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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."
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Sunday, 27 December 2020

From out of the heart the mouth speaks....

Whatever I say and speak, especially with passion, comes from within my spirit and that then is what I am becoming. My spirit speaks for me even I project either positive or negative predictions. In speaking of others I am speaking from myself,

ultimately speaking of myself. We all speak for our own benefit and take on the spiritual blessings or destructions we all project upon others. All words come from and grow from within our "hearts". Just my view. 

Why I believed it from the third or fourth grade I can't say, but on reflection as I speak, maybe it is because I thought I am going to be judged the same way I judge others? That just came to me which is why objectifying something by writing it down can give one ideas, even if they are obvious. 

The way it came to me originally was just that what someone else says about me has no direction over me, so why should I think anything about it? Now I am starting to become far afield because would I not have to give them permission to do it? Oh well, another tangled web I am weaving?. 

God is Existence

 


Monday, 21 December 2020

 “Smart people learn from everything and everyone. Average people from their experiences. Stupid people already have all the answers.”  Socrates

The utopian dreaming....

 “Life is full of questions. Idiots are full of answers.” – Socrates

Friday, 11 December 2020

Pulpit Rock in the making

 See this date's, November 15, 2020 entry in Church and Faith at Pulpit Rock for the origin of that blog. The ancient writers urged us to worship together, and they did in small separate groups in their homes. Much later they built incredibly elaborate, large, actually astounding buildings that are a marvel to this day. As many

did not read, the churches were full of the most beautiful stained glass windows, life sized carvings and, all breath takingly domed, depicted in vast churches which served to communicate the story of worship to the non-reading public. 

Thursday, 10 December 2020

Oldest Book among oldest books.....

All in 

Bible books are the oldest books, and one book among them is the oldest book among the oldest books in the Bible. In the book of Job, he says of his troubles though He slay me yet will I hope in Him (Job 13:15).I call this one of my "no matter what" verses. This is one of those verses where I draw my fullest faith, where I am all in.

Saturday, 5 December 2020

Definition of art

Now it is timely to mention the definition of art.  Art is not what is happening, it is the way it is happening.  

One could write a bandstand of stuff about this but what I have written is all there is to it. Anything more is pure pontification, which I can be just as good at as anyone else. But it is still just simply like it is on my Benny Goodman 78 entitled,  It's not whatcha do, it's the way thatcha do it. 

Wednesday, 2 December 2020

The Trinity is One Spirit

We are all as One Spirit

There are three in the Trinity but they are as one, just as we as believers are one with God. In John 17 Jesus stressed the fact that He and God were as One and that we were as One with Him and God together as One. As One is stressed as several points are repeated more than once several times throughout John 17, known as the Holy Prayer. Read it again and notice how often points, apparently

important points, are repeated, like "One". This is all about the Spirit, One Spirit. 
There are psychedelic, and mushrooms etc., that may provide the hallucinations of oneness, but they are originated and drug induced within the body, rather than within the spirit.  

Monday, 30 November 2020

God cannot act against His nature

The Holy Spirit of God is a person

All principles are personable as they enter the seen world from the unseen. Any principle, such as even those affecting the weather for instance,  exists by itself ultimately coming from a source. The weather also has an origin conceived of by a person, probably to clean and renew the planet. All principles therefore begin in the spirit, overall in the Holy Spirit of God.

Blue Sun Bursting
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Just as God speaks existence, by choice, that is all good, we have the choice to turn anything into evil. God cannot create or allow evil, or even have evil in His presence, because He is not only on the same plane, it would be against His nature. On the other hand, if God did not give us choices along with our existence, we could not exist as persons. It is through men that evil enters the world, egged along and further empowered by the evil spirits.

 I am tempted to say, forgive me, as far as evil and suffering is concerned, the bell tolls for us.

Sunday, 29 November 2020

Ultimate proof of God?

Proof weakens faith

Nothing is ultimately proved in this world of the seen primarily because it is based on change. There are a host of books written specifically to prove the existence of God. They say this in their titles. They say this even though it says in the Bible we can only please God through belief. Why does it say that? I would say it is because if we can prove God exists then there is no purpose or power in faith. 

The Power is in Belief
If you accept actual proof then you wipe out completely any need to believe. Firstly, we ultimately can not prove anything with certainty, we can only prove to our own personal satisfaction. Secondly, the single presence of constant change in the seen world precludes all proof accompanied by certainty. Proof then is merely a stumbling block to faith, which is the purpose of proof. It is stumbling block to our belief principally, one might say. by doubt brought into the personal picture by the devil. All thought, even in the physical sciences, depends on faith, on the personal power to believe.