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.