God's purpose is . . . ?!

The New Testament is just a collection of letters. God let go of His ownership rights over Adam's family to the Devil. The God of the Bible is human-like. The priesthood is the mediator between God and the Devil.

This article is about biblical discussions that begun with comments of Mr. Yoo who is an ex-Jehovah's Witnesses.

Mr. Yoo's blog "JW Complete Refutation Blog" in Japanese

Is the "New Testament" just a collection of letters, not inspired Scripture?

Jehovah's Witnesses understand what Mr.Yoo has written about the Hebrew Scriptures and also believe that the Christian Greek Scriptures are inspired writings.

The canonical status of the Christian Greek Scriptures was not determined at the Council of Carthage, an apostate Christian organization, as Mr. Yoo writes. The Roman Catholic Church and other organized religions that evolved from it did not determine the canonization of the Bible. These national religious organizations used by Satan simply ratified (utilized) the scriptures that were already established among the early Christians in order to establish their own authority.

Also, the early Christians, including the apostles, before apostate Christian organizations emerged, were given spiritual gifts from God and provided the letters and testimonies of Christ known as the inspired Christian Greek Scriptures for future sons of the Kingdom. So, these inspired letters are not simply a "collection of letters" as Yoo writes. It is a divinely inspired book, just like the Hebrew Scriptures, the foundation of the faith of the sons of the kingdom and the power of God to guide those who believe.

I want to stress the powerful operation of God's spirit in the early Christian congregation.

On the day of Pentecost in 33 C.E., God inaugurated the Christian congregation, by pouring out his Spirit on 120 disciples of Christ. The account of that event and the apostles' subsequent ministry is found in the book of Acts.
So if you want to know the work of God's Spirit, read the book of Acts carefully. Then you will see that the letters written by Paul and the other apostles are inspired writings.

The Spirit of God that guided first-century Christians gave some the power to discern the inspired words, as recorded in 1 Corinthians 12:10.
We can see, then, that the early Christian sons of the kingdom established a canonical list of the Christian Greek Scriptures that was circulated and utilized in the Christian community of their time.

1Co 12:4-11
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but there is the same spirit; 5 and there are varieties of ministries, and yet there is the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of operations, and yet it is the same God who performs all the operations in all persons. 7 But the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one for a beneficial purpose. 8 For example, to one there is given through the spirit speech of wisdom, to another speech of knowledge according to the same spirit, 9 to another faith by the same spirit, to another gifts of healings by that one spirit, 10 to yet another operations of powerful works, to another prophesying, to another discernment of inspired utterances, to another different tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues. 11 But all these operations the one and the same spirit performs, making a distribution to each one respectively just as it wills.

The word "Bible" comes from the Greek word "biblia," the plural of "biblos." Biblos is a writing paper made from the inner bark of the stem of a plant called papyrus, and biblia is a bundle of biblos for making a book.

The Hebrew Scriptures were written on scrolls and kept in Jewish synagogues, where people would read and listen to the Scriptures.

Epistles and records of Christ's activities in the Christian era were originally written on scrolls, but early Christians made their own copies of the Christian Greek Scriptures, which they kept and used. As a result, a vast number of copies of the Christian Greek Scriptures were produced and remain to this day, far more than any other ancient manuscripts.

Additionally, early Christians wanted to have copies of the Christian Greek Scriptures with them, and they left behind copies of the Greek Scriptures in the form of booklets, similar to today's books, rather than scrolls.

Some early Christians were given the ability to "discern the inspired words," and through this divine power, a catalog of the Holy Scriptures was established from the letters and testimonies circulating among Christians at the time, which became the foundation of Christian faith and a guiding force for genuine Christian activity that continues to this day.

Therefore, each early Christian had copies of the Scriptures in the form of books, which they could distribute to every corner of the world at that time, and the number of these manuscripts far exceeds that of other ancient manuscripts, and their contents can still be read today.

Has God let go of His ownership rights over Adam's family to the Devil?

It is about the claim that God has given up ownership of mankind and handed it over to Satan.

When Adam and Eve fell into sin because of Satan's lies, God did not abandon Adam's family.

God has not given up His authority (ownership, dominion, or whatever authority belongs to Him) over the heavens and the earth and all of their creations. That is impossible. The family of Adam, who sinned (and all mankind, including Adam), belongs to God.

Satan does not own Adam's family, who sinned.

