New For Old – Sons of Issachar

521. God Is Love: Rethinking Judgment, Identity and the Reach of Grace

Mike Parsons

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God’s Desire Is Always Good

God is good, and God wants to bring good into people’s lives, even out of the things they do which are wrong. He does not condone what they do, because what they do will often be negative towards themselves and towards others, and that is not something God desires. But God still wants to bring good.

It is the love of Christ that compels us. It is not fear of God’s judgment or anger. It is God’s love, and that is what we are meant to carry.

I know some people say that is all wishy-washy, and that you need to see God as this or that. But honestly, I do not think those people really know who God is if they believe He is angry, looking to punish people, or wanting to take people out. That is not who He is.

Identity, Not Condemnation

God wants people to find their identity as sons in relationship with Him, and to discover their place in bringing the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. That is His desire for everybody. That is true for every single person on earth right now. No matter what they have done, Jesus has already died to forgive them. God does not hold it against them at all, because they are already reconciled to Him. They just do not know that, so they are operating out of a lost identity. They are doing things out of a lack of knowledge and experience of who they are.

We have all been there.

God did not judge me in a negative way. He graciously, with mercy and love, led me into discovering the truth. He did not come down and condemn me because I was believing lies, even though He knew I was believing lies about Him and many other things. He led me into an experience of truth which renewed my mind. I came to realise, I do not believe that anymore. There was no condemnation involved.

So we should not condemn people for where they are in their journey. They may still be operating out of a wrong identity, a wrong way of thinking, or a religious mindset, but so were we. Let us have grace and mercy for people, and help them find where the truth is. Not by condemning them, but by encouraging them to pursue God so they can find the truth in Him.

God Is Love, Fully and Consistently

God is love. I do not just think that, I know it. Therefore, God operates in love all the time. He is never anything other than love. People say, “Well, He is just and He is holy.” Of course He is. But that means justice and holiness are love expressed and outworked. They are not different.

We often create two versions of God when we compare what people think they see in the Old Testament with what Jesus revealed in the New. People end up operating in a mixture of those two ideas. But God is not two-faced. He has always been love. He has never been anything different. He was not operating differently in the Old Testament than in the New. People simply viewed Him differently.

They did not know Him. So they described Him out of their lack of knowledge, through their own religious mindsets, creating an image of God shaped by distance rather than relationship. That does not define Him. We have never defined God through our theology, beliefs or doctrines. God is not definable by us. He is God.

Therefore just because someone says God is like this, or writes something down and it is recorded in the Bible, does not mean it is true. If it contradicts the reality that God is love, then we know it is not true, because Jesus came to reveal who God really is. You do not see Jesus condemning people. He challenged people, but He did not condemn them. He did not judge them. He did not kill them. Even when people were killing Him on the cross, His response was, “Father, forgive them.”

That is God. He forgives. He is a loving God.

Awakening to Love

God has been misrepresented by all sorts of religions, including Christianity, as someone He is not. That is why people need to awaken to love. Many are doing that by leaving the conditional picture of God they encountered in church and finding Him outside of it. There are also people who have never been in church who are discovering that God is love, not through religion, but they are still coming through Jesus, even if they do not name Him.

He is the door to the Father. You cannot find the Father any other way, but that door is open. It has always been open. Jesus is the door; He has opened the way, and He has kept it open. He is not as precious about how people come through that door as we often are. When people find the Father, they will have come through Jesus the Son. They may not describe it that way, but that is the reality.

So we need to help people come through that door, to find Him, to experience the love of God, and to discover their identity in Him. Not to try to conform them to a religious system. In reality, more people are finding God and His love outside of Christianity than within it.

Already Reconciled, Already Included

I am not against people coming to Jesus and accepting what He did on the cross. That is how I would present the gospel, helping people discover who God is in love and experience that love; that Jesus loves them and has made a way for them. But I would not be prescriptive and say there is no other way people can come and experience the love of God. It will be through Jesus, but it may not be through the religious Christian way that we have described how Jesus saved people.

People are already saved, already included. Already reconciled, already accepted. They are already forgiven. They do not know it, and sometimes the way we present the good news does not help them know it. So let us help people find God, and let God bring them into the relationship and reveal Himself to them. That is not our responsibility. That is His.

