Odds are Against Us

Knowledge Brings Awareness 

of Our Greater Ignorance

Every time I wonder why God does this or that, I allow for my position holding incomplete facts on any matter. Since we did not create ourselves, nor did we create the universe, we are in a predicament thinking we can sit across the table from God knowing we are holding cards from an incomplete deck.

Every time we learn something we did not know before; we are aware of questions not known previously. This means that while we know more than before, we also know we are more unaware than we realized formerly.

No Matter What

I Believe! 

Even If Not True...Yet!

If the Devil of Doubt were to say to me, what if it is all not true? That is OK, I believe it all is true no matter what. And what do I base this on? It is written, the ancients knew that God looked down and realized that man could do anything he set his mind to and wanted.

So as it is also written, we can do it since if we have enough faith, we can move mountains which is to say all we need is faith. So, if we have enough faith, we can do anything within God's will, while at the same time the flesh, as Jesus observed, can do nothing to help us. 

Therefore, I can believe in anything, even if it not true. Jesus said we would do things in the future even beyond what Jesus himself did. 

As an aside, a rich person would have trouble entering heaven simply because he is convinced he is in heaven-like already. By the same token and educated person is more prone to doubts primarily because he knows too many doubtful driven questions that a simple man would easily ignore.

Unconecting Continuums

How Logic Got Out

With the Bathwater

Until recently I was unknowingly convinced that continuums were on each side of any focus. Now, however, I am of the idea that duality was the reason for this, so that idea came under scrutiny.

Good, that is good for me intrinsically, not apparently good is on its' own continuum. The justifications for this came from contrasting dualities and continuums. This allows for dualities to continue in their manner, twos, and continuums to operate beside each other as exclusive units.

Only element now is that the continuum of good (for us) is not rooted in "not good" rather it is connected to "less" good and "greater good". At the center of this reasoning is God is good. He is good because if He were not good there would be nothing to consider. But because He is good, in order for anything to exist it has to be completely creative and connecting evil via continuums not only intertwines dualities it renders them the loss of their original function.

I must confess also, that it came from the knowledge that God did not create evil, that it was completely foreign to Him. Evil came after Him via the free will He created. This is also true because continuums are connecting only, whereas dualities are multifunctioning. This does not upset the ideas of good, it insulates them against their opposites.

I will halt here for ideas to settle and remind myself it is not my duty to convince anyone. When very young I finally understood that my understanding's came from myself, just as others came from themselves. There is no one way to think about any matter. God gives us the chance to consider everything, to allow, I guess, allow for everything. Meanwhile, I finally realized it was not my responsibility to convince others, it was to understand myself. 

Funny, how I get into Venus fly trap thinking. Apparently, it works however, according to its function. (Future edited in Specific Theory)

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.