When Time Disappears in the Wind

All Things Seen 

First Came From the Unseen

I want to be more sensitive to the unseen spiritual events that are inevitably my due offing, while at the same time living out my wasting physical life in the seen world.

It has been said so well before, while crossing the Sea of Lethe, that is the sea of forgetfulness. The more I store up for this changing world the less it will mean anything in the end.   

Sailing Wild Seas
No More

Time fooled me like it does everyone, why would not the necessities do the same? As the unlikely Paul wrote to the Corinthians (4:18) do not fix our eyes on the seen because the seen is temporary.  Rather search out the unseen because the unseen is eternal.  

Quoteblokes Go Churchy

 All Things Seen came from the Unseen

"While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

Transcending Forces

I like verses that ease me into focusing on the transcending spiritual world rather than the over riding decaying physical world. In this setting Paul contrasts the temporal and the eternal, in 2nd Corinthians 4:18

Why does God show us these things?

Pitfalls Learning to Accept Jesus

I, for myself, am not convinced I am right, nor am I that I might be wrong. We all speak for our own benefit, along with myself as well, of that I am certain.

I think it somehow significant that twice in my life I heard this identical sermon, the first time about to graduate high school and the second time in retirement.

First one was about this chap whose mother scrubbed floors to put her son thru college. She died and he had forgotten all about her. Sobbing, he fell weeping on her grave. 

And the second was about a girl who ran away to the city for the attractions of loose living and returned asking her town to tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree if they wanted her to get off the bus.

Well I tell you these were two classic tear jerkers I've ever heard. No religious aspect was ever mentioned, not the Baby Jesus, nor any other possible religious aspect. 

Yet, still and all, after both these two sermons everyone was suddenly asked whether anyone wanted to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. 

I do not know what happened after the first event, we older kids were asked to step outside. But the second event was greeted with stone silence. That's all folks!

Venus Fly Trap Overdose No Accident

Time to think of going over. I used to think I had plenty of time. I was fooled big time the whole time. I held onto a changing world, a temporary world, and postponed thinking about any eternal world as if it would never appear. But it will appear any time. 

And for many I well knew and knew well, it did and it has. It is just like the poem taught in school, Gather Ye Rosebuds while ye may.... It must be a terror trap like existence to know when I exist, but don't. The flesh no longer helps me there. 

God speaks and it is so

All Good Things Come Down 

From the Father of Lights

It does not bother me that I do not have all the answers, I am satisfied to witness such glory in the universe hung up there on nothing in the night sky. Unbelievably huge worlds moving thru nothing and hinting about everything.

We know the definition of God is a Spirit, the Holy Spirit. God has to be the core of love to create it all and then forgive all those who cannot accept it because they are captive of differing spirits.

I knew the day was coming, but not this soon.....

Where Have ALL,

My Power  Years Gone?

From age 40 to 60 is known as a person's power years. In mid life, the peak actually, many people feel most qualified to advise those younger and those older just how and what they should do. 
The most important thing in my personal existence is that I have to consider what I believe in, is my power verses, as I call them. These verses spotlight the focus in this life into the next. I don't like change and yet I was born into a changing world. Once a man twice a child, that is if I am so lucky. 

I don't like the inevitable decay my body is undergoing after improving for about 50 years now disappearing, headed back where I came in. What was the purpose of all that? 

My power years came and went. As time increased speed I found I was fooled by time, and at that, every single tine. Gradually I discovered the truth. The truth cannot be told by those who know. I was told what it would be like, but I underrated it all until I found out the real truth was quite different all by myself. 

All things I saw in my life came from the unseen. Paul said something like this more than once. All things seen came from the unseen. Paul wrote the Corinthians, the seen is temporary  and the unseen is eternal. 

Definition in time

Heavenish, or Hellish?

Incarnation, that is to experience it, could be good or bad independently by itself.  However, in my view, reincarnation is quite another story. I know many like it the prospects of it, but the sticking point here for me is the prefix re puts me into a repetition sense which is a primary characteristic of a permanent position in a prison, mental physical or otherwise. I would be repetitively stuck repeatedly and eventually it would over control me into an increasing hellish story on the wall of a another mind, in a routine like a prison.

Time has no essence

Time fools us all because it seems more believable. We are born from uncompacting time to hopefully graduate, to be born this time into the eternal of the spirit, leaving the body's shell behind. 

