God Messed Up — Satire
Atheists no longer struggle with God, Church and Religion. They gave up on them at some point and moved on with what remains of their lives. Still, it is tantalizing to be an "Atheist" or even flirt with "Agnosticism."
A lot of people struggle with their mind in order to believe what they don't believe.
The Holocaust found many, Jews, completely stunned that God did not step in and stop this unimaginable slaughter of millions of people.
What would it take for him to step in and take over? Nobody seems to be able to put their finger on it.
He didn't step in — it was like he was off, somewhere else, and couldn't be bothered while the Holocaust was going on. More than one of those who survived — became atheists.
If there is a problem with religion, it is that God, in all his infinite wisdom, went ahead and created Evil. God, knowing full well that Evil meant eons of misery and death — did it anyway.
The Holocaust is a perfect example of this Evil creation at work. That has always been baffling to me because it was preventable.
I adopted a belief, without walls, and refuse to be hamstrung by "organized" religion or by church. Native American spirituality is unique. My belief is close to that.
This Continent flourished under their stewardship. Once the "People of God" arrived, the landscape changed; and today, "global warming" became an adjective — we have super storms, and fear of pandemics and melting Polar ice caps.
Corporate America is wringing their hands — they can't wait to explore for natural resources that has been hidden for thousands of years. If Bush can cut himself a slice, then Corporate America will get the revealed natural resource cake for themselves.
Look around yourself. There is evidence of religion everywhere. You must believe in God because He created you/us and the Universe — and look at it now.
I would love to be an atheist and not believe in God or religion. It would be easier to believe in the theory of Evolution because that isn't Divine.
Yes, God messed up. He created Evil and He didn't have to.
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Monday, August 26, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Reincarnation
Reincarnation—
When a blind man was brought before Jesus it was pointed out to him that the man was born blind. The disciples wondered why he had been born blind and had been thus persecuted and they asked him, "Who did sin, this man, or his parents?" (John 1-3)
The disciples must have had reincarnation in mind, for obviously if the man had been born blind his sin could not have been committed in this life. If, on the other hand, the doctrine of reincarnation is wrong and pernicious, Jesus had a real opportunity to deny the entire theses. He didn't. He did say the man's blindness was for other reasons.
Jesus may have taken reincarnation for granted in Mark 10: 28-31. Peter began to tell Jesus what all they had left to follow him. Jesus listed the enumerated rewards that could possibly not have been fulfilled in one life or reincarnation.
Reincarnationists translate the last verse: But many that are first in this incarnation shall be last or in a lowly position in the next rebirth; while the last or least esteemed in this incarnation may be first in their future life.
Paul speaks of the previous existence of Jacob and Esau, saying that the Lord loved the one and hated the other before they were born (Romans 9: 10-13).
Encyclopedia Britannica 1959 edition, under Pre-Existence, it is stated that in the Christian era supporters of the doctrine of pre-existence or pre-existents, are found as early as the 2nd Century and among them was Justin Martyr and Origen.
St. Clement of Alexandria (AD 150 - 220). "Before the foundation of the world were we, because destined to be in him, pre-existed in the eyes of God before – we the rational creatures of the Word of God, ...The Savior, who existed before, has in recent days appeared.... He did not now for the first time pity us for our error; but he pitied us from the first, from the beginning."
In the opinion of the ancient Jews, Moses was Abel, the son of Adam and their Messiah was to be the reincarnation of Adam himself The Kabbalist's remark that Adam, contains the initial letter of Adam David and Messiah. (Kabbalah, which is the spelling usually preferred by scholars, specifically refers to oral mystical teaching not normally revealed to the general population, but passed on from the adepts to the initiates).
The last words of the Hebrew Scriptures: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." Malachi 4: 5.
Elijah has already lived among the Jewish people. What's more, the Greek Scriptures in the first book refers to this on 3 occasions and the remaining books refers to it 7 more times. The Greek name for Elijah is Elias. Read Matthew 16: 13-14. Matthew 17: 9-13. Matthew 11: 11, 14-15. The verse from Matthew 16 is repeated in Mark 8: 27-28, Luke 0: 18-19. Read John 1: 19-23 and Luke 9: 7-9.
© 2006 Abraham Lincoln - All rights reserved.
When a blind man was brought before Jesus it was pointed out to him that the man was born blind. The disciples wondered why he had been born blind and had been thus persecuted and they asked him, "Who did sin, this man, or his parents?" (John 1-3)
The disciples must have had reincarnation in mind, for obviously if the man had been born blind his sin could not have been committed in this life. If, on the other hand, the doctrine of reincarnation is wrong and pernicious, Jesus had a real opportunity to deny the entire theses. He didn't. He did say the man's blindness was for other reasons.
Jesus may have taken reincarnation for granted in Mark 10: 28-31. Peter began to tell Jesus what all they had left to follow him. Jesus listed the enumerated rewards that could possibly not have been fulfilled in one life or reincarnation.
Reincarnationists translate the last verse: But many that are first in this incarnation shall be last or in a lowly position in the next rebirth; while the last or least esteemed in this incarnation may be first in their future life.
Paul speaks of the previous existence of Jacob and Esau, saying that the Lord loved the one and hated the other before they were born (Romans 9: 10-13).
Encyclopedia Britannica 1959 edition, under Pre-Existence, it is stated that in the Christian era supporters of the doctrine of pre-existence or pre-existents, are found as early as the 2nd Century and among them was Justin Martyr and Origen.