Satan has used lies to rob what belongs to God. It was not God who was deceived, but those who belong to God were deceived and, conforming to the lie, became slaves of Satan. This event was not planned by God.

All creatures, including Satan, are allowed to exist under God's authority.
And everybody faces the consequences of their actions under God's unchangeable principle that "everyone reaps what they sow."

Satan has simply been allowed to create his own world that operates on lies and threats.
In time, Satan will reap the consequences of his actions.

God has not given Satan any authority, nor has He relinquished His own.
What Satan has been given is the freedom to create his own world of lies and threats, not the authority given to him by God and the ownership that God has relinquished over Adam's family deceived by Satan's lies.

Satan created the world of mankind with lies and threats.
The authority that Satan has is nothing more than an authority that he has created through deception and intimidation over his world. Satan's worldly authority is not authority from God. Adam's family, living in Satan's world, are slaves to Satan's lies and threats.

God, the Owner of mankind, used Christ in the first century to break Satan's power and free people from Satan's false authority. Because mankind belongs to God, and God has not given up ownership of Adam's family deceived by Satan's lies.

Satan's authority is over his own world, which he has created through deception and threats. Satan's world operates under his authority, and he gives whoever worship Him, his own illegal authority.

The authority that Satan has established in his world is his own. Because God has allowed Satan to establish his authorities in his world, in that sense, those authorities have been handed over to Satan. Because of that, Satan was able to offer his worldly authority and glory to Jesus, in exchange with worshiping Satan.

Lu 4:5-6
5 So he brought him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in an instant of time; 6 and the Devil said to him: "I will give you all this authority and the glory of them, because it has been delivered to me, and to whomever I wish I give it.

The worldly authority and glory that Satan has and can offer is not the authority and glory that God gives.　The power and glory of Satan's world are built on lies, threats, greed, injustice, and oppression, and they oppress and victimize many people.　The authority of Satan's world is rubbish that exalts creation, and the glory of Satan's world is a false glory created by competitiveness and jealousy, which is also rubbish.

Jesus did not accept such rubbish.

Satan lawlessly made his world with lies, bribes, and threats. God has not given Him the authority to do so, nor has He ceded ownership of victimized Adam's family to Satan. Christ will remove Satan's lawless world.

1Joh 3:8
8 He who carries on sin originates with the Devil, because the Devil has been sinning from [the] beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was made manifest, namely, to break up the works of the Devil.

Satan's authority is over his world, and he is called the ruler of the world. Satan's authority had no power over Jesus.

Joh 14:30
30 I shall not speak much with YOU anymore, for the ruler of the world is coming. And he has no hold on me,

Satan's authority is only authority over those who succumb to his lies and threats. Satan's lies and threats had no power over Jesus. Because Jesus knew the truth, loved the truth, and lived in connection with God in the truth.

What does 1 John 5:19 mean when it says, "The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one"?

It means the whole world is under Satan's lies and threats. That is Satan's authority over the earth, and lies and threats are his unclean spirit.

However, once people know the truth, Satan's authority no longer holds power.

Eph 2:2
2 in which YOU at one time walked according to the system of things of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that now operates in the sons of disobedience.

Satan's authority has no power over those who know the truth, who are the true Christians (the sons of the Kingdom).

God never abandoned Adam's family, who sinned through Satan's schemes. God has not ceded ownership of His earthly children to Satan. All mankind belongs to God and has been purchased with the priceless value of Christ's sinless death. The purchase price was not paid to Satan. Jesus' atoning blood was offered to God.

Christ's sinless death is the eternal proof of God's righteousness and the trustworthiness of God's children, and it is the basis for judgment against Satan and his seeds who persist in loving and carrying on falsehood.　Based on that priceless value, forgiveness of sins and the restoration of God's grace were brought to Adam's family.

Why did God promise deliverance when Adam fell into sin?　This is because Adam and his family, who sinned, belong to God.　God did not abandon Adam's family, who fell into the pit of sin, nor hand over his ownership to Satan. He acted to bring deliverance to Adam's family as his own children.

Mt 12:11-12
11 He said to them: "Who will be the man among YOU that has one sheep and, if this falls into a pit on the sabbath, will not get hold of it and lift it out? 12 All considered, of how much more worth is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do a fine thing on the sabbath."

Just as the owner of the sheep in the parable pulled his sheep out of the pit, God will pull Adam's family, who are his, out of the pit of sin.

Does the God of the Bible resemble us?