While we speak we gradually frame ourselves to believe whatever our over riding outlook is becoming, or it could be simply  tongue belief.

The gravity of the unseen

Is God Close Enough to be Believed?

Speaking non-theologically with faith measured in, it is easy for me to conceive that if I have intense enough 

Time exists only in comparison

faith, enough faith that is, to believe whatever the  imagination can envision with the faith being spoken, like Jesus told us. Whereas otherwise, man devises all sorts of complex physical science artificially proven, compared to the uncomplications of faith.

Faith is defined as power coming from the unseen, according to how much power one can believe. It is seen physically in the dramatic charisma of planets orbited by others with lesser mass.

Quotebloking in the Bible

When I speak I reveal the fruit of my speech. The saying, I took it into my conversation reading the Bible, is the tree is known by its fruit. I've been hanging it in air around me for awhile  now. 

 Another important to me quote, I do not know where I got it. It just kept coming up in my conversation years ago. It was God is simple, it is man that is complex has turned out to be critical in my thinking right now.

From that another that captured me was that I should not give tongue to the devil. What I am coming to is the idea that persists in my mind that God spoke the world into existence. And God said and it was so in Genesis.

I am watching the clock over my shoulder right now in this moment in my space time life. Only time left to quote from one of my most favorite movies Beat the Devil, time always enters the picture in the end.

Time Fools Us All because it is Temporal

Can I Believe It?

I live in a time/space reality that came first from the spiritual, by the Holy Spirit. God spoke everything and it was so. He placed ideas in the hearts of His prophets, I think of as epiphanies. The word, epiphany was first used describing the heralding of the incarnation of the Son of God. 

The Biblical writer, Paul, in Hebrews, pairs the temporal as seen with the unseen, the eternal.  This is why many think, I believe,that he is the author of Hebrews. But it cannot be proven except to anyone's individual satisfaction like everything else. This is action is called, belief, in this case my belief. 

I've reviewed this before but I tend to bring things together to put my perspectives in action to see if everything fits in the foxhole. 

Just where this thread might take me gives me another viewing point, another objective angle, to test my belief in my effort to strengthen me in the foxhole. 

Devil in the Details

Lifting Up those Weak Arms 

Where would the devil take his newest admirers? I mean those wanting to learn their trade from the father of lies?

I think he would take them to church. For certain it would not be any of the sleepy barrooms, persistently comfortable and pleasantly leaning toward sleep. Now my view isthat his chief point of attack would not be Christ Himself, but His power.

He would take every chance to weaken that power and place doubts in members minds. Similar to the barrooms the devil very likely prefers church members who are side stepping slowly with sleep walkers.

Who could inspire such great writing?

Knowledge on display

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after nigh they display knowledge. Psalm 19: 1-2 (Click MANNA) left column

Ancient Writers Knew More Than We Credit Them for. Some scholars would rather  credit aliens from outer space as telling the ancients how to perform amazing feats left behind for us to wonder over today as to how they were ever accomplished without giant steam shovels floated over the ocean to isolated islands. Again, evidence was later found in Londonium library how Romans elevated huge precision cut stones in the Coliseum, furnish baths with water from far distances without alien assistance. Then again, elsewhere they stumble on  how a city disappeared into the sea or; how the Red Sea could catch a fleeing army, that is if it was once a tidal river at both ends. God is indeed a forerunner. If this satisfies us we find we will need more knowledge than ever just to fall behind.

Changed my mind?

Working out my own salvation? I have to watch my antecedents don't get mixed up with the precedents. Sometimes I feel Jesus is working me out. 

But very seriously, He worked out the precedents and it is up to myself to accept them. I believe the Holy Father, my Holy Father, sent Jesus. How many times did Jesus actually say He was sent by God in the High Priestly Prayer that we read all thru chapter 17 of John?

Muddling on Thru

I think, talk and write for my own benefit, just like I believe everyone else does. If anyone sounds like they are trying to convince anyone of anything, I do not believe it. Rather, I think they are trying to convince themselves.

What I am saying right now I believe, but with the passage of time I reserve the right to change my mind

See Memory Stones site linked above

anytime. I've changed my mind suddenly and slowly. I've circled around and met my views coming back. 

Once a man, and twice a child which is why I no longer trust the flesh. The flesh is like a flower, it blooms then fades and like a mist eventually then, all too soon, is remembered no more, like a dead man out of mind. As for myself, I am working out my own salvation. 

