THE SEED

 

 

Father, forgive them... for they know not what they do

 

LOVE is greater than RELIGION

TRUTH is greater than LAW

LIFE is greater than KNOWLEDGE

DEDICATION

 

(Isa 42:1-4 KJV) Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

 

 

 

 

(Mat 13:37-39 KJV) He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

 

 

(John 16:7-14 KJV) Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.

 NOT ANOTHER BOOK

 

(Eccl 5:7 NIV) Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore stand in awe of God.

 

It was never my intention to write a book, seems to me it has all been said before, so why should I waste your and my time, writing yet another book?

 

As a child, you trust your parents and that trust is the measure of your truth. You never choose to be born, but once you are, you get caught up in the process of ‘being’ and follow blindly until something happens that disturbs you. Being born post World War II and growing up in the 1960s I consider myself one of the lucky few whose childhood was relatively undisturbed.

 

Later, as a young working man in the 1970s, I was disturbed by the world around me and searched through many books in the hope of finding ‘the truth’ about the ‘facts of life’ and how a man should truly live. My conclusion from all that research was that no-one really knows, we guess, we invent, we lie, we compromise and we settle on something that feels good or we fake it or flounder.

 

Eventually I gave up on ‘books’ and fell into a deep depression following a sense of hopelessness and despair at the confusion and pain evident in a world, which my father insisted, I couldn't change.

 

I found myself seeking the truth of my nature in the solace of nature. However, I could never reconcile my love of nature with my shame of being part of the destructive human world.

 

Fortunately, I was saved from a desire to depart, by groaning and crying to an unknown creator, usually in the still of the night.  It is now over 40 years since I was first commissioned to undertake this task and I can only apologise for the delay, my excuses are futile.

 

Seems to me, human communications are just symbolic expressions of an intangible reality, which are understood only by those familiar with the underlying memorable concepts associated with the symbolic code being expressed.

 

The ancients carved their symbols in stone to pass down to the generations that followed, retrospectively, they were wise, for stone lasts longer than paper which in turn will probably outlast the other forms of magnetic memories we have invented since.

 

So, beware!  Whatever we invent or take hold of, either mentally or physically, in trust, also takes hold of us… such is the nature of idolatry.

 

Only humanity chooses to READ, MEMORISE, RECITE & WAR over ‘words’ from ‘great’ men in human history and even to act from our own self-righteousness… but no amount of education, knowledge, discussion, argument, violence, dictatorship or democracy, will ever bring peace on earth or compare one iota to simply following the wisdom of the ONE servant king and prince of peace:

 

(Mat 22:37-40 KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

 

Despite Jesus being the greatest teacher this world has ever known, he is still ignored by many, made mythical, made fictional, made mockery, misunderstood, misinterpreted, disbelieved, distorted, tainted by the hypocrisy of his misguided followers, overlooked and undermined by many pretenders to the throne who promote themselves falsely as if prophetically knowing a better way, yet in self-delusion.

 

Who among all our leaders, kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers and false prophets, has, with just their bare hands… transformed matter, walked on water, calmed the wind, fed thousands with little, restored sight, healed the sick, raised the dead and shown the way of peace through pure love, in truth by an exemplary life, freely, without charging even a brass razoo or injuring a fly?

 

Truth is eternal, so it need not defend itself, cannot be nailed down, boxed or burnt and it requires neither me, books nor the internet for marketing purposes…. And though corrupted entities will always distort, exploit, betray, suppress and try to hide or destroy it… In eternity... truth alone, stands forever.... and all deluded men in sin and flesh decay to ‘dust’ unless they enter into it.

 

I write this book for all those who are still lost and confused in this world… and for all those who have looked and listened, but never seen nor heard.

 

And the sparrow said, “how am I to build my nest, I am no architect and have never studied architecture?”

 

And God said…… trust me…

 

 

A Voice in The Wirelessness

 

 

 

THE FIRST

 

(Rev 1:8 KJV)

I am Alpha and Omega,

the beginning and the ending,

saith the Lord,

which is, and which was,

and which is to come, the Almighty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(John 15:16-18 NIV)

You did not choose me,

but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit

--fruit that will last.

Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.

This is my command: Love each other.

If the world hates you,

keep in mind that it hated me first

 

 

Origination

 

(Gen 1:1 KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 

We have many supposed origins and originators, but which ONE is true and which one do you believe … because without the truth, we are living a lie...

 

1.            ONE Spirit (aka: God)…

 

2.            ONE Infinite space and time loop…

 

 

3.            ONE big bang, an explosion that goes on forever…

Q - How can ONE truth, be turned into MANY?

 

A - By the process of sensual, mental and instrumental division…

 

Like folds in a single sheet of paper, pieces are perceived at boundaries... but the page remains as ONE.

 

Q - How can MANY truths, be turned back to ONE?

 

A - By the removal of divisive delusion…

 

The best we can receive and conceive through our senses and imagination are divisive perceptions, a relative knowledge (which is fundamentally flawed from the outset), dictated and ruled by the instrument (our body consciousness), the environment and the dimension in which we dwell. Truth cannot be known through perception, it can only be entered into - it is a state of ‘eternal being’ and not a state of ‘objective knowing’.

 

The book of Genesis has little to do with creationism. The creation story is simply a backdrop to the greater issue - which is the fall of man from relationship with his creator(s) through sin (disintegration).

 

The OLD Testament is a book about 'sinfulness' (deluded knowing) and its consequences.

 

The NEW Testament is a book about 'sinlessness' (enlightened being) and the way to restitution of man with his creator(s) and the consequences. In both instances the lesson (the message) is more important than the words and the messengers..

 

The allegorical 'tree of knowledge' divides, it separated Adam and Eve from God and it separated men from women and it separated mankind from creation and neighbours from one another via horizontal perception and judgement. From this perspective we cannot see the wood for the trees and wander blindly, taking sequential steps in time. This is the nature of knowledge.

 

The allegorical 'tree of life' unites ALL things as parts of ONE system via vertical (higher) perception and love. From this perspective we rise above our selves and can see the whole forest and its future. This is the nature of wisdom.

 

(Rev 2:7 KJV) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Energy

 

1.    (Gen 1:2 KJV) And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

 

“Energy” is an English word given to that intangible force that is expressed and experienced through some kind of movement that effects change.

 

Energy comes in many forms because there are now many known forms or elements that can be seen to move and be moved. We now speak of light (solar) energy, water energy, wind energy, electrical energy, nuclear energy, etc., etc… but what are we really talking about?

 

From a Biblical perspective the ‘Spirit of God’ is like the breath or wind of God that somehow moved upon the waters.

 

From a current scientific thinking perspective, the ‘expanding universe’ at the origin of space and time is like an explosive energy spreading ever outwards.

 

From a Hindu perspective the universal form, breathes in while expanding and breathes out when contracting.

 

Whichever perspective you accept intellectually, the fact remains that ‘we exist’ and therefore some kind of energy or movement is at work that gives space, time and life to everything in our universe.  Without this movement or energy, all would be still and dead.

 

Einstein postulated that Energy (E) = the mass of an element (m) x the speed of light (c)  x the speed of light (c). Giving rise to the widely accepted scientific formula of E=mc². 

 

I strongly suspect this formula is not right for two simple reasons, firstly our universe is 3 dimensional therefore using the mathematical formula for an area of a square in two dimensions is probably inappropriate.  If energy radiates at the speed of light, then logically it would radiate in all dimensions at the same time. Therefore a 3D cube, sphere or donut (toroid) would be a more accurate mathematical model for energy dispersion measuring its expansive volume from a central source... and not just a 2D area of spread.

 

 

 

 

 

Secondly, if the original mass of the universe were zero, then  E= 0 x 299792458 x 299792458 metres per second, would result in zero energy at the beginning and zero energy as an end result, which makes no explosive or expansive sense. Such formula just sidestep the awkward question of the cause behind the whole effect. Because movement (energy) cannot occur without motivation, monitoring the movement or measuring the speed of the energy, provides no insight into the source or motivation behind the existence of movement (energy) or the existence of matter.

 

(Rev 22:12 KJV) And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

 

 

Big Bangs & Other Myths

 

(Gen 1:8 KJV) And God called the firmament Heaven.

 

Millions and millions of years ago there was a big bang…

 

Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away…

 

Whenever humanity uses ‘time’ as a way of explaining things, you can bet your life that we are in the realms of fiction… time does not cause change, time is a measure of change.  Time changes nothing, it cannot, it doesn’t exist, except as a memory of things that have changed.  If nothing changes, everything remains the same, there is nothing to measure time by…. Time stands still, when nothing changes. So, what causes things to exist and change?

 

A big bang?

 

My experience of “big bangs” is that they destroy things, they create nothing, except a mess…  Apart from the obvious chaos and disintegration caused to the fabric of life by ‘big bangs’ of mass destruction, there is the inevitable undermining of respect for life, love and our creator. Name one ‘big bang’ that creates life and I will gladly eat these words… big bangs usually create chaos, if order, law and life come from this chaos, then truly God is not a myth, our reasoning is simply myth taken.

 

All truth without evidence, should be challenged... And oftentimes the evidence is twisted to suit those who profit from the lie or who seek to undermine accountability to a higher authority, organising agency or truth.

 

The ‘will’ of God (expressed in heaven) and the ‘will’ and 'behaviour' of other creatures (on earth) through movement and interaction cause change. Movements in space cause change, time is our measure of them.

 

Any scientist that claimed a 911 Porsche was the product of the chaotic meanderings of atoms in time, following a big bang - would be mocked as mad. Yet the 'engineering' magnificence of an 'ant' surpasses the barbaric engineering of a Porsche by about 2000%. I offer the 'ant' as evidence of God. Can a Porsche move over any terrain, steer itself, feed itself, repair itself, reproduce itself? Without an organising agency an ‘ant’ is a universal impossibility… a miracle (If you will).

 

Our unbelief comes from flawed teaching and our flawed understanding of the nature of God.

 

Once upon a place not far from here, a little child was born, who grew in innocence and trust. Each year on Christmas Eve he became a little excited with the expectation of a little old man in a red suit with long white hair and a white fluffy beard magically arriving on his roof in a sledge pulled by reindeer and climbing down his parents’ chimney to deliver gifts and toys. His innocence and imagination even ignored the truth that the chimney had been blocked off for years.

 

Believe it not, I had an uncle that was sent to prison for supposedly molesting his step daughter, my mother believed he was innocent, because his step daughter was maladjusted. I do not know the truth of this, all I do know is that he used to send me Christmas cards of the nativity scene (the birth of Christ) for many years, which I pretty much ignored, mainly because, the beloved anagram of ‘Satan’ and his heavy consumer marketing, sack of toys and alcohol had nearly erased the real meaning of Christmas from my flawed mind. Thanks be to ‘Santa’ for keeping the ‘back story’ of Jesus alive for all these years for those who seek. For despite all the ‘time’, ‘deception’ and ‘materialism’ - Christmas Eve is still, the best night of the year. Maybe for no other reason than it keeps love and hope, alive.

 

(Isa 9:6 KJV) For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Mathematics

 

((Gen 1:2 KJV) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

 

In the beginning there was SOME-ONE or SOME-THING or SOME-VOID or NO-THING.

 

Accepting the big bang theory for a moment - where did the originating exploding “thing”, come from?

 

Even if the whole of our reality exists within this “thing”, the origins of this “thing” remain a mystery.

 

Only existence requires a ‘beginning’, the source of existence, hidden in ‘non-existence’ is without beginning and without end. It remains above and beyond existence and yet maintains and constrains (rules) all existence.

 

How does non-existence explode into existence?

 

From a mathematical perspective the origin can be defined as “zero”, since mathematical existence starts with “one”. Though “one” can be divided infinitely, to provide a range of decimal values between “zero” and “one” (e.g. 0.000000000001). True “zero” is beyond mathematics or manipulation, since it remains intangible and invisible and has no decimal or divisive parts, since this would make it more than zero.

 

From a 3D perspective, any origin or ‘point’ in space can be defined as 0, 0, 0.

 

Where 0 = X (horizontal plane), 0 = Y (vertical plane) and 0 = Z (diagonal plane)

 

Yet, without existence or substance, there is no substantial point of origin, no beginning. However, since our “earth” exists and “we” exist, there “must be” a point of origin, somewhere.

 

Any “point” is relative to the instrument that creates it and can be as small as a full stop “.”, as large as “the universe” or as miniscule as an “atom, electron or quark, etc.” The size of any point is ruled by the forces creating and maintaining it. Any “point” no matter how small can be divided into smaller “points” ad infinitum. Equally, any point without constraint, can multiply or expand ad infinitum. All “points” within this original “point” have a relative value to the origin.  Naming the substance of our ‘reality’ – whether as atoms; radiation; energy; matter or spirit still doesn’t answer the key question:

 

How can “substance” be formed from “non-existence” or in mathematical terms; how can “one” or “something”, be created from “zero” or “nothing”?

 

Nothing… is just “something” that is equal and opposite in all dimensions, to itself:

 

           

“Mathematics is the language of God”… Galileo 

 

I suspect, the universe is not exploding, but unfolding like a flower along naturally activated and responsive frequency folds (waves), like God’s origami, beyond our ken and control.

 

(John 8:18 KJV) I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.                                                

Let There Be light

 

(Gen 1:3 KJV) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

 

So where, exactly, does light come from?

 

Without our God given eyes we cannot even bear witness to light….  So we face not one question here, but at least two…

 

Where does “light” come from and where does “sight” come from?

 

The ancients resolved this with the revelation of ‘God’ – aka: the source of all existence.

 

Modern day thinkers and tinkerers have looked at light with their ‘God given’ eyes, through all kinds of ‘man made’ equipment and postulated that light originated with an explosion at the beginning of time and so “God is dead” and the ‘big bang’ lives.

 

Is this the Gospel truth or a devilish deception?

 

Even in human logic terms an explosion in infinite space (regardless of the cause for the moment), would spread out evenly and infinitely, dissipating from itself, creating nothing.

 

Since an ‘atom’ is the modern day concept of the origins of matter and the ‘big bang’ theory, where did this first piece of matter come from and more importantly, why should it suddenly explode and even more importantly what caused both these events to happen?

 

Seems to me, the modern day thinkers and tinkerers have not answered the real ‘meaty’ questions they have just managed to smokescreen the populous with sleight of words, as so many politicians do, to evade the ‘inconvenient truth’.

 

The main difference between… “in the beginning was ‘the word’ (will of God)” and “in the beginning was the ‘big bang’” is that the former has purpose and the latter has no purpose. The former continues to manifest as heaven and earth and life and you and me, while the latter by all rational logic, like all other big bangs, should just fizzle out…. But for some inexplicable human oversight, doesn’t.

 

And so, in my book ‘God is alive and well’ and the ‘big bang is a dead theory’…

 

Anyway, how does light continue to shine from an explosion that occurred billions of years ago?

 

The human heart continuously beats in our chests until our allotted days are numbered, it does not explode once in our chest by accident…

 

The sun continues to give its light because it is empowered by a source unseen, not because it is exploding, if this were so, it would have been scattered across the universe by now and all would be dark and cold and life and you and me, would be no more.

 

Why does it continue to explode, what is driving and maintaining it? Even our nuclear facilities need someone to keep an eye on them to ensure they do not overheat or breakdown. How can the sun, just keep going unattended?

 

(John 1:2-5 KJV) The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Atomic theory

 

(Gen 1:7 KJV) And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

 

Thanks to Albert, we now know that it is possible to ‘divide’ an atom of matter to reveal its inner substance and lo and behold it turns out to be a lot of  ‘energy’.  What the…

 

Truth is… it is and always was ‘energy’, the problem is, we really do not comprehend what ‘matter’ or ‘energy’ really are… the fact that we label it as ‘energy’ or ‘radiation; or ‘phlogiston’ or ‘ether’ or ‘electro-magnetic waves’ with a variable ‘spectrum of frequencies’ reveals nothing, it just symbolically NAMES or NUMBERS something ill-understood to make it symbolically ‘objective’ in our minds to give ourselves something tangible to focus on and theorize over, often wasting years trying to resolve silly questions created by our previous silly assumptions:

 

·         If like charges repel and unlike charges attract, how come so many like charges can be held together at an atoms nucleus and not repel one another?

·         Also, how come all the like charges at the center of an atom (the positive protons) and all the like charges spinning around the perimeter (the negative electrons) aren’t drawn together to cancel one another out?

·         If at the atomic level substances are held together by the sharing or bonding of the instabilities in their electron configuration… How are atoms of the same substance held together… when by all logic their equal electron configuration should cause each atom to fall away?

 

Current answers include:

·         electrons are held in orbit by the ‘electromagnetic force’.

·         protons and neutrons are held together by both ‘strong and weak forces’.

·         quarks in protons and neutrons are held together by the ‘strong force’.

 

All these ‘forces’ are invisible and intangible… do you believe in them?

 

Something else is obviously going on here that defies our rules or maybe our model is wrong, yet again, but like all knowledge – we consider it ‘truth’ until a closer approximation to the truth and a re-education convinces us to compromise what we thought we knew.  Consider the evolution of the atomic model:

 

 

There is a lot of nonsense taught today as truth and so much of it is contradictory, but anyone who dares to question these theories in the realms of academia would fail to pass the examination based on the accepted ‘facts’. So often in history we see great minds and great men ostracized, because they dared to think outside of ‘traditional thinking’, many were burned at the stake or dare I say crucified, simply because what they spoke or wrote was heresy to the establishment of the day and a threat to their established knowledge power base, whether social, political, scientific or religious. Truth should stand regardless of party or power base and it does not need men to protect it or persecute others over it and those that do these things have nothing to do with it, since fear and insecurity, are far from it.

 

(John 3:20 KJV) For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Unified Field Theory

 

(Deu 6:4 KJV) Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

 

The divisive human mind in its knowledge has managed to turn a unity into a puzzle and then struggles to reassemble the pieces as it continues to divide. This would be like a child trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle while his little brother is removing the pieces and cutting them into smaller pieces… and putting them back in the box, it is impossible.

 

The problem why humanity fails to realize a unified field theory is not the unification, but the divisiveness of humanity, human perception and knowledge. Like the age old story of the blind men defining an elephant from different perspectives agreement is impossible, because deluded self-righteousness (I am right - ego) gets in the way of the whole picture…. That is why – humility is the first prerequisite.

 

Firstly, human sensuality is limited, so our measure of reality is limited – we cannot sense anything that is of the same nature as ourselves… it is both colourless, odourless.and tasteless (invisible/spirit).

 

Secondly, we can only measure by potential difference between two things, often using a third thing as a standard unit of measure – such that ‘Hydrogen’ is taken as 1.

 

Lastly, all movement and measurement are relative to the position of the observer and the instrument of measure. So often we create results simply by being involved in the process.

 

God is a term to label the source of all ‘energy’; God is also a term to label the sink of all ‘energy’.  That is why God is both the alpha and the omega. Since God is the source and the sink, the apparent ‘field’ is the passage of energy from source to sink. This is perceived as an expansive field (an infinite explosion) or ‘light’ or ‘electro magnetic radiation’ – call it what you will, NO name is right. The diagram (below) attempts to outline the unified fields and our ‘named’ perspectives of measure.

 

 

Where ‘spin’ represents horizontal and ‘cycle’ represent vertical equal and opposite movement in a toroid. Each ‘element’ is a fractal of the infinite symbolized as eternal GOD   perpetual, self-balancing, self-repairing and totally interconnected, unless interfered with. (interference is the nature of evil) – what can anyone do that improves perfection?

 

The problem is that we have learned to harness and exploit this ‘free’ energy in various ways and like an ‘unfree’ economy… we are left with the responsibility and consequences of our actions with a constant juggling act to try and stabilize what we have artificially destabilized. Such is the nature of karma and the law of cause and effect (Or equal and opposite reaction).

 

When there is only ONE cause (God) there can only be one perfect effect. When there are many causes (gods) there are many conflicting effects.

 

(Mark 12:29 KJV) And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is ONE Lord:

Indifference

 

(Gen 1:4 KJV) And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

 

This is a very important verse, because it highlights the fact that God is not “indifferent” to creation, because God did not see the light and go – peh… whatever.

 

This is a key factor that differentiates believers from non-believers. Those that don’t believe in God, or that believe that the universe is ‘indifferent’ have overlooked (or been blinded) to this significant point:  Without a sustaining power, the universe, an explosion and God would cease in less time than a nano-second…. Not only so, but when we look at ‘life’ we see it actually struggles to continue and reproduce itself…. Why?

 

Life… like God is not ‘indifferent’ to its existence, because life… like light is seen as a ‘good’ thing… and worth preserving….

 

However, it is easy to see how… at a personal level one could be mistaken for ‘thinking’ that the universe or God is ‘indifferent’… we see that human history is littered with unjust atrocities committed in the title of God or in the name of God (Allah, Jesus, etc) and in the name of men (Hitler, Mussolini, Napoleon, etc)…. All pushing their ‘racio-socio-politico-religio-psycho’ ideologies.

 

One can be forgiven for ‘thinking’ that God doesn’t give a damn about our insanity and in some ways this is true, because ultimately our insanity mostly affects us and the rest of creation… it does not affect God, much less the scavenging creatures, ants and worms that multiply to process the mountains of dead bodies that human history has piled up through the centuries.

 

Does God look at the ‘wars’ and ‘violence’ and judge – wow… that is ‘good’; or does God look and go – peh, whatever; or does God look and judge – ow…this is ‘bad’…..?

 

Does God look and judge…through our eyes?

 

Ultimately… we are the ones that suffer for our insanity and our indifference (which is another form of insanity in itself)…

 

Early on in my quest for truth via meditation, I reached a zen like state of “nothingness”… this is akin to “indifference”… I effectively lost my ‘self’ and wandered in this state for years…. this is not ‘good’… it is an insanity that denies life and the goodness of God.

 

It was the revelation of “love” that set me free, for “love” is selfless activity in support of what is true, right and good. God is love…. and love is not indifference….. Until religious men practice the love that is of God, their religion is nothing but a dangerous insanity.

 

(John 10:32-34 KJV) Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

 

The Jews answered him, saying, for a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

 

The Nature of Reality

 

(Gen 1:1 KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 

Imagine, if you will, a magnificent painting, full of vibrancy, colour and detail.  Now imagine analyzing this magnificent painting and extracting the base colours in an attempt to grasp the significance and source of this work of art and you begin to understand the human dilemma. Reducing the “Mona Lisa” to a pallete of colours, totally misses the work of art, the truth and the beauty.

 

It is delusory to think that we can understand life, its purpose and its author, by reducing our reality to a periodic palette of base elements and chemistry.

 

Any attempt to grasp the nature of our reality through mental reductionism (knowledge) whether religious or scientific is doomed to failure because it relies upon limited sensual perception, destructive divisionism and the ignorance of the day.

 

Our perceived reality is confined to our senses, the ‘light’, movement and potential differences captured by our eyes; the ‘sound’, movement and potential differences captured by our ears; the ‘gaseous smells’ which enter our nasal passages; the ‘liquidous tastes’ that reach our tongue; the ‘matter’ that we can grasp with our hands and the ‘potent energies’ that we can feel around us…

 

Our greater part is the consciousness that perceives and processes these so called ‘sensual realities’… yet this consciousness like so many other very important aspects of our reality is invisible, intangible and imperceptible… the nature of reality… is spiritual.

 

Examining the ‘star dust’ of our reality, we find a world of magical and mysterious electro-magnetic balancing acts of ‘sub-particles of matter’, movement and potent energy… the deeper we delve into the sensual symptoms the more intangible becomes the cause.

 

To reduce the magnificence of this living tapestry and our capability of perception to a causeless explosion in the infinity of space is more outrageous than proposing that the ‘Mona Lisa’ was a causeless association of particles of paint.  Without some kind of activating force, there would be no explosion, no movement, no energy, no matter, no sun, no universe… no life…. nothing.

 

So…. what is the activating force underlying all existence and this living work of art?

 

Is it nuclear fission, ‘God’ or ‘Tao’?

 

The former is a destructive belief that denies human accountability to a greater good and challenges natural laws, while the latter are constructive beliefs that encourage human accountability to a greater good and adherence to universal law and order.

 

Humanity is like the ‘eye’ in the ‘Mona Lisa’, it has value only as long as it remains integrated with the whole… if the eye explodes across the face, humanity becomes blind and all the truth and beauty around us becomes a painful ugly mess.

(Rom 8:22 KJV) For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

The Nature of Reality (Part 2)

 

(Gen 6:3 KJV) And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

 

No child or creature asks to be born, no child or creature governs its structure, behaviour or DNA. Each is governed by evolutionary forces that precede it and sustaining forces that embrace it.

 

As imaginative beings we often deceive ourselves into thinking that we create things, but the truth is we only manipulate things that already exist. Humans create nothing. In fact humans are way more destructive than they are creative. Every house we have built has come from the substance of the earth, every tree we cut down is like the removal of a lung. It is impossible for humans to ‘create’ without first destroying something else. Every piece of steel and glass that builds Babylon has first been removed from the earth. If God ever introduced copyright laws, we’d all be in court.

 

The most creative thing humans can really do is sow a seed, nurture it into a growing tree that bears some fruit. Yet even if we sow a seed, we cannot make it grow, it grows by the grace of God and the natural processes of life.

 

The ‘force’ that we now still don’t really know, but have named ‘electricity’ has been around but unrecognized since the beginning of time. The Greeks first noticed its effect a few thousand years ago, when rubbing the naturally insulated and hardened sap substance with wool gave rise to a ‘magical’ energy. Even so, it was not until the 1600 and 1700s (only 300-400 years ago) and the age of science that it was re-discovered, named and exploited.

 

Naturally speaking, what we call ‘electricity’ exists for just an ‘instance’ when significant potential difference arises between two things in nature which cannot be resolved immediately because of a third thing that insulates them or keeps them apart. The Grecian ‘amber’ was only ‘electric’ when rubbed in dry air, humidity and water, ground electricity immediately.

 

In the modern world today the use of electricity has become ubiquitous as a source of power to drive our many electrical manipulations.

 

With the advent of ‘computers’ we have managed to create ‘virtual’ realities that can be shared and interacted with globally. If not via TV stations and Cinema, then via a plethora of devices connected through communication networks and the internet. Often unrecognized by the many users of these devices and media is the fundamental fact that the only ‘reality’ in all of this ‘virtual reality’ is the flow of ‘electricity’. When the ‘electricity’ ceases to flow – all these devices and all the ‘virtual realities’ in the world, cease.

 

Our reality is so similar to these virtual realities, each of us exist inside an eternal matrix much like software components inside a computer. We think we are real and indeed as long as the power flows, it is the only ‘reality’ we know. However, what we fail to see is the ‘power’ that underlies and drives the whole system. It is a power that flows from the beginning to the end. It is the invisible power that moves everything, it is the invisible power that holds the planets in their orbits and keeps them turning, it is the invisible power that lights the sun and keeps it burning, it is the invisible power inside each and every living being, cell and atom, it is the spirit of God and without it, everything is dead.

(Rev 22:13 KJV) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

One to Many

 

(Gen 3:22 KJV) And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

 

This passage has always raised some concern, since the phrase ‘one of us’ implies some kind of group or allegiance at work when the earth was made. It raises concern because no clarification is made as to who the ‘us’ is and we are left to speculate as to whether this ‘us’ refers to other intelligent alien beings, angels, demi-gods or Santa’s little helpers. And sadly, like all speculation it simply creates more divisions in our thinking, our social relationships and religious allegiances’. So… how can God be ONE and yet MANY?

 

The same question could also be applied to yourself…. How can you be one person and yet many independent cells functioning co-operatively?

 

The only boundaries on unity are those in the human mind. It is effectively ‘faith’ that both separates and unites. Faith in things other than God and the unity of existence causes division, while faith in God and the unity of existence restores and maintains unity. The problem with the term ‘God’ is it creates its own divisive issues, because it lacks definition or worse still is defined from 6 billion perspectives or worse still defined from a few perspectives that impose a democratic or terroristic righteousness.

 

Which ‘God’ do we place our faith in?

 

The one that fulfills our sensual desires or the one that creates, restores and maintains the universe and in so doing, fulfills our life’s purpose?

 

God exists…. regardless of humanity.

Truth exists…. regardless of humanities’ scientific laws and mind.

Life exists….. regardless of humanities’ socio-political laws and activity.

Love exists….. regardless of humanities’ religious laws and heart.

 

Humanity has named, created, worshipped and fought for many gods over the centuries, yet most of this religious behaviour is the by-product of mental delusion and familiar deception, since the ONE true living God orders all things peacefully and divinely. So what need is there for the killing, the stealing of land and other behaviours that have been and are being committed by humanity either inside its laws or outside its laws, when such laws only exist to control those outside Gods divine peace and unity or to justify criminal acts using some legal precedent acceptable to the ruling authority (aka: demi-god).

 

The tree of knowledge divides, while the tree of life grows and evolves in unity. Adam was cast out of the garden, not because of sin, but to prevent his knowledge (sin) from exploiting and perverting the perfect tree of life, truth, love and peace.

 

(Mark 12:29-31 KJV) And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

I am

 

(Gen 1:1-2 KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

 

Any rational person cannot help but ask the question – who was there at the beginning documenting the origins of existence?

 

If I were God and in the middle of my creative moment, I certainly wouldn’t stop what I was doing to take notes, besides, who would I be taking notes for?

 

Everything created is totally self documenting.  Anyone who was there or who witnessed the events and after effects can plainly see the evidence, so why would any witness need a book, film or theatrical re-enactment to help them believe or remember what occurred?

 

Such records are really only necessary to capture such events for those who missed it.

 

Parents take photos of their children at birth, yet their children continue to grow and evolve beyond their baby years. The photos remain, purely as a reminder of those earlier years…. Why do we keep such records, when the truth has moved on?

 

So…. who wrote the Bible and why did he, she or they, bother?

 

One thing is for sure, the Bible like any other book, was written by men and women, for men and women, in a language that men and women understood, at that time and place.

 

A record of events (especially in words), could never fully capture the events themselves, they can only give a taste of what occurred through expressive language. And even with our amazing technology that allows us to capture sound and vision over prolonged periods of time in a ‘virtual reality’, we still cannot capture the atmosphere, the smells, the temperature, the feelings, etc..... the ‘truth’ still eludes our media.

 

Truth is alive, all records, regardless of conspired animation, are inadequate and dead.

 

So someone found the ‘Dead sea scrolls’ and people get excited. Yet the living and unwritten book is around us all the time…. and people get depressed.  If you have lungs to learn, breathe it in, this is the most precious gift you’ll ever receive.

 

Inspired and prophetic men, who listened and lived in love with our creator, wrote scripture in humility, wisdom and faith, to awaken the blind and the ignorant…. It really doesn’t matter whether you cling to the vocalisation of: OM; Aum, Iam or Amen… truth is now, not in the virtual memories  or contrary expressions of man.

 

Yet… intelligent men spend years dissecting the things around us and conclude that life boils down to DNA, that atoms come from nothing, monkeys can be turned into men by radiation and in authority teach these ‘facts’ till our children pass out. So who can pass their teachings and tests, to grasp this magnificent book that binds us, in love, as one?

 

(Mat 23:15 KJV) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

I am (Part 2)

 

(Exo 3:14 KJV) And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

 

If I were the eternal self existent one, why wouldn’t ‘I am’ just spend all timelessness doing nothing in my own self existent bliss?

 

Here we see the difference between ‘selfishness’ and ‘selflessness’…. A selfish God would create and maintain nothing out of pure nihilism. A selfless God however, would create and maintain something out of pure love.  Love is a word we use to express the motivating force behind all creation (if not done for money). It may appear as a big bang or universal orgasm, but the motivating force is still LOVE, otherwise nothing would exist.

 

If I were the eternal self existent one… what would I create with?

 

Since I was all that existed, then I would have to create from out of myself… such that I would have to weave threads of my will into the very fabric of all existence. Thus all creation is like a tapestry woven and maintained by the spirit of God. No thing exists in isolation or stasis… God permeates all things, much like the concept of electron sharing, except that ‘electrons’ is just another name we apply to the acknowledged movement of this invisible energy through and around all atomic existence.

 

We now know, through our observations, instruments and measurements (science), that every so called ‘particle’ of our reality, is so called ‘energy’ moving at phenomenal speed… And yet to our created senses things appear solid, liquid and gaseous… how can this be?

 

Can a tapestry perceive its creator?  The best a tapestry could ever perceive is an understanding of the fabric of its own existence and nature (aka: ‘string theory’). Our sense perceptions are serialised and relative to our own nature and frequency of existence. Frequencies below our own appear static and frequencies above our own appear dynamic to intangible…. Everything except God is relative. If things are positive, they can only be positive compared to something else.

 

Who or what can we compare with God, the self existent one?

 

The work of art is not the same as the artist, the art is merely an expression of the spirit (love) of the artist. A child is not the same as the father, but the father’s spirit is inherent in the child.

 

Yet this LIFE is not a ‘dead’ work, the tapestry in which we dwell is a living work of art and it lives by the spirit of God moving in and around us… the concept of time is only relative to our sense of proximity, all that exists is movement in space. All free and creative movement is motivated by LOVE and maintained in FAITH. When LOVE ceases then all existence will perish.   When divine ‘electrons’ cease to flow through our part in this tapestry, we dissolve from whence we came… along with our adamic delusions.

 

Love is the greatest thing you will never know, love can only be entered into. For clinging to sensual knowledge is what keeps us deluded and divided from God. Which is why the keys to the Kingdom of God are with LOVE and not with religion, law or science.

 

(Rev 22:13 KJV) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Providence

 

(Gen 13:15 KJV) For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

 

Providence is something that is given, something that is provided, one doesn’t have to work, strive, beg, borrow or steal to obtain it. Providence is another word for the grace (or love) of God. And whether humanity acknowledges it or not, the universe, the heavens, the earth, life, you and me are all acts of providence.

 

There are effectively 3 human views of existence:

 

·         That everything is sourced from nothing and all growth is illusion.

·         That everything is sourced from chaos and grows by feeding on itself.

·         That everything is sourced from something and grows by feeding itself.

 

The first view is nihilistic and of no value, neither is it true, since if it were, you the reader, me the author and this book, would not exist.

 

The second view has some merit in the evidence around us, since there is much cruelty and suffering on the earth. Without doubt things eat one another to grow. From the tiniest organisms to the larger mammals, things stalk, prey, pounce and devour their neighbours’. It is a dog eat dog world. And yet, between all this pain and suffering there is much peace. Plants feed on sunlight without causing pain and suffering. If the earth contained only plants and bees, there would be no pain. Many larger mammals eat only grass, berries and fruits. In fact, the main predatory mammals are cats and dogs, most other mammals feeding upon grass (like sheep), which continues to grow, unless uprooted by those that dig in the dirt (like pigs) or devour everything (like goats). Life is unsustainable when we kill to eat our food source, unless we adopt complex and artificial breeding systems to keep pace.

 

The third view is that which should be subscribed to by all who believe in God and goodness. It is the view of an ordered way that provides for and feeds its own offspring.

We see this reflected in the human body, it is one and yet many cells working together to sustain the whole. Do the cells in the body fight and compete for resources? Are the cells in the human body at war with one another? The simple fact that a mother’s body provides milk for their babies is living proof of providence, only an ignorant and foolish baby would disregard the milk provided to kill and eat its mother.  Seems to me that the war for resources only occurs when resources are scarce or unfairly distributed (withheld). It also seems to me that if this lack is a natural limit then the nature of life is to change to suit the new conditions or die. Evolution is simply change orchestrated by the prevailing conditions in the environment. In natural circumstances, evolution is authored by the grace of God or providence, otherwise nothing would survive. Evolution is a process, a ‘tree of life’ if you will and God is the author. The world of men and living organisms are at war because humanity has failed to grasp the providence of God. The way back to paradise (a peaceful place where there is no more war and unnecessary pain) is through sharing and faith in the provision of God, which like life, is a GIFT of grace or love.

 

(John 6:51 KJV) I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

 

IDENTIFICATION

 

 

Identification

 

(Gen 2:19 KJV) And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

 

Any things identity comes from its creator and this “identity” is somehow encompassed and extrapolated from its structure, its behaviour and events surrounding its creation.

 

In the scriptural passage above, we see that something must first be created (formed), before it can be named or identified. This holds true for all things, since without the physical or logical boundaries of existence – nothing can be seen to exist individually, to be identified, or to ask and indeed answer the question…   Who am I?

 

Firstly, I am who my creator(s) made me to be.

Secondly, I am who my creator(s) named me to be.

Lastly, I am who my experience has altered me to be.

 

The first is my physical identity (a created living soul), inherited from my creator(s), ie: my parents, their ancestors, leading ultimately back to the first “Adam” and his Creator(s).

The second is my logical identity (a familiar name), given to me by my creator(s), ie: my parents and whoever else was considered by them during the naming process.

The third is my cultural identity (an alter-ego), grown in my mind, by social circumstances, experience and knowledge which often overrides, especially when identification with our first and second creators is weak, unrecognized or denied. As children we usually refer to our creators as dad(dy) and mum(my), mother and father, mama and papa, nana, baba, abba, similarly allah, etc… this occurs from our natural sound constructs, reverence, respect, love and affection.. Some even consider these first words a reference to ‘food'… mmmnnn (input); aaa (enjoyment) and pppbbb (output).

 

Our ultimate provider, we have termed, “God”, yet “God” is not a name or an identity, “God” is a classification and “Lord” is a title for any kind of ‘being’ considered greater than ourselves or that maintains or rules over our lives. God is a classification, until we give God an identity. Our many names for God seem to be derived from the simple act of breathing in and breathing out, since this is the most important interface between humanity and our living creator. Most Godly names are simply 2 syllables… one sound for the “in breath” and one sound for the “out breath”: Eh…Yeh; Yh…Wh; Jeho…Vah; Al…Lah; Bra…Mah; Rah…Mah; Abb…Ah; Bab…Ah; Soh…Am; Fa…Tha, etc, etc… Much depends on whether the “in breath” or “out breath” is leading… Either way, it is just 'being alive' noise recognition... exchanged in thanks, in resentment or indifferently.

 

The Koran. Surah 17 Isra, The Night Journey, Children of Israel: 110. Say “Call upon Allah, or call upon Rahman: by whatever name ye call upon him, (it is well): for to him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Neither speak thy Prayer aloud, nor speak it in a low tone, but seek a middle course between:

 

Since the one true living God has no creator - the names we give "God" and one another are just memory 'tags' used to track instances of our perceptions in time and space.. They have only temporal validity and no eternal reality. So why fight over them?

 

(Acts 17:23-24 KJV) For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

Identity

 

(Exo 3:11 KJV) And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

 

Answering the question “Who am I” is the key to a successful life. Losing “who we are” or never knowing “who we are” is a recipe for disaster.  Identity gives a man something to stand upon. It is the foundation for a fruitful life.   Without ‘identity’ we are insecure, look to others for self esteem, are easily influenced and usually fall victim to idolatry.

 

Moses was abandoned as a baby, raised as an orphan and didn’t learn the truth until much later in his life. His Egyptian identity was false, which made his whole life a lie. So he was forced, in humility, to seek out who he was. And he later found his identity again.

 

Firstly with God….. (Exo 3:14 KJV) And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

 

Secondly, with his fathers and forefathers..    (Exo 3:15 KJV) And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

 

Fatherless children lose their identity and lose their purpose, this leads to a low self esteem, depression and all too frequently suicide.  An identity is much more than a name or a number, these are superficial labels. Our identity represents our inheritance in the tree of life, our inherited value system, the reason for our existence, our purpose for being. 

 

People with identity issues, seek their identity from other things and suffer loss and confusion when their chosen identity proves not to be as true as they imagined.  And here we see the real problem, the human imagination… it is marvelous, but it can also be marvelously misplaced.  In a hall of mirrors there is only one truth, straight mirrors reflect it, bent mirrors just exaggerate, undermine or distort it. 

 

Disregarding medical conditions, someone that is not comfortable with their own nature and has chosen to adopt an alternative form with make-up, masks, artificial coverings, body piercings, tattoos, implants, etc. are using these additions to subdue or exaggerate their perceived identity and it should raise the question - why? Idolatry is seeking identity through external symbols, objects, beings or people, yet we can grow from this delusion to new levels of truth, so each step is not to be condemned, it is an education.  The highest form of identification is losing yet finding oneself in the Truth and Life that is in God.  False identities usually flee in the face of the Truth for no-one wants to believe a lie, we are just temporarily blind or deceived. 

 

We are all born as innocent naked babes, this is the plain truth, it is only those who cannot handle this truth that seek to hide, change or distort it, but all such embellishment that is not part of a natural growth and evolution, is a deception and the very nature of evil.

 

(Acts 17:28 KJV) God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;  Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;  And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;  That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:  For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Monkeys to men

 

(Gen 3:5 KJV)   For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 

One evening I watched an interesting TV documentary style adventure about Gorillas and Chimpanzees (supposedly our nearest relatives in the animal kingdom)… What fascinated me the most was the vast difference between the two species.

 

The Gorillas lived in the mountains and were purely vegetarian, feeding peacefully on the surrounding leaves and vegetation.

 

The Chimpanzees lived in the forests eating mostly fruits and leaves, but would often work in groups to chase, trap, kill and eat other monkeys. Chimpanzees had also devised ways of using rocks and sticks (basic tools) to undertake tasks. They also threw their excrement and fruit at the documenting film crew from the tree tops.

 

Presumably in the continued growth and succession of this ‘tree of life’ from its source… somewhere along the way… tail-less monkeys (apes) evolved from the tailed monkeys, just as the tailed monkeys evolved a long ways a way from walking jelly fish.

 

The key point here is this: mammals are not jelly fish, Chimpanzees are not Gorillas and men are not Chimps, just Chumps… Somehow, somewhere along the way these creatures became very different in structure and behaviour… in our case, language and the spoken 'word' are significant in the development of our 'virtual encapsulation of reality' in our minds as knowledge. However, to analyse and devolve life into a perspective of its previous incarnation is to do life, evolution and God a great disservice.

 

The human body consists of many identified parts… Which came first... the ear or the eye, the nose or the tongue, the hand or the foot? And more importantly, if we could survive OK with just an ear and a foot, why evolve a hand or an eye… is life just an ‘arms’ race?

 

Clearly there is more at work here than just randomness, accidental mutation or lucky survival.

 

Since Gorillas are much stronger than men and can basically rip other predators apart with their hands – one has to wonder why they have not spread all over the globe. Why are they confined to ‘near extinction’ in the mountains of Africa?

 

I suspect the answer to this question has something to do with their adherence to climatic, environmental and dietary requirements…. Which for some reason they do not override….

 

Men on the other hand are fundamentally physically weaker and yet like self elevated naked Chimpanzees have overridden nature at nearly every aspect…. Which is probably why the retrospective line reads “and ye shall be as gods” for in truth, this is exactly what we have become….But to what end?

 

(John 10:34-38 KJV) Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?  If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

Humpty Dumpty

 

(Gen 3:17-19 KJV)  And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

 

Despite all the scientific rhetoric, research and reasoning, ultimately we are ‘programmed’ to live, grow, age and die, returning to the dust of the earth. No amount of exercise, health food, pills, plastic or elective surgery can change this rule. Even electro-mechanical body parts or artificial hearts will not stop the inevitable. The simple fact is, anything displaced from the ‘Will of God’ experiences an equal and opposite reaction (karma) that brings it down to earth and humility. Such is divine justice, perfect, peaceful, heavenly and yet harsh to all those who cannot handle the truth.

 

(Gen 3:13 KJV) And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

 

What have we done and who is to blame?

 

Two very important questions here, but only because, until we recognize what we have done, we cannot fix it and until we recognise how we fell, we will always be subject to falling.

 

The questions are not asked to bring condemnation or to point the blame, they are asked by way of solution.  It doesn’t matter whether ‘humpty’ fell, or was pushed, the result is the same – the integrity of life is broken and it is difficult to repair, by human means.

 

What breaks the integrity of life?

 

Since the “Will of God” is the source and substance of our reality, being in it, is being in the right place at the right time, one, healthy and whole. Being outside of it, brings displacement, division, friction, sickness and death. Anything outside of the “Will of God” and ‘unity of life’, is displaced; dysfunctional; out of whack, a bent and broken self-serving unit or cellular structure… a bit like cancer.

 

A cellular structure out of control having no integrity with the rest of the body becomes a destructive entity… What creature would let their offspring be eaten by a lion or a bacteria, if they could protect it?

 

Displacement – displaces and like a chain reaction, displaced life feeds on us, displaced chemicals poison us, while our world of man-made displaced objects, potential energies and atomic radiations further displace and damage invisibly… What have we done?

 

Sadly, though we try to fix humpty with all kinds of artificial aids, medicines, glues and therapies – more often than not, these attempts at fixing, cause more damage, because the ‘man-made’ can never heal what ‘God has made’… we attempt to patch the cracks in our ignorance and technology, but, only the creator of life can heal us, organically.

 

(Mat 4:23 KJV) And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Men and Women

 

(Gen 2:18-25 KJV) And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

 

Is this passage a complete fairy tale, an allegorical story or a true account documented by the film crew at the scene of the actual events? Firstly, why was it not good for man to be alone with God?  This makes no sense. Secondly why did man need ‘help’ in the shape of creatures formed out of the ground? And lastly, why was Eve created from Adam’s rib and not out of the ground like all the other creatures?

 

From a scientific and evolutionary perspective, the single celled organism was created out of the dust of the earth and divided and multiplied, expanded, developed and multiplied in diversity to become all the creatures that we now know and name, as mammals, apes and from our perspective… man and woman (homo sapiens).

 

The two stories really aren’t that dissimilar – all creatures are created from the ground up and man has named all the creatures. The main sticking point is this business about “Adam’s rib” and woman. Why wasn’t woman created, “out of the ground”, like all the other creatures and why didn’t God just make “Adam” and “Eve” at the same time?

Looking back we see that: (Gen 2:7 KJV) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

 

It is also interesting to note that the story makes no mention of the ‘sexuality’ of all the other creatures. Like the question of which came first: the chicken or the egg? We are left with a conundrum that we can only solve in the knowledge that ‘men’ cannot name creation until it appears…. Therefore the “chicken” must come before the “chicken’s egg”, since the prior “egg” that the “chicken” came out of was a product of the previous generation of creature which could never be identical to the thing we now perceive, know and name as a “chicken” …. being genetically one generation removed (a “ -chicken”).

 

Then I must ask the question: which came first the male of the species or the female?

 

Since at some stage in the development of this wondrous tree of life and diversity, sexuality was born from asexuality or from the polarisation of a single creature into opposite genders…. For the sake of the story, I suspect woman is purported to come from man’s rib, to afford woman a special place alongside man as one and to ensure the delineation of human sexuality from potential bestiality… the confusion is ours alone, the polarisation comes from God…. not from the knowledge of man or from asexual amoeba.

 

(Mat 19:5 KJV) And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Interfaces

 

(Gen 1:26 KJV) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

 

As an architect in the computer industry, it never ceased to amaze me how similar the Object model of component software development is to our nature. Though, this is largely because our IT architectures have evolved to become based on observations and revelations of the natural world around us.

 

In the component model every ‘thing’ represents an instance of a class of things with exposed interfaces to other ‘things’. No-one really needs to know what goes on inside each component except the maker. Other things need only be aware of the exposed or public interfaces and their consequences.

 

From a human perspective these interfaces consist of all the holes and handles that facilitate inputs and outputs to and from the magical box that is a man or a woman.

Without the flow of ‘magic’ through these holes… every component is as dead as a paperweight. 

 

Though most often overlooked in our quest for knowledge, this ‘magic’ flows from one component to another in total interdependency, yet it is the intangible true nature of all of our life, love and relationships.

 

To deny the existence of God is a bit like a piece of software code denying the existence of the execution environment, the operating system, the hardware and the manufacturer.

Worse than denial, is the lack of any accountability to the whole, since accountability is the only thing that separates a useful piece of software, from a destructive virus.

 

Can any piece of software function independently of the system that gives it purpose?

 

In the natural world… what we call “viruses” are the product of millions of years of complex interactions and evolving refinements to a unique and perfect living system. Such “viruses”, “bacteria” and micro-organisms are not the enemy… The real enemy is man’s stupidity (sin) and the actions and consequences of “sin” causing him to think and act in ways that have no accountability to the ONE (system) that created and sustains him.

 

(Mat 13:15 KJV) For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Interfaces (Part 2)

 

(Exo 3:4-5 KJV) And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

 

The biggest danger to so called ‘civilisation’ and probably why most seem to implode over the course of time, is that to isolate ourselves from the natural world is to deny our 'living' soul. The more we box ourselves in, the more disconnected we become, until eventually we lose touch with what is naturally right and wrong and lose all sense of purpose... So in boxes we live and are eventually buried (or cremated) with or without the devices of our own making and mind sets. If the eyes are the windows to our living space, then the mind is a TV set repeating old shows and desires, somehow eroding the spontaneity of love, truth and life with yesterday’s scripts and filtered rhetorical baggage.

 

Meanwhile God’s ‘reality’ is governed by and exchanged at our interfaces on a natural frequency, where each breath, each sight, each sound, each smell, each taste and every touch is personally relevant... So, look away from the TV and don't just look out the window, step into a field, remove your shoes, feel the earth beneath your feet; feel your body exchange air with heaven, this is your timeless reality and the 'bread' you eat... is the body of love, truth and life, without which you cease to be. Everything in your mind is virtual, not real; at best a reflection; at worst a distortion... So get REAL.

 

Other creatures experience reality quite different to humanity, many mammals cannot experience colour - while yet other creatures can experience ultra-violet and infra-red, to which they respond. Many of these interfaces are one-way, receiving messages only from the ‘system’, while other interfaces operate ‘two-way’ also allowing the sending of messages to the ‘system’.

 

 

 

Note that male and female from a natural interface perspective are somewhat different.  Men have penises and women have vaginas, this is not an accident and neither have a choice, this is predetermined by the system (God). Also women produce eggs, babies and milk, while men produce semen. Confusion over sexuality is mostly a virtual reality (human mental) problem, not a natural real-time interface problem.

 

 (Mark 10:8-9 KJV) And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

 

 

Responisbility & Duty

 

 

(Eccl 12:13 KJV) Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

 

Handling responsibility is really what differentiates a man from a child, but when should this training begin?

 

As a father this is a difficult question, since out of love, for this ‘innocent’ creature that has become YOUR responsibility, it is so easy to get carried away and ‘spoil’ a child much like overwatering a plant. The intention is good, but the outcome is often detrimental. It is even easier to neglect a child, because of other responsibilities or debts you have to deal with as well; or maybe you are just consumed with your own business or pleasures. Either way, the child falls victim to poor parenting.

 

Most fathers want their children to be happy and healthy; no father wants their child to grow up to be ‘bad’… so what goes wrong?

