FEATURE
Jesus – God’s Perfect Gift To Mankind
By Emeka Reuben Okala
“And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.” Matthew 2:11 NKJV
No one in our generation can testify to the accuracy of the date of birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Jesus was likely not born on 25th December. And this is not disputable! But Christmas is not about the celebration of the “Day” Jesus was born; it has everything to do with the celebration of Jesus Christ - God’s Perfect Gift to mankind. The “Day”, 25th December did not die for our sins, to save us from eternal condemnation and reconcile us to God. Jesus did. The “Day”, 25th December did not manifest so that it might destroy the works of the devil. Jesus did (1 John 3:8). 25th December did not come into the world to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10). Jesus did. To celebrate the birth of the Messiah, a “Day” must be set aside in commemoration. And 25th of December happens to be that fortunate Day!
God created man in His own image (Genesis 1:27) and put our pioneer ancestral parents, Adam and Eve in a place of perfect Peace and Treasure (The Garden of Eden) where He only had meetings and direct communications with them. But Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ipso facto lost their right to perfect Peace and Treasure, and in the process, were thrown out of that place of eternal tranquillity by their very Creator, Master and Friend – God.
The sin of Adam and Eve rubbed on all generations of mankind. It brought corruption, curse, condemnation and death to the hitherto perfectly and beautifully made creation in God’s own image – man and woman.
With sin, “the soul of man experienced a schism with God’s Spirit. The only solution to bridge this great divide and bring mankind back in relationship with God would require a work of atonement.”
Let me make it abundantly clear here that the work of atonement is not limited to the first sin that Adam and Eve committed, it also takes care of the sins that we ourselves have committed.
Our God is the God of Love (Αγάπη – Agape). His love for man is beyond human imagination and comprehension. To put it more succinctly, He has a ridiculous love for mankind! God knew that man will fall; therefore He made safeguards for their redemption even before the foundation of the world:
“…but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. (I Peter 1:18-20 NKJV).
Jesus is God’s perfect Gift (Lamb) that was foreordained for the redemption of man even before the foundation of the world. At the fullness of time, He came into the earth that He made through birth process. He wrapped Himself in flesh and blood, and chose to be born of a woman like every human being, to fulfil that purpose:
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (Galatians 4:4-7 NKJV).
Realising the gravity of the yoke of the burden of the law under which we were condemned because of sin, which Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice broke, no celebration to commemorate Him on the date of His birth is enough!
When the Apostle Paul wrote that God sent Jesus in order to redeem those under the law, he was talking about all generations of mankind – you, me, our ancestors and those yet to be born. We were lost in our sins and separated from God. We could not on our own restore ourselves to a relationship with Him, but God wanted us to be free to re-establish a relationship with Him. In order to remove the barrier that stood in-between our relationship with Him, God sent Jesus “that we might receive the adoption as [His] sons and daughters, if you like.
Jesus is the Perfect Gift of God to mankind!
The Bible records in Mathew 2:11 that, Jesus was presented with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh on His birth by the three wise men, magi from the East. Because of this, Christmas as a festivity commemorating the birth of Christ has taken the traditional profile of a period when folks give and exchange gifts.
During Christmas season, post offices world-wide are awash with parcels and overwhelmed with extra work-load of sorting and sending out various sizes and kinds of these parcels, cards and letters containing gifts and good wishes that people send across to their friends, loved ones, colleagues and acquaintances in the giving-spirit of the festivity.
Also, the birth of Jesus was greeted with unspeakable joy. “When they saw the star [over the place where baby Jesus was lying], they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy” (Matthew 2:10).
In the same vein, the angel brought to the shepherds a message of joy. “Then the angel said to them, Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:10-11 NKJV).
“Joy” therefore has become an integral part of Christmas. Churches, offices, theatre houses, pubs, streets, name it, are abuzz with all kinds of activities that make human beings feel good during the celebration of Christmas.
The irony and very unfortunate thing, is that only a few in the world understands the joy of Christmas and why it is celebrated in the first place. Many have simply lost its meaning and others do not even know why they celebrate it with such a gusto of unqualified joy.
This article is intended to remind readers of the precious and perfect Gift of God to mankind in the Person of Jesus Christ in whose honour we celebrate Christmas. God wanted us to be freed from sin and to live in harmony with Him with a peace of mind. For this reason, He sent Jesus “that we might receive the adoption as sons.”
As you celebrate Jesus - the wonderful Gift of God to you in this Christmas, rejoice that by His Gift, you have been adopted into His family through Jesus Christ.
Christmas is not about ordinary celebration. It is all about the celebration of the greatest Gift of God to you. Celebrate Jesus with joy in this Christmas!
Rev. Emeka Okala is the Editor of The Pentecostal Truth and the Pastor of the East London Church of Life Tabernacle UPC.
Chukwu Emeka Reuben Ọkala,
Eeekwa!
Google :Journey of the Magi poem by T.S. Eliot
‘ A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’
And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
Going to church on Sundays is European culture. Going to worship on the Sabbath is Scriptural-Luke 4:16, Acts 17:2, Exodus 20:8-10, Exodus 31:16. Christmas is European culture. Marking the death of Christ is Scriptural-Luke …GBAM! GBAM!! GBAM!!!Ya kpọtụba!
Ya gazie.
Ụmụ nne Abrahamụọgụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.
On Dec 24, 2021, at 9:01 PM, Chukwuemeka Okala <reu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
THE HOLY SPIRIT’S MIND IN US IS GOD’S MIND IN US, NOT THE EGO-MIND OF THE SLEEPING AND DREAMING SON OF GOD
Ozodi Thomas Osuji
The son of God is in God and in heaven but is sleeping and dreaming; his mind is your and my mind, dreaming, filled with ideas on how to adapt to the ego’s world.
God as the Holy Spirit placed another mind inside your/my sleeping mind, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit’s mind is not the mind of the son of God; although it is still in the dream of separation, it is aware of God’s unified reality hence gives us a better dream, one that gives us peace and joy, not the conflict and tension ridden ego mind.
Your ego mind is not the Holy Spirit’s mind, so listen for it to speak to you but do not speak for it.
The ego speaks first and without waiting for the Holy Spirit to speak, will jump in and speak on behalf of the Holy Spirit.