Most obvvious quote of the day

Only offensive people ever take an offense. It is an obvious sign of weakness to get offended. It means someone has your goat and you do not know where to find it. If I do take an offense I throw them under the bus and roll a compliment back over them, like coals on their head. 😉

Playing poker with God?

This is one of my favorite quotes for those who do not yet believe in God. If anyone does not believe in God then they will just have to be their own God. How would I bluff God is my question, since I just got here sooner than I thought likely to cash it in?

Time further out

Does digital time appear more frozen in sans serifs? Does analog time appear more emotional, looking ahead, in fancy serifs?   

Why is Mother Earth female?  Why is the Father of Lights male? How can time run out, if there is any time at all, since time only exists in a comparative state? Creativity demands every question in the mix. Answers appear secondarily. They only reveal more questions.

Working out my own salvation

Everyone Works Out

Their Own Proof

When I draw any conclusions about how I should view God I remember that I not only, do not have all the information in the matter, but I am talking about Someone who does.

 This is most important, I not only do not have all the answers but I do not even know all the questions. This puts me in a situation where my solving success presents me with more problems that I was aware of than before. 

So then, I am sheep and Jesus is my shepherd. All good things come down from the Father of lights and my only job is to love and trust the shepherd. This is so exhilarating and ecstatic, especially in a large chorus, that I never can get enough of praising and worshiping God.

the word made flesh.....

No Longer Under the Law?

Wondering

The law was given through Moses; grace and truth realized through Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father has explained Him. Open Bible, in John 1:17-18.
The word was made flesh and Jesus said the flesh cannot help us? Later.

Deep in my definitionals

No Figures of Speech

Only Faith

The way anything is presented is the singular definition of art. Art is the way we do anything and is like the song Benny Goodman recorded says, it is not whatca do, but the way thatcha do it. That is the only way of it, not merely my singular view. 

Jesus makes an statement, quoted in the Scriptures where it is translated that if anyone has enough faith they could cast mountains into the sea. 

Jesus says this to me, filtered down to me through several language translations, to illustrate that the power of faith has no limit. So here Jesus is my absolutely very highest authority in this very fact.

First, if Jesus is involved the Holy Spirit is involved. I am treading very softly now. This is not art, this is faith I am talking bout. Only faith pleases God so I am definitely not drawing any lines in this. 

There is no figure of speech in Jesus statement. such as this temple will be destroyed and I will raise it up in three days, as in one instance, nor is Jesus in any figure of speech, a mountain.

My final jump of faith is: If Jesus said it I believe it and I draw no lines nor qualifications. Where or when would I stop? Was Jesus' victory over the Cross a figure of speech? The devil knows I believe in Jesus without reservation so he does not attack Jesus directly, but he attacks Jesus' power.

I believe this power is exactly what Jesus was telling me: the power of faith has no limit. I know there is little faith and there is great faith. Then there is only faith, that is, only faith that is pleasing to God.

I am only a witness to what I believe. God has not told me what to tell anyone else what to believe. I do not dispute my view so I do not dispute anyone else's view.

Unseen World Provides the Power

 Why & How I am Born Again

Once a man, twice a child: The way I believe is that I was born tabla rosa into the seen world and then born again into the unseen spiritual world, from whence I came. 

The first half I improved as a child into a man and then the next half my body decayed again into a child to complete the circle. If I search out this scenario with all my might I will not be turned away. 

God knows beforehand what I will do. He either draws someone to Him or He does not. I m not telling you this, Jesus is, Biblically, telling me. 

If anyone does not chose God to be their God, then they will, logically, have to be their own god. What otherwise? My view.

For every question I can labor hard enough to answer, I discovered there were more questions to answer that I was not even aware. Therefore the more I learned, I learned I was more ignorant than when I knew less. 

God desires only faith. Proof, logic, good works, or anything like these efforts on my part are not pleasing to God. If I am satisfied with proof, for example, then I would not need faith.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, according to the Spirit led author of Hebrews, many assume to be Paul.

All doubts about God give tongue to the devil in my view, who is always attacking faith. He is not alarmed if we believe in Jesus, just so long as you do not believe in Jesus' power. 

Jesus said if anyone had enough faith, enough power, they could move mountains. I have faith but do I have anywhere near enough faith? God knows, but I will not know for sure until I am, what is my term? In the foxhole.

