Gentiles for God

SETHIDE FAITH

An Assembly of Faith (AOF) of the Canberra Biblical Noahides (CBN)

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About Us:

The original Gentiles for God community website was found on the geocities host, which was cancelled, alongside many of my other websites, much information being lost. Apparently, in the heavenlies, the communities I began on earth speculatively have taken root in heaven and been established. As they are new endeavours in the Noahide world, new work, and new information on this subject is in incredible demand in heaven. Information dedicated by humanity to the name of Noahide Faith on earth is in great demand in heaven. Thus, this new website will act as an official website for the established heavenly community, and while I will not try and remember the old doctrine as to interfere with or change it at all, I will make all new doctrine generally flexible enough to the 'Gentiles for God' concept, that it should be acceptable for inclusion in the Gentiles for God community as new and further dialogue and data on the subject at hand.

As things have developed now Gentiles for God has been placed as an Assembly of Faith of the Biblical Noahides Movement. It functions as one of the 10 Assmblies of faith of the Deciarchal representatives, from Adam through to Noah. It serves both for the ancient faith community of Seth and his offsrping, and for new developments in the modern world of those who choose to sojourn their spiritual life in the name of their ancient ancestor Seth, and, also acribing to the Rainbow Torah (Genesis 1:1 – 11:9) as the basis of the sons of God community of faith.

About Seth:

Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, who were the only other of their children mentioned by name in thtranslit.e Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). cording to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after Abel's murder, and Eve believed God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel.

According to Genesis

According to Genesis, Seth was born when Adam was 130 years old "a son in his likeness and image". The genealogy is repeated at 1 Chronicles 1:1–3. Genesis 5:4–5 states that Adam fathered "sons and daughters" before his death, aged 930 years. According to the Bible, Seth lived to the age of 912. Jewish tradition. Seth figures in the pseudepigraphical texts of the Life of Adam and Eve (the Apocalypse of Moses). It recounts the lives of Adam and Eve from after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden to their deaths. The surviving versions were composed from the early 3rd to the 5th century,:252 the literary units in the work are considered to be older and predominantly of Jewish origin. There is wide agreement that the original was composed in a Semitic language:251 in the 1st century AD/CE.:252 In the Greek versions Seth and Eve travel to the doors of the Garden to beg for some oil of the Tree of Mercy (i.e. the Tree of Life). On the way Seth is attacked and bitten by a wild beast, which goes away when ordered by Seth. Michael refuses to give them the oil at that time, but promises to give it at the end of time, when all flesh will be raised up, the delights of paradise will be given to the holy people and God will be in their midst. On their return, Adam says to Eve: "What hast thou done? Thou hast brought upon us great wrath which is death." (chapters 5–14) Later only Seth can witness the taking-up of Adam at his funeral in a divine chariot, which deposits him in the Garden of Eden. Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaqi) refers to Seth as the ancestor of Noah and hence the father of all mankind, all other humans having perished in the Great Flood. In gnosticism, Seth is seen as a replacement given by God for Abel, whom Cain had slain.[citation needed] It is said that late in life, Adam gave Seth secret teachings that would become the kabbalah. The Zohar refers to Seth as "ancestor of all the generations of the tzaddikim" (Hebrew: righteous ones).According to Seder Olam Rabbah, based on Jewish reckoning, he was born in 130 AM. According to Aggadah, he had 33 sons and 23 daughters. According to the Seder Olam Rabbah, he d1042 AM.

According to Josephus

In the Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus refers to Seth as virtuous and of excellent character, and reports that his descendants invented the wisdom of the heavenly bodies, and built the "pillars of the sons of Seth", two pillars inscribed with many scientific discoveries and inventions, notably in astronomy. They were built by Seth's descendants based on Adam's prediction that the world would be destroyed at one time by fire and another time by global flood, in order to protect the discoveries and be remembered after the destruction. One was composed of brick, and the other of stone, so that if the pillar of brick should be destroyed, the pillar of stone would remain, both reporting the ancient discoveries, and informing men that a pillar of brick was also erected. Josephus reports that the pillar of stone remained in the land of Siriad in his day.

William Whiston, a 17/18th-century translator of the Antiquities, stated in a footnote that he believed Josephus mistook Seth for Sesostris, king of Egypt, the erector of the pillar in Siriad (being a contemporary name for the territories in which Sirius was venerated (i.e., Egypt). He stated that there was no way for any pillars of Seth to survive the deluge, because the deluge buried all such pillars and edifices far underground in the sediment of its waters. The Perennialist writer Nigel Jackson identifies the land of Siriad in Josephus' account with Syria, citing related Mandaean legends regarding the 'Oriental Land of Shyr' in connection with the visionary mytho-geography of the prophetic traditions surrounding Seth.

