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It could be said; philosophy was originated by men, religion by the Serpent, and theology by God. By philosophy, men can find the problem of human life; by religion, men will be led into the abyss of eternal segregation from the world; and, by successful knowledge of theology, men will solve the problem recovering the relationship with the eternity which had been lost in the beginning of human history.

Philosophy is the study of men seeking an ultimate meaning of human life and setting up a substantial purpose of life, if any, during human physical lives on the earth. It is based on the mortality of human life, and denies the eternity of man’s souls by rejecting the reality of any invisible things such as miracles, spirits, Heaven and Hell.

By philosophy, men cannot expect any permanent solution to satisfy man’s desire of eternity. When any philosopher, being dissatisfied with current situation of man’s destiny, seeks anything beyond this three dimensional universe, he will find the contradiction, because, in philosophy, they deny the realistic value of anything invisible, yet the value he seeks after is something that transcends the physical and visible reality. He may have to cross over the limit of philosophy to find the solution.

This problem of self-contradiction, seeking something beyond physical reality within finite reality, could be got over by a personal experiencing of a miracle, which could come from a rare chance of education to learn the superior reality, though invisible, transcending the general visible reality.

When Socrates said, "That is not I," pointing his feet that were being paralyzed, he admitted man’s souls are independent from the bodies. Even though his body died, his soul would stay as ever invisibly.

In philosophy, a man is a unity of body and soul, not of spirit. There's no spiritual death, all deaths are just physical bodily death, which is nothing but the end of functioning of the bodily organs. It is same with the concept of life. It is totally the movement or functioning of the body, never of the human individual spirit. Even though they use the same words 'death' and 'life' as in the Bible, the meanings are different.

In the Bible, the words, 'life' and 'death' were absolutely spiritual, never physical, functioning or not. Man’s physical bodies have nothing to do with life or death. Man’s bodies, just like animals', can't live, nor die. They can only function or not.

The origin of life in the Bible was the breath of God, which was spiritual. Adam with God's breath of life in his spirit was called a 'living soul'. When he lost the life, he was called a 'dust'. The human beings who are definitely alive in philosophy are just the particles of dust in the Bible. The human lives in the current world are just the process of returning to the soil on the ground-'dust to dust'. There is no room for the genuine spiritual life in human activities in the world. The death in philosophy is just the stopping of the functioning of the bodily organs ready to return to the soil chemically.

Considering the genuine original life and death, the history of mankind as a whole is the movement of dead bodies on the earth. There is no life, no light: all are dead corpses in darkness. Human history is just the history of dead men, or spiritual corpses.

According to the Bible, genuine 'human life' in this world must come by resurrection, and genuine 'death' is the second death, the Hell. Men cannot think they are really 'living' until they, their spirits, are resurrected from the current dead situation, if not, they will attend a universal ominous ceremony which will be held for all the dead persons, after which all the dead souls will be thrown into the lake of fire of brimstone.

In philosophy, there's not a substantial difference between men and animals, by which the Darwinian theory of evolution may well be seen natural, probable and scholastic. As man’s capability being limited, philosophy will stay the same as far as men cannot skip over the current limitation.

If death being seen a problem to get over, or seeking a better situation without any limits, men must develop the technology in medical science anyhow up to much higher degree so that man’s bodily organs could be functioning fresh forever.

Religion is for the men of eternity. Men, confined in the body, seek the destiny beyond physical lifetime. But, in religion, they don’t regard man as a spiritual being, living or dead. Man functions just as with the body and soul, no spirit. Man and the animal are basically the same except man’s motivation for eternity. The animal may not seek eternity at all, but man does. As men are not spiritual beings, spirits or gods are considered to be on higher ranks than men, and it is prohibited for men to reason with gods as beings on the equal status. The main being of man is the body, not the soul, not to speak of the spirit. This typical ignorance of man’s spirituality in religion misled its followers far away from the Truth into illusion. It is a taboo in religion to seek the Truth realistically, historically and scientifically. Religion is the enemy against the Truth.

Religion or religious instinct is based on the feeling of fear and uses the knowledge of good and evil as the absolute norm in deciding man’s destiny for eternity. By religion, men were to use the forbidden knowledge of good and evil for man-made productivity instead of giving it up.

