Logic on the weak spot

Without the awesome, the perfect Christian story my belief is rock solid. But right now I am back depending only on my logic undergirding my belief in God. 

That is a weak position to be in and it is somewhat due to yet another person or persons who proffer their belief based not on God, not on Jesus, or on any mention of Jesus but nevertheless on the teachings of Jesus. 

This logic based belief is is not good because it not only does not jive with Jesus but not even with the entire Christian story. This too is climbing up another way?

Proof is ultimately poof

Matching Wits with God:

And Getting Away with Murder?

No one can prove there is any God, or no Gods or anything not else, they can only prove there is no God or nothing else, everything to their own satisfaction. We all speak from different orbits.

Meanwhile if God could be proved to exist, then what happens to faith then? No need for faith? We can only pleased God with faith, not proof. That is, to please God that is.

Meanwhile if there is no God, then since anyone would have to be their own God else, whose or what  direction could they take? Why, their own, they are their own God and can do anything, go in any direction, and pay their own penalties to themselves. Mebbe that, mebbe then, mebbe next.

Devil on the Attack

Doubts assail me, so the devil is suddenly on the move. At first I was a bit alarmed but I handle doubts differently now. My "I do not matter what" strategy moved instantly to the fore but I would still like some foxhole fight to deal with the matter. 

Great faith and little faith

How the unseen world thru the seen word is perceived over time is revealing. The translation gives away the intensity of belief and faith of the translators. If older translators focused on the spiritual meaning or the technical meaning speaks for the translators. 

Whether one chooses a words like substance rather than assurance, or evidence rather than conviction reveals this change in meaning. We have moved from the spiritual to the technical meanings over time.

The final result is seminarian teaching has moved, at least over a lifetime now, to the conviction that the technical which professes stories in the Bible are not true to only the meaning is true. 

This solves the problem of those with a sophisticated lack of believe. The gulf opens between great and little faith.

Quotebloking with the Quoteblokers

It is not good for me to take offense offered in any manner because if I take them then I ipso facto  become an offensive person. I try to never let anyone know if I were injured because it would reveal a weakness that gives others a signal they can take a humiliation advantage of me in my vulnerable state.

How many?

Newer translations are starting to get in my somewhat slightly more attentive eye. Hebrews 11:1 not the only one by far. Another of my old favorites verses is watered down in the newer published versions. 

I hope to catch up on this in future posts but where Jesus gives us the power to become sons of God stands in opposition to the weaker wordish authority in newer versions. 

The first sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein  

Quoteblokes

If God is your co-pilot then...... move over!

Quoteblokes

 “Life is full of questions. Idiots are full of answers.” – Socrates

The Spiritual Unseen Side

She left suddenly it seemed, without warning, but thoughts of her persisted that in my sense of her had no way of leaving my mind. 

When I write about the spiritual side I think of Chapter 17 in the Gospel of John where Jesus speaks so often of being one with each other.

I thought of  one mostly as in agreement, but what about one in the spirit? Would no one leave my memory spirit mind? It all would be without time, but continually be in the present.

Is there in this life of the seen no possible way to be conceived without time? This is the Sea of Lethe, forget fullness, a wide river to be crossed into a memory, but without time?    

Personally Startling Understanding

Climbing up another way, the same is a thief and a robber. My very long time understanding is that Jesus was quoted in the Bible as saying this. Also, elsewhere, Jesus said that God draws those to Him who would believe God in Jesus' name. 

Today, my very short time understanding is that there are several well informed and learned scholar scientists who, in my outlook, describe investigating extra sensory mental perceptions of a somewhat similar nature built on the Christian model.

These I conditionally recognize personally as spiritual or being born again in the Christian vernacular. However I cannot be quite sure of this at this early, for me, date.

Useless arguments

The Devil in the Flesh

Truth, or Consequences

Any debate about time is a waste of time. I really do not see the point to advocating a certain whack of time between anything that has occurred, or one so long ago to be taken exactly for granted. How long ago do scholars say some things happened? Too long for any practical meaning or believability. 

I really do not see the point except for wasting a minor confusion over something that does not matter one way or the other in the unseen.

How long ago did Noah do his thing? Sounds to me as if the devil is purposefully wasting believers time in discussions of non-consequence only in the seen, not the unseen.

Time in the Present Tense

Since time does not exist in the spirit, it is a function of the flesh since time only exists in a comparative state.  Christians should perhaps, in my view, be more concerned with eternity.