Still editing

Even months at a time 

Lot of heavy editing all day into this evening, for the Stroller El Speedo. It often goes on for days at a time, until things finally settle into the sunset. Speed isn't the quickest avenue to any destination. 

The strong man is also

 Taking heaven by force

If there is any doubt in anyone's heart, even those of a different pasture who are not drawn by God, then they if they want God, like Jesus says in the scriptures, can take heaven by force.

Faith is forever persistent

This was also alluded to by Jesus in the strong man parable. We know He taught in parables and for my part, I consider them His commandments. So it is the same for the strong man who can also take heaven by force. He is demonstrating his faith, his persistent faith. Everything is based on faith. God is not impressed by our transitory proofs, God wants faith. Faith is the unseen power of the spirit within to believe, most especially the unbelievable. Parables have interpretations, this is why Jesus said understanding them was withheld from those who did not believe. This is merely my view.

Other interpretations: In the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas, which does not have the context of the Beelzebul controversy, the parable has been interpreted as merely suggesting that "shrewd planning and careful strategy" are necessary in order to accomplish one's goals.

Definition of an act of God

Everything is blamed on the Boss, that is how it is known who the boss is, as I forever fruitlessly explained to my wife. All the insurance companies also know what God has done. Certainly not them. 

Formerly, as an atheist, I fondly noticed that while  God tells us not to kill, He wipes out entire generations of people with a flood. I was just piling on, as it were, since I was already snared in unbelief by the fallacy of misplaced authority.

Wrong again boohoo boy.

Everyone picks up on this, even last night I heard it on a radio call in talk show. Some excuse God for murdering anyone He takes a shine to by saying, He has a divine right to do everything.

First of all God is Existence, Existence exists and God cannot not negate Himself. God tells us what must be done to avoid dangers in life. If we fail to do it, then it is our decision, not His, for us to suffer the consequences, since we took on free will under the apple tree. 

God knows everything that we are going to decide to do before we even do it. But even though He knows everything before hand, He does not force us to make those decisions. 

God places before us both life and death. He urges us, it says in the Bible, to chose life. God does not choose, we choose, He however knows our choices before hand. 

So God knows everything. But we, every time we learn something, we learn about new unanswered questions we did not know before, thereby learning we were more ignorant than we realized previously.

Jesus said that no one can come to God unless God draws them to Him. He lost many disciples by that saying. Jesus also said there are sheep not of His pasture. What does all this mean? Who am I to judge God? I just know what He tells me.

Predicting the future is a scale evaluating intelligence. God knows the future already while I do not know all. Therefore I cannot judge anything, even justify answers, about any matters concerning God. My only conclusion can be, knowing He gave and wants existence for me, even so as with Job, though he slay me, yet will I trust Him.

definitional logic

Charisma and Argumentum 

ad hominin 

The decline of logic in public discourse powers the current rise of invective name calling as a substitute for the reasoning of issues, and along with shrinking the numbers of words in language, all brings about the easing control of individuals who have locked themselves as fading individuals into rising power groups.

The time is coming in the, as yet, totally inconceivable future when a person will be able to charismatically attract those of lesser "mass" just as objects seen in space orbiting each other do.

Instead of the mind controlling the body, the spirit will control mind and bring about whatever it desires, including the power to control the intellect of others of lesser orbital mass. The primary point of their success will reside in the passion of their spirit to believe.

Is God our Constitution?

I think we may have lost something in time. The speech writers for David were a fantastic lot and were in a strong position to influence the leadership of the day. All because they were writing for David, speaking with God rather than temporal men, and making a very real presence for God in public affairs as the law itself. Just my view, after all, nobody's speech is free unless somebody else can disagree with it.

Power comes from true passion

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

 Frederick Douglass

From the unseen comes the seen

Believing is the first step in making things "true", which is to say seen. Once anything happens in the seen world it is difficult to absolutely "prove" it at all. Time always enters the picture in the end.

There are those with little belief...

and those with greater belief 

Remember when Jesus asked the man seeking relief for his stricken child whether he believed, and the man answered I believe, help my unbelief?

Recall also when Jesus said if one had enough belief he could move a mountain into the sea? And then He spoke of the centurion with greater belief than in all Israel and still again, when He asked the woman seeking healing whether she believed He could do it? She said yes she believed  He could do it and He responded, then it will be done according to her belief?   

All these things suggest there are those with belief, greater belief and little belief, which He also spoke of as well. So there are different intensive degrees of faith. Therefore I constantly seek to increase my belief even though I have already made my prodigal decision to believe. A decision I remade losing several years to the atheism view before regaining my initial decision finally again.

Mountain moving faith

When Jesus said we could move mountains and, now think about this, do greater things than even He had done. There are many believers who think He was speaking metaphorically. Whether yes or no I believe every thing He said was and is true for today. 

Otherwise when does one stop? Before or after the Cross? Or was the Cross fiction also? I believe in a future when it will be common for strong believers to move mountains of the inanimate world of the seen about at will justifiability. 

Reminder: As I continue, everything I write here is dated and reflects my view at those specific times. However I am  also unannounced editing my prior views for clarity and  common typos as well as increased validity at various other times.

Faith is My Focus

All things seen came from the unseen 

Darkness promises the Light.

I've noticed when someone personally significant passes, my sense of clarity is more greatly heightened. 

In our world of change

The older one becomes the greater likelihood someone very close to our age will succumb physically, still, their spirit lingers on in our awareness. However if they are younger then it is especially difficult to weather while in the seen world. God has placed in our hearts the promised belief I will see everyone again, and not only that, but I will have a greater understanding. As the Holy Spirit shared with Paul, we see now darkly, but time comes when we will see understandings and happiness greater than I could ever have imagined in this world of the seen.

Faith is the central most guiding force

Is the physical world of the seen more dear than the promise of the unseen world of the spirit? I think time fools us all. But faith will save us. This is the greatest single most force I must strengthen within our spirit once born again. It is especially not unreliable proof that can direct me, nor anything else, except faith.

Definition of Evolution

Evolving vs Evolution

Evolution is a belief that humans came from ocean slime, and later from menkeys. This, while observational, it has to be said, has never been seen.

Regardless, nothing can evolve from anything different despite similarities, fanciful or not. It reminds one of the fallacy of skipping categories. I have visited Old Ironsides but could not get inside.

Seeing is believing?

I have ducked my head entering colonial houses constructed only a few hundred years ago. I have heard how small Roman swords were, the conquerors of the western world. I am related to a family of five boys, all standing the oldest down to the youngest, only to see them as young men standing together, the oldest up to the youngest. Say what we will, I still find it suggestive that observation has its place.

Everything in the seen world changes despite appearances. Various living trees may seem similar but all trees are known by their fruit. My conclusion is, Christians are losing an evolution debate that is not quite pointless. 

Purpose of prayer

All minds change

As a man on a bucking horse

I hope to remember every time I pray to thank God for His existence, and the existence He has given me. 

The spirit never changes

It is because I love and appreciate existence, even amazed by existence, that I love Him. My purpose in praying is to build my faith in God and in the Existence He has given me. This especially since at one time, many times, I did not do that very thing that matters to me now. In the seen world everything is changing, including my apparently slowing witted mind. 

The answer is simple

Only the questions are difficult 

The answer to every complicated question is simple. But everything simple is more difficult to see, even as it sits right in front of everyone.