Showing posts with label ability to think. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ability to think. Show all posts

Thursday 11 May 2017

Ability (part 2)

English: Wikipedia: taste the fruit of knowled...
Wikipedia: taste the fruit of knowledge! (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We did receive the ability to live and to use our brains. The ability of the brain to research, investigate and then to form conclusions gives us the ability to form ideas and to take action or react to those findings we got.

The ability to use our brains and to make up our mind allows us to gain and/or retrieve knowledge which never shall be complete in our lifetime. At a certain moment in life we shall be able to do certain things at an other moment we shall not be able to do those things which we previously could or later will be able to do anew or again. Even our ability to speak what God has revealed is incomplete.

We should know that it is always a gift from God when we have the ability to use our full senses and that it is God Who gives some people wealth and possessions, the power to enjoy them, the ability to accept their lot in life, and the ability to rejoice in their own hard work.
“Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.” (Ecclesiastes 5:19 WEBSTR)
We must know that every person in this universe has to learn things and grow up in a world surrounding him or her, giving many impulses and many temptations. We also received the ability to resist such temptations. Though there isn’t any temptation that we have experienced which is unusual for humans. God, who faithfully keeps His promises, will not allow us to be tempted beyond our power to resist. But when we are tempted, the Most High shall be on the look out, to see what we do with such temptation and how we use our own free will to react on it. If we want it is also that Most High God Who will also give us the ability to endure the temptation as our way of escape.
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13 WEBSTR)
We must accept that it is the Spirit, the set-apart Power of God, Who gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom and Who gives another person the ability to speak with knowledge.  We only can hope that this Gentle Spirit also gives courageous faith to us. Because it is an ability to have faith which is only possible when we are willing to allow the Force of God to enter our hearts and to enlighten us. Our knowledge is incomplete and our ability to speak what God has revealed is incomplete.
“For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another, the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;”(1 Corinthians 12:8–9 WEBSTR)
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.”(1 Corinthians 13:9 WEBSTR)
We have the ability to listen to people and as such can hear preachers tell a lot of the Word of God. The preacher's power lies very much in the ability of unfolding to the understanding and applying to the conscience the general principles involved in the passage of Scripture which he undertakes to expound. But we may not pin ourselves to it that those preachers would know everything and would always be right in their interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. Each of us received the ability to investigate himself. That gift of ability to search and investigate we should use.

By using our own ability to read and study the Holy Scriptures we shall have the ability to grow in our knowledge of those sacred writings. Our study of the Bible shall give us more insight which at its turn shall give us the ability for a growing faith, and with it we shall receive the ability to speak and to share our knowledge, our dedication, and our love for god and His creation.
“Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.” (2 Corinthians 8:7 WEBSTR)

The ability to be able to think, investigate, making conclusions, can make us to prevail or to overcome. Our ability to work at ourselves makes it possible to build up our character and to make ourselves strong. our knowledge of Scriptures shall give us the ability to understand how God has a Plan and how He follows humankind. It also shall give us insight how God will destroy anyone who secretly slanders his neighbour. Him not tolerating anyone with a conceited look or arrogant heart.
We should be convinced that Jehovah God His eyes will be watching the faithful people in the land   so that they may find life by Him willing to serve Him.

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Wednesday 10 May 2017

Ability

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Latin A (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today I'll start going over some words of importance to come to understanding of the Word of God.

The first word is "ability" without one is nothing. Without ability there is no being, because to be a being there has to be the ability to be or to be a being, able to have abilities to sustain that being and to make it grow or to develop.

to come to understand the Word of God one has to be able to think about what is written in the Book of books, the Bible, which gives the power and ability to change.

-ability: word-forming element expressing ability, fitness, or capacity, from Latin -abilitas, forming nouns from adjectives ending in -abilis (see -able). Not etymologically related to ability, though popularly connected with it.

ability (n.) : late 14c., "state or condition of being able; capacity to do or act," from Old French ableté "ability (to inherit)`," from Latin habilitatem (nominative habilitas, in Medieval Latin abilitas) "aptitude, ability," noun of quality from habilis "easy to manage, handy" (see able). One case where a Latin silent -h- failed to make a return in English (despite efforts of 16c.-17c. scholars); see H. Also in Middle English, "suitableness, fitness." Abilities "one's talents or mental endowments" is from 1580s.

A′ble·ness, n. Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. [Obs. or R.]

A′bly, adv. In an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said.

-a·bly. A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.


The divine Creator gave man"ability" or the quality or fact of being able to use their own power to do something, either thinking, developing or creating. To have ability to do things God gave man power of strength and skills.

