Easy with the Hard

The Devil is in the Void

Will we be able to recognize family members when we enter the unseen? That is an easy one. Of course, we will we each see each other the exact way we saw each other in another, other than the present tense we want, time.

This one is harder. What if we would want to see someone in heaven who is not. Now if we wanted to see one's faithful dog in heaven, that is easy enough, but if they had not accepted God, what then?

A heaven without one's loving faithful forgiving dog is not much of an heaven it would seem to me. I listened as an eleven year old boy was told from the pulpit that he could not. Why? Because a dog has no soul. 

I was incensed! I should not, but I was. That preacher did not have as much love as any dog I would say. Twain said it more cleverly, how there was more

Little Butter Pittstin

deserved love in most dogs than in many people. 

But what about a loving mother for her unbelieving son? Now I am getting too close to the nitty and the gritty. We are all going to be born, I believe, after this embryonic life born tabla rosa, to what we believe, what then? 

My view is to accept the fact I do not know the answer for everything. I may later on, but at any rate, not now, and likely not even then.. I am happy with everything God comes up with because He knows the eventual entire circumstance, since He spoke it that way. 

And since He always starts in love I expect everything to turn out there, after all His words will not return to Him void.

Bluster Cannot Hide Itself

What is it the godfather said? To be quiet indicates confidence, to be loud hides fear or uncertainty? Never let anybody know you are worked up, annoyed, or any other similar emotion.

Anyone who shows they are angry should realize their emotion is tipping their hand, letting others know they are out of control and scared. So I am convinced that anger is a weakness that shows one is, not able to defend themselves.

Was Jesus ever angry? Exasperated I would say, so you bet, and I would not want to be in His line of fire because His exasperation had power and truth behind it evident to this very day. If anyone thinks Jesus was murdered then they could not have had their sins forgiven. 

Be unconcerned of the one who can kill the body, be afraid rather of the one who can kill the spirit, He said. Eternity is a long time if we come to think about it. The body cannot out last it. 

Time and Questions are

Revealing Our Ignorance

Why is it when we are young time stretches out before us so forever? When we become old we do not even want to accept it. And why is it those who know the  truth cannot even tell it. The young know all about being old until they get there themselves. The old know all about being young but cannot do anything about it or even tell about it.

I think our perception of time proves the existence of God. Time is always in the present, the present tense because in eternity there is no time. 

Existence is productive and positive. God has to be if He is to exist. Evil is forgotten out of mind, like it is said, as a dead man out of mind.

Every question we answer fauns further questions we did not even know existed before. More knowledge is more questions, revealing we were all along yet again more ignorant than we realized or will realize. 

Without questions we have no possibilities of answers or knowledge. When we will know it, I mean know it all? We all know what know it alls know. Don't we?

I think God has me on a string. And I am the yo-yo. There may be something to be said for relaxing and enjoying it.

The Truth in the Meaning

 If a truth never happened and only the meaning is true, then can the meaning be true if it never happened? If it never happened in the seen and it is only true in the unseen, what then are the implications?

This is what I am wrestling with now. Is the present tense the only tense in eternity? Another chestnut is thrown into the crackling fire.

God loves because He is the creator

Expressing gratitude to God is speaking the language of love. Jesus Calling, (Sarah Young translation, from Bibles.)

Everything once existing.......

.....exists forever. This a well known quote one can find on occasional gravestones by the hopeful occupant. One was Claude Rains the English actor buried in New Hampshire, who was well liked by the sparky Bette Davis.

I always understood the basis of the quote rested more in the scientific world than anywhere else. But it was taken to be true because of scientific understanding of the metaphysical across the board.

I think it probably is quite true. However all things spiritual are rooted in belief and the faith in that belief. Jesus said that if anyone had enough belief they could do anything, even root up the mountains and cast them into the sea.