One is to keep quiet and listen to the Holy Spirit, ask him how one is to live one’s day and not tell it what to tell one.
What the Holy Spirit tells one to do may be different from what one’s ego wants to do. For example, my ego wants to teach political science and psychology, but the Holy Spirit wants me to reinterpret those subjects and use them to teach spiritual politics and spiritual psychology. That is, to put them to spiritual purposes, not join the ego politics and ego psychology of unloving egoistic scholars (they perpetuate the egos world of conflict instead of showing a way to reduce and or eliminate that conflict).
The Holy Spirit’s voice is calm, dignified, and authoritative; the ego’s voice is frantic and full of fears and uncertainty.
MY MIND, AN ANCIENT AND WISE MIND, PRETENDS TO BE IMMATURE AND DEMANDS TO BE LOVED BY OTHER MINDS WHILE AVOIDING LOVING ME AND PEOPLE
I used my mind, the mind of an ancient and wise soul, to make me think like an immature child to avoid loving me and loving people and especially loving women.
The women around me ask me to love and protect them but I keep looking at them with the ego mind; the ego mind cannot love but wants to be loved, hence I do not love the women around me and they feel all alone in the universe.
Deep down, my ancient and wise soul understands that the sons of God are love and must be loved for them to be happy, regardless of their bodies and what they do with their bodies, such as sex, that repulse me; they must be loved in an unconditionally positive manner for them to be happy; judge people as bad or even good and you have offended their souls and they will not be happy; they are love and want to be loved as they are, not as your ego wants them to be; I undertook to play the ego loveless role in the first part of my stay on earth. I did so to learn that we are love and that we must always love.
I must say that this whole dance is meant to be so hence is existential; I was primed not to love me and other people; my inherited problematic body, my father’s own problematic body and his inability to love his self, other people and particularly his wife and children, all added up for me to chase the grandiose ego and not love me and people.
It is now time to stop listening to the left ego mind and, instead, listen to the right, Holy Spirit mind in us.
The ego mind cannot love for it approaches people from reason; the ego is the opposite of love; love is union, whereas the ego is separation from union.
Love transcends reason; love is its own means and end and has no justification for it; there is no reason to love; love has no condition for loving.
The ego game of avoiding love through immaturity is now over in me.
THE MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE IS REFLECTED IN LIGHT
Light travels at 186, 282 miles per second in vacuum. That great speed is slowed down so that light is used to form particles of electrons, quarks, protons and neutrons and elements and molecules and our bodies and stationary objects like the table and computer hardware I am typing into.
Who slowed down the speed of light to use light to form our bodies and objects in the universe? Our minds did.
My mind used light to form my visions of Jesus Christ in light forms and to form dreams at night. Mind slows down light to energy and matter and use them to do work (use light to invent our physical universe).
The figures of people and things on the Television are slowed down light, photons; everything is slowed down light.
Mind did all these things, so mind is immensely powerful, do not underrate your mind or other people’s minds.
The sleeping and dreaming mind of the son of God invented our ego minds and the physical universe, so it is immensely powerful in its dream world and more powerful when awake when it creates permanent things.
CHRISTMAS IS THE BIRTH OF LOVE IN THE LOVELESS WORLD OF SEPARATED PEOPLE AND THINGS
Jesus Christ represents love for God and all people. His birth, therefore, means the birth of love in our separated, unloving world.
It does not matter whether he was born in the spring, April, when the shepherds were out in the fields with their sheep, or was born in the winter, December 25, 4 BC or 1 AD or CE.
What matters is what he symbolizes, love for God and for all God’s children on earth, in the dream of separation.
One should leave pedants to argue about when Jesus was born and, instead, concentrate on understanding that he symbolizes love and devote one’s life to loving God and all people and in doing so know peace and joy.
Ozodi Thomas Osuji
December 25, 2021Ya kpọtụba!
Ya gazie.
Ụmụ nne Abrahamụọgụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.
Chukwu Emeka Reuben Ọkala: Mechie ọnụ bụ etu Ndị Igbo si ekwu ya, HO! HA!
Ya kpọtụba!
Ya gazie.
Ụmụ nne Abrahamụọgụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.
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On Dec 26, 2021, at 9:26 PM, TAJUDEEN RAJI <tr...@aol.com> wrote:
“Zazoo Zehh” by Potavble - pay attention to the path of the lyrics where he says: “Iku to pa Jesu o, case yen won o ri settle o”. (They are yet to solve what killed Jesus - lol - crazy guy)

Chukwu Emeka Reuben Ọkala: Whom is Isaiah 3:12 talking about? “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.”
Ya kpọtụba!
Ya gazie.
Ụmụ nne Abrahamụọgụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.
