The Spirit of God

There Has to Be a Spirit if only to Function

In my own experience, some atheist thought has centered on the doubtful lack of proof for Jesus' existence, and then more recently on Jonah as, it was claimed, would be the killer myth account in the no proof struggle.

My reaction to that was, collusion, the other side of that coin, destroys the error of inconsistencies in the gospels. But my more recent conclusion, in seeking stronger faith, is to remind myself I will understand it all better bye and bye, as the hymn lyrics say. In like manner, for that as well I had to go to Job for, tho He slay me, yet will I trust Him. 

And that is where I arrived recently in acknowledging that if there is no God then I will believe anyway, since proof destroys faith by eliminating the necessity for faith altogether.

I cap this entire mini debate with the claim that if there is no God, then one would have to be their own god themselves, for themselves. 

Everybody with no god, has to be their own god because without God they have no judgement in the matter.   

Definition of Mystic

Dark Night of the Soul

A Spanish poet who came to be known as St John of the Cross is thought to be the first person to coin the term, Dark Night of the Soul. It most generalizes, symbolically, the doubts that assail the believer in God. The word mystic however, I always sensed, had root in the mysterious or interest in the unknown, something science really failed to tolerate.

At one time earlier in this effort was singled out those who could read and write. There was only one occupation that suited this view and that was that of a priest. Before that I always assumed, the status originated in the days of the early scribes, which I feel were the earliest lawyers. Scribes, priests, and lawyers are all "go betweens".

Regardless, both the physical scientists and the mystics are engaged in the hopelessly unknown and unproven beginnings of things. The first were dealing with the seen and the other, mystics, the unseen. 

The fact that they became separated is unfortunate since they each belong together instead of in a kind of pompous dark night hostility to each other. This is another consequence, see Koestler, in the striving for power I suppose. (Unedited....)

How belief is defined

Belief Determined in the Foxhole

When I want to be close to correct in any issue, logic is necessary. But it is only marginally correct. The unseen can at any time override the seen. This is how belief overrides logic, limited only by conception. Next.... 

Oh yee of little belief & great

Greater Belief Required 

for the Unbelievable

 There is a tendency for those physical scientists who know provably more than anyone else, to give themselves the glow that they know more than they do in fact. Only to know so completely so much of what is only known so far. Everyone in the deep past is viewed as myth-ignorant largely because they could not prove much being old.

Embarrassment sets in when they accidently, I suppose, discover that the ancients were right all along. Great belief and little belief enter the picture when it is harder is to believe something, when greater belief is required to sustain the faith required. (Edited....)

Believing Without the Power

Bible Stories are Not True, 

Only the Meaning is True?

Where does the devil of doubt go to reap the most souls? Of course, he sends all his followers to infiltrate churches. He certainly does not send them to the barrooms and the pool halls. Those friendly folks are asleep as it is. No, the devil of doubt sends them to churches.

Everyone in church believes in Jesus and they will not let go of the idea. The devil will settle for whatever he can get however and set about convincing the Christians in church to believe in Christ is OK, but not the power thereof.

To top that piece of cake off, he will instill the idea that God has to be convinced to heal anyone. This is spite of the fact God gave His incarnated Son to heal all those who will accept healing already, on the Cross.

All things seen come from the unseen.   

Everyone Speaks for Their Own Benefit

This is my spirit. I witness from the Spirit within me what I am told. I am told this for my own benefit. I am not an instructor, or a teacher. I do not persuade or convince. That is between another person's spirit and whatever spirit is within them. 

Only the Holy Spirit convicts, and 

He convicts whom He will. 

Watering Down the Cross?

Does Becoming Like Jesus

Make Us Jesus or Like Jesus?

Although I worked out the answers to many of my questions, there is still one that bothers me. Jesus said in the concluding verses of the Gospels that we were to pick up our cross and follow Him. I rather think these verses tend to give rise to unbelief in some by giving pause to doubt Jesus is directly the source author. 

This is where Jesus said to pick up our cross and follow Him. The only compelling verses that might support this are those that indicate we should be like Jesus and that Jesus said we would do greater things than Himself. 

My problem comes in when I wonder why after Jesus died on the Cross for us that we should then have a cross if our sins are forgiven. All this seems to cloud Jesus' supreme role on the Cross if we then can in any way duplicate His sacrifice with our own.    

After Such a Big Introduction

So That is All There Is? 

When everything in the universe is considered; how extensively beautiful it is; how intricate all the elements evolving within it are; one is up against it coming to any conclusion that everyone faces nothing after death, one dies and that is it.

Rather, it surely is a wonderous expectant prediction, all within itself, to expect even more startling events to unfold for believers after their seen days are gone. 

It suggests I have yet to experience everything the seen world can show me.

Now We See in a Glass Darkly....

But Then, Face to Face 

All things that exist forever in time can be seen in the spirit; but in the flesh it only lasts as long as a dream. The dream believes until its' brief time is unpredictably unfolded. 

