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All there is or much more to come....

If ever thing ends here, then this world's existence went to a lot of complicated meaninglessness for nothing.

What visions do the young see, and what dreams do the old predict? For what reasoning can I sense in the sudden revelations that entered the thoughts of the ancients? It looks to me, so far, we get what we believe. But who or what could conceive the patterns in the night sky that attract the wonderment of my eye in the night?

I am extremely thankful for it all, and I do not know what it is all for? 

One Sunday No Dogs in Heaven

Heaven Without Love?    

Pastor centered on, a perhaps ten-year-old boy who wanted to know whether his dog would be with him in heaven. No, the pastor said, his dog would not be in heaven because the dog did not have a soul. I walked out the center aisle. I just could not stand it.

Twain had some choice remarks on this, pointing out that many dogs were more deserving than humans to be in heaven. Dogs are very loving and are quick forgiving. But for this poor pastor, lions and lambs are likely in heaven with or without their souls, but not a dog?

I think the young chap will not likely be very desirous of being in an antiseptic heaven as the pastor himself foresees. I often wondered in my formative years about churches operating on the gas of such doctrinaire drivel, 

Unfortunately, I fell when a child to the wayside, calling God to account for these people. I was a victim of the logical fallacy misplaced authority. I am sure any dog will be in heaven as long as someone wants them there. 

Not Enough Faith

 Too Human for God?

I cannot fathom now in whatever context I meant by that slip shod remark yesterday. Now think I was off base there, so I am willing to step back after from some sleep and reattack a more steadfast meaning.

Rather than repair it I'll go even further out and suggest if we are supposed to be like Christ I need to yet venture even further out. Jesus said we would do greater things than He. That suggests to me that we will have to demonstrate much more Faith than anyone seems to have done so far.  

God speaks and there it is...

 Reason For Our Existence

Reason for our existence is because God spoke us into existence and, we were. That is my thinking, or I should rather say, observing.

I have no more enlightenment, at least in this moment than that. Only what the ancients wrote which was placed in their memories, as if from epiphanies. Sudden revelations are like that and further, they are extremely convincing and instantaneous.

We must remember however, that God is not speaking from the past but rather from the constant present which is to say, eternity. It is hard for us to even conceive of anything outside of time. It is as if everyone each falls into their own memories, and some never get out.

God is reasonable....

God Designed Us for a Reason

In perhaps many quarters it is understood God created us for a reason. But the too easy explanation often is, He wanted company. He just wanted it? He did not need it? Sounds slightly too human for God.

On the other hand, to deny people He creates, knowledge has the slight taste of a tease lurking on the sidelines. No, I think He had to warn them. If not, whatever happened to free will? God already knew about the devil wanting to be like Himself. Since Satan found he could not, he threw a tantrum and overturned the chess table. Now there is the whiff of me starting to slip away from myself again.

Drawn to God....

 Until Enough Faith Can Do Anything

Pentecost is not for today, it is said. So, what else is not for today? Is Jesus rising from the dead not for today as well? Where should I draw my Faith line? 

Mebbe it is that word, translated into English, the word enough. Maybe it should be more instead? I say in for a penny, in for a pound? 

I sense I am in hollow echoing place.

On the wrong tack/?

Pertaining to the earlier Post

It appears to me now that I am putting new clothing on an earlier error in which I am substituting proof, or in my particular case logic, for Faith.

I may be correct in assuming any lack of success is due to not enough Faith. But that is all. This would let me fall into the category of gaining and attempting to gain, enough knowledge, which is similar to the difficulty the rich have in attaining heaven. Why would the wealthy envy heaven if they think they already can afford heaven? 

I know no one is equal with God, so I am already more than satisfied with the joy of worshiping God. In order to lift God up above I have to lift oneself up to do it. This means I should do as it says in Philippians. Whatever is of good report, think on those things.  

Rules for new roads...

Intelligence is measured by predictive success but intelligence is gained thru imaginative predictive efforts where success is often a surprise full of completely camouflaged twists choking the road.

What I do not like about it all is the appearance of almost legal series of justifications required to support whatever target in front of me without stretching believability too far ahead. 

What this means is any progress, especially if recently achieved, may be lost without even realizing it. Hopeful on my part but unavoidable nevertheless.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), in my view, is exhausting itself sooner than expected and is heading largely toward instant series of parallel calculations they may not break beyond. Ethics still is an unsolvable danger. 

It is alright to laugh. After all, it is always done. 

Knowledge a strange curiosity.....

 Why was Gaining Knowledge a Sin?

I think it was because the desire to gain knowledge whether accidentally or by putting the orderly intensity of our minds to, it attracted the struggle for existence between good and evil, between God and the devil. These are the principalities and powers that struggle constantly in motion that Pail mentions.

  I often notice the harmony between languages. Exceptions put color into odd interactions. I remember noticing a sign in a small upscale town while cycling in the country that said dog spelled backwards was God. Of course. The devil can recite the Lord's Prayer backwards as well.

God did not create evil any more than He can negate Himself. Evil came out of good, themselves wanting to be god probably turning the power of knowledge against itself. Evil spirits are many and they have power. I do not tangle with them. It is enough for me to recognize them. They are the opposite of the fruit of the Spirit seen in Galatians 5:22. Believing in those Spirits can overcome the body, as I earlier mentioned my mother testified.

I do know God cannot tolerate even the very presence of evil before Him.  I may not know how all the hows work today. But all that is most likely in the future when I finally get into the present, where eternity is stuck.

Five favorite quotes with the blokes

1. Can someone repeat a lie without telling a lie?

2. Which person is the worse off?

        The one tells a lie or the one who believes it.

3. Anyone who takes an offense becomes an offensive person. 

4. The truth cannot be told by those who know.

5. All things seen come from the unseen.

Trusting the Spirit

Seeing is Believing or is Believing Seeing?

The flesh will not help us, Jesus said, but it is hard to trust, or even understand, the Spirit when all one knows is the flesh up against something not even seen, ever. There comes a time when my age is against me. That means that there is not much time left for me when I'll discover what I really believe beyond any lip service. For those who do not believe in God, I think they will have to be their own God.