The Mind of God (The Mind of YHVH)
Basic Understanding By D. J. Love, Minister, TSN, SBC rewritten 7-22-2003 refined 9-30-2006
It is absolutely essential to Biblical understanding that we all learn the fundamentals of Yahweh's creation. Why? Because Creation Is directly based on The Mind of Yahweh (The Holy Spirit). Creation is a Masterpiece painted on the canvas of the Universe by "The Master Creator", and if we can just tune ourselves in a little, we will begin to understand "The Mind of Yahweh" much better. A wonderful thing about "The Mind of Yahweh".... It never changes! Yahweh is our unmovable rock and our salvation.... We can always depend on Yahweh to be the same. It does not matter whether we learn The mind (the will) of Yahweh from The First (older) Testament or The Second (newer) Testament, because .... Yahweh's mind has always been pure and righteous, And if Yahweh ever changes His mind concerning what is good, and what is evil then Yahweh will no longer be pure and righteous! If the God of Love (Yahweh) were less than perfect, He would be fallible!
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Notice that I qualified the statement with "Concerning Good And Evil"... Why? So that Liberal Minded People won't be able to distort The Truth. Frankly, it is perfectly alright for Yahweh to change His Mind if He is making a choice between two or more "Righteous" options... The outcome is still "Righteous"! Therefore, a choice between GOOD Option One and
GOOD Option Two, is not really a "Change of Mind," but a "Change of Options"; Yahweh's MIND has still chosen Righteousness! Additionally, the Mind is the only part of man or Yahweh Himself where the emotion, the character, the attitude, the spirit, the control, the reasoning, the creativity (by design or a plan), and where the intent of the heart takes place. These are all evidences of the condition of the spirit (whether Holy and Righteousness Seeking or not) that resides within our mind. Isaiah 26:4 Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah (Yahweh) is an everlasting Rock (stable and unchanging). Hebrews 13:8 Messiah Yahshua is the same yesterday, today, and forever (because he has the Mind of Yahweh, and NOT any other reason). John 10:30 I (Messiah) and the Father are one (one in Righteous Character, Will, Love, Spirit, Mind).
Therefore, since both Yahweh and Messiah Yahshua have the same stable unchanging mentality (Holy Spirit or Will) Concerning What is Good, and What Is Evil! Don't you think it would be personally beneficial to, also, possess the same Mentality or Will as Yahweh (A Righteousness Seeking Spirit or mindset), so as to discover what Yahweh considers to be good, and what He considers to be evil? But first we must get rid of our Traditional Christian Attitude toward The Old Testament. . . My Friends. . .the Old Testament is not called Old because it is outdated. It is called "OLD" so as to deliberately prejudice people against it. It would be far more correct to call it the "FIRST TESTAMENT", followed by the "SECOND TESTAMENT". Therefore, based on the above Scriptures, and simple logic, we can now correctly come to the conclusion that .... Both (original) Testaments are 100 percent in agreement with each other, because, Yahweh (He who Commands) and Messiah Yahshua (Our High Priest, Elder Brother, Sacrificial Role Model, and YHWH's Proxy who obeys YHWH) have functionally identical
mentalities, Wills, Holy Spirits or Pneumas, but ALL Power is Yahweh's to command OR to allow "The Faithful" to command. The Mind of Yahweh is that mentality of Yahweh that directly controls His vast powers. The Mind of Yahweh controls all physical and non-physical existence. There is, however, a major difference between physical existence and Spiritual existence. Physical existence allows (by design) a type of consciousness that is limited to inward Thought, and outside influence (The Five Senses). The minds of men are only capable of controlling limited human powers. The Mind of Yahweh has no bounds or limits to its power, and is actually capable of ANYTHING, but is self-limited by YHWH to Natural events (Earthquakes, Volcanos, Hurricanes, Lightning, Pestilence, etc . .). So with this concept "In Mind," ponder for a moment, the concept of the Spiritual Pre-existence of Messiah. The Messiah, was conceived (as part of 'The Plan of Salvation' OR 'Logos') in the PNEUMA (Mind) of Yahweh, AND because he existed in Yahweh's mind (as playing the major role in Yahweh's "Plan of Salvation") then, from that moment forward, Yahshua existed Spiritually in The PNEUMA (Mind or Spiritual Womb) of Yahweh until the actual moment of his physical birth, BUT he did not have a conscious existence prior to his physical birth. The phrase "Spiritual Womb" indicates that (1) Yahweh conceived it, (2) Yahweh developed it, as a plan or blueprint, and (3) Yahweh gave it physical existence or life (according to His "Plan."). AND The Sovereign inexhaustable Power of Yahweh "Made it happen." Nothing could prevent it from happening once Yahweh decided it was going to happen. Only Yahweh can change His mind, but this was not an option. Even so, He has never chosen evil over Good AND He only changes outcomes in response to Righteous Prayerful requests to do so from a person that resides in His good Grace. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, is the Righteous Guiding factor or Character of "The Mind of Yahweh," and is the only "Self-Limiting Factor" to Yahweh's power.
More Food For Thought Additionally, I would like to correct Genesis 1:2 where it says, "Yahweh's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters." This simply means that The Creator was mentally involved in the Creation or Re-creation of The
Earth.