But who will we look like as one inside eternity? We will appear as one in the same to various views of people in their spirit. Each spirit sees, as one, what they believe. 

Definition of meaning

  

If the Bible stories  

All Things Seen Come From the Unseen

Are not true, & only

The meanings true?

The definition of meanings is the intention to explain the truth, Therefore the truth has yet to be explained if only the meaning is true.

So, if the meanings are true, then they would be true in fact, as soon as they were exercised. Such an individual is saying they do not yet believe the truth. That is what becomes of being too educated.

Time Enters the Picture in the End

Did Not Realize I would not Agree with Myself

Why am I surprised to discover mistakes I've made, when I at the same time declared, I have made no mistakes! Neither now nor originally! I've been right and I've been wrong. So? Why does the wrong threaten to survive, clinging to me like thousands of tiny regrets? 

Odds are Against Us

Knowledge Brings Awareness 

of Our Greater Ignorance

Every time I wonder why God does this or that, I allow for my position holding incomplete facts on any matter. Since we did not create ourselves, nor did we create the universe, we are in a predicament thinking we can sit across the table from God knowing we are holding cards from an incomplete deck.

Every time we learn something we did not know before; we are aware of questions not known previously. This means that while we know more than before, we also know we are more unaware than we realized formerly.

No Matter What

I Believe! 

Even If Not True...Yet!

If the Devil of Doubt were to say to me, what if it is all not true? That is OK, I believe it all is true no matter what. And what do I base this on? It is written, the ancients knew that God looked down and realized that man could do anything he set his mind to and wanted.

So as it is also written, we can do it since if we have enough faith, we can move mountains which is to say all we need is faith. So, if we have enough faith, we can do anything within God's will, while at the same time the flesh, as Jesus observed, can do nothing to help us. 

Therefore, I can believe in anything, even if it not true. Jesus said we would do things in the future even beyond what Jesus himself did. 

As an aside, a rich person would have trouble entering heaven simply because he is convinced he is in heaven-like already. By the same token and educated person is more prone to doubts primarily because he knows too many doubtful driven questions that a simple man would easily ignore.

Unconecting Continuums

How Logic Got Out

With the Bathwater

Until recently I was unknowingly convinced that continuums were on each side of any focus. Now, however, I am of the idea that duality was the reason for this, so that idea came under scrutiny.

Good, that is good for me intrinsically, not apparently good is on its' own continuum. The justifications for this came from contrasting dualities and continuums. This allows for dualities to continue in their manner, twos, and continuums to operate beside each other as exclusive units.

Only element now is that the continuum of good (for us) is not rooted in "not good" rather it is connected to "less" good and "greater good". At the center of this reasoning is God is good. He is good because if He were not good there would be nothing to consider. But because He is good, in order for anything to exist it has to be completely creative and connecting evil via continuums not only intertwines dualities it renders them the loss of their original function.

I must confess also, that it came from the knowledge that God did not create evil, that it was completely foreign to Him. Evil came after Him via the free will He created. This is also true because continuums are connecting only, whereas dualities are multifunctioning. This does not upset the ideas of good, it insulates them against their opposites.

I will halt here for ideas to settle and remind myself it is not my duty to convince anyone. When very young I finally understood that my understanding's came from myself, just as others came from themselves. There is no one way to think about any matter. God gives us the chance to consider everything, to allow, I guess, allow for everything. Meanwhile, I finally realized it was not my responsibility to convince others, it was to understand myself. 

Funny, how I get into Venus fly trap thinking. Apparently, it works however, according to its function. (Future edited in Specific Theory)

Faith is all we have

Exact Recording of Every Detail 

Can Clutter the Truth of the Matter

The Book of Job is one of the more fascinating books in the Bible since, for openers, it is the oldest. The central verses surround Job's observation that tho He slay me yet will I trust Him.

Smart people know a lot but the most important to know is what they do not know. Tracing down what actually happened when no witnesses were involved is the usual strange shuffle in the deck. Another is to think the ancients were dummy mythmakers. 

Actually, My horse! My kingdom for a horse may indeed never have been said on the battlefield. But the phrase capsules the spiritual truth of the matter better than the actual dialogue could likely have been.

There are some things we cannot know. Looks like we cannot know what we cannot know. This is another reason why I said we cannot actually prove anything. We can only prove anything to our own satisfaction. The rest is dependent on faith, including the belief there is no God, or the "Sun also rises." 

Gad has to be our God is Existence, or else we have to be our own God of no existence. 

Life & Death at Pulpit Rock

Church Adventure 

Attending church, as in former times, is a very private affair for me. I usually seem to strike up a conversation with the most honest straight forward people one could ever meet.

On one occasion I asked a man who wanted to start a photo club in the church. I asked him, to break the ice, what his definition of God was. 

He said, "I don't know."