Let's think about God and men?
Mr. Yoo wrote that "the God of the Bible is like a human being," but it's actually the other way around. Humans are like God.

As the Bible says, man is made in the image of God.

So what is the difference between God and man?
It is that God is an eternal being with no beginning or end.

What does it mean to be eternal existence?
It means that eternal being cannot change in its essence. All his attributes are eternal, so he is an unfailing being like energy, time, space.
His exalted divinity is unchangeable.

God's nature, whether it be truth, justice, power, wisdom, love, mercy, beauty, or anything else, cannot be lacking, fading away, or fallen, apostatized. That is unfailing reality. This is what the eternal being means.

Those of us who have the beginning of life are given the potential to become an unchanging being like God. There is something we must learn to become a being as unfailing and unchanging as God.

It means we must learn to live in harmony with the Spirit of God, who is eternal.

If we fail to do so, we will either fail to maintain the image of God within ourselves and fall into self-destruction, or we will become harmful to ourselves and others and be judged and removed from the grace of life. That is what happened to Satan, the demons, and mankind.

The first step in learning to live in harmony with God's Spirit is to obey His Word.

Every obedience to God's Word is living with God each time, and living in this way brings us into harmony with God's Spirit. In this way, God's children, who have a beginning in life, become eternal beings who do not change, just like God.

Both spirits and humans, created in the image of God, begin life with the potential to be an unfailing and unchanging being. It's up to each individual if one maximizes that potential.

God did not create spirits and humans as unchanging robots, but as beings who, like God Himself, "become what one wants to be." In other words, God created his children in his image, as "one becoming what one wants to become." It depends on living in harmony with God's spirit for you to become like God. It depends on living in harmony with God's spirit if you become an unfailing and unchanging being like God.

In Adam's case, he was caught up in Satan's schemes and disregarded God's Word and failed to live in harmony with God's spirit. The descendants of Adam, who betrayed God, became no longer able to live in harmony with God's spirit. By failing to reflect God's image, mankind has not become like God, but has become ones deviating from God's image.

The notion that God resembles such a traitorous human being is the idea of those who know neither the Bible nor God.

If you want to become an unfailing, unchanging and eternal being like God, you must not despise God's Word but obey Him in all that it says. That is what it means to live in completely harmony with God's spirit.

When you compare yourself to God, you will see how far you have fallen from His image. Humans are divine-like because they are created in the image of God, but the current deviated state of Adam's descendants does not allow us to say that "the God of the Bible is human-like."

We can infer God's emotions, since humans also have anger, sorrow, kindness, mercy, loving-kindness, jealousy, joy, patience, perseverance, contempt, ridicule, and other emotions, but God's emotions are immeasurable and cannot be compared to human emotions in depth and quality.

The Almighty cannot be judged or despised by the limited and biased thoughts and feelings of human beings. God is the creator of the heavens and the earth and everything in them. His power, wisdom, and understanding are unmatched with those of humans.

The God of the Bible does not resemble a human being that is like a grasshopper in His sight. He is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), and Almighty (ultimate power and authority), and there is nothing that He cannot accomplish.

I think that anyone who speaks carelessly about the Almighty God would be a shame on that person.

Isa 40:21-23
21 Do YOU people not know? Do YOU not hear? Has it not been told to YOU from the outset? Have YOU not applied understanding from the foundations of the earth? 22 There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth, the dwellers in which are as grasshoppers, the One who is stretching out the heavens just as a fine gauze, who spreads them out like a tent in which to dwell, 23 the One who is reducing high officials to nothing, who has made the very judges of the earth as a mere unreality.

Job 37:14-16
14 Do give ear to this, O Job;
Stand still and show yourself attentive to the wonderful works of God.
15 Do you know when God laid an appointment upon them,
And when he caused the light of his cloud to beam?
16 Do you know about the poisings of the cloud,
The wonderful works of the One perfect in knowledge?

Job 38:1-5
1 And YHW proceeded to answer Job out of the windstorm and say:
2 "Who is this that is obscuring counsel
By words without knowledge?
3 Gird up your loins, please, like an able-bodied man,
And let me question you, and you inform me.
4 Where did you happen to be when I founded the earth?
Tell [me], if you do know understanding.
5 Who set its measurements, in case you know,
Or who stretched out upon it the measuring line?

Job 40:1-5
1 And YHW proceeded to answer Job and say:
2 "Should there be any contending of a faultfinder with the Almighty?
Let the reprover of God himself answer it."

