The entire concept of pistis and hamartano (we were meant to grasp in Christ’s way), faith and sin has shifted the concept of what it is (into mans version) and its functions in our daily life away from (575-apo) how they were truly meant to be understood in Christ’s way.
Forsaken
Once you held me in the palm of your hand
At that time did I help you expand
Spiritually lifted to a higher plane
But then you chose a life down the drain
Leaving what you had in me forsaken
Going back to a lifestyle once again overtaken
Everything about you as you get consumed
As you forget about me, the one you presumed
Whether you meant to or not, this was your choice
And in this decision you lost track of my voice
In such a subtle way you never seen clear
The way that I came to you and whispered in your ear
A spiritual ear for hearing all that I say
A recognition of my truths day after day
I am your teacher, your master, the all knowing one
I have all the answers, bestowed in my Son
Everything he taught you, you overlooked
Now you’ve become servants of being over booked
The difference of book smarts vs street smarts changes what you see
In that little black book smarts, is NOT the real me
Forsaken in a moment you never seen the shift
That I am all spirit giving life to your soul that I lift
It is this happening that you read when I was in your hand
This was a pistis moment, I hope you understand
What you forsook, is what made you believe
Deeper than that book, in which your eyes will deceive
Relaying a message that I never wrote
As you take it all in, every single note
1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe {5720} also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also. 4And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
8Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Shew us the Father? 10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11Believe me that I [am] in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake. 12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do [it].
Pistis involvement is what put you in his name (by leading you to Christ’s understanding its leading you directly into his name as intended and its all by way of actions, not words. In these actions as you are lifted into his understanding (what his name represents) our FATHER knows all you ever need and the actions provide all the prayers you’ll ever need!
The apo mentioned above, the Sodom and Gomorrha story is a great representation of the cause and effect of looking away or looking back as a comparative to pistis and hamartano. If you look forward into pistis it lifts you higher in LIFE, LIGHT, TRUTH and Christ. When we look back into the ways of the world (hamartano) and get involved with it, it generates the exact opposite because that is what satan is, the opposer, adversary or the light, truth, life and Christ. He is the life of death, darkness, lies and deception. If we look back (by way of our actions) and involve our self in the daily worldly routines, we become as stone (pillars of salt) in our hearts, mind and soul and stagnate to never move forward again away from (apo) sin. At the same time, Lots wife looking back (and becoming a pillar of salt) could be taken to represent (not the physical, literal sense) but the happening of the action of the event of hamartano. In other words, She could have loved the life style so much she went back to it and became the piller (Officer or person in high rank over the others), choosing that hamartano life over the pistis life with her husband Lot. Men are seemingly being called the salt of the earth! But these men that are being referred to seem to be men of GOD and their purpose in him which would be accomplished while in pistis. If they look back and partake in hamartano then they too would become foolish (lose their savour). Where if they stay in pistis they are seasoned (aged and learned and provide wisdom like none other) The life we see in front of us now is all a reflection of that very thing back then. All the people raised and brought up by way of this pillar of salt tactic (hamartano) would create the societies (of foolish people/men/anthropos) from there on out in the way we all know them now. A wise man would not partake in hamartano!
13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
This excerpt comes from https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org
“The callousness of the residents that was so infectious was based on this desire to always have more for oneself – more money, more land, more jewels, more servants. No thought was given to what others had. No one cared about helping those less fortunate. “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is yours” was the ethic of Sodom and Gomorrah (Pirkei Avot/Ethics of the Fathers 5:11). At first this would seem to be a sensible and harmless ethic, and yet it places the emphasis on individual possessions and financial gain and ignores the demand that we care for all of humanity. Tamari reminds us that, unlike the Talmudic belief that certain urges decrease when they remain unfulfilled and others, such as hunger, increase when unfulfilled, the urge for monetary and material gain increases when one has less and when one amasses more if left unchecked. This leads to that sense of economic egoism of which Tamari speaks.”
It has a great connection then to now in very similar context as far as the mentality of all of us as a human race and similar goals. The obvious not the riches of our FATHER. If you read that page you can fit in where pistis and hamartano belong and see how pistis would have changed everything had we not partook in the hamartano. Same as now. We have become the calloused by way of hamartano!
Just remember this, the only way we can serve each other is to serve our FATHER first and this can only happen through pistis as he individually raises us in HIS RICHES, not the worlds. Hamartano see’s to it we remain duped by the faced and deception so we never achieve these riches of our FATHER that lead us to Christ’s Understanding. THE ONLY RICHES! THE GOAL! THE MARK! THE AIM!
When I stopped this writing above here it was 1384 words:
1384- dokimos: tested, approved
Original Word: δόκιμος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: dokimos
Phonetic Spelling: (dok’-ee-mos)
Definition: tested, approved
Usage: approved, acceptable, tried.
1384 dókimos (an adjective, derived from 1209/dexomai, “to receive, welcome”) – properly, what passes the necessary test (scrutiny); hence acceptable because genuine (validated, verified).
[1384 (dókimos) is the root of: 1381 (dokimázō), 1382 (dokimḗ) and 1383 (dokímion). 1384 (dókimos) was used for the proving (testing) of coins, i.e. confirming they were genuine (not counterfeit, corrupted).]
Like a stamp of approval of our FATHER verifying all being said here is of pistis and him putting his exclamation mark on it! Now it just up to you to see it.