Sermons for the Gentiles for God community

Sermon One – Following Jehovah

A purpose in life, if you don't know, if you have lived a life so far, not really questioning, but going with the flow somewhat, a purpose in life, well, really, perhaps the main purpose in life, when it comes right down it, is to find the one, the ineffable, the mysterious, the grand impossible, the Almighty God, who created and designed and gave life to it all. Just a purpose? No, not really. In fact, it is perhaps THE purpose, really, until you know better and how to live your life according to sound prinicples of holiness. God doesn't exactly have to be the centre of it all when you are experienced enough in eternity principles, able to chart your way successfully through an eternal life. No, he doesn't have to be the absolute centre, which can be used on whatever your ultimate passions in life really are. But he damn well needs to be your top advisor and instructor at the very least if he is not going to be Almighty Consuming Passion. Jehovah is their to guide you and lead you if you will follow him. If you want an arm wrestle of pride in 'I live my life by my own choices and decisions' go right ahead, because he probably won't care to argue very much, unless a faithful mother has spent years in prayer on your behalf. Yes, if you insist on the doctrines of self, indeed, go ahead. A lot of the time those doctrines are quite good ones anyway. But what surprises do you have for a God who has been around since the beginning of humanity? Are you going to teach him something he doesn't already know? God is a vast reservoir of experience and wisdom and, as he has already existed eternally, who better than Jehovah to place your trust in to deliver you to the shores of eternal life? Following Jehovah is your choice, but doing it, and committing to him, is not an unwise choice, even if your pride sometimes gets in the way. In fact its a wise choice because, often as he grinds you over the guilt trips of repentance, you might really not like the way you are being treated very much but, when you come through the trial on the other side, you start to understand the wisdom of eternity through the strengths, truths and virtues he has fostered into your heart, and begin understanding that following Jehovah is not really anywhere as lame as the politically correct or the 'cool' kids make out it to be anyway.

Sermon Two – Skill Application

You have a banana. It's a nice banana. It sits in your fruit basket. Your partner said, that's a great banana. But as you know, unless you petrify the thing, it must be put to its use, and eaten. There is no point in owning a banana unless you eat it. And that is somewhat the same with skills developed in life. If you have lovely skills which can be used to do a variety of things, there is no point in having them unless you actually use them. Of course the seasons change, and sometimes old skills become outdated and obsolete, but many skills are God given talens and should be used in some way or another. Refine your skills and if they are becoming less useful, update and adapt them to the new world. Part of service to God is generall being a useful member of our human community and we need a job and income, so you need to identify your skills, update them when necessary, and apply them in the real world to help further your interests and prosper you in life. A prosperity plan doesn't really work unless you apply the skills you have in life to tasks which need to be done and, honestly, some times you are really going to have to knuckle down and develop high quality skills to qualify for the work at decent pay levels which needs to be done. Apply your skills with wisomd and precision, and leearn to be the best you can be in the job you are in. You will go a long way in life if you remind yourself to keep current with your skills and learn to apply them to the best of your abilities.

Sermon Three – Tradition

The World's a big place.There are lots of people, societies, interest groups, cultures, religioins, beliefs, customs, agendas and views. In all this world there are lots of options to connect to. I feel that for gentiles for God family traditions are important. In a line from a Des'ree song, she sings, 'Read the books your father read.' That's a good idea. Traditions in the family build up family wisdom, knowledge and identity. You become valuable and purposeful to society with a good family tradition and sense of identity. Further it builds your reputation – your good name – to the world. It is the virtue of a stable and consistent family bloodline. The way you craft out your family bloodline through what you connect to in life shows your worth to people who make judgments on the quality of things. The longer you and your family have persiste and interacted with traditions, the more respected you become and the more you resonate with authority in this tradtition. And God thinks the same too. Naturally each new generation starts afresh in its own way and new ideas bring new and more developed understanding on life. But with these new ideas it is important to think through them and adapt them into the knowledge of the family tree which has already establishe itself in a way of life and negotiating through this world. Bring in what you can from your own experience, and enrichen your tradtion if it is something of merit.. Yet it is the core of tradition in your life – those hard earne truths from your bloodlines long history – which are your strenghts, what you are really made of and, in the end, what people really think about you. Value tradition.