Job 42:1-6
1 And Job proceeded to answer YHW and say:
2 "I have come to know that you are able to do all things,
And there is no idea that is unattainable for you.
3 'Who is this that is obscuring counsel without knowledge?'
Therefore I talked, but I was not understanding
Things too wonderful for me, which I do not know.
4 'Hear, please, and I myself shall speak.
I shall question you, and you inform me.'
5 In hearsay I have heard about you,
But now my own eye does see you.
6 That is why I make a retraction,
And I do repent in dust and ashes."

Isa 55:8-11
8 "For the thoughts of YOU people are not my thoughts, nor are my ways YOUR ways," is the utterance of YHW. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than YOUR ways, and my thoughts than YOUR thoughts. 10 For just as the pouring rain descends, and the snow, from the heavens and does not return to that place, unless it actually saturates the earth and makes it produce and sprout, and seed is actually given to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so my word that goes forth from my mouth will prove to be. It will not return to me without results, but it will certainly do that in which I have delighted, and it will have certain success in that for which I have sent it.

The omniscient and omnipotent God can accomplish His will even though the fall of his some children who endowed with free will.
Free will brings responsibility, responsibility brings judgment, and all will "reap what they sow."

The fall of Satan and the demons and the failure of Adam cannot prevent the accomplishment of God's purpose.
The obstacles brought about by Satan, the demons, and Adam were removed by Jesus in the first century C.E. The whole earth will become the eternal dwelling place of Adam's family, just as God intended.

This "news of salvation" is the theme of the Bible.

Is the priesthood a mediator between God and the Devil?

Representing God, the priests conveyed His Word to the people, which means that the priesthood was the work of teaching the ways of God. In fact, in ancient Israel, the priests were teachers of God's law.

Also, representing the people, the priests asked God for forgiveness of their sins. This means that the priesthood is a mediator for the people.

Before the Law of Moses was given, among God's people in the time of Adam, Noah, Abraham, and others, the head of the family served as priest.

Therefore, the primary task of the priesthood is to teach people in the ways of God and to intercede for their sins. It also includes healing of the sick and judgment.

Mr. Yoo writes that "the priesthood is the mediator between God and the Devil," but this cannot be proven by the Bible.

For God needs no mediator, and there is no conflict between God and Satan.

First, there is no need for mediators because God himself is the lawgiver and judge. Everyone is judged by God.

Jas 4:12
12 One there is that is lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy.

Also, there is no conflict between God and Satan.
Satan is a criminal who will be judged and executed by God.

When Adam fell into sin, God sentenced those involved (the serpent, Eve, and Adam). So those who have sinned have already been judged by God. All that remains is to wait for the execution to take place. Satan, the demons, and Adam's family are merely being held in custody until their execution.

Ge 3:15
15 And I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel."

The serpent and his seed are to have their heads crushed. In other words, the sentence for Satan, his demons, and the descendants of Adam who align themselves with Satan is destruction.

The perpetrators have already been judged and are being held in custody pending execution.

2Pe 2:4
4 Certainly if God did not hold back from punishing the angels that sinned, but, by throwing them into Tar′ta‧rus, delivered them to pits of dense darkness to be reserved for judgment;

2Pe 3:7
7 But by the same word the heavens and the earth that are now are stored up for fire and are being reserved to the day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly men.

The period of detention before the execution of the sentence will be a time for each person to produce "rotten fruit (evidence of evil)" that cannot be denied.

All of God's children in heaven and on earth will witness the consequences of the Fall, and in the case of humans, experience them, learning God's righteousness.

For God, who knows the end from the beginning, there was no need for time to produce such rotten fruit, but it was necessary for God's children, who are subject to time and space. Thus, God advances things according to the limitations of His creation.

There is no salvation for Satan and the demons, but hope of salvation has been given to Adam's family, who fell victim to Satan's schemes.

Satan and the demons tremble in fear of the execution of judgment from the living God.

Mt 8:28-29
28 When he got to the other side, into the country of the Gad‧a‧renes′, there met him two demon-possessed men coming out from among the memorial tombs, unusually fierce, so that nobody had the courage to pass by on that road. 29 And, look! they screamed, saying: "What have we to do with you, Son of God? Did you come here to torment us before the appointed time?"

Jas 2:19
19 You believe there is one God, do you? You are doing quite well. And yet the demons believe and shudder.

