Expanding Horizons

Simulated Universes Inside the Matrix?

"Scripture is clear that it’s possible for your spirit to be out of the body," according to views by the Institute of Critical Research. As an example, mention of Elton Musk and simulated reality inside a computer are the subject of one of these links. 

These are interesting speculations edited by the ICR which believes in the origins outlined in the Bible, as opposed to natural evolution theories that give science the basis of creation rather than God. 

I like to know the views of various, what I call the physical sciences, that are being offered to young scholars today in place of Jesus as the master designer. Science largely ignores the spirit, implying that our origins are based in scientifically biased evolution. 

In the coming age believers will need to be on an intellectual par with atheists. It is vital that believers are able to make a case for their faith. That is if they want to avoid being entrapped (phased out) in this current developing technological setting where humans are reduced to brains alone. 

Surfing the Net

Interesting Links

I Discovered Some "Expanding Horizons" 

In the left column ofthis page is a group of links labeled Expanding Horizons. I found theses links some time ago but never pursued enough time to learn a great deal about them. I stumbled upon them recently and was amazed how much is out there that I did find worthy of investigation. 

Whenever a Christian needs some boosting in a troubled time , they should get some Spirit in a church. Personally, I never knew that to be the case. Rather I found I lost a little more of my faith in churches. 

I do know churches are losing attendance for a long time now. A long time is measured here according to my experiences. That fact is not a good testimony. To encourage me I have discovered interesting websites in the internet that slipped under the rug. 

Under His Wings

Whenever I sense my spirit struggling it helps to praise God. For that task Psalm 139 is a good place go and shout from the fortress. Manna

Lion and the Lamb

The Law was Given thru Moses

Grace and Love was thru Jesus

I can often tell how oriented a person is by casual disconnected viewpoints they express. Whether I am often correct or not is not all that clearly determined. 

A political pundit was waxing true about whether a little boy's dog would be in heaven with him. He weighted in heavily upon his fact that dog's do not have a sou. 

I was reminded by the sharper wit of Mark Twain. He commented that there was very likely more dog's deserving of heaven than people. Dogs are well known to be very loving and forgiving by nature.

 Our pundit however, being of the doctrinaire stripe, would seal off the joys of heaven. Heaven is apparently a very antiseptic place for him, since he has surely never experienced the devotion of a dog. 

My view is that the little boy's dog will be in heaven with him if the little boy wanted his dog to be with him. As for heaven, a tree is known by its' fruit.  

Churches as Groups

Problems in Groups

I believe there will come a time when evidence from the unseen world will be more seen in the seen world. It seems inevitable this would happen. Nothing stays the same. Utopian political entities zero in on the concept word, same, as an example of their attempt to strengthen the group but which weakens creativity.

The difference between the political and the religious are not that dissimilar. The religious parties have not done a bangup job of teaching their members, young or old, anything much at all. Even in the time of Jesus, Jesus could suggest in the parable of the unjust servant, that the children of the light were not as smart as the children of the world.

When people gather together in groups, they seem to me to hesitate to engage each other as individuals, preferring to form even smaller cliques. Individuals enjoy agreement by in large, this is their 'never quite fatal' flaw. 

Nevertheless groups, no matter their size, never approach the creativity of the individual. Rather the creative individual can be expelled if they seem too far afield. Some churches emphasize singular differences, like baptism while never engendering an interest in any other focus that might naturally follow. This then becomes their distinction.

It is a point to remember; that Jesus ran against a church clique of His day. Reading the history of the early primitive church is less than awesome as when opposition brought martyrdoms. 

War of Words

If God Does Not Exist;

Then Where Did We Come From?

If God shared with us existence, then where did all the evil contentions come from? My hasty guess this morning is that it came from us, driven by debilitating spirits that took over quite a few others of us.

Some like to play God. I heard a well-known person say as such on the television. Those of us who innocently do not believe in God find themselves thrust in this drama directly in the place of God. There has to be a God. Otherwise, did we create ourselves?

It has been recognized that there is a great divide in this world of duality. It seems too easy to blame everything on God's responsibility, for which we ourselves are responsible. 

Faith in a Fallacy

Pulpit Talk at Pulpit Rock

 I was continually amazed at the many debates I witnessed about whether God existed or not, all without anyone ever defining what each debater argued who God was that they were advocating.

I was an atheist in those pompous days. My arguments were largely based on the people I witnessed attending churches, and not on God at all. Eventually I realized my position was wallowing in a logical fallacy. The fallacy of the misplaced authority.

