All spiritual gifts are true today....

True Forever

As anyone should expect, my view is speaking in tongues is one of the spiritual gifts. We do not all have the same gifts. I was never given it, nor do I find any fault with anyone else's spiritual gift. My call is to witness, I reason this, since I was given an epiphany. A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with a theory.

I respect my epiphany as if it were a gift. But I do not give myself instructions, the Holy Spirit does. If any man has a spirit, that is where his power is since, without emotion, there is no motion.  

Purpose of this Blog

 ......is to define God the way God defined Himself

God is Existence. Exodus 3:14 "I am that I am." This is the name God told Moses He wants to be known by this name forever "into all generations."

Tongues

Speaking in the Spirit 

Christianity is very deep, and very complicated and at the same time very simple and direct. The latter does not preclude the former. Because of this, it is very controversial. That is, the speaking in tongues. 

I do not speak in tongues because the church I was born into did not teach it. Indeed, most Protestant churches of my acquaintance taught very little, preferring to, off topic, entertain the young with coloring books and such, such being cowboy movies. 

The practical reason involves different views, and opinions that will split a Protestant church, as Protestant churches often do, merely on an increase in membership neighboring five hundred.  (Later....)

Sunstroller style book

Living individuals names are not mentioned if at all possible. Current events are never rehashed. Issues are the  primary focus. Comments are assumed accurate for the date expressed only,

Purpose of this Blog....

 ......is to define God the way God defined Himself

God is Existence. Exodus 3:14 "I am that I am." This is the name God told Moses He wants to be known by this name forever "into all generations."

Definition of forever

Everyone knows we are going to die.

                                    But not now. 

No one knows.....

when the blow may fall

I have a strong sense that it is a big loss to waste time. One is lucky if they still have time they can waste so that they can turn things around and they fortify the hedges God has placed around us all who trust in Him. 

It is a dual world

Rules of the Road, Defined

 I may be off target when I normally never start with specifics. Always it is concepts. The time to fill in the specifies will catch up later, that is, if I can follow the trail of generalities to specifics. The next step is to define terms correctly. 

The most non-defined term often debated is the non-definition of God. God is I am that I am, which is to say Existence. If He is God then He should be well equipped to define Himself. Atheists are left out in the cold here, since if there is no god, then the atheist is left to be his own god.

The greatest ill-defined term is art in my experience. Art is a verb, not a subject. Art is not what you do, it is how you do it. We can trust Benny Goodman for his jazz recording on that. 

Peace of non proximity

The seen world is full of so many people. And there are even more passed away already, all of them fading unremembered into the anguish of the past. Those that are remembered were very likely quite different in the passing future than they were in the actual past. We no longer even look like we used to when alive. There are coming times of healing peace that accumulate for purposeful war. Meanwhile we advance technically into a potential world of decreasing humanity until we disappear.

Trusting God for everything

Farming Out Believing God

 The mere expression of believing in God does not satisfy me. I am not so sure it is the greatest way to do it. Neither is agreeing with whatever a pastor says make me think believing in God is all there is too it.  

I heard a woman say they she had someone for everything that could come up.  A plumber for the toilet headed the list, an electrician for the appliances, a mechanic for the car, and a pastor for God. It was he who would keep everything ship shape when something went awry. Oh, then there was the funeral director to handle his duties. He took his place alongside the landscaper for the grass. Somebody for everything. 

I did not trust it. (Unedited)

Building Faith and....

Great Belief

I cannot say the methods and the formats I use are interesting or otherwise attractive to anyone else except myself, I am not so sure of it, but I may be trailing along the lines of the sons of thunder. This is what makes me think I may be motivated by building faith out of weakness.

I rush headlong into conclusions. I am perhaps too easily satisfied. Satisfied too easily with explanations lodged in words falling by the wayside. I observe that I too often leave out entire words with the fewer letters. I am wondering if one can talk of strong hope more while the chin trembles than not.

After building my salvation out of logic I accuse it of proving faith redundant. Am I climbing up another way? Maybe it is if I want too strongly, I, exhausted, get too weakly. 

It has not happened for a long time now, but I have spent the entire night wrestling with the Holy Spirit. God is simple, I guess it is we who are complex. Therefore, this is how I can say God makes simple the complex.

No matter what...

Jesus is the Way

 

  

The world is full of fears, and terrors flash suddenly on every side like a fire storm of lightnings. There are those who attack without direction at any time for no reason beyond any purpose. Were skeptics and their unbelief to attract all doubts, the story of Jesus would still by itself   alone, prevail.  Truth would bring out of this swirling, and the true meaning would be true in the flesh. Nothing matters, nothing is shaken by this manifestation of the truth. Jesus is truth Himself in all beginnings of understandings. Belief in the truth, not being subject to time, is the final and first truth for believers. There are no doubts hovering over the shoulder for the believer. 

