Gospel of Mark

 "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."– Paul in Romans 8:38-39 

Christians, I am reading of the Copts, are yet still having a difficult time. Whenever events are like that, so terrible, I suspect it is evidence for something completely different, strong and glorious somewhere in the background motivation. 

My introductory  understanding tells me there is evidence the Copts trace their founding to Mark soon after the time of Jesus Christ. This is an example of the flowing and changing of different histories mixing together that I posted earlier. 

History should not be treated as separate stories was my view. This also reflects on the interaction of groups and how they evolved historically under the competing impressions of differing points of view.. 

Everyone writes for their own benefit...

Writing is like reading...

Writing is like making out your own income taxes. Both take a lot of courage but not really too much courage when one thinks about it. Hemingway thought perhaps too much about it. He said to write you have to open up your veins and bleed. Guess he did plenty of that alright. I think if you can talk, then you can write.   

Biggest problem one can run into with talking, is that if you start to say something in a group, say four or five, and before you can get your chips into the mix quick enough, someone up and asks, "Is this going to a long story?" 

Jonah Foretells Jesus

Better view leaves
time behind.

The Unseen will soon be seen and understood with different perspectives from where we are now, surrounded by in the seen. When the convincing dreamlike vagueness of the seen falls away and is gone, my belief is I will see clearly. 

If I cannot believe Jonah then how can I believe Jesus? This is a false struggle between faith and commonplace believability. 

If one must believe in God then that devil doubt will deny His power. Now we are moving into what may be called Christian atheism I've often witnessed exercised in pretend church worlds. 

If it is not commonplace and/or is able to be proven then this means there is no need for faith in the supernatural power of God? The seen has destroyed the unseen?  

In this scenario faith has no power because it is not part of the mundane? But that is not supernatural, that is not spiritual. Therefore is assumes the positive proves the negative? Not likely. 

The bottom line is there are those who choose not to believe unless it is believable already. I choose to believe even if supporting facts are revealed later. Believing also even if the isolated act of believing were to make it so. 

I do not think believing something believable is demonstrating any purpose or need for great belief. It is when I believe the unbelievable that I move into the purpose for the power of my spirit to link with the Holy Spirit. If it is then shown it really did happen and it can be proved, so what? Mute. 

Belief in God is the sole link to continuing energy in the Holy Spirit according to the witness of Jesus. 

Time after time

 Sometimes, it must be said, that some of us plead with God to hurry things up. 

Time differs when comparisons are changed.

I myself accept His timing the best I can, because I am not privy to all the facts. Also there is no time in the unseen in any rate. But on the other side of the coin, His timing has been cited as just right, well before I even was aware of timing becoming an issue. There must be something wrong with time. Physical scientists cannot agree on a definition of just what time is. And too when I consider it, how can I understand anything without time in the mix? Latest entry in Manna features healing verses and mentions unchanging time in the final verses quoted.

Obeying God

 Everything God says is said for our own benefit. We forgive others for our benefit. We praise God for our benefit. 

We lift up God in praise because in lifting up God we lift ourselves up to do it, rejoicing. When we forgive others we are ridding ourselves of resentments as well.

Laws of Logic.....

....include recognizing fallacies

Generalities speak to generalities and specifics to specifics.

always know the premise

To intertwine the two is jumping categories, and a fallacy in logic.

Further, an example of what a man says is an illustration of his argument for the sole sake of clarification, but it is not proof.

From the rumblings rising in the Naked Eye it sounds like emotions are running high, as was predicted. Emotions follow the strength of the intellect. This is how power executes the intellect or perhaps weakens it. Nevertheless I do not want to find myself imputing wickedness to opposing views for fear of taking any offensives into my heart. I strive to be knowledgeable on that which is right, not having any predictive future pumping my life's blood into anything off center.

Rule of the Road

always check the premise first

Whenever I witness frustration, or any form of annoyance, while discussing an issue with someone, I understand this to be hard evidence of a weakness in their position. They are, in my view, thinking of persuasion for a reason. It is definitely persuasion, but persuasion wholly

 to persuade themselves since we all operate according to our own benefit as we each see it. I witness for my own benefit. Whatever anyone else gets out of it is up to their own spirit and/or whatever spirits they entertain. From my view, only the Holy Spirit convicts, and I am not privy to anyone else. I was never told anything relating to anyone else concerning what to say to instruct them. I was told however that I was to witness for myself, for my own benefit.  You can see I would not be big on mediums. There are many masquerading spirits, I only trust one spirit, Jesus. I am convinced it is hard to persuade otherwise someone with an epiphany.

