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How Small is Small?

Size Matters But No One Knows What 

Is this the mind of God?  He thought this all up. He did not get any help from me. What could be next? If God does not exist could this plan come from random? I notice the illustration used here of the "universe" resemble common illustrations of a mind.

Perspective: where we are

All things seen came from the unseen

Unconnecting Continuums

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 positive 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. 

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. 

There is no limit to God

 

If there is no limit, where then would be the beginning. I wonder how anyone would recognize the formation of the universe. Since they did not form it and they were not there. But it is a theory that solves by declaration a big problem in pont of fact I would have to say.

Catching up to Existence

Discovering God Every Generation

Physical science now seems to somewhat agree with the idea the universe is growing at a rapid rate. I wonder if that is because we are discovering that it is growing at all, not specifically growing by itself in actuality. It is already grown in like manner as far as we can speculate. We are only now able to figure it out?

I do not know this but how would anyone else know otherwise? I suspect we might have taken to space the concept of time. From what anchor are we linking our unit of time comparison entity? The expanding universe concept only exists, I strongly suspect, to justify the big bang after it. 

The big bang had to have something to bang prior to the big I would think. Point I guess I am making is that our knowledge is not only going to get old but it is going to reveal a quite different reality in time, I should say, our time. 

I am unexpectedly reminded in the side column of Arthur Koestler, who observed in his book Sleepwalker, I think it was, that "the progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life." 

New Testament does not agree so is unreliable

😈or if it does agree, then it is collusion?

One cannot prove anything, except to each our own satisfaction. The wisdom of the ancients recognized this when they wrote that God did not want proof. Why? Because proof gives the false impression there is an alternative to faith. Speaking literally now, we all are thinking in faith because the complete facts are not yet known to us. What is gospel to one man is hearsay to another and are inadmissible to any proof. Eyewitnesses are notorious for being dramatically unreliable. to a single conclusion. 

God Spelled Backwards

Backward footsteps of the devil

Ancient communication devices

The spirit of a devil is the opposite of God, the devil being driven to destructions. Since God is Existence, God cannot negate Himself. In the non-technical language perspective of the ancients, he created, on the other hand, a good angel that then decided on his own to replace God. 

      With that failure, the devil spirit decided to destroy, instead of obeying the laws of God. The devil however can, it is claimed, recite the Lord's Prayer backwards. 

      

I recall seeing a small sign in the shop window of an upscale town. It read: God spelled backwards is dog. 

Any suggestion of backwardness indicates an origin mixed into a relationship with the devil. Since God does not exist in the typical view of atheism, then how could a nonexistent negate itself?

Do two negatives create a devil's positive? I do not recommend tangling with the devil or his advocates. 

Believing is Power

Belief alone is inert without power

Everything rests on faith, that is, the power to believe. Many believe only that which is easy to believe. If it is not believable then they have no faith for it. It is the unbelievable that requires power to believe. Believing, as the verb, is with power. However, belief as a subject, is doctrine, without power.

Only God's definition of Himself makes

Meaning out of meaninglessness

Ecclesiastes has a rep for saying everything is dismal and discouraging because everything is meaningless. But only if we leave out the context. With the conclusion ignored, everything falls into the hands of doubters and double mindedness. 

Orion Horsehead Nebula

The context is that only God makes everything worthwhile and without Him everything is meaningless. Why is everything meaningless?

My answer is that it is time, found prominently in the seen, that makes eventually everything meaningless and forgettable.  Only the unseen makes everything meaningful, where all things stand. This conclusion is obviously evidenced in God's own definition of Himself, who said who He was I am that I am' which is to say, I Exist. 

Nothing is something

after all

If one does not believe in God then they are not only opposed to existence but they believe in nothing. It cannot be zero because zeroes exist already. It cannot be oblivion because the function of believing in something, even nothing, exists for the person who believes it. They may even get it. But to be outside existence, and to know it, must be, dare I say it, hellish, even more so without time to bail one out. 