I have thought about all this in long and circuitous routes. I am a witness who, like often many others, are primarily  trying to convince themselves. No one can convince another, we all convince ourselves. In my next entry will explain my view on mountain moving faith as not being a figure of speech. 

I am totally in disagreement  to my taking any credit or discredit for anything any one who has only convinced themselves. I also do not make any judgments for or against anyone. Everyone has to drink their own tea.

More movingly absorbed than film

New Slant on the Old

A new method to experience the old: Bible translations to single words from lists of single words is little different that translations from parable to parable, except that single word translations are so precise they can be manipulated to soften or sharpen meanings in either  direction. 

But the newer scene to scene translations will herald something too I think. Something that will be judged entirely new.

While examples of this preciseness were pointed out earlier, with Jesus Calling by Sarah Young I have a new focus that is more powerful and never before so far dramatically experienced. It will take some time to entirely realize this change.

My Single Best Devotional

 My Only Devotional Ever!

Somehow a host of never read devotionals have found themselves into my library, but after all my time one single devotional has taken me, and apparently a record break number of others, by storm.

Sarah Young has become an astounding record breaking author never encountered before. 

God is my Father

God Created Me

Even in the flesh the father creates the son and gives him existence in the flesh. But I must be born again, this second time into the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. That is  if I am to gain eternity, escape the flesh, and be free of space and time. 

I thank God for His existence and the existence He has given me. So then to create must come because of love. And not only of love but from forgiveness out of love as well, to insure lasting love. The one who loves therefore desires love in return as in a celebration, fueled by gratitude. 

I do not know everything, as God knows more than I know, so I take the unknown or unexplained on faith. And if I have enough faith I can do anything if I have the faith, according to Jesus. 

So if faith is of destruction it will destroy itself. If it is of love it will multiply. Suffering can be a victory over pain or an acceptance of it. And doubt gives tongue to the devil. When Jesus said anyone can do whatever they can believe if they have enough belief for it, then I believe it, mountains and all. 

Meanwhile the only way the Bible mentions to gain faith is to read the Bible. I have to want it badly enough. Seek and I will find, and time in this world is fleeting. 

Struggle with our Maker

How We Got the Dimple in Our Hip?

In the previous entry I was calling into memory the Old Testament Story in Genesis 32:24-32 of Jacob wrestling all night with with God.  

Keeping Up with God

The Struggle with our Maker

Up against the creator of everything, including ourselves, we ourselves are definitely at a disadvantage. But the ranks of the physical scientists are dwindling. More are becoming impressed with the grand design and suspecting there has to be a designer in the mix. 

I might say, if I can be excused, that the random ranks are not standing firm at all. But this is not the end of the matter, only my opinion. Dark days may be ahead on our way to the end times. 

How can the designed keep up with the designer? My effort takes me back to the seen world. But in this I am talking about tracing seen events back to the unseen from where they originated.

Now I am, therefore,  looking closer at the simple example of heavenly bodies orbiting each other with some circling others. Some attract others into their own particular orbits. I might call them the greater charismatics dominating those with lesser mass.

The lesser are lighter weights and the charismatics the heavy weights. Let me say then that the greater mass attracts the lesser. People are like that as well I am thinking so that some attract followers and they follow the more charismatic when they do.

The greater charismatics have greater faith, greater belief. Jesus said that if one had enough belief, greater enough faith, they could counter command, or convince the dormant particularly, and as well the others of the lesser, those of lesser weak faith as well.

3 dimension time

If this is in any way true then this paradigm could be carried closer to the origins of an as yet unlabeled power. When? I imagine easily it will be in at least a thousand years, well before the anti-Christ is seen. The struggle (perhaps) explained next entry.

Burning Bush

Faith: Will Believing Make It So? 

Enough Power? 

Did God create Himself? No, not if there is no beginning and no endings, since there is no time or space. That is what I myself would think.  There is however, he power, I that I am certain. 

The way I see it God had to be always creative to exist because that is what He does. God can not function outside His, what is it,  ethos or authority? I tend to fall back to logos, reason in other words,  He cannot contradict His being. 

Love is creative and our gratitude is His celebration. Where I am is that I do not even know too many of the questions, let alone the answers. Answers that reveal more new previously unknown questions. 

I am surrounded by my own jurisdictions by the look of it to me at this point. There comes a time when I have to face my own ignorance and proceed further on imagination. 