Change is Evidence of Growth

We keep learning more and more. Lately we are newly aware the universe is larger than we thought previously. I wager there is no end to the universe. And it is not growing either. We know what we know and as our knowledge expands, we think it is the universe that is expanding.

Jesus is the Source

I would see Jesus

There is only one subject that I prefer should be the focus of any and every church and its minister, that is to be always and constantly all about Jesus. 

Jesus is the Way

I only knew of one minister who mentioned Jesus in every sermon. I recorded quite a few of them. He not only focused on Jesus, but he told of his own experiences and personal views of Jesus. There are many ministers who talk about the   congregation's relationship to Christ. Their faults and failures, but nothing about themselves and Jesus, just the congregation and Jesus. That is, when they got around to Jesus at all.

I remember well that verse that tells in the Bible about several, from Greece I think, who knocked on the disciple's door and said, "Sir, we would see Jesus."

When Time is Gone

Time in Time out

 

As time speeds up and the mind slows down one would think that they are approaching the time where the flesh falters, that the spirit beckons. Jesus on the Cross said He felt that God had forsaken Him during that moment. 

Perhaps the incarnate body was passing the bar before the body was to die, and the Spirit would stand alone in the flesh. When the sense of existence is slipping from me, as regards myself, it is faith in my spirit following Jesus that fuels my hope. 

Unbelieving faith senses the end of their speculations is near. But even nothing is something or how could one conceive of it otherwise? So, when the sense of existence forsakes the flesh, I am afraid those that believe it will know they no longer exist. That would be an unspeakable state, to not exist and simultaneously to know it. 

My faith is in my spiritual awareness of God, I have such a short time in the flesh to understand and accept the eternal life offer from Jesus. (Edited)

Back to Basics

Pretending Knowing Too Much

Rather futuristic topics like yesterday's do not appeal to many. but it is a chance to play God like any parlor game. It is also interesting to ask my handheld computer the justifications for God. It surprised me to see how much detail came up with chapter and verse showing answers to like why did Jesus have to die on the Cross.

Skim thru a few of those can make one give their believability a good refreshing stretch. But it can be dangerous for some. 

Expanding Horizons

Simulated Universes Inside the Matrix?

"Scripture is clear that it’s possible for your spirit to be out of the body," according to views by the Institute of Critical Research. As an example, mention of Elton Musk and simulated reality inside a computer are the subject of one of these links. 

These are interesting speculations edited by the ICR which believes in the origins outlined in the Bible, as opposed to natural evolution theories that give science the basis of creation rather than God. 

I like to know the views of various, what I call the physical sciences, that are being offered to young scholars today in place of Jesus as the master designer. Science largely ignores the spirit, implying that our origins are based in scientifically biased evolution. 

In the coming age believers will need to be on an intellectual par with atheists. It is vital that believers are able to make a case for their faith. That is if they want to avoid being entrapped (phased out) in this current developing technological setting where humans are reduced to brains alone. 

Surfing the Net

Interesting Links

I Discovered Some "Expanding Horizons" 

In the left column ofthis page is a group of links labeled Expanding Horizons. I found theses links some time ago but never pursued enough time to learn a great deal about them. I stumbled upon them recently and was amazed how much is out there that I did find worthy of investigation. 

Whenever a Christian needs some boosting in a troubled time , they should get some Spirit in a church. Personally, I never knew that to be the case. Rather I found I lost a little more of my faith in churches. 

I do know churches are losing attendance for a long time now. A long time is measured here according to my experiences. That fact is not a good testimony. To encourage me I have discovered interesting websites in the internet that slipped under the rug. 

Under His Wings

Whenever I sense my spirit struggling it helps to praise God. For that task Psalm 139 is a good place go and shout from the fortress. Manna

Lion and the Lamb

The Law was Given thru Moses

Grace and Love was thru Jesus

I can often tell how oriented a person is by casual disconnected viewpoints they express. Whether I am often correct or not is not all that clearly determined. 

A political pundit was waxing true about whether a little boy's dog would be in heaven with him. He weighted in heavily upon his fact that dog's do not have a sou. 

I was reminded by the sharper wit of Mark Twain. He commented that there was very likely more dog's deserving of heaven than people. Dogs are well known to be very loving and forgiving by nature.

 Our pundit however, being of the doctrinaire stripe, would seal off the joys of heaven. Heaven is apparently a very antiseptic place for him, since he has surely never experienced the devotion of a dog. 

My view is that the little boy's dog will be in heaven with him if the little boy wanted his dog to be with him. As for heaven, a tree is known by its' fruit.  