St. Clement of Alexandria (AD 150 - 220). "Before the foundation of the world were we, because destined to be in him, pre-existed in the eyes of God before – we the rational creatures of the Word of God, ...The Savior, who existed before, has in recent days appeared.... He did not now for the first time pity us for our error; but he pitied us from the first, from the beginning."
In the opinion of the ancient Jews, Moses was Abel, the son of Adam and their Messiah was to be the reincarnation of Adam himself The Kabbalist's remark that Adam, contains the initial letter of Adam David and Messiah. (Kabbalah, which is the spelling usually preferred by scholars, specifically refers to oral mystical teaching not normally revealed to the general population, but passed on from the adepts to the initiates).
The last words of the Hebrew Scriptures: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." Malachi 4: 5.
Elijah has already lived among the Jewish people. What's more, the Greek Scriptures in the first book refers to this on 3 occasions and the remaining books refers to it 7 more times. The Greek name for Elijah is Elias. Read Matthew 16: 13-14. Matthew 17: 9-13. Matthew 11: 11, 14-15. The verse from Matthew 16 is repeated in Mark 8: 27-28, Luke 0: 18-19. Read John 1: 19-23 and Luke 9: 7-9.
© 2006 Abraham Lincoln - All rights reserved.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Who Reads It?
Who reads it? © By Abraham Lincoln
Five hundred words each week doesn’t sound like a lot of work but it is something to think about if anybody is reading them. Each word was chosen for some reason that seemed good enough at the time it was stuck in a sentence; and then you read it and all the other words and know as much as I do about the story as I do.
I was disappointed with the heat and drought last summer. Brookville was not the best place to be on many days when there seemed no relief outside. My wife and I talked about Vectren’s board meetings and how they must sit around a big walnut conference table and rub their hands together, in glee, at us turning the air conditioners down to cool off.
About the time we had it made and summer heat and humidity under control the weather in Brookville changed and our air conditioner was turned off and the furnace was turned on. Somebody likes to see spikes in utility bills—not the homeowner but surely the utility company is happy about changes in weather. It happens so fast that we didn’t have time to call anybody in to check out our heating system to make sure it was up to par for the oncoming heating season.
I bought an Old Farmer’s Almanac for 2013. I really don’t have much faith in predicting the weather a year or two in advance and have even less faith in the evening television news when the weatherman or weather-woman stands there telling us what we can expect.
Today it is cold and the air is dry. That means very cool nights here and some plants, like ragweed, might think it is time to increase their pollen count and send you off into migraine land at the doctor’s office—can I get something for this headache? My old neighbor lady used to plant her garden seeds and onion plants and tomato plants when the time was right. I never seemed to be able to get it right as she would catch me planting some seeds in my garden and she’d tell me it was either too early or too late and remind me to do as she does if I expected to grow enough to eat and have some left over to can for winter.
But she never had any luck growing rhubarb and I had a patch of it on my side of the rusty old fence. Her head ached because she couldn’t will my rhubarb patch to move itself onto her side of the fence. She’d sneak over when she thought we were gone and cut off several big rhubarb stems. I’d offer her all she wanted if she asked first but she seemed to prefer sneaking over to get it.
I managed to get my stiff fingers thawed out enough to type this story for the Brookville Star newspaper. It looks like we will continue to have some cool days and nights for the rest of the week. Does this cool weather remind me of fall? Brookville is not on any of those lists on Facebook that shows the 10 best places to live in American but I wonder if anybody should tell them about our town?
Five hundred words each week doesn’t sound like a lot of work but it is something to think about if anybody is reading them. Each word was chosen for some reason that seemed good enough at the time it was stuck in a sentence; and then you read it and all the other words and know as much as I do about the story as I do.
I was disappointed with the heat and drought last summer. Brookville was not the best place to be on many days when there seemed no relief outside. My wife and I talked about Vectren’s board meetings and how they must sit around a big walnut conference table and rub their hands together, in glee, at us turning the air conditioners down to cool off.
About the time we had it made and summer heat and humidity under control the weather in Brookville changed and our air conditioner was turned off and the furnace was turned on. Somebody likes to see spikes in utility bills—not the homeowner but surely the utility company is happy about changes in weather. It happens so fast that we didn’t have time to call anybody in to check out our heating system to make sure it was up to par for the oncoming heating season.
I bought an Old Farmer’s Almanac for 2013. I really don’t have much faith in predicting the weather a year or two in advance and have even less faith in the evening television news when the weatherman or weather-woman stands there telling us what we can expect.
Today it is cold and the air is dry. That means very cool nights here and some plants, like ragweed, might think it is time to increase their pollen count and send you off into migraine land at the doctor’s office—can I get something for this headache? My old neighbor lady used to plant her garden seeds and onion plants and tomato plants when the time was right. I never seemed to be able to get it right as she would catch me planting some seeds in my garden and she’d tell me it was either too early or too late and remind me to do as she does if I expected to grow enough to eat and have some left over to can for winter.
But she never had any luck growing rhubarb and I had a patch of it on my side of the rusty old fence. Her head ached because she couldn’t will my rhubarb patch to move itself onto her side of the fence. She’d sneak over when she thought we were gone and cut off several big rhubarb stems. I’d offer her all she wanted if she asked first but she seemed to prefer sneaking over to get it.
I managed to get my stiff fingers thawed out enough to type this story for the Brookville Star newspaper. It looks like we will continue to have some cool days and nights for the rest of the week. Does this cool weather remind me of fall? Brookville is not on any of those lists on Facebook that shows the 10 best places to live in American but I wonder if anybody should tell them about our town?
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