I think that I, like everyone is eventually, and as Einstein is often quoted, is catapulted unceremoniously from knowledge into imagination. I take my next clue from the seen world of charismatically orbiting planets as similarly reflecting people. I will see where that takes me.

Liitle faith and great faith

Where do I draw the line?

 I do not put any limit on the power of faith since all things temporal, that is, seen, came from the eternal, the unseen. 

If I were to do so would that put any limit on power to believe in the resurrection? If I believe in the power of Jesus to overcome death on the Cross, what is that to moving a mere mountain? 

Where do I draw the line? God spoke everything, every mountain into existence. I think God not only moved mountains He moved all the mountains into place. 

What impresses me is that He conceived of mountains in the first place. Since I am constrained by time and space in this world, I want to continue this thread further because it highlights the stark difference between my awareness of the Spirit in the next world after the flesh falls into decay, where Jesus tells me my flesh cannot help me. 

High Priestlly Prayer

John 17 is all about the Trinity. Over and over it is explaining the Trinity. We are one in one and believing that Jesus was sent. This is how the Trinity is spelled out. Everything is worded a certain way for a purpose, that those who are hearing do not. It is spiritual ears not physical ears.

No longer under the law

Melchizedek 

Before Salem was Jerusalem After

The law was given by Moses but Jesus gave us the Spirit and Truth. History mentions God but not much of anything about the Spirit before Jesus. 

God spoke to His prophets by placing ideas in their hearts, epiphany-like. They believed these sudden revelations so strongly and they spoke with such authority that I recall reading that Jesus said their fathers killed the prophets and later their sons revered them. I do not have the chapter and verse on it right now, still I recall it right well. 

But I also recall the ancient writers saying that God looked down and saw that man could achieve anything he set his mind to. This was in connection with the building  of the tower of Babel, which only slowed them down until man walked on the moon. 

I think to myself, how did they know they would eventually walk on the moon, even saying that God looked down? 

Now of course we know there is no actual thinking of down or up since all the reflecting lights in the sky are hung, incredibly, in empty space. That is, if we can believe it. 😉

It is easy to focus on this world rather than the next.

 New King James Version

Stepping Out in Belief

All Things Seen came from the Unseen

"While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

Transcending Forces

I like verses that ease me into focusing on the transcending spiritual world rather than the over riding decaying physical world. In this setting Paul contrasts the temporal and the eternal, in 2nd Corinthians 4:18

 PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG IS TO DEFINE GOD THE WAY GOD DEFINED HIMSELF

God is Existence. Exodus 3:14 

"I am that I am."

This is the name God told Moses He wants to be known by this name forever "into all generations."

Speaking alongside

God Provides for Me 

Another Helper

My Paraclete will stand beside me and vouch for  me so that I can appear before God. This is because God will tolerate no unbelief or hostile views. No, not even to appear before Him. God does not permit evil, we do. Jesus' commandments do not permit evil.

If anyone prays to be healed and they are not, I would not blame this on God. I would blame it on myself. I did not have enough faith perhaps. 

When the disciples questioned Jesus over why could they could not heal a young boy, and why Jesus did heal him, Jesus said: this kind does not go out except by much prayer and fasting. 

A Testimony of God

This means to me that there is such a concept as little faith and great faith, weak and strong. It also reminds me that evil spirits take over individuals completely and speak for them. 

Healing means the evil spirit has to be driven out, freeing the person with the consumed spirit. That way the person taken over is now himself free. We should not hate him, we hate rather the evil spirit living in him speaking and acting for him. Jesus' all consuming love can free anyone consumed by strange spirits. 

This is why I do not meddle with strange spirits but only trust Jesus. I could call this my safe side. 

Not all are sheep of Jesus' pasture

Facing Fear in the Foxhole

I lean toward the idea we will very likely get in the afterlife what we believe in this the embryonic life if they are not born again. If one believes in nothing they will get nothing but they will know at the same time they got nothing which is unbearable they could well find. But then, who knows aforehand?

To not exist and to know it at the same time is I think about as unbearable as it gets. Any definition of hell would in my view would involve the element of repetition. Repetition can fade eventually, if not quickly. 

Since there is no concept of time in the eternal, forever will be an exceptionally concept to believe I would think. One cannot tread too softly in the unknown.