Let us remove the hindrances and obstacles that may have been placed in people’s way, especially the harsh, judgmental message that says they will be condemned to hell if they do not accept Jesus. That is not true. Love is powerful: love never fails, love never gives up.

And death is not the end of choice.

Love Beyond Death: A Personal Testimony

Even if someone chooses to reject God in this life, God does not reject them. There is still opportunity beyond this life to embrace Him.

I have a testimony of that recently, though I have never done this before.

Last week, I went to a celebration of someone’s life. It was a man I had met through a school reunion. He was the husband of one of Debbie’s school friends, and we had met several times over the past months. At those gatherings, the husbands are often spare parts, left figuring out what to talk about. But over time I got to know them. One of the men was a Christian, and we had some great conversations about grace, love and the mystic side of things. This other man was not interested at all. He was a nice man, funny, but not open to any of it.

We met in April, and in June we heard that he had been diagnosed with a disease, and then he died in July, suddenly, very quickly. It was sad for his wife, for his family, and for his children. We were invited to go to the celebration of his life, which was totally non-religious, because he was totally against organised religion, as I found out when people were telling stories about him.

I sat there listening to the stories and people’s recollections, and I started to feel sad. I felt sad for the people who did not seem to have any hope. In their view, he was dead and gone. Life after death did not exist as far as he was concerned, and probably that is what his family felt too. There was no expectation of seeing him again.

While they were playing some music he liked, some Beatles music and other songs, I thought, “Okay God, is there anything I can do about this? Is there anything that you want me to do?”

Then I felt God say, “Well, you know what to do about it.”

So I thought, “Can I?” And then I decided, okay, I am going to be bold. While everything was quiet and the music was playing, I went to the fire of God’s love and I called him out. I did not know whether he was going to be there, because sometimes people accept Jesus on their deathbed. But he was there.

He came, and I felt the emotion. I felt that he was feeling condemned, not by God, but by self-condemnation and self-anguish, because he realised that his belief systems were not right. He was still alive, not dead. His consciousness was still living. For people who do not believe there is life after death, when they die and discover they are still alive, it is a shock.

So I preached the gospel to him. I shared that God’s love never fails. That even though he had rejected God while he lived, and did not accept that there was a God, God still loved him. God had never rejected him. God still wanted a relationship with him.

I shared that good news, and I offered him that opportunity, to which he responded and accepted. He followed me, and I introduced him to the Father. The Father brought his spirit and soul back together, unified him, clothed him with glory, and placed a ring on his finger of sonship. It was wonderful to see.

I did not stand up and tell people what I had done. That would not have fitted the framework of the meeting. They would probably have thought I was very strange. But now he has a relationship with God.

And death is not the end. It is another opportunity, in a different way, to experience God’s love.

Death Is Not the End of Choice

I know people will say you cannot talk to dead people. But they are not dead. A person’s spirit and soul do not die. Their body may be dead, but they have moved into another realm. We still have an opportunity to share the good news with them, even if they have chosen to reject Jesus and God in this life.

Then I started to feel really happy. There was a sense of joy in what he was now experiencing. Of course, I would want his children and his friends to feel that same joy, and to be awakened to God’s love. But at least for him, he is now out of the consuming fire, out of that refining process, and he is now receiving and accepting God’s love.

Now he knows who he is. And now he is going to go on to fulfil his destiny in that realm. That is good news. These are tremendous opportunities of sharing God’s love. Death is not the end of choice, as I experienced in that testimony. I am not saying I will ever do that again: I do not know. I felt moved by compassion, and God gave me permission.

It shows what is possible.

Responsibility and Opportunity

All of us have the opportunity to preach the good news and help people embrace God’s love, even after they die. There may be family members. There may be situations where we can do this.

In this situation, I was surprised that I even thought about it. But I was feeling so moved, aware that something was missing, something that could have been there, so I chose to do something about it.

He still had the choice. He could have rejected what I shared. But his belief system had already been challenged, because he did not believe there was anything after death. Now he found himself in a place where he thought he was condemned to remain there forever, because he did not know anything different. Even though he had not believed in God, and had not believed in hell, he now assumed that must be where he was. He was full of self-anguish, believing that his decisions in life had placed him there.