One is "able" to do things, which a person can do by his own choice or being forced by others to do. A person who is able to do things can do that by using his brains or his mind. He can have enough strength power or means to bring change in certain things or to give himself a voice to make his opinion known to others or to get things done by himself or by others for him or for others.
Once a person is able he or she is capable of being.

able (adj.): "having sufficient power or means," early 14c., from Old French (h)able "capable; fitting, suitable; agile, nimble" (14c.), from Latin habilem, habilis "easily handled, apt," verbal adjective from habere "to hold" (see habit (n.)). "Easy to be held," hence "fit for a purpose." The silent h- was dropped in English and resisted academic attempts to restore it 16c.-17c. (see H), but some derivatives (such as habiliment, habilitate) acquired it via French. Able seaman, one able to do any sort of work required on a ship, may be the origin of this:
Able-whackets - A popular sea-game with cards, in which the loser is beaten over the palms of the hands with a handkerchief tightly twisted like a rope. Very popular with horny-fisted sailors. [Smyth, "Sailor's Word-Book," 1867]

-able : common termination and word-forming element of English adjectives (typically based on verbs) and generally adding a notion of "capable of; allowed; worthy of; requiring; to be ______ed," sometimes "full of, causing," from French -able and directly from Latin -abilis. It is properly -ble, from Latin -bilis (the vowel being generally from the stem ending of the verb being suffixed), and it represents PIE *-tro-, a suffix used to form nouns of instrument, cognate with the second syllables of English rudder and saddle (n.).

A living element in English, used in new formations from either Latin or native words (readable, bearable) and also with nouns (objectionable, peaceable). Sometimes with an active signification (suitable, capable), sometimes of neutral signification (durable, conformable). It has become very elastic in meaning, as in a reliable witness, a playable foul ball, perishable goods.
To take a single example in detail, no-one but a competent philologist can tell whether reasonable comes from the verb or the noun reason, nor whether its original sense was that can be reasoned out, or that can reason, or that can be reasoned with, or that has reason, or that listens to reason, or that is consistent with reason; the ordinary man knows only that it can now mean any of these, & justifiably bases on these & similar facts a generous view of the termination's capabilities; credible meaning for him worthy of credence, why should not reliable & dependable mean worthy of reliance & dependence? [Fowler]
In Latin, infinitives in -are took -abilis, others -ibilis. Hence the variant form -ible in Old French, Spanish, English. In English, -able tends to be used with native (and other non-Latin) words, -ible with words of obvious Latin origin (but there are exceptions). The Latin suffix is not etymologically connected with able, but it long has been popularly associated with it, and this probably has contributed to its vigor as a living suffix.

able-bodied (adj.): "healthy and sufficiently strong," 1620s; see able + body.
controllable (adj.): 1570s, from control (v.) + -able.
redeemable (adj.): 1610s, from redeem + -able.
reconcilable (adj.): 1610s, from reconcile + -able.
improvable (adj.): 1640s, from improve (v.) + -able.

Since we are created we came into being and as such became able to breath, think and handle. though having come from fallible parents we also inherited less good parts from them. We can live by them and be happy with the bad parts we inherited or we can work at ourselves to improve with the knowledge that everything is improvable,or can be changed for the better.

Someone who is able can be very clever or very good at doing something,having the necessary power, resources, skill, time, opportunity, etc, to do something. One has not to have certificates or being qualified to do something, but one have to be willing to do something and then to be  competent, having enough power, skill, etc., or authorized to do some specific act.

It is the divine Creator Who gives to all human, animal and vegetable beings sufficient power or resources to accomplish something. But man has received more abilities from God than the other creatures. We all may receive according our own abilities and should be happy with that but also do something with it.


Ex. 4:11 … Who gives people the ability to speak? …
Ex. 36:1 … the LORD has given skill, ability, and knowledge for the work …
1Chr. 26:8 … were skilled and had the ability to perform the service. …
Wis. 7:7 … I prayed, and the ability to reason wisely was given
Sir. 14:13 … According to your ability, reach out, and give to them. 
Rom. 12:18 … to the best of your ability, live at peace with all …
“And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his several ability; and he went on his journey.” (Matthew 25:15 ASV)
1Cor. 12:8  The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom. The same Spirit gives another person the ability to speak with knowledge.
“And“But now complete the doing also; that as [there was] the readiness to will, so [there may be] the completion also out of your ability.” (2 Corinthians 8:11 ASV)
“But now complete the doing also; that as [there was] the readiness to will, so [there may be] the completion also out of your ability.” (2 Corinthians 8:11 ASV)

All have people ability and opportunity to do wrong so cunningly or powerfully that they may escape the observation and censure of men. But all people also have enough ability to feel what is right and wrong, since Adam and Eve have eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, each of their offspring has that knowledge. Persons of knowledge, wisdom, and experience, can be a nobody but also can become famous, being good or also bad in reputation, for ability and integrity; they all have an inner feeling, call it instinct of goodness and badness.

