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. 

Religion & science in a perception gap..

History as I was taught in public schools was quite illogical, in my mind, since they taught it, as it were, in a mix list of small still photos instead of sweeping "moving pictures". 

This was, again in my view, largely responsible for the out of context view of reality. Continued in Specific History link, in side column. Coming at the Corner Table: The Ideal Form of Government.

Of all the servants of God.....

 Moses is the only servant of God with whom God spoke face to face. When Moses asked God who He was that he may say who sent him, God answered I am that I am. If God says who He is then that is the definition I go by. God is existence.

Remember....

God speaks the truth and what He speaks He speaks into existence. God speaks the truth by definition and His truth will not return to Him void.

All this written by me is my perspective. I speak not only my perspective but also my truth, just like everyone else theirs. I write for my own benefit. I believe no one can persuade anyone else.  Everyone persuades themselves. I can only persuade myself and only the Holy Spirit has convicted me. There are many spirits, some no doubt with power, but I only trust the Holy Spirit. 

The last sacrifice

 Jesus was the final sacrifice as is well known. Sacrificing up to His crucifixion was quite common since the beginning of time from my understanding. 

But it was quite a different act in most quarters in this manner, it was done to appease a god, the god, or a platoon of gods. I tend to label it an act against the innocent, similar to abortion. In Carthage during the struggle with Rome for domination of the Mediterranean, it was bluntly an lucrative way for individuals to increase their material well being. Girls were usually candidates for sacrifice and boys also unless they were thought needed as soldiers. Babies were thrown into a pit of fire. According to today's witnesses, methods are far too repulsive to describe and even more so to watch.

Carthage had a superior general in Hannibal but Scorpio from my memory was the general who led the victory for Rome. Hannibal chastised his Carthaginians for choosing the lush life. I have never heard of the Romans practicing sacrifice. The Carthage defeat was a clear victory for abortion, historical style. Choosing the pretension of abortion as a sacrifice to gods, was a losing preposition. All one has to do is, do the math. 

Since sacrifice was attributed to appeasement of some god or other, this meant, since the tree is known by its' fruit, the act of sacrifice is of an evil nature. The innocent are even today prime targets for secret sacrifice practices according to current reports and all this is of course, of demonic origin. 

The cross is
empty

But with Jesus as the final sacrifice it was not for the benefit or appeasement of God, but rather was to free us, and the people practicing it, of all future sacrificing by God giving His Son so as to not only end sacrificing but to free us of all sin. Not only the sin of sacrifice.

This then is a positive act. But now comes the central core of Christianity which is believing He rose again giving us eternal life. In addition we could now go directly to God Himself without any intermediary. All this is a first from my knowledge and has not been duplicated in any way before or since.