Hidden Scriptures

There are a number of works on the web that have been inspired by God, which did not make it into the Bible. I will be compiling them in an adjunct blog, and discussing them in this blog.

Contrary to what many believe, the Bible does not offer a safe haven for knowledge of the truth, per se. Safe haven only exists in the practice of having faith correctly. (I.e. in the practice of asking God for things and believing that you will receive them - Mark 11:22-24.) That is what is meant by the following scripture:

Romans 9

30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone."
33 As it is written:
"See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

In other words, it is impossible to know the truth about things (including what the scriptures in the Bible are actually saying) without having faith correctly.

Note also the following scripture:

1 Corinthians 2

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7 No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him"
10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Given the fact that someone receives the Spirit by having faith (Galatians 3:14), the above scripture indicates that those who have faith are given understanding of the scriptures and the ways of God, by virtue of the Spirit they receive. Further, (verse 15) it is the prerogative of all those who have faith to make judgments about all things - including works that claim or suggest that they are inspired by God.

With this in mind, I will be delving into many genuine scriptures surfacing on the web, and I will be shedding light on them, as well as the meaning of many scriptures in the Bible. All of this is legitimate to do, since all Christians have the prerogative to make judgments about all works that claim or suggest that they are of God, and comment and expound on them. Further, what offers safety in the knowledge of God is a person’s faith – not the Bible. Therefore if a person has strong faith and becomes convinced that a range of works are genuinely inspired by God, then this body of works become seen as being true, by virtue of that person’s faith – which lets him identify and appreciate them.

All of this will be a something of a dangerous enterprise, since I will be wading through some materials that are true, and some materials that are false, to determine the truth about all things. In a sense it hardly matters that I will be venturing outside the Bible, since the Bible is just as lethal as everything else in this world - without having faith correctly. Also, remember Jeremiah 31:33-34 indicates that God promised that with the Church, He would put His law in its members' minds, and write it in their hearts - meaning that by virtue of their faith, Christians would realize the ways of God from the things around them, and desire to pursue them. It would no longer be necessary for God to place His words or the law in clearly delineated books.

The fact of the matter is that God's truth is everywhere: even in the filthiest of things. It just takes a lot of faith to see it and pull it together.

So why am I doing this? Because that is the reason we are here: to have faith and overcome insurmountable odds, by taking on the qualities of God - made possible through His holy angels, who have been assigned to us. Among the things we are to overcome, is our ignorance of why we are here on earth, and the vast, excellent mysteries of God.