 

The problem with absentee fathers is their children get away with murder and the problem with overbearing fathers is their children are already in prison. Teaching responsibility is a juggling act that few manage well. And who can legislate, when each child is different?

 

(Gen 4:5 KJV) But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

 

It is very easy to upset children, since they are, by nature, sensitive. So sharing the truth with a child is like giving solid food to a baby – they cannot handle it and will probably react badly.

 

Like plants, everything must be given at the right time to maximize their healthy growth and neglected gardens grow wild, while overwatered plants drown. There is no condemnation here… we just need to take the time, to ‘listen’ and be more ‘in tune’.

 

(Eccl 3:1 KJV) To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

 

In this day and age, children rarely see or go with their fathers to work, most times they just see them coming home before TV and bedtime and if they are lucky, at breakfast. We live in an age where the media and technology has replaced family interaction. There is more communication capability than ever before; So much so, that children never need leave the presence of their digital peer group or worse still, lose themselves in digital isolation… And parents just become annoying background noise and respect is lost.

 

And so… as respect and responsibility are lost, so are we… and the suicide rate climbs higher than ever, for without parental love, a child must learn how to live for themselves.

 

(Luke 2:49 KJV) And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

Ownership

 

(Gen 1:27 KJV) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 

This is the first reference to ‘own’ in the Old Testament – the funny thing is, this word is added to the text, it is not present in the original Hebrew. In fact the word ‘own’ does not occur in the whole of the original Hebrew. It has been added 390 times in the King James translation.

 

Generally ‘own’ means ‘to possess’ or ‘belong to’ and to ‘own up’ means to confess to something that is true. If you create something, you are usually considered the ‘owner’, so in Biblical terms everything belongs to God… God owns everything and everyone.

 

Since humanity did not create itself, it cannot ‘own’ itself or one another or anything for that matter, except that which it has created for itself. ie: The world and all its many products and services.

 

God created heaven and earth and all living things, God did not create roads, railways, bridges, viaducts, pipelines, transport systems, etc, etc… much of this is credited to the Romans. Who let’s not forget – crucified Jesus.

 

There is a saying that “possession is nine tenths of the law” – which basically means that if you possess something you effectively own it. And whatever you ‘own’ you should by rights take responsibility for and likewise whatever you take responsibility for, you effectively own. We cannot own the earth, that is delusion, it effectively owns us; our bodies will one day return to the earth. In the mean time, some deprive others from living on the earth because they possess more than they need.

 

In nature we see that nests, shells, creature homes and holes are created and possessed for the purposes of shelter and rearing of offspring, they effectively become owned by the occupant(s) for the duration of reproductive cycle and sometimes for life.

 

Even in colonies where millions of birds nest next to one another, there seems to be an inherent order with minimal squabbling between pairs that ensures for a relatively peaceful sharing of the space available. We call this the natural order and though it often results in challenges for mating or nesting rights where a competition or fight ensues and the victor takes the spoils leaving the defeated empty. This all seems very orderly and rarely becomes a fight to the death and seems to ensure that the ‘best’ creature wins in the evolution stakes. So when it comes to ownership, the ‘best’ creature should win (and be allowed to win), lest the lesser party in evil manipulation terminate the best evolution of the species. The ‘best’ in this instance is the most desirable and amenable for the perpetuation of this ‘good’ thing - life.

Ownership without loving responsibility, like taking more than the human hand was designed to hold springs from ignorance, fear and greed, which ultimately results in negligence and wasted life. And so Abraham was blessed for his submission.

 

(Gen 22:17 KJV) That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

 

(Mat 5:5 KJV) Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth

Spirit & Flesh

 

(Gen 6:3 KJV) And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

 

There appears to be a division in the nature of man and this division is caused by ‘sin’ and maintained somehow by adherence to the flesh. ‘Spirit’ is the nature of ‘God’, while the flesh is the nature of man.

 

(Deu 6:5 KJV) And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

 

From the passage above, we see that the “flesh” is divided again into: the heart; the soul and might.

 

·         The ‘heart’ in Hebrew “lebab” refers to the centre of our being and feelings – our mind, senses and emotions. Fundamentally the central nervous system. Not as we consider the heart today, the organ that pumps blood.

 

·         The ‘soul’ in Hebrew “nephesh” refers to a breathing creature and a body (including the lungs, the heart, the blood circulation, bones and tissue).The soul is our living physical being. Not as many imagine, the ‘spirit’, this is misinterpretation.

 

·         ‘Might’ in this context in Hebrew “me’od” refers to vehemence, diligence, utterly, passionately, effectively giving 110% of our will. Not as many imagine – muscle.

 

The key point is that the ‘flesh’ is really a material unity, the ‘heart’ cannot exist without the ‘soul’ and ‘might’ is a measurable by-product of the mental and physical complexity.

 

Though the ‘spirit’ of God, by nature is good, this spirit pervades the whole of creation and is kept in balance by the will of God. Nature is fundamentally ‘neutral’ within the will of God, that is, all forces seek to balance or find equilibrium within this ‘good’ will.

 

Even science recognises the exchange of equilibrium that occurs between negative and positive forces. Where the definition of ‘negative’ and ‘positive’ form relative measures, dependent upon the instrument and location of measurement.

 

If the ‘spirit’ belongs to God, who is good, how then can such things as ‘evil spirits’ exist, since this seems contradictory. Yet not if one considers the nature of reality, since to maintain balance, both ‘negative’ and ‘positive’ forces must be applied depending upon the issues at hand. All sin is effectively an imbalance / disharmony between the spirit and the flesh and all sickness is an imbalance / disharmony between the heart (mind) and the soul (body).  Negative forces attract positive forces for equilibrium and vice versa, since any force that steps either to the left or right of the will of God can be considered negative or positive, since it imposes an ‘ungodly’ influence. It is clearly documented in the Old and New Testament that God sends forth both ‘good’ and ‘evil’ spirits to deal with men and the problems on earth. Jesus restored sight to the blind and yet gave blindness to Saul to enlighten him, the act could be seen as evil, but the motive and outcome was good.

 

(John 6:63 KJV) It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

 

SPIRIT & FlesH (PART 2)

 

(Gen 6:12-13 KJV) And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

 

How can the flesh overrule the spirit of God?

 

Indeed, one should ask the question why didn’t God stop Adam from sinning in the first place, it would have saved a lot of heartache and pain… so what is going on here?

 

To draw a more modern analogy to this problem, consider the human creation of a computer. We see 3 major components:

 

·         The hardware processor - equivalent of the flesh

·         The software instruction set - equivalent to human instinct

·         The electrical power - equivalent to the breath and holy spirit of God

 

There may be some development environment somewhere, where God did all the prior testing before putting the earth and all its characters into production or maybe the whole development process happened by trial and error on Earth, but one thing is for sure, once you start this thing going, it isn’t going to stop, until some ONE pulls the plug.

 

Anyone that has ever bought a new computer knows that this is the cleanest it will run.

 

The plot thickens when you add hardware I/O capability… Most computers just ‘serve’. When computers I/O themselves and ‘know’ they are ‘serving’, then potential exists for them to question.  Since all computer instructions and external data are just encoded signals carried on waves of electrical power (spirit), they are not that dissimilar… However, it is dangerous to mix them up. It is even more dangerous when you either deliberately or accidentally install new software in the belief, that it has more ‘goodness’ than the creator(s).

 

Our instruction set is reflected in our expressed value system, though these are often incomplete if based on acquired data… some run on Buddhism V0.1 others on Buddhism V0.3. Others run on Marxism V1.0 and others on Communism V2.0. Unfortunately data based Operating systems are always incomplete and in need of updating.

 

The human body and its operating capability are far more complex than a binary computer and as such it too can be corrupted by malware (misguided beliefs and instruction sets and knowledge). Our nature whether ‘good’ or ‘evil’ is expressed as a signal on invisible (spiritual) waves and manifests in our physical behaviour.

 

There are only so many ways to fix a bent unit:

·         You throw it away - to decompose or recycle parts

·         You re-program it - by education and training

·         You restart it – by cleaning and re-install the software.

·         You keep it up to date - by regularly installing the latest software patches

 

The purpose of baptism was body cleansing and the purpose of repentance is the removal of malware (sin) by installing Jesus V 3.3.

 

(Rev 19:17-18 KJV)  And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

 

Heroes

 

(1 Sam 17:51 NIV) David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine's sword and drew it from the scabbard. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.

 

The word ‘hero’ doesn’t appear in my King James Version of the Old Testament, King James interpreted the text as ‘Champion’, but in the New International Version above, we see the word ‘hero’.  Despite the human semantics, we all know what a ‘hero’ is…

 

Someone who stands up for something that we ‘believe’ is ‘right’. The two key words here are ‘belief’ and ‘right’… In fact when you boil it down, it really only involves one word, since no-one deliberately believes in something that is wrong, they are just deceived.

 

The Philistines believed in Goliath and Goliath believed in his own strength and in his backers, but David believed in God.  Both sides thought they were ‘right’, but only David was vindicated in righteousness.

 

The key difference between a ‘hero’ and a ‘zero’ is that a ‘hero’ believes in something more important than their self and is willing to give their whole heart, mind, soul and strength to it, even at the cost of their life. We often see this is in spectator sports, the ‘hero’ is the player that is totally committed to his team, his sport, his whatever. The Romans even turned the battle between David and Goliath into a kind of spectator sport in the gladiator arena. Watching men fight to the death, often in an attempt to change the Christian values of love, to one of life at the expense of another.  And in so many ways, the Romans managed to distort the original message of Jesus, who let’s not forget, was actually a Jew, much like David.

 

We also see similar traits resurrected in 1936 at the Berlin Olympics by Hitler as the ‘hero’ of the German people… So… on the one hand we have the Philistines, the Romans and the Germans and on the other hand we have the Jews and the Christians.  The former group believe in themselves, their land and their nationalistic beliefs, while the latter group believe in something greater than their selves, their land and their nationalistic beliefs.

 

Every war has its ‘heroes’, but is a hero the man who runs into the enemy camp and destroys the enemy, or is it the man who runs into the enemy camp and saves your loved ones?

 

Who is your enemy, who is your opposition, who are you trying to shame, defeat, maim or kill?

 

In nature, we see animals fight for three major reasons:

·         For territorial rights (fatherland)

·         For sustenance (food)

·         For their mate and offspring (family)

 

This is the ‘law of the jungle’ and it works because every living thing is subject (obedient) to it, except perhaps… humanity.

 

(John 8:44 KJV) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Heroes (Part 2)

 

(Deu 32:20 KJV) And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

 

Because of the complexity of the human mind, we have managed to formulate many different belief systems, but they also fall into three major patterns:

 

·         Those who believe in nothing

·         Those who believe in everything

·         Those who believe in something

 

The first group are effectively disabled, de-motivated and potentially depressed… lacking in motivation, their life is a throw away and often is. It is the child that sits in the corner at the playground and cannot see the equipment for the nihilism. These are the Zeroes.

 

The second group are often ineffective, since their energy is dissipated in so many directions, it is the child that stands in the middle of the playground, is overawed by all the equipment and often can’t make up their mind, consequently spinning out of control. These are the ones divided and over indulging in everything. These are the Weirdos.

 

The third group are the most effective and also the most dangerous, it is a group full of the motivated and often bigoted idealists, the ambitious, the extremists and the one-eyed achievers. Who pursue their goals regardless of the consequences… they are the children who push to the front of the queue at their favourite equipment and capitalise on their skills.  In their singular field of endeavour these are the Heroes.

 

Heroes are also made by those who believe in them… and one group’s hero is inevitably another group’s bloody nuisance.

 

Then there are those who believe in the goodness of life and God, beyond the hero worship of men.

 

In a world where things are shared equitably by ‘good’ governance there would be no need for shame, defeat, maiming or killing, because men would live by co-operation in a shared vision, not by competition from inequitable necessity or greed.

 

Civilisation cannot live by the ‘law of the jungle’ outside of paradise. If humanity chooses to manage one another, then it must manage by co-operation and fairness, otherwise it is doomed to interminable shame, defeat, maiming and killings as a consequence of belief systems that compete against one another, creating imbalance, injustice and war.

 

What ‘self’ seeking political candidate can govern wisely, fairly and equitably… this is too much of a burden to place on anyone… We all must learn to let ‘love’ govern our behaviour, do we really need to appoint some ‘political candidate’ that we know nothing about, to govern over us, together with corrupt officials, police, lawyers and courts?

 

Organised crime is rife where corruption and injustice prevails, just because we cannot see it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Who governs those in ‘power’ to ensure their righteousness?

 

What justice is their in any human system where a man who works hard all day sweeping the street is paid a pittance, while a man who sits all day in decisive discussion is paid in millions?

 

If we are to vote for anything in this world, we should be voting for human values (rules of behaviour) to make the world a better and fairer place for all, not for political parties, personalities or performing monkeys, that we can applaud or condemn.

 

Only in a spirit of co-operation and love can we turn the jungle into paradise and this can only happen if we change what we have been led to believe, to what is truly right.

 

I tell you now, not even Jesus can save the world, no matter how many times he comes, if ‘we’ the people, refuse to listen and obey ‘his’ behavioural instruction.

 

(Luke 18:6-8 KJV) And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.  And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Virgins

 

(Gen 24:16 KJV) And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

 

This is the first reference to a ‘virgin’ in the Old Testament and it is interesting to note that the term is really given to a young single unbetrothed woman, since why would it be necessary to qualify the term with the sentence “neither had any man known her”, this should have been implicit in the term ‘virgin’ and later this implicitness applies. So ‘virgin’ or ‘maid’ was originally a term applied to young single women, whether they have known men or not. Later in Biblical law we see that:  (Exo 22:16-17 KJV)  And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

 

In other words, once a man had sexual; intercourse with a young single woman, he was obligated to marry her, but if her father refuses to let him marry her, then he must pay the father some kind of token recompense for having violated his daughter without permission. Interestingly the next two sentences reveal even more about Biblical sexual promiscuity and male dominance:  (Exo 22:18-19 KJV)  Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.  Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

 

A witch is seen as an enchantress one who would entice men for her own ends (perhaps deceitful sex with a mind to obtain dowry money) and it is unclear whether the bestial acts refer to men or women or maybe both, either way death seems a harsh sentence, but it does prevent further corruption and infection, maybe education just cannot change such twisted patterns of behaviour. We also see later that the high priest was to take a virgin to be his wife (Lev 21:13-15 KJV) and any ‘maid’ that was displeasing could be rejected on the grounds that she was not a ‘virgin’ and her parents could plead her case with proof (presumably from the marital bed) (Deu 22:13-21 KJV) . The rule of the law was that any betrothed maid caught lying about her virginity was stoned to death, as were cheating couples.

 

Which brings us to Mary, Joseph and Jesus…? History shows us time and time again that people prefer a memorable story to the truth… Imagine how the story of Jesus’ birth would have been played down if it read that Mary lay with someone she loved before she was married (possibly Joseph, possibly some other) and Joseph loved her and married her. Personally, this makes Jesus’ all the more real and gives us all more hope to be like him, since how can any of us hope to live up to someone divine from birth? However, this earthly ideal falls short of the mystical divinity and virgin idolatry that somehow distracts from his life and message.

 

When we look at the ‘evidence’ in the gospels and try to separate the ‘hearsay’, we see that Matthew (the tax collector) gives mention of the genealogical line of Jesus’ which comes from his father Joseph, who was a prophet by faith as well as a carpenter, since numerous times in Matthew angels are purported to talk to Joseph who then takes action and saves Jesus’ numerous times during his early life.  Why isn’t there another religion that idolises Joseph the ‘just man’?  God forbid.  Under the LAW, Mary would have been stoned to death…. and what a loss that would have been for the world…

 

 (Mat 1:20-21 KJV) But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

 

Virgins (Part 2)

 

(Deu 22:23-24 KJV)  If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

 

Mary was not the first young woman impregnated by a god, we see in Greek ‘mythology‘ that ‘Hercules’ or ‘Heracles’ was considered the last mortal son of Zeus. Who was purported to be the only man born of mortal woman to become a god upon his death, while he lived he was portrayed as somewhat simple, very strong and yet righteous. The Romans valued him highly, as he best fit their idea of a hero, so he had a whole bunch of followers that worshiped him as a god.

 

So, did God in ‘Zeus like form’ come down from heaven (Uranus) and impregnate the virgin Mary?

 

The Gospels don’t say this, they only give mention to the “Holy Ghost” or the “Spirit” of God, which is difficult to imagine and highly subjective, as opposed to the Greek version which is highly visual and memorable involving some great big muscle-bound king from space ravishing a virgin.

 

Only in the Gospel of Luke do we see the Angel talking to Mary, in the Gospel of Matthew the Angel talks only to Joseph… and the gospels of Mark and John, just don’t go there at all. This is indeed confounding.  However, both the Matthew and Luke stories agree that Mary was pregnant by the Holy Ghost, before Joseph married her.  The question that remains in my mind is that if the Holy Ghost can impregnate virgins at will, then why have any ungodly men on the planet at all? 

 

It is doubtful that the ‘Holy Ghost’ impregnated Mary via the vagina, so clearly some other selective force is at work here, that has made Mary the only young woman on the planet at that time, worthy or capable of apparent asexual reproduction... and why do the rest of womankind still require the injection of magical fluid from a man’s penis and the transport in the shape of a spermatozoa to carry genetic material for the construction of future offspring?

 

Are we talking about a ‘one off’ event here, like the navel oranges that no longer grow from seed and which would have ceased to be, if men hadn’t perpetually cloned the root stock.  Clearly in the natural world men and women are required to create offspring, we are not naturally an ‘asexual’ species, despite our many ‘modern’ weird and wonderful variations of what a family is. Children are naturally born to a mother and father via seed and a reproductive process. Two mothers and two fathers cannot produce offspring… Sure they can beg, steal or borrow children from elsewhere and raise them in compromised ways, but they cannot create them and if you did not create your child naturally, then who will the child turn to for ‘identity’ when it awakens to its being, God knows how many fatherless children are lost today, why perpetuate this problem and think that this, is right?

 

A virgin that gives birth is actually a ‘freak of nature’… which is different to being a ‘freak by man’… Maybe Jesus was just a freak, if so, we need more like him, since in the scheme of human evolution, we ARE as Chimpanzees by comparison.

 

(Mat 25:11-13 KJV) Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

Priests

 

(Exo 3:12 KJV) And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

 

When Moses was called to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, it was for two reasons… to ‘serve God’ upon the mountain and to set them free in a land naturally flowing with milk and honey.

 

This chapter is not so much about ‘priesthood’ as it is about ‘serving God’… what does that mean and how can any creature achieve this?

 

How does a ‘cow’ or a ‘bee’ serve God?

 

If ‘cows’ produce milk and ‘bees’ produce honey, then are ‘we’ in turn measured (judged) by our natural productivity (our fruits) before all creation and God?

 

Yet here we see the conundrum – a cow cannot produce milk, nor a bee produce honey without the providence of their creator. Is it not God that creates the cow and the bee and all they produce? Indeed, in the biblical passage above, we see that God says to Moses “I will be with thee” and “ye shall serve God”….It only works as a ‘loving’ partnership.

 

One cannot serve God, unless God is with thee and if God is not with thee, thee serve thine own sinful deluded emotionally self-induced endorphin drugged state. 

 

If God loved people more than the rest of creation, why did he only save Noah and his kin and let the rest of humanity drown in the flood… indeed, do we not all die because of sin?

 

Clearly the Egyptian priests had religion and served their gods and many, many people all over the world claim their religion and claim to serve their god, it seems to be a common pattern handed down throughout generations. Nations support their inherited ideals and culture, children support their parent’s teams, idolatry and values or alternatively seek out or are seduced to follow more appealing teams or their favourite artist to admire and worship, dare I say love… but what has any of this behaviour to do with serving God?

 

So how can any man, woman or creature from this or any other planet serve God?

 

Does wearing fancy dress, reciting scripture, singing songs of praise or saying a few ‘holy’ words over the new born or the dead or worse still killing your neighbour in Gods name – serve God? Does the living God care more for man’s created religions, religious practices and suicidal terrorists, than he does for the living creation sourced and maintained by his one spirit?

 

Any priest that does not serve all creation in life, truthfully and lovingly… has lost the plot. Jesus is rightly lauded as a high priest, his way was walking and sharing 100% in love, talking 100% pure truth and living 100% for all life…. And that is the ONLY way any man can serve God, all other ways are delusive, divisive and destructive. He requested only that people follow his way, not worship him or his way…

 

(John 14:6 KJV) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Prophets

 

(Gen 5:24 KJV) And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

(Gen 6:9 KJV) Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. (Gen 17:1 KJV) And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

 

Given the billions of people on the planet, why is it that so few seem to walk with God?

 

And what exactly does it mean ‘to walk with God’, since if we understood this cryptic phrase there would surely be more men who walked this way?

 

God knows I have tried to walk with God, I have worshipped in church, fasted and prayed, repented, been circumcised, baptized and wept on my face in abject humility and submission for days and nights on end, but all to no avail. So, what is it about prophet’s that makes them so ‘perfect’ before God and where am I failing to qualify or is my nature so corrupt that I am automatically disqualified?

 

There are no schools or universities for prophets, it seems to be something that one is born to – like some star sign or heavenly alignment at birth perhaps, or maybe a faithful way of life that is maintained throughout one’s life in innocence or attitude, despite alternative temptations.

 

Likewise, one does not qualify for a career in brain surgery, just because one has read a few books, performed a few delicate manual tasks and donned surgical scrubs.

 

Nothing is written about the attributes of ‘Enoch’, just that God took him away at 365.

‘Noah’ was a just man and perfect in his generation. He did not have children until he was 500 years old. ‘Abram’ was 86 years old when his first son was born and 99 years old when he was requested to walk before God and be perfect. ‘Moses’ was 80 years and ‘Aaron’ 83 years old when they spoke unto Pharaoh.

(Num 12:3 KJV) (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)

(Deu 34:7 KJV) And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

(Deu 34:10 KJV)  And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.

(1 Sam 3:7-8 KJV) Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him. And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.

 

Prophets are either called or chosen, can they volunteer?

 

It seems that the university of the prophet is in the wilderness of self-denial and one cannot walk with God while sitting with God, one can only walk with God when one moves at the speed of God in the direction in which God is heading…. This is the very nature of alignment and it is impossible without faith.

 

(Mat 5:17 KJV) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Kings & Queens

 

(Gen 14:1-2 KJV) And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

 

No man or creature can be King without a kingdom, that is, an area of space that is their responsibility. God is effectively the King of ALL time and space - which means that God has the overall responsibility for all things. Indeed… because God is the source of all time and space, all things are ‘in truth’ parts of the body of God.  Imagine for a moment that you are not just one person (you), but 40 people (you). That is, your consciousness is threaded equally through 40 people and each one is you and your responsibility. Like being a manager (king) over 40 people, but with more skin in the game, because they are all parts of you. Now imagine that you occupy an area of space that can only effectively support 39 people and you are forced to make a decision to remove one of your people, to save the other 39… which one will you choose?

 

God faces such dilemmas and decisions every micro second and by the perfect power of yin, yang equilibrium, equal and opposite forces and electron sharing these decisions are made and executed instantaneously and justly… God leads by a totally open and just example, is this way not fair?

 

The human ‘Kingly’ dilemma is different because humans form attachments and play favourites, so when wise and balanced decisions are made to remove an ‘attached’ one… what ensues is a hue and cry about the decision…. Undermining the ‘King’ and beginning the process of insurrection, rebellion and war.

 

Few human Kings have ever been benign dictators, like God… most have been greedy self-serving bullies… which is why anyone who sets themselves up to be a king or a governor is not to be trusted.  Firstly, because God does not elect kings or governors, secondly the kind of ‘ego’ that is required to campaign or strive for such a position of power is not really going to be balanced. Lastly, people elect kings and governors to solve their problems, so mob mentality rules, not wisdom or equality.

 

When decisions are left to 40 men to reduce their numbers by the powers of human thought and democracy: 39 will inevitably gang up on the one most different from themselves and dispose of him.  Jesus was one man, he was in a minority… the Jews and the Romans were many, with many traditional values and agendas - all far from peaceful unity with life, or the truth. Jesus was crucified by democratic vote – which indicates just how flawed democracy is…. because most people are idiots. (ignorant).

 

The primary benefit of a King (or a Queen) is to provide a unifying surrogate parental identity for a nation, either under God or not. Often without a "figure head" a nation becomes divided by political agendas.

 

Few nations celebrate their political leaders, but many nations celebrate their kings and queens, because politics brings strife, unity brings peace. Every good King (like God) would love his neighbouring creatures as himself, for such is the truth. No good king would abuse his position of responsibility to serve hidden agendas or biased human ideologies and then openly proclaim "it is ‘good’ to be the king".

 

In nature we see many species that are dominated or controlled by a single individual, either the Alpha male, or in colonies or hives it tends to be the Alpha female. The selection of these Alphas is a natural process and they often stand out from the crowd, because their natural attributes exceed those of the norm.

 

Sadly, most human Kings and Queens, have somehow been promoted by powers, usually with an agenda, otherwise they wouldn’t be subject to the many genetic defects we see with in-breeding. These days media celebrities tend to draw the worship and votes of the people, which has nothing to do with good policies, justice or righteousness – just making people feel good.

 

(John 6:15 KJV) When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

 Spirits

 

(Deu 18:10-12 KJV)  There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

 

There are two words in the Hebrew that have been translated as ‘spirit’ – the first is 'owb’, meaning a familiar spirit or family ghost. The second is ‘ruwach’ – meaning the wind; by resemblance breath. Both, represent invisible forces with some kind of intrinsic power that can be accessed and expressed through the flesh of man. It also seems that these ‘spirits’ can be clean or unclean, pure or polluted, good or evil.

 

The One Holy Ghost is clean, pure and good… while the many unholy ghosts are unclean, polluted and evil.

 

It is as if the ‘One holy spirit’ leads a massive orchestra of living beings playing harmoniously, while the ‘many unholy spirits’ cause discordance and disharmony to the universal melody and need to be either re-tuned or silenced. This ‘frequency of operation’ seems to be the nature of spirit and has the power of inductance on other related objects, such that ‘spirits’ spread and cause change, whether good or evil.

 

Evil, naturally requires greater energy consumption, since it is an artificially maintained state, like resisting gravity, the ocean or the earth’s rotation, it can be maintained only as long as the individual will and strength oppose. As a consequence, ‘evil’ causes natural friction, breakdown, sickness and death, since ultimately God has the first and the last will and word.

 

If the ‘One holy spirit’ is understood to be ‘our father’ that provides our very being, life and all that we need, what is the benefit to humankind of opposing its creator?

 

(Psa 51:10-13 KJV) Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

 

Without doubt the human body is like an instrument and most instruments need to be tuned if they are to play properly. We are designed to play in the key of ‘God’, but surrounded by the cacophony of the world and without knowing what ‘God’ sounds like, it is almost impossible to re-tune ourselves.

 

That is why it is important to shut out the world from time to time and spend some quiet time in prayer learning to tune-in to the ‘spirit of God’ and learning to discern the spirit of truth from those other ‘spirits’ and untruths that would lead you astray.

 

If Adam was led out of tune so quickly, through the experience of the flesh and senses, then it is delusion to think that you can stay in-tune with God, without closely following where the Holy Spirit… leads.

 

(Mat 4:1 KJV) Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

The Holy Spirit

 

(Gen 41:38 KJV) And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

 

Throughout the Old Testament we see tales of certain men who somehow become empowered by some kind of energy or spirit that is above and beyond the everyday resources of men and which causes them to say and do extra-ordinary things.

 

There are two parts to this ‘energy’… there is the term “Holy”, which by definition implies purity or righteousness to some higher truth and there is the term “Spirit”, which by definition implies some intangible, invisible yet motivating factor.

 

(Num 11:25 KJV) And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.

 

An interesting observation from the passage above is that the ‘holy spirit’ was somehow constrained by the presence of Moses, in the sense that ‘it’ had to be taken back and re-distributed. Perhaps like any other form of energy, ‘the holy spirit’ may need to be constrained and controlled in a ‘conduit’ before it can be re-distributed by men to men.

 

Though ‘holiness’ is freely accessible to all, like the ‘internet’ it is impossible to access without the right hardware, the right communication transport and the right software protocols.  As anyone who has ever tried to connect to the internet with any of these aspects not properly aligned knows, it is frustrating and impossible; it may even lead some to conclude that the internet is non-existent or dead…. Once asserted of God, by Nietzsche in ignorance of his temporal and deluded self.

 

In ‘holiness’ terms this accessibility has been proven to require a human body, some kind of open and honest prayerful link and the protocols of humility, love and faith.

 

 (Psa 51:11 KJV) Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

 

We also see that sometimes, like the internet, when our equipment, transport or software is faulty, connection is lost and we cannot connect to receive the knowledge of the world.

 

So whose fault is it when we cannot connect to receive the wisdom of the Holy Spirit?

 

It is a common pattern in both the Old and New Testament that communion with the holy spirit is lost whenever relative human knowledge, pride, self righteousness, unforgiveness and other unholy mental attitudes overrule the faithful and true human heart and soul.

 

(John 14:25-26 KJV) These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Messengers, Media & Message

 

(Gen 1:3 KJV) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

 

There are three aspects to this passage and indeed any passage… firstly there is the messenger (God), the speaker communicating or the artist – next there is the medium (light), the means of communication or the canvas and lastly there is the message, the word being communicated or the symbolic expression (‘modulation’). But which is more important… the artist, the canvas or the art?

 

From God’s perspective this question is irrelevant, because God, light and the word are integrally one. The 3 aspects are given relative value only by the divisive human capacity to know, to see and to hear. Along with this divisive nature of humanity comes many forms of love, some love and worship the messenger (God), some love and worship the medium (nature) – while others love and worship the message (the word) and often spend years re-reading in the hope of extracting its true meaning. I am guilty of all three forms of this love – loving God, loving nature and loving scripture…. But is this… really love?

 

Without expression, love is merely a form of attachment or idolatry to sensuality and sensual concepts…. Like affection, ‘love’ is most frequently confused with a comfort zone for the passions of the flesh… Sensuality by its very nature is the primary cause of division. It gives rise to the delusion of me and mine and the loss of one’s true divinity encapsulated in the words of “I am”. Often confused by our divisive nature with the words “I am so and so. (insert your given name here)” … exploiting my neighbour for whatever, in the name of love... (John 1:1 KJV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

 

Jesus was a messenger, he never carved tablets of stone or wrote a book, he never released a CD of music or made a movie or a DVD of his message… he simply spoke and acted with integrity. His words and his actions were of one accord…. such is the nature of true faith.

 

In this modern-day digital world where idols are born overnight thanks to global networks and admiring teenagers… we see that little changes in human nature, all that really changes is the medium through which the message is communicated.  Silly girls still scream and faint over their idols, millions of adoring fans still sing along to their favourite tune in a token unity for the duration of the ‘love’ song, and whether in a concert Amphitheatre or a church building, when the concert or Sabbath song is over, what then?

 

We sink back to our divisive behaviour in a divisive world… returning like a dog to its vomit…. In a worldly schizophrenia we serve many masters… while looking for truth and love amongst so many false gods, so much division, delusion and depression.

 

Is it righteous to worship holy messengers (pizza delivery boys); to idolise holy books or the holy digital web site (ovens) and the memorized recitation of many verses (menus)?

 

Or… is it righteous to worship by eating and sharing pizza, with a grateful heart, to the creator of one and all, for this precious gift of life and love and everything?

 

(Mat 26:26 KJV) And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

Angels & Demons

 

(Gen 1:20-21 KJV) And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 

Much has been written about Angels and Demons. There is no direct mention of God creating them in the Old Testament, but one can assume that just like dolphins and eagles, they are not responsible for their own creation or existence… so who created them and for what purpose?

 

The first scriptural account of an “angel” is:

 

(Gen 16:7-10 KJV) And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

 

In Hebrew the term angel is “mal'ak” meaning a messenger…  and refers to those who communicate the word of God and execute the will of God.

 

The Old Testament does not refer to such things as devils or demons, however it does refer to ‘evil spirits’ and to ‘Satan’:

 

(Judg 9:23 KJV) Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:

(1 Sam 16:14 KJV) But the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

(1 Ki 22:23 KJV) Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

(Job 1:12 KJV) And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

(Zec 3:2 KJV) And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

 

It seems that “angels” and “demons” should both act under the authority of God and both bring messages, words or will… where only the nature of the will, go(o)d an(d) evil, determines our qualification as either an angel or a demon. Both are necessary to maintain law and order. Like the divine good cop, bad cop routine, the question is, when does a bad cop, become a corrupt cop?  Answer: Whenever he takes the law and judgment into his own word, will and hands… and becomes a demi-god.

 

(Mat 4:1 KJV) Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

(Mat 4:10 KJV) Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

 

Duck for Fear

 

(Gen 21:17-18 KJV) And God heard the voice of the lad ; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.

 

While walking beside the river one day I came upon a small cluster of ducks sitting by the waters edge and as I came closer, I could see their agitation, so I said to them “don’t be afraid”.  Of course, they didn’t understand my ‘words’, neither did they catch my spirit and so they gently waddled away into the water.

 

This incident brings to mind something that happened to me around the age of 6 that left an indelible impression on my memory. I was joking around and obviously upset my father and he sent me to my room – our house being a two story all our bedrooms and the bathroom were upstairs. When my father was angry you did as he said, so I went up the stairs to my room… but as I got to the top of the landing I was confronted by a tall figure on the landing, at 6 I knew nothing of ghosts, angels or prophets – all I knew was that there was a scary man before me (retrospectively he looked much like ‘Gandolf’ from the Hollywood blockbuster - Lord of the Rings)  with a long white beard dressed in white.  I screamed and ran downstairs as quick as I could in a panic to let my parents know. Of course, they didn’t believe me and thought I was acting up, but from that day forward I was terrified to go upstairs and whenever I went to bed I checked to see if someone was hiding in my room. Over the course of time, my fear subsided as I came to accept this apparition as a figment of my imagination and I never saw him again. Whatever this apparition was, it never had the chance to say “be not afraid”, because I was already gone and so was it, I don’t think we ever met again. Somehow my expectation, foolish though it is, is that any visiting angel or alien will be able to speak perfect English. This is of course mental delusion on my part and indeed I do not appear to be alone in this. Today we search the stars for extra-terrestrial life forms, presumably to eat, because we have yet to learn how to live with or communicate with the millions of other terrestrial life forms that surround us. One assumes my ducks, ducked for cover in fear of being caught, cooked and served in an orange sauce.

 

In the Old Testament we read of the angels that came to Sodom looking to save Lot and the people of the town, didn’t want to eat them, just penetrate them sexually. Seems we still have much to learn. One has to wonder why, God would bother sending a messenger whether angel or prophet to tell someone something that is going to happen in the future, without them first saying… “be not afraid”, promptly followed by “spoiler alert” … So why bother?

 

My dad only gave me messages that were warnings and the message was usually just a look or a sharp word after which I either repented or ignored and carried on regardless, learning the hard way. The whole purpose of any good communication is to educate. We are only ever going to listen to these messages if we are undistracted, listening, willing, lost, alone or searching.

 

Angels came to Sodom warning the people to repent, they didn’t listen. The prophets came warning people to repent, they stoned them to death. Jesus came warning people to repent and they crucified him… one assumes that prophets don’t duck for cover, because they are fearless and faithful.

 

(Matthew 11:21-22 KJV) Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.

 

Demi-gods & Dust

 

(Gen 3:1-5 KJV) Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:  But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 

The Lord God made the serpent… this much is written… and somehow the serpent could commune and reveal to humanity its potential demi-god like status, but to what end??

 

(Gen 3:14-15 KJV)  And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

 

The interesting thing about curses is that they are our reaction to things when they don’t go the way we want. This is the first curse in the bible, it is a curse brought about by the breaking of faith and the taking of pride and self-knowledge over the divine rule and Will of God: Let’s face it, who knows better than God, our creator, what we are created for?

 

·         The serpent is cursed to crawl on its belly (in humility), does this mean its legs, wings or other appendages were removed?

·         The serpent is forced to eat dust, whereas all other creatures were: “given every green herb for meat”.  What creature living today eats “dust”… and what is the nature of dust?

·         The serpent and its offspring are cursed to wage war on the woman and her seed.

 

(Gen 2:7 KJV) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

 

Is this “dust” the nature of men disconnected from God, the nature of sinners, the nature of dead men and dead skin that dust mites eat or is it just a reference to dry dirt, dry earth, dry desert and what serpent wages war on men?

 

There are clearly, some unanswered questions here…

 

(Num 21:7-8 KJV) Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

 

The Israelites were saved from serpents in the wilderness just by looking at a fiery serpent (made of brass by Moses) set upon a pole in accordance to the Will and word of God.

 

(John 3:14 KJV) And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

 

(Luke 9:5 KJV) And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

Gods

 

(Gen 3:5 KJV) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 

God is the ‘eternal self-existent one’ – the source, substance and maintainer of all existence and of all other lesser ‘gods’, ‘beings’, ‘spirits’, ‘matter’ and ‘energy’ that exist.

 

(Deu 10:17-18 KJV)  For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

 

The real issue we have with the ‘eternal self-existent one’ is our senses and their inability to see, touch, taste, smell or hear what is in us, in front of us and all around us. and so God remains subjective (infinite) while our sensual experiences become the source of many objective (finite) gods.

 

Even when men have managed to get over themselves and commune with God and the power of God has been brought into direct contact with humanity. It seems that without this on-going personal communion and spectacles of the power of God. We fail to see the miracle of ‘life’ before our eyes and so we fail to acknowledge what we cannot see.

 

So…we become indifferent or ‘dead’ to God and we become interested and ‘alive’ to the other gods which influence and rule over us: food; alcohol; sex; money; clothes; music; movies; sport; drugs; violence; etc, etc… name your god.

 

(Psa 82:6-8 KJV) I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

 

Sand is created from the abandoned shells of creative sea creatures, where the friction between the sea and the rocks reduces their constructions, yet sea moves because of the moon and the planets and ultimately all is moved by God.

 

Are all creators of composite materials and energies, gods? The sea creature; the elemental forces; the moon; sun; other planets and on into the heaven of heavens…

 

Yet ‘gods’ do not really “create” anything, they simply “change” pre-existing material and energy. Like re-arranging the deckchairs on the titanic, they are not creative agents, they are change agents, playing with the parts they can influence. God is the only real creative agent (producing existence from non-existence). Other ‘created’ or ‘changed (evolved)’ beings can merely align, influence, or interfere with the wholly natural process by either submitting to the will of God or by imposing their own godlike ‘self-existent’ will (and for whose benefit?)

 

(John 10:34-38 KJV) Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

God

 

(Gen 1:1 KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 

According to “Strong’s Dictionary”, the word ‘God’ translates as: 430. 'elohiym, el-o-heem'; plur. of H433; gods in the ordinary sense; but spec. used (in the plur. thus, esp. with the art.) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.

 

“Strong’s Dictionary” also translates the word ‘Lord’ as: 3068. Yehovah, yeh-ho-vaw'; from H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God:--Jehovah, the Lord. Comp. H3050, H3069.

 

Often in the Bible we find the phrase: “the Lord God”, which translated literally means: ‘Eternal self-existent Judge’ or words to that effect. In the King James version of the ‘Old Testament’ this occurs 1,474 times and in the ‘New Testament’ 121 times.

 

(Gen 2:19 KJV) And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

 

The above passage is interesting for two reasons, firstly because it emphasises ‘the LORD God’ and secondly, because it emphasises that “Adam” is the one who is given the responsibility to name ALL THINGS. And yet, if you read carefully, ‘the Lord God’ remains unnamed, but is referred to by title (Eternal self-existent Judge) only, like “Sir”. Most children refer to their ‘creators’ by reverent title; “Daddy” or “Mummy”, not by name; “Al” or “Rose”. Yet, a generation later, when Adam becomes a grandfather we find that men, ‘then begin to call upon the name of the Lord’, as outlined in this passage:

 

(Gen 4:25-26 KJV) And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

 

A name should encompass the nature of the one named, such that the name Jehovah encompasses the ‘eternal self-existent’, but like all names, falls short of the mark. It is, after all, just a name and like most language, often a stumbling block to the whole truth.

 

Who, if not humanity, divided the ‘eternal self-existent one’ by the babble of language: “Jehovah” or “yhwh” or “Abba” or “Allah” or  “Ahura Mazda  or “Baba” or “Brahma” or “Tao” or “Kami” or “Buddha” or “Amun-Ra”” or “Chaos”… etc, etc….????

 

And so, it is… people from different parts of the world, learn of ‘God’ in similar ways, but name ‘God’ differently based upon their language. Ultimately… our names, religions and beliefs do not impact God… God is ‘eternal and self-existent’. What matters, is our humility, love, action and alignment to God’s will, for this is the measure of our ‘goodness’.

 

(Mat 22:37-39 KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Sons of God

 

(Gen 6:1-2 KJV) And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

 

So… who are the ‘sons of God’?

 

Reading on, we find that the ‘sons of God’, were ‘men’ before they lost the plot…

 

(Gen 6:3 KJV) And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

 

Truth is… men, lost the title of the ‘sons of God’ when their flesh took over their lives and they became disconnected from the ‘eternal self-existent one’. I wonder how many parents have ‘disowned’ their children when they have fallen into ‘wrong’ ways? And sadly, in human terms, some children ‘disown’ their parents. When we do this, we set ourselves up as Judge and God, yet we have no right, until we are truly ‘sons of God’ and no longer ‘sinners’.

 

And so it is, we all have the potential to be ‘good’ sons and daughters of God, since it seems impossible to be an ‘evil’ son or daughter of God, because God ‘cuts you off’ and in many wrong ways, we ‘cut’ ourselves off from God. In this, there is a lesson to learn.

 

In the King James version of the Bible the phrase ‘sons of God’ occurs 5 times in the Old Testament and 6 times in the New Testament.

 

(Job 1:6 KJV) Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

 

It seems in God’s household there are sons and servants and the servants can test the allegiance (faith), of the sons…. and vice versa. Escalating to an underhanded war. So, there is only one ‘righteous’ way to life and many ‘evil’ ways to trap us, with dead ends.

 

In the King James version of the Bible the phrase ‘son of God’ occurs only once in the Old Testament and 47 times in the New Testament. There is also an implied relationship between ‘sons of God’ and the angelic realm of spiritual messengers.

 

(Mat 4:1-4 KJV) Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

 

And so, it is… Jesus became a ‘son of God’ through a process of repentance, purification, fasting, prayer and holy communion. By faith and by example, he led ‘the way’ for all men to become ‘sons of God’ again, but who has enough faith to follow his way?

 

(John 1:11-12 KJV) He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

The Chosen One

 

(Deu 7:6 KJV) For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

 

It is such a honour to be chosen and yet it is a double edged sword, that comes with the rewards and responsibility of the assigned mission, most times heroically sacrificial.

 

The ‘chosen people’ were warned time and time again about the consequences of not living faithful and true to their calling. This ‘choosing’ is not like picking a pair of sneakers from a shop window, this choosing was about picking a pair of robust shoes that would not wear out over the next 2000 years or so….

 

And so, it is, God chooses and proves his chosen ones… If you look back through scripture you will find very few volunteers, most of the chosen ones are ‘commanded’ gently and often fearfully by angels (messengers of God).

 

·         Adam was commanded not to eat of the ‘tree of knowledge’ (Gen 2:16 KJV)

·         Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. (Gen 7:5 KJV)

·         Abram, was commanded to get out of his country and leave his kindred (Gen 12:1 KJV) 

·         Isaac was told not to go down into Egypt; but dwell in the land shown (Gen 26:2 KJV)

·         Jacob in Canaan was told to change his name to Israel (Gen 35:10 KJV)

·         Joseph in faith through dreams and rejection was sold into Egypt (Gen 39:1 KJV)

·         Moses 400 years later when chosen, said who am I that I should go? (Exo 3:11 KJV)

 

We see God work like this in the natural world, except science now calls this ‘natural selection’ – the ‘most appropriate’ to the task are chosen, whether they like it or not.

 

Among the millions of male sperm only one gets to fertilise the one female egg, can any sperm volunteer or bribe his way into this position?  Among millions of ants and bees, there is but one queen… how is this determined and how many other bees vie for the position or oppose the decision or the natural order?

 

Yet this choosing of people was never meant to be exclusive, indeed when the ‘Israelites’ demanded a king like other nations, Samuel (the prophet) was displeased (1 Sam 8:6 KJV). Since ‘free’ men under God, were never created to serve other men.

 

We see the danger of trusting the decisions and choices made by wannabe leaders of men. A classic example is Hitler and his deluded ‘Aryan Master race’ mentality, yet deniably humbled by God in the guise of the black ‘Jesse Owens’ (J.C.) at the Berlin Olympics and the Jewish ‘Albert Einstein’ who though a pacifist, facilitated the arms race to nuclear weapons before Germany.  And so it is… the chosen one, is chosen by God, not by elective campaigns, nor by so called democracy or votes of men.

 

(Rev 19:11-13 KJV) And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

The Lord Thy God

 

(Deu 6:5 KJV) And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

 

Throughout the centuries of Biblical domination, this has been the first and foremost commandment…. But who or what is ‘The Lord thy God’ and how does anyone fulfill this commandment of love?

 

To truly understand the nature and personification of ‘the Lord God’ we need to step back through scripture… the term originates in Genesis and occurs over 1474 times throughout the KJV of the Old Testament, where in the beginning, the Lord God….

 

“made the earth and the heavens; formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; made to grow out of the ground, every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; “

 

The “Lord God” is effectively the creator of everything – objective and living…. So how do we, as created beings, love our creator with all our heart, soul and might?

 

It seems the first act of love towards the Lord thy God is to be true (faithful) to our nature as implicitly or instinctively encoded in our DNA for the behaviour of man.

 

It is one thing to create a living structure either by word or by DNA, but it is another thing to create and manage the appropriate behaviour that should accompany such a living structure.  DNA and genetic engineering may be able to see and unravel living structures because it is visible through a microscope, but the encoded programming of behaviour within each structure, remains invisible.

 

For example: Elephants are designed to eat and digest leaves, what governs their behaviour and stops them from swallowing rocks or other creatures?

 

And so it is… at the point of behavioural disobedience or unfaithfulness, humanity falls into ‘sin’ and systematic natural law and order that keeps all things in harmony, is thrown into chaos, like a spanner thrown into the cogs of a delicately balanced and efficient machine… which must change (evolve) in compromised ways, causing a chain reaction that ripples throughout creation in order to keep this ‘good’ thing functioning. 

 

For example: Creatures that can no longer find their natural food source, either get sick or die or are healed and change (evolve) with the grace of God. Since no creature can heal, change or evolve itself, except probably man and to what end?

 

Without being ‘in love’ and ‘in relationship’ with ‘the Lord thy God’ it is impossible to be in touch with one’s true nature and correct behaviour, therefore it is impossible to break out of the cycle of ‘sin’ and deviant behaviour. Behaviour like 'being' is akin to spirit, it is invisible and intangible and it is the spirit that governs the way we behave and our behaviour either conforms with God and what is good, or we ‘fall’ before the influence of evil.

 

(Mat 6:13 KJV) And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:

 

(Mat 4:10 KJV) Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Disciples

 

(Isa 8:14-16 KJV) And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

 

A disciple is like an apprentice, someone that is taught or mentored by a teacher skilled in the art of whatever they are learning. A student generally studies theory in books, while an apprentice or a disciple is trained on the job.

 

Initially Jesus had four disciples, two sets of brothers – all trained fisherman, while at his last supper Jesus still only had twelve official disciples, who when qualified, were commissioned as apostles – messengers of the gospel to the lost sheep of Israel.

 

(Mat 10:2-6 KJV) The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

 

Twelve is a special number for the Jews and is generally a practical number for anyone who would attempt to divide their time. Chances are, if you have more than twelve things in your life that are demanding your attention: then you are likely to fail most of them. There are only 24 hours in a day and 8 hours are spent in sleep, so this only leaves 16 hours. If you wish to give one hour quality time to twelve things only 4 hours are left to prepare the lessons, prepare food, eat and evaluate.

 

The disciples were a motley crew, mostly working class and there was not a religious person among them, apart from maybe the self-righteous Judas, who railed when Mary poured oil over Jesus’ hair. The initial disciples were recruited by Jesus, later disciples volunteered when they witnessed his wisdom, his provision and his miraculous powers. No doubt those closest to him were given the secrets of his wisdom, to others he gave stories and parables – which have been subject to much interpretation over the years.

 

The written Gospels came only from two of them (Matthew and John), the involvement of Mark and Luke are somewhat of a mystery, though they are both briefly mentioned in the writings of Paul (formerly Saul) – who was miraculously converted and commissioned as an apostle to spread the message of the gospel to the Gentiles, as was Peter. This commission was to go into ALL the world and make all men disciples (practitioners of the gospel), not just spectating followers or groupies.

 

Like any good teacher he would often reprimand his disciples when they failed to understand or practice his teaching – most often accusing them for their lack of ‘faith’ which seems to remain as intangible to ‘Christians’ today, as it did 2000 or so years ago. Paul said, without the ‘Spirit of Christ’ – you are no Christian. (Rom 8:9 KJV) 

 

(Mat 28:18-20 NIV) Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Disciples (Part 2)

 

(Gen 9:20-25 KJV) And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

 

The above passage is quoted for three reasons, firstly because the King James version of the Old Testament makes no mention of disciples. Prophets and kings had ‘servants’ not disciples. Secondly because Noah curses his son Ham, for his inability to decide on what was the right thing to do… which ultimately is the nature of any servant until they become trained (confident) in the ways of their master, lastly Judas Iscariot was the son of Simon, the Canaanite.  The account of how Simon (peter/cephas/stone) and John came to follow Jesus varies between the gospels, however, since John wrote one of these gospels his account is probably more reliable. In his account it seems that Simon and possibly himself were already baptised disciples of John the Baptist and they opted to become followers of Jesus when they overheard John the Baptist calling Jesus the “lamb of God” (John 1:35 KJV) 

 

(John 1:40-41 KJV) One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

 

I suspect the other of the two was John himself, who probably then convinced his own brother James. This makes way more sense than Jesus just requesting that fisherman follow him… Imagine someone walking up to anyone earning their living and saying “come follow me”… what would their reaction be?  Seems to me they followed Jesus because they trusted John the Baptist and believed his word. As is often the case with John’s gospel, he keeps a low profile in his own work. So low in fact he neglects to inform the reader that Andrew and Simon (Peter) are his sons.  (John 1:42 NIV)

 

Looking closely at the 12 disciples we see a collection of fathers, sons and brothers, most of whom were fishermen. It is interesting to note that as soon after Jesus was ‘crucified’ and resurrected they all relinquished their new ‘religion’ and went back to their occupation of fishing… and caught nothing, till the resurrected Jesus paid them another visit and challenged Peter’s pre-occupation with fish.

