Struggle with our Maker

How We Got the Dimple in Our Hip?

In the previous entry I was calling into memory the Old Testament Story in Genesis 32:24-32 of Jacob wrestling all night with with God.  

Keeping Up with God

The Struggle with our Maker

Up against the creator of everything, including ourselves, we ourselves are definitely at a disadvantage. But the ranks of the physical scientists are dwindling. More are becoming impressed with the grand design and suspecting there has to be a designer in the mix. 

I might say, if I can be excused, that the random ranks are not standing firm at all. But this is not the end of the matter, only my opinion. Dark days may be ahead on our way to the end times. 

How can the designed keep up with the designer? My effort takes me back to the seen world. But in this I am talking about tracing seen events back to the unseen from where they originated.

Now I am, therefore,  looking closer at the simple example of heavenly bodies orbiting each other with some circling others. Some attract others into their own particular orbits. I might call them the greater charismatics dominating those with lesser mass.

The lesser are lighter weights and the charismatics the heavy weights. Let me say then that the greater mass attracts the lesser. People are like that as well I am thinking so that some attract followers and they follow the more charismatic when they do.

The greater charismatics have greater faith, greater belief. Jesus said that if one had enough belief, greater enough faith, they could counter command, or convince the dormant particularly, and as well the others of the lesser, those of lesser weak faith as well.

3 dimension time

If this is in any way true then this paradigm could be carried closer to the origins of an as yet unlabeled power. When? I imagine easily it will be in at least a thousand years, well before the anti-Christ is seen. The struggle (perhaps) explained next entry.

Burning Bush

Faith: Will Believing Make It So? 

Enough Power? 

Did God create Himself? No, not if there is no beginning and no endings, since there is no time or space. That is what I myself would think.  There is however, he power, I that I am certain. 

The way I see it God had to be always creative to exist because that is what He does. God can not function outside His, what is it,  ethos or authority? I tend to fall back to logos, reason in other words,  He cannot contradict His being. 

Love is creative and our gratitude is His celebration. Where I am is that I do not even know too many of the questions, let alone the answers. Answers that reveal more new previously unknown questions. 

I am surrounded by my own jurisdictions by the look of it to me at this point. There comes a time when I have to face my own ignorance and proceed further on imagination. 

I think that I, like everyone is eventually, and as Einstein is often quoted, is catapulted unceremoniously from knowledge into imagination. I take my next clue from the seen world of charismatically orbiting planets as similarly reflecting people. I will see where that takes me.

Liitle faith and great faith

Where do I draw the line?

 I do not put any limit on the power of faith since all things temporal, that is, seen, came from the eternal, the unseen. 

If I were to do so would that put any limit on power to believe in the resurrection? If I believe in the power of Jesus to overcome death on the Cross, what is that to moving a mere mountain? 

Where do I draw the line? God spoke everything, every mountain into existence. I think God not only moved mountains He moved all the mountains into place. 

What impresses me is that He conceived of mountains in the first place. Since I am constrained by time and space in this world, I want to continue this thread further because it highlights the stark difference between my awareness of the Spirit in the next world after the flesh falls into decay, where Jesus tells me my flesh cannot help me. 

High Priestlly Prayer

John 17 is all about the Trinity. Over and over it is explaining the Trinity. We are one in one and believing that Jesus was sent. This is how the Trinity is spelled out. Everything is worded a certain way for a purpose, that those who are hearing do not. It is spiritual ears not physical ears.

No longer under the law

Melchizedek 

Before Salem was Jerusalem After

The law was given by Moses but Jesus gave us the Spirit and Truth. History mentions God but not much of anything about the Spirit before Jesus. 

God spoke to His prophets by placing ideas in their hearts, epiphany-like. They believed these sudden revelations so strongly and they spoke with such authority that I recall reading that Jesus said their fathers killed the prophets and later their sons revered them. I do not have the chapter and verse on it right now, still I recall it right well. 

But I also recall the ancient writers saying that God looked down and saw that man could achieve anything he set his mind to. This was in connection with the building  of the tower of Babel, which only slowed them down until man walked on the moon. 

