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ELDOXA, THE GLORY PRINCIPLE By Nyron Medina

Eldoxa: This is the Principle by which God’s whole universe functions and survives in a sinfree state, it is the material that sustains God’s universe. It is God presented as 
God alone, it is God exalted in a rational knowledge..

We know that sin began when a creation 
exalted himself as god with God, he attributed glory to himself as God has glory. (Isaiah 14:12-14; Ezekiel 28:1,2).

3. When man, under the delusion of Satan, sought some powers of God to become God with God, this was seeking glory with God. Genesis 3:1-6.
When man sins, he always come short of the glory of God; that means he does not give 
glory to God or glorify Him. Romans 3:23.

When God’s Glory is down graded to the level of a creation, this is sin, and this is creating gods out of the creation. Romans 1:21-23.
God is identified as glorious thus God is in fact Glory. This means that He is not “God shut up to unfolding Himself”, He is God in His effulgence, or God exalted, He is God 
always in the process of glorifying Himself. Nehemiah 9:5; (Exodus 33:18,19; Exodus 34:5-7). Psalms 29:1-3.

When God speaks to man, He does so by 
glorifying Himself, this is His mode of 
speaking. John 12:28; Numbers 6:25; Psalms 50:2.

God comes to the human mind as glorious, He is glorified when He is unfolded to the human mind by Faith. 2 Corinthians 4:6.
Faith is rational revealed Truths of the Plan of Salvation. (Proverbs 22:17-21; Hebrews 11:1).
Rational Faith glorifies God. Romans 4:20.
Men are to glorify God or His Nature of Love. Psalms 50:23; 1 Corinthians 6:20.
When God speaks to man about Himself, 
He can only say good things about Himself. 
All God’s intensions and His administration is always gracious and good. Thus in everything God does, He is naturally glorified. Psalms 19:1-3.

Glorification always exalt God alone to be God as a conclusion position, as against and in contrast to creation. Psalms 86:8-10.
14. Glorification of God to the human mind tells the mind that God is the greatest in contrast to His creation. 1 Chronicles 16:24-27,35.
15. What does conversion mean? Since sin is 
not glorifying God, then conversion or 
justification is the glory of God (Eldoxa) 
being given in the heart of the penitent in the form of a “glorified Nature of God”, and this, by Faith, causes us to keep the Law or glorify God. (2 Corinthians 10:4,5; 2 Corinthians 4:6,7; 
Romans 3:30,31; Romans 4:20).

Thus man’s salvation comes by God’s 
shining or glorifying Himself in man. 
Psalms 80:1,3,19.

The perfect functioning of God’s universe, its stability, order and perfection is based upon feeding on God’s glorification. All therefore functions perfectly only when all glorify God in their relationship to Him. The whole 
redeemed universe will always do one thing, that is, glorify God. Revelation 5:13; Revelation 19:1.
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