Definition of intelligence.......

 ...is when one gets the results they predicted. If this is true then what happens if one predicts there is nothing after this life? It may instead be true a person gets whatever they predict if they really believe it. For oblivion to exist the spirit will recognize it as outside existence. This, I predict, is a definition of hell. 

What then about solitary confinement? We already know what that does to anyone.

No place to go...

 Intellect maps the course but passion provides the power to get there.

All things seen came from the unseen

 As we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen, for  the things that are seen are transient, the things that are unseen are eternal. 2 Cor: 4:18 Manna

No need for proof...

I've been guilty much of the time of proving  difficult passages possible and true to my satisfaction. This, I now tend to conclude, undercuts the need for faith, at least to some degree. 

I  can only please God thru faith. So how can I build faith proving it is easy to believe?  Back to the drawing board?  Proof takes place in physical time , the power of belief originates in the unseen as opposed to the seen.   

My mind is not my spirit

 My mind is physical and can be seen. My spirit cannot be seen because it is not physical. ....

Optimism

 I cannot win unless I buy a ticket. No mather what happens I have to keep the percentages with me. Since my definition  of intelligence is the aability to predict the future and since I know so little of what is yet to be known compared to what I know., therefore I am forced to employ faith to make any decision in predicting my future. 

Sin slips in where egos fear to tread

 When I was a Christian, the first time as a child, well before my seven year descent into aethism,   I used to ask questions often. But this roused so much hostility and frowns, I soon learned to stifle the urge, concluding eventually not to bother. They did not know the answer  either. 

There rose up a lot of questions I am dealing to this day.  The first one was upon learning they did not want Jesus to heal on "Sunday" not to believe it whatsoever. But I soon emerged myself into their point of view and saw how they could lock themselves in by letting a simple rule rise above  itself to overtake a greater function.  Later.....

Never take offense..

Those who take offense are offensive, by reason of having taking it, because only offensive people take offense. 

Sin slips in where egos fear ro tread

Struggling with all the new great changes going on in the bsckground.  Excuses sound so defensive!  And then to humiliate us all, time fools everyone of us even as we speak. ......later... 

The Trinity talked in the beginning....

Many readers favor the book of John, I as well. "In the beginning was the Word..." Now right away I have a question about this "beginning" issue.  We know the Word refers to Jesus. So He, Jesus the Son,  is the beginning with God. But God, I am convinced, "is" is without beginning or end. As is eternity, without time, or outside time. It is just as awkward  describing no time as it is time itself. These first five verses are deep and pure poetry.  It sounds good even to the ear alone. God created "us" like Himself , the Holy Spirit, and Jesus. There , we have the Trinity. 

I do not lean on the arm of flesh

Our bodies waste away according to what is seen . The seen changes and is temporal but the unseen is eternal. So I set my course on the eternal. See Manna today.

Favorite quotes.....

HAve not run across any good quotes lately but like to recall favorites. B. Shaw  sent Churchill two tickets  to the opening night oft  his new play saying, bring a friend, if you hsve one. To which Churchill ssid,  Can't  be at the opening night,  but will be there the second night, if there is one.