But God still loves him. And the love of God can reach people even in that place. It is our responsibility to empty that place of people, to make sure no one is left there, and that they all find the love of God.

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518. My Spiritual Awakening | Angels and More

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The Role of Angels

The angels were involved from the very beginning, because I did not fully understand what was happening. Only in hindsight can I see the cycles of change in my life, one after another. One significant moment was when I was baptized in the Spirit. I discovered several books that challenged my understanding of spirit, soul, and body. There was one particular book, probably the thickest I had ever read, The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee, exploring the nature of the spirit, soul and body, and how they interact. I devoured it because I was hungry for understanding. It began to reveal the role of the Holy Spirit and my own spirit in ways I had never considered.

By accident, I found another book, Nine O’Clock in the Morning by Dennis and Rita Bennett, written in the late 1950s in the United States. It focused on baptism in the Spirit and spiritual gifts. At that time, I was in the Brethren church, which did not embrace any of these ideas. Reading the book, I was astonished—it shared how encounters with the Holy Spirit transformed lives.

I began asking questions, but many dismissed it. Some said, “Oh, that is not for today,” while others claimed those experiencing it were deceived. It was a difficult time, and God had to change my mindset. This cycle of change, with the Holy Spirit active in my life, ultimately brought about transformation. I realised I needed confirmation for myself. I could not simply accept, “Yes, God said it, it is true.” I required evidence.

Baptism in the Spirit

I found confirmation through Martin Lloyd-Jones, a well-known preacher at Westminster Chapel in London. His recordings and his book Baptism of the Spirit convinced me theologically that baptism in the Spirit is for today—and I desired it. It still took several years before I received it, but I pursued it diligently.

Cycles of change were facilitated by both people and angels. At one point, a childhood friend I had not seen for years returned to my life. He had become a Christian and was baptized in the Spirit. He laid his hand on my head in a small group, and I experienced a powerful encounter with God.

God orchestrates these cycles; He is active, not passive, in bringing us into the maturity of sonship. Receiving baptism in the Holy Spirit opened another cycle of change. I became more open to hearing God and understanding His purposes. This led to a fresh perspective on eschatology—understanding kingdom and covenant in ways I had not encountered growing up in the Brethren church. God revealed truths beyond the futurism and premillennial rapture teaching I had known.

Community and Mentorship

After several years, I found an old book by Archibald Hughes, which affirmed all that God had been teaching me. Deconstructing my previous beliefs had taken time. I did not teach these truths for twenty or thirty years, fearing controversy. Eventually, I could no longer remain silent. The insights were so radically aligned with Jesus’ teaching that they opened a broader understanding—about covenantal judgment on the old system, the generation, and God’s ongoing work in the world.

God’s orchestration of my life was evident in these cycles of change, often interspersed with periods of rest. I saw the angels’ involvement and recognised God as the conductor of an orchestra—the symphony is the song of my life, and He directs the rhythm. I may not fully understand how conductors work, but the orchestra responds to His guidance: speeding up, slowing down, and emphasising particular movements. God’s involvement in every detail is remarkable.

Deconstructing Beliefs

We do not need to understand everything fully; our role is to participate and cooperate. Over time, I learned not to resist or demand full comprehension before embracing God’s work in me. I became proactive, recognising cycles of change and the timing of God’s intervention. He is gracious, merciful, and loving. He knows exactly what we need and when, helping us enter into His processes rather than resist them.

Our backgrounds influence how easily we assimilate new truths. Some of us, like myself, require much convincing. But as I grew sensitive to God’s work, I learned to embrace transformation willingly—stepping onto the altar to be refined and purified without hesitation. Previously, I clung to control, needing to be convinced to release things. Now, I trust Him completely. God is always good. If He leads us through something, it is for our ultimate blessing, making it easier to say “yes” quickly.

God does not intend to harm us or make life unnecessarily difficult. Often, it is we who make things harder for ourselves. Trusting Him accelerates our willingness to embrace His work in us because we recognise His goodness, mercy, and love. He is a good, loving, wonderful Father, always seeking the best for us.

