The Mind of God
In the Scriptures of the Bible it reads, "My ways are not your ways,
my thoughts are not your thoughts. Mine are from above while yours
are from beneath." Here God is saying to the people: you don't think
like I think. And your ways are not like My ways. My ways are above,
yours are from beneath.
If God's ways are above and God's thoughts are above and ours are
beneath then there's a gulf between man and God. And as long as that
gulf exists between man and God man cannot ever be what God originally
created him to be; which is in His own image and likeness. You can't
be in the image and likeness of God in form and not in mind and spirit
and thought.
So, if we are created to be in the image, from the scriptural or
Biblical point of view, in the image and likeness of God, then we are
created with the capacity to be able to think like God. And therefore
if we can think like God we can act like God. God's actions are Godly
and when a human being acts Godly that means that human being is
thinking on a higher level. Are we in agreement?
In the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Jesus never talks
about God's thinking. He just says as a man thinketh in his heart so
is he. You can't get a people truly resurrected just by curtailing
their actions. We have to get into the mind of the human being to
elevate the thinking of people. And when people can think above they
will rise above. Clear?
Okay. So Jesus says, as a man thinketh in his heart so is he. How
do you think in your heart? The heart here [chest] is not the heart
that the scriptures are talking about. The heart that the scriptures
talking about is the core of the person's being-thinking. That's the
real heart. It is the essence of the individual. It is rational. It
is intelligent. It is not emotional.
When you think of the heart you think of emotion. But to think like
God we have to be able to think above emotion. And that's what
separates man from God and beast from man. Beast is moved by
appetite. Man is controlled by emotion; but God is the master of the
process of reasoning.
So in the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad we are taught
that Islam is Mathematics and Mathematics is Islam. The Nation of
Islam, according to our Lessons, is all wise and does everything right
and exact. We can't do things right and exact unless we do things
mathematically. To do things mathematically is to do things with
precision.
When you do things emotionally you throw away mathematics. And most
of our decisions in life are made not from know-ledge but from
feelings. [The minister sings] Feelings, nothing more than feelings.
If you haven't got nothing more than feelings you in bad shape.
Children feel.
Mature people think on the basis of know-ledge; actual facts. How
do you feel? I feel fine. You don't ask the person, what do you
know? How do you feel? That shows the level that we operate on. We
operate on feelings. And that's why we're hurt so much and we're all
so bound up subjectively, because we're moved by emotion.
God has emotions. But He doesn't make decisions with emotion.
God is so magnificently mathematical. He can plan long range and the
people get thrown off by the majesty of His mathematics 'cause it does
not have emotion involved. God has emotion, but He's not ruled by
emotion.
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