Others, including some Christians, understand it however to be only figuratively true. I believe the more charismatic individuals among us, including the anti-Christs, will continue to gather more lesser mass individuals into their orbits, not unlike any celestial object we can observe up there, hung on nothing.

The Truth Cannot Be Told.....

....by those who know. Famous quote by Jesse Livermore, who altho a natural great trader from his youth who made and lost four million four times in the early turn of the last century.

He was speaking however of pools that were common at the time where several large traders ran up stocks only to dump at the top. His fatal flaw was trying to corner the coffee market and in doing so lost everything because he did not understand that if you corner a market you kill it altogether.

The jewel that is lost is found

.He established bonds funds for his family and in a fancy restaurant, during the FDR administration, shot himself in the head. Proving that the game is more important to keep alive than the players. I, however, thought it was all close to the truth where one cannot comprehend, unless they are in the path of truth themselves. In other words, those born again, cannot really make any real sense if it for anyone else, until the others are ready to be born again themselves. Either God draws them, or He doesn't, Jesus said. 

One liners can tell it all.....

A tree is known by its' fruit.  Everyone talks for their own benefit or injury. Of that I am certain, everyone. If one continually beat the bush about some evil or the other, then they are bringing their focus on some negative situation and thereby feeding it energy to harm anyone who takes it, especially oneself as well. Don't give tongue to the devil is the better course. I try hard never to take an offense, otherwise, having taken it, am now, by taking it, offensive myself.

Various Bible Translations

Jesus is Alive!

Up to now all Bible translation views were centered on the individual words themselves, one by one. But now there is a new translation available, parable by parable instead, by Sarah Young entitled Jesus Calling.

It has made her the single most successful religious writer in history. In my view, having previously tired of devotionals, she has cast for me, a startlingly effective translation, highlighting Jesus in an illumination of His teachings.

This means the emphasis on the dictionary is shifting from pure vocabulary to the integrated  power of Jesus' truths.

God is simple......

......we are complex.

Jesus and the idle world in a word?

I understood Milton Berle rejected a lot of good jokes from his writers simply  because they, altho very funny, were too complex.

Comedy depends on the short and the sudden combined with the unexpected.  One line comedians, in my mind for instance, from HennyYoungman to Rodney Dangerfield.

Jesus seemed to have been opposed to nonsense, all the way from the back forth film scenes of the banana and the whistling stroller. One remembers Laurel and Hardy. Guess it depends on the definition of nonsense?

 Then there is the attraction of being frightened. The victim running at tremendous speed to escape the pursuing mummy, one arm taped harmlessly to his chest, and dragging his useless leg laboriously behind him. But he manages to keep up. Only in a nightmare. Why are we so attracted?

For Jesus things seemed to be very serious. Can we have mountain moving faith and exist with nonsense?

Red letters calling

I am starting to become intensely interested in red letter Bibles. I want large print and just the red letter text by themselves. Why?

Jesus Calling by Sarah Young has given me an altogether different perspective. It is really much like a translation in that she says what Jesus is quoted as saying in the Bible but in her own words. 

I might call it a colloquial  translation. Instead of translating every individual word, she is translating every group of words comprising their ideas, the ideas of Jesus. 

The publication numbers has made the author the number one Christian writer of all time. It is the only devotional I ever read right thru. It's secret, I believe, is that it conveys the emotional atmosphere, sort of like a spiritual atmosphere engulfing me that I am listening to Jesus Himself myself.  

When answers reveal questions.....

.....there is that quiet lurking slide into the sense that because one knows everything that is known, they know everything known. However, greater knowledge rewards one of increasing ignorance was what I was trying to say in the previous post.

I keep coming back to my previous dead end. There is no way we will even eventually be assured we know everything. We can never stop because we can never catch up to God. 

This is because God has it rigged to force us into the question of faith. This is because, I figure, it is in faith where true power resides. This is because He is God and why He is God. And this is why, I suppose, it is so  impossible to be ones own God.