AND your eternal benefit at all times or do you perceive your God as if only FOR you at differing moments?
Is your God a mystery never to be understood? If so, then what purpose would living life then serve and how could you ever have a true hope of being "Understood"?
Is Your God hard to reach when you have need to make contact with? Does He always confirm what you believe about Him or does Your God let you down because of what you didn't know about Him?
Once the evidence of either of the above does arrive, do you then find the conclusion as if your opinion to be in "Agreement" with Your God?
The way a man gets to know his true God is to willingly allow that same God to mold and make YOU like Him.
1 John 4:16-17
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love . Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.
NIV
If not then how can you call your God Lord of heaven and the earth in which you exist as the God that Loves you?
If every man could have or maybe find himself capable of creating his own God, would it not then make it clear why there seems to be so many differing Gods in the mind of humanity? Enough to where such a broad exception then accommodates everything that is not like God?
As if multiple Gods which then approve of the many different things man seems to enjoy doing while assuming he alone is right?
I encourage you to become not only a reader, but also a believer. Not everything man sets his mind and heart to do is justified as if he alone is righteous in ALL that he does.
Who will approve of what you do as the direct result of what you also believe?
Every religion has its own written doctrine which has been penned (scripted) by the hand(s) of men, yet one opinion will choose not to believe because of what has been written by mere men (alone).
As such that is "Written" which then proves itself to be trustworthy throughout every episode that's been presented by humanity.
So is your opinion of God one that is "Right" only because of what you've based your opinion on or is YOUR God one that is considered to be true
Is the existence of your God one that is based upon what you've been told about Him and choose to believe or is your opinion of your God based on how he's proven Himself to be righteous in ALL that that's been said about Him?
With respect for a God that is true, that consideration leaves zero room for the opinions of man that might otherwise look to project Him as anything but the "Truth" concerning everything He also created.
Rom 3:21-26
But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
NIV
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