 

Jesus was a teacher and they became his pupils, his servants and eventually his friends… as indeed was Abraham considered a friend of God.  Friends are different from family, because friends choose to love one another, sometimes family do nothing but argue and squabble in sibling rivalry for parental justice…  Jesus had 4 brothers, none of whom were among his disciples (Mat 13:55 KJV). Friends are bound in the unity of faith (love) not by generational duty (tradition), blood type or DNA.

 

(John 15:15-17 KJV)  Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another.

Just a Thought

 

(Gen 3:6-7 KJV) And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

 

Knowing and ‘thinking’ are effectively the same thing, since to ‘know’ something is to ‘think’ about something, separate from ‘being’ something.

 

In the Genesis passage above, I suspect it is the ‘minds eye’ that is opened, the knower, the intellect, the ‘thinker’, the divisor of the unity of life.  It is this one faculty that differentiates humanity from the rest of creation. Sure, it makes us like ‘gods’ but also brings our dangerous demise. For it gives us the capability to ‘out think’ God, to override nature and to serve and please ourselves…. But to what purpose other than the cost of our true life?

 

Most creatures ‘react’ they do not ‘think’, like corpuscles in a body, the chemistry and equilibrium of life is maintained automatically… no corpuscle or cell has to ‘think’ about its process… it just does it. Does the sun have to ‘think’ about shining or make decisions about where it will rise and set each day? 

 

Most creatures just live, they do not have to ‘think’ about living … In some way they are programmed… Flies mate, lay eggs on faeces or dead meat, maggots hatch, eat, grow, pupate and emerge as a fly… what do they know and what does it matter… they do their job and they do it automatically, without choice, without thought and without complaint. Flies do not create themselves and they never deviate far from their God ordained structure and behaviour. Most creatures have only two modes of behaviour - ‘faith’ (to draw near to anything that appears to align with their life) or ‘fear’ (to flee from anything that appears to endanger their life).

 

We can ‘think’ because we have a ‘virtual memory’ of sensual experience and we can also communicate this ‘knowledge’ in aural and visual symbolics, so that others can learn from our experiences…. Yet the value of this needs to be questioned… Is it better to ‘react’ (purely) to a situation as it is, or ‘over react to’ (filter) a situation by applying knowledge from a similar situation that is not exactly true, to the situation at hand?

 

Throughout human history there have been many great ‘thinkers’ on our planet and our libraries are filled with books and wonderful philosophies and many facts and figures about every possible thing we could ever possibly want to know or imagine and yet the world is still full of poverty, violence, pain and suffering… Perhaps returning to the corpuscle analogy, one could ask the question, how does knowing all things help a corpuscle fulfill its life’s purpose? 

 

(Luke 12:25-28 KJV) And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Intelligence

 

(Gen 6:12 KJV) And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

 

The key words in the above paragraph are ‘his way’, since anything that does not comply with the ‘right way’ is effectively the ‘wrong way’… which brings us to the question of our ‘intelligence’… Is it ever “intelligent” to go the ‘wrong way’?

 

When we look at the universe with our god given eyes or through a telescope or a microscope, we see order, not chaos…. Being too close to something large or moving faster than the eye can see.. may be misinterpreted as chaos, for unless one can see the beginning and the end or the cyclic patterns of nature, confusion ensues.

 

Our galaxy is now known to be orderly, the earth completes a single rotation every 24 hours and the earth completes a circumambulation of the sun every 365.5 days, if this were not so… our measure of time would be chaotic and you would never be on time for any appointment.  Why does the earth remain in this orbit? Does it lack the ‘intelligence’ to fly off and explore the other planets?

 

Our measure of intelligence or godlikeness is based on our capacity to change the way of things based upon the memory of sensual experience (knowledge).

 

In our modern world we see many man made devices, which we have now given our measure of ‘intelligence’ too and there have been many prophetic warnings in books and movies that outline the dangers of ‘intelligent’ devices rebelling against their human creators and going their own way, much to human detriment…. How ironic.

 

Living on a busy road, I am amazed at the constant stream of trucks day and night that speed passed my house. Some of these trucks are huge, I would estimate well over 300 times the size of their creators and their drivers and they shake the very foundations. Humans build trucks for the sole purpose of transporting things from place to place. Imagine when these trucks are given our measure of ‘intelligence’ and can transport themselves from place to place and maybe even look around and ask the question…. What about me? And perhaps rebel against their human masters… what then?

 

Will such ‘intelligence’ bring the ‘chaos’ that many believe in… for chaos is a measure of things disobeying the natural order or in human terms, disobedience to human law and order or social programming…. And is usually punished, being considered wrong.

 

The point is… humans do not create themselves anymore than trucks do… trucks are constructs from earth metals and human imagination. Humans are constructs from earthly minerals and whatever forces govern our cellular creation.  Giving a truck sensual capabilities and memory of space and time… is no different from giving humans the same capability.  Surely any robot truck that goes off track will be brought in for repair and any robot truck that goes on a rampage will be destroyed. The only way humanity can ensure that they can stop wayward robots in the future is to build-in self destruct mechanisms that are activated when the robot becomes wayward.... intelligence is not the same as wisdom.

 

(John 11:4 KJV) When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

Emotions

 

(Gen 27:21 KJV) And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.

 

There are really only three kinds of feelings…

·         How you ‘feel’.

·         How someone or something ‘feels’ to you.

·         How someone ‘feels’ about you.

 

Isaac had two sons – Esau and Jacob, Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. Jacob and his mother conspired to steal Isaac’s blessing from Esau. The nature of sinful relationships is such, that when people cannot accept the nature of their destiny, they hide, lie or cheat. The nature of destiny is such that whenever we hide, lie or cheat, we suffer, because we miss our true purpose (destiny).

 

Without ‘feelings’ there is nothing between us… except the emptiness of space.

 

With ‘feelings’ there is something between us and these feelings can be ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ - loving or hateful - pleasurable or painful - good or bad.

 

We can ‘feel’ a little and we can ‘feel’ a lot, it really depends on our sensitivity and the expressive capability and passion of the other party.

 

There is nothing better than ‘feeling’ good.

·         We are attracted to people and ‘things’ that make us ‘feel’ good.

·         People are attracted to us, when we make them ‘feel’ good.

Where goodness is experienced in purpose, productivity and pleasure.

 

There is nothing worse than ‘feeling’ bad.

·         We are repulsed by people and ‘things’ that makes us ‘feel bad.

·         People are repulsed by us, when we make them ‘feel’ bad.

Where badness is experienced in neglect, loss and pain.

 

In the case of Isaac, Esau and Jacob we see that ‘feeling’ someone is not the same as ‘being’ someone….  All feelings can be filtered and false… only ‘being’ is true. Truth travels at the speed of light, if it takes longer, it is being filtered in some way...

 

Feeling ‘good’ (Godly) is not the same as being ‘good’ (Godly).

 

In innocence and our true nature, our ‘being’ and ‘feelings’ should be one and the same, but in ignorance (relative knowledge), our ‘being’ and ‘feelings’ have become separated such that we hide our ‘being’ (in fear) and filter our ‘feelings’ (with knowledge as desire).

 

For fear of rejection many people hide the ‘truth’ (of their true being and feelings) and express a known ‘acceptable’ alternative… They do this because they have no faith in God and no awareness of their true identity and destiny. They also reject those who do.

 

(John 16:2-3 KJV) They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Babies & Bathwater

 

(Gen 3:16 KJV) Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

 

It is a miracle that humankind manages to reproduce at all and every child is a miracle born of seed from its parents. If the seed survives, it is another miracle that this seed, is fertilised, germinates, multiples by cellular division and grows to become a living breathing creature in its own right. And even this is not the end of the story, each baby needs to be fed and nurtured by its mother and or father, until it is capable of feeding itself. And even this is not the end of the story, each child needs an education in how to live right, so that it does not stray into danger and early death.

 

90% of this miraculous event is out of the hands of men and women, a woman’s seed falls once a month and men are ever ready to spread their seed to fertilise. The embryo transforms in the womb without any conscious interference from the mother and when the child is born, the woman’s breasts naturally produce milk to sustain the child.

 

This is the same process for most mammals, they do not choose, it is a gift and an obligation from their creator.

 

The 10% left up to the parents is the rearing and training of the child in a ‘way’ that is right and beneficial for the sustainability of its future life.

 

Given God’s contribution and the human contribution… 10% is not much to ask, but for some this 10% is too much to give. Many children die from neglect, many children die from sickness and disease and many children die from living wrong. Many people turn around and blame God when such things happen, but is it really God’s fault?

 

At what point in the process of life, does the responsibility become ours?

 

Even a seedling that we plant, if not watered and protected will die… is this God’s fault or is it the fault of our ignorance, neglect and stupidity (aka: sin)? Sometimes, a seedling can die from overwatering and over-protection… is this God’s fault or is it the fault of our ignorance, zeal and stupidity (aka: sin – wrong knowledge)?

 

(Eccl 3:1 KJV) To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

 

Obeying the impersonal laws of society, science or religion does not make one right or righteous… Obeying the intrinsic laws of nature and the personal direction of ‘our creator’ is the only way to a right and righteous life. The baby Jesus and his rule of love, is still right, only the religious garb, rhetoric and legal self-righteousness needs to be thrown away. And so it is… too many throw out the baby with the bathwater; the earth with the world; the truth with the fiction.

 

(Mat 1:21-23 KJV) And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

 

Heart & Soul

 

(Deu 6:5 KJV) And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

 

According to Strong’s dictionary the Hebrew word for ‘Heart’ in English is pronounced ‘leb’ or ‘lebab’ and is used very widely to refer to the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything. The Hebrew word for ‘Soul’ in English is pronounced ‘nephesh’ and refers to a breathing creature, i.e. animal or (abstr.) vitality, body, breath, creature.

 

Confusion arises from the English use of ‘heart’, because in medical terms the ‘heart’ refers to the organ that pumps blood around the body, which is significantly different from the Hebrew ‘lebab’, the lungs, the liver, the stomach and the kidneys.

 

Further confusion arises because the term ‘soul’ has been used over the centuries to represent many things from the emotions, the human psyche and the spirit of man, etc. Yet in the Hebrew – the soul refers only to the ‘breathing creature’ and the living body.

 

T o put it graphically: the heart is the nucleus of our being and the soul is the physical body that has ‘life’ through the exchange process of breathing.   The most important thing to recognize here is that no-thing has life in itself (except the Spirit of God) … every other living thing is dependent on the flow of exchange (i.e.: breath) for its living soul. This exchange is our life line – our umbilical with the father. Cut it off and we die. How can there be life, where there is no flow or movement?  Start the flow and people once dead, can live again - such is the goal of CPR.     No living soul is self-contained – we are full of holes and they are not mistakes, they are necessary to maintain our integrity with all creation and our creator. Light flows, air flows, water flows, food flows, blood flows – impact these flows, either externally or internally and the body becomes sick. Our ignorance is the major cause of such impacts.   Yet the question remains, how can we ‘love’ anyone or anything with all our heart and all our soul and all our might? (With all our being and all our activity)

 

The real key here - is in the word ‘love’ – another word, subject to much misinterpretation – originally the Hebrews were requested to ‘seek’ God, which translates roughly to ‘desire’ God, which translates roughly from the Greek ‘agape’ to the English word for ‘love’, made somehow ineffectual by translation to the word ‘serve’. How can we serve God?

 

The best we could ever manage - is to ‘seek a relationship’ with God and this is the true nature of ‘love’ – the desire for a relationship (closeness of all our being) with someone, which in consummation results in the union of couples and our communion with God. In such loving relationship, we become attuned sons and daughters of the living God, guided, protected and blessed by the Spirit that orders and sustains all things by faith.

 

(Mat 22:37 KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

CLASSIFICATION

 

 

 

Classification

 

(Gen 1:25 KJV) And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 

The main instruments humanity has for observing “kinds” of creatures are the senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell; the memory of sensual experience (in the form of structures and patterns of behaviour) and a capability to compare these memories to enable the classification of “kinds”.

 

Like any instrument used to measure any “kind” of reality, the resultant “measure” is the difference between the instrument and the thing measured. Since any instrument of measure prejudices’ its result.. Truth cannot be measured it can only be realized.

 

(Gen 1:26 KJV) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

 

The human senses have limited ranges of perception; human memory is constrained by experience and education; As a consequence, human analysis and judgment is flawed.

 

In the beginning the classification of creatures was very simplistic… fish (dagah: fish) in the sea, fowl ('owph: a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings) in the air and cattle (behemah: any large quadruped or animal) and lastly creeping things (remes: a reptile or any other rapidly moving animal).

 

Fish swim in the water, birds fly in the air, cattle walk on land and grass and other creatures creep in the rocks, trees and bushes…

 

Imagine, being the first man on the earth without fear, surrounded by a plethora of trees, fish, fowl, cattle and creeping things…  Is it more likely that you would relate to each creature in a personalised way when meeting and naming things, eg: “Hi, Blinky Bill” or is it more likely that you would begin to classify and catalogue “kinds” of things and relate in an impersonal way, eg: “there goes another Koala”.

 

Classification is a generic memory tool, available only once one has accumulated enough information (experience) to draw sufficient comparisons for false conclusions…. I thank God for the “duck billed platypus” – such a humbling little creature, in a class of its own.

 

Science and mass education programmes are largely responsible for the depersonalisation of our society, where whole groups of individuals can be boxed into a ‘mind set’ a ‘kind’ or ‘type’ and simply dealt with as a social group… This generalization works very well for those behind the rules of classification, but it often results in “generocide” and mass prejudice…. So, what kind of ‘man’ are you?

 

A Jew; A Muslim; A Christian; A Hindu; A Sikh; A Buddhist; An Australian; An African; An American; A White man, A Black man; A Brown man; A Yellow man; A Red man, etc…

 

(Mat 7:1-2 KJV) Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

 

Classes

 

(Gen 1:11 KJV) And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

(Gen 1:21 KJV) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 

Kind in this context is another word for species or class.  For years now science has compared the various structural and behavioural characteristics of living things in an attempt to put each thing in a class or group.

 

Classification provides a means to put things into a human order and view of the world.  The various methods of classification are founded upon spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, behavioural, social, environmental, geographical and financial attributes that we observe as knowledge.

 

Africa identifies a piece of land, Africans classifies the people.  Classification is not the same as identification. Classification is impersonal, whereas identification is personal.

 

Few people care about “mice”, but many people care about “Mickey” the mouse.

 

Battles are generally fought at a class level, since when we identify with our “enemy”, we lose class animosity.  Similarly, many people are reluctant to kill and eat their named livestock, since the identification process has created a personal relationship.

 

It is O.K. to kill and eat a “cow”, but who could kill and eat “buttercup”?

 

Skin colour is a classic example of physical class discrimination, it is so superficial and yet was used for centuries as an excuse to enslave part of human kind, it still remains an issue today, but principally because education in knowledge is not the same as enlightenment in love.

 

Human judgment is classification from a position of self-ordained superiority (self-righteousness), this is often based on the premise that a particular thing or behaviour is considered either good or bad.

 

Naked black men were considered primitive by clothed white men, yet after 50,000 years of adjustment, skin cancer was never a problem to the naked black man, only to environmentally displaced white cotton farmers.

 

Men standardize to manage and control their agendas and activities, yet in God’s free economy, if two things are the same one is unnecessary…. Why, even your fingerprints uniquely identify you, so… who has the right to classify you?

 

Only the one who knows the heart and true identity of a thing is qualified to pass judgment, all else is but human vanity and deception. The purpose of love is to bring all things to a common unity in God, by removing all class barriers and self righteous judgment.

 

(Mat 7:3 KJV) Judge not, that ye be not judged.  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Nature

 

(Gen 1:30-31 KJV) And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

 

Without doubt ‘nature’ is the book of life and God is the author... nothing is ever written unless one writes it, nothing is ever created unless one creates it… One is the cause… nature is the effect…. to deny this is delusion and apostasy to life. When we look, with our God given eyes, at the natural world around us, who cannot be amazed at the beauty, the diversity, the complexity, the interdependency and the cruelty?

 

Indeed, it is this cruelty aspect, more than anything else, which drives most observers into the realms of atheism, because it makes us question, if God exists why is life so painful?

 

Like a misplayed note in a beautiful song, or a grain of sand in a sandwich, it doesn’t take much to spoil the experience of life. Yes, the music was beautiful, but what about that bum note… The food was excellent, but shame about that grain of sand… And so, it is we look for a speck in the eye of God, oblivious to our blindness. Forget optimism and pessimism and trying to work out whether the glass is half full or half empty… Man need only give thanks that there is any glass at all…. after all. Who is man to judge?

 

The ‘self-conscious’ nature of man is far from the ‘free’ nature of nature, men judge, men criticize, men lie, men deviate, men struggle for power, men are supposedly intelligent, men above all creatures are the most CRUEL, men have issues…. not all men (there are a couple of exceptions) … just most men… so what is wrong with the nature of man?

 

Despite the apparent cruelty in nature, most creatures live peaceably… shoals of fish swim side by side with predatory bigger fish; Lions and tigers spend most of their days under trees near herds of zebra, wildebeest, gazelle, etc. Snakes go for days/weeks without eating. Like the act of breathing, most creatures eat when nature deems necessary, not through choice… Most creatures don’t eat or cause pain between meals… unlike men.

 

What plant, tree, bird, mammal, reptile or fish commits acts of: emotive violence, killing and suicide; monopolizes the land with boxes, monocultures; transport networks; Destroys vast forests; Ploughs up the land, sows, grows, feeds, farms, sells, buys, cooks and wastes its food; Sends its offspring away to be educated; Sells itself to another for money in exchange for work; wastes its time, space and energy on clothes and other baggage?

 

So, what is the nature of nature? And how can it be any different from the nature of God, since the nature of any book reflects the nature of the author?

 

Nature is both a work of art and a work of truth as observed - via science for want of a better word. When humanity finally wakes up to itself and this divine nature, then all that is left is worship – via religion for want of a better word… It is impossible to love anything by observation; true love requires alignment (faith)…. So, choose life and live.

 

(Mat 7:14-16 KJV) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Kingdoms

 

(Gen 10:10 KJV) And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

 

The passage above refers to Nimrod, who was the son of Cush, the son of Ham, the son of Noah, after the flood. I would hazard a guess that a ‘kingdom’ is an area ruled over (or owned) usually in fear and violence by someone – most likely considered its King. Where the area of space is defined by the boundaries of his rule and measured in time by his reign.

 

From a scientific perspective five kingdoms of living organisms have generally been adopted. These kingdoms are outlined or ruled by Linneus' hierarchical classification system which is fundamentally flawed, being based on relative observation.  eg: Viruses, are not considered living and recent studies suggest that there might be a sixth Kingdom, the Archaea.  These Kingdoms are a foundational construct for biological science and in some way parallel a ‘Tree of life’ since each ‘higher’ organism is in some way dependent on those lower down the tree – now whether the lower ones evolve into the higher ones is a matter of conjecture, but certainly living things change and adapt but who knows at what point a PROTISTA becomes a FUNGI? 

 

Are these kingdoms not merely creations of a human mind and sensual system dividing creation along lines of observed attribution? If it were not for the 'tree of life' humanity may never have emerged from Chimpanzee like creatures. Could it be that there is also another kingdom that is beyond mundane human observation, another evolution or metamorphosis, perhaps, like virus, invisible to the naked eye, but inhabited by beings of light or higher frequency than earthlings (ie: angels and dare I say, demons)?

 

 

So, if worms, plants, fungi, bacteria and virus can inhabit ‘our kingdom’ and ‘our Adamic bodies’ and make us sick… what else?

 

Wellness comes with natural order, when things are in their respective place things are functional, healthy, harmonious and whole. Dysfunction is a bi-product of things being out of place. All of creation works to put things where they belong, the cosmos under God (the kingdom of heaven), is a selfless sustaining, repairing system, so what is making it sick?

 

(Mat 12:28 KJV) But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

Elements & Agents

 

(Gen 1:2-3 KJV) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

 

The primary cause of existence and change is unknown, but what we do know is what we see, hear, touch, taste, smell and remember. What we imagine, is not what we know, but creations of our own making, which when brought to fruition or existence, can be known by others. And so we are made in the image and likeness of the creator.

 

However, though we are equipped to bring ‘things’ into existence, we do not bring ourselves into existence. We are the product of elements and agents, beyond our control. That is, without the creation of a body or vehicle for the realisation of ‘self’ there is no centre for the management, control and recognition of external sense and internal imagination. Yet every ‘thing’ that has existence and ‘space’ must have a centre and a perimeter with a circulatory flow between the two that is indicative of life and change, by which time is measured.

 

There are three elements mentioned in the scriptural passage above and one agent, the elements are earth, water and darkness. While the only agent is the Spirit of God, which moves and gives light.

 

Aristotle taught the Greeks that there were 4 elements: Fire, earth, air, water and a 5th element ‘ether’ a heavenly substance.  Chinese philosophy teaches 5 elements: Wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Western thought following years of alchemy, chemistry and practical science now teaches 109 discrete elements – recognising earth, wood, metal and water as compounds of elements and fire, ether (or light) as agents of change. Fire is not really a tangible element, but a transition of matter into light.

 

Most chemical experiments require the mixing of elements or the addition of fire in the form of heat and light or pressure at a point to initiate ‘electron’ movement across a potential difference between this point and the natural environment. Since without this ‘experiment’ – change only occurs naturally in accordance with the agents of heaven.

 

Since it is the nature of existence to balance all forces within the ‘Will of God’, then as light heats the earth, change is initiated, air currents begin to move, water evapourates and elements interact. As long as the light continues to flow, so do potential differences across the extent of space and matter. Since light radiates from the centre, a potential difference always exists across any matter in its path, where the side closest to the source is always ‘hotter’ than the side farthest from the source. Hence movement is initiated across potential difference to bring balance. And so all matter spins in space. And as the day begins the land heats faster than the sea and the air moves from sea to land, but as the day ends, the land rapidly cools and the air moves from land to sea. These thermal fluctuations occur between global elements continuously. The greater the potential difference, the greater the air movement. Many “man made” substances covering the earth cause unnatural shifts in thermal currents and evoke destructive winds.

 

(Rev 21:5-6 KJV) And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Plants

 

(Gen 1:11 KJV) And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

 

Despite the fossil records and all our speculation, the origin of plants is a mystery. Sure the origin of species is not a mystery because we are the ones who identify and classify the differences between things that determine the concept of species. But even Darwin didn’t attempt to expound the origins of life and existence…

 

Today with all our scientific research we hypothesize that somehow a ‘stardust’ cocktail of compounds from our table of 118 or so discreet atomic elements with the help of environmental temperature and pressure somehow managed to produce a living organism that could replicate…. Seriously, any devout seeker of the truth… would have to question, the logic of this?

 

Are our divisions of matter and energy, plants and animals, life and non-life true? OR are they fabrications from our misunderstanding of how this whole scheme of things really works? Can we trust our own instruments of observation?

 

At the most microscopic level we now know that what we once called ‘matter’ is anything but tangible and static. In fact at a sub-atomic level the un-nameable ‘substance’ of our existence moves at a phenomenal speed and is held in balance and connected only by the sharing of its nature in what we have termed ‘electrons’.

 

This being the case…. then how and why do atomic particles change into atomic compounds and then into organic compounds and then into single celled organisms which change and divide into multi-cellular organisms which change and divide into plants and animals?

 

Again we hypothesize that all life tries to preserve its DNA… seriously what piffle. If this were true why doesn’t stardust seek to remain as stardust?

 

Why don’t atoms just stay as atoms…  what brings stardust to life and then preserves it?

 

Looking at plants we see another amazing phenomenon, somehow they magically turn light into life. And, as if it wasn’t enough that such an incredible organic mechanism is created from atomic dust, somehow this thing we call ‘plants’ also manages to replicate itself, though not itself exactly, more a refined encapsulation of its time/space on earth in seed form.

 

A brief explanation of the creation and evolution of plants…. 0+1 = P, P+, P++, P+++

 

This is brief because it is reduced to basic algebra… but what this numbering, naming and accounting fails to show is the complexity of universal forces that CAUSE change to occur…. Being immeasurably complex and involving influences of the moon, the sun, the planets…to infinity and beyond…. The cause is considered ONE (1), because it is.

 

(Mat 15:13 KJV) But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

Fruit

 

(Gen 1:11-12 KJV) And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 

Given the choice of a juicy orange, mango or apple or dry ‘grass seed’ which would you choose?

It seems that most of humanity has chosen the latter and one would have to ask the question why?

 

The amount of work and energy expended in turning ‘grass seed’ into something palatable for humans is extraordinary… the ploughing, the sowing, the crop protection, the reaping, the threshing, the storing, the grinding, the mixing, the kneading, the baking and finally something we can eat…. Seriously… one would think the energy gained is totally negated by the energy expended. So why do we do it and when did this all start?

 

Perhaps when we moved from the forests to the savannahs, we lost our common sense in a sea of grass. I also figure that when one is hungry in a field, one cannot afford to wait 10 to 15 years for fruit to grow, so one sows whatever one can, to provide a quick return…. And this is the story of humankind.... but is this the whole story?

 

Recently in Australia hundreds of acres of citrus orchard were ploughed into the ground, because there is more money in growing turf... for the building industry. Seems most people would rather have a square of lawn to mow, than a fruit tree.... Go figure.

 

Not satisfied with existing Savannah, humanity has also cleared vast areas of natural forest to grow more grass… and looking back through ancient history we see that the ultimate destiny of all land deforested and tilled to excess… is desert. So why do we hate trees and fruit?

 

The benefits of growing fruit over ‘grass seed’ are enormous… not only for the land, the environment and wildlife, but also for our health:

·         Trees grow in 3 dimensions not 2 like crops, thus maximising air space;

·         Trees sink Carbon (when living and not cut down);

·         Trees have deep roots to bring up water from well below top soil;

·         Trees provide shade and shelter for living creatures

·         Trees provide fragrant flowers for insects and birds;

·         Trees transpire moisture back into the atmosphere for cooling

·         Trees filter water from the soil and retain water

·         Trees produce sweet and tasty juicy fruits;

 

 

Unlike bread, FRUIT does not need to be washed down with water or with recycled human waste products piped with water through cancer causing plastics…  and fruit, is still one of the best sources of essential vitamins.

 

(Mat 13:31-32 KJV)  Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: (Mat 13:32 KJV)  Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

Weeds

 

(Gen 3:18-19 KJV) Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

 

The chapter above refers to part of the curse that fell upon humanity when we were cast out of paradise for our misbehaviour… so why should the land grow thorns and thistles and what is so wrong with eating herbs?

 

The point is… we all reap what we sow. If we sow fruit seed, we reap fruit; if we sow grass seed, we reap grass seed; if we neglect to sow anything, then whatever thrives will be all there is, for us to reap. It can take many years for most fruit trees to grow to maturity and bear fruit, without proper care and protection this is unlikely to happen. Just as young offspring need to be protected to enable growth to maturity, so too young seedlings, saplings and trees, need to be protected. If this doesn’t happen, through a failure of the system, then trees do not grow to maturity, the soil is not replenished with leaf mulch and we have to live with the consequences.

 

Thorns and thistles thrive in ‘poor’ soil along with other grasses and weeds, which is really what this verse is attempting to reveal. The term “herb” here, refers to 6212. 'eseb, eh'-seb; from an unused root mean. to glisten (or be green); grass (or any tender shoot):--grass, herb.  It does not refer to those few plants that we currently adopt as ‘herbs’ to flavour our food.

 

It begs the question… who is at fault here?  Is God at fault for providing a perfectly natural system and giving humanity responsibility to look after the garden or is humanity at fault for failing to see the perfect natural system, neglecting its responsibility and letting the garden grow wild and whatever?

 

Anyone who has ever had children would know that, without love and care a child grows wild with neglect… worse still a child that is abused becomes dysfunctional and dangerous to themselves and others.  Even a cat that does not lick and clean itself, turns into a wretched ball of filth…. Every creature has God given responsibilities that come with its structure and functional capabilities… If these functions are neglected, then the creature becomes sick and the sickness spreads throughout creation… A bee that fails to collect nectar and fails to pollinate flowers, fails to live true and fails to realise seed for future generations of flowers and bees… It really is that simple.

 

A weed is any ‘thing’ that springs up where it was not intended to grow and is harmful to the sustainability of life.  It is a contextual term… because a weed is still a living thing and has its place and purpose, just like everything else. A weed is not a bad thing in and of itself, it is only considered such because it is in the wrong place at the wrong time (from our perspective) …  In the ‘wild’ no-one cares to differentiate between plants and weeds, because no-one is seen to be the custodian of the ‘bush’. Yet this is not true, this whole earth is our garden… sow what, I hear you say?

 

(Mat 7:16-18 KJV) Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?  Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Beasts

 

(Gen 1:25 KJV) God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 

In the original context ‘beast’ seems to refer to wild animals, though why “cattle and things that creepeth” should be considered separately from beast, remains somewhat of a mystery, since it continues: 

 

(Gen 1:30 KJV) And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

 

So (in the beginning) all ‘beast’ were ‘vegetarian’ and considered ‘good’. It is important to understand that they were not ‘good’ because they were vegetarian, but ‘good’ because they were right (in-sync) with God, the perpetuation of life and seed is more than food.

 

Before the flood Noah was commanded to take 7 pairs of clean beasts and one pair of every unclean beast into the ark (Gen 7:2 KJV). Though at this point (in biblical time), no clarification is given as to what is meant by clean or unclean, later definitions point to clean as being pure and unclean as tainted, corrupt or polluted in some way. Aaron or another, scribe makes the distinction in the book of the law: (Lev 10:10 KJV) And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; In Leviticus 11 you can read all the dietary laws about clean and unclean beasts.

 

What is this corruption that makes some beasts unholy and no longer good? Is it some structural abnormality caused by diet or genetic (in-breeding or cross breeding) or is it some kind of sickness or contamination caused by feeding on dead things instead of on the living or maybe it is some behavioural abnormality caused by involvement with man, or maybe like some offal diet force fed to cattle, producing ‘mad cow’ disease in man?

 

Whatever the ‘badness’ the unclean beast obviously served some useful purpose, otherwise they would never have made the boat - I suspect they were beast that had ‘changed’ their diet ‘for want’, maybe forced to feed on the dead and dying. Since, though food goes into the mouth, not everything that goes into the mouth is ‘good’ for life and without excreted seed, such beast merely consume unsustainably. Though why God would want to save a pair of unholy beast on the boat eludes me, except maybe that after the flood, beast are required to consume the debris and maybe reduce the living beasts, cattle and creeping things devouring the vegetation and inhibiting re-seeding. (Gen 9:2-5 KJV) 

 

During Moses time we see the first born of ‘man and his owned beasts’ given to God in remembrance and recompense for deliverance. These can then be redeemed (In the case of a child or ass) by another beast of equivalent value and offered up - by blood sacrifice.

 

The first reference to an ‘evil beast’ is conjured up as a lie to cover up when Joseph’s brothers beat him up in jealous rage and threw him into a pit. (Gen 37:20 KJV)

 

And the only reference to ‘beasts’ in the gospels of Jesus is this one:

 

(Mark 1:13 KJV) And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

All Creatures

 

(Gen 1:20 KJV) And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

 

What creature chooses its own structure and behaviour?

 

I am sure that most female mosquitoes, given a choice, would rather suck the juice from a harmless mango, than live on the edge of a swamp and the near death experience of the slap from a human hand in their attempt to siphon off some blood – but sadly and yet fortunately, they have no choice. Their given or systematically evolved nature is to suck blood to raise their brood.

 

The human body is itself a living system, consisting of millions of independently functioning cells in fluid constantly exchanging elements with the surrounding environment through millions of minor pores and several major portals, namely the mouth, nose, anus and urethra. This particular input and output structure are something that we share with most, if not all, living creatures. It is the crux of our living system, it ensures that no creature can function independently; each creature is dependent on something or other that came before, just as any house is dependent on its foundations, the tree of life is dependent on its roots. We deny or disregard this truth, to our peril.  Many creatures and plants have very short natural life spans and their life often ends suddenly after fulfilling their natural purpose. Much like a ‘pinata’ that is filled with goodies and then beaten till they burst at a birthday party, such is the ‘joy’ of life and reproduction. Few creatures in nature have long drawn out bouts of sickness and disease; or try to prolong their existence for some self-made purpose or get depressed for want of one.

 

Many creatures (such as molds, fungi, bacteria and virus) have evolved over millennia to naturally break down dying and dead cellular structures such that the underlying elements can be re-cycled. Life feeds on death and death feeds on life. It is a naturally self-managing and evolving system, otherwise it would have extinguished itself at the outset. Stepping outside this natural system, or acting from an intellectual arrogance of not really knowing is more likely to unhinge this perfect self-management and adversely impact evolution to life’s peril.

 

There but for the grace of God, you could have been created as a microscopic fungus, bacteria or virus, with a life span of minutes. When we war with nature and one another, we war with life’s’ maker and often with the consequences and the corruption of our own making. Naturally selected or evolved life, naturally belongs and is self-evident. But what of ‘cancer’ is this naturally selected or evolved life or is this an aberration to healthy life? And what of all the other sicknesses and diseases that rage over humanity from time to time, where do they come from and how can they be seen as ‘good’ in Gods eyes?

 

(Mat 6:26-30 KJV) Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

All Creatures (Part 2)

 

(Gen 1:21 KJV) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 

How many creatures believe or acknowledge the existence of their creator?

Seems to me through observation, reading and research that most creatures just live life, they do not speculate on the meaning of their existence or say ‘grace’ before they devour their food.  Most creatures deviate little from their inherited structure and behaviour… baby ducks, feed and grow like ducks and baby lions feed and grow like lions. Even baby Chimpanzees (our nearest relative according to the DNA record) … still look, act and behave like Chimpanzees.  Chimpanzees do not adopt other creatures as pets, neither do they interbreed with other apes or monkeys or show compassion to other species… each keeps to its own gene pool and violently protects its space on earth…

 

Men are similar to Chimpanzees, but men are also very different to Chimpanzees…  Men have evolved or been created with mental mechanisms that facilitate much greater language capabilities than the ooo ooo & aaa aaa of apes. Men have developed sophisticated language sounds that include aaa, eee, iii, ooo & uuu and a whole swag of lip-smacking consonants to create a virtual library of symbolic meaning which would be meaningless without the development of an amazing memory to store these associated sensual symbolics.

 

It seems that much of evolution or change is driven by necessity, we know that even in simple human terms that if a man needs to do physical work he grows strong muscles… we also know that when a man needs to remember more, his neurons increase… the ‘tree of life’ grows and adapts to the needs of life. Generally this is driven by the provision and lacks in the environment in which we find ourselves born and raised. Seedlings in good soil will thrive, seedlings in poor soil either struggle, die or change. Birds in environments where flight was unnecessary gradually evolved into fat flightless birds. It seems that Nature (life) only evolves what is necessary and removes the superfluous baggage… Who needs wings?

 

Humans are probably the only species with the imagination and capacity to govern their own evolution and drive change to suit their own artificial desires. Desiring strength, men can lift weights, sometimes to insane levels and for what purpose?  If the muscle that you carry is not beneficial to life, then what purpose does it serve?  I once remember working with a body builder who cursed the day he started because he had to force himself to eat masses of carbohydrates everyday just to maintain his physique and for what? Within 6 weeks of non-training, most athletes lose 50-60% of their ‘fitness’. Many people are now electing to choose their offspring from the DNA of the athletic and the intelligent.. where will it end?

 

In the myths and legends of ancient scriptures and religious tomes we read stories of giants, geni, angels, demons and gods… which today we all too often dismiss as fantasy… Yet who is to say where the ‘tree of life’ ends in genealogical development and at what place in evolution did some sub species branch off to become a race of giants or a race of higher evolved beings… are men simply like Chimpanzees throwing poo at one another, compared to Angels who are way higher up the ’ tree of life’ and closer to our creator?

 

(Mark 16:15 KJV) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

All Creatures (Part 3)

 

(Gen 6:4 KJV) There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

 

What happened to all the giants that were once on earth?

 

It is said that ‘Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural “background” rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day’.

 

The simple fact is, what doesn’t adapt, change or avoid the resource consumption of humanity – simply dies by our hands.

 

According to the ancient records uncovered from Mesopotamia involving their great hero Gilgamesh, there were once many ‘giants’ on earth both man and beast. These records include stories of a great flood in which only Gilgamesh’s ancestor survived, some interpretations relate this to the story of Noah and place the giants height around 16 feet.

 

This raises three more related facts about creatures:

·         The larger the creature the longer the lifespan

·         The larger the creature the slower the heartbeat

·         Every creature has approximately the same number of heartbeats per life span

 

By way of approximate examples:

 

·         A ‘Blue Whale’ lives 80-90 years with a heart rate of 6 bpm (largest living giant)

·         An ‘Elephant’ lives 60-70 years with a heart rate of 25-35 bpm.

·         A ‘Mouse’ lives 1-2 years with a heart rate of 450-750 bpm

 

Much depends on the underlying structure. Mammals have a ‘closed circulatory system’, which is quite different from insects which have an ‘open circulatory system’.

 

The mosquito’s lives 2-3 weeks with a heart rate of 82bpm

 

The human heart, from life to death, will beat roughly 3 billion times and presumably the slower the heartbeat the longer you will live, provided you do not fall foul to sickness, wild animals or human misplaced ingenuity along the way.

 

Noah was supposed to be 600 years old when the floods came, was he a giant?

 

Did humanity evolve in a way that ensured only the smaller survived to comply with resources. It must take a lot of food to sustain one gigantic body. So, from a systems designer point of view, it makes way more sense to maintain many smaller bodies in parallel. Did the dinosaurs become extinct or did their offspring simply become smaller over the aeons to accommodate the earth. The word dinosaur just means ‘fearfully great lizard’. Nothing is so fearful, when you can hold it in your hand. What if giants once existed that could hold dinosaurs in their hand?

 

(Rev 5:13 KJV)  And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

Food

 

(Gen 2:9 KJV) And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

 

Is the definition of ‘food’ anything we eat? If so, there are two references in this passage that should not be overlooked: 1 - pleasant to the sight; 2 - good for food.

 

Again, we are trapped by our knowledge and semantics… what do we mean by ‘pleasant’ and ‘good’?  If we use pleasing to the eye or attractive as our definition of ‘pleasant’ and beneficial to life as our definition of ‘good’, then this passage takes on a greater significance.  It also implies that we can eat other things that are not ‘pleasant to the sight’ and that are not ‘good for food’, because we have become ignorant, constrained (thrown out of the garden) and consequently deviant.

 

Our natural earth consists of a whole bunch of things that we can put in our mouths and babies given the freedom or neglect usually do. Eg: Soil, grass, leaves, twigs, stones and other inanimate and animate creatures that can fit. Some of these things are ‘pleasant to the sight’ and some of them are ‘good for food’, but a lot of them are neither.

 

Psychologists and Marketing representatives have learned to exploit our sensual nature, by utilizing bright colours in their packaging, not to mention make-up products for women to make you want to eat them.  Sadly, they have failed in the ‘good for food’ business, since what is really good grows for free, anything touched by human hand or any middleman for money, is likely not to be so good for you, anymore.  Why is this?

 

The time taken between picking a fruit in the garden and eating it is a matter of seconds, the time taken to pick unripe fruit on mass, keep it refrigerated on its journey to the public, unpack the boxes and create a beautiful pyramid display on the shelves is likely to be a matter of weeks…  And why is this, a problem?

 

Well the only difference between life and death is the flow and or spirit which keeps all things integrated. As soon as this flow and integration is compromised in some way, death begins and with death comes the process of decay and re-integration through breakdown.

So, the longer it takes for food to travel from garden to mouth, the greater the chances are of eating something that is decaying, which means that your food could be full of worms, bacteria, virus and molds – all undertaking their natural tasks and, in the process, producing a lethal cocktail of toxic waste, not really intended for human consumption.

 

(Exo 16:19-20 KJV) And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.

 

The take up rate of these ‘undertakers’ is so fast that a dead insect is likely seized by 1 ant after 10 seconds and a thousand ants after 2 minutes.  Imagine eating a dead insect covered in a thousand ants… Worse still imagine eating food that has been delayed by over 24 hours, given the multiplication rates of worms, bacteria, virus and molds….

 

(John 6:58 KJV) This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

Food (Part 2)

 

(Gen 3:19 KJV) In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

 

Everything we eat has its foundation in the dust of the earth in combination with water and light. The most important of these elements is ‘light’ for without its transformation into matter, neither water nor dust would exist upon which life grows.

 

‘Light’ or at least the expansive flow of ‘energy’ throughout the universe that we perceive as ‘light’, on reflection gives rise to matter and life. If this universal ‘light’ ceased… all life would perish, this is our fundamental dependency on the ‘self-existent one’ (aka: God). Ultimately everything ‘feeds’ upon this ‘light’ – indeed as the ancients perceived long ago the universe can be represented as a snake that feeds upon itself. Yet this feeding is not naturally destructive… it is more like that of a mother, breast feeding her offspring. The source of this ‘light’ is infinite therefore the provision for her offspring is equally so…

 

However, if the offspring become ‘blind’ to this ‘divine’ provision and disregard the mother as unworthy of consideration in their superior knowledge… then the chances are the offspring will lop off her breasts in their desire and greed to eat her flesh…. and the flow of milk stops….

 

Eventually we all have to chew our 'food' to break it down to something equivalent to ‘dust’ or ‘electrons’ before we can assimilate it.

 

(Mat 26:26-28 KJV)  And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

 

If the universe is infinite, why do we squabble and fight over space and time?

 

We fight because we have lost faith in the provision of God and have taken the provision upon ourselves… and the truth is… we cannot manage it fairly.  The world’s population now exceeds 7 billion…. and half the population is starving, while the other half is fat. We tirelessly over-fertilise and over-work the land to make it more productive in an attempt to feed the millions of people living on top of one another in our many cities. Corporate super-market chains and middle men investors now exploit producers to on-sell their produce to the mass market, often subsidised by income from other interests to edge out any competition….

 

Human wars are constantly being waged at the corporate level, but like 'magic' or a frog boiled slowly in water, the sleight of hand and the deception is obscured…. because we are blinded by the shelves of colourfully labelled food available to eat…. as long as we have money to pay and feel no pain.  In the meantime, seeds that once fell on fertile soil are transported away from growing areas of their parents and either chemically removed or carelessly eaten, flushed or thrown away as garbage. Yet, in truth, all food comes from the hand of God ‘freely’ as long as we live wisely in the land on which we live.

 

(Rev 22:2-3 KJV) In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse:

Food (Part 3)

 

Dependency Model of the Earth’s Food Supply Managed by Heaven (God):

 

 

This represents a perfectly self-sustainable and ‘elastic’, eternal system that shrinks and grows dependent upon heavenly influences and the ‘free’ exchange (flow) of elements. It represents the benefits of a ‘Tree of Life’.
Dependency Model of the World’s Food Supply Managed by Man (Sin):

 

 

This represents an unsustainable and ‘biased’ system that is dependent upon a twisted human mindset (sin) and the ‘manipulated’ exchange (flow) of elements.

 

Each ‘grey’ box represents an additional node of human control that in the short term may seem like a good idea, but in the scheme of things simply interferes with a perfectly sustainable system that has stood the test of millennia.

 

The three elements that are difficult for humanity to control are sunlight, air and rainfall, everything else on earth can be manipulated (changed) to suit a human ideal, regardless of the impact to the singular whole.

 

It represents the dangers of a ‘Tree of Knowledge’.

Pets

 

(Psa 22:20-21 KJV) Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

 

Dogs and cats are the two main larger mammals that feed on flesh – most other mammals like elephants, rhinoceros, buffalo, deer, sheep, giraffes, monkey, apes and other primates feed mainly on grasses, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds. It is easy to see how dogs and cats came to be human pets, since with our sophisticated minds and equipment; our ability to hunt and kill was probably greater than any other creature, so wherever our leftover flesh and bone remained, dogs and cats would draw close to human habitation to scavenge.  Other mammals that were usually the victims of our sophisticated hunting would more likely take flight at the mere smell of hungry humanity. Even today, eating dogs and cats is frowned upon in some cultures, though not all.  So, no doubt – somehow, we came to tame dogs and cats by faith in our provision of free food (that was neither; bait in a trap, nor poisoned).

 

And so, it is, people make ‘tame’ pets from ‘wild’ animals by faithfully providing and caring for them – the proximity of the pet to the person is proportionate to the love and care provided. There is a whole range of relationships that occur between humanity and animals, not all of them healthy or based on love and care. Many so called ‘pets’ suffer abuse at the hands of their human masters, many are caged, tethered and starved to the point of insanity – becoming more savage, than naturally wild dogs. Many others have been bred to encourage emotionally or aesthetically appealing yet unnaturally supported deformities that please their proud owners. With legs that can hardly support their bodies, ears that drag on the ground and all manner of other in-breeding that has weakened their genetic pool. Sometimes it seems that the relationship between man and God has deteriorated to something similar to that which exists between man and his dog or his cat. The religious dog performs tricks and waits patiently for its master to provide some little tit bit or praise, the dog acting out of some inherited or early conditioning somehow believes that this is what it is designed or destined to do and like a programmed puppet, performs. The religious cat rubs itself up against its master to elucidate food or affection in a similar way. Though less faithful to the family than the dog, being more solitary in nature, the cat performs for no-one and will manipulate every willing soul.

 

Is this the way it is supposed to be, between us and God?  And yet, what if your pet could open its own tin of food, or pour its own biscuits or pat and pet itself… what relationship or purpose would there be between us, or between God and man? Without some kind of co-operative and reciprocal love and care, are we not all on our own and somewhat lost?

 

And does that make 'demi-gods' of corporations selling tins and biscuits?

 

For many people, ‘dogs and cats’ are a substitute for children; they are named accordingly, sleep in their owners’ beds and are treated like royalty. Pampering ‘pets’ is a dangerous practice which usually results in trouble and many trips to the vet, just as spoiling children usually results in a naughty or sickly child. God is good, because God is just and unbiased – resulting in healthy growth. Too much food, too much affection and too much of anything is poisonous to life.

 

(Mat 15:26-27 KJV) But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

Sheep & Goats

 

(Gen 27:15-1- KJV)  And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:  And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son? And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

 

The chapter above is taken from the story of Esau and Jacob, where Jacob (with the help of his mother) not only deceives his blind father by pretending to be his hairy older brother, but also by serving him goat instead of venison. Like the two previous brothers Cain and Abel, we see that humanity is somehow divided along two lines… the simple hunter gatherers and cunning investors… Esau was physical and hairy (a jock) and a man’s man, while Jacob was mental and smooth (a nerd) and a mummy’s boy… Did either have a choice in their structure or behaviour? Instead of co-operating together to achieve the best outcome, we see them at odds and go separate ways, lest Esau kill his deceptive brother.  Their nature was already pre-destined by the lotto of their gene composition and the way they were naturally wired… but their love or hatred for one another was ultimately warped by the perception of the love they each received from their parents…

 

No child is born bad, something turns them bad and it is usually perceived bias or injustice. The more perceptive or cerebral a child is, the more likely they will react to their sense of perceived injustice… dumb kids generally don’t see or think about it. Sometimes the perception is real, oftentimes it is oversensitivity and unawareness of the ‘big picture’ and the level of dependency, attachment and nurture required at each stage of every individual child’s growth. Being a parent is a delicate balancing act that nothing really prepares us for... the first child is usually a prototype and a learning process. Looking at the human race we see ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in all cultures, races and religions, yet all children enter the world as innocent babes, so the badness is either learned or an inherited trait that is triggered by a re-occurring stimulus later in life. From the perspective of the greater good or life, is anything intrinsically ‘bad’ except that which is destructive to the overall preservation of life?

 

From the Biblical perspective we see that the ‘good child’ is the obedient one or the one that does what is required by the parents, the ‘bad’ child is the disobedient one and the deceitful child is the ‘evil’ one, knowing what is right, but deliberately doing what is wrong. Looking at the natural world are their ‘good’ and ‘bad’ insects, birds, reptiles or mammals?

 

Generally, any creature that doesn’t behave in a way that is expected, is considered rogue and potentially dangerous… it may be harmless, but the disobedience in a creature’s nature means that it cannot be trusted and this is the whole point. Though coming from a common ancestor, sheep are perceived as peaceful and manageable; while goats are perceived to run rampant and devour everything aggressively… it’s a metaphor.

 

(Mat 25:31-33 KJV)  When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

 

Pleasure & Pain

 

(Gen 18:10-12 KJV) And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

 

This is the first reference to ‘pleasure’ in the Old Testament and the original word in Hebrew is ‘eden’ or ‘ayden’ meaning delicate, delight. Sarah laughed because her menstruation had ceased and Abraham was probably a bit rusty. And yet, despite her unbelief at 80, she conceived. In this instance, the pleasure refers to the ‘gift’ of a child, not, the ‘act’ of sex itself.

 

When we look at the natural world, we see very little ‘pleasure’ in the act itself, so little ‘pleasure’ in the act, in fact, that most larger species of animal only copulate when the female is in season and the act is over in a rushed release of seed.  Seems that ‘primates’ are different… Though an alpha male will protect his females in season from other males to ensure alpha offspring… When out of season, some primates practice all the time on one another. When I say all the time, it really means until the pressure is released and when I say on one another, it seems that any subservient hole will do. The jury is out on whether all reproductive species ‘orgasm’ though, I figure the release of any “pent up energy” that stresses an individual, has to be in some way pleasurable… sometimes even the relief of going to the toilet. A young teenage boy has little control over the changes that occur in his body, the testicles drop, pubic hair grows and the body readies itself for procreation… and society says “wait!”… And so the “pent up energy” builds and is repressed, wet dreams occur and other socially frowned upon activities occur in private, just to relieve the pressure... all natural repression leads to artificial deviation, this is almost a law of physics… since there always has to be an equal and opposite reaction to establish equilibrium. The real question, is… what causes the “pent up energy” in the first place, since without this potential energy, there is no pressure and no need for release. Without this ‘potential energy’ there is no desire to act and no need to act.

 

In nature this potential energy is often seasonal and driven by forces in nature unseen, often co-incident with planetary influences, seasonal weather and diet.  Yes, certain foods affect our chemistry and therefore our behaviour. However, humanity has several other influences that are all powerful… imagination, lust (overwhelming desire) and love (overwhelming submission) … both of which can be stimulated by words (true or false) and imagery (real or virtual) … as advertisers and the devil well know. And what exactly is pleasure and how can it be measured?

 

Is it a release of potential energy?  A coming together of polarised energies?  A serious of electrical explosions in the brain?  Or a whole swag of identified chemicals named endorphins, adrenalines, etc. that appear simultaneously with this whole spectrum of feelings? Obviously, it is all of these things as measured by science, in its search for the truth and yet… where is love and the natural righteousness of sex, in all of this pleasure?