If there is no hope then the future, particularly space time, is full of troublesome complications competing for zero gains. It is enticing as any devilish drug before it turns against the enticed. Faith extended intensely enough may well create one's future according to their little faith or great faith. 

Gratitude: A celebration of Love

There may be more power in faith than anyone suspects. I believe0 there would be no present unless someone knew it. Hello to original sin. So if one had enough faith, like a god, they could predict the future with certainty.

One thing I do know with certainty. The more words that pile up is a strong indication of the less I know. The more I learn the more I learn there is more I do not know than I ever thought. As I've said, if anyone does not believe in a God, that is by definition a benevolent creating God, then they have no choice, they will just have to be their own God. 

Definition of forever

Not Right Now?

I look upon this life in which I was conceived without any future knowledge as embryonic in that it would be my  opportunity to be born... again. 

But I had things perfect in the womb. Why would I want to leave a literal garden of  Eden? What would I think of being told I was going to be kicked out without any say in the matter, and  that I would be unceremoniously hung upside down by my heels in front of everybody publicly stark and spanked, told I was going to be cold, hungry and have to pay taxes?

I would have to be an idiot to take any stock in that scenario. But here I am in space time growing 

Above the daisies.

changing and decaying with time flitting away and no future facing me within the flesh. Soon there will be no time before I will have had to be born again if I had not been already. Time has been fooling me, where did it go? I, like everyone, knew all along I would die someday, but not right now!

God Speaks to us in epiphanies

 Origin of the word epiphany comes to us in the supernaturally spirit state. My understanding is it originated from the incarnation of Jesus. 

Jesus Emanuel, God with us. 

My view is that incarnations can be true while reincarnations turn to hellish in my presumptive definition if only the present tense is the eternal. 

The Flesh Will Not Help Us

 The Flesh Cannot Help Us

The Christian story is not merely unique, it is the most successful in history. So far! Present trends, if maintained, indicate another religion will soon overtake it.

A poll, taken many years ago now. revealed that

Hello Spell Checker! All entries published fast on the fly, edited days later.

50% of selected seminary professors did not believe in God openly. The other half said they did, but one wonders in that atmosphere how deeply they meant alongside the wide spread views of many in colleges.

I was surprised and disheartened to realize how many books expressed the erroneous idea that the existence of God could be proved. 

God requires faith while proof eliminates the need for faith. The devil is smacking his lips on that one. No one has anywhere near enough information that proves that God exists or does not. My college era atheism was founded on a logical fallacy. 

My favorite subject, logic, I worked out, with great effort, only proved everything was based on my own singular explanation, along with everyone else, theirs.

 

 

We live our lives as a mist....

Time Enough to be Born Again

 After my wife passed I was told later that same year, by a different doctor, that I was going to die as well. Reason I mention this is not that I did not die, but rather that I've neglected Manna and the rest of the entire blog network I'd  built up ever since.

When I joined the Air Force I thought four years was next to forever. Time fools us and soon we will wonder where it all went. I found I don't own anything whatever. I only coentrol it briefly, very briefly. 

Not everything is visible.

I was born tabla rosa like everyone, into a space time existence. I can barely imagine existence without time. Space also makes fools of us all. We only know how big anything is, according to our awareness of it. 

It could be as large as a  barrel far as I am aware. Space and time are constantly building me up from birth to around fifty years in this embryonic life and then I decline and will literally rot away until I forget time all together. And all that time I am changing in appearance while thinking I am going to appear the same for a long long time. Jesus warns us the flesh will not help us.

I will be like a dead man out of mind. A mist in the wind. And as the terra firma planet turns? Even "terra firma" is hanging on what, nothing?

My Belief in Halo Power

Happenings of Halos

The existence of halos and my attraction particularly for their rareness has always held a hold on me concerning a belief in the after death supernatural. The supernatural simply being all information we are not yet sure of knowing. 

I once picked up the objective information, perhaps a better word would be speculation, that the brain could power enough electric fuel to fire a flashlight. Therefore, for me, this was enough of an subjective explanation for the existence, even tho rare, of the objectivity connection of halos.

Definition of forever....

The truth cannot be told by those who know. 

Knowing the truth is not enough, the truth as anyone might think. I have to believe it. Time and space have a grip on us and everyone, in my opinion, wants everything to continue like with what we are already familiar.

Just as we only know now that being born we are going to die....but not right now. This is a bare bones definition of forever. That is, the old now,
not the new now.

