When changes are eternal

This is the world that changes. And we are among the ones who change it. Where and what will I be when all the changes take place? 

W. Somerset Maugham

We are not the same persons, this year as last, nor are those we love. It is a happy chance, if we changing, continue to love a changed person.

How is what?

Lull in the Early Light

 Looking at some wedding pix and with time fooling us all, I felt there was no time to waste working out one's salvation instead of picking it up in a classroom according to someone else's ideas other than my own. 

One of the very few really wonderful college professors I admired, as a professor, was an atheist. But by that time, I was slipping away from that view. 

Wants out?

So many young chaps kept telling me what I was saying instead of accepting what I myself was saying. I was learning in my psych classes that this was an indication of projecting one's own views to keep pointing that out. If not that, then it was an attraction to control that was drawing them to putting ideas into another's words.

Words are fine but the problem is the hearer often is thinking of what they want to say and are not listening to others, much less thinking about them. I think now that the dummy in the picture was holding the dummy's head in a box. 

Unlimited Power of Faith

My Summing Up

I recommend writing down what one believes. I've found it helpful, perhaps others can do even better with it. I've wrestled with the Holy Spirit for a long time, sometimes all night, asking why I should witness in this particular church. After all they all believe in Jesus already. Should I fine tune snowflakes? I can be flip at times.

Unexpectedly, after a long time all of a sudden, the answer appeared in my heart. I want you witness for your own benefit, not anyone else's. From then on, I realized I was asking about others and the Holy Spirit was not going to mention the business of anyone else to me. The Holy Spirit convicts, certainly not me. Also, from this I realized that Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God were dealing with me for my benefit. All Jesus commandments are forever my benefit as for anyone else's. Jesus always existed, even in the beginning. 

Christianity, despite the primitive Chiristians, is individualistic. We all each make our own decision for Christ, or for not. The Holy Spirit convicts, as I said, and that, for whom He will. Sheep of His pasture will hear His voice and understand.

Some say Jesus spoke figuratively or metaphorically. True enough. But it is also true that whether or not He did, Jesus spoke true, and it is still true exactly as He said it. Does it not say that He spoke so as some hearers would not understand, lest they be healed?

So, I believe, in any case, that figuratively or not, everything He said is true and factual as He said it. If anyone has enough faith, they can move actual mountains into the sea. Did not God Himself speak the world into existence?

It is written, if I confess Jesus before men, He will confess me before God. "I confess I believe in Jesus in all things, both those I think I readily understand and those I do not."

Logic leads to complications

The Long Road Leads Home 

Some time ago, it seems now, I was interested in psychic doings, the Rosey Cross and all that sort of thing as well. Seems now I was looking at the time, to replace an empty feeling from my atheistic days. I liked Zen, the moon in the water thing, but I didn't find too much to it when I came right down to it. Promise did not seem to deliver.

Now I have arrived at a place where everything seems much more simple than all that experimentation. I tend to complicate things like everyone else, while God, I see more clearly now, is simple. The simple comes from the complex and complex comes from the simple. Complexities are quite entertaining but results are disappointing. The short, the brief, and the concise is the only way to go for the long haul,

I've heard it said, some time ago as it look back on it, that no matter how many times one reads the Bible, they never stop understanding something new. Like one revelation after another, I am not sure when another will close in on me and I'll find myself in a pleasant place. 

No longer repeat over and over....

Reincarnation overrides Incarnation? 

Jesus was the last sacrifice. When He died once on the Cross the curtain in the temple was rent top to bottom, signifying everyone could go before God in the inner temple. No longer would even the high priest need a rope around his waist so he could be dragged back out in case he died risking his life to go before God once a year. Everyone could go before God by themselves freely anytime. 

The law was given by Moses. But through Jesus came grace and truth. 

Repetition means failure because something did not last. A tree is known by its' fruit. Repetition also means love of the repetition. Repetition also is tiresome, such as repetitious days as in a prison. Repetition also represents as stalling in the process of accomplishing something, such as a spirit gaining its' goal for eternity. 

Repetition signals weakness in a system for a reason. There are repetitious prayers for a purpose. It is not profitable to seek out what the purposes may be. 

Definition of incarnate

is spirit becoming 

physical only once

Reincarnation is to incarnate more than once because only once is needed. Incarnate, it has been said, can incarnate, in some views, more than once. Such is a definition folding in on itself. The root is carnate meaning physical. There used to be, years ago, a multitude of magazine writers repeatedly using the root in the context carnally, to know someone carnally.