I think to myself, how did they know they would eventually walk on the moon, even saying that God looked down? 

Now of course we know there is no actual thinking of down or up since all the reflecting lights in the sky are hung, incredibly, in empty space. That is, if we can believe it. 😉

It is easy to focus on this world rather than the next.

 New King James Version

Stepping Out in Belief

All Things Seen came from the Unseen

"While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

Transcending Forces

I like verses that ease me into focusing on the transcending spiritual world rather than the over riding decaying physical world. In this setting Paul contrasts the temporal and the eternal, in 2nd Corinthians 4:18

 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."

Speaking alongside

God Provides for Me 

Another Helper

My Paraclete will stand beside me and vouch for  me so that I can appear before God. This is because God will tolerate no unbelief or hostile views. No, not even to appear before Him. God does not permit evil, we do. Jesus' commandments do not permit evil.

If anyone prays to be healed and they are not, I would not blame this on God. I would blame it on myself. I did not have enough faith perhaps. 

When the disciples questioned Jesus over why could they could not heal a young boy, and why Jesus did heal him, Jesus said: this kind does not go out except by much prayer and fasting. 

A Testimony of God

This means to me that there is such a concept as little faith and great faith, weak and strong. It also reminds me that evil spirits take over individuals completely and speak for them. 

Healing means the evil spirit has to be driven out, freeing the person with the consumed spirit. That way the person taken over is now himself free. We should not hate him, we hate rather the evil spirit living in him speaking and acting for him. Jesus' all consuming love can free anyone consumed by strange spirits. 

This is why I do not meddle with strange spirits but only trust Jesus. I could call this my safe side. 

Not all are sheep of Jesus' pasture

Facing Fear in the Foxhole

I lean toward the idea we will very likely get in the afterlife what we believe in this the embryonic life if they are not born again. If one believes in nothing they will get nothing but they will know at the same time they got nothing which is unbearable they could well find. But then, who knows aforehand?

To not exist and to know it at the same time is I think about as unbearable as it gets. Any definition of hell would in my view would involve the element of repetition. Repetition can fade eventually, if not quickly. 

Since there is no concept of time in the eternal, forever will be an exceptionally concept to believe I would think. One cannot tread too softly in the unknown.

If there is no hope then the future, particularly space time, is full of troublesome complications competing for zero gains. It is enticing as any devilish drug before it turns against the enticed. Faith extended intensely enough may well create one's future according to their little faith or great faith. 

Gratitude: A celebration of Love

There may be more power in faith than anyone suspects. I believe0 there would be no present unless someone knew it. Hello to original sin. So if one had enough faith, like a god, they could predict the future with certainty.

One thing I do know with certainty. The more words that pile up is a strong indication of the less I know. The more I learn the more I learn there is more I do not know than I ever thought. As I've said, if anyone does not believe in a God, that is by definition a benevolent creating God, then they have no choice, they will just have to be their own God. 

Definition of forever

Not Right Now?

I look upon this life in which I was conceived without any future knowledge as embryonic in that it would be my  opportunity to be born... again. 

But I had things perfect in the womb. Why would I want to leave a literal garden of  Eden? What would I think of being told I was going to be kicked out without any say in the matter, and  that I would be unceremoniously hung upside down by my heels in front of everybody publicly stark and spanked, told I was going to be cold, hungry and have to pay taxes?

I would have to be an idiot to take any stock in that scenario. But here I am in space time growing 

Above the daisies.

changing and decaying with time flitting away and no future facing me within the flesh. Soon there will be no time before I will have had to be born again if I had not been already. Time has been fooling me, where did it go? I, like everyone, knew all along I would die someday, but not right now!

God Speaks to us in epiphanies

 Origin of the word epiphany comes to us in the supernaturally spirit state. My understanding is it originated from the incarnation of Jesus. 

Jesus Emanuel, God with us. 

My view is that incarnations can be true while reincarnations turn to hellish in my presumptive definition if only the present tense is the eternal.