Sikh and Ye Shall Find (Origins Option)

 

The term Sikh ("seek") is from the Sanskrit siksati - a disciple.  Of the 26 million Sikhs on this planet, more than 24 million live in India.  Adi Granth (Punjabi - First Book) also known as Granth Sahib is the sacred text of Sikhism.  The Adi Granth is the central object of worship in all gurdwaras (Sikh temples) and is honored just like a living Guru.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Adi-Granth-Sikh-sacred-scripture

 

Ranjit Singh (d. 1839) aka Sher-e-Punjab was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire which ruled the Punjab region in India.  Britain took over India in 1858.  You may be astonished at how the Sikh worldview compares and contrasts with the Biblical teaching on origins.  We read this in their sacred scripture ...

 

No matter how much anyone tries to explain and describe them, the actions of the Creator cannot be counted. ... The names and the colors of the assorted species of beings were all inscribed by the Ever-flowing Pen of God.  ... You created the vast expanse of the Universe with One Word!  ... How can Your Creative Potency be described? I cannot even once be a sacrifice to You. Whatever pleases You is the only good done, You, Eternal and Formless One! 

 

Sri Guru Granth Sahib (p. 4):

https://www.sikhs.org/english/eg1.htm

 

The Lord indeed made all the "species" (Gen. 1:11-30).  I prefer the term Essential Types of Life (ETL's).  For more info on natural kinds, please pick up my latest book Biological Essentialism:

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

"And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light" (Gen. 1:3).

Only Jesus' sacrifice is sufficient to pay for our sins:  

 

Such a high priest truly meets our need - one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.  Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself. (Heb. 7:27)

The Lord is indeed formless and eternal (Jn. 4:24, Gen. 21:33).  We read further from the Sikh's holy word ...

 

The One Divine Mother conceived and gave birth to the three deities. One, the Creator of the World; One, the Sustainer; and One, the Destroyer [~Brahma,  Vishnu and Shiva].  He makes things happen according to the Pleasure of His Will.  ... The Primal One, the Pure Light, without beginning, without end. Throughout all the ages, He is One and the Same. ... Having created the creation, the Creator Lord watches over it. O Nanak [the founder of Sikhism], True is the Creation of the True Lord.  I bow to Him, I humbly bow.  The Primal One, the Pure Light, without beginning, without end. Throughout all the ages, He is One and the Same.  If I had 100,000 tongues, and these were then multiplied twenty times more, with each tongue, I would repeat, hundreds of thousands of times, the Name of the One, the Lord of the Universe.   Along this path to our Husband Lord, we climb the steps of the ladder, and come to merge with Him. (Adi Granth, p. 7)

 

Not exactly the Trinity is it?  The Bible clearly teaches that there exists only one Divine Being who lives eternally as three co-equal persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Mt. 28:19; 1 Cor. 8:6; Lk. 3:21,22; Is. 48:16,17).

God is indeed sovereign (Is. 46:10).

The Lord never changes (Mal. 3:6, Heb. 13:8, James 1:17).

Jesus prayed, "I in them and you in me - so that they may be brought to complete unity.  Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me" (Jn. 17:23).

But we will not "merge with God" (Rev. 22:1-5).

 

In 2021, a man was apparently beaten to death for trying to desecrate the Adi Granth (aka Guru Granth Sahib) in the Golden Temple in Amritsar which is Sikhism's most holy sanctuary.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59715937

 

We don't have to just wonder which holy book is the true Gift From Heaven, we can know for sure: “‘I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the Lord am the Holy One in Israel.  It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord."  (Ez. 39:7,8)

 

Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.  Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him." (Jn. 7:16-18)

 

Consider these events surrounding the giving of the Ten Commandments:

 

And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. (Ex. 20:18-23)

 

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Munchkins in the Trunk (10 Com @ Skewel)

 

Have you ever thought about writing a book such as How to Rob a Bank in 3 EZ Lessons?  Why not?  Somewhere in a Galaxy not too far from Uptown OKC the following events "happened" ...