Wisdom is heavy

God is the Fountainhead. 

God is Existence itself and does not permit, and can not allow, anything contrary to His nature. We however are free to desire to be Gods for ourselves if we wish it. It has been done and appears to be a very frustrating, totally upsetting experience. It could be said to be something like one in a tantrum, destroying everything in sight.

Feeling is easy

 Thinking is hard...

If I am riddled with doubts, then thinking will get me out but not unless I can feel it involuntarily as a result. Style is fun for a time but results are better, being long lasting. God makes sense just as he makes existence, because existence makes its' own sense by definition. 

In the end game however, inside ten yards of the goal line, I think God planted within us all the feeling we need to make it across without thinking anything extraordinarily. Regardless of all this however, unless God draws us we may not seek him, according to Jesus, unless perhaps, the passion is so strong, that the strong man will take heaven by force. as it also says, I think therefore I believe, in one of His parables in the Bible. 

Time as comparison

Eternity is time compared to itself?

Waltham Watch

Time only exists, as far as anyone can say, in a comparative state. So since physical scientists cannot agree on just what time actually is, time may exist largely as an illusion, except in the seen. There are physicists holding this position. In the unseen time may not exist at all except as eternity, the absence of time. My suspicion is that this is likely true because God has already placed this in our hearts  as an instinctual entity within the definition of time. This is our reflexes watching for danger.

Unraveling former threads

First the intellect makes the decision

then emotion acts out the decision

I have to figure out where I am, what I am doing here, and what is going to happen to me. Waiting for me are two selected principal ways to choose. 

I heard a possible first course suggested while watching C-span. It was delivered by a credible well placed source at the highest respected rung of our society. He did not identify any particular religion but as an observer he said that salvation only came from the group. He made this key point repeatedly in several separate speeches all delivered to university graduating classes. 

On the other hand, we know that Christianity depends on individual salvation by making a single personal decision by each person to follow a single individual, Jesus Christ. This then would represent two sides of a continuum describing two opposite views, basically centered on the source of salvation while looking at almost any religion, assuming any of it is true.

Next, since I am not familiar with any religions related to the first view, these collected future essays will examine the second course of events. 

Jonah foretells Jesus

 Is the spirit real? Will the spirit be born again?

Regarding the  idea the Jonah story brings Jesus on the cross story into range of the unbelievable is misdirecting the rational, denying the unseen spirit world. All over the world are those knocking on doors who cannot conceive the reality of the spiritual.

Regarding Jonah being swallowed by a whale, I always check unproven premises before proceeding.

From behind the dark
 we will one day see clearly

It was never suggested anywhere, except by unbelievers, that Jonah lived for three days in the whale. He died. Just as Jesus died on the cross Jonah died, was digested or smothered unliving for three days, dying, same as Jesus.

If one rises from the physically dead it is reasonable to conclude they died first. Notice now at this point, that all the ancient peoples are regarded by many of today, as weavers and recounters of myths or, unbelievable stories.

Yet time and again the routine is repeated, it was found that it actually was true all along. The often told explanation of help from extra terrestrials, succumbs to additionally discovered facts not known before. How could Romans build such impressive works without electricity by themselves when the young generations of today cannot figure it out? Enter the extraterrestrials. Welcome the entire choir.

Jesus' claim that if one had enough belief they could move mountains is dismissed by many as metaphorical. Point is that anyone who takes that tack winds up believing in the resurrection as metaphorical as well? What is meaning then?

Now they have arrived at the Christianity without faith in the fact of the resurrection, but rather only the meaning of it. This an intellectual event that cannot live within the spirit without the passion of the Holy Spirit to give it power.

If one is going to only believe the believable then where any is faith demonstrated? Even the plausible explanation of the story withers away all spiritual power of the event.

Lack of understanding of the spirit...

The unseen is transformed into a senseless enigma 

How can anyone claim to believe in God if God is an unseen Spirit, even the Holy Spirit of the Trinity? How does anyone believe in the Trinity if one cannot understand the unseen? If doubt cannot convince a Christian in the myth-like belief in the Christian story then doubt will concede the idea of Jesus being true but not His power.