On 27 Dec 2021, at 10:07, afis 'Deinde <odide...@gmail.com> wrote:
“ About 4 decades ago in the UK, there was one Bishop of Durham, Prof David Jenkins who openly doubted the virgin birth story and other miracles in the Bible .”……..Imperial-Fulani.Afis comment: Imperial, that’s the difference between Islam and Christianity.Imagine an Imam to openly doubt the Hadith?The Arabs will be chasing him around the world to kill him.You remember the author of “Satanic Verses”?While people can openly question the words of the Bible, a single question on Mohammed or Allah can place a person on the fatwa death threat.Can you tell us why your Islam operates like a gangster religion where no one can critic the Don named Prophet Mohammed or his big boss Allah?Imperial, the worse religion among the two is Islam.Remember after Mohammed plagiarized the Bible and called it Al Qur’an, he later announced to the world that Allah revealed the Qur’an to him in one night. How many verses are in the Qur’an?The verses in the Qur’an are called Ahyat, they are 6,236, and Mohammed learnt all the Ahyat in one night called “oru abiyi” in Yoruba.On that night known as Lailatul al Qadri, Mohammed recited 6,236 verses before dawn!What a genius!!He should’ve been in the Guinness book of world records!!!What actually happened was that he studied the Bible Pali to Pali (cover to cover), then he plagiarized it and called it Al Qur’an.Another thing, Mary is in the Qur’an too as Mariam bint al Imrana, which means Mariam the daughter of Imran.Though Qur’an insists God does not have a son, and no one gave birth to God, there is a verse in the Qur’an that admits Anobi Isa was conceived thru the Holy Spirit.If so, it then begs the question, who’s the Holy Spirit that ‘breaths Life” into Mariam bint al Imrana?Too many who shot John, and why is John not bleeding if he was shot dead?Imperial is a Fulani-Muslim, just like he jumps out with articles to discredit and defile Amotekun, Igbos and to call every other organization a terrorist group, while he even recently told us Boko Haram terrorists are better and more humane than IPOB,Imperial’s aim here is to put down Christianity.That’s his mission, to put petrol into fire by helping Nebu, as if Nebu needs his help. I don’t normally want any part of religious debate because most people discussing religion are myopically equipped, they either know Qur’an or the Bible. So, it’s all too biased.Most of the guys here only know the book of their religions, they can’t discuss the Geeta or others.However…….Fulani are Dan Banza people, beware of their tricks🤣🤣🤣Shikena
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On Dec 27, 2021, at 1:55 AM, Imperial <imperi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Morning Pastor OkalaI don’t think you can easily win him in this line of argument because it’s you ( not him ) that suppose to prove that Jesus birth isn’t statistical outlier.An expert in demography once wrote that over 100billion people have ever died in history, if we agree that the first homo sapien emerged about 50,000 years ago ( not 6000 - 7000 years based on the scripture ) .Bearing in mind the above, if from 108billion people that have ever been created ( 100billion have died and 8billion are still living ) and there is only one man some claim to have been born of virgin birth, I think it’s an impossible probability which needs a lot of explanation and investigation .Am sure you are well aware of the fact that there is an increasing number of clerics who don’t believe in the accuracy of the scriptures. About 4 decades ago in the UK, there was one Bishop of Durham, Prof David Jenkins who openly doubted the virgin birth story and other miracles in the Bible . In spite of his open attack on the Bible he wasn’t removed from the seat which is number two in importance to the Archbishop of Canterbury.Somebody just sent below to me by WhatsApp 😀Merry Xmas sir
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On Dec 27, 2021, at 6:01 AM, JEROME NIANG YAKUBU <jeromey...@gmail.com> wrote:
“…and there is only one man some claim to have been born of virgin birth, I think it’s an impossible probability which needs a lot of explanation and investigation.” - ImperialImperial,I could explain it but I seriously doubt if you could understand it.It is not about needing to prove ‘immaculate conceotiin’ because nobody has ever been born that way.It is not even about showing that an immaculate conception, i.e., development of an egg for reproduction, is possible because it is.It happens in the pineapple, citrus, cucumber, etc., etc., millions of times a day, every single day, and every single year!It is called PARTHENOCARPY.That’s besides the point because, as Rheinhold Niebuhr would say, it is absolutely nonsensical to believe in God, the creator of all things and all laws of nature and limit Him to something that is possible or even impossible for Him to do.Belief in God is not evidential; it is more complex…even serendipitous!Even Albert Einstein said:“Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, abet Boshaft ist er nicht.”andDeus ex Machina
Seriously, I find it a useless task to try to prove to anyone stupid enough to question the existence of God just because he doesn’t think that He can make an ‘Immaculate Conception’ possible when even the leading Astrophysicists believe that the very early event in the few seconds (Planck Epoch, zero to approx. 10 to minus 43 sec) that started the Big Bang before even Physics came into being because of a God Factor.I mean, how could a power that brought about the Universe itself, with the wondrous stars, supernovae, neutron stars, Quasars, Black Holes, etc., etc., etc. not be able to make happen in humans just once that which already happens in plants every year and every year for billions of years?It comes down to one intelligence, education, power to imagine and…power to believe!Quantum Physics actually will get your mind quicker to believing in God than illiteracy or poor education.We want to know whether God can do an ‘Immaculate Conception’ before we believe in his existence when even our best science cannot tell us what 5/6th of our own brain does not can our best mathematicians solve the complex differential equations that the muscles of a worm’s body solves just to make one contraction!Happy New Year my friend without faith.
Jacob,The Bible is not a history book.Unlike the Quran, the New Testament only reports things that are only directly relevant to the Kerygma, i.e., the Crucifixion and Salvation of Mankind on Calvary - the core message of Christianity.There are other documentation that report the extant life of the Gospel personalities, such as Mary and her husband Joseph or even Mary Magdalene, Mary’s cousin.The other historical events can be found by people with the proper education from writings from people of the era, such as Roman historians like Plutarch and Josephus.But if Mohammed didn’t just copy the parts of the Bible, he should have been able to tell the rest of the story that you think the Bible should have told, right?Out of curiosity, why do you want to know what happened to The Vessel of God, Mary, after she has served God’s purpose in conceiving and bearing the human incarnate Son of God?Happy New Year, my friend!
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On Dec 25, 2021, at 2:31 PM, Chukwuemeka Okala <reu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
"Nebu, today is not the day to devile Christianity. Today is Christians Day of celebration. Join them to celebrate or forever Meshonu biko!" - By Afis DeindeComment:Afis,You've said it the way it is. May your tribe increase! Meka.Blessings,
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On Dec 27, 2021, at 6:56 PM, JEROME NIANG YAKUBU <jeromey...@gmail.com> wrote:
John 6:23“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”I argue that all the information (soul) of all bodies will be conserved beyond death and only the identity of the information (soul) that ‘sinned’ shall die (lose its identity and consciousness)It is a matter of whether the darkness that engulfs one’s consciousness at the loss of one’s information at one’s equivalent of the Event Horizon (death) will blossom out in light and consciousness of Rapture, as matter that passes through the Black Hole does at emergence at the White Hole or be a permanent darkness.Think about that, whether you believe in God or not!
Some persons, upon encounter with philosophy and science and its superficial arguments, conclude that there is no God. They call themselves atheists. Thereafter, they are lost souls, grasping at straw for meaning. They must return to their real self, the union of God and his son as oneself to find meaning in their lives. My function is to go beyond traditional religion and offer these confused souls an explanation of God that is amenable with reason. Since I am particularly good at physics, if they want to approach God from physics I do so. After reading my writings, folks have no excuse not to return to their real selves, sons of God who are one with God. The below write up is a metaphorical explanation of that which cannot be explained in words. Metaphors represent something that cannot be articulated directly. Human language and speech cannot explain God, only experience of God, oneness, can convince one that God is real. To experience God, you must be like God. God is love, so, love all existence to experience God. Have a Happy New Year.