 All of us have received ability to think, observe, analyse and should know that by the gift our ability we shall have to make choices which can give us stability or instability and shall bring over us accountability.


Lots of instability of societies has come because people were not able to make the right choices. Often lots of people live at a rate which their consciences know to be much above their ability; which certainly is an ungodly and unrighteous, though too common, practice. 


As believers of God we should see that we take care to be able to make the right choices. this can be done by creating the right atmosphere by having the right attitude and the will to live according to God's commandments.

Therefore it is important to be able to make the right choices and to come in proper relationships with others in good association or incorporation of themselves with them; avoiding to fall for man's doctrines which go against biblical doctrines. 

Of the scornful; of those who are not only diseased, but reject, despise, and scorn all remedies; who make a mock of sin, and of God's threatenings and judgements against sinners; who deride all wholesome reproofs and counsels, and make it their trade to scoff at goodness and good men. Be able to see those who are wrong and who are the real satan or adversary of God.

Make it that you get the ability or the power to change your evil being in a good worthy being to be part of the Body of Christ, skilled, talented, or having the capacity to live according to the Will of God, having the quality of being suitable for or receptive to a specified treatment, namely to be taken up in the body of Christ and to be allowed or justified to enter the Kingdom of God.

Compare:
capable; skilled, skilful, talented, gifted, adept, competent, fit, powerful, proficient, masterful, efficient, accomplished, effective, practised, adroit, qualified, expert
talent, skill, gift, expertise, faculty, competence, energy, flair, accomplishment, knack, aptitude, proficiency, dexterity, cleverness, potentiality, adroitness, adeptness

capability, facility, capacity, power, potential, competence, competency, potentiality, qualification


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Find also to read: 

  1. Genesis – Story of creation 4 Genesis 2:16-25 Warning for Adam and Eve
  2. With God All Things Are Possible
  3. Failing Man to make free choice
  4. Being Religious and Spiritual 6 Romantici, utopists and transcendentalists
  5. Power in the life of certain 
  6. To whom do we want to be enslaved
  7. Compromise and accomodation
  8. Thought for those who think it is not necessary to do any works any more
     
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Friday 17 January 2014

What is life?

What is life?

 Our answer to this question will, to some extent, depend on what is on our mind when we are asked.
 Life has physical, emotional, relational and spiritual aspects and each of these will have an influence on our answer. Think about it for a moment. What does it mean to you, right now, to be alive?

 Is it enough to know that you are breathing, or must there be more, and if so, what more?

 What do people mean when they say,
 ‘I’m not living, I’m just existing’.

Still-Life with a Skull, vanitas painting.
Still-Life with a Skull, vanitas painting. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As human beings, made in the image of God, our life is uniquely different from that of plants and other animals. How does this difference show in our daily lives? Surely the essence of our life is in the fact that we are made for eternity. Though eternity does not come straight unto us. When we die our life shall come to an end and everything of us shall decay or come to ashes in the incinerator.

At the moment of our death it will be to late to change anything. Than we will be to late to change direction or to take an other path. We shall be able to face death in peace when we do know we have lived according to the wishes of the Most High. Those who did not want to accept there is a God Creator of heaven and earth should in a way not be afraid either, but with many of them we notice they fear death. Why?


Those who believe in other things than described in the Bible may be taken by fear, because when they believe in false gods and in false beings like certain demons and devils and places of torture, the could have reason to be afraid.

