Arhur Koestler

 Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.

QUESTION?

What did Jesus mean, or infer when, after healing someone, said go and sin no more? 

The implication is that sickness is a sin. That is not something I ever considered. Apparently very few ever have either. The answer could lead to something very interesting in projective attempts.

Everything God tells us is.....

for Our Own Benefit...

because God hates sin but He loves the sinner. God hates the demons that torment even the most extreme doings of evil doers. Again, God does not hate the demon possessed but their demon possessors. This is why He sent His Son... to those who needed Him more so than those already saved.   

My Greatesr Condern

I regret the lack of respect among many to improve awareness of the unseen and adopt the seen as gaining their primary attention.

There is greater power I am convinced in the unseen than focusing on the constant higher regard for the seen.   

My Problem with Evil

It always bothered me that I was not supposed to hate evil doers. I was not aware at the time but I parked my reaction right behind divine hatred where I did not have to deal with it.. It did not occur to me that I myself was not divine. But, wasn't God angry? How quickly I find myself back in a loop.

I am what I do

Like a Tree

Known by its' fruit

It may be alright for God to get angry but it is not alright for me. I do not want to beccome even slightly angry because it is not merely a loss of composure but it is consumptive. It can take me over and I become what I oppose. Every single one of Jesus' commandments is for my own benefit.

Hate hides behind fruit of its' spirit

Hate is Known by its' spirit

When ever someone does something hateful, and even the deepest possible of all that is hateful, it is better not to give a tongue to the devil for a good reason. 

Love must not greet hatefulness with consuming hate but with the spirit of love. Spirit to spirit the spirit of love must dominate hate in every way. Feeding hate with more hate fuels the fires further.   

Only the spirit of forgiveness will put the fires of hate out forever. This is the hardest for many to accept even tho it is for our own particular benefit. It is the spirit of hate that is the evil, not those who have been taken over and consumed by the spirit of hate. 

Wrestling with My Faith

He Did It for Me 

I am presently in a personal struggle misunderstanding the idea of duplicating Christ on the Cross. I always felt that when Jesus died and was victorious over death it was so that He stood alone as the last sacrifice

. This was His Holy Honor, His unique calling directly and singularly from the Holy Father Himself.

Jesus represents forgiveness and love, and He urges we seek His peace. The peace, His peace, that He alone can give. I always thought the cross was empty for this reason. 

I believe everyone speaks for their own benefit and that everyone should work out their own salvation themselves, as my granzemother often said. That is what I am doing, objectifying my beliefs by writing my present thinking here.

My elder Brother amd me

I am told to pick up my cross and follow Him. What did Jesus die on the Cross for? Was it not to forgive our sins? And I know I cannot forgive sins. 

Significantly. it is now possible for everyone  to appear directly before God by themselves without any need for any another to intercede for them. 

My understanding was when He died on the Cross the temple shield was rent from top to bottom.  This was my albeit not entirely clear conclusion early on. And my understanding was never more adequately upgraded. 

So what do I do now? All that I can come up with is that I am to become more Christ-like. 

All Things Seen 

Came From 

the Unseen

Proof is not acceptable to God, logic also not, only faith. My concern is about strong faith, great faith. 

I am trusting the faith of a child. That is what I am after all. What else can Isay? Whenever I, as well as we all, gain the answer to a question, any question, the answer contains more questions we were never even aware of previously. So what is happening now? 

We, I, for myself, am learning I am more ignorant than I realized formerly. It is as if wisdom has over whelmed me. This is not any new reevaluation. Socrates knew about it. He is quoted as saying something like the wise are full of questions and the ignorant are full of answers. 

Large? See Specific Theory

So how am I going to solve myself out of any of all this? How do physical scientists do it? They conclude the universe is growing larger. Maybe. But is it just that this is what they have only now become aware of, and has nothing to do with growing larger universes at all.

It is like I always thought, if anyone believes
in their heart of hearts that there is no God, then, for direction, they will just have to be their own artificial God, with a peck of trouble on their hands.

Language is all we have right now

Everyone knows a tree is known by its' fruit.  How would anything get into our heads, before learning about the tree of knowledge, but that God would place it there? If we had knowledge we would be like God, which is what the devil already knew. Hello original sin.

I favor verses which force me to focus on the difference between the seen and the unseen worlds. This world I believe, is embryonic to being born again into the spirit. Am I being too logical in doing so? I wonder. Not that St Paul is, but that I may be.

There is officially only one way to gain faith, reading the Bible. And Jesus is the only way. The law came by Moses but Jesus came by grace and truth. 

Every single time

Time fools me constantly every time. Proof fools me when I don't expect it. Logic fools me even when it is logical. The odds fool me when I need them the most. Faith fools me when I have every thing to lose. 

This leaves me trusting Jesus out of time. 

Faith, Hope & Evidence

Faith Unbelievable 

Faith is what it is and taken singly by itself alone, as it should be taken, is without guile of any stripe. It does not even have to make sense. Sense, that is, sense to all or any of us.    

There is no halter to it. There is no bit. Who did God get to write much of the Bible? The most direct opposite of anyone who reasonably could be chosen. And it, all worked out impossibly well.