LIFE, LIGHT AND LOVE
I am life, light and love; I am one with life, light and love.
Ozodi Osuji
Life is one continuous thing; it has infinite units; however, the units are not apart from life itself. The units of life can be compared to the units of light.
Light is a wave within which are units called photons; wave and photons are one. Similarly, life and its units, you and I, are one continuous line.
Love can be analogically seen as the glue that holds all the units of life in connection with each other. Where one unit of life ends, and another begins is nowhere; they are all one life. There is no space, gap and time in life.
Life thus is also called spiritual light and love. All three names are the same thing. Life is the union of all things as one thing.
I am always love; I always love me and love all sons of God and love God.
If I am always love, how come I do not feel loved or loving towards other people? The answer is amazingly simple.
We are love but place blocks to the awareness of the love that we are. We cast a veil over love and do not see it or experience it.
We must remove those blocks, veil to experience the awareness of love, light and life that we are.
The block is the ego separated self.
Love is unified spirit self. We wished for separated ego self. We cannot separate from life, light and love because they are one continuous line with no breaks in them, but we can close our spiritual eyes and pretend that they have breaks, that there is a gap and space between people, between particles of light and light.
There cannot be a break in light, love and life, but we can pretend that there is one. Our lives on earth are pretense that there are breaks in love, light and life and that each of us is now separated from other selves.
The ego and body, space and time are imaginary breaks to the awareness of loves continuous nature, and life and light’s continuous state.
Ego space and time are fantasy, not real; they are imaginary, dream states whereby we take what is eternally joined and connected and imagine that they are separated into bits, fragments and parts, each separated from others and can relate to them when it feels so or not relate to them.
Even at the physical level our bodies are parts of light from the sun and all stars and are not separated from them; the food we eat, and our physical environment and bodies are all joined and cannot separate from each other.
At the spiritual level, all things are joined in one continuous line, or in one circle that has no beginning and no end.
Ego, space, time, matter, and hatred, fear and guilt are all means of making separated selves seem possible, but they are not possible.
I always love me and all people but imagine that I do not love them. All I need to do is stop wishing for an ego separated self and emphasizing my ego and I sink into the awareness that I love all people and they love me.
Love is all there is, so I do not have to do anything to experience love; all I need to do is remove what I did to prevent my awareness of love: remove my ego and identification with body.
SEPARATION, SIN, GUILT, FEAR OF PUNISHMENT BY GOD AND SELF PUNISHMENT TO APPEASE GOD
When I see me as separated from other selves and from the whole self-called God, I feel like I did something wrong and feel guilt. Feeling guilty and sinful I feel like those I separated from, God and other people, are angry at me and would attack and punish me.
I push that guilt and fear into my ego unconscious mind. From the unconscious mind they affect me. I feel evil, worthy of punishment, and punish me.
I punish me with pain, suffering and poverty. But if I accept that I am joined to all people and God then I do not feel guilty and sinful and, as such, do not expect to be punished by God and people. I feel one with them nd love them and they love me, and I live in peace and joy; I live in both material and spiritual abundance.
A course in miracles, a spiritual poem, written in Shakespearian blank verse, iambic pentameter, put what I said in prose in lovely language; in the introduction to the 1300 pages book, it says this about love:
“1. This is a course in miracles. ²It is a required course. ³Only the time you take it is voluntary. ⁴Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. ⁵It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. ⁶The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. ⁷It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance. ⁸The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
2. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
²Nothing real can be threatened.
³Nothing unreal exists.
⁴Herein lies the peace of God.”
Ozodi Osuji
December 29, 2021
Note:
A course in miracles was written by Professor Helen Schucman and typed by Professor Bill Thetford, both of Columbia Universe, New York; it was edited by Dr. Kenneth Wapnick, a clinical psychologist. The book was written in blank verse, in iambic pentameter. I find it difficult to understand poems. Therefore, I undertook to rewrite what it says in my kind of language, prose. My prose is obviously not as lovely as Dr. Schucman’s poetry. Each of us must write as his self. Dr. Ozodi Osuji.
Reference
Schucman, Helen (1976). A course in miracles. Mill Valley, California: Foundation for inner peace.
On Dec 29, 2021, at 17:43, Stevek <stev...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Olola,Not knowing is not a proper rebuttal to facts.Read the following and decide that scientists from Galileo to Hawkins consider the soul a myth.Physicists Claim that Consciousness Lives
in Quantum State After Death
Does quantum mechanics predict the existence of a spiritual “soul”? Testimonials from prominent physics researchers from institutions such as Cambridge University, Princeton University, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich claim that quantum mechanicspredicts some version of “life after death.” They assert that a person may possess a body-soul duality that is an extension of the wave-particle duality of subatomic particles.
Wave-particle duality, a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics, proposes that elementary particles, such as photons and electrons, possess the properties of both particles and waves. These physicists claim that they can possibly extend this theory to the soul-body dichotomy. If there is a quantum code for all things, living and dead, then there is an existence after death (speaking in purely physical terms). Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, former head of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, posits that, just as a particle “writes” all of its information on its wave function, the brain is the tangible “floppy disk” on which we save our data, and this data is then “uploaded” into the spiritual quantum field. Continuing with this analogy, when we die the body, or the physical disk, is gone, but our consciousness, or the data on the computer, lives on.
“What we consider the here and now, this world, it is actually just the material level that is comprehensible. The beyond is an infinite reality that is much bigger. Which this world is rooted in. In this way, our lives in this plane of existence are encompassed, surrounded, by the afterworld already… The body dies but the spiritual quantum field continues. In this way, I am immortal,” says Dürr.
Dr. Christian Hellwig of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, found evidence that information in our central nervous system is phase encoded, a type of coding that allows multiple pieces of data to occupy the same time. He said, “Our thoughts, our will, our consciousness and our feelings show properties that could be referred to as spiritual properties…No direct interaction with the known fundamental forces of natural science, such as gravitation, electromagnetic forces, etc. can be detected in the spiritual. On the other hand, however, these spiritual properties correspond exactly to the characteristics that distinguish the extremely puzzling and wondrous phenomena in the quantum world.”
