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To my knowledge Ingrid Bergman gets the most frequent credit for this double quote.
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Success & Happiness
Front End Loading
To my knowledge Ingrid Bergman gets the most frequent credit for this double quote.
I like to remind the casual hits that I cannot persuade anyone, they have to do that themselves, just like I am doing.
If anyone's understanding of God does not please them then I myself have already been there and done that. I found being God was altogether too much work.
Everything appearing here is my own personal viewpoint on the date entered only and can change anytime.
I naturally assume everyone has their own slant on things. But I suspect many who want to persuade others are actually, at the core of the apple, primarily trying to persuade themselves, seeds and all.
Understanding the Unexplained
Randomness seems to be at the root of many things but this is only because we do not yet understand many things. As a result not a few say there is nothing coincident at all.
I struggle to remember the more knowledgeable are slow to conclude. Probably this is because they have more to consider, being excessively rich in knowledge.
It is harder to believe in the heaven like spiritually transcendent if one seems to be there already.
The less knowledgeable are quick to speak and slow to consider since for them there is less known to consider. If all this is true then it can be seen why God can forgive. If God knowing all God can forgive all, proves God loves all.
It also proves God cannot permit evil or even tolerate it it in His presence. We all need another helper, a counselor, a paraclete to vouch for us even before God.
By itself it seems then as tho this is not fair to the ignorant, unless they have become consumed by destructive unforgiving spirits speaking for them instead. I walk in the fruit of my own spirit so long as I avoid personal judgments of others. Only God can judge.
Million & One Names for God
Recently have learned of an an interesting I Am Jesus blog entitled Ryan Callahan's Blog focusing on the incidences recorded where Jesus made seven "I am" references to Himself in the Gospels.
Historically there has been a long standing tradition that no one has seen God and to look on His face would result in one's death.
I have centered my own particular rifle-like attention on Exodus 3:14-15 when Moses talked with God after he was given the commandments and had asked God who shall he say sent him.
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Thru a glass darkly |
Vital Verses
When I was a college atheist the weak-ish argument was that the Gospels did not agree with each other was well accepted by my newly knowledgeable crowd.
It mercifully ended when it finally occurred to me that if the Gospels did indeed agree with each other, then we could say it was therefore evidence instead of collusion. Aha!
So finally I figured it was that way across the board, and established a different routine using my Kindle, where I can switch easily to my favorite verses betwixt my Jesus Calling devotional and my NKJ.
Am I on my way to a chapter and verse guy?
Hebrews 11:1-3 & 6 tells me only faith alone pleases God and here I labored to exhaustion trying to prove logic proved God was existent. Instead even proved proof itself, to a fine point, was only to one's satisfaction.
If I prove God exists then I have proved Faith in God is rendered not needed, zip zero. I did find one could not get one step ahead of God, not even a whole staircase full of steps for my part.
It appears to me now I may have quite possibly befuddled myself as well into giving a tongue to the devil.
Think of a pleasantly viewed sweet smelling flower called the Venus Fly Trap.
Or instead, picture a girl running screaming lickitysplit, while behind her a pre-dead mummified body, entirely bound in tape, one arm taped helplessly to his body, one taped leg dragging uselessly behind him, is almost about to catch her, but never does?
How soon unfamiliar fun and fresh new excitement can turn into a serious, very severe story with unanticipated endings?
Dreams of the Thrill Seekers!
The question is what do I do with comedy? Can I laugh at myself? Peace may be good for eternity but not all comedy is idle when I've had a good laugh at myself. We learn more from failure than success, they say. Looks to me like a task for a look-see in Ecclesiastes.
The Truth Cannot Be Told
By Those Who Know
What I started to wonder about was that in my lifetime my flesh builds up until it reaches a plateau. Then it passes from pleasure to pain and will so burden me until I leave it behind, itself altogether changed.
All the seen world changes, it is built into change to change. My body not only changed but my mind did too. Still I am hesitant to change into the unchanging eternity of the unseen even as it is my only hope.
Even Paul wanted to be healed like everyone else does. He left us 2Cor4:16-18.
A Tree is Known by Its' Fruit
When my flesh was itself born it was designed and created to serve as a temporary vehicle on its' way to deciding to become born again as a spirit.
This struggle began for me very optimistically and I was enticed by many pleasures which gradually promises to turn pleasure to pain against me.
During this time I never heard anything about being born again in the church I was born into, the church I was married in, nor religious high schools and other prestigious colleges I attended and graduated from where I was told if I was educated then one did not believe in God.
Meanwhile I had previously collected my perfect attendance pins saved from Sunday School where I only heard about Bible stories not being true, since like Santa Claus only the meaning was true, also crafts, coloring books, and pulpit talk largely for the sake of the children.
Now, prompted by Sarah Young's famous Jesus Calling devotional, my favorite Bible verses so far are Hebrews 11:1, Mark11:23, 2Cor4: 16-18 and the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22.
Blogging Better in a Book?
It is finally glaringly evident to me that blogging is best for short disjointed sound bites rather than as a longer more complicated vehicle.
I am suddenly somewhat weary of blogging because by blogging I am writing forwards; but it is read backwards unless pervious posts can continually be consulted first.
How then do I re-explain today what went before yesterday, so it can be understood today without burdening posted entries to a standstill?
It reminds me that the devil can recite the Lord's Prayer... backwards! I do not want to entangle him in any unnecessary entries, so I will take a breath today to make a better point tomorrow.
Time Only Exists
In a Comparative State
Therefore can time exist at all? Or, is this why time fools us, again every time? Since I am convinced that all that is seen came from the unseen.
I wonder if God creates us all equally, or equally each to each ourselves.
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See Specific Theory |
This is why time cannot exist by itself alone, but in comparison to another orbited object. This leaves time in a different calculation for each of all similar objects.
Therefore, finally my conclusion is that planets altho all created in the unseen, all not equally seen. Rather, some are more equal than others. It all depends on what our different perspectives ones position has.
So nothing can be equally proved for all, except for each to their own satisfaction.
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Specifics for earth size |
Only one thing is certain for me. If anyone thinks they know everything, then they must be convinced they are God. I would not anticipate any wide spread agreement.
I hope one would not find themselves eventually slowly twisting in the wind.
Science fiction writers run ahead of science fact as they become known to physical science which is the science of the seen.
Isaac Newton was to my mind the first to who may have been early to realize he was observing physically unseen science such it was, gravity.