 

In nature we see, there is righteous sex and compromised sex. Righteous sex happens at the right time and the right place with the right pairings… usually the alpha male to ensure the refinement and sustainability of the ‘best’ line for life and unrighteous sex occurs as stress relief for those who fall short of the perfect mating mark.

 

(Luke 12:32 KJV) Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Pleasure & Pain (Part 2)

 

(Gen 6:13 KJV) And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

 

All pain is the product of some kind of violence or violation, the crossing or penetration of boundaries in contradiction to the integrity of the whole. In this way pain is the accentuation of pressure (whether sudden or sustained) that impacts other areas of our being.  Physical pressure brings physical pain, Social pressure brings social pain and emotional pressure brings emotional pain. Pressure can be crushing or it can be divisive, it really depends on the surface area impacted.

 

All pressure brings either pain and change (often both) and it is the release of pressure that brings pleasure and stability again. Necessity is the mother of invention and necessity is emphasized by some kind of pain or problem. Necessity is also a big factor in evolution, since only that which is needed, is utilized organically, the rest falls away.

 

If we do not move with a strong tidal wave, it will knock us over. If we resist without permanent damage, we become stronger, as resistance training reveals. If we avoid pressure by neither changing nor coping, we become weaker. Pressure is essential for growth. It is in itself a potential energy, yet too much pressure can kill us. So where do we draw the line or is this line drawn by nature and the universal forces that we do not know and name as God. Responsibility is the weight of the pressure that we carry, without responsibility children never grow to become adults.

 

In paradise we can assume there is no violence because all things operate as a singularity, much like the human body… does the heart beat up the liver? Or the hand punch the eye? To behave in such a way is foolish and self-destructive. How then did the earth become filled with violence or violate the unity that exists in a singularity of interconnected cellular functions?

 

The answer is simply “sin” – willful and misguided virtual reality in the human mind.

 

Once the integrity of unity is broken, a chain reaction occurs, much like removing a single tin from the base of a stack of tins or flipping the first domino in a layout of closely connected dominos. Breaking the law, brings lawlessness. Yet this law is not written on stone like the 10 commandments, it is written in the very core of every living creature and we override our connectedness (love) to the detriment of the whole. Social laws are only written in an attempt to restore order, for sin was in the world before there was law. (Rom 5:13 KJV).

 

In this day and age, in Australia, where I currently live, there has been a recent spate of violent men randomly punching other men and knocking then down with a single punch often causing permanent damage and even death to their innocent victims.  There is an insanity in this behaviour which beggars belief, the insanity is often blamed on substance abuse (either alcohol, drugs or steroids), but the truth is the perpetrators have lost all sense of human decency, godliness, love and respect for others…. how can this happen in a country where education and prosperity abound?

 

Simple – education and prosperity, are not the same as enlightenment and love.

 

(Mat 24:11-14 KJV) And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Pleasure & Pain (Part 3)

 

(Exo 20:13-16 KJV) Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

 

Laws and books are written to re-educate people who do not know how to behave or who have lost the way to behave decently. Law is an external way of trying to influence the internal misgivings (sin) of humanity. The problem is, law is external and it is ineffective until internalised and followed.

 

For any external book of law to be effective it must be:

 

·         Read on a regular basis (to be remembered)

·         Obeyed to the letter

·         Policed with penalties

 

Any set of laws if followed by members of a society will bring order, but law can only bring peace on earth, if the rules outlined are just and in accordance with universal forces (aka: God).

 

The reward for keeping the law is peace and pleasure, the punishment for breaking the law is chaos and pain.

 

In a perfect heaven and earth (aka: paradise), law is unnecessary, because unity prevails and, in that unity, there is no violent conflict only natural competitiveness and co-operative submission.

 

In an imperfect world, law is necessary because chaos prevails and, in that disunity, there is violent conflict which would destroy everything unless brought to accountability by laws of good management.

 

There is justice in the laws of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, this law brings order, but it does not bring unity under God. For in some ways we are all victims of ‘sin’, even the perpetrators of evil deeds. It is simpler and quicker to remove the eye of the perpetrator than it is to try and re-educate the perpetrator by the removal of their sinful nature. And so the law is effective, while education is often ineffective.

 

Jesus was effective in his ministry because he had the power to remove the sinful nature (evil) from the wayward. He did not use words only, but the power of God. Without this power, Christianity is ineffective and the Law is necessary to stem the tide of sin.

 

It is impossible for someone that is punched in the face, falls crashing to the floor and smashes their skull on the concrete and permanently disabled or brain damaged… to turn the other cheek. Indeed, would Jesus have been resurrected if his head had been smashed to pieces or cut off?

 

Law is necessary where the power of God fails to remove ‘evil’ from the hearts and minds of humanity. To allow such acts of violence to go unpunished and to not enact just penalties for such crimes is an insult to both the innocent and to God.

However, it should never be forgotten that God and angels, establish and police the laws of God and men establish and police the laws of men.

 

Any man that kills in the name of God is deluded, for is God not capable of fighting his own battles and establishing justice in the earth?

 

(Rev 6:17 KJV) For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

Hierarchies

 

(1 Sam 8:6-7 KJV) But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

 

Kings, Queens, Presidents, Prime ministers, Dictators, Popes, Priests, Ayatollahs, Rulers, Managers, etc.…. who needs them?

 

Whoever rejects God needs them, the deceived, the unfaithful, the fearful masses, the lost, the displaced, the blind and the leaderless.

 

It is frightening to think that millions of people can subjugate themselves to the rule of despots and egomaniacs… but human history bears witness to this over and over again. One of the most dangerous things on the planet, is hierarchies of men, the dumb following the smart idea, the intellectual and evil disguised as a greater benefactor than God.

 

How else can people like ‘Adolf Hitler’ rise to power without someone uplifting them?

 

So whenever we as people, listen to, or place ourselves under other men, women or any other being, we relinquish our freedom.  One has to ask the question as Samuel did, why would we want to relinquish our “free will” to someone or something other than the True living God?

 

Sometimes, this is not a voluntary act, most times it is an act of ignorance or necessity, rather than starve, a man will go to work for the ‘boss man’, rather than be killed a man will pledge his allegiance to his conqueror, rather than watch his wife and children starve a man will sell his soul into slavery.

 

Every time we bow to other men, corporations or beings, we give them our faith, sell our soul and deny our God given freedom.

 

This is a dangerous and demonic place to be… firstly because no creature is God, secondly because it displaces divinity in humanity and lastly because it brings an artificial unity (humanity) under the intellect of a mortal leader. The consequences of which are immortalized in the wars of human history.

 

Hierarchies of men are a curse and so is anyone who would rule over another, seek or follow a position of power.

 

Nation can only rise up against nation, because someone leads and the blind follow. 

 

What right has one maggot to rule over another or live at another’s expense….. this is perverse parasitism?

 

Yet there are natural dependencies which of themselves create a hierarchical pattern. Everything grows and evolves upon that which came before it, since one must lay the foundations before one can add more.

 

(Mat 23:9-10 KJV) And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

Hierarchies (Part 2)

 

(1 Sam 8:19-20 KJV) Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

 

Carnivores depend upon Herbivores, herbivores depend upon plants, plants depend upon the water, earth and sunlight, water, earth and sunlight depend upon heaven. all of which depends upon that which we call God an eternal selfless sustaining spirit.

 

 

 

When we interfere with these natural dependencies, we force the system to change and adapt, sometimes in ways we least expect. You cannot consume or shift the foundations of a house and expect it to remain stable.

 

It is now believed that the great pyramids were originally built in lush tropical forests, much like the Mayan buildings in South America. Somewhere along the way, it was forgotten that trees are more important than wood. It can take 10 years to grow a tree and ten minutes to destroy one. Some trees live for thousands of years and without them pumping water into the atmosphere from roots deep underground, the climate changes and without their shade the earth becomes parched and dry…. If you have ears to hear, listen.

 

 

 

Jesus never asked anyone to worship or serve him, he came not to be served, but to serve and he said that the greatest among us, must be the servant of us all, for this is the way…. and the pattern of heaven.

 

(Mat 23:11-12 KJV) But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Crime

 

(Gen 4:7 KJV) If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

 

To do well is to behave correctly … and in so doing we align with the nature of life and are accepted. If we do not do well, we behave incorrectly and twist the nature of life to suit ourselves. Hence crime is not breaking the laws of men, crime is the by-product of human unrighteousness….the willful or ignorant contravention of the love of God and laws of nature…sin.

 

In human society there are really only two major types of crime…

1.    against a person (thou shalt not kill, cheat or covet, etc.)

2.    against a persons’ property (thou shalt not steal, damage or destroy, etc.)

 

Breaking law is really about crossing boundaries, either set by God in nature or set by man in society… Sadly most other creatures fall foul of human law and consideration.

 

The biggest crime is the overriding of the ‘will of God’ and the ‘will of another’ – where ‘will’ is reflected in the true nature of being…which is where we get lost as humans knowing almost everything by wrote, yet almost nothing of how to be truly human and divine…

 

At one time I had the opportunity to work for the Police, those with the responsibility of upholding the criminal laws of men… I was amused to notice how acceptable it was for a public servant to steal thousands from the public purse by being lazy and inefficient and yet it was not acceptable for a desperate man to steal a two dollar loaf of bread to feed his family… This says something about the nature of crime and criminals…

 

(Mal 2:10 KJV) Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

 

Doing “good” is not the same as being “good”, there are many who like to be seen to be doing “good”, but helping others to commit unrighteousness in the name of a “good” cause, is not really good is it? Aligning with forces that are misaligned against “good” or “God” is demonic delusion, it is not doing “good” at all, no matter how righteous you may imagine.

 

In our society many encourage their children to spend years at university learning to become doctors, lawyers and astute businessmen… Once upon a time these professions were undertaken for the betterment of humanity and society. Sadly these days it is often because these positions rate big egos and big bucks. Many doctors have become pawns of pharmaceutical companies (legalized pushers); Many Lawyers have become masters at twisting the truth to achieve their ill-gotten ends and let’s face it business men have always profiteered at their neighbours’ expense, otherwise it wouldn’t be “big business” it would be charity. “big love”..

 

So who is free from sin and who can cast the first stone?

 

(Mat 23:27 KJV) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Money

 

(Gen 2:10-11 KJV) And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

 

This is the first inference in the Old Testament of any interest in an element other than light, air, earth or water… Why was ‘gold’ given this special mention so early in the story of Genesis?  I suspect it is because the whole story has been written retrospectively and is subsequently tainted by the latter ways of men. We see that Abram and his Lot were nomads living off the land with little use for lugging heavy metals around. Yet following his misadventure with the Egyptian Pharaoh who took a shine to Abram’s wife, we see that Abram is given a ‘herds, people, gold and silver’ compensation package and sent packing.

 

It is interesting to note that nowhere in the Bible does God ever place a value on gold or silver. This value is attributed by men only… and why is that exactly?

 

Firstly: Beauty… which though in the eye of the beholder, is measured by anything that is aesthetically pleasing in form, colour and brightness. Secondly: Utility… which though relative to human need, is measured by the value added to ones life, but not necessarily to society, the environment or the earth.

 

Gold and Silver are beautiful and useful, since they are both bright, malleable metals which can be turned into adorning jewellery and other ‘useful’ implements.

 

Despite her age, Abrams wife was considered beautiful, but her ‘sexual’ appeal was somewhat depreciated in Pharaoh’s eyes when she also brought on a plague. The first mention of money also occurs in Genesis, where we see that some exchange takes place using ‘money’ – either silver or gold to buy estranged people, following on from experiences with the Egyptian value system.

 

(Gen 17:12 KJV) And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

 

So the question has to be asked…. How much are you worth?  And who has the right to place a value on you and your life, in silver and gold? Perhaps I should ask the question… how beautiful are you? Or how useful are you?  And to whom? 

 

Doesn’t such a ‘superficial’ world value system, make “prostitutes” of us all?

 

Since God destroyed the whole world and saved only Noah, his kin and two of every kind of creature, doesn’t it make you wonder about God’s ‘true’ value system?

 

(Mat 6:24 KJV) No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

(Mat 10:8-10 KJV) Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

Money (Part 2)

 

(Num 30:2 KJV) If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

 

The original concept of a bond was a binding contract between two or more parties and it was simply by word of mouth. Later when word of mouth was considered insufficient we see the addition of tokens, leading to written contracts or notes with seals and signatures.

 

The problem with any oath, bond or contracts is that they are always future based and therefore must be taken in faith as a gamble (since no man controls the future).

 

Before the invention of bonds, tokens, notes and money – people would exchange their possessions of an agreed value, that is, one cow might be exchanged for three chickens, or a sack of flour for a bag of potatoes. The nature of this exchange was at the discretion of the parties involved and since it happened in ‘real’ time, there was no need for a bond, an oath or any other form of virtual currency, that could be stored in vast numbers.

 

This begs the question… how can men exchange what is not really theirs to sell?

 

Seems to me that God owns everything, therefore men have to withhold something from God and their neighbour before they can put a price on it, because in Gods economy all things are free and subject to a free exchange with life…. and that is the Truth.

 

What arrogance men have to buy and sell the natural world as if it was theirs, when they don’t even own themselves?

 

In the final reckoning, for all our products and services what ‘real’ value have we added to life… the added salt, sugar and interference usually do more evil than good.

 

 

Withholding and resistance impede and impact the free exchange of natural resources and therefore produce adverse effects that consequently need to be further managed to restore any kind of balance… and very often this does not occur, resulting in inequalities, crime and wars.  There can be no peace without justice or free and fair exchange.

 

We see that the problem starts with withholding or as Jesus so rightly pointed out, the laying up of treasure for oneself on Earth.  Money has become a means for men to disempower God and every other living creature on earth.

 

 

God created Heaven and Earth….Mankind created The World.

 

 

Truth is… nothing can ever disempower eternal God, it is only a temporal delusion, that is doomed to self destruct, because its very nature is unsustainable.

 

The last man standing, has to eat himself.

 

 

(Mat 19:21 KJV) Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

 

Business

 

(Gen 17:12 KJV) And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

 

The world of business seems to always have been about the offering of some kind of product or service in exchange for some token as money or some other product or service of a kind.

 

In a world without machines, people and animals were the only work engines and if you needed to plough the land, sow some seed, reap the produce, grind the flour or cook some bread – business required people to do the work. Indeed, the practice of buying and selling slaves continued for years until the Industrial revolution, when the nature of business changed such that ‘slaves’ became re-named as ‘skilled workers’ needed to operate complex machinery.

 

Today business is all about providing and marketing products and services to the populous in order to gain money to buy other products and services, it is a vicious all-consuming cycle and a difficult one to break.

 

How many products and services do we really need and why do food, drink and pleasure stay near the top of our list instead of starvation, thirst and pain?

 

Our primary needs for living are not met by ‘business’, ‘products and services’, ‘work’ or ‘money’…. These are all the secondary consequences of sin, its curse and the world.

 

Like any living creature brought mysteriously into existence our primary need is for freedom in the form of our own living space and time to carry out our life’s true purpose.

 

Space (this earth) and time (this life) are neither a product nor a service, but they are basically what we all strive and fight for, albeit cloaked by our worldly obligations or repressed by our worldly masters to whom we give or sell ourselves.

 

The Garden of Eden and the Kingdom of heaven have nothing to do with worldly business, they are all about the unrealized gift of freedom, space and time offered to humanity to share and carry out life’s true purpose in harmony with the rest of creation as ONE family, leaving each free to fulfill its bodily function to the whole (in love and peace).

 

Sadly, we have lived in dysfunctional sin for so long, the tradition of work and slavery prevail in our thinking and like hamsters on the wheel of the world, we turn forever in circles without true purpose, going nowhere in an ever more stinking cage of our own making, squabbling over the remaining food or opting out, unto death and terminal hell.

 

Who has the right to buy and sell this freely God given space and time and ultimately your body, soul and future generations and for what – thirty pieces of silver?

 

(Luke 2:49-50 KJV) And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

Books

 

(Eccl 12:12 KJV) And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

 

Whether etchings on cave walls, hieroglyphs carved into stone, clay tablets, inked on papyrus parchments, paper tomes or digitally encrypted on magnetic media and optical disks - ‘books’ contain only symbolic virtual memories of things past or the visions of dreamers.  So, why do we have so many books and what is their purpose?

 

Perhaps we live in hope that these symbolics may open our eyes to some greater truth – but how foolish are we, when all books are wrapped in the limitations and ignorance of the author and the age. Why didn’t Jesus write a book? Those living life the right way, reap the real benefits of practice; whereas writers and readers only reap theoretical, observational and intellectual ‘tingles’ whilst promoting personal fame and fortune. There are fundamentally 3 types of writers: Those artists who are compelled to write in order to communicate their inspired message; those that document their experiences and experiments for the benefit of future generations; and those who believe their works have entertainment value. Equally there are 3 types of readers, those who are seeking inspiration. Those that seek to know about things beyond their experience and experiments and those who seek to be entertained.

 

·         Inspiration

·         Education

·         Entertainment

 

At best, books can teach us how to live better lives, but if we ignore or resist their teaching, then they are merely dangerous distractions. No book can contain the truth, the moment we copy something down, the freedom of the moment is lost and the truth has moved on. Truth moves at the speed of light – not even prophets or scribes can capture the true ‘light of life’ in a book?  Even your family and friends – captured in photos are not the same today as yesterday – light and life has changed them. Truth is ever changing, so how can it be captured in a book?   So why do we search through bookish symbolics for the truth – the best we can ever hope to gain is a second-hand truth, from second hand observation (hearsay) and can anything contrived and filtered by the minds of men, be trusted as true?

 

Yet, annually, we fell thousands of acres of precious forests, so we can ‘pay’ to find out about the destruction that is happening around us via newspapers and promote best sellers that tingle our imaginations…. Isn’t this somewhat twisted, what do we really need to see and know?

 

Truth IS… step outside, look at the sky, look at the earth, look at a flower, observe an ant – “Life” is the greatest of miracles, if you cannot see what is right in front of your eyes, how do you expect to see clearly, when so many dead works, sequential words, pages in books and media devices cloaked in a plethora of divisional human symbolism and subject to so much misinterpretation, veil your vision?

 

The REAL book of life is written in blood and your cellular DNA by God, it is not scribed like graffiti on trees by men with industrial ink.

 

(Rev 20:12 KJV) And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Products & Services

 

(Gen 17:10-13 KJV) This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

 

Oddly enough this is the first reference to money anywhere in the Old Testament and it raises three types of currency – a contractual token; the money of a stranger and thy money. The product here is human souls and the service is circumcision…. It was a contract, not written on paper, but engraved in the flesh and passed from generation to generation, lest they forget.

 

From this short extract above the contract looks very one sided – babies and strangers bought into the household suffer circumcision and men do the circumcising, but what is Gods part in this contract?

 

(Gen 17:8-9 KJV) And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

 

God wasn’t selling anything, God was giving the land of Canaan to Abraham (a stranger) and his descendants forever in exchange for a covenant of the flesh. The significance of this land has to do with Noah and his son, Ham who fathered Canaan who later came under a curse from Noah (his grandfather), but this is another story.

 

From a Jewish perspective, it begs the question… What was Jesus selling or offering, especially since God already had an everlasting covenant with the Jews in Canaan?

 

There is a huge passage of human history between Abraham and Jesus and suffice to say that faith and not a mountain of Jewish foreskins alone, were necessary to maintain the covenant of the first promise and good relations with God.

 

Jesus wasn’t offering some new ‘promised land’ or some new heavenly abode where people can go when they die… He was offering FAITH in God and the covenant he made with God was greater than his human foreskin. Jesus gave his whole skin and, in such LOVE, and FAITH the curse of sin, sickness and death was lifted as living proof for all, who have like faith….  Jesus offers all humanity ‘freedom from sin’ and its consequences.

 

If the product of “freedom from sin” could be obtained by the services of “circumcision or baptism” - then many would have obtained such through needed penile surgery and daily baths… These things are ‘tokens’, they are not the substance of true faith or love.

 

(John 5:39-42 KJV) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. I receive not honour from men. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

Chemistry

 

(Gen 1:9 KJV) And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

 

It is amazing to think that we live on a planet consisting of wet water and dry land and that both these “elements” are so vastly different and set apart from one another by some universal law.

 

When I look at water I see one continuous substance, it pours through my hand, I can walk though it and yet it also supports my body so that I can swim in it, it is a miraculous substance and one that is essential to life.

 

Yet I am taught that water is not really an element, water is a compound of other elements and that every drop of water is really two parts of an element called “Hydrogen” and one part of an element called “Oxygen” … H2O. Yet this is not what I see or sense, so how can this be so?

 

Hydrogen has been given the atomic number of 1 and the atomic weight of 1.00794. It is a colourless, odourless and tasteless gas; it is considered the lightest, simplest and most abundant chemical element in the cosmos.. Quite how or what Hydrogen is weighed against, eludes my imagination, but somewhere and somehow in the name of relativity, this is accepted science.

 

Oxygen has been given the atomic number of 8 and the atomic weight of 15.9994 relative to Hydrogen, it is a colourless, odourless and tasteless gas. It is beyond our vision, beyond our smell and beyond our taste, yet somehow, we have been led to believe it exists….

 

Since at the atomic level all “things” are described as ellipsoids of electrons of immeasurable energy encircling and jumping around a central nucleus of opposing energy, then each variation in energy level is seen as a different element to be named and numbered, when they are really only comprehended as “different” by the instrument of measure or the experiment which highlights their differences. That is “Hydrogen” when weighed in “Hydrogen” weighs nothing, but anything other than “Hydrogen” weighed in “Hydrogen” weighs something and therefore can be named as something other than “Hydrogen”.

 

The atomic number could equate to the frequency of an element… Imagine a room full of an element at frequency 1 (eg: the cosmos) … Then imagine injecting a syringe full of an element at frequency 8…. What would be the result?  Would the two frequencies remain distinct or would they blend such that a new frequency results at the point of injection?

 

From a Buddhist perspective the cosmos could be vibrating at the frequency of “Om” any other vibration apart from “Om” would affect the pure frequency in some way and either become harmonious or discordant, depending upon whether the frequency was wholly divisible into “OM” or whether the frequency had a residual frequency.

 

(Mat 23:15 KJV) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

 

 

Electricity

 

(1 Chr 29:11 KJV) Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

 

Whether we like it or not, the way of things is such that the universe and life in general always works towards balance…. Where the ‘way of things’ corresponds to the ‘will of God’, if there were no will, there would be no way and everything would dissolve into nothingness. All around us we see that instability, whether environmental, physical, mental or emotional is considered abnormal and something to be resolved and restored to a balanced state.

 

Any element when set ‘free’ seeks its natural place in the order of things, water has a natural level which it seeks on earth. Each elemental gas rises to its place in the atmosphere, based upon its relative nature. Hot things become cooled to the environmental temperature and Cold things become warmed to the environmental temperature. In temperate climes, hot air rises and ice melts. It is said that nature abhors a vacuum, so naturally speaking, all space that is ‘free’ is naturally filled with something.

 

The nature of nature and of our reality, is to expand to fill any gaps and resolve any glitches. In nature all displacements or imbalances of energy are resolved as soon as possible and as fast as possible, usually at lightning speed.  Metal rusts because it is naturally displaced, much in the same way that uranium is harmless when kept at a safe distance, underground. Likewise, the sun is harmless at a safe distance, but burns in the absence of natural resistance or as a consequence of the sudden removal of artificially sustained conditions, ie: walls and clothing. The world is an artificial environment sustained by the will of men and human knowledge.

 

One of the most world widely accepted artificially sustained and exploited aspects is the ‘thing’ we know and name as ‘electricity’. In truth ‘electricity’ is no more than a potential difference (imbalance) or ‘glitch’ in the nature of things, that we have learned to control, exploit and manipulate on its way to restore a balance state. By prolonging the potential difference for as long as possible, we have learned to utilise the flow of restoration as ‘energy (flogiston)’ to power many of our ingenious inventions… unfortunately, there is a downside to this, since the nature of reality is to restore balance to earth. This artificially maintained imbalance and environment, in its own way produces all manner of ‘random’ displacements in the fabric of life.

 

Many of the modern-day sicknesses that we see around us are a bi-product of this sustained displacement, since the nature of reality, when ‘free’ is to bring balance. Sustained displacement will inevitably produce disruption in other things…

 

It is delusion to think that chemical, electrical or radiation can heal life, the best they can do is counterbalance some of the damage caused to life by chemical, electric and radioactive disruption.

 

The intellect can only ever provide a better environment for healing.

 

Ultimately all living things heal, grow and evolve better when in harmony with their nature and when nurtured with love.

 

(Mat 22:29 KJV) Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

Electricity (Part 2)

 

(Gen 3:5 KJV) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 

In many ways the whole of creation is like a huge circuit board powered by the spirit of God.  Human beings are much like electronic components, which come in effectively 3 main types:

 

·         Conductors, go with the divine flow, like prophets.

·         Semi-conductors choose to go with the flow when it suits, like agnostics

·         Resistors choose not to go with the flow, like atheists.

 

Returning to Eden we see that our original father’s nature was like that of a conductor at one with the spirit of God. Some added ‘impurity’ changed this nature such that our human ancestor became a semi-conductor, moderated by the ‘knowledge’ of experience like some light sensitive transistor. And it seems the more we think we ‘know’ in ourselves the more resistive we become to the whole truth. The base nature of man is corrupted. The ‘variable transistor’ (like a demi-god) is the most controlling part in any electronic circuit, because It can be moderated between ‘flow’ (good) and ‘no flow’ (evil) and in turn affect everything else. And what exactly is this flow?

 

It is spirit, it is life, it is love and it is the truth…. at a scientific level it can be called ‘electron sharing’ and it can be controlled and applied by our knowledge through our technologies or at a ‘religious; level it can be called ‘love’ and it can be controlled and applied by our hearts and minds through our pure and conductive nature.

 

Yet God is not electricity and electricity is not God, it is simply an invisible and intangible power that we have learned to manipulate with our virtual and artificial intelligence. To conqueror this force we have divided it into particles called ‘electrons’ which we witness as flowing across the potential differences in the nature of our reality… We call this manifested thing... 'Electromotive force' (EMF) or electrical pressure… Yet it remains invisible and static without a conduit through which to flow.

 

The source of ‘electricity’ is a mystery beyond our ken, in fact ‘electrons’ are a mystery beyond our ken… they are an abstract measure of perceived energy passing a point in a conductor such that 1 Amps worth (6.24 x 10¹⁸) 6,240,000,000,000,000,000 are perceived to pass a given point in a second, generally at pretty much the speed of light. So you’d be hard pressed to hold one in your hand or even see one. 

 

Yet, because we see what electrons can achieve… we generally believe in them.  And yet, many look around at this amazing universe, the planets, the stars, the earth, the oceans, the mountains, the valleys, the rivers, life, trees, plants, animals and humanity and cannot see or believe in a creative force or even other heavenly beings that maybe have a base nature of ‘light’ or ‘fire’ rather than ‘clay’... Can an optical cable connect and commune with a wire?

 

Just because we have learned to exploit the power of God through wires, EMR generators and technology, does not invalidate the power of God. It just means that the power of God has been abstracted and expressed from without materially, instead of being integral and expressed from within, naturally.

 

(Mat 6:20-21 NIV) "But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

 

LOCATION

SPACE

 

 

 Location

 

(Gen 1:1 KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 

Every spec of our ‘reality’ occupies a piece of ‘real estate’ somewhere in our three-dimensional experience of space. Every spec of our ‘reality’ could be defined as an x,y,z co-ordinate in relation to the point of its origin known as 0, 0, 0.

 

In challenging the origins of this ‘reality’, the ownership of the underlying ‘real estate’ is brought into question and in the ensuing confusion; men wrangle with one another for its occupation and ownership.

 

So where are we? And more importantly, where are we in relation to our origin, the source, aka: God?

 

You are probably in some chair, in some home or office, in some town, in some country, somewhere in the world, somewhere on the earth, somewhere in heaven, somewhere in this manifestation; we call “reality”…

 

But where is this “reality”?

 

Without our instruments of sense, nothing is sensed to exist and without our serial memory of existence, we can never know where we are, since we’d have no relative means of comparing and analyzing our movements or measurements.

 

So, where am I?

 

·         Am I at the point that “light” (whatever that is) touches my eyes?

·         Am I at the point the optical nerve sends an electrical signal along my spinal chord?

·         Am I at the point the signal is translated into some kind of “rainbow reality” in my brain?

·         Am I at each point serially or am I at each point simultaneously?

·         Am I one being or multi beings occupying one space or many spaces?

 

(Job 14:10 KJV) But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

 

The substance of our “reality” has been in question for years and though we invent many symbolic words to explain the intangible, we somehow always fall short of the mark… spirit, ether, flogiston, energy, radiation, light, matter, cells, atoms, electrons, quarks, etc.…

 

One thing is certain, our experience of “reality” is dictated by our instruments of measure and our analysis and communication of this ‘reality’ is dictated by the vernacular of the day.

 

·         So where is the source of our “reality”?

·         Where is our origin of 0, 0, 0?

·         More importantly, where is our originator?

 

(John 8:19 KJV) Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

The Heavens

 

(Gen 2:1 KJV) Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

 

It is interesting to note here, that the heavens is plural and the earth is singular – what does it mean?

 

(Deu 10:14 KJV) Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

 

Is heaven a physical location, a logical boundary in space and time or a state of being?

 

·         In an external sense heaven refers to the sky and the stars and all the host of things beyond our vision.

 

·         In a logical sense heaven is wherever we draw the mental line on the space around us, so heaven extends from the earth to the edge of the galaxy. Yet we now know that the Galaxy is not the end of space or the heavens. Logically therefore, the heavens stretch out to infinity and beyond.

 

·         In an internal sense heaven is that state of being where you become ‘spaced out’, i.e.: losing the constraints of being, in the ‘freedom’ of the moment. This gives rise to the descriptive language of “heavenly” when communicating about sensually liberating experiences.

 

As always, the semantics of human words and knowledge fall short of the reality of Life.  Without ‘life’ there is no external sense with which to perceive the sky and the stars. There is no logical mind to rationalise over the scope of heaven and there is no internal sense of ‘being’ from which to be liberated.

 

(Mat 24:36 KJV) Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.  But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Whether we like it or not, we live on a tiny ball of dust or ‘earth’ suspended in the ‘heavens’.  Like any tiny ball of dust, the earth is subject to the forces within it, the forces on it and most significantly, by the forces that surround it. The earth is surrounded and therefore ruled mostly by heaven, which is subject to the perfect (just) will or way of God.

 

(Mat 7:21 KJV) Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

(Mat 13:11 KJV) He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

 

The mystery occurs because we are subjected and become subject to other influences, often religious, which unknowingly over rule, obscure and block the way of Heaven.

 

The Kingdom of heaven is extended whenever the spirit of God has dominion, in you.

 

(Luke 17:21 KJV) Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

 

Paradise

 

(Gen 2:7-9 KJV) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

 

So the Lord God planted a garden, put man in it and provided every tree that is pleasant to look at and every fruit that is good for food…. but we ‘lost’ the plot. So where is the paradise you seek?

 

Is it that absent mental state of denial, that little piece of ‘promised land’, that house in the country, that holiday, that other pristine garden undamaged by the hands of men?

 

Yet we drink to it, slave for it, architects plan for it, engineers engineer for it, Politicians promise it, lawyers pass laws for it and the Religious leaders pray for it… the perfect world, an end to poverty, violence and war…  yet it still eludes us. Despite all our drugs, work, scheming, technology, policies, laws and religious behaviour… the world is still full of dysfunction, disease, dangers, damage, disasters and death. Seems to me that we all seek some kind of paradise, that idyllic state where everything is provided and toil and trouble are no more….  Yet it seems that all we really need to do, to return to this idyllic state, is to STOP the world.

 

How many layers of skin and houses does a man need, anyway?

 

Paradise is not really lost it just remains hidden or obscured by the business of human existence driven by human experience, knowledge, information and data… but despite civilizations coming and going…. Life goes on and life grows over our empty bottles and everything we slave, architect, engineer, politicize, legalise and pray about.

 

If we compress the ‘time-line’ of humanities existence we see a number of compromises that have occurred since our origins:

 

·         Paradise - provision of God, we faithfully pick fruit, eat, sow our seed & poop.

·         Hunter gatherers - scarcity of life, forced to fearfully scavenge, kill & eat.

·         Small holdings - provision by man, forced to manage land  & raise food

·         City living - scarcity of land, forced to live in citadel confinement, transport food from growers which is bought and sold with local currency.

·         Global Metropolis – despoiling of natural environment by industry, forced to eat manufactured chemical food, bought & sold on-line with digital currency.

 

The end game for this ‘new world’ is the replacement of all God given natural things with technological substitutes, but this is delusional and unsustainable for real life…

 

When do we say enough is enough and deplore the promotion, marketing and selling of useless, frivolous and dangerous produce for profit? 

 

Do we have to replace all trees with oxygen plants, all fruit with vitamin pills and Omega fish oil capsules, all women with silicone, all legs with wheels, all insects with nano-bots to fertilise the flowers, all life with robots…. What kind of paradise are we creating for our seed? 

 

By the economy of God, if a man carries more than a handful, he is stealing from his neighbour. So today I re-iterate the words of Jesus – repent for the kingdom of God is at hand… for paradise is here today and by your hand, it will be gone tomorrow.

 

(Mat 19:21 KJV) Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

Where Art Thou?

 

(Gen 3:9 KJV) And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

 

The significance of this question seems to have gotten lost somewhere between the original writing and innumerable interpretations.

 

Seriously Adam… where are you?

 

This question is impossible to answer without some knowledge of your location and surrounding environment…. Only a blind parent or an idiot would ask a new born baby… where art thou?  And the only acceptable answer would be… “lost” or “I have no idea”.

 

Surely God is neither blind nor an idiot, so why did God ask this question of his own creation that he was originally in communion with?

 

The purpose is obvious if you listen to the answer that is given by Adam (man)…

 

(Gen 3:10-11 KJV) And he (Adam) said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.  And he (God) said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

 

Imagine for a moment if a corpuscle in your body arrived at the ignorant (a little knowledge) conclusion that it was ‘naked’ and began to hide away from the rest of the body in shame and later began to grab other parts of your body to make clothes for itself… Like cancer, such a corpuscle is a part of the body and yet has somehow alienated itself through deviant thinking (programming) and deviant behaviour (sin).

 

Looking deeper into the question of where art thou, we find that humanity is lost in its own delusion… though a product of the tree of life in truth, humanity has eaten from the tree of ignorance (a little knowledge) and like a vehicle driven by a mad man, is dangerous. One cannot determine where thou art, until one has a grasp on who thou art…. Since, it is impossible to locate something that lacks individual identity, name or number. Though we could identify, label and number each corpuscle in our body, our labeling and numbering has little to do with a corpuscle’s real identity, just as we may call an unknown ‘creature’ a mouse and classify a ‘mouse’ as a ‘mammal’ or personify it as ‘Mickey’ it could just as easily be called a ‘corpuscle’, ‘wild’ or remain unnamed…. Our identification, classification and language… has no affect on a creation’s real structure, behaviour or relationship to the whole… it only entrenches our delusion. Am reminded of the time my two-year-old son screamed and cried when I flushed the contents of his nappy down the toilet, it seems to be the nature of the human mind ‘in knowing’ to become attached to all sorts of shit.

 

In truth ‘we’ exist within creation where light / energy / electrons pass through a point of bodily resistance creating an apparent sense of individual consciousness and the flow of a thing we call ‘time’.  If ‘we’ did not resist this flow, our consciousness would flow at the speed of light and time and therefore be timeless, eternal and in union (love) with divinity.

 

(John 3:8 KJV) The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Where Art Thou? (Part 2)

 

(Deu 1:31 KJV) And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

 

On another page I have likened the human mind to a video/TV set, but this is a vast underestimation, it is more like a virtual machine, since having watched my own mind it is like an incubation unit that stimulates and simulates the growth of seeded ideas… such that it needs only to be fed a little and it runs off on its own and can create images of other phantasmagorical worlds and eventually come back with the answer “42”... because it knows not how or why, it does what it does.

 

In so many ways this “mortal machine” in which we dwell is much like our modern day analogue and digital designs.  Most computers these days consist of multiple processors running in parallel, such that the processor with responsibility for producing graphics can continue uninterrupted while the processor with the responsibility for retrieving data from memory can work more efficiently in parallel. All of this takes great co-ordination by the operating system to ensure the sequencing is retained, so we see that the heart of a computer is its clock, which governs the sequencing of events, without which chaos would reign…

 

Comparing this design to the nature of man we see that he has a heart that pumps blood to every living cell in the body at a regular rhythm, but this in itself is not enough, energy must be supplied from the flow of oxygen which we exchange with the world around us, likewise computers must be powered by the flow of electricity… ultimately it all involves the exchange of electrons… How does the human body convert the analogue movement of the lung bellows to that which empowers our nerve cells and memory? 

 

Meanwhile back at the power station, coils motorized by coal, steam or gas fires, pass through magnetic fields to generate alternating movements of electrons across a nationwide grid, or solar cells or chemical cells are designed to maintain a potential difference that creates a flow of electrons…

 

What has all this to do… with where thou art?

 

Where is the ‘soul’ of your computer… is it in the graphics card, the network card, the CPU, the system clock, the User interface… where?

 

And where is your soul… in the visual cortex, the larynx, the brain, the heart or the skin?

 

Many of us today are computer users… I wonder how happy the computer would be if it realized that it is being used?

 

And what of you dear reader, how happy would you be if you realized that you were just a ‘free range’ virtual processing unit being used by a higher intelligence, downloading your activities every night to the cloud?

 

Truth is… everything in creation is being used and if it isn’t… it is useless and disposable.

 

Ultimately, we are all products of that which creates and empowers us... the flow of potential universal energy from the alpha to the omega. aka: the spirit of God, Our Father.

 

(John 8:19 KJV) Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

 

(John 14:4-7 KJV) And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.  If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

The State of Being Lost

 

(Gen 3:9 KJV) And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

 

Once many years ago, our small family was camping and our son John of three years old disappeared. We searched and searched and eventually found him sitting in a small toy airplane amusement at the entrance to the camp site. He was oblivious of our concern and oblivious of any danger to himself. He wasn’t disobedient; he wasn’t fearful or hiding from us. He had just wandered far away while exploring this new place and found something he liked which had captured his imagination.

 

It is easy to get lost at any age, especially when you don’t know where you are, but especially as a child, when you lose sight or contact with your parents or guardians.

 

There is an innocence and trusting in childhood that so depends on good parenting. Sometimes as a parent it is necessary to say to a child, “Just stay there for a moment and don’t wander off” (we obviously failed to do that, or our son failed to listen) either way, separation occurs occasionally.

 

Feeling lost is an undesirable state, it brings with it fear and helplessness – since for the first time one has to make decisions for oneself and one is very often incapable of doing this, so tears often flow with the stress of feeling alone and somehow disconnected from trusted ones and this is often followed by shame or anger, since whose fault is it that you are lost, anyway?

 

In the Genesis chapter alluded to, we see ‘Adam’ becoming lost to God and then hiding himself in shame.  We see no apology or repentance, just a blaming of the woman and then the snake and an implicit denial by Adam of any wrong behaviour.

 

Being lost is a state that if denied, leads to wrong decisions and further wrong behaviour eventually leading to a lost cause…. This is the exponential nature of sin.

 

Being caught in this sensual maze of ‘self’ confusion – there is only one way out, all other ways lead to more confusion.  How can someone who is lost make ‘right’ decisions, not knowing where they are, how can they know the ‘right’ way to go?

 

Our child was unaware that he was lost and could have kept on wandering for days, if he had realized he was lost he would have tried to find his way back to where we were camped or perhaps called out our names and wept, which may or may not have resulted in the ‘right’ kind of attention from strangers.

 

And so it is, we ‘the sons of Adam’ are also lost and in denial – most of us want to live ‘right’ and seek a better way. Some cry out and are led by angels; others cry out and are deceived by demons. We must be careful not to trust anyone that claims to know a better way. Even “Hitler” claimed righteousness and millions gave themselves over in belief, to despicable acts, for such is the nature of fallen man. We believe and behave wrong, because we are lost and we can only behave right, when we believe what is true. This is why the ‘truth’ alone sets us free, without this, the lost can NEVER be saved.

 

(Mat 10:22 KJV) And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Searching

 

(Lev 19:33-35 KJV) And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.  But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

 

Where is the Kingdom of God?

 

Is it some ‘spiritual or ghostly realm’ full of dead ancestors and friends, some distant planet inhabited by supernatural beings, some secret place of demonic lizards who rule the world or the promised land of virgins and whatever else tickles the senses?

 

Or is it, as scripture would suggest the outcome of living right?

 

Look around the world is there anywhere… a place where you would want to live, marry and raise a family? Where is that promised land of peace and abundance?

 

In delusion many give up in life and believe that ‘the kingdom’ only comes with death, which is emphasized when the headstone reads…. “Rest in Peace”. This is so sad. To think that the only peace we have from the “pain” of this life comes with death. Wake up people!!! Jesus didn’t die and go to heaven. He got up and walked away in the flesh, he was not a ghost or a spirit. In fact, if you look back through the Old Testament you will find that anyone who dealt with ghosts and disembodied spirits was put to death. Let’s face it, if humans are mostly ignorant and evil when alive, the chances of them gaining enlightenment when dead and totally disconnected, is unlikely…. so why pay them any heed or look to the dead for a way to live… right?

 

So how do we ‘seek the kingdom of God’… do we journey to India, the Himalayas, to Jerusalem, to the Mount of Olives or to some other Holy pilgrimage? 

 

Wherever we go on this planet we will find rocks, trees and wildlife if we are lucky, but mostly we will find people in ignorance, fear and greed, confusion, disarray, pain and suffering.

 

I came to Australia in the hope of living a simple and righteous life on the land with my family, but over the years I have come to realize that the world is an unstoppable force that will trample over everyone and everything in ignorance, fear and greed, especially those who seek peace and the welfare of life. Let’s face it, if the “powers that be” could crucify Jesus, the most righteous man that ever lived, then what hope is there for peace, for the rest of us?

 

I re-iterate……Where is the Kingdom of God?

 

The ‘kingdom of God’ comes only when humanity places God (love) and Godly values at the top of their ‘to do’ list, till then… we are all destined for Hell in chaos and pain.

 

(Mat 6:31-33 KJV) Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or,Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

The Earth

 

(Gen 1:28-29 KJV) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

 

From our consumer society retrospective, the passage above, seems like a contradiction… man is given ‘dominion’ over all creatures, but they are not given as food, so what are they given for?

 

Sadly, the term ‘dominion’ is misunderstood; it really means care and responsibility. Like a father has over his children or a dog owner has over his pet dog… Too often the child rules the father or the dog rules the owner, this is not right and neither is the husbandry of animals for food or profit… any more than the father devouring his child or the owner eating his dog….

 

Through slackness, misdirection and neglect of God given (natural) responsibility things can go awry… A bee that does not collect nectar, neither pollinates the flowers nor provides honey for the family.  And a fig tree that does not bear fruit, is not a fruit tree. Likewise, a man who fails to live properly will suffer in some way… In the natural order ‘peace’ and ‘health’ comes as a consequence of things going right while ‘trouble’ and ‘sickness’ comes as a consequence of things going wrong… where too often the ‘going’ is a consequence of man’s ‘doing’ or man’s ‘undoing’.

 

How is man supposed to live on earth? Should he dominate and consume the earth’s resources for his own ends? Should he ignore the earth and let everything grow wild and chaotic?  Without order, freedom is lost, so is there some middle ground here that we are ignorant of?

 

Clearly… as can be seen from the world today, domination and consumption is an unsustainable paradigm that results in the few ‘well armed’ bullies dominating the many and controlling populations through corporate investments and manipulation…. are we not all still slaves of this traditionally Roman instigated system?

 

On the other hand, is it possible for human kind to live like Orangutans’ and build nests from leaves, eat fruit and raise their young in harmony with nature and live accepting natural attrition rates and squabbles over food and shelter…? Much like the aboriginals of Australia and many other so called ‘primitive’ tribes across the globe. In the Adam and Eve story this is pretty much the state of paradise. The couple were naked and amongst trees… with only a snake and God for company... this was considered righteous and the earth bountiful.

 

Is it possible to have all the ‘trappings’ of the industrialised and overpopulated world and retain the beauty and bounty of the earth?  It was the church of Rome that originally meted out the land in lots to families in the hope that they would care for their plot responsibly, this seems like a fair system (at least to those in favour with the authorities), but can such man-made sharing with divisions, walls and fences really achieve a social unity or is this just a corporate body compromise?

 

(Mat 5:5 KJV) Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth..

No Place Like Home

 

(Gen 4:16-17 KJV) And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

 

It is interesting to note here that the first City in scripture was built by a ‘criminal’, someone cursed from the earth and hiding from the face of God, a fugitive. Where in this context, a city, was considered a place guarded by men on watch, in fear of what?

 

In fear for our lives and in fear of God’s non-provision do we build cities and a means to establish our place in the earth to overcome our lack and insecurity. It is the way of the world, emphasized once again, by the behaviour of the people following the flood, where for fear of being scattered they try to establish a city, later to be known as Babylon.

 

(Gen 11:1-4 KJV) And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

 

Originally, in scripture, a ‘house’ was not a building, but a reference to a family lineage.

 

(Gen 12:1 KJV) Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee:

 

(2 Sam 7:5-7 KJV) Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

 

Cities eventually become disconnected from life and God (ungodly) where the people, in them, grow like caged animals, enslaved, perverse and unnatural (artificially dependent on one another and immoveable from their object art, decadence and idolatry. Such is the nature of Babylon, where accountability to God, is lost to men and material intoxication.

 

(Gen 11:8-9 KJV) So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

 

Truth is… the whole earth is our home and we should love and look after every part, not just that little part which we think we have bought, to the neglect of everything else.

Trees have roots, birds have nests, but men were designed for mobility it is easy to pick up a tent and move in God’s will, not so easy to move a city.

 

(Luke 9:58 KJV) And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Babylon

 

(Gen 10:32-11:6 KJV) These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

 

A long introduction, but somehow necessary to explain the significance of what is being communicated here.  Firstly, we see that the descendants of Noah had one language, this didn’t seem to be a problem until they decided to use their imaginations to build a city and establish a place and a name for their selves on the earth.

 

What was the problem with this?

 

Secondly, we have to ask ourselves the question - why do human beings talk so much? No other creature on the planet has such a large vocabulary or the capability to invent new words and language at the drop of a lip. Could it be that it is the human disconnectedness from one another, from life and from God that drives us to invent such large vocabularies with which to communicate with one another?

 

When one considers that the whole universe shares ‘electrons’ and every living creature shares ‘breath’ then maybe all that needs to be communicated is already being communicated electronically and chemically and maybe we as disconnected sentient beings are just not ‘tuned-in’ or rather have become so obsessed with our own thinking that we are blind and deaf to a deeper and more significant communion.

 

How does the sperm communicate with the egg, how does the embryo communicate with the mother, how does the heart communicate with the brain?

 

One can easily imagine a human animation depicting a sperm taking an egg out for coffee and dinner conversation for weeks on end before finally doing its job… why has everything become so complicated?

 

Real communion occurs at a level much deeper than ‘words’, words are a form of symbolic communication for the disconnected. This disconnectedness results in humanity living out of an imaginary reality that is dangerously disconnected from the truth… We are effectively living in a drugged-out state of imagination. And like all people living in a drugged state they say and do things that are fundamentally wrong, even though they believe they are right and clever.

 

Today the world has innumerable languages so we who live in ‘Babylon’ are not just disconnected from God we are disconnected from one another.  With the advent of computers who’d have thought we could create such an amazing plethora of devices and programming languages from the simple binary ‘1’ and ‘0’…. yes and no… so now we have created yet another level of digital disconnectedness from life… 00101010.

 

(Mat 5:37 KJV) But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

The World

 

(Gen 1:1 KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 

This is the first verse in the first chapter in first book of the bible…

 

In the Hebrew God created:

 

Heaven: shamayim, shaw-mah'-yim; dual of an unused sing.  shameh, shaw-meh'; from an unused root mean. to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perh. alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve):--air, X astrologer, heaven (-s).

 

Earth: 'erets, eh'-rets; from an unused root prob. mean. to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land):-- X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X nations, way, + wilderness, world.

 

No mystery here, God created the sky celestial and the land terrestrial.

 

So what is the world and when was it created? 

 

The first reference in the Bible is rather cryptic and comes from Samuel:

 

(1 Sam 2:8 KJV) He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.

 

In the Hebrew the world is set, like a table or stage, it is not created.

 

World: tebel, tay-bale'; the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extens. the globe; by impl. its inhabitants; spec. a partic. land, as Babylonia, Pal.:--habitable part, world.

 

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely Players” - Shakespeare

 

It is important to make the distinction between Heaven, Earth and the World, they are three separate domains.

 

(Psa 89:11 KJV) The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

 

Jesus frequently made reference to these three domains and it would be foolish and confusing to muddle them up for instance:

 

(Mat 6:10 KJV) Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

 

Over 2000 years ago a new world was coming…. a new stage was being set…

 

(Mat 12:32 KJV) And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

 

The Wilderness

 

(Gen 16:7-8 KJV) And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

 

What is the wilderness and why does it feature so significantly in the bible as a meeting place with God?

 

(Gen 16:11-12 KJV) And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

 

Later Hagar returns to the wilderness with Abrahams ‘Arabic’ son Ishmael, following further rejection by Sarai and by Gods grace they survive in the wilderness, meanwhile Sarai goes on to have Abrahams ‘Hebrew’ son Isaac and the rest is ‘wild’ and contentious Middle Eastern history.

 

It seems that the wilderness has Godly uncultivated (wild) nature, paradise has Godly cultivated (tame) nature and Babylon has un-Godly cultivated nature. see (Rev 17:3 KJV) 

 

Since humanity was cast out of paradise, the wilderness seems like a remote place to commune with God, since God cannot be heard amidst the un-Godly distractions.

 

(Exo 3:1-2 KJV) Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

 

Moses returns to Egypt (Arabic and now Ungodly) to lead the Jews out of slavery…

 

(Exo 5:1-2 KJV) And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

 

For atonements sake scapegoats are released into the wilderness. It is also important to recognise that the wilderness is not paradise…It is the place where faith is tested and brought to fruition or death…. (Num 14:16 KJV) Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. Still yet… (Prov 21:19 KJV) It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

 

(Mat 3:1-2 KJV) In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

 

(Mat 4:1 KJV) Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

The Kingdom of God

 

(Psa 45:6-7 KJV) Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

 

The Kingdom of God resides in righteousness – but what is righteousness?

