Something I have studying on for the last week.   I just wanted to share it.
This is from the Mirror version bible.

Consider the word metanoia, consisting of two components, meta, together with, and nous, mind, suggesting a radical mind shift. This word has been translated regularly as “repentance,” which is an old English word borrowed from the Latin, which means penance. Then they added the “re” to get even more mileage out of sin consciousness. Re-penance. This gross deception led to the perverted doctrines of indulgences, where naive, ignorant people were led to believe that they needed to purchase favor from an angry god. Most cathedrals as well as many ministries were funded with this guilt money.

English translations do little to help us understand what repentance truly is. Until Jerome’s Latin Vulgate translation, the word metanoia was commonly used. For instance, Tertullian wrote in 198 A.D., “In Greek, metanoia is not a confession of sins but a change of mind.” But despite this the Latin fathers begin to translate the word as “do penance” following the Roman Catholic teaching on doing penance in order to win God’s favor.

In 1430, Lorenzo Valla, a Catholic theologian, began a critical study of Jerome’s Latin Vulgate and Valla pointed out many mistakes that Jerome had made.  Sadly, the “Vulgate-Only” crowd of Valla’s day forced him to renounce many of the changes that he noted needed changing in the Vulgate including the poor translation of metanoia.

The business of religion desperately needs paying and returning customers. Jesus was crucified for this reason; the entire system of keeping people dependent on their hierarchy was challenged and condemned by him.

Isaiah 55:8-11 gives meaning to metanoia: “your thoughts were distanced from God’s thoughts as the heavens are higher than the earth, but just like the rain and the snow would cancel that distance and saturate the soil to awaken its seed, so shall my word be that proceeds from my mouth.”
The Greek preposition meta, together with, implies another influence. This is where the gospel becomes so powerful since it appeals to our conscience to reason together with our original design ... the authentic thought, the mind of God is realized again. The distance caused by Adam’s fall, compared to the distance between heaven and earth, is cancelled in the incarnation. Metanoia suggests a co-knowing with God! It is an intertwining of thought; it is to agree with God about me.

 Your belief in God does not define him; his faith in what he knows to be true about you defines you.

In Mark 11:22, Jesus says, “Have the faith of God.” Unfortunately, most translations say, “Have faith in God.” There is a massive difference between our beliefs and philosophies about God and God’s persuasion about us! 

God’s belief in you gives substance to your faith. Jesus is what God believes about you. If our point of departure is not God’s faith in the finished work of Christ we have no valid gospel to preach.

 If our faith is not sourced and sustained in him as the mirror image of God revealed and redeemed in us we are deceiving ourselves with yet another religious disguise called Christianity.

Toit, Francois Du. Mirror Bible: A selection of key New Testament texts paraphrased from the Greek (Kindle Locations 13893-13922). Mirror Word Publishing (Kindle Edition by Ten10 Ebooks). Kindle Edition.

Hello All,

 I have actually started doing a little more writing on my blog.   just went through a season where I just wasn't really hearing anything. I've actually been writing some stuff lately but my emails been messed up so I have not been able to get it sent out like I wanted.  I got everything fixed and so I'm probably going to start sending some things out again.   At the end of this email there is an actual unsubscribe if you don't want to receive it just click it and let me know.  You're not going to hurt my feelings if you don't want to get it. We all get lots of emails last thing I want to do is be just another email in your inbox.

Proverbs 3.5 Trust the Lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding

Kee Gwyn

John 1:47-48

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?”

Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

I've read this scripture countless times the Book of John is one of my favorite books.

“Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!” Here Jesus is speaking truth into Nathanael.

Nathaniel says Jesus how do You know me? And Jesus answered, “When you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” It never dawned on me what Jesus was saying here and it’s kind of unnerving, but in a good way.  In other words, Jesus is saying, I see you when you don't see me.   I see everything that you do.  I see what you do when you're at home by yourself. I see how you act when you're driving down the road.   I see you in the secret place when you spend time with my father.

So here we are ……. Knowing that Jesus knows everything and that God sees everything.

Why is it so hard at times to believe that He is actually there beside us?

If we Truly believed that he is right there,   then why do we sometimes take him to places that are very at bad?  If He was in living flesh then there is no way we would take him there.