I incorrectly assumed the pastor and elders of my church were authorities and that God was in on it with them. This was from my idea as a child that God was in with the "other" adults. 

Today I constantly am meeting atheists who maintain their atheism on their position as an atheist solely because of church people. My view is that the devil of doubt fosters these attacks on the churches. 

This is the reason for the Pulpit Rock blog. Churches spin off atheists from the age of fourteen, only for them to be eaten alive by the time they get to college, where they become educated. (See for the sake of the children at Pulpit Rock)

Definition of God

How God Wants to be Known

Throughout All Generations

Previous entry told of my purpose in writing this blog. However, the purpose of the blog itself is to define God the way He said He wanted to be defined. This is I am that I am which literally means God is Existence. This was delivered to me in an epiphany as a very young man before I knew what it really meant. Today I am not at the mercy of a man with a theory since I am myself am a man with an experience.

We know God is a Spirit. We know God is a person. We ourselves were created, spoken into Existence, since Jesus was given the power to declare us to be sons and daughters of God. From Genesis, God referred to Himself as more than One. Also, see John 17 where the Trinity is well explained.

Therefore, God is the Personified Spirit of Existence.

Issues not people

How I Objectify My Beliefs

 From time to time, I should review my style sheet for this blog. 

I write this blog for my own benefit in order to objectify and work out my own salvation. If I can objectify my beliefs by writing them down publicly to work out my own salvation, then my beliefs are more clear and stronger. I am thinking rather than engaging in reverie. I want my beliefs to be stronger.

I also review old entries to make susre they are up to date as well as randomly sweep for typos. I try very hard to make sure I do not mention any names of individuals. Individuals are more than one view, and any mention of any person opens up the discussion to many of their other views not engaged. I want to examine issues, not people. 

Great Faith and Little Faith

Much Faith and Fasting 

John 17

All good things come down from the Father of Lights. It does not matter what is true or not, or whatever is bad is bad. I keep instructing myself to think what is good or whatever good I want to see happen in place of bad. I must think it, I must believe it, to have any hope of it happening. This is not the power of mind or vague positivity. It is the power of faith and believing. It does not matter what proof appears to believe. Some only believe what is easy to believe. The hard to believe requires greater belief. This was as Jesus told His disciples about the demon that would not come out of a man's child they could not cast out. Nothing can resist great belief. This according to Jesus rising from the dead. This belief is the central core of Christianity. Manna.

Confessing Christ

 I confess Christ before all no matter whatever. I believe He died on the Cross for everyone, preached to all those lost in the Great Flood, rose alive in the flesh and was seen before few and many, prior to ascending to heaven. 

I believe when He said that if we have enough faith, we could cause a mountain to be thrown up and hurled into the sea. I believe He is the incarnate Son of God, and one with God and the Holy Spirit. 

I believe the words of Jesus in Chapter 17 in the Book of John.  I believe in the Gospels and all the views contained therein quoting Jesus who wrote down nothing and spoke everything.  All He said was placed in the hearts of believers, survived in many writings guided by those moved by the Holy spirit. 

There is no other story that is so intricately woven, so complete and so unrivaled as the story lived by Jesus. Never has so much evidence been compiled, read written about by so many. I thank God for His Existence, and the existence He has spoken into me. 

Time Enters the Picture in the End

 Hard Giving Up the Flesh

It is easy to be born in my spirit, but it is not easy to separate myself from the flesh. The mind is supposed to control the flesh, but mine often permits excess. Living in change the flesh resists change. With some their flesh controls their mind totally, right into their unexpected destruction.

Few want to withstand the terrors of change. It is not the change itself but the getting there that is the real fear. Then, of course, when facing fear, we are weakening our flesh and endangering even possibly our spirit.

The flesh is short term, very short term. Everyone knows they will eventually die, but not today. Right there is the best definition of forever I think one will ever find. I wonder how time can fool us all so completely, like dreams in the night. 

There was a time when summer was forever only to change when school traitorously reopened. Soon we will all be lost as we cross the Sea of Lethe. All will be forgotten, and everyone will soon forget everyone else. That is the way of the flesh. What will be remembered in the future will very likely be different from the past. 

But if I have enough faith, anything can happen, so long as it does not negate faith and existence. Therein is my hope and my faith. I sense it is soon time for me to once again confess Christ before men, so that Jesus will confess me before God.