Physicist Professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University concluded that if consciousness can exchange information in both directions with the physical environment, then it can be attributed with the same “molecular binding potential” as physical objects, meaning that it must also follow the tenets of quantum mechanics. Quantum physicist David Bohm, a student and friend of Albert Einstein, was of a similar opinion. He stated, “The results of modern natural sciences only make sense if we assume an inner, uniform, transcendent reality that is based on all external data and facts. The very depth of human consciousness is one of them.”
On Wednesday, December 29, 2021, 5:25 PM, Stevek <stev...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Olola,Actually,The argument I presented is not about the soul obeying the Laws of Newtonian Physics’ Conservationof Mass at all because the soul has no substance or Mass, as it is just an ascribed Information of a particular Mass (body).And, as Information of a particular body, such as a iPhone, that passes through a black hole that - obeying the Law of Conservation of Information, must emerge with its Information as iPhone, instead of just its chemical and physical elements, the soul too should, under quantum terms of Conservation of Information, must emerge with the body as its ascription.You may not have heard of this argument before but it has been made in the discussions about quantum Conservation of Information (in contradiction from Newtonian Conservation of Mass, which you appear to be only familiar with).And when you wrote: “You have ventured into a realm that the most knowledgeable scientists among mankind from Galileo Galileithrough Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawkins and others still walking the face of the earth have deftly stayed clear of.”Who told you that?That you don’t know about it doesn’t make it untrue nor does you quote from Jesus has anything to do with Quantum Physics Law of Conservation of Information.And, frankly, I am bemused that you think that the concept of ‘soul’ is a myth while you must believe in the reality of love, happiness, and hate - which, also have no mass.Have you ever heard of gravitons (gravitic particles) responsible for gravity?Just a few years ago, gravitons were also considered a myth. But today, full scale research is ongoing on gravitons at the University of Maryland and elsewhere to produce gravitic drives for spaceships to replace solid fuel!
That means, any matter that is crushed and reduced to plasma indistinguishability and lost its information at the entry of the Black Hole at the Event Horizon will reappear at the other end of the Black Hole - called a White Hole, in an Alternate Universe, as the Information that entered the Black Hole! So, what about the Soul? Shouldn't there be a Law of the Conservation of the Soul at its own Event Horizon, i.e., cataclysmic exit out of the world called death? At least, all will agree that the moment of each person's death is cataclysmic. (Kueberuwa)
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On Dec 30, 2021, at 10:15 AM, 'Afis' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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A spirit is no matter and, therefore, neither occupy space or has any mass.But that’s definition for only most kinds of matter because photons and neutrinos are massless matter that occupy space.
“Religion requires a sense of disbelief” – Ola
That “disbelief” is called FAITH without which there would be no religion.
“faith
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Hebrews 11:1: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."
Cyril Anyanwu
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On Wednesday, December 29, 2021, 4:27 PM, olaka...@aol.com <olaka...@aol.com> wrote:
Wave-particle duality, a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics, proposes that elementary particles, such as photons and electrons, possess the properties of both particles and waves. These physicists claim that they can possibly extend this theory to the soul-body dichotomy. If there is a quantum code for all things, living and dead, then there is an existence after death (speaking in purely physical terms). Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, former head of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, posits that, just as a particle “writes” all of its information on its wave function, the brain is the tangible “floppy disk” on which we save our data, and this data is then “uploaded” into the spiritual quantum field. Continuing with this analogy, when we die the body, or the physical disk, is gone, but our consciousness, or the data on the computer, lives on.
It is a matter of whether the darkness that engulfs one’s consciousness at the loss of one’s information at one’s equivalent of the Event Horizon (death) will blossom out in light and consciousness of Rapture, as matter that passes through the Black Hole does at emergence at the White Hole or be a permanent darkness.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 5:43 PM, Stevek<stev...@yahoo.com> wrote:Olola,
Not knowing is not a proper rebuttal to facts.Read the following and decide that scientists from Galileo to Hawkins consider the soul a myth.
Physicists Claim that Consciousness Lives
in Quantum State After Death
Does quantum mechanics predict the existence of a spiritual “soul”? Testimonials from prominent physics researchers from institutions such as Cambridge University, Princeton University, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich claim that quantum mechanicspredicts some version of “life after death.” They assert that a person may possess a body-soul duality that is an extension of the wave-particle duality of subatomic particles.
Wave-particle duality, a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics, proposes that elementary particles, such as photons and electrons, possess the properties of both particles and waves. These physicists claim that they can possibly extend this theory to the soul-body dichotomy. If there is a quantum code for all things, living and dead, then there is an existence after death (speaking in purely physical terms). Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, former head of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, posits that, just as a particle “writes” all of its information on its wave function, the brain is the tangible “floppy disk” on which we save our data, and this data is then “uploaded” into the spiritual quantum field. Continuing with this analogy, when we die the body, or the physical disk, is gone, but our consciousness, or the data on the computer, lives on.
“What we consider the here and now, this world, it is actually just the material level that is comprehensible. The beyond is an infinite reality that is much bigger. Which this world is rooted in. In this way, our lives in this plane of existence are encompassed, surrounded, by the afterworld already… The body dies but the spiritual quantum field continues. In this way, I am immortal,” says Dürr.
Dr. Christian Hellwig of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, found evidence that information in our central nervous system is phase encoded, a type of coding that allows multiple pieces of data to occupy the same time. He said, “Our thoughts, our will, our consciousness and our feelings show properties that could be referred to as spiritual properties…No direct interaction with the known fundamental forces of natural science, such as gravitation, electromagnetic forces, etc. can be detected in the spiritual. On the other hand, however, these spiritual properties correspond exactly to the characteristics that distinguish the extremely puzzling and wondrous phenomena in the quantum world.”
Physicist Professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University concluded that if consciousness can exchange information in both directions with the physical environment, then it can be attributed with the same “molecular binding potential” as physical objects, meaning that it must also follow the tenets of quantum mechanics. Quantum physicist David Bohm, a student and friend of Albert Einstein, was of a similar opinion. He stated, “The results of modern natural sciences only make sense if we assume an inner, uniform, transcendent reality that is based on all external data and facts. The very depth of human consciousness is one of them.”