John 17 the high priestly prayer

Trinity 

One in the Holy Spirit.

Born in the flesh and reborn as spirits, our eyes will be opened and we will see in the unseen without time clouding our vision.  The Trinity is One as we are all one. My view. 

This concept of one is repeated in  John 17 more than once, specifically in verses 10, 11 and 22. While all Christians make their own decisions, my outlook is I think they all would agree with the Trinity. This is how I believe we will enter the unseen. When I read about the "all in one" I notice also the all as well as the one, just as the one is in the all.

Continuing Tomorrow: updated in 

God is Existence. 

The Spiritual Struggle to Define Words.

The Jesus boat

Conventional Wisdom

How many times do so many scholars have to wake up with egg on their face before they see they are so regularly off center? 

The first incidence quite far back in my experience now was something about an entire city sinking into the sea.  There are more incidents of this sort of thing than I ever imagined, like the sinking of Atlantis into the sea.  

Sailing all over town.

All I recall now is that it was all a myth. This was a myth, that was a myth. Never happened. The ancients thought the earth was flat, yada yada. We have looneys today, excuse my wearied language, who are convinced we never went to the moon.

Now I read in a $15 dollar super market book, for the first time I was aware, about Jesus that the fishing boat he was in could never have held Him and all those disciples except.... ah well, they found one. So another myth about myths, just another one of those myths. Those stupid old people. They needed help from extra terrestrials. They could not do it by themselves. Only thing is they are the myth makers not the ancients.

Building into the sky

 Remember again those ancient days, when God looked down and saw we could do anything we set our mind to do? 

How far will we yet go?

As long ago as those days of foggy memory, men had it in their minds to go into the sky. God broke it up then, likely because it was too soon and a multitude of languages slowed the day. Nevertheless eventually we walked on the moon and even to this day plan to go to Mars. 

And Jesus Christ said we would speak to all nations and do greater things than even He ever did. Things unbelievably impossible then are today not only believable, but part of the routine of the commonplace.

Between discernment and deception

Rule over the bar at the Naked eye
 While listening to what anyone says, hear also what their motive might be. 

Utopian fantasy

 

Roughing Up Education

Children should and generally do, educate themselves inform-ationally according to their own curiosities. 

All schooling should be conducted for the benefit of the students rather then their guides. LCD* should be held to the sidelines. Rather than entertaining students, they can start well before age seven. Generally speaking, a majority can read well before kindergarten,. Just follow the finger of someone who reads something interesting, like Peter Rabbit adventures. No need whatever for a paid teacher to teach how to read see spot run. 

The only thing they need to teach, or host, in high school are three major categories. 

Teach them to play chess and engage in tournaments so they can learn to anticipate.  

Teach them a practical course in logic with emphasis on the fallacies so they cannot be misdirected by confused common sense.

Familiarize them with debating club competition so they can improve their articulation and reasoning. 

Provide very little information, thus avoiding indoctrination. Students shown how to look up anything on a computer can teach themselves any fading-interest curiosities.

Only cover technicalities, like mathematics for those pursuing studies in technical areas. Emphasis on algebra for non-technical subjects to provide a basis for general conceptual mathematics. Students should be stretched not shrunk!

*LCD lowest common denominator.

See Verse of the Day in Manna

 "Faith means believing in realities that go beyond sense and sight. It is the awareness of unseen divine realities all around you."                                                  Joni Eareckson Tada, evangelical author

A Good Time for it...

 Out in the crowd

Seeking a good time to refresh my view, and this would be a great weekend for it. 

Do not like the rather complicated issues format that has developed and am wondering about another vision. 

Embracing the unseen.

Something less complicated and more quantum? (From the big to the small.) I noticed I've had to go back and do a lot of editing lately, too much it seems to me, to correct unintended misdirections slipping in. More legal it seems, and forget the links!

There is a trend for me to get somewhat too cute with an increasing slide toward ragsheet controversy. With growing traffic, an audience presence is creeping in. What with all the bells and whistle work taking up time, it is all kind of crowding me out.