Quotebloking in the Bible

When I speak I reveal the fruit of my speech. The saying, I took it into my conversation reading the Bible, is the tree is known by its fruit. I've been hanging it in air around me for awhile  now. 

 Another important to me quote, I do not know where I got it. It just kept coming up in my conversation years ago. It was God is simple, it is man that is complex has turned out to be critical in my thinking right now.

From that another that captured me was that I should not give tongue to the devil. What I am coming to is the idea that persists in my mind that God spoke the world into existence. And God said and it was so in Genesis.

I am watching the clock over my shoulder right now in this moment in my space time life. Only time left to quote from one of my most favorite movies Beat the Devil, time always enters the picture in the end.

Time Fools Us All because it is Temporal

Can I Believe It?

I live in a time/space reality that came first from the spiritual, by the Holy Spirit. God spoke everything and it was so. He placed ideas in the hearts of His prophets, I think of as epiphanies. The word, epiphany was first used describing the heralding of the incarnation of the Son of God. 

The Biblical writer, Paul, in Hebrews, pairs the temporal as seen with the unseen, the eternal.  This is why many think, I believe,that he is the author of Hebrews. But it cannot be proven except to anyone's individual satisfaction like everything else. This is action is called, belief, in this case my belief. 

I've reviewed this before but I tend to bring things together to put my perspectives in action to see if everything fits in the foxhole. 

Just where this thread might take me gives me another viewing point, another objective angle, to test my belief in my effort to strengthen me in the foxhole. 

Devil in the Details

Lifting Up those Weak Arms 

Where would the devil take his newest admirers? I mean those wanting to learn their trade from the father of lies?

I think he would take them to church. For certain it would not be any of the sleepy barrooms, persistently comfortable and pleasantly leaning toward sleep. Now my view isthat his chief point of attack would not be Christ Himself, but His power.

He would take every chance to weaken that power and place doubts in members minds. Similar to the barrooms the devil very likely prefers church members who are side stepping slowly with sleep walkers.

Who could inspire such great writing?

Knowledge on display

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after nigh they display knowledge. Psalm 19: 1-2 (Click MANNA) left column

Ancient Writers Knew More Than We Credit Them for. Some scholars would rather  credit aliens from outer space as telling the ancients how to perform amazing feats left behind for us to wonder over today as to how they were ever accomplished without giant steam shovels floated over the ocean to isolated islands. Again, evidence was later found in Londonium library how Romans elevated huge precision cut stones in the Coliseum, furnish baths with water from far distances without alien assistance. Then again, elsewhere they stumble on  how a city disappeared into the sea or; how the Red Sea could catch a fleeing army, that is if it was once a tidal river at both ends. God is indeed a forerunner. If this satisfies us we find we will need more knowledge than ever just to fall behind.

Changed my mind?

Working out my own salvation? I have to watch my antecedents don't get mixed up with the precedents. Sometimes I feel Jesus is working me out. 

But very seriously, He worked out the precedents and it is up to myself to accept them. I believe the Holy Father, my Holy Father, sent Jesus. How many times did Jesus actually say He was sent by God in the High Priestly Prayer that we read all thru chapter 17 of John?

Muddling on Thru

I think, talk and write for my own benefit, just like I believe everyone else does. If anyone sounds like they are trying to convince anyone of anything, I do not believe it. Rather, I think they are trying to convince themselves.

What I am saying right now I believe, but with the passage of time I reserve the right to change my mind

See Memory Stones site linked above

anytime. I've changed my mind suddenly and slowly. I've circled around and met my views coming back. 

Once a man, and twice a child which is why I no longer trust the flesh. The flesh is like a flower, it blooms then fades and like a mist eventually then, all too soon, is remembered no more, like a dead man out of mind. As for myself, I am working out my own salvation. 

Most obvvious quote of the day

Only offensive people ever take an offense. It is an obvious sign of weakness to get offended. It means someone has your goat and you do not know where to find it. If I do take an offense I throw them under the bus and roll a compliment back over them, like coals on their head. 😉

Playing poker with God?

This is one of my favorite quotes for those who do not yet believe in God. If anyone does not believe in God then they will just have to be their own God. How would I bluff God is my question, since I just got here sooner than I thought likely to cash it in?

Time further out

Does digital time appear more frozen in sans serifs? Does analog time appear more emotional, looking ahead, in fancy serifs?   

Why is Mother Earth female?  Why is the Father of Lights male? How can time run out, if there is any time at all, since time only exists in a comparative state? Creativity demands every question in the mix. Answers appear secondarily. They only reveal more questions.

Working out my own salvation

Everyone Works Out

Their Own Proof

When I draw any conclusions about how I should view God I remember that I not only, do not have all the information in the matter, but I am talking about Someone who does.

 This is most important, I not only do not have all the answers but I do not even know all the questions. This puts me in a situation where my solving success presents me with more problems that I was aware of than before. 

So then, I am sheep and Jesus is my shepherd. All good things come down from the Father of lights and my only job is to love and trust the shepherd. This is so exhilarating and ecstatic, especially in a large chorus, that I never can get enough of praising and worshiping God.

the word made flesh.....

No Longer Under the Law?

Wondering

The law was given through Moses; grace and truth realized through Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father has explained Him. Open Bible, in John 1:17-18.
The word was made flesh and Jesus said the flesh cannot help us? Later.

Deep in my definitionals

No Figures of Speech

Only Faith

The way anything is presented is the singular definition of art. Art is the way we do anything and is like the song Benny Goodman recorded says, it is not whatca do, but the way thatcha do it. That is the only way of it, not merely my singular view. 

Jesus makes an statement, quoted in the Scriptures where it is translated that if anyone has enough faith they could cast mountains into the sea. 

Jesus says this to me, filtered down to me through several language translations, to illustrate that the power of faith has no limit. So here Jesus is my absolutely very highest authority in this very fact.

First, if Jesus is involved the Holy Spirit is involved. I am treading very softly now. This is not art, this is faith I am talking bout. Only faith pleases God so I am definitely not drawing any lines in this. 

There is no figure of speech in Jesus statement. such as this temple will be destroyed and I will raise it up in three days, as in one instance, nor is Jesus in any figure of speech, a mountain.

My final jump of faith is: If Jesus said it I believe it and I draw no lines nor qualifications. Where or when would I stop? Was Jesus' victory over the Cross a figure of speech? The devil knows I believe in Jesus without reservation so he does not attack Jesus directly, but he attacks Jesus' power.

I believe this power is exactly what Jesus was telling me: the power of faith has no limit. I know there is little faith and there is great faith. Then there is only faith, that is, only faith that is pleasing to God.

I am only a witness to what I believe. God has not told me what to tell anyone else what to believe. I do not dispute my view so I do not dispute anyone else's view.