The Least Likely Person

God Forgave & God Forgot 

The honor of whose writing appears the most in all of the Bible has to go to Paul, if I may say so, and I do regularly say so. There are a lot of say so in man y speculations of who wrote the what the New Testament. That John wrote Hebrews (?) was, I think was, as I previously said, a standout for me in the King James version.

For my part however, Paul describes the spirit in a memorable way that cannot be rivaled, highlighting the difference between the spirit vs the flesh thru the lens of time, i.e., eternal vs temporal. This was extremely important to for me to experience and a solid leap forward in my faith. 

But it was odd to learn of a smallish but somewhat populated group on the continent who were convinced Paul was responsible for the inquisition. This they believed since they based it on a short but blunt dismissive comment Paul made of his attitude toward those who were not convinced Jesus was the Messiah.

Talk about blaming God, who cannot negate Himself, about creating evil and suffering! Those views are more into those who prefer to be their own God. All of which strikes me somehow of literally those of a god with a short portfolio.

All Things Seen

Came from the Unseen

It is important for me to realize, to remember, that there  is no time in the spirit, only in the world, the seen world. In the unseen spirit world it is the present.

We are not doomed to rot in a grave. It is only in the seen world there is time where the devil meddles his fingers on the scales. 

Time No More

It is a perception event that fools us every time. Time is sad no matter how good it was only because it is seen as a reflection in water. 

Debating whether God created the world four thousand years ago or fourteen billion years ago takes only the seen world, but not the unseen. 

The seen world is temporary and the unseen is eternal. It was Paul who pointed this out more than once in his letters.

But it was the devil, clever as he is, who lured Christians into a beginning of the world debate where the unseen spirit of heaven was not included.  Working.....

Thru the window darkly

Revolving With the Uninvolved

The only place that really attracts the spiritual forces of destruction and consumption, I am convinced, are churches, pure and simple.

It certainly is not barrooms where they are busy sleeping while awake. This I eventually found from my pompous college atheist years where I majored in drinking beer.

In the spiritual warfare against churches, for the devil it is all right for target members who believe in Jesus if they can demonically downgrade His power with church members. 

So if one expects to gain faith in even religious colleges, they instead, one way or the other, can lose it, since the church exhibits little defense against roaring devils like lions devouring church members. 

That at least was my experience and it was a narrow winding road me getting my belief in God back.

For My Benefit

"Confessing Jesus Before Men"

   So that Jesus will Confess Me Before God

Purpose of this blog is to give me the opportunity to fulfill the privilege found in Luke 12:8-9 and Matt: 10:32-33 to confess Jesus before men that Jesus is Lord, so that Jesus will confess me before God. The attendant purpose is to define God as He told Moses He wanted to be called thru all generations I am that I am.

Spiritual Struggling

Fear & Faith at War

Whenever fear slips out I bite my tongue. If I give tongue to fear it means I do not have enough faith, perhaps I should any faith since they cannot live together. 

Paul is again a good model here when he says in a repetition of rib shots to his gut, that he is under pressures but not totally eclipsed by them. 

Then he says further his momentary suffering does not compare to eternity in heaven with Jesus. What I think of in my outlook is that what I am suffering is nothing compared to what Jesus voluntarily suffered, and unto certain death yet.    

Jesus reassures me when He says I am not to worry, He has overcome death, This is where my weakening courage has to kick in. It is either crucify my flesh and build up my faith, because it is the faith that I believe I need to increase in my spiritual struggles. This only pleases Jesus if I am to praise and glorify God.. 

ipso facto

There are no meaningful coincidences or randomness within any design. 

All designs require a designer. 

All designs come first from the unseen 

before they can be seen.

When Belief is Unbelief

Odds of No God not Good

If anyone does not believe in God and they are right then they win zero which apparently will make them happy, even tho happiness is a zero. On the other hand if they are wrong they lose eternity.  

Judges Will Be Judged

As Judges Judge So Are They Judged

Those Who Judge 

Will Be Judged

 Anyone who does not believe in God will, 

ipso facto, be their own God.

Jesus: On the Spirit:

 Greater Works than Jesus?

Jesus in the Book of John spoke about sending another Comforter, said He (Jesus) did not do the miracles but that God, the Father within Him, did the works. 

And further on in the next verse said anyone (that's me) who believes in Him (Jesus) will do even greater works than Himself.

This again, is the same as moving mountains which Jesus said elsewhere that anyone with enough faith could do, is not a parable but a flat out statement of fact. 

My Favorite Verses

My Favorite Gospel is John 

My Favorite Opening Verses are those in John. My Favorite Chapter is John 17. My Most Important Verse is John 3:16. My Favorite Translation is the King James, and My Favorite New Translation is the  New King James. 

My Favorite Verse about Faith and Hope is Hebrews 11:1. My Favorite Verses about Hope & Heaven is Jesus speaking in John 14:2-3. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you onto myself; that where I am, there may you be also.

Leaning on the arm of flesh

Crystalizing the Seen & the Unseen

On of my favorite verses is in 2nd Corinthians when Paul, who was the most unlikely of candidates God could ever chose for us to remember, who wrote so much in the Bible.

Jesus is the Light of the World

He said the suffering he was going thru was light affliction up against the eternity in the spirit. I really like that the way he puts it. He again dramatizes it here as the seen and the unseen. It makes the spirit really stand out for me like crystal.   

Fun in the future

Beginnings Better Than Endings

If any young person ever has to go to a hospital in an ambulance I certainly hope they are quite well and very healthy. I just want them to know what they have to look forward to.