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Monday, 11 July 2022

If Jesus is right....

then we will do greater things than He

I am primarily interested in Jesus or, that is, in the Trinity. I am not so enamored by churches or religious, on the other hand. Many nonbelievers do not reject God but rather reject many in churches. By this, they mis-define God. Jesus was the first one to give us knowledge of the Spirit. The law came through Moses, and Jesus gave us grace and truth, as John said in the Bible.

It was not until Newton became aware of gravity that the power in the unseen entered the scientific view, unsettling other physicists. But Jesus believed we had God given power within, if we had great enough faith. 

I think Jesus meant it.

Sunday, 10 July 2022

Projecting What We Want to Believe

Problems with Predictions

I think we have to see in our mind's eye that there are forces unseen we are encountering, and I am not impressed by seen UFOs. It is an easy cop out to think excuses. UFOs are too much like pleading ignorance instead of displaying any curiosity to know. The forces I am thinking of are beyond UFOs. 

They are mysteries of the unseen more powerful than seen UFO implications. 

The fact that the scientists in the day of Isaac Newton were uneasy about his theories of gravity was a conception beyond their current psychic awareness at that time. If UFOs were an answer they should have been identified by now, like gravity. 

It is the nature of our seen instincts to pre-figure answers to questions not yet entirely understood well before answers slowly emerge. We are discouraged by the ancient books from predicting. Predicting is knowledge and it has always been sensed we would get into trouble since the tree of knowledge. 

We have still yet to see gravity. Unfolding...

Saturday, 9 July 2022

Cathcing Up to God

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. Arthur Koestler

When I view the history of learning and knowledge for all mankind so far, it is hard for me to conceive all that is known so far can in any way match up to the knowledge needed to decide whether there is a God or not. 

The mere fact we are starting out thinking everything can change by themselves is not the most solid position worthy of envy. I read of more scientists forced to conclude there has to be a designer. To me this in turn means we have a lot to learn about unseen forces that we are in no way close to learning about so far.  

Even ouur general history indicates we have a long way to go. If this is true then we are in for a long history of discovering there is more for us to learn than before we learned anything much at all. Our knowledge of our ignorance is growing even greater than we gain in knowledge. What this means is we taking our new knowledge purely on faith. Even scientific laws can change all by themselves as conditions change beyond our knowledge. 

We got a lot of work to do to catch up.

Friday, 8 July 2022

Great Faith Has No Size

Better Hot or Cold Than Lukewarm 

Great Faith is my goal. Little faith is worse than no faith. Jesus said He would spew lukewarm faith out of His mouth. Faith is spiritual, size takes no toll. Grat Faith can be as large as a mustard seed. Tiptoeing Little faith can be quite fancy, tippy toeing as it likes to do. 

Time is short in the seen world. We are a long time not seen. No matter how great seen things are, they shrink to something different altogether. Famous depends on a winnowing attention until it disappears. Amazing the attention such great fleeting events weaken in the seen. 

Thursday, 7 July 2022

Worry means Fear

Faith Means No Fear

Faith means no fear of pain. Pain is evil leaving the body. Isn't that what the Marines say? The Cross tells us the pain Jesus endured is overcome. By it God has forgotten my sins, and I am healed, if I can accept it by faith. I am going to believe this no matter what, no matter when, no matter how long.

Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Mountain moving faith

Just Saying It May Not Make It So

 I am not talking here about being saved. I am thinking about building greater faith. I expect I will know how much faith I have when I am in the fox hole with bullets zinging overhead. Does anywone remember when Jesus said we would do greater things than He? No one ever seems to talk about it, speculate about it, shares with anyone about it. 

In fact, I do not see much said about Faith at all. I'll wager many believe all they have to do is just say it. Not so fast! I am not so sure! Faith on the lips may not be faith in the heart.

A man is on a long journey to find the promised land, maybe it was heaven, maybe it was greater faith. He comes after a long struggle to a place resembling Niagra Falls. There is a man there with a barrel taking people across a deep divide in the barrel while walking on a wire between the present spot and greater faith.

He says jump in. Our hero says let this one behind me go first while I rest. The wire walked takes the one behind across walking on the wire and returns. Ready to go? I am thinking about it our hero says. You saw me take the other person over the man with the barrel he is told. The wind is blowing harder now our hero answers. It will die down soon. 

And he did. 

Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Believing in believing

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. 

Saturday, 2 July 2022

The Spirit of Any Matter is the Truth

 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. 

Friday, 1 July 2022

Leaving the logic of the seen

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. 

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Everything is not all it seems

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?

Sunday, 26 June 2022

Blaming God

Having Faith in the Work
Before I would blame 

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.