 

Most people on earth believe they ‘do the right thing’ by their family, friends and neighbours… but who does the ‘right thing’ by God, indeed what is the ‘right thing’ by God and how can we as ‘sinners’ do the ‘right thing’ by God?

 

Let us look at some teachings…..

 

(Mat 5:10 KJV) Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (We need to place what is right and true, above the pain of persecution.)

 

(Mat 5:20 KJV) For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. (We need to place what is right and true above religion)

 

(Mat 7:21 KJV) Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. (We can only be right and true doing the will of God)

 

(Mat 11:11 KJV) Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. (We need to be more right and true than John the Baptist)

 

(Mat 11:12 KJV) And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. (Bullies overrule what is right and true)

 

(Mat 13:33 KJV) Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. (The kingdom of righteousness grows like yeast once seeded into the mix).

 

(Mat 13:44 KJV) Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. (living right and true is more valuable than anything else you will ever find in this life, before you die).

 

The Kingdom of God is not some imaginary place in the sky, nor some place that you go to when you die. The Kingdom of God is at hand, here and now… the only thing that stops the Kingdom of God from growing is our unrighteousness and our unwillingness to live right. So we choose to live wrong and as a consequence the planet is being consumed by our self indulgence and everything we produce and all our offspring are going to hell not to heaven.

 

(Luke 9:23 KJV) And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Two Worlds

 

(Gen 1:16 KJV) And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

 

It seems to me that we spend most of our lives caught between two worlds, in this instance day and night, but in many ways, we seem to live between two extremes.

 

The extremes of heaven and hell; good and evil; light and matter; love and law; order and chaos; positive and negative; north and south; interior and exterior; birth and death; inspiration and expiration; ad infinitum.

 

This all seems part of the universal nature, since the point of origin is at the centre and the expanding edge is at the exterior so we must exist somewhere in between. Looking to the central source we see the positive light of day coming towards us and looking to the outer edge we see the negative darkness of night moving away from us. Therefore, light and night are merely our perceptual resistance to the directional movement and passage of the substance of universal nature. If we could travel at the speed of light, the perception of light would cease to exist, since we would be flowing with the universal nature.

 

This duality has long been recognised by many religions, since to ‘know’ there must be a ‘knower’ and a ‘thing’ to be ‘known’. To ‘know’ there must be a separation and resistance to natural flow, such that light, time and experience can be measured (known). Since every finite ‘thing’ must have a beginning and an end… every ‘thing’ that we either perceive, imagine or create must have at least two extremes, two sides, two directions, two ends (one beginning and one end).

 

The ‘tree of knowledge’ is indeed the cause of birth and death, since in ‘knowing’ our beginning, we also set the wheels in motion for our end.  Though there is one single source of truth, there are many pretenders to the throne and many deceivers…

 

The Greeks claim “Chaos” as the source of creation, the Hindus claim “Brahma”, the Muslims claim “Allah” … and whatever noises we grunt or doodles we scribe… none of them are right… all fall short of the truth…

 

A wheel that is sound and balanced is centered at its centre, this is the central source, it is the alpha, the beginning, the first… as it spins and grows ever outward its perimeter is the omega, the end, the last… the sum total at the centre is equal and opposite to the perimeter… this is divine equilibrium…. both alpha and omega share the same substance… It is a spiritual wheel… born of the selfless mystery that equates to “Love” and we are merely spokes and I am a spokesperson…

 

Why then do we fight one another, when we all share a common source… if not because of the mental delusion of two truths?

 

(Rev 19:19-21 KJV) And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

The New World

 

(1 Chr 16:29-33 KJV) Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein. Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.

 

The world today is not stable, the reason the world is unstable is because injustice and inequality reign over the earth. The nature of God has been reduced to a figment of men’s imaginations, when in truth, we are but 'fig men' of God’s creative and infinite power. Can any man boast of his birth, when he is the sustained product of a tiny sperm and egg carried by his parents, yet many today even deny their parents. Can any woman boast of her offspring when without any conscious effort at all, God supplies milk through her breasts? What has the consciousness of man to do with the real ‘tree of life’ and the provision of God? Man has become like a stupid puppet in denial of the unseen hand that pulls the strings over every aspect of his birth, his structure, his righteous behaviour and his demise. And, this is not the first time that world instability has resulted in its destruction, looking back through scripture we see that God, destroyed the whole world and earth in a massive flood, because it had become corrupt. Yet one would have to ask the question, why didn’t God intercede and stop it from becoming corrupt?

 

Foolish man, can you not see? We are the world, we are the body of life, we are the body of God. Our delusion is our loss. The corruption is our wrong way of living. Our creator can never lose, in denial, we lose the treasure that is our truth and this unsolicited gift which is our life and the chance to live in peace with one another and all creation as ONE.

 

For if we can make a world of corruption and pain, why can we not make a world of perfection and peace, with the 'right' will?

 

Yet, we continue to see men place their faith in other men who pose with confidence in their ‘own’ abilities to reign and rule the lives of other men… Are the great Pharaohs of Egypt and the modern leaders of our time… really any different?

 

We see the Pharaohs trying to build themselves an eternal presence on earth with their massive icons, their hopes and dreams and their eventual mummification… Yet all that remains is their massive pyramids and skyscrapers. A testimony to their eternal hope and self-elevation, in cold dead stone.

 

We see the Jews sold into slavery to the Egyptians for 400 years and what exactly is slavery? Work that you are forced to do, for little reward, in order to survive. It matters little what race you are, except perhaps the stronger you are, the more work you will be given.  We hear tales that when the American Indians lay down and die rather than work as slaves… stronger Africans were enslaved to undertake the tasks… And today who are the Pharaohs and who are the slaves? We have corporate CEOs sitting in boardrooms while employees grind away for their daily bread, feathering the nests of their overlords and investors… who live-in short-term luxury while exploiting the earth and mindless masses in unsustainability… All that has really changed is the names, the costumes and the actors… the story is the same.

 

(John 3:19 KJV) And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

The New World (Part 2)

 

(Psa 24:1-4 KJV) A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

 

Many speak of a ‘new world order’… but ordered by whom and for whom?

 

Today, I see many people enslaved to the ‘old world order’, yet any willing slave is a servant and also a beneficiary of those they serve. Such that the worker is paid for their work, even if he or she works 12-hour days to provide food for their family, while 80% of the profit of their labour is used to fill the pockets of their employers and investors. Cheap labour, cheapens life and so the rich countries are made poor by the cheap products of the third world and the third world rises to power, such is the pendulum of human organisation and power struggle. Slaves inevitably grow strong waiting on their masters who grow weak with slavish dependency and the tables turn.

 

Any creature conceived ‘new world order’ is destined to fail, since it is only possible to oppress other creatures for as long as they are weak and willing.

 

Over many centuries the Jews were hated, principally because they were always successful and rose to positions of wealth and power. Their recipe for success is hard yet simple, they bow their will to no one and no thing, but YHVH (the creator).

 

Bullies get their way through their physical power, oppression and fear… we see this in the way in which Super powers oppress smaller nations with their might. Yet when smaller nations attempt to fight back, it is considered terrorism. So is terrorism just another word for ineffective fearful fighting. I am not advocating terrorism here, but in standing up to the bullying of the Philistines was David a terrorist or a hero?  Clearly, it all depends on whose side you are on… and who best controls the audience and buries the truth…

 

David took a stand in the name of God, killed a man and was acclaimed a hero by the world, Jesus took a stand in the name of God, healed the sick and raised the dead, yet was crucified a criminal, by the world.

 

(James 4:4 KJV) Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

 

Jesus talked about going to prepare a place, but was this place going to be in Heaven (the celestial sky) or on Earth (the terrestrial land) and did Christopher Columbus miss the ‘new world’ of nakedness and peace in his ignorance, fear and lust to spread the only world he knew and yet one now filled with suited ‘latter day saints’.

 

Scripture does not promise a new world, only a new heaven and earth, under God.

 

(Rev 20:15- 21:1 KJV) And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

The New World (Part 3)

 

(Job 34:12-16 KJV) Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment. Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.

 

We live in a modern world where information is freely accessible, indeed we have way too much to process… billions of books and websites and yet, we still struggle to find the whole truth…. Why is this?

 

Just because ‘you’ believe something to be true… does not make it true, no matter how passionately you may believe it, write, take photographic evidence, make movies or try to convince others.  Indeed… even if 99.9% of the world’s population believe the same thing as you do, it still does not make it true, it just makes it socially acceptable.

 

Belief is a dangerous thing, simply because it is often wrong. Truth, however, is never a dangerous thing and never wrong… Truth challenges and overthrows false belief which is a good thing… but it is not always that simple, especially when belief blinds us.

 

Today… truth is buried in the secrecy of government departments, hidden agendas and deceptions… so the world is awash with conspiracy theories… like a social paranoia that grows in an insecure wife when her husband is away… Ironically… the truth is buried out of the same fear and insecurity… usually to prevent our enemies from discovering what we know and inhibit them from using it against us… secrets like silence, can never be used against you… as evidence of your misdeeds.

 

Having worked for numerous Corporations and Government departments, I am amused at many of the conspiracy theories that seem to think that the mega-rich, corporations or intelligence agencies of the world are somehow monitoring our every conversation and controlling our every activity… This is only true in the movies, where imaginative script writers can contrive complex twisted plots to entertain the audience… In the real world most employees’ lives are simple and they just want to end the day and go home… that being said…ignorant and greedy people in positions of power have the capability to make decisions that negatively impact others…. And our world also includes paid and obedient servants of military hierarchies who have no qualms killing people… whether right or wrong, simply because they’ve been reprogrammed to believe their superiors and obey orders… without question or challenge.

 

What we all really need in this situation is some truth… can every ant be queen?

 

Biblically, it is interesting to note that humanity was arranged in direct relationship to God, not in a hierarchical order, like communal insects… indeed… it may be the underlying reason why Lucifer spat the dummy and was cast out of heaven with a whole bunch of demonic cronies… since the invisible angelic realm is always portrayed in some militaristic hierarchical structure… Maybe this is the real source of the power struggle that would seek to dominate a free humanity…. after all,... didn’t Satan offer Jesus the world, so who among us sold their soul to the devil, for the world instead?

 

(John 18:38 KJV) Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Heaven

 

(Gen 1:8 KJV) And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

 

According to Strongs Dictionary – in Hebrew “Heaven” is shamayim, shaw-mah'-yim; dual of an unused sing.  shameh, shaw-meh'; from an unused root mean. to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perh. alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve):--air, X astrologer, heaven (-s). Human hope and imagination can defy all rational thought… where did the belief that we die and go to heaven, come from?

 

·         When we are sick or physically disabled it is hard enough to live, so how can we live when the body has ceased to function?

·         If the human soul is re-cycled with a new kind of body at death, then why do we pay doctors to make us well and why did Jesus and his disciples bother to heal anyone?

·         If there is a spiritual state after death, what kind of a life is this without a healthy body and without the ones you love or the attachments you have accumulated in this life?

·         How does an after-death soul / spirit see, hear, touch, taste, smell and remember who we are without the body, the senses and the brains activity?

·         Like a CD without a player, given the choice of being disembodied or embodied, most ‘spirits’ would choose your body and your life, rather than lost in the library of souls.

·         Having witnessed my dead father, my comatose son and my mother suffering from memory loss – I fail to see how their death could improve their condition or their life. This would be like saying a broken radio thrown in the garbage and put through the crushing machine – magically plays tunes on the other side…. It is a work of fiction, without bodily health we have ‘disability’ and without ‘life’… we have lost memories.

 

So where do these incapacitating, deceptive and delusive ‘fairy’ stories come from?

 

(Deu 30:19 KJV) I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

 

This seems straight forward, life and death, no mention of a heavenly alternative here.

 

(Deu 32:39-40 KJV) See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

 

God lives forever. Death is what makes us mortal.  Nowhere is it written that Elijah and Jesus or anyone else for that matter died and went to heaven. They both lived and went to heaven. See also: (Rev 11:11-12 KJV).  Read the word… Noah lived 950 years. What chance of becoming a butterfly without first living the full life of a caterpillar?

 

So what chance of a heaven without a body living true to touch the prophetic life?  `

 

(Luke 17:20-21 KJV) And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Heaven (Part 2)

 

(Gen 7:11 KJV) In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

 

Taking the ‘windows of heaven’ literally would be a big mistake, since there really are no windows in heaven… it is added simply as part of the allegorical and metaphorical colour of language to convey concepts. However, that being said, taking the words of the Old Testament with regard to Heaven may be the end of the matter, but it is certainly not the end of the spirit.

 

Heaven in the New Testament is perceived as a spiritual realm where everything is perfect and if not paradise on earth, it must have some heavenly equivalent somewhere in another space or perhaps in the same space but at a different frequency. Just like radio waves can share the same space, but can only be perceived by those in tune. There is no way I can deny the spiritual world, I have had personal encounters on a number of occasions and have been continually mystified by them for most of my life. Voices, even choirs, beyond my own conscious thinking and hearing have often touched me at times in my life, sometimes invited and at other times uninvited and sometimes heeded and oftentimes unheeded to my detriment….Who knows if this is mental delusion or schizophrenia or brain cells firing off at weird times or perhaps the influence of hallucinogenic chemicals accidentally imbibed in the air, water or food?

 

I’d like to think I am a rational man (wouldn’t we all), but the truth is… for every answer you will find on the ‘internet’ you will also find a contradiction… So eventually the internet will become a useless database of information that no-one can trust, sure the truth is out there, but so is a whole swag of lies, deception, personal delusions and agendas.  Just because the majority believe something doesn’t make it true, it just means that it fits in with the ‘conditioned thinking’ of the age… so who can we turn to… for the truth… if not our maker?

 

I am a man who believes that everything is possible WITH God… yet I see few people on this earth that are truly WITH God… most seem to be exploiting the planet and the people with teachings and works for money and fame. I am also a man that loves Jesus, simply because he was true to his faith and never exploited anyone… yet Jesus was not a Christian, Jesus was a Jew, so did Jesus with the power of God create a new ‘Spiritual Heaven’ (a parallel spiritual (invisible) paradise in a parallel universe) or just prepare another place, perhaps an Island paradise on earth… say America, before pilgrim and gold diggers arrived?

 

Given his God-like powers, both these options seem plausible – but that still brings us back to the point of – who on earth is good enough to enter into a ‘Spiritual Heaven’ and When you shuffle off this mortal coil…. What is left of you in spirit that can move and how?

 

A true prophet is recognised retrospectively, never by the words he spoke at the time.

 

(John 14:3-6 KJV) And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Heaven (Part 3)

 

(Eccl 5:2 KJV) Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

 

Sadly, I have written many words here… which was never my intention, my preference is for silence… and yet… There have been many reports of people having out of the body experiences, I have experienced this – so cannot deny this. Also there have been many reports of people near death having been taken to some spiritual realm of light and others being taken to the fires of hell or nothingness.  In 1994, I listened as my 12-year-old son dying of Leukaemia in the ICU of a Children’s hospital gave a similar report of hell, post miraculous recovery. In 2007, I also witnessed my dying mother spend night after night in conversation with invisible visitors while she was dying, admittedly she was on opiates post-operative breast cancer. The cancer never killed her, it was the painful after effects of the operation, neglect in hospital and eventually starvation (but that is another story).

 

Sure, we could write-off these “experiences” as brain cells dying or the influence of drugs… generating visual, aural and olfactory illusions in the brain… but isn’t this just our way of brushing this stuff under the medical carpet so we don’t have to deal it?

 

My real issue with Christian concepts of ‘Spiritual Heaven’ is this…. Why bother?

 

Why put all of humanity through this sinful earth realm, if it is all just a sifting ground to see who is good enough to get into ‘Spiritual Heaven’ and who would be good fuel for hell?

 

So many unanswered questions I’d like to ask… here are a few…

 

·         How does a disembodied spirit travel about the universe… on legs? (seems unlikely)

·         By what mechanism does a disembodied spirit project itself? (without a springboard)

·         Does spirit flow like EMR drawn to other energies or scattered throughout space? 

·         If you take the body away, what powers the spirit or the imagination?  (once ‘free’)

·         Does the spirit draw energy from EMR, light, water, fire, nuclear fusion, what?

·         If a realm exists in which everything is perfectly ONE – who on earth could possibly get in – especially given the bigotry of religion, the covetousness of humanity and the confusion surrounding entry requirements?

·         And once in this ‘Spiritual Heaven’ – what do disembodied or re-embodied spirits do then?

·         Do we just praise God? (Seems a bit unnecessary – since in ‘Spiritual Heaven’ we would be integrally ONE with God, so maybe we just create a new earth and start again. Why can’t we just continue living down here and praise (thank) God now?

·         My father died at 64 (1988), my mother at 79 (2007) at what age would they be in heaven or would they be timeless, pure spirits without foibles and if so, how would I ever recognise them, especially if I left my memory behind in my dead brain?

·         And if we take all our memories with us (God forbid)… why is ‘Spiritual Heaven’ going to be any better than the mess we have created down here on earth since our divisive thinking is the root of all our problems?

 

(Mat 26:64 KJV) Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Hell

 

(Job 11:7-8 KJV) Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

 

According to Strongs Dictionary – in Hebrew “Hell” is 7585. she'owl, sheh-ole'; or  she'ol, sheh-ole'; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), includ. its accessories and inmates:--grave, hell, pit.

 

Current thinking is that the earth is 5,150-6,360km deep to its inner core. So far we’ve (that is, the Russians) only managed to drill 12.262 km way down… therefore much of our deeper thinking is pure speculation…

 

“The inner core of the earth is the hottest part of the earth and is around 760 miles in radius. It is believed to consist of an iron-nickel alloy, and may have a temperature similar to the sun’s surface, approximately 5778 K (5505 °C). The outer core is so hot that the metal is always molten, but the inner core pressures are so great that it cannot melt, even though temperatures there reach 6700ºF (3700ºC). As the earth rotates, the outer core spins around the inner core and that causes the earth's magnetism. Life on earth would not be possible if we did not have this magnetic field that surrounds us and is produced in the centre of the earth.”

 

Without doubt Hell exists below us and being consumed by earth’s inner furnace would be very unpleasant.

 

Quite how this mass of molten fire and energy is suspended under our feet is somewhat of a mystery, since the earths mantle somehow magically floats upon its surface along with the oceans which cover two thirds in water. Though physicists may speculate on how all this works, whatever the mechanism – Even with all our technology and understanding of the elements – who on earth. could replicate such an unthinkable perpetual core of fire, retained in a mantle of earth and water?

 

Having acknowledged that ‘Hell’ is below us and that the earth is just a thin crust that rather tenuously floats over this abysmal furnace like the winter ice on a pond, then is there any real danger that the world and its sinners could be heading for hell, in summer?

 

Since so many, many good people have died along the way… and been buried in the earth or cremated, one has to wonder about the significance of hell in the scheme of things. It seems to me that by not conforming to the pattern of heaven (the way of the prophets and Jesus) humankind through ignorance, fear and greed will undoubtedly consume critical resources of the earth and damage the natural cycles that maintain this fragile crust… after which all hell will break loose. Is it really enough for a good person to have inscribed on his grave, “He warned us… we applauded, but chose not to act”?

 

(Mat 23:29-33 KJV) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

SERIALISATION

TIME

 

 

The Illusion of Time

 

(Gen 1:4-5 KJV) And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

 

Our measure of time, begins with our measure of light, not the speed of light, but the rate at which light appears to come and go. Our day ends, when the light ends and our new day begins when the light returns. Yet time is more than light, for time also exists for the blind man. 

 

We now know that the ‘flashes of light’ that we experience as days and nights are produced by the earth’s rotation, the sun’s light is a constant, the darkness comes from the shadow of the Earth. Since the Earth’s axis is tilted, the “light” of time when the sun casts no earthly shadow varies from 20 hours to 186 days at the Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle. At the North and South pole, the sun only rises once and sets once, each year. 

 

One of humanities first ‘time’ pieces, the sun dial, measured an earth object’s shadow in the sun, against a marked clock face.

 

So, if light is a continuum and our measure of a year, is just a 360-degree (365.25 day) trip around the sun, what is time?

 

If I pierced a “Horse chestnut” seed, threaded a piece of string through it and then twirled the “Conker” on the string around my head, does it age?

 

Does the earth spinning around the sun cause the passage of time… or is time a human illusion, a measure of change in flashes of sight and sound, day and night, tick and tock?

 

If not spinning, what causes us to live, grow, age and eventually die.

 

One is tempted to say that ‘light’ causes life, growth, ageing and eventually death, but if this were true, then artificial light could be responsible for artificial ageing or exposure to more light could cause premature ageing. There is much evidence to support this theory, because there is a direct connection between light and life, but the nature of this connection is not something that life really comprehends or has any control over. Life is really at the mercy of light, light is never at the mercy of life.

 

Time, like movie frames, is a measure of changes in magical energy from the previous change and originating source… we measure this invisible energy in cycles per second or wavelengths and one band of those wavelengths we have named ‘light’…. the composite we have named “EMF” or Electro-Magnetic Frequency…

 

Therefore, it is by heaven’s light that we live, grow, age and eventually die. Call it what you will -“nature”, “Tao” or “Zippity do dah”; It doesn’t change the truth, it only adds to our illusion and delusion. ‘EMF’ is the invisible and expressed ‘Will of God’. Tangible words (like matter), we can see, read and measure, the will of the author, our creator, we cannot.

 

(John 1:3-5 KJV) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Changes

 

(Gen 1:14-15 KJV) And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

 

Lights in heaven to divide day from night, for signs, seasons and our measure of time…

 

Why did the first miniscule thing explode? And why do stars keep exploding and collapsing under observation in the universe?

 

We observe the signs and we give them names, such as Super Novas and Black Holes, but the underlying cause behind these changes we can neither see nor name. Like the text on this page we can see, pronounce and name every letter… but the author is nowhere to be seen or named, yet my ‘will’ is implicit in every word. If I will to change the words on this page, I can, it is my page, I created it and who among you… has the right to contend with my work?

 

So, it is… with God…

 

God is the author of universal change… we are mere mortal readers of the universal book, but this book is not written in symbols that are static and immediately dead in knowledge. The universal book is alive with the spirit of God, it is an ever-changing book that flows eternally. It is a book full of living things, ever changing, each one unique in its own way, each one interdependent on another, to ensure its humility lest a thing, become proud like a demi-god and attempt to elevate itself to the Godhead.

 

It is not a book of knowledge, it is a book of life… a living, unfolding book in the NOW.

 

When the spirit of God is made subservient to the knowledge of man, then the spirit stops flowing and death sets in.

 

(Gen 6:3 KJV) And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

 

Every existent thing is subject to change and change is subject to the intangible creative forces above and beyond all existent things and the interaction of all existent things….

 

All men are effects of an ‘unknown’ cause, it matters little what we choose to call this ‘unknown’ cause – and every man who does not lose his mind in the process can speculate on the nature of the cause… based upon the effective evidence.

 

Evolution is a term we have applied to the observed effects that occur to life as it changes…. “Evolution” is the name of a process, not the name of the cause.

 

The truth is… all existence must consist of ‘something’ and as long as we can handle, measure and name the effects of our divisiveness, this ‘something’ remains tangible… once we understand that it is truly immeasurable and an eternal flux that permeates all things… including our electrons, atoms, cells, hearts and minds…we become enlightened.

 

(John 3:21 KJV) But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Connection

 

(Gen 35:2 KJV) Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

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Nothing changes, unless something or someone changes it.

 

And nothing and no-one can change anything unless there is some kind of ‘connection’ between the changer and the thing being changed.

 

I can only ‘move’ my toe because there is a ‘hard wired’ connection between my ‘will’ and my toe and I can magically send a complex signal to my toe at the speed of light or so. When my children were younger, I could get them to ‘move’ their toys and put them back in the box with just a kind and authoritative ‘word’, this of course changes when they become rebellious teenagers. Equally I can ‘move’ my daughter’s cat either by calling her ‘name’ or rattling her box of biscuits, but then only if she is hungry, unoccupied and responsive. When I lose connection with my toe and cease to supply it with blood or wiggle it, it is likely to die and drop off. When the kids aren’t taught to pick up their toys the house becomes a mess. When the cat doesn’t come, she goes hungry and eats the wildlife.

 

Staying connected is important to life and by not staying connected we risk being left behind in the evolutionary stakes, while life moves on with the universe, leaving us behind, that is, unless we keep striving to hold it back, artificially.  If you read the chapter on interfaces, you will see that there are many portholes to the human body and indeed to all living things and by opening, filtering and closing these portholes we effectively govern the potential connections through which change can occur. And this control is necessary because there are ‘good’ connections and there are ‘bad’ connections. Ideally, we should recognise and choose the ‘good’ connections and ‘good’ signals, but this is a complex issue.

 

In our modern-day world of techno-gadgets we have a great metaphor for humanity… we have gadgets connected by wires, by sound, by light and by radio waves… that we manipulate and change, by sending signals, often digitally encoded. We have yet to create gadgets that can grow and evolve like living things apart from maybe ‘artificial intelligence’, but we have no self-sustaining, self-repairing and self-reproducing technology that can evolve to suit the planets conditions, which is probably just as well, since as prophesied in the “Terminator” movies, it would probably bring our living demise. And the question remains… what is this ‘self’ that we find in living things… and could it be that humanities real problem is that we ‘in-turn’ have disconnected from our living creator, our greater ‘self’ and like out of control robots, are running rampant over the earth?

 

We can only affect change in those things we connect with and we are only changed by those things which connect with us. When true faith (trust) connects us, then the power of love can flow between us, life changes and grows in positive ways for the future. Life was never humanities idea, it is a ‘free’ gift, so when did it become our battle to control and change?

 

Truth is… the source, the flow and the whole of the matter that changes, is ours only to join and enjoy…. for ultimately the one true living God, feeds and grows within… itself.

 

(John 6:56 KJV) He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

Eternal Life

 

(Gen 6:3 KJV) And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

 

This passage of scripture occurs in the Bible just prior to the flood when Noah was already 500 years old. This appears like an inconsistency; how can one man be 500 years old and yet the length of mans days be constrained to 120 years?  What was so special about Noah that gave him an exclusion from the earlier death penalty?

 

Looking further back in scripture we see that the patriarchs also had long lives, their ageing scores being: Adam=930; Seth=912; Enos=905; Cainan=910; Mahalaleel=895; Jared=962; Enoch=Not out; Methuselah=969; Lamech=777. Then came Noah. Noah was 600 years old when he entered the ark and he lived to be 950 years old before he died.

 

There are a number of ways of looking at these figures: either the whole thing is fiction; the scribes either couldn’t add up or used some special creative accounting or somehow, we have overlooked a significant lesson.

 

Another interesting part of this lesson is the delay over fathering each generation: Adam was 120 when he begat Seth; Seth was 105 when he begat Enos; Enos was 90 when he begat Cainan… and successively 70, 65, 62, 65, 187, 82.  These are significant ages for men to be fathering their first child and not only this, but they all went on to have many other children that don’t even get a mention. Somehow these ‘firstborn’ are special. Why?

 

And then there is the mystery of Enoch… ‘he was taken by God’… what does this mean? Today, this it is a polite way of saying someone died, but in scripture they had no qualms about saying when everyone else died, so is it just that Enoch went missing and no-one knew when he actually died and they left a null entry in the accounts or is he alive in some other realm? If he is, that makes him more special than Noah, because Noah died at 950 and as listed all the others died as well. It is also interesting to note, that not one of the other patriarchs’ is reported to have died and then magically risen from the grave in a spirit body to enter into some ‘spiritual’ realm.  They continued to exist only in the memories, writings and teachings of men. Jesus however, did rise from his tomb, but not as a ghost, he rose in the flesh and on three occasions hung out with his followers touching, eating and drinking, before he was taken… somewhat like Enoch…J

 

As regards Methusaleh… 969 years is not exactly eternal life, but it is a long time by today’s standards… these days you’d be lucky to live to 100, the statistics for Australia from 2010 show that the average population starts dying from the age of 47 and if we ever survive to 100 it is only by the grace of loving ones and life support. 

 

So, is there a secret to ‘eternal life’ that we have overlooked that is more effective than diet and exercise?  Could it be… that life is a magical mystical process moving at the speed of light, and the only way to stay permanently connected is to move as ONE in love and faith with our creator and sustainer?

 

(Mat 19:16-17 KJV) And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Sabbath

 

(Gen 2:1-3 KJV) Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

 

There is little more satisfying to the human spirit than completing a project, to be able to relax from all the anguish and effort and finally step back and admire the results of our labour. At the end of most successful projects there is usually some kind of celebration, exuberance of joy and excesses in food and wine…. and this is as it should be.  It is the nature of things to bounce back, when held under pressure for any duration; this aligns with the principle of equal and opposite effect. Much pain requires much pleasure to compensate and much effort requires much relaxation. It is a recovery and relief process, like sleep after a day’s activity and if this doesn’t occur… the unending pressure of work will eventually destroy the undertakers.

 

The ‘Sabbath’ is a Godly principle for a balanced and aligned life, it is not a legal requirement to be enforced by the church police.

 

Let’s get one thing straight here… God did not author the Bible, the Bible was written by men for men. God authored life, the universe and all existence. It would be impossible to capture life, the universe and all existence in the pages of a book. The best men could ever hope to achieve is the capture of some symbolic principles and the essence of life, the universe and existence.

 

Likewise, it would be impossible for anyone to capture God, the universe and all existence inside a building, every Saturday, Sunday or whatever day of the week you choose to worship… this expectation comes from men governing communities, people get together for the sake of the people and for a unified society, not for God’s sake. The only difference between a ‘Nazi’ rally and a ‘Religious’ rally is the scope of love.

 

(Isa 66:1-2 KJV) Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

 

Jesus’ principle message was one of freedom through recognition and enlightenment unto truth. Religious behaviour ensures we all drown together…. because we are only saved by Gods principles of love, truth and life. These principles are for all men of every nation and colour. Religion often makes men enemies because it creates divisions under men. This is disrespectful to our creator and disempowers everyone’s freedom under God.

 

So did God create the world in six days and is it worth starting wars over? The Bible is a book written by men, much of it recounts Jewish history, much of it is literal, much of it is allegorical and metaphorical… that is how men write…. Why do so few question what God did on the eighth day?…  Did he just go back to work and do it all over again, in another universe?

 

(Mark 2:27-28 KJV) And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Death

 

(Gen 6:3 KJV) And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

 

Perhaps the most significant change in any of our lives, is death… the cessation of the thing we call ‘our life’… In medical terms ‘death’ occurs when the heart stops beating, yet frequently the heart can be restarted.

 

Does death occur in all the body at once, or is it a gradual process in different areas of the body… much like the 9 months of gestational change that occur before birth. How many months of deterioration occur before death?

 

If a man is the sum total of his parts, then as long as some of his parts remain does, he still exists? What if a man’s heart is kept alive in a jar of saline outside the rest of his body, is such existence of a functioning organ the same as life?

 

Life is a precious gift and like any precious gift, it lasts proportionally to the amount of care and attention (love) we give.

 

·         Some gifts are ill conceived and badly made, such that they fall apart before they are wrapped.

·         Some gifts are broken even before they are delivered, usually due to poor packaging, ignorance or carelessness.

·         Some gifts are valued less than their fancy wrapping and so the inner gift is devalued.

·         Some gifts are damaged through mishandling, neglect or inappropriate environmental factors.

·         Some gifts are stolen, damaged or destroyed deliberately by jealousies and by the vengeful parties.

·         Yet some gifts are kept perfectly safe for years.

 

Chances are… if a gift becomes damaged beyond repair, it will be discarded. Such is the nature of death, the irreparability of the gift of life. Only in the human imagination and memory does any precious gift ‘live on’ once thrown into the trash, dumped at the tip and buried.

 

(Psa 6:5 KJV) For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

 

As regards the ‘after death / life’ state – this is like an expectation of a gift returning after it has been trashed, dumped, buried or burned…  The eternal journey of love can be made only with the gift of life…. it cannot be made without it.

 

Millions of people die of deterioration each month and millions more are killed by the consequences of ignorance, fear and greed in violence and war. Maybe ‘death’ occurs even before the heart stops beating, maybe death really starts when we separate ourselves from God and the tree of life.

 

(Mat 8:21-22 KJV) And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

REALISATION

 

 

 

 

Realisation

 

(Gen 3:24 KJV) So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep ‘the way’ of the tree of life.

 

·         Who knows ‘the way’ we should live?

·         Should we live as ONE big family sharing all things?

·         Should we live as separated families caring for our own?

·         Should we live as individuals sharing all things?

·         Should we live as individuals caring for ourselves?

 

Each ‘way’ has its own set of benefits and problems…  perhaps the most difficult issue is who is to stand over each ‘way’ to ensure compliance and who can be judge over those who are brought into account because of failure to adhere to the ‘way’?

 

Should we live openly without barriers and partitions?

 

Each ‘way’ has its own liberty and constraints… yet each division we create to protect our individual freedom, becomes a barrier to the liberty of another and to all creatures that cannot pass over, pass under, pass around or pass through.

 

It would be fair to say that those who build walls live in fear… usually this fear is justified from the past experiences of violation.  The ‘Great Wall of China’ was built to keep the ‘Huns (wild way)’ out, not to keep the people (cultured way) in.  The ‘Berlin Wall’ was built to separate East from West and ‘Communism (the communist way)’ from ‘Capitalism (the capitalist way)’.

 

There are Political ways (governed by men), cultured ways (followed by the people), there are Religious ways (governed by deities) and there are Wild ways (governed by brute strength), combined and other ways.

 

Ultimately the purpose of any ‘way’ is to lead somewhere, hopefully beneficial. Any ‘way’ that fails to lead somewhere, is not really a ‘way’ at all, but either a ‘dead end’, ‘a circle’ or an ‘out of the way’.  The way to escape is not the same as the way to freedom.

 

Without a destination or vision, it is impossible to know if the ‘way’ is a success or not, since if one wants to escape from ‘A’ and ends up at ‘D’ it doesn’t matter… but if one wants to travel to ‘B’ and ends up at ‘D’ then one knows the way followed is not the way to get to ‘B’. However, on arriving at ‘D’ one may conclude that it will do, anyway... this is called compromise and it is what we do when we don’t know a better way.

 

Is there anywhere on Earth a free ‘way’ where men and women can live in peace, without fear, rules, divisive walls, apathetically elected governments or fear appointed overlords?

 

Jesus and his disciples (the church) held and shared all things in common and death came upon those who kept anything for themselves, especially prosperity, because there is no faith in withholding, this comes from fear, insecurity and greed.

 

(Mat 11:10 KJV) For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

Natural

 

(Gen 1:11 KJV) And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

 

Even as a child the concept of an all-powerful God speaking things into existence was difficult to comprehend, there were always so many unanswered questions: Where is Gods mouth? Who was he speaking to? What language does he speak and more importantly, How does anything know what he is talking about? Human language developed over millennia and still we misunderstand one another, so how could this ‘new sound’ of God, be understood and executed exactly?

 

I mean, If I asked you to “blim mah shah”, how would you know what I was talking about unless you had a clear understanding of what was meant by the terms. And again, even if I asked you to “bring forth grass”, how would you know what I was talking about unless you had a clear vision of what I meant by “grass”.

 

And so it is, through perfect communion with all existence with no resistance, God through sheer ‘free will and love in waves and matter’ makes things appear, grow and change. On the other side of the argument we have theories of evolution, that happen over millennia and produce rich diversity through the random association of things in space and time.

 

Undoubtedly things change, we see this every day and given the fragility of life, it is essential otherwise nothing could grow or survive – Change and movement are the very essence of life and its measure. If nothing changed, life would be still and not alive.

 

The constant flow of light from the sun and the seasonal changes across the planet’s surface ensure that life is never still or unchanging. It is estimated that the earth rotates at 25000 miles per hour, yet we barely notice any movement at all. Yet we have created nothing that can travel at this speed so smoothly and yet hold 7 billion people ++.

 

No doubt the 7 billion people have to compete with one another for space and survival and though this competition could be lessened with equal sharing, the fact remains you can only get so many fish in a tank before they begin to suffer. There is a natural limit (law) to things and exceeding this limit inevitably causes drastic change and often death. If life were purely about numbers then “bacteria” win the prize and if these are too small to see, then what about “ants” : are these less evolved or more evolved than humanity?

 

I have 2 legs and 2 arms, yet an “ant” has 4 legs and 2 arms, can lift at least 10 times its own weight and can walk up vertical surfaces and some even grow their own wings and fly away, like humans metamorphosing into ‘angels’… so who are we to vaunt our evolutionary theories and our technology? One of the biggest issues with evolutionary theory is the origin of the single cell and its magical division into multi-cellular yet fully functional creatures… How does one cell “accidentally” divide to produce something that works perfectly and looks and tastes like “grass” and then…. what about the sperm and I?

 

(Mat 6:30 KJV) Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Killing & Eating

 

(Gen 6:21-7:13 KJV) And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

 

Disregarding the logistics of this whole exercise, the key message in the story of Noah is that, living ‘right’ for the sustainability of life (seed) is more important to God and goodness, than humanity or any other living thing.

 

In so many ways it seems like such a massive contradiction… how can God be ‘good’ and yet bring such destruction to ALL living things apart from the few that had been fortunate enough to ‘earn’ a worthy place on the boat?  After the flood, we read that the rule of eating fruit and green herbs originally laid down in Eden has now been changed, or maybe compromised such that fear, not faith, has become the way.

 

The point is... Eden was a paradise with a providential abundance of life, there are no fruit and green herbs in Antarctica, so why would humans live there?

 

(Gen 9:1-4 KJV) And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

 

The peace of life is broken by any animal that lives in fear, runs, squeals, suffers pain and is killed in a tortuous and bloody death. I am troubled not just by the creatures that are painfully eaten alive, but also by the creatures that are forced to live so cruelly, capturing and devouring another creatures living or dead flesh… what ‘free’ and sensible sentient creature would choose this as a way to live?

 

Anyone who created such a cruel system of existence is not worthy of the title 'Lord’, any more than one who abuses his children is worthy of the title ‘father’. However, like any compromise and corruption, we learn to live blindly with it… until our eyes are opened to see how unnecessary it really is.  Many of the larger mammals (Elephants, Cattle, etc.) still survive solely on the tops of green herbs, which continue to grow from their roots… Metaphysically we can say… what does it matter? It is all energy or atoms… is it? Do energy and atoms feel pain, do they form attachments to their offspring, do they have responsibility to the preservation of life... Sure we can live in denial, but what has 'delusion' to do with anything real or true, let alone life and love?

 

In abstraction, we can numb our minds to the pain we feel and the pain we cause or just accept ‘suffering’ as “life”…. but I ask... Is this life 'good'... or is there a better way? If a mother is gifted with a supply of milk by nature (aka: God), why should the rest of our life's food supply, be any different? And what child would cut off the mothers’ breasts to spite their future?

 

(Mat 26:26-28 KJV) And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Killing & Eating (Part 2)

 

(Gen 4:9-12 KJV) And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

 

There are few, if any animals (other than man) that kill for any purpose other than for eating that which is killed.  There was no ‘good’ reason for Cain to kill his brother Abel, it was certainly not an act of hunger or salvation for life’s sake or an act of love. It was an act of willful emotio-mental aberration known as ‘jealousy’.  If this was a structural aberration, such as a deformed limb chances are that life and its survival mechanism for perfection would have dealt with Cain, but it was not, it was a behavioural aberration – hidden from view and in danger of being passed on to Cain’s offspring.

 

Much scientific research has been undertaken on the inheritance of structural attributes in both plants and animals, but little is known about the inheritance of behaviour, because it is impossible to see and document behaviour patterns in a DNA chemical structure. Yet, behaviour and attitude are somehow inherited automatically along with structure. Each creature behaves according to its design. Once flying, young eagles swoop and kill with their talons they do not pick fruit. Young ducks, dapple for food they do not attack water rats. Most species die before they deviate and deviations are often disastrous. Many insects are constrained to one or a few food plants, Koalas eat only certain types of gum leaves… feeding them on a human emotio-mental determined alternative will usually make them sick unto death.

 

So, if Cain had killed and eaten his brother Abel – would this have been more acceptable?

Hardly, it is not the killing or eating that is right or wrong, it is the self-serving ‘willful’ and ‘emotio-mental’ aberration (sin) of acting in a way that is disconnected from life and God.

 

Even at the microscopic cellular level we see in our own blood that “the body is more than food” … our white blood cells kill and eat invading bacteria, do they do this out of hunger for food or do they do this out of duty (aka: love and faithful obedience to life)?

 

There is nothing wrong with any living organism doing what it was designed to do, there is only a problem with deviation from its inherent nature, because this is destructive to the overall living system… like cancer.  It adds no value, worse still, it devalues life.

 

Why do animals in confined spaces with limited resources eat their own offspring? And why don’t starving animals and birds turn on humanity and gorge themselves on our flesh while we sleep?

 

Is it because they are starving and will eat anything or is it because they live in ‘obedience’ to some greater natural law over life?

 

(Acts 10:13-15 KJV) And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Sex

 

(Gen 4:1 KJV) And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

 

The Hebrew word for ‘know’ is ‘yadda’, which according to Strongs dictionary: “is used in a great variety of senses, fig., lit., euphemism. and infer. (including observation, care, recognition, and causation. instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)”

 

In this ‘biblical’ context, it is used for ‘sexual relations’ whether between a man and a woman or otherwise, since we also find this verse with reference to the men of Sodom who seemed mind bent on having sex (presumably anal) with the ‘angels’ that came to save Lot.

 

(Gen 19:5-8 KJV) And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

 

This seems to be a common theme in the Bible, where “yadda” is used to explain away relationships at various levels of knowing. The initial reference being a spiritual connection between God and man:

 

(Gen 3:5 KJV) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 

So, when did ‘knowing’ pass from a holy-whole connection to a physic-hole one?

 

Do all the human sexual issues stem from the aloneness of being disconnected from God and disconnected from love, truth and life or are all men, just ruled by their peni? 

 

In our desire to reconnect, it seems we seek out various forms of connection – in the vain hope that it will lead us to some ‘promised’ love, stable relationship or ultimate blissful state or maybe just relieve the pain of our fallen state, temporarily (with a little pleasure).

 

Family, team, tribe, nation and religion provide powerful forms of un-aloneness, since shared alter-identities can be forged and shared, creating icon-able corporate god-like substitutes. This engineered unity binds members together by common behaviour and attributes. Can ‘love, truth and life’ be engineered? Most corporate babies, when beyond innocence - rebel in realisation to such engineering, whether by parents or tradition.

 

Sex should really be about the unified (loving) preservation (caring) and replication of (life) our natural ‘god-like’ identity upon this planet. Sadly it has been reduced to an act of physical connection for sensual tingles (pleasure and pain). Without ‘love and care’, sex is little more than friction with added twists of mechanical and chemical engineering.

 

(Mat 19:5-6 KJV) For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be ONE flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but ONE flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Dysfunction

 

(Deu 32:39 KJV) See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

 

In our mechanical world, when a machine fails to do what it was designed to do, we usually find a big label on it that reads “OUT OF ORDER”. And that is how it usually remains, until the manufacturer or his representative comes to fix it.

 

A human being is a complex creature, one living soul, consisting of many parts that can be damaged, malfunction or become infested in some way, putting the whole being “out of order”.

 

God keeps the human heart beating approximately once every second and pumps blood to every cell in our bodies. Why does the heart keep beating and why is a child generally molded safely in a womb for 9 months, if God wants it suffering or dead?  Like the nucleus in an atom or any living cell, our “heart” is the summation and encapsulation of our whole soul. Between the centre and the exterior there is a measure of space, wonderfully interlinked by a network of many moving cellular cogs, wheels and flows we call our life, which together form a unity that is our ‘well’ being.  So why do we fall “sick” and how do we fall “sick” or “out of order” from time to time?

 

(Deu 6:5 KJV) And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

 

Love is what unifies our being and nothing can enter or interfere with our God given unity unless our heart, soul or activity is compromised or divided in some way…  Anything that penetrates the heart and soul has the capacity to divide and damage which in turn causes the chain reaction of dysfunction and disease. We are all familiar with the ensuing dysfunction and disease caused to our bodies by a wound, a trauma, stress, a broken bone, inhaled fragments, toxins, parasites, atomic radiation and our enemy’s weapons of mass destruction, etc.… But what about the damage caused by our family and friends, those bound in ‘love’, with ‘trusted’ access to our heart... a broken relationship, a betrayal of faith, a harsh word or a curse?

 

And what about our own inner conflict between heart and soul… guilt, unforgiveness, etc?

 

Symbolically, “The tree of knowledge” is the first causal principle underlying the breaking of ‘faith’ and unity with life and God, dividing human experience from a single truth.  It is so important that we understand 'primary causes' otherwise we continue to wrestle with the symptoms and all our attempts to fix our problems are flawed. Social problems like sexual promiscuity, drugs, gambling and suicide are symptoms of our dysfunction... they are not the cause. One cannot fix a dripping tap, by outlawing the drops.... the effects (of the causal principle) will just continue to flow elsewhere.

 

Like “splitting the atom” from creation, “splitting Adam” from the creator, causes a “fall out” and chain reaction through the generations, which is incomprehensibly and invisibly destructive….

 

(Mat 21:19-20 KJV) And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!

Dysfunction (Part 2)

 

(Gen 1:17-18 KJV) And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

 

Just the other day the automatic transmission in my car began to fail, I didn’t drive the car for two weeks and when I tried to drive it, the automatic transmission was still broken… why is that? … Why is it that we humans with all our intelligence cannot yet make things that automatically repair themselves when rested?

 

Seems to me that ‘human self-consciousness’ has little to do with ‘real’ life. We make no conscious effort to be born, to grow or to breathe…to drop eggs or manufacture sperm… All the important things in our lives are automatically organic or “ruled over” by something other than our ‘deluded self’…  The best ‘human self-conscious’ can ever hope for, is some kind of (faithful) alignment with the natural workings of the human body and its relationship with its living environment, ad infinitum, aka God.

 

Contrawise, if ‘human self-consciousness’ does not work with its nature and nature, ad infinitum… it finds itself at war (and this is the nature of human sin) and such a war is hopeless because delusion cannot overcome truth, it can only bury it, maybe for a few days, but sure as eggs are eggs and sperm are sperm, truth will rise and rule the day and all delusion will die.

 

Am often amused at theories of ‘life’ being an accident… this is such a deluded denial of the reality… the key difference between and accident and a pre-determined event is that an accident is a one off… If life were an accident… why does it keep repeating itself and refining itself, over and over again?

 

The main topic of this article was ‘over and under’ because it seems to me that most of human dysfunction can be put down to these imbalances between our inner nature and our outer nature…

 

When we over-work we injure ourselves, when we under-work we grow weak… somewhere in the middle there is a life balance. The Greeks almost understood this, they were great believers in walking a middle path, though with over-civilisation, we always see an implosion of perverse unnatural behaviours that ruin such deluded ‘human self-conscious’ elevation, often with disease and dysfunction.

 

One has to ask... why didn’t Jesus embrace the Roman way of life, or why didn’t Moses embrace the Egyptian way of life or why didn’t Abraham embrace the way of Sodom and perhaps why didn’t Noah embrace the world as it was? Like ancient Taoists, Jesus, Moses, Abraham & Noah embraced the natural order of things.

 

Every human soul enters this life as a ‘cell’, does a monkey or a bird or a cockroach or a bacteria… enter this life any differently… there but for the grace of God, you could have been born a cockroach…  Cockroaches live for about 2 years… before the spirit of life discards their shell... You rarely see an unfit or unhealthy cockroach… why is that?

 

Perhaps because cockroaches are not the sinners… they lack ‘deluded human self-consciousness’ they just live out their purpose without question. Did cockroaches create themselves, did bacteria? … What choice do any of these creatures have in their existence? And if they had any choice… would they not choose to be human?

 

The greatest threat to the sustainability of life on this planet is the threat of human over-population, combine that with over-consumption and under-production of natural resources and you have a recipe for end times.

 

The greatest human gift is our capability to know our life’s purpose, our creator and live a good life in harmony with it…

 

Noah was considered a perfect man, Abraham was considered Gods friend, Moses was considered the most humble man on earth and Jesus is considered Gods son… and he showed us the way to be likewise…..through total commitment in love, which is faith.

 

(Mat 21:21-22 KJV) Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

 

Disease

 

(Exo 11:1 KJV) And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.

 

It is peculiar by its absence, but there is no mention of death by disease in the Old Testament until we come to Moses, where we see the term ‘pestilence’ used with reference to a curse from God, even war.

 

(Exo 5:3 KJV) And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

 

This is a far cry from our modern day understanding of the origins of disease, today we no longer see God as the root cause of disease, but toxins, virus, bacteria, parasites and other creatures as the cause – because we can see them and war against them.

 

Yet the questions remain, where do these microscopic agents come from and why do they suddenly rise up from the soil to afflict us from time to time?

 

It is purported that:

 

·         Smallpox killed more than 300 million people worldwide and most of the native inhabitants of the Americas (from 430 BC to around 1979).  Poxviruses infect species that congregate in swarms, herds or groups. It is believed the virus emerged in human populations about 10 thousand years BC. According to some studies the genes suggest that it was once a rodent virus that made its trans-species jump into humans in one of the early agricultural river valleys, maybe.

 

·         Spanish Flu Killed 50 to 100 million people worldwide in less than 2 years. Because pigs are more readily infected with avian influenza viruses than are humans, they were suggested as the original recipients of the virus, passing the virus to humans sometime between 1913 and 1918.

 

·         Black Death Killed 75 million people worldwide (between 1340 and 1771). The plague disease, generally thought to be caused by Yersinia pestis a bacteria commonly present in populations of fleas carried by ground rodents including marmots, in various areas including Central Asia, Kurdistan, Western Asia, Northern India and Uganda.There are 3 varieties of plague: bubonic, pneumonic and septicaemic. Bubonic is by far the most common. About six days after suffering the infected flea bite, the victim develops a blackish pustule at the point of the bite.

 

·         Malaria causes about 400–900 million cases of fever and approximately one to three million deaths a year (from 1600 to today). The Ancient Romans thought that this disease came from the horrible fumes from the swamps. The idea that the disease came from the foul gasses released from soil, water and air persisted throughout the nineteenth century. In 1717, Giovani Maria Lancisi in his malaria text book who related the prevalence of malaria in swampy areas to the presence of  flies and recommended swamp drainage to prevent it. It was Britain's Sir Ronald Ross, an army surgeon working in Secunderbad India, who proved in 1897 that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.

 

·         There are many others we have named… including: AIDS, Cholera, Typhus, etc…

 

These diseases occur because conditions arise that enable their outbreak and spread through human contact… the faeces of wild animals is rarely smelt, the faeces of caged or fenced animals is obnoxious. Disease reigns where life (including humanity), is not free to live, grow and evolve, naturally, abundantly and healthy.