Everything, absolutely everything, all we knew in the womb was perfect so why take a chance on something in the future we are not as sure of as the present? I am sure I did not know the future definition of eternity was going to be always in the present.

adventures in time and space

The body, too soon, decays day by day as time fools us all. If one does not believe in God, then they will have to be their own god. 

no one should ever take an offense....

 ....unless, they by taking it, want to be offensive themselves....

Knowing everything there is to be known

 It can be said that just because one knows everything that is known does not mean that one knows everything that can be known. But we have a natural tendency to think such a one is smart.

We know everything in the womb, but no where near enough whether to know enough to decide whether or not to be born at all.

Epiphanies?

The information by itself even with assistance from outside our jurisdiction, does not anywhere near enough cover the decision of whether or not there is any conception approaching a god.

There will never be a time when we can gather enough information to decide whether or not there is a god. Who rings that bell?

Tabla Rosa

Life in the Breech

I had no idea how I got to be anywhere I was, but it was what it was and somewhat comfortable, provided one did not overly explore. I was finally given the high sign  to leave altogether and it got me kicked out. As it was, was precisely in the altogether as that turned out in the end. I hate it when I get this cute. Would anyone? Hung up by their heels totally in the stark? If one does not believe in God then they will just have to be their own god themselves.

space & time seen only in the unseen

I find it hard to break away from the flesh. I want to keep on going and changing, gaining just as I thought I was doing ever since birth. But everything changed so dramatically on the other side of fifty when the truth was my appearance was even changing, decaying day by day and still I held on and held on.....until I found myself locked into an inescapable  definition of forever......

Arhur Koestler

 Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.

QUESTION?

What did Jesus mean, or infer when, after healing someone, said go and sin no more? 

The implication is that sickness is a sin. That is not something I ever considered. Apparently very few ever have either. The answer could lead to something very interesting in projective attempts.

Everything God tells us is.....

for Our Own Benefit...

because God hates sin but He loves the sinner. God hates the demons that torment even the most extreme doings of evil doers. Again, God does not hate the demon possessed but their demon possessors. This is why He sent His Son... to those who needed Him more so than those already saved.   

My Greatesr Condern

I regret the lack of respect among many to improve awareness of the unseen and adopt the seen as gaining their primary attention.

There is greater power I am convinced in the unseen than focusing on the constant higher regard for the seen.   

My Problem with Evil

It always bothered me that I was not supposed to hate evil doers. I was not aware at the time but I parked my reaction right behind divine hatred where I did not have to deal with it.. It did not occur to me that I myself was not divine. But, wasn't God angry? How quickly I find myself back in a loop.

I am what I do

Like a Tree

Known by its' fruit

It may be alright for God to get angry but it is not alright for me. I do not want to beccome even slightly angry because it is not merely a loss of composure but it is consumptive. It can take me over and I become what I oppose. Every single one of Jesus' commandments is for my own benefit.

Hate hides behind fruit of its' spirit

Hate is Known by its' spirit

When ever someone does something hateful, and even the deepest possible of all that is hateful, it is better not to give a tongue to the devil for a good reason. 

Love must not greet hatefulness with consuming hate but with the spirit of love. Spirit to spirit the spirit of love must dominate hate in every way. Feeding hate with more hate fuels the fires further.   

Only the spirit of forgiveness will put the fires of hate out forever. This is the hardest for many to accept even tho it is for our own particular benefit. It is the spirit of hate that is the evil, not those who have been taken over and consumed by the spirit of hate. 

Wrestling with My Faith

He Did It for Me 

I am presently in a personal struggle misunderstanding the idea of duplicating Christ on the Cross. I always felt that when Jesus died and was victorious over death it was so that He stood alone as the last sacrifice

. This was His Holy Honor, His unique calling directly and singularly from the Holy Father Himself.

Jesus represents forgiveness and love, and He urges we seek His peace. The peace, His peace, that He alone can give. I always thought the cross was empty for this reason. 

I believe everyone speaks for their own benefit and that everyone should work out their own salvation themselves, as my granzemother often said. That is what I am doing, objectifying my beliefs by writing my present thinking here.

My elder Brother amd me

I am told to pick up my cross and follow Him. What did Jesus die on the Cross for? Was it not to forgive our sins? And I know I cannot forgive sins. 

Significantly. it is now possible for everyone  to appear directly before God by themselves without any need for any another to intercede for them. 