Does quantum mechanics predict the existence of a spiritual “soul”? Testimonials from prominent physics researchers from institutions such as Cambridge University, Princeton University, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich claim that quantum mechanicspredicts some version of “life after death.” They assert that a person may possess a body-soul duality that is an extension of the wave-particle duality of subatomic particles.
Wave-particle duality, a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics, proposes that elementary particles, such as photons and electrons, possess the properties of both particles and waves. These physicists claim that they can possibly extend this theory to the soul-body dichotomy. If there is a quantum code for all things, living and dead, then there is an existence after death (speaking in purely physical terms). Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, former head of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, posits that, just as a particle “writes” all of its information on its wave function, the brain is the tangible “floppy disk” on which we save our data, and this data is then “uploaded” into the spiritual quantum field. Continuing with this analogy, when we die the body, or the physical disk, is gone, but our consciousness, or the data on the computer, lives on.
“What we consider the here and now, this world, it is actually just the material level that is comprehensible. The beyond is an infinite reality that is much bigger. Which this world is rooted in. In this way, our lives in this plane of existence are encompassed, surrounded, by the afterworld already… The body dies but the spiritual quantum field continues. In this way, I am immortal,” says Dürr.
Dr. Christian Hellwig of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, found evidence that information in our central nervous system is phase encoded, a type of coding that allows multiple pieces of data to occupy the same time. He said, “Our thoughts, our will, our consciousness and our feelings show properties that could be referred to as spiritual properties…No direct interaction with the known fundamental forces of natural science, such as gravitation, electromagnetic forces, etc. can be detected in the spiritual. On the other hand, however, these spiritual properties correspond exactly to the characteristics that distinguish the extremely puzzling and wondrous phenomena in the quantum world.”
Physicist Professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University concluded that if consciousness can exchange information in both directions with the physical environment, then it can be attributed with the same “molecular binding potential” as physical objects, meaning that it must also follow the tenets of quantum mechanics. Quantum physicist David Bohm, a student and friend of Albert Einstein, was of a similar opinion. He stated, “The results of modern natural sciences only make sense if we assume an inner, uniform, transcendent reality that is based on all external data and facts. The very depth of human consciousness is one of them.”
On Wednesday, December 29, 2021, 5:25 PM, Stevek <stev...@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Thursday, December 30, 2021, 1:28 PM, olaka...@aol.com <olaka...@aol.com> wrote:
COULD WHOEVER CREATED PEOPLE HAVE NOT PLACED THEM IN BODIES?
Ozodi Osuji
One of the reasons why I rejected the idea that God created us is the human body. During the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970), I was at secondary school. When the Nigerians entered Owerri and eventually the Biafrans drove them out, my father and I entered Owerri. We saw dead human bodies littering the streets. There were dead bodies decaying everywhere and we had to cover our noses to be able to walk by them.
Have you ever seen dead and decaying human bodies? The smell is awful. That episode of seeing decaying bodies, among others, led me to doubt that a loving God would create people and place them in human bodies.
In fact, I concluded that only an evil God, what Gnostics call Demiurge, or Lucifer, would create people and place them in bodies that would die and smell worse than feces.
Since my mind could not accept the idea that there is no God, I settled for not knowing whether there is God or not. I am agnostic.
I envy theists who despite the absurdity of existence accept God on faith; I am not as unintelligent as atheists to believe that there is no God.
I understand physics and chemistry and appreciate the intricate processes that underpin evolution, from the big bang to the present and do not see how it could all have been due to accidents.
If you understand the precise calibration of activities in the atom, elements, and molecules you simply cannot believe that they are the products of accident and chance events, you will simply marvel and wonder what genius composed the atom (electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks all doing what they are supposed to do and doing it precisely, no mistake allowed).
Talking about the human body, you do not have to be a biologist to appreciate what an intricate machine it is. Animals’ bodies are the most impressive machine designed by whoever designed them but then again you observe that the complex machine is going to die and decay to the sixty-four elements that compose it.
The human body is composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, calcium, iron, sodium, zinc, copper, phosphor, magnesium, potassium and other elements. Those elements eventually decay to electrons, protons and neutrons and those decay to photons- light.
The universe began, 13.8 billion years ago, in hot light and will end in cold light (Big Chill, cold radiation).
The point is this, if God created the human body and the universe, why did he bother constructing an excellent universe and human body only to have them die.
It seems to me that only an insane genius would bother creating the universe and our bodies and in a fi t of rage destroy them.
Okay, I do not know if there is God or not. But I do know something for sure, though. I do know that there is intelligence everywhere. There is intelligence in our bodies and outside our bodies. In fact, the entire universe can be considered an intelligence system.
There is consciousness in the universe. Rene Descartes said, Cogito ergo sum, I think, therefore, I am; he is conscious of his existence but doubts everything else.
I have had enough baffling so-called mystical experiences, including out of body experience, teleportation, visitations to the world of light forms, to not accept that there is consciousness in this universe, but that has not explained the conundrum of creating a universe and body destined to die.
Stephen Hawkins asked: why did God bother creating this universe that would die? My German philosophical mentor, Arthur Schopenhauer said that whoever created this world and people must have made a mistake.
Just see white Americans behaving like fools. As we talk, Republican, whites, controlled states, are busy passing laws to disenfranchise black folks. If they are even a little bit intelligent, would they not know that if black folks are prevented from voting that in short order, the American polity is going to go up in flames and burn to ashes. But, like brain dead folks, they seem to only know how to do what gives them pain not pleasure.
If white America were rational folks they would do what they do in Scandinavia, adopt social democracy, make sure that all folks vote and give all folks publicly paid education at all levels and publicly paid health care and then allow the capitalist system to do what it does best, incentivize people to provide new goods and services in an effort to make a little profit.
American white men got to be the dumbest human beings on planet earth; they are always doing the wrong things, including fighting a civil war, not for a noble goal of bettering all people but to enslave black folks (they are not ashamed of slavery).