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314. Limiting Mindsets and Beliefs

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398. Embrace Transformation and Renewal

507. Transforming Your Mind: The Key to Spiritual Renewal

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When God calls us into something, there is always a transformation that takes place in us. It is not just about what we are being used to do. Any change God brings will always change us. To come into agreement with God, we have to allow anything that is in disagreement with Him to be changed.

I cannot renew my own mind. God renews my mind by revealing truth. The way it used to work was that we would try to renew our minds by taking hold of truth, meditating on it and speaking it out until we believed it. But all we were really doing was trying to change our belief about something. We were not having an experience of that truth that then becomes a testimony of reality.

I tried many times to change my beliefs by modifying what I believed, often using a Bible verse. But in doing that, I was actually focusing on the negative of what I did not believe. When you are trying to change a belief, you are always thinking about what you are trying to change. An encounter with truth, a revealing of truth, God giving us truth, changes what we believe because it changes what we have experienced.

I can tell people all over the world about unconditional love and they may think it sounds wonderful. But if they have not experienced it, all they have is a belief about unconditional love, not a testimony of it. God wants us to know by experience, not just to know intellectually.

Most people are vibrating at the frequency of the problem while trying to change the problem. If you vibrate at the frequency of the answer and the solution, that is a higher frequency than the problem, and the problem will entrain and come into alignment with that higher frequency. If we focus on the negative frequency, we simply live in it. Truth will change whatever might be a fact.

Many people are striving for change. They strive for healing, for a change in circumstances, for finances or whatever blessing they are seeking. They are pressing in with God, but when you are pressing, you are not at rest. People often struggle with the finished work of Christ and with living from that finished work. Jesus has done everything necessary for life and godliness. Everything is available. But if I do not believe that, I will not receive it.

Something may be true, but is it true for me? The process of it becoming true for me often works like this: I believe I have received it before it manifests. I live in rest, knowing that it is true, and then the manifestation comes. In that process, I change. The truth does not change. I align with the truth that is already true, and it becomes true for me.

There is often a misunderstanding here. Some people think it is automatic, that God has done it and therefore they are not really involved. When it does not appear automatic, they become disappointed. Others think all they have to do is believe. But Jesus did not say that the truth you believe will set you free. He said the truth you know will set you free. To know is to have the full experience of it. Even before it manifests, you are living within the reality of it. You are content and at rest, not striving.

This can be hard when symptoms contradict that reality. I experienced this in my own healing process. I had symptoms and I was taking medication. The question was whether I would believe the symptoms or believe the healing that was mine. It took time to believe health more than the symptoms, until the symptoms became irrelevant to my knowing health.

I did not simply believe that I would be healed. I believed that health was my full inheritance. That changed everything. Then God said to me, “It is done. You can stop taking the tablets.” If I had stopped taking them earlier to prove my faith, that would not have been true faith. I would have been trying to force something. I encourage no one to stop taking medication unless God tells you to, or a doctor confirms it, because you need to be living in the reality of healing before you act outwardly.

What changed was my thinking. I did not change it myself. It changed when I began to focus on the solution. God is my healer. Health is my inheritance. I stopped asking for healing. I stopped thinking about being healed. My focus became health. At first, my focus had been on what I did not want, on the medication, the side effects and the diagnosis. But when my thinking shifted to living in health, the manifestation followed.

Do not focus on the negative in order to change it. Focus on the positive and live in it. That is where manifestation begins, when we live in the good of what is true. Nothing can shake that reality once it becomes our knowing. We are aligned with the truth, not trying to believe it, but living in it. When we know it, it sets us free.

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505. A Royal Priesthood | Embracing Our Identity as Sons

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Let’s recognise our identity as sons, and our position in heaven, seated in heavenly places, functioning in the order of Melchizedek.

We are functioning as priests and kings, and as oracles and legislators. We are close to the Father’s heart. We know the Father’s heart. We establish the Father’s heart through government. We work that as an oracle. We call it into being creatively, and we legislate for its function on the earth. These are the outworkings of our sonship through the order of Melchizedek.