 

Nervo and Scamy had a fantastic brainstorm while watching the original #Oceans11 with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054135/

 

 

You may have read of the dangers of self-driving cars.  Despite this, Nervo and Scamy rented a self-driving car from U-Drove and reprogrammed it.  They hid in the trunk of a 1969 Lincoln Continental Mark III and used a remote-control to head to the bank.  They crashed thru the front entrance of Fred & Ethel's House of Dough$ (Credit Union) and got away with $1,234,777.66 ...

Five years later their neighbor Granny Milford got suspicious during her frequent trips to #HobbyLobby  She noticed that Nervo & Scamy always used #Fresh $100 dollar bills @ the checkout.  #LetsGoDavidGreen  The same deal when Granny visited Mardel Christian & Education Inspiring Gifts & Decor.  Things that make you go "hmmm..."  #JAY 

https://youtu.be/XF2ayWcJfxo

Granny snitched and called the #COPS  The Jury sentenced them to 8 years of #HardLabor  After five years of severe toil, they were let off for great behavior and they now run a homeless ministry, The Intergalactic Homeless Reactive Force.  Other such ministries:

https://tinyurl.com/4m4jw36e

 

Nervo & Scamy put in a request to the Traffic Division to allow Hebrew lettering on Oklahoma license plates:

 

 

How could we have prevented Nervo & Scamy from straying from the #NarrowPath ?

https://www.thenarrowpath.com/radio_program.php

 

** Caution **

Do not try this @ Home‼  The weed of crime bears bitter fruit!  Crime does not pay.  Remember "Bad Boys, Watcha Gonna Do?"  #GoldenRule 

https://youtu.be/Zd68AthoNIw

 

If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. ... It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. (Heb. 10:26,27,31)

 

 

A 25 yo man driving a Dodge Ram crashed into the Social Security office of Big Spring (TX) in 2015.  This occurred right across the street from where we lived which was right by the Big Spring Mall.  The driver fled the scene, but was later arrested and charged with public intoxication.

https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/update-truck-crashes-into-big-spring-social-security-building/513-938e987a-16e1-4bb1-85e1-05b080579092

 

 

SD Car Attacks Robot (film @ 11)

https://memes.com/m/VnR_7jyxRgd

 

 

What about the Ten Commandments in public schools?  There have been movements in State legislatures to protect public displays of the Ten Commandments (e.g. Indiana, South Dakota, Colorado, Florida, Illinois,  Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma).

https://wallbuilders.com/spring-2000/

 

Muldrow, Oklahoma and the Ten Commandments:

https://kfor.com/news/ten-commandments-parting-muldrow-classrooms/

 

 

Recall that God's own finger wrote the Ten Commandments #10Com >> 

 

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.  The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. (Deut. 9:9,10)

 

 

In 1980 (Stone v. Graham), a United States Supreme Court decision struck down a Kentucky law requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in public schools:

https://www.answers.com/religious-studies/What_year_and_why_were_the_Ten_Commandments_taken_out_of_US_public_schools

 

Here is a an argument from the ACLJ (Jay Sekulow) defending the legitimacy of public displays of the Ten Commandments:

https://aclj.org/10-commandments/why-public-displays-of-the-ten-commandments-are-constitutional

 

The Bible and the King of Pop:

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/633806

 

This story was inspired by a dream I had.

More on Adam's Lost Dream:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2012/07/adams-lost-dream.html

  #BALD

 

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Some content in this story may not be deemed politically correct by Venusian Check Factories.

 

FYI: I have been to Ford's Theater in DC and heard the standard presentation on Lincoln's assassination.

