Correction: Previous Entry Garbled
The final sentences in the previous entry originally concluded: it could be. Writing too fast, the following underlined sentence is what was intended.
Jesus very strongly talked against many things wrong. Of course, it would not drag Him down, on the other hand: it could me.
Giving the Devil a Tongue
In Pulpit Rock I somewhat consistently give the Devil a tongue, thereby emulating political reactionaries publicizing negatives against their own views. If one wants to work for the devil, then just point out his tactics and anything else about him. I do it and I shouldn't perhaps, but I do it anyway. I try to tread lightly, not sure if that works.
On the other hand, it cannot be favorable, at least to the teller to be pointing these things out. Staying positive has advantages. However, Jesus very strongly talked against many things wrong. Of course, it would not drag Him down, on the other hand, I could me.
Roughly Speaking
How the previous entry, thinking about the quote by Camus, works into my little paradigm is like this: Remember, I still think that if a person does not think logically then they might as well be a street corner propagandist pamphleteer.
But, since proving God is not acceptable to God, then where does that put the no-God view and all my gorgeous logic? It was through logic that I figured out and proved that we could not actually prove anything for certain, except each to our own satisfaction. That was quite clear.
I believe no-matter what!
So, then I fell back on what was already there, my no-matter what position. We are all forced to believe up or down whatever we believe if we believe anything at all. This means the power is in the belief one musters. I experienced that power, and that is why I have said that a man with an experience is not at the mercy of one with a theory.
Hither to I have referred to this experience as an epiphany and this is also why epiphanies are not attractive to groups of individuals who seek utopian dreams while Christianity requires an individual decision. That is one of the ways it becomes personal. Person in turn leads us to the individual.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Where Will the Devil Be on Sunday?
Likely he will be in church, hidden in the first row. He certainly isn't going into any taverns whatever day it is. Those in taverns are set aside already. A popular novel on the idea was written by C.S. Lewis, called the Screwtape Letters.
If he cannot dismember one from Jesus aa God, then he has another plan. He will acknowledge Jesus but deny the power of Jesus. He will offer us a metaphorical Jesus. He will demand proof, he will question Jesus' very existence, He will shuffle contexts to suit his view.
He will seek destruction, attracted by fire. I have even seen automobile stickers, parked in exclusive neighborhoods, claiming he can heal. He can lurk behind strange and familiar philosophies.
Jesus is the Source
Why do Christian's worship and praise Jesus? For my part I am thankful. I just cannot overcome the gratitude in my spirit. It is reflexive, automatic, in a way. I like life, I want to live, but not diminishingly so. I expect0 good things.
At one time, and way too many times as well, I have spent much of my existence experiencing the world like someone watching a boob tube. The reason I believe that it becomes a boob tube instead of an excellent human communication device, is because it is instinctual for us to watch anything that moves.
It is when it becomes habitual that "boob" becomes the operative word. I stop thinking and eventually will fall asleep, especially if an advert comes on for, as they inevitably do, so incredibly long. Maybe that is why sleep overcomes me. There used to be only a few sponsors, but eventually they have slivered them up, to squeeze more money in I would expect.
But even when I participate, by contemplating the importance of Jesus historically in total, it transforms one. But to engender so much praise, gratitude, and worship I have to make everything Jesus did across all time more and more real as it is absorbed continually into my psyche.
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When Jesus became as a Man, Like Us
I fear reincarnation will not be an easy way to keep the physical life going in a pleasant manner as many anticipate. To do something over and over (even so as a human or as an animal yet) seems dangerously similar to a definition of hell once one is in it.
However, to contemplate Jesus as God incarnate is much more attractive to me, even accurate I feel, than the current excessive Christmas emphasis placed on Jesus as a baby, rather than as God incarnate where it is somewhat overlooked.
Root of the word incarnate, or many times as reincarnate is carnal or physical, which is the opposite of spiritual. When Jesus died on the Cross that was no reincarnation, it was resurrection. He conquered death, elevating our focus to the vital importance of spirit.
Belief in Jesus' Belief He Could Heal
What did Jesus mean when He told those He healed that they should go and sin no more? This is something I have not yet worked out my full understanding. Does it mean that anyone who is sick is sick because they have sinned?
I am ahead of myself here. This question seems to fall into the same category that caused many of His believers to fall away when Jesus said we can only approach God if He draws us to Him. There are many who are sheep not of Jesus' pasture. This is where I break with logic and resort to belief. This is, of course, is the only thing that pleases Him, belief not logic. Then also, how can we leap ahead if we do not surpass the idea that today's magic is tomorrow's logic?
There are many answers to which I do not even know the questions yet. This category seems to fall into that same type where Jesus said anyone can have whatever they want if they have enough belief for it. I have been holding this question in my mind's pocket for some time and have not yet made any satisfactory headway to my understanding. Time for the last resort? Hit the commentary's?
How could ancients know about batteries?
I understand the physical scientists say the brain produces enough electricity to power a flashlight, or some such event. All along I had once thought it was a just another myth because the early Christian artists painted haloes in, often stylistically.
When Moses came down from the mountain after God speaking to him, his face shone. All these types of thoughts are nudging me toward believing there is something to it all where we are are not fully appreciative. Psychic thinking makes something about haloes also, so I watch my spirit traffic carefully. I trust only Jesus, all others lead somewhere else.
Why do Christians appreciate Jesus so excessively? I would say it depends how much value they place on God's existence. Specifically, all God's existence and everyone else's existence. It would be of no value if one lived alone, with an unshared existence.
Everything about God is positive, so positive it is holy, leading us in rejoicing and appreciation of God. Everything He tells us to do benefits us from beginning to end, if there is such. It is written no one has envisioned or looked forward to all He has prepared for our future. All things desirable in proper measure; everything spiritual in unending expansion.
In this world everything is changing
Everything is evolving, and much of it in this world, very dramatically so, even if I close my mind one second. One only has to look at photographs of famous people. Some of them are not recognizable. In my own high school year book us sguys have come to look like little "cromagnons" with our hair lines an inch above our eyebrows. Time to work out my salvation.