Schopenhauer observed white Americans calling themselves Christians, instead of loving people, as Jesus Christ asked his followers to do, they wanted to enslave some people and he decided that they are a mistake, a blight on the human scene and ought to not exist! They are a plague, a pestilence on humankind.
I see people as marvelous machines but also as pointless machines. This is the existentialist philosopher’s stance; he sees an interesting universe but a pointless one.
It is still good to study the universe and people and try to understand them. Science is fascinating and could keep people going even if there is no meaning and purpose to their lives.
So, this evening (December 30) my mind got to asking: could God or whatever created us have done it differently? He obviously made us wicked to each other; human beings are by nature very evil, could there be logic in creating evil people?
Could he have done a different job? Helen Schucman, a very perceptive psychologist, wrote in her A course in miracles that only if God is evil would he have created this pointless world. She said that God is good and therefore could not have created an evil world. So, who created an evil world?
She did not want to blame God. Instead, she said that the son of God created this pointless universe, and she took out her anger, rage and frustration on the son of God, on us.
The son of God made a mistake in creating this universe. God corrected his mistake via the Holy Spirit by asking us to forgive, overlook the pointless universe we made and love the dreamers, the sons of God. Thus, she blamed us and at the same time forgave us and want us to love our real selves but hate what our false ego selves do.
Cleaver thinking there, Dr Schucman, you did not have that IQ of 160 for nothing! You put your intellect to cleaver use, but by half.
Professor Schucman did not answer the question of why even bother creating the universe that exists to die, why not leave well alone, let people be spirits that did not live in bodies?
As I look at the human body and the physical universe, I cannot accept that they were produced by randomness, accidence and chance, but at the same time I cannot accept that a rational God creating it, be it the transcendental God the father or the immanent God the son, us. To me, the universe ought to not exist, period. Just thinking about what we do with our bodies, eating, pooping, having sex makes me not want to live in body.
I see people praying to and thanking God for the good he did for them. Pray and thank God for creating you to die, for your body to be a food processing machine and when the machine ages it breaks down and you die! Such God ought to be cursed not praised. I do not pray to God; I try to understand God, as Gnostics do.
Now, suppose that God or the son of God created us, could he have created us differently? Our bodies are made of matter. Matter could have been used in a non-biological form but differently to create us.
Soon, human beings will use the various elements to invent robots that look like people and think and behave like people; the robots will live for a certain number of years, as cars do, and break down and are replaced; in the future, we may even create self-replicating robots. No one knows how far Artificial Intelligence, AI, will take us.
If we create robots that act like human beings, would we bother creating children-robots? Given the trouble that children give their parents, I doubt that we would create them; we would create adult robots and leave it at that.
But that would take away the joy we all had growing up. Just thinking of going with my father all over Lagos, to Bar Beach, Ikoyi Park etc. makes me feel happy; I am sure that father felt happy from taking us around town. There is something to be said about childhood and raising children.
My question is this, was it ingenious for God to create us and place us in bodies, especially if he knows that though our bodies would die that we really do not die but live eternally with him in his heaven? I do not know the answer to my question, but there is something to be said for wetware.
We are bodies into which someone place a software, a program, intelligence in and use our bodies to do work.
If death is not our end, may be God did not make a mistake in creating us, as I had always believed that he did.
What do you think?
Please do not ask me to go read the bible. I have done that; I have had most experiences that Hindu so-called God realized persons had and still am not convinced that God exist.
Hindu so-called God realized persons were jokers; if they were Godly hence loving persons, would they have allowed the caste system to exist in India? Those guys amuse me. So, let us talk philosophy and science and not the irrationalities of religious folks.
Could whoever created us have done so in other forms but chose to do so in biological forms because he knows that although we would die that death is not real?
What are your thoughts on this subject?
Finally, there is always a positive in all human events; at wars people are killed; my study of history shows me that the world’s greatest philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibnitz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hume, Berkely, Hobbes, Horace, Virgil, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Zeno, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Shanakara, Osuji, Sartre, Camus, Jasper, Heidegger, Kierkegaard etc. did their thinking after witnessing the barbarism of violence. Wars make us think about who we are. The only good I see in war is that it stimulates us to think and not live like religious persons who seem not given to thinking. The only good that I derived from the Nigerian civil war is that it exposed me to death and dying hence gave me a proper perspective on the human body. You can place the most expensive jewels on your body, I know that your body is still food for worms, so I am not impressed by it. What impresses me is your mind, your thoughts, not your body that is food being cooked for worms.
Please do not use mental health categories to obfuscate philosophical thinking. I can see a poorly trained, childish psychologist saying that I am depressed. I am as good a mental health professional as you can see in this world.
Americans, barbarians over psychologized their lives and stopped thinking philosophically. Seeing things as they are is not been depressed but being realistic. It is you who says that your dead mother, now eaten by warms, has gone to glory, who is in denial and living in fantasy land, and is deluded; you need to be healed of your infantilism and brought to adult realistic thinking.
Ozodi Osuji
December 31, 2021On Dec 31, 2021, at 12:03 AM, Cyril Anyanwu <lash...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 31, 2021, at 6:57 AM, Ozodi Osuji <ozodi...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
“You know for the longest time, Joseph Igietseme - not my favorite kind of person, has insisted that SteveK was not a scientist.”…….Baba Wharfy.
On Dec 30, 2021, at 9:43 PM, 'Nebukadineze Adiele' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
I could explain it but I seriously doubt if you could understand it.”……….Stevek.
On Dec 30, 2021, at 10:31 PM, Nebukadineze Adiele <Nebuka...@aol.com> wrote:
“Religion requires a sense of disbelief” – Ola
That “disbelief” is called FAITH without which there would be no religion.
“faith
2.
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Hebrews 11:1: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."
Cyril Anyanwu
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I could explain it but I seriously doubt if you could understand it.”……….Stevek.This is how Stevek started a post when responding to his lapdog, Imperial.
Stevek has no knowledge of how smart Imperial is, or what level of EDUCATION he had acquired. But to Stevek, Imperial is just a yo-yo village bumpkin.
This is why no one can stand him, Stevek is NOT a scientist but pretends he knows everything including non-science subjects.
You just need to talk about anything, even the Bible, Stevek will RELATE it falsely to Science.