 

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#BadBoys #InnerCircle #Munchkins #10Com #YouShallNotSteal #DontCovet #FordsTheater #DC #KingOfPop #MichaelJackson #AdamsLostDream #NewzFlash #Nervo_n_Scamy #Oceans11 #FrankSinatra #SammyDavis #DeanMartin #OKC #Fresh #LincolnContinental #HobbyLobby  #LetsGoDavidGreen #Mardels #COPS #HardLabor #TenCommandments #APE #PublicSchool #homeless #GodsFinger #BigSpring #BigSpringMall #SocSec #WriteUrCongressman #OZ #TrueTruth #ACLJ #JaySekulow

 

The Forgotten Trinity - Nicene ReMyx

 

Many churches recite the Nicene Creed on a regular basis:

 

We believe in one God,

      the Father almighty,

      maker of heaven and earth,

      of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ,

      the only Son of God,

      begotten from the Father before all ages,

           God from God,

           Light from Light,

           true God from true God,

      begotten, not made;

of the same essence as the Father. ...

And we believe in the Holy Spirit,

      the Lord, the giver of life.

      He proceeds from the Father and the Son,

      and with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified.

 

James White, who wrote What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an, has written The Forgotten Trinity which is a powerful defense of this doctrine and confronts cultic distortions.  Before the Corona Crisis there was a debate (11-13-19) where James White faced off with Shabir Ally at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA on the topic "Tawhid or Trinity: Is God One or Three Divine Persons?"

 

Another helpful resource is Knowing the Truth About the Trinity by John Ankerberg and John Weldon which answers questions like "Why is the Trinity a mystery?" and "Is belief in the triune God critical?"  Here's the Westminster Confession in modern English (Ch. 2, Sec. 3):

 

In the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, having one substance, power, and eternity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The Father exists. He is not generated and does not come from any source. The Son is eternally generated from the Father, and the Holy Spirit eternally comes from the Father and the Son. (Mt 3:16-17, 28:19, 2 Cor 13:14, Eph 2:18, Jn 1:14,18, 17:24, Heb 1:2-6, Col 1:15-17, Jn 15:26, Gal 4:6)

 

The Trinity: Evidence and Issues by Robert A. Morey (d. 2019) defends the Trinity from the Old and New Testaments. He looks at Jewish writings and the Early Church Fathers.  This massive tome has nearly 600 pages!  You may find Michael Brown's talk on the Old Testament and the Trinity here.  Dr. Brown has recently put out The Silencing of the Lambs: The Ominous Rise of Cancel Culture and How We Can Overcome It.

 

Consider Jesus' baptism:

 

When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” (Lk. 3:21,22; cf. Jn. 1:29-34)

 

Francis Schaeffer (d. 1984) spoke of the mutual love between the members of the Trinity.  Here's the proof:

 

æ The Father sends the Son. (Galatians 4:4; 1 John 4:14)

æ The Father sends the Holy Spirit. (John 14:26; Galatians 4:6)

æ The Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father. (John 3:35; 5:20; 14:31)

æ The Father and Son glorify each other. (John 17:1,4,5)

æ The Holy Spirit glorifies the Son. (John 16:14).

 

Isaiah 63 seems to hint at the Trinity:

 

Yet they rebelled

    and grieved his Holy Spirit.

So he turned and became their enemy

    and he himself fought against them.

... Where is he who set

    his Holy Spirit among them,

who sent his glorious arm of power

    to be at Moses’ right hand,

who led them through the depths?

... they were given rest by the Spirit of the Lord.

This is how you guided your people

    to make for yourself a glorious name.

... Where are your zeal and your might?

    Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.

But you are our Father,

    though Abraham does not know us

    or Israel acknowledge us;

you, Lord, are our Father,

    our Redeemer from of old is your name.

         (Is. 63:10-16)

 

"The Churches One Foundation" references the Trinity.  Child Evangelism Fellowship has a great tune on the Trinity for kids.  Enjoy this lovely song on the Trinity based on a an Irish tune.  Even Hillsong chimes in as well with "This I Believe (The Creed)."  I wrote a pro-Trinity song, "Theology Matters" (~Metallica).

 

Kudos: the graphic with the long hair and flowers was adapted from the Italian artist Marco Melgrati.

 

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