God showed how to solve the problem of fear by the Law. Men could be freed from fear by a substitution sacrifice of some clean animals. All those animals which were killed by shedding of blood and sacrificed on the alter were just the substitutes for persons and symbolized the real sacrifice God the Creator would prepare; the Lamb of God. The death of Jesus the Lamb of God was necessary for men to be freed from man’s concept of any religious obligation and the God-forbidden knowledge of good and evil. Just as Jesus had been physically killed on the Cross, man’s concept of religion and knowledge of good and evil must be killed clear in person’s minds.

For any reason, God the Creator didn’t allow men to possess the knowledge of good and evil. As soon as men should give up that knowledge and all its effects, men can be revived onto the same position where God originally wanted them to be, which is the son-ship; being equal with God as the Father. Biblical salvation is the freedom from the shackle of religion and the inner Serpentine knowledge of good and evil.

The unique view of religion is that man’s eternal destiny is determined by the style of behavior during man’s physical life-time. The style of behavior was classified as good or bad; good behavior for the reward in the Paradise, bad behavior for punishment in Hell. But the way of judgment is not clear, rather whimsical, relative and never logical. It is a strict taboo to do any scientific research on religious subjects. Religion is absolutely against science and logic. By scientific and logical research, religion will be evaporated into nothing. God or gods in religion are locked up into a confinement, and it is prohibited for men to get access to Him or them to speak or reason with them on equal status. Men are under permanent obligation to produce anything good, even out of bad mentality, which is logically improbable. According to the Bible, a righteous man cannot produce anything bad, and vice versa; any man of bad mentality cannot produce anything good anyhow. The religious urge to produce good behavior is just the urge to violate the will of God from whom the Truth should come out.

It is nothing but the wise Serpentine advice to estrange and to keep men His creatures away from God the Creator the Father permanently.

By religion, God is totally misunderstood by men, and any possibility for men to seek after Him realistically is prohibited. In this sense, theology, the study of God, must be a graceful act of God toward men His own creatures. By theology, men can seek the revelation of God. By the theology of Jesus’ Cross, men can understand and meet God personally as the Father. Theology itself, man’s study of God, is the gift of God, which must be made possible through the satanic walls of estrangement, ignorance, prohibition, taboo and human traditions that had been tightly intermingled with religion. Men must be freed from religion first to have the knowledge of God. Men need to resist the concept of religion and its specifics to seek after God. But unfortunately, men cannot stand against their traditions for themselves. To be free from tradition is impossible without God's initiative intervention. And once He intervened, He will surely be found by the seekers.

Theology presupposes two facts: 1) Men are spiritual beings so that God who is a spirit can be related with men as in the father-and-son relationship. 2) The perfect love of God serious, positive and powerful enough to initiate the whole process of His revelation to the eyes of the fortunate seekers.

Positivism of theology is that: everything in theology is about God, not men; who He is, what He did and do, and how, etc.. It should not imply any concept of obligation for men as it does in religion. It’s the source of wisdom for man to possess; never a norm for any physical applications.

Salvation was God’s task all the way from initiating and planning through performing and finishing. There is salvation where God is, but there is only eternal destruction where men are. Whatever men do, good or bad, eternal destruction is destined by the universal event of the first death through the first couple, Adam and Eve. Men just need to research the deeds of God carefully, understanding the meaning of His activity.

A dead body can't feel or have any desire, because it is just a corpse. A normal man, being dead in his spirit, cannot have any spiritual feelings or desires. Man’s seeking of God is just the result of His initiative calling of men. It is not that men sought after God, but that God the Father sought after men, all men because all men are made qualified for His Fatherly seeking in His sight by the death and resurrection of Jesus. God’s calling of all men through Jesus is a universal event transcending the concept of time and space. If a man turns his sight into himself instead of believing the good news and saying “thank you!” he must be snared onto the trap set by the inner god the Serpent who is growling in the depth of human mind, the subconscious.

A lost child can be met successfully by its parent, not by its crying or wanderings but by its parent's desperate and effective efforts. Not to speak when kidnapped.

If Jesus didn't get victory over religion by his conquering death, or by his resurrection, the subject of theology couldn't be on the list to be studied anywhere in the world. It was necessary means for God the Father to reach His children down on the earth. By the death and resurrection of Jesus, men could be met by God.

Men seeking after God, which is the very theme of theology, had been made possible as the result of the event of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

All the born-again believers, the children of God, are just the produce of the initiating Words of God for His second creation, which has nothing to do with any human ideas good or bad, negative or positive.

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And God said, “Let there be light!” and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good :( Genesis1:4)