My understanding was when He died on the Cross the temple shield was rent from top to bottom.  This was my albeit not entirely clear conclusion early on. And my understanding was never more adequately upgraded. 

So what do I do now? All that I can come up with is that I am to become more Christ-like. 

All Things Seen 

Came From 

the Unseen

Proof is not acceptable to God, logic also not, only faith. My concern is about strong faith, great faith. 

I am trusting the faith of a child. That is what I am after all. What else can Isay? Whenever I, as well as we all, gain the answer to a question, any question, the answer contains more questions we were never even aware of previously. So what is happening now? 

We, I, for myself, am learning I am more ignorant than I realized formerly. It is as if wisdom has over whelmed me. This is not any new reevaluation. Socrates knew about it. He is quoted as saying something like the wise are full of questions and the ignorant are full of answers. 

Large? See Specific Theory

So how am I going to solve myself out of any of all this? How do physical scientists do it? They conclude the universe is growing larger. Maybe. But is it just that this is what they have only now become aware of, and has nothing to do with growing larger universes at all.

It is like I always thought, if anyone believes
in their heart of hearts that there is no God, then, for direction, they will just have to be their own artificial God, with a peck of trouble on their hands.

Language is all we have right now

Everyone knows a tree is known by its' fruit.  How would anything get into our heads, before learning about the tree of knowledge, but that God would place it there? If we had knowledge we would be like God, which is what the devil already knew. Hello original sin.

I favor verses which force me to focus on the difference between the seen and the unseen worlds. This world I believe, is embryonic to being born again into the spirit. Am I being too logical in doing so? I wonder. Not that St Paul is, but that I may be.

There is officially only one way to gain faith, reading the Bible. And Jesus is the only way. The law came by Moses but Jesus came by grace and truth. 

Every single time

Time fools me constantly every time. Proof fools me when I don't expect it. Logic fools me even when it is logical. The odds fool me when I need them the most. Faith fools me when I have every thing to lose. 

This leaves me trusting Jesus out of time. 

Faith, Hope & Evidence

Faith Unbelievable 

Faith is what it is and taken singly by itself alone, as it should be taken, is without guile of any stripe. It does not even have to make sense. Sense, that is, sense to all or any of us.    

There is no halter to it. There is no bit. Who did God get to write much of the Bible? The most direct opposite of anyone who reasonably could be chosen. And it, all worked out impossibly well.  

....the last days ticking?

Leaving Jesus out of Christianity looks a lot like gathering clouds are growing not far off on the horizon... what with AI masking original sin and all.  

The candy Jesus

I noticed early on that when a preacher held forth before the young crowd, of which I was one but older, that he always extolled the wonderful experience it was to be saved.

The in following sermons it was often emphasized how it was not easy to be saved, that there would be difficulties, so that we had to pick up our crosses and follow Him.

So which is it? Who was going to have their sins forgiven by my doing that? What is this anyway, Christ envy? This same pattern was to be often repeated by others.

Another preacher comes along and tells us this young chappie left his scrubbing the floor Mom so she could pay for his college, from which he made big bucks and never gave mom any thought until he learns she is dead. Throwing his sob racked body across her grave he wept bitterly. Meanwhile quite suddenly he wants know who wants to give their hearts to Jesus?

What! Where did that come from? Separated from the younger students which the youngers gave their hearts to Jesus. I told the teacher, without raising my hand, that that was right. She put her finger to her lips and said for the sake of the children.

I understood then that what the adults meant by pupil talk. It was all for the sake of the children. I was instantly grown up like the adults. I was an adult now and the it was all for the sake of the children, there was no Santa Claus. It explained to me, just like I complained the same  day about coloring books in Sunday School.

Later I asked the God I did not believe in why He allowed me to see and hear all these things. I was blaming God, right? Later I put my heart in logic and discovered I was following the fallacy of the misplaced authority.

So where am I now, saved by logic?. I then run into  several preaching the message of Jesus without any mention whatever to Jesus himself. Now what happens? God is not pleased with proof. Jesus says anyone who climbs up another way, the same is a thief and a robber.

Not much room for myself as well in this scenario. After all logic is another way is it not? But these recent preachers preaching Jesus' message without Jesus ever mentioned looks to me that I am hooked into another way as well. 

So will I have enough faith when I am in the foxhole? Do I have enough faith even now, me of so little faith?