It says in the Bible, there is always a spiritual war going on involving the redefining of words as a short cut to changing minds of the masses. Whenever I confront a word like reincarnation, I ask myself, what is the purpose of reincarnation? Is it to repeat something over and over until one gets it right? Some Christians think they can earn their salvation or deserve their salvation. 

Even in reincarnating forever, one will ever get it right. The real purpose of reincarnation at the core of our perception is to live forever many exciting lives as possible. That is not good enough to carry reincarnation any further.

Think of doing something over and over and over. It sounds like a prison personality to me. One never even goes anywhere. It appears attractive to some, but repetition is boring because one never gets anywhere. Life has been seen as a prison for many.  These ideas come to attention in SpecificTheory or I Am.

Time is invisible

 How I Envision Time

And Reincarnation

Time is Invisible, so it is hard to see except reflected in arbitrary instruments. But it seems obvious to me many people cannot envision the spiritual if they cannot conceive of time and eternity in the spirit together. Time only exists in a comparative state, such as how long it takes for one location to go around a dominant location. That is all it is. 

Some physical scientists, with whom I tend to favor, define time as essentially an illusionary event. Time, like any spirit, is itself unseen. Since the prime characteristic of time is unseen, only the effect of time, I assume, can be seen. While this is all fairly straight forward, the introduction of reincarnation and incarnation is not. 

Sent By God Himself

Jesus is the Son of God incarnated as a human. To suggest Jesus could be incarnated many times fogs the understanding of Jesus incarnation and dilutes any clear understanding of the His power as well as the significance of His incarnation. Reincarnation, as a concept, is a major destruction definition functioning to crowd out the powerful meaning of Jesus' incarnation among the unsuspecting. In coming entries, my intent will be to show how this happens.

dystopias morph from utopias

Utopias exist in small pastures

The letters top in utopia and dystopia are, I understand, from the Greek meaning place. Utopias, a spelling coined by Thomas More, means literally no place. The root word dystopia means bad place. A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia which, sooner than later, itself will turn into a dystopia. Utopia, as spelled by More, is a pun. Dys, by all appearances, is what humans do, driven by the obsessive-compulsive need to control. Everything outside the dystopian utopia was created by existence, which is to say Who God is, Existence. More on this theme in I Am.

How famous is famous?

If There is No God, Then

One has to be God Themself

Ty Cobb told Joe Dimaggio not to waste too much time talking to radio interviewers, it would wear him down and hurt his game. Ty Cobb was the first great baseball player and the first to be inducted into the hall of fame. He asked a sport writer on one occasion do you think they will ever forget? 

Proof exists to each satisfaction.

Babe Ruth was the second and he is gradually being forgotten by those who never saw him play. Joe Dimaggio was the next generation, but Cobb did not seem to know it. A forgot statute was unearthed in Europe some time ago, apparently of a famous chariot driver. No one remembers him, or what his name even was. But he existed unknown.

Everyday uncountable individuals mention the name of Jesus, spanning generations and eras. It has never stopped. Not only is Jesus' name remembered, but it is also spoken every single day, quoted and venerated. 

All that without Jesus writing a single word down Himself. Some, who one has to suspect, do not like this. They question whether He ever even existed. Not lived, existed. There are those who can go only so far and then everything disappears for them. that is their spirit. If one cannot believe God exists, then I wonder how they can escape being God themselves. But do they have the faith for it?

Halo Spill Over Energy

Shroud of Turin's Halo Power

Another new book out about the Shroud of Turin. That there should be such unique evidence concerning Jesus incarnate, is proof of some sort in and of itself. Such power of the Spirit is like a halo leaving evidence that in even the cloth touching Him while dead, points to spiritual evidence of its' own sort.

Reminding myself that God is not impressed with proof for perhaps one prime reason only, that God's power operates through and from faith. Where there is proof under pining faith is a temporal inexact rendering of faith greatly weakened.  The more faith required to believe is, correspondingly, the more powerful.

The greater power comes from faith, not faith from proof. Proof is whatever satisfies me, but faith is something else. Further ideas along this line in I am, God is Existence .

Play Book for Presidents

 Speak Softly & 

Carry a Big Stick

Updated: Always speak well of everyone in your party whether they please you or not. They represent votes, sometimes many votes. For every individual with an opinion of other individuals there are an infinite number of views. None of them even match it seems. 

Also, speak well of your opposition, always from your viewpoint that they are good and smart but are being pressured by misplaced unhappy people in their own party. Always appear to be on good terms with everyone, especially those in the opposition. 

Never appear to be annoyed or unhappy with anyone in any party, because this is subjectively seen as weakness. Always appear to be deliberate, because emotional tensions suggest a flawed loss of control. Continued at the corner table in the Naked Eye