Faith the full story

 I suddenly find myself isolated amid all my logical spin weaving with the proof there is not only an existing God, but that there is something greater... "a faith" in God. A faith that renders all my logical proofs redundant at best. I sense there are beliefs and there is something quite another, "believing in God". 

A Good Quote

 Nothing is impossible. 

The word itself is I'm possible.             

                                                                   Audrey Hepburn

It is more difficult to write a good short story than a good novel. It is more difficult to write a good poem or lyric than write a good short story. To write a good quote is another story.

Out of the treasure the heart the mouth speaks

The illustration highlights an example of why attacking the man begins, by attacking his argument with the logical fallacy of argumentum ad hominem.

Truth takes courage

Whenever accusations arise, they are often directed to the person rather than his issue. This reveals how true the position is. The stronger the hatred the weaker the position. I do not like entertaining such attacks, largely because they too strongly resemble the devil's operation in the mix. I avoid reactionary positions because they do not particularly outline any of my positions, but rather publicize those very likely I oppose.

Maybe the Red Sea actually parted

Red Sea seen from space on a clear day.

Does anyone believe the Red Sea ever parted and let the Hebrews cross on firm land in time for the pursuing Egyptians to find themselves caught in the Red Sea with it closing in over them?   Climatologic theories have proposed it could have actually happened at one time. It is entirely possible if the Red Sea had access to the Mediterranean Sea in the North and the Indian Ocean to the South. If this had occurred, which it could easily have as I already suggested, then this would make the Red Sea a river with two opposite tidal river sources at each end. This theory made me begin to realize proof was eroding the chance, and therefore the ability, to believe.  What belief in God do we have if it could really be so easily believed? 

When God became Man

Was not the existing pagan 

Holiday Before Christmas  

Christianized to Christmas?

The Baby in the manger theme this time of year was just slowly seeming to merge with a fading view of the incarnate God, and in turn be absorbed by a diluting Xmas. This in my instinctive view at least. 

The mother comes before her son. But is this mother before, or after "her" Son? It was not until I focused on the word incarnate that I realized it was beginning to replace the incarnate view in my view at least. 

I was internalizing the view of the seen "Baby in the Manger World." In it I was about to lose the significance of the incarnate transition from the unseen to the seen. 

The Great I am

 Anyone with an epiphany is never at the mercy of someone with a theory.

Are we to be judging God?

Who Causes Suffering?

 If there is a God, then why does He allow suffering to exist, since He is Existence Himself? My quick answer is because we, many of us at least, insist on it. Why did we insist on it? My view is because not a few gave themselves over to the chief spirit of suffering, the devil of doubt and destruction.

 So how did we do that? We were born into it, as children of suffering. How could that be true? Why would not God intervene? There was originally no need for Him to intervene since all existence is good. We ourselves intervened instead. 

We became convinced that knowledge of our own, the knowledge of good, and as it turned out, evil, would be better than God's given knowledge. So, it did turn out that our new knowledge included not only knowledge of good, but something new, the knowledge of, evil.

Knowledge not a one-way street

Much evil knowledge seems good until one gets deeper into it and then find the seeming good, changes, changes into destruction. All I can tell myself now is that since I do not have access to all knowledge, I have to trust someone I believe has. 

Why would I do that? I found the more knowledge I gained included knowledge of more questions I did not know ever even existed. So, my knowledge turned mostly the knowledge I was more ignorant of than when I was unaware the extent of my ignorance.

The daring leap

So now that our knowledge includes evil, knowledge some of us assume is based on what is only presently known. This forces them to take the only action they can take under the present circumstances of which they are limitedly aware. I find my conclusion of all these complications is that I may have been maneuvered into the unenviable position of judging God. I suggest a hasty retreat. So, I take Job's position of trusting God no matter what. Maybe this is what actual believing is, believing in an incredible God worth believing. 

Was Jesus Murdered?

This strange idea, mentioned in Manna today, says Jesus was murdered. In John 10:17-18, Jesus speaks otherwise. I am concerned that so many, and in teaching positions as well, are so unaware of the commandments of Jesus. 

They seem to think the parables, wherein many commandments are revealed are what, for whom, somebody else? We can ignore the parables?  

But one fact is revealed by this particular murder view thing. A lack of awareness of that everything seen came from the unseen, even as high up as the pulpit itself. Look at myself as well, regarding the incarnate post. 

Quoteblokes redux

I believe we should not only believe what we believe but also speak what we believe, just as God spoke the world into existence. So just as the Son does what His Father does, we should do the same. We should do as the Holy Spirit speaks to each of us individually and privately, not through any third party. I suppose also I am a witness to what I believe and writing it down firms the sayings of God, the Holy Spirit, in my spirit.

Faith and Lies

Faith is what the 

World calls a lie

Whenever I am asked, how I am I doing, I like to say I am doing wonderful, marvelous, fantastic! They say, isn't that great. Then I follow up with the only thing that bothers me is, I lie a lot. Nothing better than an old joke. 

The scriptures, in Hebrews I think, defines faith as, saying things that are not, as though they were. The world, even some Christians, call that a lie.

Words are powerful

The world goes by the seen, they have little respect for the spirit. However, God spoke the world into existence by saying, and His faith brought it into the seen. Everything unseen came from the seen.

The Shrinking Saved

According to polls as well as my experience, here in the States, church attendance, membership, and believers in God are shrinking and shrinking. I would have liked to have known this early, like when I was deciding whether or not to believe in Sainta Claus, I learned then from our pastor that the stories in the Bible were not true, only the meaning was true. 

Notice the word meaning? Why was that word meaning not spiritual instead? Later I learned the adults only believed in God, for the sake of the children. All the while adults were sprinkling their talk with words like pulpit talk, meaning pretend talk. Then I learned that something in the Bible was not for today. 

It goes on from there. I wonder where it stops? Maybe Jesus did not even exist. Homer with one surviving book thanks to the Alexandrian fire existed, but unbelievable numbers of books about Jesus called His existence into question. 

Maybe Jesus is just not for today. It was not until I was an atheist in college, with a course in logic under my belt, and learning the list of fallacies, that the seeds of doubt about all this pinball thinking would begin a slow-motion exploding revelation in my mind. 

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Why is His name Jesus?