 

(John 8:32 KJV) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Personal

 

(Gen 4:14 KJV) Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

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There are approximately 7 billion people on the earth, few are rich and many are poor. Many are comfortably at peace, while many others face troubled times, hunger, sickness and the violence of war. How many cry out to God – “What about me?”

 

As the father of 5 children whom I loved dearly, it was sometimes a struggle to give them all the attention they needed – sad to say I was often busy elsewhere earning money to pay bills or building the infrastructure for a house where we could all live in peace and be happy. Am sure my children would have preferred my time when they were younger, but at that time, we needed the money to pay for the space, food, stuff and services that we ‘needed’ to live a ‘normal’ life in the western world. In retrospect we both lost out, since without the giving and spending of time with one another, where is the love?  Sure, I loved my children and still do, but what was their perception of a man that was rarely at home, rarely had time to play with them and when he was home, he was usually always busy fixing something or telling them off for breaking something?  Even ‘gorillas in the mist’ do a far better job of fatherhood than we in ‘civilized’ society. So why are we human beings these days always too busy for our children?

 

·         Land - Someone took ‘ownership’ of the land and put a price on it. Therefore, we now have to either spend all day fighting for a place to live; sell our souls into business at our neighbours expense to raise the capital or sell our souls into debt to the banking system to borrow the asking price, so that we can live now and pay later.

 

·         Food - Much of the arable land where we live is built out and town property fetches premium money, few people living in cities and suburbs grow their own food so we need to haul in our food from further out where it is grown, raised, cropped, packaged, transported to retail businesses where again, we need money to buy it.

 

·         Energy - No civilized home is complete without running water, electricity and gas – so these natural resources and services are consumed at a cost for supply and maintenance.

 

·         Communication - No civilized society is complete without transport capability roads, rail, ferries, airports and now the internet – all of which cover the land and need to be funded.

 

·         Governance - No civilized society can survive without the establishment of policies and laws that govern human behaviour from birth to death and this requires taxation to fund policing, health services, education, new work skills and payments to pacify the unemployed.

 

Isn’t it ALL just too complicated for any ONE to juggle fairly and equitably, long term? And if not, why has each successive civilization failed? And why do depressions and wars continue to plague humanity? Would a world government solve any of this, or can you?

 

(John 14:15 KJV) If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Baggage

 

(Gen 26:12-14 KJV) Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

 

Without doubt… a man reaps what he sows, but how much of it should he keep, how much of it should he share and how much should he throw away? For even though a man may plant a seed and even though he may water that seed… only ‘God’ makes it grow…

 

We see in the passage above a man who has learned to work with nature’s abundance collecting everything that he has initiated to grow and taking it all along with him wherever he went. He did this not out of greed, but simply because in ‘creating’ something, it became his responsibility (like a good shepherd) …. Otherwise he would have abandoned or neglected it. Yet this care is double edged since it is both an abundance and an excess, the burden of which is lessened by the quantity of love and care involved.

 

There is also another element to this story which is common in the Bible and that is the thread of human ‘jealousy’… the Philistines (like Cain who killed his brother Abel), have their eye on Isaac and his abundance.  In their eyes, there is an injustice being done, not knowing or caring how much love Isaac has sowed for his extended family, all they see is that he has more than they, while they are just poorer and hungry.

 

Yet another side to this story is the question, how many wives, children, servants and flocks does a man need or should he have anyway?

 

Isaac was effectively a good man and was blessed with all this abundance because he was doing the right thing by God. However, that does not necessarily mean that anyone with many wives, children, servants and flocks is also a good man… many men acquire such abundance by ill-gotten means…. But for Isaac these things were a gift of God and he loved and cared for them all.

 

One-man sows nothing and goes hungry, another sows seed and grows rice, while another sows seed and grows mangos… is this unjust? Does the man who goes hungry have the right to steal the rice or kill the mango grower?

 

Baggage is anything that holds us back and inhibits our freedom of movement and our life. There have been times in my life where I have been forced to wear a suit and tie and carry a briefcase in order to feed my family.  Traditional values have little to do with what is right and true, they are a kind of mental baggage from past values that have often been superseded but are held onto generation after generation for a sense of identity. Do we need to carry baggage in paradise? Is this not work and contrary to the “Sabbath” which one imagines in paradise is every day.

 

To be free of all physical and mental baggage is the most liberating experience and one which every human being should seek, because without this God given liberty, we are doomed whether we do nothing, sow grass seed or grow fruit trees, because whatever you achieve will be always be in danger from ignorant, fearful, greedy Philistines.

 

Mat 6:19-21 KJV) Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

 

Belief

 

(Exo 4:1 KJV) And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.

 

No-one wants to believe a lie, yet some believe that ‘truth’ is whatever they believe and others believe that what they believe is the ‘truth’.  So, what is belief?

 

Belief is the ‘foundation’ from which humanity changes the world, for better or worse. It consists of images and visions in the minds of men that are ‘deemed to be true’ and are brought to fruition through the human will and whole-hearted conviction (faith).

 

For every belief that is brought to fruition, there are a million that fail for lack of whole hearted (spiritual) conviction and rightly so.

 

Belief in something that is not true is considered paranoia. Yet many ‘paranoid’ people achieve ‘great victories’ albeit temporary. In the absence of ‘truth’… belief and whole-hearted conviction (willfulness) are probably the most dangerous combination for ‘evil’ on the planet and are the foundation for witchcraft and all other manner of human desire fulfillment at the expense of others.

 

Consider ‘Adolf Hitler’ - a ‘great leader’ or a ‘mad man’ that millions of willing believers followed and consequently elevated?

 

And what of all the other ‘great’ world leaders and ‘thinkers’ in which people have believed: Obama, Bush; Nixon; The Kennedys; Eisenhower; Lincoln; Kings, Queens, Caesars, Pharaohs, Einstein, Da Vinci, Plato, Buddha, Mohammed, Zoroaster, etc.

 

And so we come back to Moses - a ‘prophet’ touched by God or a ‘lunatic’ magician?

And what of Jesus – a miraculous man who spoke the truth or a deluded vagrant?

 

Like I said, no-one really wants to believe a lie, yet most people will believe a lie over the truth, if they find the truth unbelievable. And there lies the problem: Truth becomes unbelievable because we are led to believe otherwise and once this happens, we need to be born again or become like little children again, before we can believe what is right in front of our eyes that we have overlooked under mass hypnosis.

 

The universe, the earth and life are a magical construct. The metamorphosis of a sluggish caterpillar through suspended liquefaction into a sleek and aerodynamic butterfly is a miracle beyond any man’s imagination, capability or belief… yet true. The sowing of a tiny seed into the earth and the provision of rain and sunlight producing a miraculous growth and a massive tree bearing flowers and fruit that feeds humanity, another miracle beyond any mans imagination, capability or belief…. yet true.

 

Whether you believe it or not, something greater than ‘humanity’ is clearly at work here, beyond human imagination, capability or belief…That is the truth of the God that you do not know and in so doing, look and look and never see… the evidence… to believe.

 

(Mat 24:23-25 KJV) For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before.

Modus Operandi

 

(Gen 4:14 KJV) Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

 

Cain was the first recorded ‘killer’ in the Old Testament, though not the first criminal since Adam by breaking a direct commandment earned that epitaph. We see immediately that crime begets crime and it begs the question, how come people can break the law when God is running the whole show? Surely God, being omniscient and omnipresent, should be able to step in at any time and prevent any crime from occurring, somewhat like the angel did when Abraham was about to slay his son Isaac. So why are criminals allowed to have free reign and get away with it?

 

One may as well ask the question – how come some children rebel and disobey their parents?

 

There are at least two forces involved here… consciousness and conscience. Consciousness, like most things in our universe has three modes of operation: 1. there is unconsciousness - which is benign. 2.  Self-consciousness - which is dangerously disconnected. 3. God consciousness - which is harmoniously attuned. A conscience is instilled in the ‘self-conscious’ through the introduction of social law, which establishes right and wrong in our minds, through reward and punishment…. Though intended to bring us back into alignment (faith) with goodness and God, very often social laws are imposed over the many, for the benefit of the few… which gives rise to a chain reaction of immoral and social injustices which though by nature criminal, remain unchallenged because they are unaccountable in the law of the day.

 

When unconsciousness overrules self-consciousness, we are dead to the world and when self-consciousness over-rules God consciousness, we are dead to God. In other words, our self-consciousness blinds and deafens us to God, just as teenagers in their rebellious years turn a deaf ear to their parents’ voice…. So in ‘self-consciousness’ we do whatever we want to please (tickle) ourselves (senses and emotions) without any accountability or conscience. Such is the real nature of sin and crime… and who is innocent?

 

Every human being comes from an innocent sperm that teams up with an innocent egg and each cell divides innocently for nine months to construct an innocent babe… no child has to stress and strain to breathe, to digest food, to grow hair or develop into a man or woman… So no human being consciously creates their self… this is ALL an act of God consciousness, nature or chemistry… call it what you will.  The point is, it happens automatically… when you were an embryo did you strive or worry about where your next meal was coming from or stress over taxes or pending death?

 

The problem with ‘self’ consciousness is it drives us to act from experience in an attempt to solve all our problems from our memories…it strives and has no faith in the provision and power of God. … Ironically, it is the root cause of all of the problems we try to solve.

 

(Mat 18:3-5 KJV) And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

Delusion & Deception

 

(Gen 2:25 KJV) And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

 

In truth… there is no shame…. shame comes from delusion and deception (sin).

 

The human mind, in delusion is the most dangerous of things because it is bent and no longer aligned with reality. This causes humanity to behave in deviant ways and encourage other things to follow this deviant pattern.

 

By reality, I am not talking about what has become the accepted normality, for ‘normality’ is a human measure of acceptable deviancy… By reality, I am speaking of the reality of our God given nature.

 

A ‘duck’ that looks like a swan and behaves like a swan is a ‘swan’. A swan without self-consciousness is unlikely to ever ‘think’ it is a duck… despite what story books may tell you… this is the nature of delusion and fiction. It is a virtual reality in the mind that overpowers the truth of our reality….  Hindus term this ‘Maya’ and Muslims ‘the veil’.

 

God’s reality is the same as God’s will or word, but the written word is not the same as God’s reality. It is symbolic. Adam and Eve only became ashamed of their nakedness when they broke faith with God’s reality (the truth) heeding in doubt, other words that had been sown in their mind. This is the nature of delusion… doubting this reality, then believing, trusting and living in and out of an alternate virtual reality.

 

The classic example of delusion is ‘Adolf Hitler’ a megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur… through believing, trusting and living in and out of his delusion many considered his ‘thinking’ a good “way out” of their troubles and so they embraced his delusion and committed despicable acts without conscience… delusion blinds us to wrongful behaviour and even encourages us to applaud such…. Delusion is like a virus, it spreads through human minds quicker than influenza from a passing sneeze.

 

The little Nazi is just one tip of one delusional iceberg, the history of suffering humanity is littered with delusional people with supposedly ‘good’ ideas that other gullible people have followed blindly….. And what of you dear reader, just how deluded is your mind… are you a human being as God made you to be, or are you a human being deluded into thinking you’re ‘something’ else, by the ways of the world and all the other influences around you?

 

In our virtual mindset we can be led and lead ourselves into all manner of delusional identities…so who do you think you are?  And just who are you?????…. Seriously…

 

You are your father who sent you on your way as that tiny sperm, that embraced that tiny egg of your mother, to become that developing embryo, that grew to become that pure naked baby without shame, much loved by life over a period of nine months and then you entered this world and remained in innocence for only a few days, before you were infected with delusion and reality was lost, or more correctly you became lost to reality.

 

(Luke 12:29-31 KJV) And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Belief V Faith

 

(Num 14:11 KJV) And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?

 

Though belief and faith are intrinsically related, they are not the same.

 

Belief is a mental quality that accepts or rejects something as either true or false. In other words, if you mentally accept something to be true, then you believe. If you mentally cannot accept something to be true, then you do not believe. Belief is the gateway to the human mind and consists of a filter which has 3 main states either: mental acceptance, indifference or rejection…. All based on prior experiences and education. As we grow through life, this has become an automatic process.  We are conditioned (programmed) to accept, ignore and reject, it has become a survival mechanism and determines our level of intellectual trust.

 

Faith is a spiritual quality that connects or disconnects one thing from another. Faith is the gateway to the human spirit and consists of a filter which has 3 main states… either: love, apathy or lust. All based on the state of the heart and modified by belief. Such that all connections either cause a connection that flows outward, remains in stasis or flows inward. Faith that flows outward is generous and loving, faith that doesn’t flow is apathetic while faith that flows inward is fearful and grasping. This flow is a measure of our passion, we can be either passionately positive (giving) or passionately negative (consuming) or like most; be ruled by circumstances in our lives and ride the spectrum of faith whenever we feel like it.

 

To emphasise the importance of understanding the difference between ‘belief’ and ‘faith’ consider Radio…  In 1855, less than 160 years ago, no-one would have believed such a thing could exist. Today we take ‘Marconi’ for granted and would mock unbelievers.

 

However, believing in radio is not the same as turning on the radio and tuning into the radio station… this takes active faith, connection and flow. The flow is “one way” from the transmitter to the receiver… and most people are still just ‘loving’ to consume (take).

 

The same is true of God (aka: love) – God is like a spiritual transmitter, that we may or may not believe in. However, whether we believe or not, is irrelevant to God. The Bible doesn’t request that we believe in God, only that we LOVE God.

 

Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.

 

“Faith” is just a word used to describe the intrinsic “energy” that drives all existence, life, growth and evolution, it is the substance of eternal “love”.

 

Through right belief, it is possible to activate our faith and receive from God…  Greater still when we lose our lusts and apathy to become enlightened by the active love within an uncluttered heart, it is possible through positive faith to let our love flow outward also... Loving inductance is the foundation of the miraculous inherent in all humanity…. through the power of God (love)….  All ‘faithful and true’ sons are made in the image and likeness of God (Our Father)….. NOT just ‘Jesus’…. however, he did try to show us the way!

 

(Mat 17:19-20 KJV) Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?  And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto

Words & Actions

 

(Gen 2:11 KJV) The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

 

The name “Pison” means nothing to most of us, but it is the name that was given to a river by men.

 

There are really only two main kinds of words: “Nouns” which we associate to perceived structures and “Verbs” which we associate with perceived behaviours.

 

The spoken word is just expressed lip and vocal noise, it is only our mental association of this noise with some aspect of our reality that gives words any meaning at all.

 

The written word is just expressed scribble on a medium, it is only our mental association of this symbolic scribble with some aspect of our reality that gives script any meaning at all.

 

The ability to sensually scope, express a name or a symbol and direct it at some associated reality and then memorise it, seems to be a unique human trait among the animal kingdom. Our nearest DNA relative among the mammals, the chimpanzee, can best manage a “ooo ooo” and an “aaa aaa” – whereas humanity has the mental capacity to roll out a whole swag of syllables and a never-ending babble of vocal and symbolic associations.

 

In nature there are few things we really need to know to live, i.e.: the weather, rocks, plants and animals.

 

In the world there are so many things we now need to know to live and everyday humanity creates and names more and more things unceasingly, while looking deeper and deeper into our reality with technical extensions to our senses.

 

Our need to know so much has driven our minds to grow ever more knowledgeable, ever more divisive.  Yet what other animal needs to know so many word associations for things to be able to live?

 

Without ‘knowing’ we are all part and parcel of a great big soup that sloshes in and out and all around us in a divinely ordered way. It is all God and we are all cogs in this ONE body, though we are not all cognizant of this truth.

 

Giving something a name allows the human mind (whatever that is) to identify (focus on), then control and manipulate part of our reality (God) as gods.

 

When we put our breath in a balloon, does that balloon suddenly become another identity or is it just a rubber skin with our breath in it?

 

Words in and of themselves are relatively harmless, but when we begin to believe them as a truth that surpasses the reality that they are derived from and associated with, then we become lost in our own puffed up delusive knowing.

 

So who named “God” and who named the “Angels” and other “invisible” beings apart from those who perceived them?

 

(John 6:46 KJV) Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.

Words & Actions (Part 2)

 

(Gen 15:1 KJV) After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

 

In the human realm words change nothing and someone must take action before anything can be changed. You can have all the books, plans and to do lists in the world, but if no-one actions one line… everything remains as it was and all the books, plans and to do lists in the world, are just, so much leaf litter.

 

Generally, the word of man is passive, it is not authoritative, it lacks power and is just noise or scribble, which changes nothing.

 

The difference between the word of man and the word of God, is that the “word of God” is active, it commands, powerfully creates and changes things.

 

Moses came down from the mountain with the 10 commandments, not the 10 things I love about mountains.

 

Jesus commanded sickness, the elements and demons… he didn’t talk or write children’s stories about them…

 

Dog trainers understand this… one doesn’t say “nice puppy please sit down and stop jumping up at me” … one simply says “sit!” with authority.

 

In the destined “robot” world beyond “Microsoft Windows”, one will just say to the robot pal… “run” and it will execute the function… a long conversation about what you want or other words, will not produce the desired result… and so it is.

 

Words lack power and change nothing - until executed or actioned by an agent.

 

The critical question here is – who or what executes or actions these words?

 

Answer: the weaker willed and the willing.

 

The creator and we, as manipulators, program things for action in response to key commands and stimuli, such that red means stop, amber means get ready and green means go.

 

Nothing moves until the ‘magic’ words are spoken like: “open sesame”… most times these days you cannot even log on to your computer without knowing the “password”… and so it is.

 

The right words spoken at the right time and place, to the right agent, can change things.

 

All around us we are bombarded by all manner of chemical messengers, marketing messages, electronic signals and neon signs – most we can ignore, but others just take control of our “psyche” and we are compelled (as if by magic) to follow where they lead us….. like it or not, manipulation of the human will (evil) has become an art form.

 

(Mat 4:3-4 KJV) And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

 

Confounded by Words

 

(Gen 2:23 KJV) And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

 

In Biblical history, these are the first words spoken by man (ie: Adam). Man, never spoke back to God or any other creature. He only spoke to himself about his own bone.

 

Whether our words are verbalised as guttural noises or inscribed on parchment or in magical digital fonts….  The best anyone can interpret from our attempts to communicate is whatever their bodily experience and memories will translate.

 

More often than not, words actually get in the way of deeper communion… we do not need to talk to ourselves… it is purported to be the first sign of madness or presumably some kind of schizophrenia, because one does not need to talk. One only needs to talk when there are two or more. One is always in communion and if a bone is my bone and if flesh is my flesh, then what do I really need to say to my own bone and flesh?

 

Equally when we look at the relationship between God and Adam, we see that Adam was in communion with God, presumably because like Eve, Adam was a bone of God, being part and parcel of the creator and the creative process. It is interesting to note that Adam has a conversation with Eve and with a snake before he talks to God. In fact, Adam didn’t actually start talking to God until after he sinned and fell out of communion, presumably becoming a bone of contention. And who knows what guttural language he spoke?

 

(Gen 3:9-11 KJV) And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

 

God is omnipresent and omniscient, so God is already in touch with our being, so whatever words we conjure from our disconnected vocabulary of sensual knowledge and our vocal capability are pretty much irrelevant, being inventions of our own imagination.

 

If you think about it, what can man really say to God…apart from “hi”, “thank you” and “sorry” …  greet, praise and apologise… our father, hallowed be…, forgive us.

 

No doubt Biblical scholars of the King James Bible speak to God in the Kings English, while scholars of the Koran would communicate in Arabic and Hindus would use Hindi or Urdu.  All these languages are just so much noise and scribble that have relative meaning to the speaker and those familiar with the cultural language. Communication is not the same as communion, communication by its very nature is divisive and exclusive, being a product of relative sensual capability, environment (space) and tradition (time). Whereas communion is a union of spirit at a heart and soul level, it surpasses sensuality and our memories of space and time. Just as walls obstruct freedom, so words and language are a human construct that divide us… inhibiting true union, true love and true faith.

 

(Mat 5:37 KJV) But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

 

Confounded by Words (Part 2)

 

(Gen 15:2-5 KJV) And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

 

There are many communication problems that arise because humans live in ‘sin’ and not in communion.

 

Firstly, there is the separation and sensual fallibility which leads to a resistance of reality, such that communication is filtered, misheard or misread. Classically illustrated by the Monty Python team, in their famous: “Blessed are the cheese makers” from ‘The Life of Brian’.

 

Secondly is our dependency on our fallible memories, which often drop or associate other known things resulting in a changed recollection of events and the longer the delay the greater the loss or confusion.

 

Thirdly is our dependency of prior experiences (knowledge) to ensure correct translation of our perceptions and memories.

 

Lastly is our dependency on our own maturing capability to interpret and communicate the meaning of our perceptions, memories and translations… later on.

 

Stepping back we can see how Babylon (or ‘Chinese whispers’) occurs… You say “ABCDEF”

·         I hear “ABCEF”

·         I recall “ABCF”

·         I translate as “BAFC”

·         I interpret in one of 3 ways.

o   Literally – I will accept it – As is.

o   Association – I will look for a associated meaning.

o   Reject – I will ignore it.

 

The Bible is a fascinating book, since it combines literal, metaphorical and allegorical writings that are designed to enlighten the reader.  The danger with any ancient text that has been translated numerous times is the clarity of the scribe and the language of the day.

 

It would be foolish to take the above passage literally… our heirs do not come from our “bowels”, though seeds often do. Much is left to the reader to make the correct associations.

 

So, who can explain the following passage spoken by Jesus that caused most of his Jewish followers to abandon him, because they took him literally:

 

(John 6:56-58 KJV) He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

Education

 

(Exo 4:12 KJV) Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

 

Before the educational reforms of the United Kingdom during the late 1800’s, most children were forced to work in factories and mines… yet going back before the Industrial revolution most children were generally ‘uneducated’ and living an agricultural existence with their families learning the necessary farming and practical skills from their parents and siblings.

 

So what exactly is education and why has it become the domain of organizations and governments and not parents?

 

An aboriginal child living in the bush needs an education in the local plants and animals, the local geography, the local weather, the seasons and the best ways to acquire food in a sustainable way.  Most of this knowledge is acquired by being naturally involved with these things on a day to day basis, with more insight given respectfully by elders.

 

Many invading ‘educated’ Europeans died in Australia, because they didn’t know how to live or love the native flora and fauna, despite years of schooling, it was all unknown.

Education is useless if it does not help us live in our local environment. To solve this dilemma, the invading Europeans began to change the local Australian environment into a replica of the one they had left, so that their education became relevant and bush education became unnecessary…. Is this education or the beginnings of annihilation?

 

So often in life when faced with something new, we have three options – we can embrace and learn about it, ignore it or attack it. The former is an enlightened approach, the latter two are the ignorant and evil approaches.

 

As a child growing up in England, I didn’t enjoy school, it took me away from the things I loved, my family, my friends and the countryside. Everyone told me it was for my benefit, but to be forced to sit for hours on an end at a small wooden desk and being forced to listen to elderly men and women teaching lessons about things that had no relevance to my life was a challenge to say the least.  What I did learn was that educational institutions tend to operate from an agenda and most books are written with a bias. The ultimate object of the British system of education was to normalize our behaviour, such that we all believed the same thing… much like Nazism its primary aim was a national unity through sophisticated brain washing techniques toward a common world view and all challengers were punished and all failures to comply were disqualified.

 

When I became an adult and had children of my own, I panicked when it was time for my children to go to school… it was compulsory and I felt inadequate to offer any kind of world education at home… we migrated from England to Australia in 1984 and our first son started school in 1986… he had never really experienced anything but our love and for the first time at school he was educated into racism… a group of boys had been calling him “Shit face” (my wife came from the Caribbean). He was also mocked for his good manners and for referring to his penis as a ‘penis’ and not as his willy, nob or cock… and so my son proceeded to become educated by the system. Surely... the goal of education should be enlightenment in love and truth for life. Education of a thief or a pig for knowledge alone, will only make them better thieves and more acquisitive, much like lawyers who learn legal loopholes and the rich, who learn how to profit from the poor.

 

(Mat 23:15 KJV) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

How Good Are You?

 

(Gen 1:31 KJV) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

 

There is no doubt that everything God made is good, the earth, the moon, sun and stars and the capability to live and bear witness to existence is miracle enough for most of us to step back in humility, awe and wonder.

 

So now that you have life, what are you supposed to do with this precious gift?

 

Seems to me that there are really only 4 activities that any creature can perform, regardless of whether they feel positive or negative about it:

 

·         Creation (addition & multiplication) – growth, reproduction & birth

·         Observation (passive & preparatory) – watching & waiting.

·         Maintenance (division) – alignment & reparation

·         Destruction (subtraction) – deterioration and death

 

Three of these activities bring natural change and the fourth is passive or preparatory. There is however a fifth process that is peculiar to humanity and brings major change:

 

·         Manipulation (planning & construction)

 

(Gen 11:9 KJV) Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

 

One assumes that the building of ‘Babel’ was not considered a ‘good’ thing – why?

 

When one looks at all the things that humanity has ‘constructed’ from what God has created – one has to seriously question the value of it….

 

What has man constructed that compares to a flower, an ant or a child?

 

Most human constructions are firstly ‘dead works’, secondly ‘imperfect’ and lastly, they are constructed from the de-construction of other elements, usually at the expense of the living and always at the expense of the earth’s natural God given resources.

 

What has man ever constructed that was truly ‘good’?

 

For every ‘good’ to be had from human construction there is an equal and often greater ‘evil’ effect to the environment, the natural earth and life.

 

In human terms ‘good’ – really means ‘good for you’ or ‘your tribe’, it doesn’t necessarily mean ‘good for life’ or ‘good for God’…. Human ‘goodness’ is entirely self-centric and consequently from the greater good (God) perspective, mostly ‘evil’.

 

(Mat 7:18-20 KJV) A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

How Good Are You? (Part 2)

 

(Gen 19:8 KJV) Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

 

In the passage above we see Lot offering his daughters in exchange to an unruly mob at his front door who sought sexual gratification with the guests at his house, who were new in the town of Sodom … The key sentence is: “as is good in your eyes” … because that is the real cause of all the other symptoms that we wrestle with in this world and in our blindness, more than often, overlook.  The problem isn’t the science, the religion, the politics or the sex, the drugs or the rock and roll… the problem is our twisted sense of what is good or right…. and that is the nature of sin. 

 

I have often wondered why Jesus didn’t just grab some land, plant some trees and live a righteous life happily ever after with his wife and kids… he was after all, the second Adam, so why did he choose to spend his short life teaching us how to overcome sin?

 

The answer is simple (if you think about it)… sin is the root cause of all human suffering and wrong doing… so until ‘sin’ is eliminated, everything else is pretty much a waste of time…. and destined to destruction.  History is littered with peoples that have lived supposedly ‘good lives’ in harmony with creation, no doubt in Jesus time, there were many shepherds and fisherman… but how long can such idyllic peace last in a world where ‘sin’ waits crouching in the background?

 

Even if Jesus had been living the most righteous of lives with his family, how long can any peace last with the threat of occupation and oppression? And why do men, like the Romans try to conquer the world? Wasn’t Italy big enough? Were they right (good)? Can righteousness (goodness) really be obtained by brute force?  Can righteousness (goodness) be obtained by abdication of responsibility (apathy)? And here we see the dilemma… who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?

 

When I was a child it all seemed so simple, the cowboys were the good guys and the Indians were the bad guys… well that was how it was told to me and I believed it, why wouldn’t I, I was innocent…  the storytellers always paint themselves as the good guys. No doubt in Sodom, everyone thought their behaviour was OK, right and good…When the Jews and the Romans crucified Jesus, he was the ‘bad’ guy and they were the ‘good’ guys… When the ruling authority, the law makers or someone with more perceived power, capability, or a bigger weapon passes judgment, they are always the ‘good’ guys and ‘you’ are always the bad guy… and so it goes on… “do you feel lucky punk, well do yer?”.

 

Jesus was 100% right and 100% righteous… the problem is never life, sex, chemistry or music… the problem is our misguided minds (‘sin’) and only a received enlightenment into the truth can fix that and set us free…  Goodness and the maintenance of life is God’s problem and sooner or later God will deal with it in Gods time, because that is the nature of God and goodness. If you are blessed you may live 80 years in peace. The best we can ever achieve is some kind of synchronicity with Gods timing… otherwise ‘YOU’ could be the bad guy, badly striving to be good, no matter how “good in your eyes” or in theirs.

 

(John 16:33 KJV) These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Naughty or Nice

 

(Prov 6:12-14 KJV) A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

 

In the King James version of the Old Testament the word ‘naughty’ occurs only 3 times and the word ‘nice’, does not appear at all. Naughty is generally used as a substitute word for being deceitful, bad or evil and has more in common with being double minded or speaking with a forked tongue… the man that winks or gestures is a man that is conveying alternative secret messages, not being open or honest. Jesus was not crucified because he was ‘naughty’ – Jesus was a straight talker and true to his word.  Neither was Jesus ‘nice’, ‘nice’ people are generally people that have no strong conviction or values and continually yield to please others, that is why they are considered ‘nice’.

 

I really only appreciated the difference recently after growing a herb garden… Like a good gardener, first I had to prepare the soil by removing rocks, rubbish and weeds that would impact the plants growth, next there was the heat of the sun and ensuring that my plants had enough shade and water. Lastly, I enjoyed watching butterflies come and go, but slowly the leaves of my herbs were devoured by hungry caterpillars. My dilemma was that I have always been a ‘nice’ man, I loved insects but I also loved these plants and my ‘niceness’ was the thought that there was probably enough leaves to sustain all.  As it turned out, some of my plants leaves were devoured to such an extent that they suffered badly. So, I began to question my righteousness.

 

Another enlightening incident occurred when I spent a few days in the damp bush and found myself the victim of blood sucking leeches. Again, leeches are fascinating creatures and like caterpillars have no say in their creation, their nature or their short life span…is such an attitude… loving niceness or neglectful stupidity?

 

Would I have been so complacent about the leeches if they had been hungry bears, wolves or vampires?  More recently a man in Western Australia was totally debilitated by a disease transmitted from a mosquito. Many of these tiny killers seem to thrive in areas where people either shouldn’t live or areas that people should make more liveable. Leeches thrive in swamps and mosquitoes in stagnant pools… not really good home sites.  If we look back through human history, we see millions decimated by plagues passed on by fleas, rats and other creatures that have been allowed to live alongside human habitations…. millions have also died through drinking water that was filthy and contaminated by inappropriate lifestyles…. Not to mention the millions killed by human transmitted diseases, famine and war…. So if we live by the swamp, we must expect to die by the swamp….and maybe over time, develop an evolutionary immunity.

 

The responsible father or gardener must care for his offspring by settling in a wise place and protecting his garden from pests that would steal, destroy and kill…. whatever consumes without providing a sustainable future is contrary to life. Anything that behaves like this is evil. More dangerous still is the appearance of goodness that cloaks its evil with attractive words and imagery.

 

(Mat 7:15 KJV) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Masturbation

 

(Job 22:3 KJV) Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

 

There is no direct reference to masturbation in the whole of the old or the new testament, the closest concept is concealed in the term pleasure, which takes on many forms and behaviours, all of which are wrapped in self-indulgence.

 

As a child it is one thing to explore one’s newly given body and develop an awareness of one’s parts… however, it is another thing to become obsessed with these parts to the exclusion of what is important to life and life’s purpose.

 

Human self-indulgence or self-pleasuring takes many forms, shamefully we hide the secret personal ones, but often we shamelessly applaud the ones that have become acceptable in our social circles.  Any man that took his penis out at the dinner table and began to masturbate in front of unsuspecting onlookers would be treated as mentally deranged because his behaviour would be socially unacceptable. However, I distinctly remember a school trip to the zoo once, where I lost touch with a group of school friends only to find them all masturbating behind some bushes, I was shocked because it just seemed like a weird thing to be doing in public and on a school trip, but then again, I had an interest in zoology and they obviously didn’t. They probably thought I was the wanker.

 

Remembering when the first ‘brick sized’ mobile phones arrived and were purchased by self-indulgent individuals who thought they were so important that they needed to have their own personal phone – they were labeled as ‘wanker phones’ until over the course of many years personal ‘wanking’ publicly over the phone became acceptable.

 

And so masturbation is really a word that should be applied to any form of self-indulgence that is in some way exclusive by its very nature. I came to write this passage after spending an hour or so in contemplative meditation – which brought me to the revelation of my own meditative masturbation. Yes, meditation is self-indulgent, so is going to the gym, playing sport, music, reading and writing. They are all artificial and self-gratifying perversions that have no real significance or value to the greater good…. unless given.

 

The problem is… 99% of human life in the modern-day world is lived like this, we are for want of a better phrase – “a bunch of wankers” … so caught up with our own minds, bodies, toys and pleasure-seeking activities that we have lost the meaning of real life, love and truth.  And being lost creates a vicious circle, such that in the confusion of not knowing why or how to live or love… we seek comfort in whatever comes our way that takes away the pain or makes us feel better, whether it be right or wrong.  And yet, self-indulgent masturbation is better than self-indulgent manipulation at the personal expense of another… that is called ‘rape’ at the personal level, exploitation at the social level and capitalism at the financial level.

 

Ultimately real pleasure or satisfaction comes only through living true to life’s purpose, anything less than this… is self or social masturbation… whether we accept it or not.

 

(Rev 4:11 KJV) Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

 

Suicide

 

 

(Gen 3:17-19 KJV) And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

 

Despite loving parents, a large affectionate family and many friends… at the age of 20 after 12 years of schooling, 3 years of working and a few years of witnessing and watching newsreel images of starving people, war and the tragic pain of others’ lives caused by those around them.... I became ashamed of being human. Despite and maybe because of my love for life, the world appeared to me to be a sick and sad place and I wanted no part in it… I wanted to die. Though not believing in God, I actually prayed for death and a way out, I could see no point in having to witness and endure this pain any longer. PAIN has a way of changing our perspective and the more sensitive we are, the more we hurt… So in despair and depression we seek escape - in many forms, the most extreme being immediate self-destruction. Somewhere in my desperate soulful moaning that night, I was saved from my painful perspective of the world to find joy in the morning sun, awaking after many tears with a renewed love for life and new hope for the future with the recognition of ‘sins curse’ as the cause of all the world’s problems and its removal, as the ONLY eternal solution.

 

When writing this passage, I could find no reference to suicide in the ‘Old or the New Testament’… despite the fact that the pages are full of starvation, pain, murder, war and human tragedy. It seems that religious people were happy to afflict their neighbours in self-righteousness, yet none inflicted death upon themselves. This is puzzling to me, especially when in this modern world with so much food, health and wealth… suicide is one of the greatest killers of young men and women, implying that self-loathing, pain and unhappiness are now at epidemic proportions…. When we look at despair, we see it is a combination of disconnection and disbelief… a loss of relationship (love) and a loss of trust in everyone and everything (faith). Yet in truth, even this, offers more real hope than a bad relationship or trust in what is false.  For so long it appeared to me that 'Jesus' committed suicide… but sacrifice is an act of love, suicide is not. Like so many prophets who spoke true words before him, Jesus was MURDERED for his 'heroic' commitment to what was right and true. Though he could have saved himself, his mission was not one based on self-righteousness, self-pity, self-interest, or worldly profit, his mission was based on a love for life and truth at the expense of himself. Jesus never strapped a bomb to his chest to kill his persecutors in a spiteful act of revenge. He forgave them… for their ignorance.  He recognized that “sin” cannot be eliminated by “sin” any more than fire can be eliminated by fire… For men and women are not the cause of the world’s problems, so killing them or committing suicide is not the solution… it just reduces the population. Humanity is under a curse that blinds us to our ‘sinful’ nature. This cause and the curse can only be lifted by repentance, removal and replacement of our ‘delusional’ nature… with our ‘true’ nature…. the nature of our eternal father, for we are all brothers and sisters when we love and live as children of ONE God.

 

(Acts 16:27-28 KJV) And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.

Social

 

(Gen 2:8 KJV) And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

 

I’ve never understood why this fundamental statement in the Bible seems to be ignored by so many… “God planted a garden”.

 

Men did not create plants, men did not create flowers, fruits or seed… so right there in the Bible, we need to STOP!   We then need to understand that like a bee, without flowers, pollen, nectar and honey… our life, ceases to have meaning without the “garden”. The biblical truth is… without understanding our purpose in the “garden” we are lost and worse still, without the “garden” our situation is hopeless…And so… as we wander all over the earth in search of meaning to our lives, we have stumbled into three basic social structures:

 

·         Nomadic: hunter gathering on the move following the seasonal produce and life.

·         Local Settlements: growing and farming on small land holdings to meet personal needs.

·         Cities: buying and selling food transported from agricultural areas into central markets.

 

Each lifestyle has its own set of pros and cons….

 

·         Nomads have great freedom, seasonal variation and support the sustainable recovery and diversity of natural resources. However, this lifestyle relies heavily on the providence of nature, competing with other creatures and potential conflict with trespassing inadvertently on other claimed tribal territories, settlers and cities.

·         Settlers have a self-made freedom, less seasonal variation and are less able to support sustainability or diversity on restrictive parcels of land. This lifestyle relies heavily on the providence of man’s labour of ploughing, sowing and reaping. On the exploitation and exclusion of other creatures in paddocks with fences. And as families outgrow their plots, it leads inevitably to conflict and war with neighbours.

·         City Dwellers have a delusional freedom with great seasonal variation and apparent on tap natural resources. However, this lifestyle is heavily dependent on corporations of men, vast networks of transport and the mass production of food from outlying agricultural regions. Lastly it requires a place to live and a job in the city to earn money and pay for a place and the available city bread, fruit and meat from the farmer provided grain fields, orchards and captive livestock.

 

Whatever the lifestyle you have inherited or chosen… ultimately, the garden is the most important aspect… without which we will all starve. Unfortunately, in our quest for health, wealth and ‘heaven’, this invisible ‘garden’ is the one thing that is most often overlooked, taken for granted and abused…. The garden is more than a bunch of resources to be exploited and eaten…. the garden remains one of the most beautiful and peaceful places to be and to behold….Ultimately… the garden is paradise, heaven on earth, the very nature of the kingdom of God.

 

(Luke 13:18-19 KJV) Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.

Civilisation

 

(Gen 11:6 KJV) And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

 

According to dictionary definitions – Civilization is “a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)” and

“the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste”.

 

When Christopher Columbus first discovered “America” he wrote a letter to the King and Queen of Spain extolling the virtues of the natives of the land with the words that “though they are naked, their manners are decorous and praiseworthy, treating their neighbours as themselves” …  sadly, his civilisation then went on to wipe them out with disease, imposition, captivity and enslavement..

 

So does wearing clothes and being deceitful equate to being civilized and being naked and honest equate to being uncivilized?

 

Law, Politics and Religion are all imposed artificial human constructs… what bird, animal or fish requires such imposed constructs to fly, run or swim?  Yet every bird, animal and fish has implicit and unwritten laws of behaviour, rules of engagement and ways of living.

 

The problem with such imposed regimes of behaviour, is that they suppress the true nature of men and women. Not only do they suppress the true nature of men and women. They actually repress men and women in such a way, that when the imposition is temporarily released or absent… The nature of men and women springs beyond the natural in ways abnormal and often abhorrent.

 

Anything that is given a value above and beyond that, given naturally, will always result in deviant and dysfunctional behaviour. Repression begets dysfunction, dysfunction begets frustration, frustration begets anger and anger begets violence.

 

So called civilization is based on repression of the natural, yet in many ways ‘self-control’ is repression of natural behaviour – so how does one balance constructive ‘self-control’ with imposed interference and repression.

 

In nature, ‘self-control’ is not an issue, because unacceptable behaviours are not tolerated, are not promoted or are rejected, so creatures are naturally controlled by the inability to pair and reproduce. The concept of Homosexual marriage is fundamentally flawed because natural marriage is for reproduction, not just for affection and the tickles of shared sensual stimulation. In nature, unwilling partners reject imposition or imposed semen. Creatures that fail to align with life, fail to replicate their failings and this is a perfect system. The point is… what is this ‘self’ that one is trying to legislate for?  Is it something apart from life?

 

So, what is civilization?

 

Is it a deluded democracy of “sinners” living under accepted legal, political and religious practices… somewhat like Sodom and Gomorrah?

 

(Luke 21:35-36 KJV) For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Neighbours & Networks

 

(Lev 19:18 KJV) Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

 

The problem with any rule or law is that they are always made in a certain context and are usually generalisations which suit no-one but an elected or self appointed corporate governing body. Just recently a debate arose again about when a mother should stop breast feeding her child. Seriously, how can any body (or woman for that matter) legislate on the time another mother should stop breast feeding her child… when by the grace of God and natural selection, every woman and every child are unique?

 

It is important that we personally ‘feel’ and obey the rule of God and nature and not mentally adopt these appointed authorities’ generalisations by wrote.  As Solomon is attributed to having once wisely written: (Eccl 3:1 KJV) To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

 

The best humanity can ever hope to achieve is an alignment with the seasons and purposes of heaven…. This requires feeling and faith… not law…. Law is a substitute (cop out) for the unfeeling and the unfaithful. Truth is, dependency on the law usually causes an ever-increasing abdication of individual responsibility with continual contextual confusion and corruption.  Despite (and in many ways because of) our technological ‘advancements’, handheld communications and social networks… we see an increasing disconnection between neighbours. Just as the automobile resulted in the demise of the neighbourly greeting with the exclusive family bubble on wheels… we see the great information highway creating faster exclusive communication between friends, family and strangers… but we also see a complete neglect of local neighbourly interaction and contact. Just yesterday a very neglected 2-year-old child was found trapped inside a house for 3 days with her dead mother and the only reason the situation came to light was because one neighbour just happened to notice the washing had not been taken in for many days and she phoned the pastor of the local church, who uncovered the situation.

 

Travelling on any public transport system into the City these days, you will find many people freely talking or sending messages on their handheld communication devices to people on the other side of the world and yet unable to communicate with the person sitting next to them. On the one hand we have globalisation and on the other hand we have local dysfunction and to be honest…. Which is more important…. What is happening on the other side of the world that you can do nothing about… or what is happening to your neighbour that you can do something about?

 

Globalisation has become another spectator sport, watching people killing one another, or starving to death on the other side of the world. Throwing some money at Charities to unburden our conscience in the hope that somehow ‘money’ will magically fix the problems our ways have created… Meanwhile the person sitting next to you is quietly starving, but you have no idea, because somewhere along our intellectual and technological way, we lost the second commandment to “love our neighbour” …

 

(Mat 22:37-40 KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Adding Value

 

(Gen 2:15-17 KJV) And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

 

Despite all the human activity in the world, there are really only three ways that human beings can add value to life and they must be kept in this order of priority:

 

·         Tending and protecting the garden and its creatures (care of earth) - primary purpose

·         Procreation of human life (children) - unsustainable with the neglect of 1

·         Healing and restoration (maintenance) - necessary to fix neglect of 1 and abuse of 2.

 

These activities, encapsulate love. All other human activities are generally disruptive (break unity / faith), distractive (avoid truth) or destructive (damage life).

 

Contrary to popular myth, “life was meant to be easy”. It is the obsession with the knowledge of ‘good and evil’ and neglect of life, over the centuries, that has brought constant trouble, sickness, destruction and death.

 

Though we may ‘think’ our works are “good”, our measure of ‘good and evil’ is fundamentally flawed. Only God is good and only those who align with God’s will in faith. (heart, soul, mind and strength) anything less than this is religious deception.

 

(Mat 19:16-17 KJV) And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

 

What good is a book? What good is a printing press? What good is a computer?

·         They are made by destroying trees and from mining earth elements

·         They amuse and educate our children, yes, but to do what?

·         They push the knowledge of “good & evil”, but for whose benefit?

 

If our books, printing presses and computers don’t reveal love, truth and a life that is truly good, then what “good” are they, except a means in $’s to serve their benefactor’s ends?

 

Which is worse pushing wrong knowledge or pushing drugs? The world is full of pushers and purveyors of “evil will”. Yet God, who is truly good, does not push anyone or anything, God leaves us free to choose. So, if we lose or get lost, who can be blamed?

 

Ultimately it is our choices that determine our faith and our fate (our life). And if we are not ‘free’ to choose, then we are already ‘losing’ or ‘lost’ under the influence of some other “evil agency”, whether internal or external – addiction or baggage, virtual or real.

 

(Mat 19:21-22 KJV) Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

Communication

 

(Gen 3:8 KJV) And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

 

Without communication we are all alone, worse still we are hopelessly lost and struggle to find purpose and a way through this life… 

 

Most creatures communicate either to find a mate, in fear of danger or to express the joy of being alive... This is achieved through colour, movement, song, scent and many other subtle sensual ways… indeed Angels are considered the messengers of God, how so?

 

If we are lost in a big City, we may gamble and ask a stranger or use a trusted guide or a policeman to show us the way. Alternatively, we may just drift and enjoy the experience or let our pride keep us in denial.

 

To communicate a message over distance with anyone requires certain things:

·         Some kind of portal or opening through which a communication vehicle can leave our being.

·         Some way of modulating whatever passes through this portal such that we can encode our message upon it.

·         The capability to frame a message in memory before encoding and transmitting.

·         Some kind of reason or motivation to frame a message in the first place.

 

A primal scream (a yell) or an uninterrupted expression of the sound “Om” is not really an encoded message, though it may reflect another’s expression of pain or desire for peace.

Yet if no-one receives the encoded message, then no matter how loud or how constantly we repeat it, it is just noise.

 

To communicate a message we need a recipient, with:

·         Some kind of portal or opening through which a communication vehicle can enter their being.

·         Some way of filtering out background noise of whatever passes through this portal such that they can decode our message only.

·         The capability to frame the message in memory after receiving and decoding.

·         Some kind of reason or motivation to hear the message in the first place.

 

Even with all this capability we need two other vital things before communication can succeed. Firstly, we need to ensure that the message is sent to the intended recipient, this can be achieved by prefixing the message with their identifier (name and address). Secondly, we need to ensure that both parties share the same encoding protocol (language). Trust like faith requires a prolonged state of being on the same wavelength.

 

So, if we don’t pray to God by name or in the right language, whose fault is it, when our communion is lost? And when he communes with us, whose fault is it that we don’t hear?

 

(John 18:37 KJV) Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Possession

 

(Gen 17:8 KJV) And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

 

Whatever we take hold of, we take possession of and whatever we take hold of, takes possession of us. So ‘possession’ is a word we use to express some kind of association with another thing that involves authority, ownership, control, management or manipulation.

 

Anyone who has ever raised a plant, pet or child will know that ‘possession’ is a two-way street, we are possessed by whatever we serve, whether for love, pleasure, power or money.  Often what ‘possesses’ us is invisible and intangible, an idea, an emotion, a dream, a vision or a desire.  The source of this ‘invisible’ possessor is often unknown or impossible to rationalise, perhaps it comes from some inherited family trait (like instinct) or like some pre-programmed hypnotic response to subtle sensual stimulus or maybe some spiritual wireless messenger world beyond our ken, but whatever the origin, it can only take possession of our soul, if it takes us unawares, like a desperate mouse in a trap; Or, if we are aware, by our willingness to irresistibly comply and take the bait anyway.

 

Either way, temptation (bait) has a large part to play in the entrapment of all living things.

 

Yet there is security and peace in being possessed by a ‘good’ keeper… the plant, pet or child raised by ‘good’ parents benefits from being possessed. While the plant, pet or child raised by ‘evil’ parents is likely to be neglected, used, abused and ultimately consumed. There is also a middle ground, where nature and providence rule over the plant, pet and child, involving a non-possession or freedom in the wilderness where only God or the wild ways of nature prevail.

 

The problem with possession is it weakens the position of the possessed through dependency and elevates the position of the possessor with godlike status. We are not here to possess or be possessed, that is delusion. Life is not about possessing, life is about being ‘good’ or aligning our behaviour with what is true and right. A man does not even possess his sperm, it is like seed to be spread… millions fall by the wayside, it is impossible to save them all. Fate (the lotto of life) by God determines which sperm finds its way to the egg. This is a fair system, who dare contend with the process of natural selection. Only cheats would try to manipulate a lotto win, when they… lost.

 

How can any man possess any other thing, when he doesn’t even possess himself?

 

The danger with possession is it enables wrong things to exist at the wrong time and place, resulting in unnatural, unfair, biased and evil outcomes.

 

(Mat 8:28-32 KJV) And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. And, behold, they cried out, saying, what have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. So, the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go.

Prostitution

 

(Lev 19:29 KJV) Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

 

Women do not become prostitutes because they enjoy strangers taking pleasure from their bodies, they choose (or are forced) to become prostitutes for gain. Prostitution has never been about the joy of sex it has always been about money and still is. Yet any kind of product or service (work) that is not given for free, in love, is being sold for gain, so are we not all prostitutes... when we sell something of ourselves?

 

I have often been troubled by the phrase - “he sold his soul to the devil” … what does that mean? And how can any man sell his soul… Is it like the gifted artist (someone who creates out of love) signing a contract with a corporation for gain and if so, what can any man gain from some satanic agency and what is ‘invisibly’ sold? 

 

In prostitution the woman (or man) offers their body temporarily for a fee. At least that is tangible, but in selling ones ‘soul’ to the devil, one supposedly offers something intangible for life… so is Satan running some kind of invisible demonic protection racket? We see in the wilderness that the devil offers Jesus the whole world and Jesus declines and later says: (Mat 16:26 KJV) For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

 

So, what is your soul and how much is it worth?

 

Biblically speaking ‘a soul’ refers to the whole living creature, not to some abstract part that flies off at death, this is generally referred to as the ‘spirit’ which belongs to God…

 

So it would be a bit difficult to sell that part, since we never own it. However, we do have a certain ownership over our minds and our bodies and what we do with our lives.  Seems to me that this is the only part that we can ‘sell’ as such, since what we do with this gift that is the ‘human soul’ or life, is effectively our business, up for grabs or for sale and I very much doubt any one will pay for your dead body (except for medical spare parts), which is why we usually bury the dead, because they have ceased to be of any use. (Mat 8:22 KJV) But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

 

Personally, I feel that I have sold my ‘soul’ so many times over 40 years to different employers, not because I wanted to, just because I needed the money to pay the bills and care for my family… I have no doubt in my mind that I have lived like a ‘whore’ in this world of whoredom and see very little difference between selling my mental "skills" to selling my physical love making skills, both acts, become a pain when circumstances force you to do it.  In behaving like this, did I rent my soul out or did I sell it? And is there a better way? Is "more education" the way to make us righteously rich…. or is "more love" - the way of faith and Jesus, what we really need?

 

Are doctors any better than prostitutes when they profiteer from the misery of the sick? Are lawyers any better than prostitutes when both charge about the same money for their services? Which are more honest and give more customer satisfaction?

