Mar 3:35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
Alternative: Those who produce what my Father in heaven wishes are my brother, sister, and mother.
For Christ, the question of which "house" or group we belong to is never resolved by how people think or feel. Our membership to a given group may be dictated by what we share with them in terms of ideas and feelings, but the test is always our actions, that is, what we physically do and create with those ideas and feelings.
"Spirit" is the intangible information (and the power that comes from that information), that comes to us God. That information go on to form our bodies, minds, and relationships. However, the body-mind-feeling human is a flickering, shifting flame of temporary wants and desires and ideas that arise when that spirit is mixed with our freedom of decision, our individual awareness of being in a specific place and time. For the sake of our freedom, the eternal is hidden from us.
The choice we make is between what is "worthless and base" (the real meaning of the wold translated as "evil" in the Gospels) and what is "beautiful." We make our decisions from moment to moment based upon the impulse our most basic instincts or we ask ourselves what we can do to make the world a more beautiful place. Those make the world a more beautiful place are following the will of God.
Knowing (and trusting) the family that we are born into is relatively easy. We know them because we grew up knowing them we know where we can trust them (and when we cannot). Knowing the will of God is much more difficult. Knowing who else to trust is more difficult. We must judge people by their actions and what those actions produce.
It is said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," but out sense of beauty beyond physical beauty is something more eternal, arising from the spirit within us. It is our sense of balance, proportion, and rightness. Identifying desires from our base instincts and our desire for beauty is not that difficult in real life even though we cannot capture that sense of beauty in words.
"Shall do" is from poieô (poieo), which means "to make," "to produce," "to create," "to bring into existence," "to bring about," "to cause," "to render," "to consider," "to prepare," "to make ready," and "to do."
"Will" is from the noun, thelêma (thelema), which means "will" and "pleasure."
"The same" is from houtos, which is the demonstrative pronoun "those" or "these."
Alternative: Those who produce what my Father in heaven wishes are my brother, sister, and mother.
For Christ, the question of which "house" or group we belong to is never resolved by how people think or feel. Our membership to a given group may be dictated by what we share with them in terms of ideas and feelings, but the test is always our actions, that is, what we physically do and create with those ideas and feelings.
"Spirit" is the intangible information (and the power that comes from that information), that comes to us God. That information go on to form our bodies, minds, and relationships. However, the body-mind-feeling human is a flickering, shifting flame of temporary wants and desires and ideas that arise when that spirit is mixed with our freedom of decision, our individual awareness of being in a specific place and time. For the sake of our freedom, the eternal is hidden from us.
The choice we make is between what is "worthless and base" (the real meaning of the wold translated as "evil" in the Gospels) and what is "beautiful." We make our decisions from moment to moment based upon the impulse our most basic instincts or we ask ourselves what we can do to make the world a more beautiful place. Those make the world a more beautiful place are following the will of God.
Knowing (and trusting) the family that we are born into is relatively easy. We know them because we grew up knowing them we know where we can trust them (and when we cannot). Knowing the will of God is much more difficult. Knowing who else to trust is more difficult. We must judge people by their actions and what those actions produce.
It is said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," but out sense of beauty beyond physical beauty is something more eternal, arising from the spirit within us. It is our sense of balance, proportion, and rightness. Identifying desires from our base instincts and our desire for beauty is not that difficult in real life even though we cannot capture that sense of beauty in words.
"Shall do" is from poieô (poieo), which means "to make," "to produce," "to create," "to bring into existence," "to bring about," "to cause," "to render," "to consider," "to prepare," "to make ready," and "to do."
"Will" is from the noun, thelêma (thelema), which means "will" and "pleasure."
"The same" is from houtos, which is the demonstrative pronoun "those" or "these."
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