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 6:57 AM, Ozodi Osuji<ozodi...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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Bye,
Ola
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Sent: Thu, Dec 30, 2021 12:41 pm
Subject: Re: ||NaijaObserver|| Nebukadineze Adiele: Re: Jesus – God’s Perfect Gift To Mankind
On Thursday, December 30, 2021, 11:28 AM, TAJUDEEN RAJI <tr...@aol.com> wrote:
Baba SteveK,If I remember correctly from my days in high school or so, matter is defined as anything that occupies space and has mass. That is, something physical or can be felt /measured. How then is a spirit a matter, if it does not occupy space and there is nothing physical about it?Throw me a bone baba SteveK, help me to better understand how a spirit is a matter. Not important for me to know, just curious.Thanks,
Tajudeen Raji
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On Dec 30, 2021, at 10:15 AM, 'Afis' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
This guy is “mucho loco”!Stevek is going bunkers!!He strings up a bunch of Googling together, but if you took time to read thru it, you found the essay very disjointed, as if the writer was carrying a cheat-sheet into an exam room.
Stevek writes like one classmate of mine who copied A.O. Lawal’s Econs into his exams paper, but he copied all the graphs word for word including “see figure 8”.That was how he was caught because there wasn’t any “figure 8” in his answer sheet!The different set of fonts, and set of writings and different pros ing formations, gave Stevek away.
This guy is truly shameless.
Afis“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 29, 2021, at 12:01 PM, Stevek <stev...@yahoo.com> wrote:
“And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.” Matthew 2:11 NKJVNo one in our generation can testify to the accuracy of the date of birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Jesus was likely not born on 25th December. And this is not disputable! But Christmas is not about the celebration of the “Day” Jesus was born; it has everything to do with the celebration of Jesus Christ - God’s Perfect Gift to mankind. The “Day”, 25th December did not die for our sins, to save us from eternal condemnation and reconcile us to God. Jesus did. The “Day”, 25th December did not manifest so that it might destroy the works of the devil. Jesus did (1 John 3:8). 25th December did not come into the world to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10). Jesus did. To celebrate the birth of the Messiah, a “Day” must be set aside in commemoration. And 25th of December happens to be that fortunate Day!God created man in His own image (Genesis 1:27) and put our pioneer ancestral parents, Adam and Eve in a place of perfect Peace and Treasure (The Garden of Eden) where He only had meetings and direct communications with them. But Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ipso facto lost their right to perfect Peace and Treasure, and in the process, were thrown out of that place of eternal tranquillity by their very Creator, Master and Friend – God.The sin of Adam and Eve rubbed on all generations of mankind. It brought corruption, curse, condemnation and death to the hitherto perfectly and beautifully made creation in God’s own image – man and woman.With sin, “the soul of man experienced a schism with God’s Spirit. The only solution to bridge this great divide and bring mankind back in relationship with God would require a work of atonement.”Let me make it abundantly clear here that the work of atonement is not limited to the first sin that Adam and Eve committed, it also takes care of the sins that we ourselves have committed.Our God is the God of Love (Αγάπη – Agape). His love for man is beyond human imagination and comprehension. To put it more succinctly, He has a ridiculous love for mankind! God knew that man will fall; therefore He made safeguards for their redemption even before the foundation of the world:“…but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. (I Peter 1:18-20 NKJV).Jesus is God’s perfect Gift (Lamb) that was foreordained for the redemption of man even before the foundation of the world. At the fullness of time, He came into the earth that He made through birth process. He wrapped Himself in flesh and blood, and chose to be born of a woman like every human being, to fulfil that purpose:But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (Galatians 4:4-7 NKJV).Realising the gravity of the yoke of the burden of the law under which we were condemned because of sin, which Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice broke, no celebration to commemorate Him on the date of His birth is enough!When the Apostle Paul wrote that God sent Jesus in order to redeem those under the law, he was talking about all generations of mankind – you, me, our ancestors and those yet to be born. We were lost in our sins and separated from God. We could not on our own restore ourselves to a relationship with Him, but God wanted us to be free to re-establish a relationship with Him. In order to remove the barrier that stood in-between our relationship with Him, God sent Jesus “that we might receive the adoption as [His] sons and daughters, if you like.Jesus is the Perfect Gift of God to mankind!The Bible records in Mathew 2:11 that, Jesus was presented with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh on His birth by the three wise men, magi from the East. Because of this, Christmas as a festivity commemorating the birth of Christ has taken the traditional profile of a period when folks give and exchange gifts.During Christmas season, post offices world-wide are awash with parcels and overwhelmed with extra work-load of sorting and sending out various sizes and kinds of these parcels, cards and letters containing gifts and good wishes that people send across to their friends, loved ones, colleagues and acquaintances in the giving-spirit of the festivity.Also, the birth of Jesus was greeted with unspeakable joy. “When they saw the star [over the place where baby Jesus was lying], they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy” (Matthew 2:10).In the same vein, the angel brought to the shepherds a message of joy. “Then the angel said to them, Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:10-11 NKJV).“Joy” therefore has become an integral part of Christmas. Churches, offices, theatre houses, pubs, streets, name it, are abuzz with all kinds of activities that make human beings feel good during the celebration of Christmas.The irony and very unfortunate thing, is that only a few in the world understands the joy of Christmas and why it is celebrated in the first place. Many have simply lost its meaning and others do not even know why they celebrate it with such a gusto of unqualified joy.This article is intended to remind readers of the precious and perfect Gift of God to mankind in the Person of Jesus Christ in whose honour we celebrate Christmas. God wanted us to be freed from sin and to live in harmony with Him with a peace of mind. For this reason, He sent Jesus “that we might receive the adoption as sons.”As you celebrate Jesus - the wonderful Gift of God to you in this Christmas, rejoice that by His Gift, you have been adopted into His family through Jesus Christ.Christmas is not about ordinary celebration. It is all about the celebration of the greatest Gift of God to you. Celebrate Jesus with joy in this Christmas!This article was first published in the Christmas 2011 Edition of Pentecostal Truth (PT) and is reproduced by the author with minor modifications.Rev. Emeka Okala is the Editor of The Pentecostal Truth and the Pastor of the East London Church of Life Tabernacle UPC.
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