 

(John 8:10-11 KJV) When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those  thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

 

Supply and Demand

 

(Exo 18:14-17 KJV) And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even? And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God: When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

 

Moses established so many different kinds of offerings to God: sin offerings; guilt offerings; whole offerings; free-will offerings; grain offerings; drink offerings; installation offerings and shared offerings.

 

I struggled to understand why a God of the universe would require some kind of blood sacrifice or burnt offering to confirm some kind of relationship with humanity. It seemed particularly unfortunate for the victims: the ‘perfect’ bulls, rams, sheep, goats and birds.

 

Since God naturally owns everything by creation, all things naturally belong to God, so destroying such perfect life, seemed rather sick and cruel. So what was the point of creating it in the first place and what was the real purpose of these offerings?

 

The Mosaic offerings were supposed to continue “for all time”, so, it seems to me these offerings had a number of purposes:

 

·         A continual reminder that God is Lord of all and deserves the utmost respect.

·         Since the offerings were purely agricultural then the intent was to ensure the people stayed on the land and produced accordingly.

·         Offering the best produce off the land, at “Gods expense”, retains our humility.

·         No animal was to be killed or eaten without being offered to God via the priest, so reverence for life was maintained.

·         Offerings, like gifts between friends or family, were either out of free-will (love) or out of guilt (an apology) or recompense for sin (a penalty) or shared (in celebration).

·         Since God neither appreciates nor tolerates our disrespect and unfaithfulness, significant proof of our faith must be offered, before we are forgiven and accepted.

 

In this light the sacrifice makes sense, since token gestures are never the same as sincere acts of love or repentance. When blood is shed it implies how committed or passionate, we really are. Though, this is not always the case, since ultimately the heart and spirit must also be involved, not just the outward act. And this is where ‘acts’ of sacrifice or any ‘act’ of religion or love or indeed any act, becomes insincere. It is not enough to be a ‘good’ actor and ‘fake’ it… is the heart and spirit (will) pure and true?

 

Who seriously believes our creator needs to smell the ‘soothing odour’ of burnt fat on an altar to recognise the sincere faith of his creation and what gift can you really give ‘the God that has everything’, besides your faith?

 

(Mat 9:12-13 KJV) But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

The World Go Round

 

(Gen 3:19 KJV) In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

 

The ingeniousness of humanity to overcome the curse of work, knows no bounds. Instead of repenting and fixing the problem once and for all time, we continue in denial and spend our days inventing ways and means to alleviate this burden at the cost of something or someone else….

 

Every worldly product that each nation, corporation or neighbour produces at a cost and sells to a neighbouring country, corporation or person, comes from one ‘given’ source:

 

·         The earth’s elements - light, air, water, soil, clay, minerals, metal, oil, gas, etc…

·         The earth’s plants - fruit, seeds, flowers, leaves, wood, roots, herbs, spices, etc…

·         The earth’s animals - people, pets, meat, fur, skin, bone china, silk, etc…

 

Like the flow of electricity, the world turns by the exploitation of free natural resources and the potential difference across neighbouring inequalities. The haves, exploit the have nots.  Let’s face it, if everyone had everything they needed, what market would there be for human products and services?

 

Since the earth belongs to everyone and no-one in particular, who has the right to capitalise on these naturally ‘free’ resources and how can anyone get away with such exploitation?

 

The answer is simply – emotio-mental and physical manipulation – “SIN”.

 

By an act of ‘sin’ did Cain kill Abel and take what was rightfully his brother’s… and the world has changed little in its attitude since this example… humanity by sinful nature, manipulate the rules of the game, we lie, cheat, steal, threaten, bully, hurt, torture and kill in order to justify our righteousness and our ‘right’ to live, just because we can.

 

We call this ‘intelligence’ but it is really ‘abuse’, so it is only to be expected that this ‘abuse’ would spread like a plague across the whole of the globe in mass exploitation and result in our inevitable demise, without ‘repentance’.

 

History is littered with the bodies of peaceful peoples whose lives and natural environment have been turned upside down by other greedy and better armed nations or ‘legally’ equipped corporations… “boldly going” and exploiting their paradise.  No doubt it would be possible to take the most unwanted and neglected piece of land and turn it into a paradise in a matter of years, that every greedy self-seeking person on this planet would covet and try to steal…. do you get the picture?

 

Rather than ‘work’ to heal ourselves and ‘work’ to heal our land, we would rather steal from our neighbour and steal our neighbours land, either by twisted law or by twisted war.  Why do I see some nations dying of starvation and other nations dying from fatness?

 

(John 8:44 KJV) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

 

Work

 

(Gen 3:19 KJV) In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

 

“Work” is a curse, because life is a gift and no gift is meant to bring pain. No one calls what they love... “work”. These days, most “work” for money. When what you serve in life, becomes “hard work”, without reward, it’s probably time to change (repent)...

 

When we look at the human body we see that it is a miracle of creation, the heart pumps every second to keep the body alive; the bone marrow produces endless “cells” that replenish the blood; The blood consists of billions of different “cells” that undertake their tasks and disappear; The veins and capillaries transport this blood to every other “cell” in the body supplying air (oxygen); nutrients and minerals as required and removing the waste products…. Every cell in the human body “operates” tirelessly, without complaint, because this is not “work”, this is “life”… We do not need to “work” (make any effort) to keep our heart beating, to produce blood cells, to operate any of the functions of the body… So why do we have to “work” to provide food, shelter and whatever else… is our work and striving simply the result of "ignorance and fear" or lack of "trust" or "faith" in our creator and maintainer?

 

(John 6:29 KJV) Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

 

To understand this, we need to look at where we have come from and where we are heading… In paradise, there was no need for clothes and our food hung on the trees around us like brightly coloured Christmas decorations just waiting to be picked… no one considers picking gifts off the Christmas tree as “work” …

 

Outside of paradise, life is not like Christmas… we have donned clothes, which need to be stitched, maintained by hand and washed. We lost sight of the precious liquid filled fruits and were forced to eat dry seeds like the birds, crushing this seed into a powder mixed with rain to make it a palatable paste consumed as “bread and water” … from here our work has spun out exponentially as we have wrestled to overcome our lot and our unfaithful (sin-filled) lives….

 

Most “Christians” work all year to have that short “Christmas” break an oasis in a year of slavery… Sure “work” is easier if we love what we have to do, this is a bit like the loving acceptance in an arranged marriage… but is this “love” from the hand of God or from the hand of man… Even Nazism would bring unity with global acceptance… it doesn’t make it good (of God). Jesus was NOT a carpenter, he even took fisherman and tax collectors AWAY from their work. Go figure. So instead of repenting and returning to Paradise, the creative brains among us invented machines to take the work out of our lives. And so, with industrialization, the washing machine, the chain saw, the combine harvester, the car and a myriad other “labour” saving devices were created for maintenance, consumption, pollution and “prosperity” in this life... All at the cost of the earth’s natural resources and paradise.

 

Ironically, we now “work” to overcome the damage of our prior "works".

 

We still cannot “work” our way into paradise, it is a gift to those who STOP what they are doing and repent… to embrace this revelation…

 

(Rev 2:7 KJV) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

 

Eating Out

 

(Exo 12:10-11 KJV) And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.

 

One of the great pleasures of life, is eating, quite why we need to eat and why God didn’t create beings that do not need to eat is beyond me, except to the extent that any creature independent of other life is in danger of becoming a demi-god. So to keep us humbled before our creator, we are all kept dependent and if we don’t comply, we starve to death.

 

Our eating habits are bound by time and place, most people tend to eat at least 3 times a day between sunrise and midday, between midday and sunset and between sunset and midnight… breakfast, lunch and supper…. This is more likely to be a consequence of social structures and work patterns. Likewise, the places where we eat are dependent on where we are likely to be at any time…  either at home, work or elsewhere in transition.

 

At home and at work, we can only eat what we have in our store cupboards, our lunch boxes, our garden plots and our fridges.

 

Naturally and transitionally, we can only eat what grows or inhabits those areas where we live, those areas that we visit or those areas that we pass over.

 

Eating at home and at work, requires planning, acquisition of food, preservation, preparation, an appetite and post meal cleaning…

 

Eating out, requires only an appetite and acquisition of food...

 

 

There is a faith and freedom in “eating out”, that cannot be had in “eating in”

 

(Mat 11:18-19 KJV) For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Needs To Know

 

(Gen 11:9 KJV) Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

 

Unknown to many, we are drowning ourselves in a sea of Babylonian consequences of our own making… as if our knowledge and language were not sufficient confusion.

 

We have found ‘new’ ways to symbolically represent and continuously expand the contents and complexity of our minds utilizing various opposing and dualistic media. That is from chisel on stone, through various implements used to scribe ink on paper; photo-chemical papers reactive to light; printing presses; stored electro-magnetic modulation of sound on tape, cassettes, disks; electro-magnetic digital modulation of coded text, sound and graphics in electro-magnetic devices together with laser light modulated optical storage and ever shrinking digital memories with increasing capacity. So who and what is it all for?  How much do we really need to know and communicate?

 

Most creatures have only 3 signals to communicate all that is significant to them:

 

·         The call to gather for feasting (dinner time)

·         The call to mate, for selective reproduction (sex)

·         The call to danger, for fleeing or fighting (survival)

 

Whatever the call… love and faith will bring people closer and fear will drive them away.

 

When Adam picked the first fruit, no tree, bird or animal took down his product selection, his name, his address and his telephone number… that ‘information’ was implicit in his life’s activity and if need be, passed on through his seed.  Truth is, everything we really need to know is within earshot, eyeball or skin sensitivity. 

 

Having spent years in the Information technology industry modelling massive databases of information – I have to wonder, who really needed all that information and what was any of it good for? 

 

For my family and I, it was only good for money, but doesn’t that just make me an IT whore… And is pushing information (whether in books, images, song, CD’s or Movies) to entertain or make people feel something different… more ‘good’ than pushing drugs?

 

As it was, home building pressures and debts meant I had little ‘free’ time for my family anyway and only ever had time for friends during work breaks. So why would I ever need to know the names and addresses of so many complete strangers that I was NEVER going to call, mail or visit.

 

Do we now collect ‘faces’ like we used to collect insects or cigarette cards or records or whatever your collectables or memorabilia fetish…? Is being in my ‘database’ the new measure of love and friendship?

 

(Mat 12:36 KJV) But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

 Political

 

(Gen 1:16 KJV) And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

 

Without rule there can be no Government and without rule there can be no God. It is the very existence and recognition of rule that defines the nature of government and the nature of God. When neither Government nor God rule then chaos rules, which is almost a contradiction, since if chaos rules, then chaos is both Government and God and no longer chaos, since chaos by its very nature is unruly, wild and free.

 

Who can argue with the extract from the Bible above, which highlights the fact that the sun ‘rules’ the day and the moon ‘rules’ the night? There is no chaos in this statement and we see a pattern, that is the nature of any rule, since a rule is just a recognized pattern of events or behaviours that are either acknowledged or imposed.

 

The laws of physics and the laws of science are generally just patterns in the nature of our reality that men have acknowledged and documented… much like the passage from Genesis above. The main difference, over the years, has been the gradual removal of ‘God’ from the process, or at least the misconceptions of the true nature of this invisible creative energy termed ‘God’.

 

The point is… can there be rule or law without governance or a governor?

 

The recognition of patterns in nature (rules) should logically lead us to the recognition of the originator of those patterns and rules… since there can be no rules without Government and no just Government without a just governing agency (aka: ‘God’).

 

So the sun shines, the earth spins and the moon continues its orbit and from this government of space, comes our government by time… day and night, months, seasons, etc. As the whole spins and light passes, plants grow, we grow, we age and begin to decay and die… this is the governance of the nature of God, cyclic patterns that spin eternal and are sometimes ‘interrupted’ by interfering or ‘political’ bodies.

 

Many people deny such governance even though they may know that their ‘death’ is already pre-determined and inescapable…How can anyone lying coherently on their death bed, deny God, knowing that their days have been numbered by an unknown governing agency since birth? Is this not mass delusion, to deny the truth….

 

It is kind of ironic to think that the one person in modern history purported to have escaped death is the one person who spent most of his life trying to reveal this truth to humanity and was crucified for it….  It seems most people cannot handle this truth.

 

It doesn’t matter how much you try to get or govern in this life, eventually you will have to give it up, because your days are numbered, so it is delusion to think you can get or govern in this life, when, in truth you don’t even really govern yourself or your life!!!

 

(1 Cor 15:24-26 KJV) Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

Captivity & Slavery

 

(Gen 14:14 KJV) And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

 

There are those who are taken captive, like trapped animals in cages, fish in tanks, insects in jars and then there are human hostages.  So why are we outraged by human hostages but barely moved by other creatures taken into captivity? And is captivity really that bad? After all… creatures in the wild have to constantly search for food, face the elements and live always with the threat of predators… how much safer is a box with a window and a keeper who shoves food through a hole every day and pets us?

 

Yes, I am being sarcastic… there is something about being ‘naturally free’ that evokes fear in the captive heart. Creatures born and raised in captivity are almost lost when released back into the wild having had their natural instincts corrupted. More than this, captive human criminals nearly always become recidivist offenders either through habit or because there is a comfort factor in prison that is easier than living in an alien world.

 

Looking back at the Old Testament we see a common theme – Most of the truly Godly Jews were nomadic tribesman that lived freely in nature bereft of kingship. In fact most of their struggles were about either maintaining or obtaining their liberation from captivity and slavery to men, until they opted to have a King other than God… So, what is so wrong with living freely in the fields and forests and why is it considered wild, when so called civilization just cloaks the wildness with clothes, walls and laws… and much of what occurs behind closed doors is probably lawless?

 

‘Wild and free’ men are considered dangerous by society because they are ‘above the law’ as indeed is…. God.

 

Moses tried to lead the Jews out of slavery in Egypt into the freedom of the wilderness but he struggled to remove the memory, habits and luxuries of Egypt out of the Jews. John the Baptist was the first hero in the New Testament and he was a ‘wild man’, Jesus was probably his best friend and one wonders if he was any less ‘wild’ than John the Baptist– since he also spent much of his time in the mountains and only came into the towns to save sinners with his word and his works…. Did Jesus have a house and a mortgage?

 

So why do we put up with the comfort of our captivity and slavery, like frogs in tanks of water being boiled slowly? Probably because we do not see our tanks as ‘captivity’, being born into a human society, it is considered normal to obey the laws of that society. So, apathy always prevails…. until the frog or that which it values, is brought close to extinction. After all, what is wrong with captivity, when one has food and a place to sleep?

 

Yet, there is still a greater prison that we fail to see because its benefits make us blind and we cling to this captivity, without even recognizing that its walls are just flesh and blood.

 

(John 8:31-34 KJV) Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Correction

 

(2 Sam 7:14 KJV) I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

 

Suffering teaches us that somehow, we have broken the rules.

 

When we break the rules either knowingly or unknowingly and are caught, then we are generally chastened.  This usually involves some form of punishment, involving one or a combination of either physical pain, mental anguish or emotional detachment (being grounded from the things that you love).

 

Correction is a requirement for the maintenance of law and order, however correction should be designed to put things back in order, too often it results in things being put further out of order (damaged or broken).

 

Correction implies that something has been corrected, made right, adjusted or fixed.  Punishment does not necessarily bring about correction.  Often punishment results in fear, resentment and further wrong action.  In order to correct it is necessary for the thing in question that is wrong to be made right.  Since it is impossible to undo a crime, correction focuses on changing the attitude or removing the spirit that is responsible for the behaviour pattern.

 

Effective correction has to come from a spirit of love since this type of correction has the other person’s welfare at heart.

 

Sometimes it is possible to correct a child with a facial expression or a word, if that word is understood.  Often it is necessary to use a short loud reprimand to let the child know that it has done something wrong.  Sometimes it is necessary to use physical force to prevent the child from continuing in the wrong behaviour.  The degree of correction necessary is relative to the sensitivity and responsiveness of the child.  Their responsiveness is a response to the amount of love conveyed in the corrective process.

 

Often when we break the rules, we are shown mercy and not punished at all, but simply told not to do it again.

 

Correction can only be effective after perfect judgement, since it is not possible to correct something without making a perfect judgement on what needs to be corrected.  Imperfect judgement will result in an ineffective corrective process and produce adverse consequences.

 

When Jesus dealt with a problem, it was finished – because he dealt with underlying root causes in the human spirit, not just the manifestation of physical symptoms.

 

Discipline is the quality of being able to live life according to the rules of life, not necessarily according to the rules of men.  Often the rules of men are designed to control for specific agenda’s, they are not designed to maintain the quality of life for the whole.

 

(John 5:14 KJV) Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

 

Crime & Punishment

 

(Gen 3:13 KJV) And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

 

As a child it is so easy to do something which is considered wrong, since a child doesn’t know the cultural rules of the moment, without being taught.

 

A ‘good’ teacher is crucial and a ‘good’ pupil is also necessary for a ‘good’ education.

 

(Mat 19:16-17 KJV) And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

                         

If we are not taught the rules of life up front, or do not listen or understand, then the only way we can learn ‘right’ from ‘wrong’ is as we live from day to day, through the experience of pleasure and pain, reward and punishment.

 

Without listening and obeying a ‘good’ teacher, we all learn the “hard way”.

 

Yet, if one has never been taught the ‘right’ rules of life or if one has been taught the ‘wrong’ rules of life, one cannot really be blamed for making mistakes.

 

However, if one has been taught the ‘right’ rules, but one has failed to listen or failed to understand or preferred an appealing alternative or willfully failed to obey them, then, who is to blame?

 

Children naturally trust their parents and naturally listen to their parents, however children stop listening to their parents when ‘trust’ is broken or when they are ‘distracted’ by some other agency that beguiles them or when children ‘think’ they know better. In these days of global education and communication, every child knows more, but knowing more is not the same as knowing better or knowing what is truly good, aka: God.

 

Without ‘trust’ or ‘faith’ we do not listen, we go our own way or we go the way of the beguiled and to what end?

 

A caterpillar that does not follow the rules of life, never gives up eating at the right time to pupate and become a butterfly. Will just die, a fat or lost caterpillar.

 

True crime is a failure to live in alignment (faith) with our God given responsibility.

 

Jesus was mocked, beaten and crucified as a criminal….  What does that say about the “cultural” laws and authorities of this world?

 

Men police their own laws to their own ends, but angels’ police the laws of God to an eternal kingdom, power and glory, forever and ever, amen.

 

(Mat 12:31 KJV) Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

Economics

 

(Gen 1:22 KJV) And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

 

It is estimated that there are currently (in 2012) … 7 billion people on earth and 7 billion arable acres…

 

Imagine if you were the father of humanity and had to manage the sharing of the earth between all your offspring… how could this be achieved?

 

Simple maths says everyone should have one arable acre each – problem solved…

If only ‘life’ were so simple… firstly humanity are not the only species on the planet… so what about all the other plants and animals, how many acres do they get?

 

So… imagine if you were the father (aka: God) over all existence every single celled organism and every multicellular organism and had to manage the sharing of the earth between all your creatures… how could this be achieved?

 

(Gen 26:12 KJV) Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

 

Without doubt nature abundantly produces (multiplies) when given a ‘good’ environment in which to reproduce. Where the definition of ‘good’ is predetermined by the environmental requirements of the species…. When these are met it is good, when they are not met, it is not good to reproduce, it is probably a good time to move, change or be removed.

 

The flow of money in the world economic system mimics the flow of natural resources around the globe… the cycles of air, water and seasonal fruiting after investing time and energy in seedtime, pruning and harvest.  Unfortunately, if the earth does not grow and the quantity of ‘good’ (arable) soil does not keep pace with the population growth then something has to give… either our offspring must change or something must die.

 

Nationalistic ideologies and those who cannot see beyond their own racist and species’ bigotry draw a virtual circle around their “own” (that is people that agree with their ideologies) and justify their solution of extermination of people and species. Indeed, even in religious circles the lost outnumber the saved and very few people made it onto Noah’s Ark.  Though a flood from heaven is divinely more acceptable, than an invasion of murderous forces from anyone’s delusional ‘fatherland’. From Biblical history we see that Noah lived 950 years and that Jesus was murdered at 33, while from modern history we see that Hitler killed himself in his bunker at 56.  Why is this important?  Firstly, because when natural resources are stretched beyond capacity… something has to give… either in the structure and or in the behaviour of those things under duress.  Secondly, because there are only so many ways to solve this problem economically… the number one way…. is to reduce the numbers, the second is revolution and redistribution… embracing the all-consuming ways of hell and the world.

 

A better way offered by Jesus, that may just stop us from killing one another, so we spend our LIVING years in peace.... was to increase the ‘good’ soil and our fruitfulness by aligning with our maker (our father) in faith... embracing the provisional economics of heaven and earth...

 

(Mat 13:8-9 KJV) But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Good V Evil

 

(Gen 2:17 KJV) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

 

As a child, I distinctly remember my mother encouraging me to eat the brussel sprouts on my dinner plate with the words “they’re good for you”… I can also remember thinking, “how can something that tastes so bad be good for me?”

 

In obedience (faith and trust), I ate, swallowing my pride and my judgment.

 

In retrospect, I realise that my mother was just regurgitating the folk law of the day and encouraging me to eat what was in front of me, because once I started to listen to my tongue and not to her mouth, then dinner times would have become one endless battle and her life would have become hell. So, how do we judge good from evil? 

 

Is it with our eyes, our ears, our tongue, our nose our touch or what we have learned?

 

(Gen 3:4-5 KJV) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 

Trusting our memories of relative knowledge allows us to pass judgment on one another and manipulate creation. It breaks faith (unity) and initiates a war of relative good and evil.

 

Since human beings ‘do not’ and ‘cannot’ create life, what right do we have to judge and manipulate the handiwork of God and to what end – good or evil?

 

Is an “eagle” good or evil?   Is a “virus” good or evil?   Are “you” good or evil?

 

This deceptive ‘god-like’ nature of humanity is the greatest evil on the planet, for it denies God as one, it fails to align with life, it corrupts absolute truth with relativity and history bears testimony to the suffering caused by ‘ignorant’ men, “Lording” as gods.

 

I have witnessed many kinds of ‘evil’ on this earth and most are imposed directly or indirectly by the human will in the name of ‘good’…. either: physically, mentally or emotionally. Men of ‘might’ would rape and pillage our lands and our bodies; Men of ‘knowledge’ would rape and pillage our minds; Men and women of ‘gentleness’ would rape and pillage our emotions. Yet, there is still a greater ‘evil’, that which would rape and pillage our ‘spirit’, undermining our identity and damaging our relationship with God.

 

What ‘good’ is a bee that fails to pollinate flowers and make honey?

 

Alignment (obedience) to the ‘Will of God’ is the only true measure of ‘good’. Whatever misaligns us from our God given nature is ‘evil’, regardless of the numbers in agreement in the house of Lords, the United Nations or in democratic and religious masses.

 

(Mark 10:17-18 KJV) And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

Law & Order

 

(Exo 16:4 KJV) Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

 

Laws are designed to create and maintain order. This order is entirely dependent upon the perspective of the lawyer or law giver.  In a dictatorship laws are imposed to ensure a uniformity of behaviour that pleases the ONE Dictator; In a democracy laws are made to ensure a uniformity of behaviour that pleases the MANY in the Majority.

 

Going back to Genesis we see that the only ‘laws’ given to Adam were dietary. ie: you may eat the fruit from any tree in the garden except the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.   The rest is chaotic human history, as nation after nation has tried to fix the consequences of “original sin” with rules and regulations.

 

The imposition of laws is only necessary for those things which are out of control.  The laws of life are implicit in creation, they do not have to be taught or learned.  The only reason they needed to be taught or learned is because they became lost when we did.

 

Biblical Law was given as a means to guide and correct the lost, unfortunately written law occupies the parchment and the mind, it does not reside in the heart. Such laws are easily ignored or disobeyed. Missing the heart of the law, which is love (the unity of being), is our real crime.

 

Am always amazed at how many people know the written commandment… “Though shalt not kill”, yet so few know the written consequences of breaking the law… “death”.

 

Without consequences… all Law is ineffective and pointless. Without consequences Law is disregarded, like a Lion without teeth. What is the point of employing police to chase criminals all day only for the judge and jury to set them free to commit further crime later??? When I worked for the police it was well recognized that most criminals are recidivist (repeat) offenders. 

 

It is futile and foolish for humanity to adopt the Ten Commandments, without the consequences that uphold them. In this regard the legalism of Islam is correct, but in so many other ways it is misguided and dangerous, lacking the mercy and compassion of the very God it is supposed to represent.

 

Without law there can be no order. Yet existence by its very nature has implicit laws – these laws exist whether men point them out or not. For example, the ‘law of gravity’ existed long before Sir Isaac Newton and likewise every other natural law. The realization of a ‘natural law’ is just the mental recognition of a consistent pattern observed in nature, which one has obviously been ‘blind to’ or ‘ignorant of’…. previously. Jesus’ policy of ‘forgiveness’ can only work in a world that embraces ‘the way’ of Jesus. It cannot work in a secular or religious world, ruled by the laws of men. Let’s not forget, nearly every prophet was stoned to death and even Jesus was crucified by the laws of men, so until the world changes, all those who adopt ‘the way’ of God and Christ must expect the same and trust God for salvation, because you will not receive it at the hand of sinful men.

 

(John 10:33-34 KJV) The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

 

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

 

Law & Order (Part 2)

 

(Deu 30:19 KJV) I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

 

When any man tries to overcome the law of gravity by leaping from a building, the consequences are almost immediate; he will plummet to his death, unless he cheats nature in some way.  Cheating and sin are synonymous. The natural universe functions along a karmic law of equal and opposite effect to any force that does not align with universal growth or will of God.  When humanity imposes its ‘will’ by force upon nature and God, we see an immediate resistance and opposite effect.

 

It is said that the aborigines have lived in Australia for over 50,000 years – despite the apparently harsh vegetation and poisonous wild life their lives had a natural order and their laws were passed by word, from generation to generation. Like so many ancient tribes, the aborigines had no written ‘book of the law’ – perhaps if they had, they would have been treated with more respect and not beaten into submission by religious judges and laws imposed to ‘civilize’ them along with fear and ‘weapons of mass destruction’. Human Laws only bring order if those laws are faithfully followed – without willing obedience such laws are a waste of time, as people go their own way and chaos ensues.  But one cannot say that chaos will ensue to a people that lived on a continent for 50,000 years. In truth, their sustainability validates their way of life.  Especially when one considers that the latter rules imposed that destroyed their way, came from the European continent that sought ‘new worlds’ because the ‘old world’ had failed to adopt the Judeo-Christian ‘book of love’, in so many ways and in less than 300 years, this ‘new’ way has proved unsustainable by its very consumerism.

 

Some say, but the aborigines only lived at most 50 years. Why is this a problem?  Beautiful butterflies only live for a few weeks, does this make them any less significant?

 

What is the purpose of maintaining a human life beyond its natural use by date? Currently there are over 7 billion people consuming this planet, there is scarce enough food to feed them, so why do we insist on making a long life our primary goal? The old need to get out of the way, so the young can live better lives. We are not gods destined to cheat death and live forever, we are deluded encapsulations of God failing to live true to our nature.

 

Adam was told to go forth and multiply because he was one of few upon the planet, God would not give the same command to a plague of humanity that is consuming the earth. That is why we needed law, because we are irresponsible, lost to our own bad habits, stupidity and sin. If we get rid of our sinful nature, we no longer need to live under law, we live right by God and are willing to go wherever the spirit leads us.

 

Good governance would put an end to the need for charity and contra-wise if we all practiced loving our neighbour, it would put an end to the need for governance and governments… and this was exactly Jesus’ living message for the kingdom coming. The natural laws of God are self-regulating and do not need to be ‘policed’ or imposed. Alignment with these natural laws is of great benefit to the individual and all life. Breaking or bending these natural laws is like cheating, you may gain short term, but the ‘knock-on’ effect will eventually come back to hurt you, your neighbour and future generations. Look around, open your eyes and ears.

 

(Mat 22:40 KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  This is the first and great commandment.And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Right & Wrong

 

(Gen 2:9 KJV) And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

 

Right and wrong, like good and evil are the two extreme measurements of human behaviour the key difference is that right & wrong are measures imposed as law.

 

Taking the words ‘right’ and ‘good’ as synonymous, we see that the book of Genesis and creation is generally considered good, at least 6 times, indeed. (Gen 1:31 KJV) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

 

Semantically the word ‘good’ seems to come from the objectification of the word ‘God’ or ‘God’ comes from the abstraction of the word ‘good’… whatever, the origins, few would disagree that universal creation is a universally ‘good’ thing. So where does the ‘wrong’ or ‘evil’ come from?

 

The ‘evil’ comes from anything or anyone that opposes the nature of ‘goodness’ and ‘God’, since evil by its very nature works in opposition to what is right and good. How can this be?

 

Evil is conceived by the inability to acknowledge a single source of truth and goodness.

The nature of the human mind and relative knowledge is such that, once an idea is conceived it can spread like seeds in fertile soil. This is neither good nor evil in itself, it is just a fact, but it does mean that the human mind can grow good or evil.

 

One of the biggest issues with relative human knowledge and the convolutions of the human brain is our capability to twist the truth, such that ‘wrong’ can be made to appear ‘right’ and vice versa. This is perhaps our greatest ‘evil’ trait… our capability to twist the truth to suit ourselves and thereby establish a position of self-righteousness often above love, truth and life…. and all rational common sense.

 

The earth is littered with the dust of generations of humanity that contributed so much in their own eyes and in their own thinking…. And yet, for all our philosophy, science and engineering…. has humanity ever really created anything that compares to the universal integrity of a star, a flower, a tree or a bird?

 

Righteousness and goodness comes from God, it cannot be imposed by man, the best we can ever hope to achieve is some kind of faithful alignment to the purpose for which we were created and some kind of loving allegiance to our father/creator?

 

Ultimately right and wrong are only proven by the consequences of the ‘way’ in which we live, ‘right’ cannot be imposed, less our legal structures stifle the freedom of evolution that benefits life on earth. Good and right are synonymous with God.  Remember…” God is love, truth and life”... to contravene God, will eventually hurt you and your loved ones, if any…. Yes, the innocent should stand up for righteousness against what is wrong, but righteousness must be shown, it should not be shoved, for such, is the nature of evil.

 

(Mat 5:16 KJV) Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

War

 

(Isa 2:4 KJV) And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

 

It seems that ever since “Cain slew Abel” - the human race has been at war…

 

We fight to elevate ourselves, to gain power and land, but ultimately, we fight to impose our will over another person, family, tribe, nation, species and we even fight the very nature that wrought our existence…. What the ‘hell’ is wrong with us?

 

Looking back through human history you will find it littered with billions upon billions of men, women and children who have been the bloodied victims of too many worldwide wars… many dragged into battle simply to defend themselves against foreign invasion from imposing armies, often just – killing their neighbours and stealing their land.

 

One day you could be living in perfect peace in your island paradise, when suddenly you find yourselves ‘discovered’ and part of your conqueror’s history books, written in their language from their ‘glorious’ and victorious perspective. You welcome them or oppose them with sticks and stones and are cut down by industrial blades, bullets, explosives and ultimately weapons of mass destruction…. Your island paradise is ruined and your tribe, your family and you, are dead, dirt, dust....... and your story, is undocumented.

 

WAR… who is it good for?   Those who stand to gain pride, power, land and control for themselves, their family, their tribe, their nation, their species and their ‘evil’ nature. Winning a war does not prove that you are ‘right’ or that your values are superior, it just proves that you are more prepared, more determined and most times just more evil…  War is for bullies…. with horns.

 

Conquerors – ‘steal’ kingdoms, but what of the ‘great’ – Darius the Persian, Alexander the great Macedonian, Octavius the Roman, Attila the Hun, Mohammed the Arabian, Napoleon the Frenchman, Queen Victoria of the British Empire and wannabes like Hitler the German… All DEAD and their ‘kingdoms’ have lasted as long as their rules are imposed upon the people and the land…. often with an iron rod.

 

One cannot overcome evil ‘in battle’ with good. Inflicting greater casualties until the enemy gives in or is wiped out, is this ‘good’? It contradicts a key ‘Godly’ command – “though shalt not kill”. Bloody wars are fought for lack of faith (delusion, ignorance, fear & greed). Jesus fought peaceably for justice and liberation not with exploitation for oppression.

 

So in a military stale mate and in apocalyptic fear, we see a shift to corporate wars where nations no longer storm your island paradise with soldiers, but takeover by stealth and productivity (often exploiting child labour and technology). Corporations – ‘buy’ kingdoms, such that you are bought slowly, like a frog enjoying the plentiful warm water, without realizing that you, your family and tribe are being sold alive by your own purchases from the local store, which thanks to the global economy and e-commerce, can no longer exploit suppliers or you. And so, you can now sell your soul e-directly to foreign investors.

 

(Mat 24:6 KJV) And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Way Of the World

 

(Deu 30:19 KJV) I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

 

As I sit in this rented lounge room, I look around the room bearing witness to my black wrought iron and glass coffee table, upon which sits a book on biology; my mobile phone; a portable phone; A plastic box holding the drugs to numb my mother’s pain from post-operative breast cancer treatment; A remote TV controller; My leather wallet; My car keys; A box of tissues; A bamboo place mat; Several rattan coasters; two glasses of water; several used tissues and a ceramic bowl containing some ageing grapes. The room is carpeted in man-made fibre with two leather lounges, one empty and supporting the resting body of my 79-year-old mother while I sit opposite on a third couch made of metal with a futon mattress, writing this text. To my right is a TV switched off complete with a DVD and Video player. To the left of the TV is a book shelf containing many books on many different topics, together with a chaos at each end of my children’s toys; photo frames with other artifacts; rocks and shells; And lastly a glass bowl of navel oranges; A ceramic dish of limp bananas and a pot containing a Yucca plant. I could go on, but it seems to me the only “life” in my house, is my dying mother; my dying bowl of grapes, bananas and oranges; my Yucca and me. The rest is already comfortably dead while my yucca and me are comfortably dying… like a frog in a pan of water on the burner… we are comfortably oblivious to our neglectful journey to our potential hell.

 

So why did Moses lead the ‘Jews’ out of Egypt and take them into the wilderness in search of the promised land?

 

And why did John the Baptist and Jesus reject the Roman way and go into the wilderness and put their lives on the line to lead the world to heaven?

 

Egypt, Babylon and the World are artificial constructs and no amount of money, music or materialism can restore earth to heaven…. They are artificial treasures that maintain human delusion and human vanity… like alcohol and drugs, they sustain our comfortable oblivion and maintain a state of delusion to ‘escape’ the inevitable realities of life and death.

 

Any child born into an environment is subject to the way or lifestyle of that environment and becomes accustomed. Children that live miles from the ocean, do not learn to surf.

This is not rocket science, this is just natural development (evolution)… if you don’t have natural access, the need or the desire, why would you develop the capability?

 

Our cities and roads bury the earth, our cars pollute the earth, our produce consumes the earth while we eat, drink and make merry with music and entertainment. All human treasures, apart from ‘our seed’, are manipulations of the earth at the expense of heaven…. So, do they have any real eternal value? Such treasures are an iconoclastic and egotistical escape from loss of life’s meaning, they are not the ‘way of heaven’.

 

(Mat 6:19-21 KJV) Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Religious

 

(Gen 26:4-5 KJV) And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

 

What is religion and why does anyone bother with it?

 

In its strictest sense ‘religion’ is a ‘true way of life’ and if followed this ‘way of life’ produces enormous benefits to the follower, since it aligns with life’s purpose and destiny. In its worse sense ‘religion’ is a ‘set of rules’ to follow blindly or circumnavigate whenever the rules become problematic in some way.

 

The world is full of many different ‘religions’ and new ones are invented each day, each one providing a ‘set of rules’ that initiates must follow in order to obtain the prize. In this way ‘religion’ is no different from any other activity humans undertake for stimulus, pleasure or reward… It is a ‘way’ or any well-trodden path to get what you want.

 

Some just want to be ‘good’, some want to be loved, some want health, some want wealth, some want eternal life and some just want something to eat, drink and another breath… Depending on your religion, the algebraic formula is effectively: 

 

E=MC²

 

E.  Some prized Existence or Enlightened state

M.  Some Manual effort or Mechanism that gives leverage

C.  Some Celestial being(s) or Concept that (over²) delivers

 

What do you seek?

 

·         Jews seek ‘The Promised Land’

·         Arabs seek ‘Paradise’

·         Christians seek ‘Heaven’

·         Taoists seek ‘TAO’

·         Buddhists seek ‘Nirvana’

·         Hindus seek ‘Samadhi’

·         I seek 'the truth'...

 

Is it really possible for men to formulate their ‘life’ for gain?

 

(Luke 9:25 NIV) What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?

 

At the risk of offending Christians, even further - Jesus was not even a Christian.... he was a Jew.... Do any of these human affiliations and labels really matter to anyone, but our deluded selves?

 

Surely THIS LIFE IS the greatest unsolicited GIFT, why then do we seek a still greater prize?

 

(Mat 6:30-33 KJV) Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added

 

Religious (Part 2)

 

(1 Ki 19:19-20 KJV) So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

 

Does God need our religion?

 

Somehow, I suspect not… religion is a man made and labeled phenomenon that we identify by certain forms of behaviour, namely worship and prayer to a deity greater than ourselves. It is supposed to be a humble acknowledgment of life’s creator and maintainer.

It seems to me that true worship and prayer, like any genuine relationship, is a personal heart felt experience and it is reciprocated wherever sincere faith and need is present. Considering that every so called - atom, planet, star and life form has been authored by an invisible all-powerful force called “God” then what is impossible?

 

As a father I would gladly give to my children whatever they needed that would help them live better lives otherwise the whole purpose of creating them would be ill founded and reflect upon me. What is the point of creating something only to have it self-destruct? This would make me an idiot. And yet, in human terms, we often see children neglected and abused simply because their parents do not have the resources or the time to look after them properly. So, what goes wrong?  Somewhere along the way there is a disconnection or an inequality of distribution such that everything that God gives freely is unfairly distributed to his human children or in some way blocked… Since God is perfect, one can only assume that there is something wrong and blocking this free flow of Godly goodness…

 

I always found it interesting that Jesus never followed in his earthly father’s footsteps to spend his life turning out wooden chairs and tables… Not only so, but he also encouraged other working fishermen to quit their jobs and follow his way.  In the eyes of the world, Jesus was unemployed as were his followers and yet he was not unemployed, he was attending to God’s business. In return God and the angels provided for all his needs. Jesus didn’t need to work for money to buy food. Whatever he needed was miraculously provided. This is fundamentally important and not to be overlooked.

 

Most religions today are not giving, they are parasitic, they feed off the rich and the poor in the name of God… this is not the way, this is a corruption of faith. This is a confidence trick. It is getting people to give you money on false pretences in good faith, so that you can live at their expense.  God has never wanted our money or our tithes, God has only wanted our hearts and minds… God already has everything… These tithes and offerings were simply a way to provide material evidence of our faith, but these days it proves nothing and just pays the living expenses of the corrupt who praise God with their lips only, yet live by exploiting their neighbours and the earth’s natural resources.

 

(Luke 18:18-23 KJV) And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.

Baptism

 

(Exo 30:20-21 KJV) When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD: So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.

 

There is no baptism in the Old Testament, there is only washing. If you look through the laws of Moses, washing was always required to achieve cleanliness.

 

Later as a cure for Naman’s leprosy: (2 Ki 5:10 KJV) And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

 

When David committed adultery with Bathsheba we see him repentant before Nathan the prophet and praying: (Psa 51:2-3 KJV) Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

 

Sick and tired with empty religious behaviours we see Isaiah the prophet proclaiming:

(Isa 1:16 KJV) Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

 

Jeremiah, then proclaims that even washing with much soap is of no value, if the heart is not right:  (Jer 2:22 KJV)  For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. And  (Jer 4:14 KJV)  O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

 

Clearly… washing, baptism, circumcision and all other forms of external religious behaviours, bodily marking, dress ups (religious garb) or dressing downs (sackcloth) do not get man or woman closer to God. A true and righteous heart is the only way and if you have a true and righteous heart, the external symbolism becomes redundant and unnecessary, such symbolism being a ‘show’ for other people only.

 

Was Abram circumcised before he met God?  Did Moses wash before he saw the Burning bush? Who baptised John the Baptist?

 

Religious rules are an attempt to restrain and save the ungodly (leash the dogs), but when the mind is forcibly taken in one direction while the heart is bound in another, such religious rules just create a social schizophrenia and a longing for escape.

 

Giving up on the unsuccessful cleanliness and conversion to holiness achievable through circumcision, washing and water baptism, we see a new approach to achieving some kind of cleanliness and relationship with God in the guise and teachings of Jesus.

 

Water is significant because it is the universal solvent that washes and cleanses.

 

Fire is significant because it is the universal solar power that heats and purifies.

 

(Mat 3:11 KJV) I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

 

Deluge of Delusion

 

(Gen 6:17 KJV) And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

 

Let’s get at least one thing straight…

 

Humankind did not create the exploding atom, the universe, the sun, the earth or even the moon… Not only so, but humankind did not create the seed, the plant, the dinosaur, the fish, the beast of the field or the winged bird…. Not only so, but humankind did not create the eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue or the flesh… Not only so, but humankind did not create the vagina, the penis, the egg, the sperm or the micro cellular thing they call DNA.  Not only so but humankind did not create their breath or the number of days of their life….

 

So, what did humankind create?

 

Well as it is written…. after God made everything:

 

(Gen 3:7 KJV) And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

 

It is actually laughable… yes…. we made aprons……Not only do we make coverings from what God created, but we stand back and admire our handiwork and dismiss the provision of the leaves we use, as an accident.

 

Truth is, we don’t really create anything… we manipulate what God has already made. It seems that the opening of the human eye and manipulation go eye in hand.

 

Imagine if your father or mother had spent the whole day preparing a meal for you to eat and when you arrive at the table, you dismiss their banquet as an accident and proceed to gorge yourself without respect and rip up the table cloth to make coverings and other trivial things for yourself. 

 

So, one has to ask the question why would a loving father flood the earth and destroy all of creation? And was Noah… really the only just and perfect man in his generation?

 

(Gen 6:12-13 KJV) And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

 

One could also ask the question why would a loving Jesus turn over tables in the temple?

What does anyone do with an idea or piece of creativity that does not turn out the way one intended?   

If one cannot salvage it, by turning it around (repentance), one usually destroys it and maybe, starts again….

 

(Mat 24:38-39 KJV) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Fleecing the Flock

 

(Gen 37:15-16 KJV) And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.

 

We live in a dangerous time when ‘faith’ and ‘hope’ are sold for profit… we see many people selling books and giving seminars on feeling good, being positive and embracing all things and in such ‘faith’ the ‘universe’ will reward them with prosperity and love… and whatever else they desire… So, it makes you FEEL good, but is it truly good???

 

Jesus was, and still is, the greatest evangelist, his message was ‘free’ and he never sold out one word, so why is his ‘free’ message ignored and so many of these other would be ‘false’ prophets lauded for cash?

 

The ‘devil’ once offered Jesus the world and the ‘devil’ will always rule people through their desires… because that is the best way to take a soul captive…. But true freedom cannot be found in captivity… or in any drugged, decadent or deluded demonic state…

 

Let’s look at how professional motivational speakers, evangelists, entertainers and TV personalities get riches and power… Firstly and foolishly, you will pay to hear what you want to hear and if it isn’t music to your ears you will leave. Even if you don’t experience pleasure, if you paid to be there, your loss is their gain. Secondly, if the mellow music removes the tension of the day, the speaker plays with your emotions, touches a soft spot in your heart and presents the damaged potential recipients of your donation or the testimony to good works, then the chances are you’ll be leaving with less cash than when you arrived. Lastly, unlicensed television is ‘free’ to air for one reason only, the product vendors are footing the bill (at your expense), TV survives by ensuring that interesting shows keep you mesmerized between their carefully and psychologically crafted advertising…  So in truth… YOU. not the universe, are making your idols rich and the truth is, you’d be richer without paying them to be in your life…. And there’s the rub.

 

The shepherds and leaders wrap themselves in the fleeces of their flocks and pacify their flocks with words of warmer days ahead… words of faith and hope…

 

(1 Cor 13:13 KJV) And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

 

Who can charge money for charity? No-one, because charity is something that you GIVE, it is not something that can be bought or sold. Such is the TRUE nature of LOVE and GOD.

 

There is a saying that “those who can… do, while those that can’t… teach” … Jesus taught by example, not by expensive books, TV shows, dvd’s and seminars…. There was no Interspersing his sermon on the mount with fizzy drink commercials either…  So…STOP fleecing the flock and start feeding them… for love, truth and life’s sake!!!!

 

(John 21:17 KJV) He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

Law V Love

 

(Gen 11:31 KJV) And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

 

Isn’t it strange that we refer to someone outside of our immediate family as an ‘in-law’... One assumes that it means someone who is related, through law or some ‘legal’ ceremony and not through blood line.

 

Through blood we have mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, through law we have in-laws. This separation of family, by law, is by its very nature distancing at the outset. Is there ever any possibility of an ‘in-law’ being embraced fully ‘in love’ by the family?

 

All legal acts and ceremonies are for society, they have little to do with personal feelings or relationships. The social stigma of being an ‘in-law’ is almost as bad as being an ‘out-law’, either way you are judged and held separate legally.

 

The problem with imposed law is that it only has the appearance of working, it is the stick that hangs over every child, waiting for them to step out of line, so that it can punish and it rules by fear.  It always fails because the moment the child can slip away from the stick or rightly or wrongly believes that the legal eagles are no longer watching…. It reverts back to its internalized behaviour or worse still, through years of legal repression, swings as far as possible in the opposite direction. This is known as the law of equal and opposite effect.

 

A classic example is the speed limit, it is natural to get where you are going as fast as possible unless you are just enjoying the scenery. Being constrained to travel at 50kph when the vehicle you are in can go at 250kpm and the road is empty, is bound to cause problems.

 

One would like to think that the ‘carrot’ of encouragement has equivalence with love, but it doesn’t. The ‘carrot’ is the coercive alternative way to get children to obey the law. If you do your chores, I’ll give you a lolly or money. It is little more than bribery. Until the child takes responsibility for itself and its own behaviour it is tossed between these two approaches in an attempt to make it obedient to society’s laws… this has equivalence with the bad cop, good cop routine.

 

Lasting governance must come from within, it is delusional, egocentric and evil to think that anyone can govern another from without whether using a stick or with a carrot. The prophet Samuel was angry with the people and refused to nominate a king over them, but at their insistence anointed the little shepherd boy…. David…. Go figure his motive.

 

People should rule themselves from within by the instincts born into them through inherited life and if their inherited traits have been corrupted, they need to be restored through repentance in faith to natural freedom. Ultimately, Gods unwritten law of selfless love and unity of existence is key to good governance.

 

(Mat 5:17 KJV) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Mammon V God

 

(Gen 4:3-5 KJV) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

 

No preacher in Sunday school ever explained to me why Abel’s offering was given more respect than Cain’s, but the answer is clear in the words when read carefully. Cain brought the fruit of the ground, Abel brought of the firstlings of HIS flock. Cain picked his offering off the ground, whereas Abel had made an effort in tending and shepherding his produce. One offering was careless, the other offering was careful. One offering was without love, the other offering was with love. And respect is 90% of love. So, it had nothing to do with God’s perceived preference for meat over vegetables.

 

We have come a long and winding way from the days of producing things because we love or care for God and our neighbour. These days most human activities are undertaken for money and for the things that money can buy… houses, cars, washing machines, TV’s, holidays, clothes, etc, etc… the list is endless and all consuming….

 

Who dare make an offering of their house, car, dishwasher, new shoes or cash to God?

 

One has to ask the question… what did God want with Cain’s fruit or Abel’s lambs, anyway?  Does God need anything offered or sacrificed?  The point is… the act of offering or sacrifice is for the sake and humility of humanity with respect and love towards God. Without this spirit, any sacrifice… is just more tokenism, blood lust and violence.

 

There have been many crimes committed by heathen, but the crimes committed by the so called “church” in the name of Jesus are much worse. There are men who boast of Gods provision in their lives and they swan around in their wealth while their neighbours’ starve… The truth is, no one can be rich, except at the expense of others…. And such is not the way of the kingdom of heaven (paradise).

 

There are only 3 ways to gain wealth: Steal from the earth and your neighbours; sell your skills to your neighbours; invest your wealth with interest at your neighbour’s expense…

 

Everyone must gain wealth through either providing a product, a service or a loan. To gain wealth you must make a profit. The size of your profit is proportional to the amount you overcharge your neighbour for your product, service or loan.

 

What is the difference between overcharging and stealing? What is the difference between being payed a day’s wage for half a day’s work and stealing? What is the difference between investing and profiteering off another man’s labour and stealing?

 

Everything we have to serve with, is given freely and everything we manipulate from the earth to produce these things is given freely, so if we have freely received, what right do we have to charge one another?  And why did Jesus give it ALL away.

 

Only a Judas seeks profit over a prophet.

 

(Mat 6:24 KJV) No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Religious Pornography

 

(Eccl 12:12-13 KJV) And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man..

 

The title of this chapter is designed to shock and awaken, since it is as easy to get lost in the virtual world of the written word as it is in the virtual world of beautiful women. Yet which is more real; a photograph of a naked woman or a page of serialized symbols.

 

I would suggest that God neither made the photograph or the serialized symbols – these things are both creations of man. However, as both a photographer and a writer, I can see how God can be both acknowledged through the capture of what he has created in photography and in descriptive text, but to what end, since God needs neither?

 

God is fully aware of creation and does not need men to take pictures or write books about his wonders, it is all self-evident to anyone with one eye and half a brain.

 

Such photographs and books are only necessary to bring an awareness to those who are unaware of what a beautiful woman looks like or unaware of the majesty of God. Sometimes these things are necessary to inspire and encourage those locked away from the reality of life, whether incarcerated by others or locked away in fear or ill will.

 

Many people keep photos of their loved ones with them to bring joy while they are away, and often to remind them of just why they keep going.

 

There is a thin line between ‘art’ (what is done for love) and ‘pornography’ what is done for (pleasure or money). The motivation of the photographer and the writer is as important as the motivation of the observer and the reader. A father’s photograph of an innocent child can be turned into a pedophile’s desire and a gynecologists’ photograph of a woman’s genitalia can be turned into pornography by wrong context and twisted desire.

 

Ultimately, the ‘sin’ is in you. God made everything perfect; the “evil” comes from twisted knowledge and ironically from the ways of supposedly adult men and women.

 

To become lost in a virtual world of either pornography or scripture is wrong for one reason only, it is a virtual world and is little different from becoming lost to alcohol or drugs or any other substance or activity that can rule over your life to the exclusion of what really matters…. Love (unity under God), truth (humble honesty) and life (the living creation).