Seeing is not believing, believing is seeing

Does anyone want proof? Do they want a sign? Then they do not want faith. Jesus was not impressed with those expecting a sign. They did not need faith because they were enmeshed in factual assumptions made without all the facts. 

One has to boast they know everything to their satisfaction. But whisper quietly in my ear that faith is gone. For these existence is stopped because the purpose of faith is not released within. More on faith before fully edited..

Everything based on faith

Belief  in God based on faith not proof 

About time to remind myself not to be impressed by proof. Firstly, there is no absolute proof in the seen and secondly, only faith pleases God in the seen or unseen. When we rely on proof, it is faith that translates  all proof into the seen. If proof had anything to do with it, there would be no purpose for faith.

Rather, I am attempting to draw conclusions for the intentions of he intellect so that passion can provide the energy to carry the intellectual decisions forward. 

Time out of context...

 History as I was taught in public schools I found quite illogical in that they taught it, as it were, in a series of still photos instead of the connected sweep of "moving pictures". Religion and science were caught in a perception gap?

After Ancient History came history of countries as if they existed by themselves one after the other. I remember wondering about Lenin in Germany, It felt somewhat strange. I mean, what was he doing there? It seemed as if he was taking a tourist break, just there for a holiday or something. 

So when did the Roman Empire fall?*

Everything is connected in context within my point of view. Historically, views of religion and science were presented as adversarial forces. The result leaves both cast, while making mockery of their own views, as each the holy grail.

History was also taught by separate individual countries but never put together in time, as one flowing stream. It was exactly like taking each country out of context. This is what we are seeing in today's colleges. Each period of time does not exist by itself. By taking history out of context it becomes a mere tool of separately directed partisanship.

What form of government was it then? In a world where slavery was accepted from the beginning of all history, which type of government was it that was so dramatically successful in bringing about, at great cost and time, the first governmentally sponsored death of slavery?

It takes time to make supporting gains to evolve all the way to permanent lasting change. What happens suddenly still takes forever to reach each generation forward . And it cannot be rushed from one generation to the other if it is to last, instead of stalling. 

On the change agenda, whether next or not, is religion, and toward making all human awareness single minded and the same. And that backward effort is already in the dawn of defining humans as "organisms" for a reason.....which leads to another issue for later.

*Date of Roman Empire's fall is a debatable date, as dubious as the founding dates, arbitrarily set by historians, as 476? Maybe... the fall was so gradually frequent over more than two thousand years that maybe in the mix was the slogan,  all roads lead to Rome..... for bread and circus. Another contrast between the seen and unseen.

The tree is known by its' fruit

From out of the heart the mouth speaks. 

Everyone speaks for their own benefit, sometimes for their own relief. I speak because I feel better. I clear something up, more often the exact opposite.. I gain either a soothing relief or a exulting pleasure. I speak to a woman because I enjoy it. I speak in anger because a frustration is pressuring me in that direction. Anger usually is a sign of weakness. My weakness is revealed. It is a sore spot. Why would I call someone an insulting name? It is  a logical fallacy. It is better to keep it under your hat. 

Everyone needs someone else to play their ideas, to contrast their existence, off on. Is it a positive or negative experience? I cannot give an offense unless I have offenses to give. I cannot take an offense without becoming offensive. Only offensive people are capable of giving offenses. I try not to take them because of that fact. Anyone who takes an offense is offended and is therefore, as a result, in a weaken state. If, or when, this is ever true, it is as I said, best not to let anyone know when they have got your goat.

A library of ancient communication devices.

I noticed a politician some years ago calling another in the opposition a Nazi. Later he was calling someone else newly in the same opposition position similarly. He became known to me as a Nazi caller. That was the fruit of his mouth. Very commonly known in psychology as projection. I am what I project. I speak from the treasure of my heart because every tree is known by its' fruit.