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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, 3 October 2021

All politics is gossip since it depends on hearsay

Instead of people said being of weak minds I would favor the  term ineffective reactionary talk, rather than weak minds. There is a place for personality but I prefer somewhat lightly on politics as an end game. Incidentally we seem to find everyone and their brother credited with the same universal quote. Origin, it seems, has very little to do with "people said."  

Friday, 1 October 2021

Anatomy of an epiphany...

A man with an experience

Arose from the dead

Is not at the mercy of 
Someone with a theory*

*John Bytheway

Who am I? A nobody! But if Moses, with his reputation, said God told him, Moses, something I should think anyone would listen. But then too if Moses said God Himself told him something, I would think anyone should take it on good authority

Stepping beyond that, if God says in the Bible, how He wants to be known forever throughout all generations, I have to believe anyone should take it to some note.....  unless of course... if they believe the Bible amounts to unbelievable myth, with believable meanings, or else they just do not want to believe it, if they do or did.

Reminds me of a Luke 16:31 parable where Abraham was told if someone went to them (his brothers) from the dead, and Abraham replied "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead." Well, I am certainly not going to be the one to wrestle deeper into this issue.

Thursday, 30 September 2021

Reaction...

...to the scholarly significance of "I am" 

Interesting reading my first I am commentary but it was somewhat dull and circular. Never figured out where it was going, so finally set it aside. It will take a lot of digging to discover what so many words mount up to in the conclusion, when one can get there. The silence, in my ears anyway, was deafening. So I am parking it for now. I have a more intriguing issue looming. 

Wednesday, 29 September 2021

God defines Himself

In Exodus 3 Moses, who is our authority in this matter, asked God who shall he say sent him?

God answered I am who I am and later in Chapter 15 said, This is my name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.

I have been reviewing what the scholars say about this and will consider their general outlook and questions of validity. After my revelation, in time I recognized instantly I am who I am meant Existence. Therein lies the core reason for these blog entries. 

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Jesus Talking

  "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever: that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be with you.

"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you." John 14:16-18

Monday, 27 September 2021

In order to strengthen faith

Probably a well worn idea, but it occurs to me I could place my favorite verses on file cards. This would group my healing verses together. One never can tell when I might need to access them quickly.  

Sunday, 26 September 2021

My second epiphany

 In Manna today I recount my second epiphany accepting the direction that saved me from drowning. I accepted it as one not thinking, but rather more like one watching a movie. I am hard pressed now to avoid the conclusion I had not yet learned to think. Even now I can wonder. After all, reverie is not exactly deep thinking. Much , if not all, of what I am doing here is trying to figure things out. 

Friday, 24 September 2021

Those who seek Me early...

...shall find Me

When did time come from so early?
From in the beginning until the end, time makes everything sad by the act of looking back on the present. So much time is now past looking back on it, all so quickly now, and yet I thought it was going to take such a long time. In an instant it is gone! Yet? God remains, and the future reflects, too wonderful to be fully contained in the present. 

Wednesday, 22 September 2021

How did we come to exist?

Questions of existence


Seems those somewhat pompous souls whose doubt, of whether Jesus ever existed or not, have gradually grown quiet in the choir in recent times.

We know they themselves existed via hearsay, and likely will continue to exist. But I am doubtful myself whether they will know their spirits will continue to exist, albeit outside knowledge of existence, since God is the fountainhead of all existence.

Wednesday, 15 September 2021

Words symbols of exchange


 There is an innate belief that words should be free. Whereas other means of exchange, like labor and risk, should be taxed. This means of exchange is money which is a commodity like all other commodities, enhanced by scarcity. 

Difference between gold
and paper is scarcity. 
Misunderstanding money causes all commodities to be scarce rather than money as an exchange. Words rather, are enhanced by expansion as opposed to scarcity. 

Poverty and misunderstandings are the result then of failure to understand money as an easily exchangeable  commodity.

Money could be in the form of gold or potatoes, as it has been, as well as gold. Trouble with words is that not everyone knows the words everyone else uses. However, in the unseen, words would very likely be superseded as symbols by precognitive experience instantly understood as it is exchanged.

It appears to me, as a consequence of all this, that words further force one to employ faith in decision making and all exchanges of ideas about belief via words. I expect therefore,  that God is at the root of this particular importance regarding faith since it is recognized that he is only pleased by faith. 

Tuesday, 14 September 2021

Does God exist?

Is God a story?

If everything is founded on faith, and proof only achieved to each individual's satisfaction, then I choose my personal decision completely convinced and willing to live or die according to the truth within it as well as outside myself.

We all experience

  our Silent Epiphanies

All questions and answers regarding faith or proof were placed there by the Father of Existence. Ideas such as God, right and wrong, presented for our decision to accept or over ride. The Holy Spirit says that God says in the Old Testament, "choose life". 

Monday, 13 September 2021

Faith, is a decision....




I am approaching logically based conclusions which can certainly crowd faith out of the picture for the unwary. If when I prove God I cancel faith, thus destroying my belief, then there could be a short cut around this.

Life is not a game of chance
 the way God plays it.
Just make a decision? Is God existence? If I am wrong I lose a lifetime. If I am right, I gain eternity.

Right or wrong, proof makes faith useless, there is no decision made. Right or wrong, faith makes proof a pointless game of satisfaction and faith dominates. After all, God hung the world on faith.