FROM YOU DID NOT CHOOSE ME,
BUT I CHOSE YOU
“
This Word, this I AM, transcends time and exists outside of time. "I AM" is eternally present tense. Thus, "predestined" is a descriptor based on a limited frame of view, a human frame of view. Our being "predestined" is what the light of our being illuminated looks like as that light is refracted through the prism of linear time....
CHAPTER 3,
THE SYNTHESIS
OF JOHN
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The reason you were born “again,” born a second time, is because you also were born the first time.... The second birth opened your mind to the eternal. But your first birth gave you the first profound truth in your life, the same truth to which you still awaken in the first moment of every new day. That truth is this: You exist as a free and thinking entity; you exist as an entirely unique self. Who is this self?
CHAPTER 6,
MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT MIRACLES
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We know, through the sight of futility itself becoming futile, that the rule of death has been brought down. We know this because [of] the One who came from out of the realer reality to show that reality and show the way to live in it. That way, the way in which we can follow, involves walking straight through futility and coming out the
other side....
CHAPTER 14,
FUTILITY
FALLS AWAY
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Peter Zelinski is most widely known for his writing related to manufacturing. He is the editor-in-chief of two magazines covering manufacturing technology. This site is devoted to an additional pursuit of his, writing books related to theology and Christian faith.
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