Because the hope of salvation was offered to the children of Adam, repentance has been preached worldwide by Christians.

Ac 17:30-31
30 True, God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. 31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead."

Mt 16:27
27 For the Son of man is destined to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will recompense each one according to his behavior.

About the Kingdom of Priests

God's purpose in creating the nation of Israel from Abraham and promising them a kingdom of priests was to establish a kingdom of priests through the promised seed of the woman in Ge 3:15.

The kingdom of priests is a God-authorized arrangement to save Adam's family from sin, destroy the world of Satan the criminal, and establish the world God originally intended on earth.

The primary seed of Abraham is Jesus Christ, and the sons of the kingdom who follow Jesus are the secondary seed and become members of the kingdom of priests with Christ.

The Israelites, the natural descendants of Abraham, were descendants of the sinner Adam, just like other nations, so they fell into lack of faith and were unable to produce the full number of sons of the kingdom needed to form a kingdom of priests.

Faith in God does not arise from flesh and blood. No nation can produce by blood and flesh all the members of the kingdom of priests, the sons of the kingdom who have true faith.

God is aware of this and repeatedly warned and guided the sinner Israel, who was under the influence of Satan.

In the first century A.D., Jesus Christ, the primary seed, began to form a “kingdom of priests” among the people of Israel, gathering people of faith from among the Israelites, the physical descendants of Abraham, as ones who are expected to be the sons of the kingdom. Therefore, the kingdom of the priests is the Messianic kingdom, also called the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God.

The sinless death of Jesus Christ finalized Satan's execution and accomplished mankind's salvation, thus allowed the sons of the kingdom to be gathered from the nations as well. From that time until the present day, Christianity has been preached throughout the earth, and the sons of the kingdom have been gathered from every tribe, people, and language.

True Christians are the sons of the kingdom, members of the kingdom of priests with Christ, who will take part in the work of destroying Satan's works and restoring Adam's family.

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God's Active Interest in Mankind

■　Like a good apartment building manager, God is faithfully, actively, diligently without neglecting, fulfilling His responsibilities to the inhabitants of the earth.

God has been revealing himself to mankind through the Bible and nature's wonders, but the deceived people of Satan's world are unaware of this.
God is not indifferent to mankind. He has been caring for the entire earth since the creation of the earth until now.

The seventh day of creation is said to be God's Sabbath, but it is with regard to the work of creation, apart from that, He is continuing work on behalf of Adam's family.

Joh 5:17
17 But he answered them: "My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working."

Ac 14:17
17 although, indeed, he did not leave himself without witness in that he did good, giving YOU rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling YOUR hearts to the full with food and good cheer."

Ro 1:19-20
19 because what may be known about God is manifest among them, for God made it manifest to them. 20 For his invisible [qualities] are clearly seen from the world's creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable;

Satan's world is destroying God's property, and we cannot blame God for it.
We can't say that since God allows evil to occur, God is not actively involved in the world of mankind, or God is indifferent.

God has an appointed time to destroy those who are destroying the earth.

Re 11:17-18
17 saying: "We thank you, YHW God, the Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and begun ruling as king. 18 But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time for the dead to be judged, and to give [their] reward to your slaves the prophets and to the holy ones and to those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth."

God will soon take action to end Satan's world. Although the wicked inhabitants of Satan's world are devastating the earth, God is faithfully fulfilling his stewardship to make it comfortable for ordinary people.

We cannot say that God is indifferent, powerless, or inactive simply because He has not yet carried out His work against the wicked inhabitants.

2Pe 3:9
9 YHW is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.

God's patience toward a world headed for destruction demonstrates His active involvement and deep concern. When you are enduring something, you cannot be indifferent to it.

It is said that there is joy in heaven over one sinner who repents. It shows the deep concern of heaven for a world of mankind in need of salvation.

Lu 15:7, 10
7 I tell YOU that thus there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner that repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance.
10 Thus, I tell YOU, joy arises among the angels of God over one sinner that repents."

Life comes from God, and everything that sustains it comes from God.
In addition, we are given the hope of future salvation.
A person of faith sees these facts as God's active involvement.

The world is evil, not because God is indifferent, powerless, or inactive, but because the inhabitants are evil.
God is actively and sincerely fulfilling His responsibilities.
The apartment is in disrepair not because of the manager, but because the residents are evil.

God will soon take action against the wicked who are ruining the earth.

