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“…stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work—which is by faith. 5The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.” I Tm 1:3-5

MYTH : A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society; A fiction or half-truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology; a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people.

Here we see that arguing about myths that produce no fruit of mutual edification is not new. So God, through the apostle Paul exhorts us to not focus on such things. In another passage he encourages us to only talk about things that promote love, peace, unity…

This book of Enoch, the koran, Jehova witness' Bible, and all the other religions in the world have some “truth” to it. We need to understand that the devil can not create truth, he can only twist it. That's why we will always find some “truth” in the devil's lies. He tried that trap with Jesus in the desert, remember? He used truth but for the wrong purpose.

An article mentioned that in the satanist's bible there are passages exalting Jehova. Which had to be “corrected” later after found… But we could never say that satan's bible was God's Word just because it contained “truth”. Modern churches today are encouraging people to watch secular movies and find spiritual truths in it. For whatever reason, we have not been content with the Scriptures that are inspired by God and has the power even to go to the depths of a man and separate joints and marrow… Just like in the old testment stories about the israelites, we're in search for more than what God wants to give us. We want the grass on the other side of the fence. We want the forbidden fruit because of our greed. Greed because God has given so much abundance of fruit in this garden (Bible) but no, we had to go for the myterious one…again!

This passage, and many others in the Bible are strange, mysterious and have no explanation of it whatsoever anywhere else in Scripture. They are good to estimulate our curiosity but the bottom of the line is, Do they edify or do not edify? Some will just cause us to feed our intelect and produce no fruit of righteousness, but rather, a sense of superiority, pride and self-righteousness, leading us to a total blindness, seeing so much ignorance around us and never able to see the tree in our own eyes! If this is what the devil intended to reach by throwing some “truth” back then, he is sure achieving his plans. Today more than ever, the church is weak, shallow, superficial, blind, entertainers, prosperity promisers, fun oriented, full of sin, anger, unforgiven hearts, homossexualism in pulpits, divided and wasting their time provoking further war and division within themselves while hundreds and thousands of people are going to an eternity without Jesus EVERYDAY! But we are so filled with indiference consumed by SELF.
Jesus said, “whoever wants to follow me, deny yourself and pick up your cross daily and follow me.” -He is leading- but if he looked back as He goes, would He see you?
This is a question that challenges you and me…everyday.

I don't know all things, but I know that what I know has completely transformed my life. And that was the truth that Paul mentions, “I claim to know nothing but Christ and Him crucified.” Let's not lose focus brothers. Let's not be like Martha, concerned about many things and miss the most important one, which is, sit at His feet and become more like Him as we focus on Him.

I Co 13:12 “Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”

For now I know in part, and understand that I'll never be able to know it all before I die. If I had it all figured out, then the infinite God wouldn't be no more god than me. But I know that in that day, as this scripture says – then I shall know fully.

God bless you all

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