As the sons of thunder?
Football program about Super Bowl lately rather strongly emphasized how the Super Bowl winners keep shouting BELIEVE! I also remember a baseball team some time ago did the same thing, only it was before they won the world series. It all reminded me, like a sports fan, as in fanatic, or like a strong man taking heaven by force, also as I alluded to recently, I am gathering my prayers because by it I hope to move higher into faith in believing.
Differing Word Views Add Not Distract
The future is all prediction. Prediction is all trend following. The predictor works with their favorite trends. As I am fond of saying, everyone preselects for their own benefit, meaning we learn more about trend followers than their trends.
My trend is toward greater faith. I believe faith, believing faith, is the future of everyone. They will, everyone, conceive of whatever their faith conceives. Many may predict 'good' but they get 'bad'. Usually this is obvious.
My view is we each all reflect planets or "heavenly bodies." Some are heavy weights and others light weights. The heavier weights reflect a larger mass than lighter weights and therefore correspondingly possess a greater mass. Greater mass attracts lighter mass. We then say some people are more charismatic while others are more independent.
It is significant that Jesus did not write anything down. Many others wrote the book on Jesus from many different perspectives. This proves the truth of their accounts since there was no evidence of collusion among them.
Others of skeptical nature conclude the opposite, that since they did not all agree with each other then they are not reliable accounts. But accounts laced with differing perspectives are normal. They are different because the perspectives is from differing viewpoints. They add, they do not distract.
The skeptical viewpoints built from these views are all each gospel to the original differing viewpoint but just hearsay to the other skeptics. As has been typically said, witnesses are unreliable. This is because they are all different orbits like mentioned previously. The differences do not change the spirit of the events, they support it.
Entering the unseen, beyond understandings
of the seen. I am reaching perhaps a final point, an unanticipated point, where seeing is believing the spirit of the matter. This may be the portal for me to take heaven by force.
Resembling a psychic explosion, I cannot predict where what pieces may rearrange themselves on a moving landscape. Editing should be constant in such an atmosphere where almost any point is at an intersection of dominoes about to fall in any direction.... where the only dominant spirit continues to by heralded by Jesus.
Is What We Believe Limited?
I have a haunting sense about the seen world. It is more than it seems, so far historically anyway. The earth is not flat, it is the exact opposite. Our perceptions are altered by our changing positions. In one instance alone. I learn this from an assumed authority in the physical world.
Stars, like our sun, twinkle while planets do not. I suppose planets like the earth are reflected glory. But do stars twinkle? Not exactly, we twinkle, not the sun or the other stars. It is our atmosphere. Do we twinkle seen from the stars?
Our sun is the smallest of all the stars, it is believed. But it looks larger since it is closer? So, in that case we do not believe? I believe also we project our perceptions. what more can we do with that?
Maybe space is not the universe. It is not just expending. It is perhaps shrinking? The universe is getting larger and smaller at the same time. Only our microscopes limit our perceptions of what is smaller.
A common dust mite looks like a fearsome giant dragon the further into a deeper quantum we can descend. It looks to me that at the core of all this is wrapped in a strange believability scale.
It is not easy to believe accurately, that is, to believe in what we will ultimately desire. It is not easy to believe the greatest ideas. It is likely harder.
Cannot believing manifest itself into what is believed?
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God for anything
I 'd blame myself
There is little faith and there is great faith. Since God is eternal does He have the same sense of time I have?
Circumstances may instead require greater faith, same as more persistence faith. Persistence is forever faith, no matter what. Whatever one is praying for is established on persistence. If I believe God can heal, for example, do I have the belief to believe God that He can heal?
If God can heal is one thing, but will He heal me? Will I have to entreat Him? Maybe I will have to convince Him. Not likely, He is not the one I have to convince, it is myself.
I have prayed so long that I forgot about it all and suddenly realized I was healed. I did not know how long. Talk about the disciples falling asleep the last night before Jesus went on the Cross. And He knew it. No forgetting that.
I enjoy God. But, if I am intense I always find myself wrestling with the Holy Spirit. If I am thankful, I talk to Jesus. If I want healing, I talk to the Father. I always try to accept healing and include Jesus in my acceptance, gratitude, and belief. I always speak to the Father under instruction and permission of Jesus. I wonder sometimes if I am more comfortable with God as Santa. I'd rather think of it as exercising my faith. from Manna
Smart is as Smart Does
Whenever I hear someone tell anybody that, that Spence, he is some smart, I cannot help it, I instinctively sense they must be stupid. If I am told directly, I always agree however. You are right! I tell them, in point of fact, I outsmarted myself every single day this week alone.
I love it. I mean, what do they suppose I am so smart in? Generally speaking, I am so smart... in everything? Well, privately speaking, I am more stupid in the smart things than I am smart in the stupid things.
I can say without fear of correction that I will never have enough information to decide, on intellect alone, whether there is a God or not, not at all touching on how smart He is.
Why do living entities want to continue living?
Everyone wants to exist, even those who ultimately commit suicide. I contend that even those who elect to end their lives amid matters of honor, focus on living under certain conditions rooted in a concept of living forever memorially the way they want to be seen permanently.
Since God is Existence and is the source of all existing, one has to ask why anyone would have no hope beyond the body. The mind directs the body on a short leash, and it can be caught up in the short term demands of the body's comfort & entertainment.
So God is concerned with good and with eternal life, which was why He spoke us into existence. God cannot negate Himself, therefore only those who choose to be like Him, seek continued existence. Existence is good, but those not all those, who are spoken into existence may choose to be so directed.
For them it would be rule or ruin. Everything God suggests is for our benefit to continue existing in the long run.
Jesus is the Way
I am not a chapter and verse character in some weird spelling bee. Words are more important than numbers, altho the opposite may seem to be the case.. But numbers are helpful if I want to recall something. For that purpose I carry at hand a voice recorder to jog my memory up a pace. Speak about this now because while I was reading abruptly ran across an wonderful sentence that struck me in the heart. But I lost the notation.
Very rarely will I find a single sentence among so many others that carry with it such drama as that one sentence did. Only it strikes me that I am in this drawn to the drama, rather than to the wisdom. Is it art that carries the message if it is to be remembered?
Art, if one cares to spearhead the definition of art, is not what we do, it is the way that we do it. So from that I gather the art of it all is where the power of the passion comes.
It is definitely not, as one otherwise well-spoken person claimed, anything to do with recreating reality. If reality is real then it cannot be recreated nor resurrected. But art, as a action verb, is the spirit in the, way that we do it, not an inert subject. Anyway, that is the way I slice my bread.
Easier to lose one's faith
In the Church Than Anywhere Else
Where would the devil be the first to go if he wanted to do harm to the church and to Christians? If you've read the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, you know the answer to that question. And, as it is written, he would blame Christians for what he had done.
and Church Reviewers
Those who do not believe in God often focus on the long-term history of churches. The history of the primitive Christian churches is not generally entirely attractive. This history exists however, alongside those who gave their lives willingly in order to gain a greater glory. This has been maintained from opposite quarters, one favorable and the other not.
Churches today, from my many experiences, are doing more to undercut the individual attraction to worship together than to strengthen and experience a greater articulate faith,
I've discussed the error of Christians who think they will go to heaven based on their good works. They were solidly entrenched is this view. How basic can it get?
I've even met pastors who believe God changes His mind, essentially believing God fails to heal, one rather than another, for a greater good of some sort. Others carry sin around like a badge of humility, and so it goes.
No wonder so many churches send their Sunday School Scholars defenselessly entering college as victims, sacrificial lambs to strange spirits. I was one of them.
