Faith is all we have

Exact Recording of Every Detail 

Can Clutter the Truth of the Matter

The Book of Job is one of the more fascinating books in the Bible since, for openers, it is the oldest. The central verses surround Job's observation that tho He slay me yet will I trust Him.

Smart people know a lot but the most important to know is what they do not know. Tracing down what actually happened when no witnesses were involved is the usual strange shuffle in the deck. Another is to think the ancients were dummy mythmakers. 

Actually, My horse! My kingdom for a horse may indeed never have been said on the battlefield. But the phrase capsules the spiritual truth of the matter better than the actual dialogue could likely have been.

There are some things we cannot know. Looks like we cannot know what we cannot know. This is another reason why I said we cannot actually prove anything. We can only prove anything to our own satisfaction. The rest is dependent on faith, including the belief there is no God, or the "Sun also rises." 

Gad has to be our God is Existence, or else we have to be our own God of no existence. 

Life & Death at Pulpit Rock

Church Adventure 

Attending church, as in former times, is a very private affair for me. I usually seem to strike up a conversation with the most honest straight forward people one could ever meet.

On one occasion I asked a man who wanted to start a photo club in the church. I asked him, to break the ice, what his definition of God was. 

He said, "I don't know."

All spiritual gifts are true today....

True Forever

As anyone should expect, my view is speaking in tongues is one of the spiritual gifts. We do not all have the same gifts. I was never given it, nor do I find any fault with anyone else's spiritual gift. My call is to witness, I reason this, since I was given an epiphany. A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with a theory.

I respect my epiphany as if it were a gift. But I do not give myself instructions, the Holy Spirit does. If any man has a spirit, that is where his power is since, without emotion, there is no motion.  

Purpose of this Blog

 ......is to define God the way God defined Himself

God is Existence. Exodus 3:14 "I am that I am." This is the name God told Moses He wants to be known by this name forever "into all generations."

Tongues

Speaking in the Spirit 

Christianity is very deep, and very complicated and at the same time very simple and direct. The latter does not preclude the former. Because of this, it is very controversial. That is, the speaking in tongues. 

I do not speak in tongues because the church I was born into did not teach it. Indeed, most Protestant churches of my acquaintance taught very little, preferring to, off topic, entertain the young with coloring books and such, such being cowboy movies. 

The practical reason involves different views, and opinions that will split a Protestant church, as Protestant churches often do, merely on an increase in membership neighboring five hundred.  (Later....)

Sunstroller style book

Living individuals names are not mentioned if at all possible. Current events are never rehashed. Issues are the  primary focus. Comments are assumed accurate for the date expressed only,

Purpose of this Blog....

 ......is to define God the way God defined Himself

God is Existence. Exodus 3:14 "I am that I am." This is the name God told Moses He wants to be known by this name forever "into all generations."

Definition of forever

Everyone knows we are going to die.

                                    But not now. 

No one knows.....

when the blow may fall

I have a strong sense that it is a big loss to waste time. One is lucky if they still have time they can waste so that they can turn things around and they fortify the hedges God has placed around us all who trust in Him. 

It is a dual world

Rules of the Road, Defined

 I may be off target when I normally never start with specifics. Always it is concepts. The time to fill in the specifies will catch up later, that is, if I can follow the trail of generalities to specifics. The next step is to define terms correctly. 

The most non-defined term often debated is the non-definition of God. God is I am that I am, which is to say Existence. If He is God then He should be well equipped to define Himself. Atheists are left out in the cold here, since if there is no god, then the atheist is left to be his own god.

The greatest ill-defined term is art in my experience. Art is a verb, not a subject. Art is not what you do, it is how you do it. We can trust Benny Goodman for his jazz recording on that. 

Peace of non proximity

The seen world is full of so many people. And there are even more passed away already, all of them fading unremembered into the anguish of the past. Those that are remembered were very likely quite different in the passing future than they were in the actual past. We no longer even look like we used to when alive. There are coming times of healing peace that accumulate for purposeful war. Meanwhile we advance technically into a potential world of decreasing humanity until we disappear.

Trusting God for everything

Farming Out Believing God

 The mere expression of believing in God does not satisfy me. I am not so sure it is the greatest way to do it. Neither is agreeing with whatever a pastor says make me think believing in God is all there is too it.  

I heard a woman say they she had someone for everything that could come up.  A plumber for the toilet headed the list, an electrician for the appliances, a mechanic for the car, and a pastor for God. It was he who would keep everything ship shape when something went awry. Oh, then there was the funeral director to handle his duties. He took his place alongside the landscaper for the grass. Somebody for everything. 

I did not trust it. (Unedited)