Churches as Groups

Problems in Groups

I believe there will come a time when evidence from the unseen world will be more seen in the seen world. It seems inevitable this would happen. Nothing stays the same. Utopian political entities zero in on the concept word, same, as an example of their attempt to strengthen the group but which weakens creativity.

The difference between the political and the religious are not that dissimilar. The religious parties have not done a bangup job of teaching their members, young or old, anything much at all. Even in the time of Jesus, Jesus could suggest in the parable of the unjust servant, that the children of the light were not as smart as the children of the world.

When people gather together in groups, they seem to me to hesitate to engage each other as individuals, preferring to form even smaller cliques. Individuals enjoy agreement by in large, this is their 'never quite fatal' flaw. 

Nevertheless groups, no matter their size, never approach the creativity of the individual. Rather the creative individual can be expelled if they seem too far afield. Some churches emphasize singular differences, like baptism while never engendering an interest in any other focus that might naturally follow. This then becomes their distinction.

It is a point to remember; that Jesus ran against a church clique of His day. Reading the history of the early primitive church is less than awesome as when opposition brought martyrdoms. 

War of Words

If God Does Not Exist;

Then Where Did We Come From?

If God shared with us existence, then where did all the evil contentions come from? My hasty guess this morning is that it came from us, driven by debilitating spirits that took over quite a few others of us.

Some like to play God. I heard a well-known person say as such on the television. Those of us who innocently do not believe in God find themselves thrust in this drama directly in the place of God. There has to be a God. Otherwise, did we create ourselves?

It has been recognized that there is a great divide in this world of duality. It seems too easy to blame everything on God's responsibility, for which we ourselves are responsible. 

Faith in a Fallacy

Pulpit Talk at Pulpit Rock

 I was continually amazed at the many debates I witnessed about whether God existed or not, all without anyone ever defining what each debater argued who God was that they were advocating.

I was an atheist in those pompous days. My arguments were largely based on the people I witnessed attending churches, and not on God at all. Eventually I realized my position was wallowing in a logical fallacy. The fallacy of the misplaced authority.

I incorrectly assumed the pastor and elders of my church were authorities and that God was in on it with them. This was from my idea as a child that God was in with the "other" adults. 

Today I constantly am meeting atheists who maintain their atheism on their position as an atheist solely because of church people. My view is that the devil of doubt fosters these attacks on the churches. 

This is the reason for the Pulpit Rock blog. Churches spin off atheists from the age of fourteen, only for them to be eaten alive by the time they get to college, where they become educated. (See for the sake of the children at Pulpit Rock)

Definition of God

How God Wants to be Known

Throughout All Generations

Previous entry told of my purpose in writing this blog. However, the purpose of the blog itself is to define God the way He said He wanted to be defined. This is I am that I am which literally means God is Existence. This was delivered to me in an epiphany as a very young man before I knew what it really meant. Today I am not at the mercy of a man with a theory since I am myself am a man with an experience.

We know God is a Spirit. We know God is a person. We ourselves were created, spoken into Existence, since Jesus was given the power to declare us to be sons and daughters of God. From Genesis, God referred to Himself as more than One. Also, see John 17 where the Trinity is well explained.

Therefore, God is the Personified Spirit of Existence.

Issues not people

How I Objectify My Beliefs

 From time to time, I should review my style sheet for this blog. 

I write this blog for my own benefit in order to objectify and work out my own salvation. If I can objectify my beliefs by writing them down publicly to work out my own salvation, then my beliefs are more clear and stronger. I am thinking rather than engaging in reverie. I want my beliefs to be stronger.

I also review old entries to make susre they are up to date as well as randomly sweep for typos. I try very hard to make sure I do not mention any names of individuals. Individuals are more than one view, and any mention of any person opens up the discussion to many of their other views not engaged. I want to examine issues, not people. 

Great Faith and Little Faith

Much Faith and Fasting 

John 17

All good things come down from the Father of Lights. It does not matter what is true or not, or whatever is bad is bad. I keep instructing myself to think what is good or whatever good I want to see happen in place of bad. I must think it, I must believe it, to have any hope of it happening. This is not the power of mind or vague positivity. It is the power of faith and believing. It does not matter what proof appears to believe. Some only believe what is easy to believe. The hard to believe requires greater belief. This was as Jesus told His disciples about the demon that would not come out of a man's child they could not cast out. Nothing can resist great belief. This according to Jesus rising from the dead. This belief is the central core of Christianity. Manna.

Confessing Christ

 I confess Christ before all no matter whatever. I believe He died on the Cross for everyone, preached to all those lost in the Great Flood, rose alive in the flesh and was seen before few and many, prior to ascending to heaven. 

