The Spirit of God

There Has to Be a Spirit if only to Function

In my own experience, some atheist thought has centered on the doubtful lack of proof for Jesus' existence, and then more recently on Jonah as, it was claimed, would be the killer myth account in the no proof struggle.

My reaction to that was, collusion, the other side of that coin, destroys the error of inconsistencies in the gospels. But my more recent conclusion, in seeking stronger faith, is to remind myself I will understand it all better bye and bye, as the hymn lyrics say. In like manner, for that as well I had to go to Job for, tho He slay me, yet will I trust Him. 

And that is where I arrived recently in acknowledging that if there is no God then I will believe anyway, since proof destroys faith by eliminating the necessity for faith altogether.

I cap this entire mini debate with the claim that if there is no God, then one would have to be their own god themselves, for themselves. 

Everybody with no god, has to be their own god because without God they have no judgement in the matter.   

Definition of Mystic

Dark Night of the Soul

A Spanish poet who came to be known as St John of the Cross is thought to be the first person to coin the term, Dark Night of the Soul. It most generalizes, symbolically, the doubts that assail the believer in God. The word mystic however, I always sensed, had root in the mysterious or interest in the unknown, something science really failed to tolerate.

At one time earlier in this effort was singled out those who could read and write. There was only one occupation that suited this view and that was that of a priest. Before that I always assumed, the status originated in the days of the early scribes, which I feel were the earliest lawyers. Scribes, priests, and lawyers are all "go betweens".

Regardless, both the physical scientists and the mystics are engaged in the hopelessly unknown and unproven beginnings of things. The first were dealing with the seen and the other, mystics, the unseen. 

The fact that they became separated is unfortunate since they each belong together instead of in a kind of pompous dark night hostility to each other. This is another consequence, see Koestler, in the striving for power I suppose. (Unedited....)

How belief is defined

Belief Determined in the Foxhole

When I want to be close to correct in any issue, logic is necessary. But it is only marginally correct. The unseen can at any time override the seen. This is how belief overrides logic, limited only by conception. Next.... 

Oh yee of little belief & great

Greater Belief Required 

for the Unbelievable

 There is a tendency for those physical scientists who know provably more than anyone else, to give themselves the glow that they know more than they do in fact. Only to know so completely so much of what is only known so far. Everyone in the deep past is viewed as myth-ignorant largely because they could not prove much being old.

Embarrassment sets in when they accidently, I suppose, discover that the ancients were right all along. Great belief and little belief enter the picture when it is harder is to believe something, when greater belief is required to sustain the faith required. (Edited....)

Believing Without the Power

Bible Stories are Not True, 

Only the Meaning is True?

Where does the devil of doubt go to reap the most souls? Of course, he sends all his followers to infiltrate churches. He certainly does not send them to the barrooms and the pool halls. Those friendly folks are asleep as it is. No, the devil of doubt sends them to churches.

Everyone in church believes in Jesus and they will not let go of the idea. The devil will settle for whatever he can get however and set about convincing the Christians in church to believe in Christ is OK, but not the power thereof.

To top that piece of cake off, he will instill the idea that God has to be convinced to heal anyone. This is spite of the fact God gave His incarnated Son to heal all those who will accept healing already, on the Cross.

All things seen come from the unseen.   

Everyone Speaks for Their Own Benefit

This is my spirit. I witness from the Spirit within me what I am told. I am told this for my own benefit. I am not an instructor, or a teacher. I do not persuade or convince. That is between another person's spirit and whatever spirit is within them. 

Only the Holy Spirit convicts, and 

He convicts whom He will. 

Watering Down the Cross?

Does Becoming Like Jesus

Make Us Jesus or Like Jesus?

Although I worked out the answers to many of my questions, there is still one that bothers me. Jesus said in the concluding verses of the Gospels that we were to pick up our cross and follow Him. I rather think these verses tend to give rise to unbelief in some by giving pause to doubt Jesus is directly the source author. 

This is where Jesus said to pick up our cross and follow Him. The only compelling verses that might support this are those that indicate we should be like Jesus and that Jesus said we would do greater things than Himself. 

My problem comes in when I wonder why after Jesus died on the Cross for us that we should then have a cross if our sins are forgiven. All this seems to cloud Jesus' supreme role on the Cross if we then can in any way duplicate His sacrifice with our own.    

After Such a Big Introduction

So That is All There Is? 

When everything in the universe is considered; how extensively beautiful it is; how intricate all the elements evolving within it are; one is up against it coming to any conclusion that everyone faces nothing after death, one dies and that is it.

Rather, it surely is a wonderous expectant prediction, all within itself, to expect even more startling events to unfold for believers after their seen days are gone. 

It suggests I have yet to experience everything the seen world can show me.

Now We See in a Glass Darkly....

But Then, Face to Face 

All things that exist forever in time can be seen in the spirit; but in the flesh it only lasts as long as a dream. The dream believes until its' brief time is unpredictably unfolded. 

But who will we look like as one inside eternity? We will appear as one in the same to various views of people in their spirit. Each spirit sees, as one, what they believe. 

Definition of meaning

  

If the Bible stories  

All Things Seen Come From the Unseen

Are not true, & only

The meanings true?

The definition of meanings is the intention to explain the truth, Therefore the truth has yet to be explained if only the meaning is true.

So, if the meanings are true, then they would be true in fact, as soon as they were exercised. Such an individual is saying they do not yet believe the truth. That is what becomes of being too educated.

Time Enters the Picture in the End

Did Not Realize I would not Agree with Myself

Why am I surprised to discover mistakes I've made, when I at the same time declared, I have made no mistakes! Neither now nor originally! I've been right and I've been wrong. So? Why does the wrong threaten to survive, clinging to me like thousands of tiny regrets?