Those who know the Bible do know that when we live it is important to treat all living organisms with respect, because they all are a creation of the Most High Elohim. And all creation of God, be it humans or animals shall come to the same end — humans die, animals die. also plants shall have there time of growing and flowering, but afterwards they will die and decay.
 We all breathe the same air. So there’s really no advantage in being human. None. Everything’s smoke. We all end up in the same place — we all came from dust, we all end up as dust. We as the living should at least know something, even if it’s only that we’re going to die. But the dead know nothing and get nothing. They’re a minus that no one remembers.
“19 after all, the same things that happen to people happen to animals, the very same thing—just as the one dies, so does the other. yes, their breath is the same; so that humans are no better than animals; since nothing matters, anyway. 20 they all go to the same place; they all come from dust, and they all return to dust.” (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 CJB)
 “for the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; there is no longer any reward for them, because all memory of them is lost.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5 CJB)
When we live it is the time to make the right choices. In life it is the time given us by the Creator to make something if our 'being' 'our soul'. The 'soul' is not something extra special in our material form, it is our total being that can breath and as soon as we stop breathing we shall be considered to be part of the dead.
Therefore we better take life as it comes our way and whatever turns up, we better grab it and do it. And heartily! This is your last and only chance at it, For there’s neither work to do nor thoughts to think In the company of the dead, where you’re most certainly headed. When more people would read the Bible they would know that we are just mere humans who don’t have what it takes when they die, their projects die with them.
 “whatever task comes your way to do, do it with all your strength; because in sh’ol, where you will go, there is neither working nor planning, neither knowledge nor wisdom.” (Ecclesiastes 9:10 CJB)
 “when they breathe their last, they return to dust; on that very day all their plans are gone.” (Psalms 146:4 CJB)
So, why are atheists afraid when they die or why should believers be afraid when they die? the non-believer knows when he dies it shall be finished 'and that is it'. why should he worry when he knows the outcome of death?

And why should a believer worry. When he dies and becomes dust like everybody, why should he worry? By death we have paid the penalty for our sins. 

But those who believe in Christ Jesus, the son of God, who died (whilst God can not die) and was resurrected from death and taken out of the dead, they know they can find an example in what God did with Christ Jesus and can do with us. Believers in Christ also do know he was lower than angels, but was made higher by his Father, Who is, was, and shall always be the Most High. Believers trust that God took Jesus, the son of man, with Him in heaven, to sit at His right hand to become a mediator between man and God.
“he gave him no inheritance in it, not even space for one foot; yet he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him, even though at the time he was childless.” (Acts 7:5 CJB)

 “for god is one; and there is but one mediator between god and humanity, Yeshua the Messiah, himself human,” (1 Timothy 2:5 CJB)
Yes, today we have a human preceding by God. He can talk for us and be our advocate, so that when Jesus shall return to the earth to judge the living and the dead, we would have a chance to become rightly judged and either to be placed by the living or by the dead, either to be allowed to enter the gate of the KiIngdom of God or to fall into the category for the Second death.
Than there shall come an end to death.
“he will swallow up death forever. ADONAI ELOHIM will wipe away the tears from every face, and he will remove from all the earth the disgrace his people suffer. for ADONAI has spoken.” (Isaiah 25:8 CJB)
“for what one earns from sin is death; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from god, in union with the Messiah Yeshua, our lord.” (Romans 6:23 CJB)
 “21 for since death came through a man, also the resurrection of the dead has come through a man. 22 for just as in connection with adam all die, so in connection with the Messiah all will be made alive. 23 but each in his own order: the Messiah is the firstfruits; then those who belong to the Messiah, at the time of his coming; 24 then the culmination, when he hands over the kingdom to god the father, after having put an end to every rulership, yes, to every authority and power. 25 for he has to rule until he puts all his enemies under his feet. 26 the last enemy to be done away with will be death,” (1 Corinthians 15:21-26 CJB)
“he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. there will no longer be any death; and there will no longer be any mourning, crying or pain; because the old order has passed away.” (Revelation 21:4 CJB)
So those who have faith in Christ do not have to worry when they die, as long as they made their best of their life.

What we become is the reality of what it means to us to be alive today. So, after all this, the question remains, what is life?

 I like the answer I read recently which twists a well known saying.
 ‘Life is doing what comes supernaturally.’ Let’s live!

Yes
Cover of Yes

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Please do read also:

  1. Cosmos creator and human destiny
  2. Choices
  3. Always a choice 
  4. We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace 
  5. A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses
  6. Science, belief, denial and visibility 1
  7. Science, belief, denial and visibility 2
  8. Choose you this day whom ye will serve 
  9. It is a free will choice 
  10. For those who make other choices
  11. Dying or not
  12. What happens when we die?
  13. The Soul confronted with Death
  14. Dead and after
  15. Destination of righteous
  16. Destination of the earth
  17. Sheol or the grave
  18. Soul
  19. The Soul not a ghost
  20. Is there an Immortal soul
  21. Human Nature: What does the Bible teach?
  22. Immortality, eternality – onsterfelijkheid, eeuwigheid
  23. How are the dead?
  24. The soul has no rainbow if the eyes have no tears
  25. Let not sin reign in your mortal body
  26. We will all be changed
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