I believe when He said that if we have enough faith, we could cause a mountain to be thrown up and hurled into the sea. I believe He is the incarnate Son of God, and one with God and the Holy Spirit. 

I believe the words of Jesus in Chapter 17 in the Book of John.  I believe in the Gospels and all the views contained therein quoting Jesus who wrote down nothing and spoke everything.  All He said was placed in the hearts of believers, survived in many writings guided by those moved by the Holy spirit. 

There is no other story that is so intricately woven, so complete and so unrivaled as the story lived by Jesus. Never has so much evidence been compiled, read written about by so many. I thank God for His Existence, and the existence He has spoken into me. 

Time Enters the Picture in the End

 Hard Giving Up the Flesh

It is easy to be born in my spirit, but it is not easy to separate myself from the flesh. The mind is supposed to control the flesh, but mine often permits excess. Living in change the flesh resists change. With some their flesh controls their mind totally, right into their unexpected destruction.

Few want to withstand the terrors of change. It is not the change itself but the getting there that is the real fear. Then, of course, when facing fear, we are weakening our flesh and endangering even possibly our spirit.

The flesh is short term, very short term. Everyone knows they will eventually die, but not today. Right there is the best definition of forever I think one will ever find. I wonder how time can fool us all so completely, like dreams in the night. 

There was a time when summer was forever only to change when school traitorously reopened. Soon we will all be lost as we cross the Sea of Lethe. All will be forgotten, and everyone will soon forget everyone else. That is the way of the flesh. What will be remembered in the future will very likely be different from the past. 

But if I have enough faith, anything can happen, so long as it does not negate faith and existence. Therein is my hope and my faith. I sense it is soon time for me to once again confess Christ before men, so that Jesus will confess me before God.

Random notes

Beware Leaning on the Arm of Flesh

I must be careful what I believe. I think it certain I believe what I think about the most. I believe what I say about others. It is there that I am revealing more about myself than I am anyone else.  When I talk I am taking the energy from somewhere, for instance, basically talking rather than writing.

So, I must be careful what I think or in particular, say, about others. It does not matter whatever happens or even actually happens. The most important reason we must forgive is for our own benefit. Whatever I hold against another, I am holding it against myself. The hardest judge one could ever face, is not God, it is oneself.

Steve McQueen was the first actor to receive five million dollars to act in one film. I am convinced also that actors deserve every red cent they may get. By acting out movie scripts, and so intensely as they do, puts them in whatever state the movie requires. 

George Sanders acted in many parts 0where he was bored and above it all, that in his suicide note he gave is reason for doing so, that it was because he was bored.

So I believe, by saying, we are believing. How much and how strong? As much and as strong as I do. Jesus said whatever I see the Father do, I do. 

When Jesus was on the Cross, He was acting out the value He placed on the seen world. It will not help you, He said.

Like a Cloud of Atoms

Bound Together by Spirit

If we believe strongly enough the idea has been presented by Jesus that we could do anything. When God looked down, He saw that man could do anything he had a mind to do, even walk on the moon.

What I am thinking is that it does not matter whether something ever really happens or not, has or will happen or not, it is in the believing that will make it so, if not already then, then eventually. When Jesus had risen from the dead after three days, He appeared to the disciples gathered in a room together. He just appeared. 

He could have passed through the walls, atom, or whatever, atom by atom. And like in a dream, He could appear or disappear. All because He was a Spirit in the inanimate seen world. The same way, during His ministry, when the people set upon Him, He passed through the crowd unseen and escaped capture. 

Lifetime in each day

Someone Watching Over Me 

I've always been fascinated by the drama that takes place every 24 hours or so when I work during the day, eating quite often it seemed, and then passing out in sleep. This is when I am closest to death as my systems slow down. I dream and it seems all so real. But when I awaken, from dreams I wonder how I could take it all in so real and believable. Looking back, in the seen world, it was not so. 

This drama is played out every day, every night, and I wonder what it all meant. Is it like a lifetime story giving me a hint of the future over and over for a reason? It seems to me to suggest my afterlife that will appear more real and unlimited.

There is a sense of power while believing in various scenarios. Many have these same devices appear in their dreams also, like flying, and like being invisible to closely passing danger. 

I argued in a dream with a fox as a child. 

His teeth were cutting into my ankle, and I told him while he was doing this that he was only a dream and not real. He said he was too real even as he was clamping down on my ankle. I thought then as I do now, that he was the devil. 

Among other later events I was convinced, I was drowning, and I accepted this, calmly thinking everyone would say I was so young. As I, exhausted while taking in water, was drifting helplessly to the surface, a voice came over my right shoulder telling me to try one more time. 

I answered "ok" as if this encounter was quite natural. My hand gripped the inner edge of a lip just under the top rim of the pool. It is hard to avoid the sense that someone watching over me.