Satan's world, built on lies and threats, is evil, and many people who are deceived love Satan's world (darkness).

Joh 3:19-21
19 Now this is the basis for judgment, that the light has come into the world but men have loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked. 20 For he that practices vile things hates the light and does not come to the light, in order that his works may not be reproved. 21 But he that does what is true comes to the light, in order that his works may be made manifest as having been worked in harmony with God."

The good apartment manager removes the evil residents who are ruining the land.
Only God can do that job through Christ Jesus.

■　On God's Judgment
Since Jesus is the executioner of God's judgment, this does not contradict the statement that God has entrusted judgment to His Son. Jesus also said, "As I hear, so I judge."

Joh 5:30
30 I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative; just as I hear, I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Satan is no threat to God.

■　Satan, demons, and human evil pose no threat whatsoever to God.

Satan, demons, and Adam were God's children, created in God's image, but they despised God's Spirit and God's Word, turned away from God, and became criminals.

It pains God when his beloved children sin and turn evil, but their evil does not affect Him.

God's heartache does not dismay or frighten Him.
God's children's evil is not a threat to God.

The fall of His beloved children may be painful for God, but it does not frighten or disturb God. God's heartache does not cause Him to feel threatened.

Anyone who does not remain in God's love by doing evil is no longer a child of God.

De 32:4-6
4 The Rock, perfect is his activity,
For all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice;
Righteous and upright is he.
5 They have acted ruinously on their own part;
They are not his children, the defect is their own.
A generation crooked and twisted!
6 Is it to YHW that YOU keep doing this way,
O people stupid and not wise?
Is he not your Father who has produced you,
He who made you and proceeded to give you stability?

One's goodness benefits him and others, and although it pleases God, it can give Him no benefit.
One's evil harms both self and others, yet though it grieves God, it can not harm Him.

Those created cannot benefit or harm the Source of all things.
No one can bribe God or put Him into a tight corner.
The evils of Satan, demons, and Adam pose no threat whatever to God.

All of them are to reap what they sow.

Ga 6:7
7 Do not be misled: God is not one to be mocked. For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap;

Job 35:6-8
6 If you actually sin, what do you accomplish against him (God)?
And [if] your revolts actually increase, what do you do to him (God)?
 7 If you are really in the right, what do you give him (God),
Or what does he (God) receive from your own hand?
 8 Your wickedness may be against a man like you,
And your righteousness to a son of earthling man.

Pr 9:12
12 If you have become wise, you have become wise in your own behalf; and if you have ridiculed, you will bear [it], just you alone.

conclusion

■　About faith

Faith comes by hearing. That's what it says in the Bible.

Ro 10:17
17 So faith follows the thing heard. In turn the thing heard is through the word about Christ.

Christ calls God his Father and says that God is greater than himself.
Christ worships God.
Worship is the highest respect that can be shown to God alone.
In other words, the height of respect is worship.

Respect does not belittle or despise the object of respect.

So when leaders of organized religions, Bible scholars, and other so-called experts write or speak about God in a way that diminishes the highest degree of respect due the Almighty, it shows that they do not know either the Bible or God.

The commentary of such a person will be of no benefit to the worship of God. Rather than reading those kinds of Bible commentaries, we can improve and deepen our relationship with God by respectfully reading the Bible and asking God for understanding about Him.

The entire Bible, including the Christian Greek Scriptures, is inspired by God.

2Ti 3:14-17
14 You, however, continue in the things that you learned and were persuaded to believe, knowing from what persons you learned them 15 and that from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through the faith in connection with Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy was written by the Apostle Paul to Timothy shortly before his death in 65 AD, while he was again imprisoned by the Roman Emperor Nero. By that time, the inventory of the Christian Greek Scriptures was nearly complete, with only the Revelation and other letters and gospels of John, written between 96 and 98 CE remaining yet to be written, those circulated writings were guiding the activities of the sons of the kingdom at that time.

With this in mind, we can see that the "holy writings" Paul is referring to here are not simply the Hebrew Scriptures. The whole Bible refers to the entire Christian Greek Scriptures and the Hebrew Scriptures.

And we read that all Scripture is inspired of God, and prepared for the man of God to be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.

Therefore, the sons of the Kingdom will worship their Heavenly Father with the Bible as their only guide.
It is the same with Jesus Christ, the Lord of the sons of the kingdom.

cf.
➡ The tree of the knowledge of good and bad
➡ New Creation
➡ The process of salvation