We are a royal priesthood. We are oracles and legislators. We found things on truth. When we become the word made flesh, effectively, Jesus is the Word of God made flesh, dwelling among us, full of grace and truth. In the same way, we are to operate as sons of God, having the power of speaking for God, as his voice. When we speak with his voice, creation responds. The quantum realm collapses into reality. We change the reality of things. Quantum wave functions collapse into choices that are aligned with the heart of God. That is our sonship. That is what we are called to do. That is who we are.

We establish it in heaven because we are seated in heavenly places, aligned to the Father’s heart in heaven. Then we begin to bring heaven to earth, to outwork heaven on earth through our lives, and corporately through those who are together with one mind, the mind of Christ. Our sonship identity comes out of love. We need to know our origin in God. We need to know who we are, who we were and who we are going to be, so that we can outwork our identity as those made in the image of God in a creative way. We are created in God’s image to be creative, to establish co-heirship in everything.

Therefore, we need to know who we are. But we are only going to know who we are if we know who God is. In knowing who God is as love, the way we do things will change, so that we do everything aligned to love. That changes the whole way we respond to the world’s situation and how we outwork government, not in a controlling or warfare-type way, but in a legislative, loving way that brings peace and rest.

It can seem like utopia. It can seem like it is a million miles away from where we are. But you do not know what is going on underneath. You only see what is on the surface. Things are beginning to shift. People are beginning to awaken. Enlightenment is taking place. The balance is beginning to shift. You do not see it until enough weight is added to the other end of the balance. If you keep adding weight, it only takes one feather to tip the whole thing.

What we are seeing is people becoming enlightened to their identity in sonship, adding weight to God’s kingdom. Once the balance tips in favour of God’s kingdom, everything begins to flow. At the moment it can feel like everything is going uphill, going against the tide, against the stream. It feels like hard work, as though darkness has the upper hand and we are trying not to slip back into it. But actually it is not like that anymore. It does not take much to tip it. Then everything begins to flow from heaven to earth, as it was designed to do.

This requires us to see with the eyes of the spirit, the eyes of our heart, and not to panic by only looking at the world and its symptoms. We need to recognise that God is at work. The kingdom is expanding and increasing. God’s government is increasing. People are becoming enlightened to the true nature of who God is and to their true identity. Enlightened people will shift things. Enlightened people will tip the balance.

It does not require equal numbers, because enlightenment is exponential. Twelve enlightened people operating at the level of Jesus would tip the whole world. At present there may not be people fully enlightened as Jesus was, but even getting halfway there would make a huge difference. If people reach eighty per cent, it would make an even greater difference. Enlightened people can change things significantly. I believe that is what is happening.

You may not see it. Those who are not wise or discerning look at the world and panic and become fearful. But if you look with the eyes of faith and the eyes of enlightenment, you see what God is doing. There is far more going on than people generally see, and it is preparing the way for changes that are coming. Enlightened people will establish God’s government, not narcissistic, power-hungry people with agendas that are not God’s kingdom.

Trying to make better versions of the world’s failing systems is not the answer. They are still fundamentally flawed. We need a new government, a new kingdom, established on earth as it is in heaven. As sons, we are responsible for that, in alignment with the Father’s heart. People are beginning to awaken. Some are awakening who do not even call themselves Christians, yet they know God, even if they do not yet know him as Jesus. Sometimes their relationship is more truthful than religious relationships.

People are awakening, and ultimately they will discover that Jesus has made a way to the Father. Our sonship is found in coming to the Father and discovering who we are. Jesus opened the door to the Father so that we could have relationship with him. People are beginning to discover that relationship and awaken to the truth.

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498. Trapped In Fear: Evangelical Mind Control Exposed!

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We don’t know to what degree we have been programmed until God starts to deprogram us. And I would say that evangelicalism is very cult-like in the way in which it uses guilt and shame and condemnation to control people, and keep people in line; get people to toe the denominational line or the church line or whatever those beliefs are. Because, “You can’t belong unless you believe like us,” which is the fear, “Oh, I’m going to be on my own!”

And how many have been told, “Well, if you leave the church, or you’re coming out from under the covering, then Satan will get you!” And all of those fear-based things that we have all been told.

Well, God is love and God loves us unconditionally. And he wants us to enter into the fullness of that. And that will change our thinking.

