April 15, 2014 @ 9:09 AM

Romans 1: 28-32:  Do we know what God may be?

These verses say that if we do not keep “God” in our knowledge our mind becomes reprobate. This word “knowledge” means acknowledge or recognition.  So not only is it an understanding of God but an acknowledgement of God.  These verses do not tell us what God is, but it does tell us what can happen when we don’t keep “God” in our mind.  Hebrews 12:29 says “… for our God is a consuming fire”, and 1John 4:8 says “…for God is love”.  If the Bible is supposedly not contradictory, how can God be a consuming fire and love both?  Well, let the love that God is, burn up and consume all those things in us that are listed in verses 29-31. So that by the love of God those things may “die” in us such that that part of us “dies”. Just as it says in verse 32, this death we are worthy of. 

In Corinthians it says that God is jealous of something. 

2Co 11:2 “For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ….as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”

He is jealous because our female counterpart (i.e. Eve) is corrupted, which is in our MIND.  God desires our male counterpart (i.e. husband) to be Christ, who is in us.  [also see previous posts]

In John is says when we don’t have our “true” husband (i.e. Christ) we can be corrupted I suppose by five husbands. 

John 4:17-18 “the woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, thou hast well said, I have no husband: for thou has had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy [true] husband…”

Do these verses help us know more about what God may be?  What are these five husbands that are not our “true” husband?  Are they our five senses which make us aware of the physical carnal world around us.  Who is our true husband or male counterpart that keeps us from doing those things which are not convenient?