And we will find that we get deconstructed from all of those belief systems, if we cooperate with him and we don’t keep resisting and fighting to hold on to our previous beliefs, which, you know, I discovered most of them were warped at least, if not completely wrong.

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496. When Love Rewired My Mind, Goodbye Religion!

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There is a new reality: that love now frames my thinking; that God frames my thinking from a totally different perspective. That religion has been removed.

Now, I am not saying that there are not still things to do, and God still did things along the way, but He could do things because my mind was now open to him.

So when the whole hell issue came up, my mind was open to him. And when he started to challenge my understanding of old covenant and my old covenant thinking of trying to be obedient to God and trying to please God and trying to earn… (really again by being obedient).

“I am not under the Law. Oh! Oh, yeah! Why am I trying to be obedient to a law when I’m not under a law?”

Because I was framed that way by evangelicalism.

So I had to realise that there are layers and layers of thinking that still needed renewing. Even when the system of belief was removed, there were still neural pathways that took me to beliefs that needed to be renewed and undone. And deconstruction has continued.

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492. Evangelicalism Unravelled: The Fall of ‘Sola Scriptura’

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They didn’t believe it in the early church. There was no penal
substitutionary atonement. The atonement, or what Jesus did on the cross, was Christus Victor, mostly. Christ victorious over what? Our lost identity, our death, over everything. A very different view of what Jesus did.

But Protestantism very quickly picked up on penal substitutionary atonement and it became the cornerstone of Calvinism and lots of other streams of thought. When that got removed, and when that evangelical pillar crumbled, all the other pillars started to wobble.

So sola scriptura was the second pillar. Well, without evangelicalism holding it up, that went over, which is why it changed my whole view about the Bible, the way I see the Bible, and the Bible being ‘the word of God’ and all that stuff: “It’s got to be in the Bible!” and all the challenge that came
with that, because God totally took me to task over it.

363. Deconstructing the Pillars of Your Mind

299. PSA Sounds Nothing Like Jesus! (Penal Substitutionary Atonement [1])

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491. When I Let Go Of Penal Substitutionary Atonement

Mike Parsons

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Penal substitutionary atonement (PSA) was the first to go. When I began to express my doubts about it to others, one woman involved in mystic and mentoring groups emailed me, saying I was trying to take away ‘the cornerstone of her faith’. She was serious and angry at me because she wanted to hold onto PSA as the cornerstone of her belief.

I told her that if that’s where she wanted to remain, that was her choice, but I was moving on. Naturally, that upset some people, but many others resonated with the idea that it didn’t make sense for God as Father to kill or punish His Son. And when you investigate further, you find that PSA is actually a doctrine that only emerged in the tenth century…

299. PSA Sounds Nothing Like Jesus! (Penal Substitutionary Atonement [1])

304. Wrath is not the solution | Penal Substitutionary Atonement [2]

490. Can Changing One Belief Change Everything?

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“Do you want me to remove these pillars from your mind?” asked the Father.

I believe six of them were religious pillars, and three were cultural or scientific. It was then that I realised these pillars were framing how I viewed the world and understood reality around me.

The first and strongest pillar was evangelicalism. He removed that one first, shaking me to the core by taking it away. Every evangelical thought I had was challenged, especially the idea of penal substitutionary atonement, which was the first belief to be questioned. God didn’t just take the pillar out; he shook it, challenging my beliefs and creating instability in my belief system around those topics. And penal substitutionary atonement was the first to go.

363. Deconstructing the Pillars of Your Mind

299. PSA Sounds Nothing Like Jesus! (Penal Substitutionary Atonement [1])

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304. Wrath is not the solution | Penal Substitutionary Atonement [2]

488. Do You Only See What You Expect To See?

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All those people who say they have been in hell for ten minutes, or whatever, are framing their experience through their theological understanding of hell rather than the truth. They see what they expect to see. That is the problem. We can be confirmation-biased and create our own scenario around what God is really trying to show us.

This is why we need to let God renew our minds and trust him in that process, rather than resisting him. At the same time, we should not be naive enough to think that everything we are thinking is already correct, because we are all still in the process. Even so, I would rather err on the side of love in everything I think than lean towards anything else. If I interpret everything through love, I will not go far wrong.