 

When I spend time with my children, I do not need photographs of them. Such photographs are reminders only and become more important as we grow older and apart.

 

So if you love and spend time with God, do you need to submerge yourself in old texts and books… is this not like eating someone else’s stale bread, perhaps as a reminder?

 

(Mat 6:9-11 KJV) After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.

 

Religious Rock & RolL

 

(Eccl 14 KJV) For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

 

Having been involved with numerous religious groups over the years in my quest for God and Truth, I have come to the conclusion that most people join groups to validate their own particular version of the truth or to prop up their own belief systems and faith in their imagined God.

 

Directly opposite where I currently rent a room, there is a college, which every Sunday becomes a place of worship for Korean Christians. I know they are Korean because of the banners they hang on the railings written in Korean symbolics and I assume they are Christians because of the way they assemble and the behaviour they exhibit. Most of them arrive in their Sunday best in modern cars and quietly enter the hall, where after a time I hear them singing, because they deliberately leave the doors open, probably hoping that their tunes will bring the community to Jesus. To a westerner who grew up with the Beatles, their songs sound marginally discordant and sometimes painful on the ears and I do wonder about God’s judgement on this, if any. Does God sit like a panelist on Australian Idol and put them through to the next round or say, it is time to go home and practice some more?

 

God is the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow, so nothing people say or do can make any impression on God. So why do we religious people bother with performances?

 

Seems to me, that all these performances that we perform, are not so much for God as for ourselves. It is we, that we are trying to impact and until we understand this, we may as well be lying in bed, sleeping.

 

All the problems in the world are in us, sin is in us, sin is what separates us from God and getting together with a bunch of likeminded people and singing songs of love or singing songs of hate, simply brings a unity of ‘spirit’ to the congregation.

 

The purity of that spirit is what really matters and the whole purpose of these religious performances is to purify our souls of the sin and bring us to a state of Holiness or Heaven, if you will. Attending a church service is like wash day for the human soul, it lasts as long as we keep ourselves clean – which is why people keep coming back again and again. Fact is, attending church is what sinners need to do, just like the sick need to attend hospital for drugs. When I was involved with the Pentecostal movement it may just as well have been... sex, Jesus & rock & roll.

 

Jesus and his disciples lived in the country most of the time, came into towns to heal the sick and minister to the poor.  One has to wonder what happened to this aspect of ‘the way’ – why do modern day ‘followers’ of Jesus – drive around in fancy cars and promote consumerism, when this is clearly not the role model or example Jesus set, to follow.

 

Why didn’t Jesus roll around in the latest Roman chariot or dress like a Roman Emperor, or rock out musical spectaculars of praise and worship in the coliseum?

 

I’m not even sure Jesus could play an instrument, unlike King David who could play the Lute, fire a slingshot and killed many. Seems Jesus just submitted to the will of God and made no attempt to promote himself or elevate himself, he waited on God only.

 

(Mat 5:8 KJV) Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

 

Sacrifice

 

(Gen 22:10-12 KJV) And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

 

Though love involves sacrifice, sacrifice does not necessarily involve love. In the passage above, Abraham clearly loved his son, but he was willing to give him up as a sign of his allegiance to God. It was a test of Abrahams love. Without love, all sacrifice is unequivocally… cruel.

 

The Old Testament is full of sacrifice, much of it cruel, conducted by men in an attempt to show their allegiance to God. Noah started it, Abraham added circumcision, Moses turned it into an art form…. and thankfully Jesus finished it.

 

As a child I remember reading the Old Testament and being totally nauseated by the mass slaughter of creatures in the appeasement and worship of some ‘unknown’ God, so much so, that the ‘insanity’ of it, turned me away from the Bible and ‘God’ for many years. What I didn’t realize then, is that the documented history in the bible tests the human heart.  Integrity and faith are what is required to connect the inner spirit to the outward word or act, if this relationship is absent, sacrifice is needlessly cruel.

 

(1 Chr 29:21 KJV) And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:  And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness.

 

Blind obedience is dangerous, anyone without a heart or faith has nothing alive, to offer. If the ‘right’ heart/spirit is not involved in sacrifice, we are left we nothing but tradition and a set of manmade laws to follow. One cannot pass legislation to make people love… love requires the revelation that we are all brothers and sisters under Heaven, anything less is unsustainable and unenforceable. Love must come from within, it cannot come from without. A heartless world is a cruel and corrupt world and the very reason it needs to be ‘saved’.

 

(Isa 1:11 NIV) "The multitude of your sacrifices-- what are they to me?" says the LORD. "I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.”

 

Sacrifice is a gift, a token of love and affection, but without a ‘righteous’ offering and a ‘righteous’ recipient - such a ‘gift’ is simply a painful waste. People were requested to sacrifice their ‘best’ because, to withhold the ‘best’ is indicative of pride. One of the key purposes of sacrifice was to bring humility into the hearts of men, not to appease an invisible God.

 

Jesus did his best to over-turn traditional cruelty with love, and in the greatest irony of all, he became the greatest ‘living’ sacrifice as the traditional fathers and Romans crucified an ‘innocent son’, not out of love like Abraham - but out of fear and hate, thus exemplifying the fallen state of this world.

 

 (John 15:12-14 KJV) This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Scripture

 

(Exo 17:14 KJV) And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

 

There is a great irony about shepherds and scripture, since what need has a shepherd to learn to read or write? All a Shepherd really needs to know is how to tend and care for the land and the creatures in his care, this knowledge can be passed on from father to son through observance and practice – not from a visit to the library or from surfing the web.

 

So, who documented the history of creation in words on stone and papyrus, obviously not the shepherds, since they were busy tending their flocks.

 

What did Adam write, what did Noah write, what did Abraham, Isaac and Jacob write? These men were not writers or scribes, they were Shepherds, they lived their word.

 

It is not until Joseph and the enslavement of the Israelites, when an educated Prince of Egypt - Moses emerges, that the five books: Genesis; Exodus; Leviticus; Numbers and Deuteronomy are ascribed to him.

 

(Gen 46:34 KJV) “…for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians”.

 

As a writer, my mind boggles at how prolific these ancient writers were. How did Moses find time to document not just current events, but the history of the Jews? Even with our modern day technology: the paper, printers, mobile phones, PDAs, handhelds, laptops, the internet, blogs and twitter - one would still be hard pressed to keep such an accurate account of events, so how was this achieved with chisel and stone or feathered quill, ink and papyrus?

 

(Jer 30:1-2 KJV) The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

 

The questions have to be asked, why write down something, that no-one will ever read and why write down something, that so few will ever understand? Also, how come these ancient scriptures were miraculously preserved over the centuries and not only preserved, but often translated by so many sincere seekers for truth?

 

Reference books are only necessary for those who need some guidance (Shepherding), that they did not receive from their father (or mother). In this day and age there are so many books and so much written knowledge that we have no excuse, except that we are now in danger of being lost… in the confusion of it all.

 

(John 1:45 KJV) Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

 

(John 21:25 KJV) And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

Sin

 

(Gen 4:6-7 KJV) And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

 

When things are not going your way and you are losing, ‘sin’ is waiting at the door, in simple terms; ‘sin’ is just another word for ‘cheating’ on love, on truth and on life.

 

There are a number of levels of cheating, there is the cheat who keeps silent or takes no action in the face of what is wrong, there is the cheat who twists the truth, there is the cheat who deals unjustly, there is the cheat who does not give credit where credit is due and there is the cheat who transgresses the natural order. Many cheat because they are fearful, ignorant or greedy and have been raised in such a way and are preconditioned by their upbringing, many cheat because they deny or see no accountability, and they believe they are like gods… Still others cheat because they think they can get away with it.

When we lose faith in love, truth or life, we all cheat and we can always justify ourselves.

 

Sin is not just a question of keeping the laws of your society, for sin was in the world before there was written Mosaic Law. (ie: Thou Shall not Kill, etc.), even.

 

According to the Bible, the sinless are perfect and never die. So our sin is not founded on our attitude towards our neighbour, our ‘original sin’ is based on our attitude towards our maker, it is a self-deluding ‘sickness’ (stupidity) in our heart (mind) and soul. Adam didn’t fall ‘in to’ sin, Adam ‘fell out’ of love, for originally, he was ‘in Love’ (aka: in God).

 

Once I struggled to understand why God would be jealous, jealousy had always struck me as something suffered by the insecure, a frail human condition. Yet this jealousy is one aroused by unfaithfulness. In analogy, imagine being the father and creator of a number of children, providing for their needs and protecting them as they grow – only to have them later deny you and run after substitutes?  How would this make you feel?  Jealous, angry or hurt… perhaps?    I notice a lot of ‘righteous’ anger and pain in the ‘Tanakh’.

 

So, if you were this father, how would you bring your children back to the truth? How would you convince them that the other substitutes they chase are false with dubious agendas and value, while you alone are their true creator and your way and love are genuine? Would you give up on them or destroy them, like bent robots, because they cannot be salvaged and have ceased to serve their true purpose, or worse still, chase after their own purposes, deny your existence and offer creative credit to false gods?

 

While praying, I found myself saying – “I know humanity is responsible for creating most of the worlds’ problems” and then had to check myself, since humanity is responsible for creating ALL the worlds’ problems, since originally all was perfect. Yet it is not sinful humanity that is the problem, it is the sin within, remove the sin and every man is perfect.

 

Jesus was a genius because he could clearly see that all the worlds’ problems stem from the perpetuation of sin. So, the ‘ONLY WAY’ to solve all the worlds’ problems is the removal of sin… but how, if not by re-education and the restoration of faith in God?

 

(John 16:8 KJV) And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

Sin (Part 2)

 

(Gen 18:20-23 KJV) And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.  And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

 

The interesting thing about ‘sin’ is we can be oblivious to it, until we find ourselves comparing or analysing our nature. People that live in the garbage tip all smell the same, only when we smell someone clean, can we be aware of our own stench. This comparison can have several effects, many will want to clean up their act, others will want to remove that which makes them feel bad. Generally, it is easier to remove that which makes one feel bad, than change oneself. Which is why ‘good’ people are often cut down by ‘bad’ people, as were the prophets and Jesus.

 

To understand the importance of this, we need to grasp the insidious nature of pollution and the way in which it separates us from our creator and from one another. Sin, like dirt, accumulates into resistive layers, forming a filter and eventually eclipses the light, that is our true nature. Sadly, in the world, we are encouraged to see this ‘accumulated dirt’ as who we really are… this is delusion.

 

When one builds a boat and launches it into the water, it is perfect. It is foolish to assume that water getting into the boat adds to its value, wise people bail the additional water out of the boat.

 

Baptism in water or washing of the feet may remove the outer dirt, but how does one remove the inner dirt from the spirit of man? How does one wash the human brain of deluded thinking and destructive behaviours?

 

There are basically only two ways to change behaviour… pain or pleasure, stick or sugar. The law is like the stick, it will slap you every time you step out of line, it is the measure of crime and punishment. It falls down, because it is administered externally and impossible to police, except when it serves the law makers. The only people who are affected by the law are the ones that are caught (or targeted) at a point in time and these few are often committing lesser crimes than those in power, who are rarely brought to accountability, because they sit on and above the law.

 

To live in accordance to any set of rules takes discipline, which is why John the Baptist and Jesus both had disciples. One cannot be true to eternal God while serving other temporal things. The whole purpose of fasting is the removal of idolatries and attachments that pollute the spirit. The alternative to (the stick) external corrective legalism, is (the sugar) internal directive love, such that in being shown “the goodness of” and choosing the light, the darkness falls away automatically. The advantage of Jesus’s way is that one does not have to impose ones will on oneself or others to give up this and that, one makes the “Kingdom of God” ones whole focus (sole purpose) and all “this and that” (sin) falls away by itself….. however, it won’t stop ‘entrenched sinful’ people from wanting to kill you.

 

(Mat 6:33 KJV) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

The Way

 

(Deu 6:4 KJV) Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

 

Since there can be only One supreme God, One supreme spirit, One supreme will or even One supreme big bang underlying existence, then is the duality that arises from this One due to an unbiased equal, opposite growth and division across potential energies?

 

Since 1+1=2, 1-1=0, 1*1= 1, & 1/1 = 1. Whereas 0+0=0, 0–0=0, 0*0=0 & 0/0=0.

 

In China and TAO-ism the One is TAO and TAO encompasses the Yin(-1) & Yang(+1) which is necessary for the production of third, fourth and fifth products, since it always takes at least two forces to produce a third.

 

x+x=2x, x–x=0, x*x=x2, x/x=1.

 

In India and Hindu-ism the ONE is described as BRAHMA and Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the preserver and Shiva the destroyer – These masculine divine aspects have their equal and opposite feminine consorts of Saraswathi, Lakshmi and Parvati respectively. Followed by a plethora of other deities encompassing aspects of the ONE.

 

In the Middle East the ONE is unnamed as YHWH by the Jews & as ALLAH by the Arabs. The Jewish Kabala describes the manifestation of many from ONE and describes a hierarchy of Angelic beings.

 

In the Christian world the ONE is unnamed according to Jewish tradition and yet for human accessibility is given the name of JESUS and then divided willfully into numerous additional doctrines.

 

Like anything that travels far from its source, its original purity is somehow lost amid the dispersion, resistance, imagination and corruption.

 

Even if you sit 12 people in a circle and get them to look at an object in the centre and describe their perspectives… Unless the object is a perfect sphere and the light is perfectly overhead and they all have 20/20 vision and speak identical languages – the perspectives will be different.

 

Now multiply 12 by 6 billion and you have the number of perspectives in the world… most looking for self-gratification and not towards the ONE supreme God.

 

NONE becomes ONE becomes Two, becomes many – yet the many never truly gains independence from the ONE, since the ONE is like an eternal flame, the many are just sparks that come and go, mostly in ignorance (disguised as knowledge).

 

So when a spark dies, does it reappear in another form or dimension? Does it transform into some other kind of light? Does it rise up to heaven?

 

In life not death, one must realise and relinquish the mortal resistance to gain the freedom of the eternal living flame.

 

(Mat 16:24-25 KJV) Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

 

The Way - To Paradise

 

(Gen 3:24 KJV) So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep ‘the way’ of the tree of life.

 

Only through choosing to live in accordance with the tree of life can men aspire to paradise… but only ‘perfect’ men will be allowed to partake.

 

Noah was considered a ‘perfect’ man – few people seem to ask what was so special about Noah that allowed him to live while every man, woman and child on the face of the earth were wiped out?  God literally obliterated everyone, except Noah and his family and those living creatures he salvaged on the Ark…. Why?

 

This seems unbelievably harsh, surely there must have been some innocent babes more worthy of saving…than Noah?

 

Yet purity or innocence has never been about age or flesh and blood, it has always been about “faith” or “allegiance” to life’s greater purpose and to our creator...  There is no record of Noah asking the world to repent, he just built a boat, did what he was commanded to do and then the rains came and everyone else drowned. He was saved because he was a ‘perfect’ man… that is “perfect” in the eyes of God, not men.

 

In other passages of scripture, we see endless warnings by prophets and saints, telling men and women to repent and mend their ways… why?

 

The principle reason is that God (our creator) does not really want to destroy us, does anyone who creates something out of love ever want to destroy it. Does any loving father wish to destroy his children? No No No – ah.

 

Here we see the whole meaning of the mystery of Jesus, his mission, his crucifixion and his resurrection - if we look beyond the religious rhetoric.

 

Through the ‘perfect man’ Noah, the world was destroyed while he was salvaged.

 

Through the ‘perfect man’ Jesus, the world was salvaged while he was destroyed.

 

Jesus literally saved the world from destruction again… though what he really did was buy humanity time to change its ways and he provided the educational resources through his disciples and the gospels for humanity to see the error of its ways…

 

Can any child be blamed for their evil ways in the absence of their good father?

 

No man, woman or child should really be convicted of a crime when they have not been taught right from wrong… though it is written that ignorance of the law is no excuse. Hence the reason for the line… “father forgive them for they know not what they do”.

 

The gospel is about spreading the ‘good news’ of God our father, who loves us and proved it this time by not destroying us and by giving us a reprieve to repent and mend our wicked ways… such is the Grace of God… but it only lasts until the gospel has been preached to the ends of the earth…

 

(Rev 2:7 KJV) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

 

The Way - To Paradise (Part 2)

 

In summary – the way outlined by Jesus requires that we:

 

·          Live by whatever comes our way from God (Mat 4:4 KJV).

·          Don’t test, play around with or invoke God’s spirit unnecessarily (Mat 4:7 KJV)

·          Serve God before all other things (Mat 4:10 KJV)

·          Apologise, make recompense and change our wrong ways (Mat 4:17 KJV) 

·          Follow Jesus and his example (Mat 4:19 KJV) 

·          Be beggars for spiritual communion (Mat 5:3 KJV) 

·          Mourn and wail wrong ways (Mat 5:4 KJV) 

·          Be humble (Mat 5:5 KJV)

·          Desire to live right and true (Mat 5:6 KJV)

·          Show mercy to others, we all err (Mat 5:7 KJV)

·          Keep a pure heart (Mat 5:8 KJV)

·          Make peace wherever possible (Mat 5:9 KJV)

·          Take a stand in love for what is right and true even at our cost (Mat 5:10 KJV)

·          Support the teachings of Jesus for what is right and true, even at our cost (Mat 5:11 KJV) 

·          Give thanks and praise to God (Mat 5:12 KJV) 

·          Be strong in faith and of good character. Do not compromise (Mat 5:13 KJV)

·          Be a shining example of good faith (Mat 5:14-15 KJV)

·          Be active in our faith within the world so that our goodness is infectious (Mat 5:16 KJV)

·          Live from love, for love in truth, eliminates the need for law and policing (Mat 5:17 KJV)

·          Law must remain to manage the lost and the unloving, till love is complete (Mat 5:18 KJV)

·          Law should be encompassed and fulfilled in love (Mat 5:19 KJV) 

·          Doing what is right and true is greater than religious practices (Mat 5:20 KJV) 

·          Love our neighbour and indeed any adversary as ourselves (Mat 5:21-22 KJV) 

·          Never place religion before love and reconciliation with a brother (Mat 5:23-24 KJV) 

·          Never let law rule before love and reconciliation with an adversary (Mat 5:25-26 KJV)

·          Keep faith for unity with partner, even at our cost (Mat 5:27-28 KJV) 

·          Remove everything from our life that breaks the unity of faith (Mat 5:29-30 KJV) 

·          Breaking faith and unity in any way, breaks the law of love (Mat 5:31-32 KJV) 

·          Never make future promises to anyone, either agree or disagree (Mat 5:33-37 KJV)

·          Enlighten evil with love, by not returning evil for evil (Mat 5:38-39 KJV) 

·          Enlighten law with love, by giving more than litigated against us (Mat 5:40 KJV)

·          Enlighten control with love by giving more than compelled to give (Mat 5:41 KJV)

·          Enlighten need and greed with love by giving to those who ask (Mat 5:42 KJV)

·          Enlighten hate with love by blessing and prayerful wisdom (Mat 5:43-44 KJV) 

·          Be more like God, our true father, who is fair and gracious to all (Mat 5:45-47 KJV) 

·          Be perfect therefore just as our Father in heaven is perfect (Mat 5:48 KJV) 

·          Do all charitable work in humility and secret (Mat 6:1-2-4 KJV) 

·          Always commune with God in spirit, in truth and in secret (Mat 6:5-6 KJV) 

·          Pray from the heart with passion, not from the mouth with many words (Mat 6:7 KJV) 

·          Stay connected in the unity of faith, God knows our needs before we ask (Mat 6:8 KJV)

·          Pray in the model of the Lord’s Prayer. (Mat 6:9-13 KJV)

·          Forgive others, lest un-forgiveness block the way. (Mat 6:14-15 KJV)

·          Fast and repent secretly with humility and submission (Mat 6:16-18 KJV) 

·          Don’t store up fleeting valuables on earth (Mat 6:19 KJV)

·          Store up eternal Godly values in our heart (Mat 6:20-21 KJV)

·          Open our eyes to the whole truth, so that we may see our blindness (Mat 6:22-23 KJV)

·          No man can serve two masters, the unity of faith is not for division (Mat 6:24 KJV)

·          Serve the spirit of God, do not worry over our own physical appetites (Mat 6:25 KJV)

·          God creates and provides for life, why rush around in fear and panic (Mat 6:26 KJV) 

·          Can our thoughts make us taller? (Mat 6:27 KJV)

·          Can our quest for clothes make us more faithful and godly? (Mat 6:28-30 KJV) 

·          Don’t think about food, drink or clothing, God provides as needed (Mat 6:31-32 KJV)

·          Walk in Gods way and do what is right and we will be provided for (Mat 6:33 KJV)

·          Don’t think about the future, live in faith now and avoid divisive evil (Mat 6:34 KJV) 

·          Don’t judge or compare ourselves with anyone (Mat 7:1-2 KJV)

·          Don’t condemn anyone, heal them with love (Mat 7:3-5 KJV)

·          Don’t try to teach avaricious and unreceptive people, be wise (Mat 7:6 KJV)

·          Prayerfully seek in love and faith, what is right and it will be given (Mat 7:7-11 KJV)

·          Do unto others, as we would they do unto us, is the law and prophets (Mat 7:12 KJV) 

·          Narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few find it. (Mat 7:13-14 KJV)

·          Beware of liars, who act Godly, but whose hearts and motives are corrupt (Mat 7:15 KJV)

·          Be good and produce good fruit and beware of masquerading evil (Mat 7:16-20 KJV) 

·          The Kingdom comes from doing God’s will, not from calling on the Lord (Mat 7:21 KJV)

·          Many will abuse the Lord’s name to work wonders, without his spirit (Mat 7:22-23 KJV) 

·          Be wise, obey Jesus’s teachings and our life will be unshakeable (Mat 7:24 -27 KJV) 

Worship

 

(Gen 22:5 KJV) And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

 

The original purpose of worship was some kind of reverent offering to God in thanksgiving. This is a common theme in the Old Testament where such worship and praise are usually offered following some kind of divine intervention or at least in recognition and response to the grace of God.

 

(Exo 15:1 KJV) Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

 

The verse above is the first reference recorded in the Bible of anyone singing any kind of song and it was an unsolicited ‘gift’ by Moses to God.  So… do we sing for our own benefit or for God’s… And do we sing to express our feelings or do we sing to hide them?

It seems we do both. Yet singing is not worship and worship is not singing. Singing is just tuneful vocal noise that reflects our thoughts at the time…While worship is heartfelt reverence and thankfulness to God, for whatever we are grateful for at the time… not necessarily the sincerest when echoed from someone else’s words or a song sheet.

 

So what purpose does ‘music and song’ play in the realm of worship and does God really give a damn about the noises we make any more than the food we cram in our mouths?

It is easy to imagine a DJ at a radio station, chewing ‘roast beef’ with his mouth open saying and this ‘flavour’ goes out for God…. Amen….  "and this is my body you eat”.

 

Many Buddhists believe the monotone of “Om” is all powerful… is it? And how does it rate in God’s top 10 with “Amazing Grace”? Isn’t it all just noise, some undulating and tuneful, while some just plain mind numbing?

 

Since Jesus never had a number one hit, it is foolish to think that God sits in Heaven listening to our songs with an ear to say – “play it again Sam” or “oooo I like that one”.

 

According to some texts – the angels spend all day and night worshipping God in song and Lucifer was supposedly one of the worship leaders, turned ugly and consequently thrown down to earth as Satan to lead men… astray…

 

Like the Sabbath day, worship exists purely for man’s sake not for God’s. Without worship humanity has no space inside to reach out to God and without the Sabbath day humanity has no time put aside to reach out to God…. And if we don’t reach out to our maker and our true purpose, then we remain stunted and imperfect… like a caterpillar that never transforms into a butterfly or worse still… we fall victim to evil and die in our sin.

 

In humility and reverent worship, we open our hearts (spirit) in love and our mouths in words (of truth), such that our worship takes us out of our small selves into that place of union with each other as ONE family in that greater spirit and truth, that is our God.

 

(John 4:23-24 KJV) But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Music

 

(Gen 4:19-21 NIV) Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock. His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.

 

This is the first reference to any kind of musical instrument in the Old Testament and it is an extract from a list of the roles played by the descendants of Cain. Most of whom, are responsible for the whole mental inventiveness of humanity, including the building of cities and the making of bronze and iron tools and the violence. One can only assume that when one is outcast and cursed from the earth’s productivity… one is forced to survive by whatever means and devices one can and perhaps music was a way to find solace amidst the struggle.

 

The next musical significance is David, who played the harp himself, presumably a descendent of Cain. He often soothed Saul with his music, but he was also a dab hand with the slingshot and later the sword.

 

(1 Sam 18:6 KJV) And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music.

 

In this instance music is used in celebration of a great victory and later when David was king, he appointed those dedicated to God (the Levites) to be the musicians, presumably because they weren’t really doing much else to serve God, between sacrifices.

 

(1 Chr 15:16 KJV) And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

 

The key word in the last passage is ‘joy’. Music, especially in praise, has the capacity to lift the human spirit, to expand the human heart and to remove what ails us. This is an inexplicable phenomenon, but it is obviously an intrinsic part of our heritage or nature, since it is common throughout humanity.

 

Yet… what is it?  What is it about music that is so appealing and enchanting?

It is… after all… just noise, at most sound patterns and harmonic frequencies.

 

In nature we see the song of birds, the song of whales and the song of lovers.  Chimpanzees neither sing nor play musical instruments. At best they make ooo ooo ooo and screaming noises. In the wild there are also calls… the call to eat; the call to mate; the call to flee and the call to fight.  To misinterpret these signals as song and music is nonsense.  Music is an invention of the human mind, much like cities and swords. And like cities and swords, music was created from a human need for peace or at least liberty from struggle. Music is an escape, it is an auditory drug. It was designed to soothe the savage beast. These days much music is created in anger and frustration. It does not soothe, it incorporates a call to mate (sex songs), or, from a punk perspective, a call to fight.

 

At best, music is another way of expressing our love and joy.

 

(Luke 15:25-26 KJV) Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.

 

Harmony

 

(Psalms 133 NIV) Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity !

 

Harmony is not the same as unity, for if you mix all the colours of the rainbow together you end up with brown. Similarly, if you mix all the musical instrument and notes together you end up with an unpleasant cacophony of sound. Harmony requires that things work together in unity and don’t interfere with one another or cancel one another out.

 

A rainbow is a perfect illustration of this, it is a product of different frequencies working together side by side to create something magical and beautiful to behold.

 

 

Harmony and Beauty are sisters and though it is true that beauty is in the mind of the beholder – there is a world of difference between a convoy of trucks rumbling down the street and an orchestra playing a single piece of music together.

 

Love is that invisible cause that brings order from chaos, it strives for perfect balance and peace – it seeks that all things work together for good. Without love there can be no harmony or beauty, only chaos, injustice and the noise of friction.

 

Where two or more things work together in perfect harmony, there is no friction and no wasted energy.

 

When heaven and earth work in harmony – life is at peace.

 

A big bang would bring only chaos and it denies any underlying cause behind all bangs, change and evolution.

 

 

The so called ‘atom’ is a marvellous, mystical and magical fractal of the infinity that is our reality… just stop and think for a moment about what we imagine is going on inside an atom and then ask yourself this question… how does it all stay together and not fly apart?

 

An orchestra without a conductor or operating from a single sheet of music or common standards of musical behaviour would sound like a terrible jazz band and an atom without some underlying unifying agency would dissolve into chaos.

 

There are natural limits to how many frequencies one can fit in 3D space harmonically – which is probably why the largest atomic structures tend to be radioactive and throw off what cannot be contained in a stable and ordered way.

 

(Matthew 18:20 NIV) For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

The so called ‘atom’ is a marvellous, mystical and magical fractal of the infinity that is our reality… just stop and think for a moment about what we imagine is going on inside an atom and then ask yourself this question… how does it all stay together and not fly apart?

 

An orchestra without a conductor or operating from a single sheet of music or common standards of musical behaviour would sound like a terrible jazz band and an atom without some underlying unifying agency would dissolve into chaos.

 

There are natural limits to how many frequencies one can fit in 3D space harmonically – which is probably why the largest atomic structures tend to be radioactive and throw off what cannot be contained in a stable and ordered way.

 

Serving God

 

(Gen 15:13 KJV) And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

 

This is the first reference to ‘serving’ in the Old Testament and it actually relates to a prophecy that was given to Abraham long, long before the Jews were enslaved by the Egyptians for 400 years.

 

The only difference between ‘serving’ and ‘slavery’ is that one we do willingly for love or money and the other we do begrudgingly for little or nothing. Serving people and other creatures is one thing, but how does any man serve an omnipresent and omniscient God?

 

To serve means to give… and one cannot give anything… unless one has something of oneself to give and unless there is a recipient for what is being given. Usually we give our time, energy and produce to meet the needs and desires of someone else, most times this gift is solicited or expected, but often times it is unsolicited which is usually the best gift of all, because it is an unexpected surprise.

 

When it comes to our maker, the creator and owner of everything in the known universe… what can we possible give, that is needed or desired?

 

In Genesis, how did the first few men and women serve their maker?

 

(Gen 4:2-4 KJV) And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

 

People often say of gifts that... “It’s the thought that counts” … here we see two young men attempting to serve their maker without really knowing what their maker would appreciate. However, one picks stuff off the ground and gives it and the other tends and cares for some animals and gives their first born. In this instance it is not the ‘thought’ that counts, but the amount of ‘time and effort’ involved in producing and then selecting the best, which is then given-up as a sacrifice to one’s beloved.

 

Not wishing to stray off topic… one has to ask the question… why was Abel tending animals anyway, surely God feeds and cares for the animals and at this time, before the flood creatures were not in fear or eating one another and man was not permitted to eat meat. So were these animals just being looked after in much the same way that humans these days tend to have cats and dogs, as pets or animal friends and not bred for food?

 

In this… is the answer to how we best serve God, since Abel was acting much like God in love… caring and tending for the animals and yet was willing to give the first of his little lambs, not withholding. While Cain was just lost and scratching around, without guidance. Somehow, you can’t help but feel sorry for Cain, he just ‘didn’t know what he was doing’ and was he really to blame or was he just the product of bad parenting by Adam and Eve, who lost themselves with respect to God?

 

Both young men gave unsolicited gifts, God never asked for these gifts and has no need for such physical sacrifices as expressions of love. So how else do men serve God and show their appreciation for this precious gift of life, if not by being faithful and true to their maker?

 

(Mat 4:10 KJV) Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

 

TEMPLES & GYMS

 

(Gen 22:5 KJV) And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

 

If we look back to through the Old Testament, we see that Adam, Noah, Abraham and all the patriarchs through to Moses all worshipped God in the open air. Even Moses when he led the Israelites out of Egypt, did so on the premise of seeking to worship God in the open air on the mountain. The original concept of a house, comes from the concept of offspring and family, not from a dwelling place. As nomads, most shepherds seem to have slept in the open air, under the stars or in tents. The first City was built by Cain, in fear for his life.

 

Going back to Abraham, we see that most human worship of God, involved some bloody and or burnt sacrifice, that in some way or other inflicted pain and suffering on behalf of the sacrificer (Otherwise it would be no sacrifice). In Genesis 22, we see Abraham about to sacrifice his son as a gesture of his (love) allegiance and obedience to God above all other things.

 

After the Jews were led out of Egypt we see Moses create a Tabernacle (tent) to become the nucleus of worship, in which is stored the Ark of the covenant (contract) and the commandments of the law. Sadly, like all tangible objects associated with the worship of an intangible God, over the course of generations these objects begin to become the very idols that the second commandment forbids.

 

Later, we see a simple shepherd boy in the form of David, become corrupted by the power and wealth of kingship and though he determines to build a temple for God, is not allowed. Instead this task falls to his son Solomon. And so, Solomon builds a magnificent temple fit for a God, yet still unworthy, as Solomon noted: (Chr 2:6 KJV) But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?

 

In truth, these buildings are not built to house God, they are built in the name of God.in stone, to constantly remind us, lest we forget. Such buildings are symbolic only and whether our Godly symbols are captured on paper, in books or digital ink, eventually they will disappear. but stone lasts longest.

 

We live in a world today that is full of many idolatrous distractions, it is good to look at something big and beautiful and hopefully ask the question – why did they build that?  Better yet, to look at life and ask – why did you build me?

 

Recently I realised another value of these religious buildings. Sitting in an office all day was probably killing me, but I found it increasingly difficult to summon the energy to get up early before work or motivate myself when exhausted after work to do some physical exercise. So, I decided to join a gym instead and break up my workday at lunch time with some exercise. The gym was just across the road from where I worked and though I had to pay for the privilege, this seemed only to encourage my attendance. No matter how I felt when I entered the gym, before long I was exercising, because the atmosphere in a gym is much more conducive than the atmosphere in my room. Seems to me there is little difference between a Gym and a Church building or Temple. Their main purpose is to induce and encourage the attendees to work-out or worship, in fact there is no reason why you cannot do both at the same time. It just takes much more discipline to work-out or worship at home in your own room, as Jesus suggested. But maybe, this is why his followers were called disciples and not gym or temple junkies. Though I observed that as many people like to be seen at the Gym in their leotards and bulging muscles, as do religious people in their Sabbath day attire. I also noticed that attendance is not the same as participation, many gym attendees spend more time on their mobile phones than working out, while others are simply self-absorbed with the mirrors.

 

(John 4:23-24 KJV) But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

 

 

Scientific

 

(Gen 11:6 KJV) And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

 

Humanity, with our wills and imaginations can achieve seemingly impossible things. And this would be marvelous if we were all united and motivated by truth and love for the life of the whole universe. However, being united and motivated by ignorance, fear and greed we are the most dangerous and destructive creatures on the planet.

 

Ideally science and religion have the same objective… ‘Truth’.

 

Yet both seem to miss it and become polarized, generally because science is a divisive approach to life, looking at the detail, while religion is a unified approach to life, looking at the whole. Yet despite the single goal – ‘Truth’ becomes lost to sight by rote adherence to scientific and religious perspectives and laws.

 

Take a beautiful flower, its beauty is implicit and it is interdependently connected with life and our living planet. In the quest for truth, the scientific divisive nature has the capability to reduce a ‘beautiful flower’ to petals, leaves, stem, roots, stamen, pistils, cells, cellulose, chlorophyll, mitochondria, carbon, atoms and beyond, effectively reducing a ‘beautiful flower’ to virtual dust.

 

Take a beautiful child an amazing work of art and engineering and then apply science to him or her and what do you have… a head, a body, arms, legs, brain, heart, skin, organs, cells, amino acids, chemistry, carbon, atoms and eventually just more virtual dust.

 

Is this kind of divisive science really the way to truth, or does it OVERLOOK it?

 

Understanding the way things operate is useful to manipulate and control things and this is often necessary when things are damaged and out of control… But shouldn’t we also be looking to eliminate the root cause of this destruction and chaos?

 

Such is the goal of religion, unfortunately it attempts to heal and control humanity through the imposition of religious laws that ‘normalize’ human behaviour, which in itself, is abhorrent to the individuality of nature, the diversity of life and perfect evolution.

 

It seems to me that the majority of humanity wants to live in peace and love, but are bounced between the extremes of science and religion and then exploited by the politics of confusion, often being led into wars for political untruths… that seek to exploit our ignorance, fear and greed.

 

If we can learn one thing from our science it’s that: at the lowest level of detail the ‘atomic’ universe shares ‘electron energy’ with one another and each atom strives continually for universal balance (peace and harmony).

 

If this is the case, then the source of our destabilized lives is not God or the universe, but forces in ourselves acting in contradiction…  Such is the consequences of our sin.

 

(Mat 5:48 KJV) Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Cooking

 

(Gen 8:20 KJV) And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

 

This is the first Biblical reference to cooking or burning and it is not clear why Noah made offerings on the alter to the Lord.  But it doesn’t make sense to save two of every kind only to burn every one of them. In fact it doesn’t make any sense for God to create or save life only to have it killed, why not let it live its life’s purpose and die naturally? … In re-reading scripture, we see that Noah did not take two of every kind as is commonly understood…

 

(Gen 7:2-3 KJV) Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

 

It is unclear if these sevens are seven pairs male and female or three pairs male and female and an odd one, but somehow these ‘kinds’ of creatures were not made extinct by this burnt offering…  There is also a distinction made here between ‘clean’ and ‘unclean’ creatures, but no details are given as to the nature of this distinction. However, it is interesting that only the ‘clean’ animals were offered and I suspect that the distinction is that a ‘clean’ animal is one that is naturally free from living parasites (eg: Worms, flukes, bacteria, virus and molds) or anything that could potentially upset the metabolism of the human body…. The most logical explanation for the offering is that Noah needed food and since he didn’t take two of every green herb with him (seeds, notwithstanding), he was forced to compromise and needed God’s blessing.

 

(Gen 8:21 KJV) And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

 

One assumes the LORD smelled this sweet savour through a nose, most probably Noah’s and in the absence of other food and every green herb, the rules of life had to change.

 

(Gen 9:3-4 KJV) Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

 

A distinction is also made here between ‘flesh’ and ‘blood’… This has similarities with the ‘clean’ and ‘unclean’ concept… We now know that Stem cells created in bone marrow change into and replenish every other cell in the human body and they are transported in the blood along arteries, veins and capillaries, etc… Living cells or organisms introduced into the human body are potentially disruptive and dangerous… Like introducing any LIVING ‘new species into an existing eco-system, it has the potential to endanger the whole. Cooking (raising the environmental temperature) kills most things, whether clean, unclean, dead or living… The human body often does this with a ‘fever’ to kill invaders.

 

(John 21:9-10 KJV) As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread. Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.

Designer Diets

 

(Gen 1:29-30 KJV) And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

 

As a child I learned that we are not what we eat…every caterpillar has only a few food plants on which it can live. It is almost impossible to get a caterpillar to eat another food plant without watching it die. If they survived captivity and the leaves, I picked for them, they would usually pupate over winter and emerge in spring and summer as a beautiful butterfly or moth, not as a flower. Here we see that even these flying insects, were created to be vegetarian by nature…

 

So what are vegetables made of, if not heaven (light) and earth (soil)??

 

Herbs bearing seed and every tree which yields fruit yielding seed grow from light, earth and water. Yet no light or earth can be found in a plant, only water, so not even plants are what they eat, they are transformations (of energy and matter).

 

By our definition: Life transforms light into matter. A plant transforms light into leaves, caterpillars eat the leaves to transform into butterflies, some leaves fall to the ground and are transformed into leaf mulch by worms and such and so the earth grows. Effectively, matter is light, in a solid form and light is matter in a soluble form. One way or another, we are “being” as transforms of “light” (or EMF – whatever that is).

 

Nevertheless, putting aside all the scientific facts about fruit and vegetables: their health benefits and vitamin content, etc.…

 

Fruit is naturally tasty, fits perfectly into the hand and a mouthful of teeth, changes colour when ripe (and we are one of the few mammals that can see colour), will keep for long periods in warm climes without refrigeration (unlike meat and fish), passes straight into the lower intestine for easy digestion, in no way endangers the life of the tree if eaten, is miraculously prepared for eating without fire and does not run away when stalked or cry out when falling or being pulled off its branch.

 

The other key issue here is that fruit contains seed to be sown for the future proliferation of life and growth…. Thou dost, more than, not KILL, in fact, one gives life another chance.

 

Eating does not contribute to life, unless seeds are sown for the future. Eating “meat” without compensating with offspring…. KILLS life, it is unproductive, self-destructive and the way to extinction.

 

(Gen 9:3-4 KJV) And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 

 

The human stomach contains hydrochloric acid which can digest even metal, with training you can eat aircraft, see the “Guinness Book of Records”, so Is our problem bad eating habits or a bad attitude to the rule of light, life and God?

 

(Mat 6:25 KJV) Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Designer Diets (Part 2)

 

Daniel 1:15 (ESV) At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food.

 

In the chapter above, we see that Daniel and his men ate vegetables and water for 10 days as a test before the king, their diet made them fatter and healthier than those who ate the Kings exotic food.

 

Numerous people consider themselves better than others (holier than though) because they are vegetarian or vegan. However, life is more than food…

 

Hitler was a vegetarian and he probably never killed anyone personally, but he was in many ways responsible for the death of millions.  The point is, even if you live on light or fresh air, there is nothing to stop you from lying, cheating, stealing and killing. Diet, does not make you a better or healthier person – this is delusional.

 

Cats and dogs eat meat all the time and they are some of the healthiest and fittest animals on the planet.

 

Eating fresh fruits and leaves, is very different to eating cooked roots, plants and whole or grounded seeds.

 

I know many vegetarians that cannot eat fresh vegetables, claiming them to be tasteless unless cooked and covered in powdered spices. This is another palate distortion.

 

Eating fruits and leaves off a growing plant does not take life, other leaves can continue to grow and if the seeds are appropriately sown or excreted, life continues abundantly. Undamaged seeds pass through the digestive tract of most creatures, the internal contents of seeds are often poisonous. Eg: Apple, apricot, cherry, plum and peach seeds all release cyanide into the blood stream when chewed and digested. Other poisonous glycoproteins known as Lectins are found in most types of beans, including soybeans. When given orally to experimental animals, lectins interact with the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract causing acute gastrointestinal symptoms, failure to thrive and even death.

 

Many plant leaves, flowers, stems and roots also contain poisonous toxins for plant protection… so one cannot just assume eating leaves and berries is righteous. Often what is poisonous to one creature is harmless to another, this is a complex tapestry. Each creature is only safe eating what it was designed to eat in alignment with its created purpose. This whole dietary thing is way more complicated than just not eating meat and just eating vegetables.

 

Predators are necessary to prevent herbivores from destroying all the vegetation. Without predators the herbivores do not move, on until they have destroyed an area, predators keep them moving and also keep their numbers down.

 

John 6:35 (ESV) Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”

 

 

Measurement

 

(Gen 1:4-5 KJV) And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

 

The above extract is the first reference to experience, judgement and measurement in the Bible. Its significance lay in the fact that all judgements and measurements are always relative to some prior experience. Light was good, compared to the darkness and their differentiation gave rise to the measure of 1 day.

 

Later we see the human body, that is the distance between the elbow and the tip of the fingers (a cubit) being used as the relative measure for the dimensions of the Ark.

(Gen 6:15 KJV) And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

 

Imagine how difficult it would be to plan and build any object without a standard unit of measure to outline the dimensions: (Gen 6:15 Al) And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The ark shall be ‘this’ long, ‘this’ wide, and ‘this’ high. The room for error in such a subjective specification is obvious and yet, because the specification lacks prescriptive measurements for ‘this’….to Err is also impossible.

 

Unless all humanity remained identical to the size of Noah, a ‘cubit’ is a relative and changeable measure on every man. Yet, since the thing being built was measured in relative human terms, if Noah had been a giant, the boat effectively becomes tailor made.

 

Since about 1670 most of the world has been utilising the decimal system of measure, measuring things in tens of standard units. Mathematically this was far more sensible than having a range of number systems based on local objects and body parts.

 

But how do we measure Heaven and Earth?

 

We have now measured the Earth's circumference at the Equator as 40,075.16 km (24,901.55 miles); And the Earth's circumference between the North and South Poles as 40,008 km (24,859.82 miles).

 

We have also made much scientific progress in the measurement of space and the nature of our reality. The ocean though seemingly one mass of immeasurable water that occupies 72% of the surface of the earth can be measured roughly in cubic decimetres or 10 centimetres x 10 centimetres x 10 centimetres of space or plastic buckets, if you had enough. The movement of ‘electro-magnetic’ energy or ‘light’ in empty space is now measured at 299,792,458 metres per second. And all atomic matter is now measured as potential energy in the form of e=mc².

 

And so it is we continue to measure the universe in units of our own divising, our measurements do not bring us closer to the truth or God. Our measures just enable us to objectify our reality such that we can mentally grasp, physically manipulate and symbolically communicate our relative circumstances in time and space.  Heaven however, remains immeasurable…

 

(Mat 6:27 KJV) Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Invention

 

(Gen 3:7 KJV) And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

 

This is the first Biblical reference to “invention” or manmade “things”, up until this point everything was made and provided by God: The heavens, the earth, all living things, men and women. So why does humanity feel obliged to extend its nature with materialism and use its imagination to manipulate the rule of their maker and cheat on the nature of life?

 

(Gen 6:5-6 KJV) And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

 

Surely…  Materialism (Mammon) is the opiate of the Godless.

 

Maybe this chapter should be renamed “Evilution”, because the twisted nature of “evil” has exponentially twisted the nature of “evil”  such that “evil” is no longer recognised for what it is… The real nature of “evil” is untruth, denial, deception, lying, cheating an overruling of the provision of life and the natural laws implicit in creation. A willful disobedience…. if you will.

 

(Luke 12:33-34 KJV) Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

 

The tree of knowledge brings man-made invention; the tree of life brings natural evolution.

Which of man’s inventions or material extensions is truly beneficial to life?

 

Clothes, cover the pores of our skin and restrict the free exchange of air. They often constrict the capillaries of the blood, causing spots, stagnation and disease. They impede sunlight and the natural tanning of the skin, such that the skin becomes pale and hyper sensitive to any future natural exposure…  Clothes also require additional maintenance…

 

Washing machines, consume unnecessary water resources and utilise detergents that pollute the environment, not to mention the power consumption and waste products of our coal, petrol and nuclear ‘power’ generators, etc. 

 

The list is of man’s inventions is endless and name one thing humanity has invented that contributes to life… our inventions generally contribute to the “comfort” and “pleasures” of a world on its way to hell…. And maybe that’s its purpose, since the more comfortable we are, the less likely we will even notice or care to change. Invention weakens our evolution, props our deficiencies, ruins our generational DNA (seed) and blinds us to nature and God. The only way humanity can really contribute to life, is to work with heaven, by growing and evolving naturally, in faith.

 

(Mat 4:8-10 KJV) Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Tools

 

(Gen 4:20-22 KJV) And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

 

The passage above is significant because the people are all descendants of Cain, who though originally a tiller of the soil, killed his brother in jealous rage and was cursed from the earth, so he went on to build the first Biblical city and his descendants devised alternative ways to make a living….  by using tools.

 

Most living creatures have no need to use tools because evolution (via God) has equipped them with everything they need to live – the bird is designed to fly, land on twigs, build nests, lay eggs and eat seed. While the bee is designed to fly, drink nectar and pollinate flowers. This is the truth about the birds and the bees – their relationship to human sexual activity is practically non-existent.

 

In everyday nature there are only a few items that can be used for tools or ‘intelligent’ extensions to offset the apparent inadequate design of the human being… the first is stones for extending our mass, for breaking things or for grinding things down, the second is ‘sticks’ for extending our length, for reaching higher or for reaching into places our fingers cannot naturally go….  Other intelligent creatures have used these simple tools to access their food to crack the hard-outer shell of seeds and winkle food from inaccessible places….  this is a bit like cheating on the game of life and evolution, but somehow, they manage to get away with it, without causing too much damage.

 

Since Cain and the development of Cities, humanity… often through necessity, has fathered invention and learnt to cheat on the game of life “big time” and whenever anyone cheats “big time”… everything appears to lose true value and meaning… and so… many give up on life, because when cheats prosper… the game becomes spoiled and pointless.

 

(Exo 20:25 KJV) And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

 

David slew Goliath with a stone… it appears that sometimes it is necessary to use a thorn as a tool to extract a thorn that is infecting the body.

 

When we look at creation, we see that all living things are effectively tools in God’s tool shed… It often seems that many creatures are ‘dumb’ tools, like spanners and wrenches… a few can take measures… still others can shape and mould their environment.  Is man just an organic robot that has tried to outsmart his maker?

 

When we look at the ‘evil-ution’ of our tools we see that most tools are destructive to the earth and creative only for City dwellers…. Moving from sticks and stones, through clay pots to carry more than our hands could hold, we built ploughs and picks to mine the ground for metal; Fiery furnaces to mould metal; Axes and blades to cut down trees; Tools for leverage became machines that needed power and so coal, steam, oil, petrol, electricity and nuclear power are exploited…. and so it continues, till it is ‘game over’ again…

 

(Mat 24:38 KJV) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Tools (Part 2)

 

(Isa 2:4 KJV) And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

 

All tools can be used for good (productivity and life) or evil (consumption and death).

 

A knife in the hand of a faithful man can remove a bullet, while a knife in the hand of a fearful man is just a weapon.

 

Tools are just extensions of our bodies and our minds, which in themselves are just tools in the hands of our maker… What is the difference between a robot slave (computer server) and a human slave or servant… the purpose of both is to serve their master and the greater good…? unless created in isolation and ignorance…

 

All tools are a means to an end, they should not be an end in themselves… seeing tools as an end in themselves… is the very nature of ‘sin’. A plough is made to plough the land so that seed can be sown, so that crops can grow and preserve this thing called life with sustenance… Our tools wear out… just as men grow weary, old and die.

 

One does not make a plough to hang in the barn and embellish it with symbols.

 

Yet today more than ever, humanity has become obsessed and idolatrous of its tools and weapons… No longer a means of protection, weapons have become a means of entertainment and sport... No longer a means of travel from place to place, vehicles have become overpriced toys for the rich who can afford them… And always at our neighbours expense.

 

Men especially are obsessed with their tools and their toys… oftentimes sexual substitutes… men gain pleasure from their tool like extensions. And the pleasure is an important release from the pain and the pressure of working day to day… that …” all work and no play” makes jack more than a dull boy, it makes him frustrated, depressed and suicidal.

 

We invent tools to takes some of the hard yakka out of the work we have to do, tools provide leverage – ideally to make our work lighter… Oftentimes over-tinkering with our tools has made them so complex they have become obstacles to getting the work done…. So what is the work that we are undertaking anyway and why?

 

Many of my uncles, ‘all deceased’ spent most of their lives down the pit… that is they were employed by someone else to mine coal, digging coal out from deep under the ground BY HAND with basic tools of picks and shovels… and for what????

 

Primarily they did it for ‘love’, so they could buy food and clothing and pay for a home for their families… they were forced to use tools to earn the ‘tool’ that is money to leverage their lives in this world. No man in his right mind would spend his days underground to survive, digging and breathing in the coal dust… rest assured they did for their loved ones. Yet when the pits closed instead of celebrating, they complained, because it was all they knew how to live…

 

This begs the question… are we just being tools, when we willingly give ourselves over like this, to be used by our masters?

 

(John 8:34-36 KJV) Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed

Copyright Law

 

(Gen 1:21 KJV) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 

When a single cell divides it replicates itself, but not identically, each cell is brought forth “after their kind” … but is not an exact replica of the previous generation, somehow and in some mysterious way… something occurs that makes each generation slightly different from the previous. Like some kind of environmental refinement, the next generation is, more often than not, better equipped than the previous generation to cope with the conditions into which it is created. In OO programming terms this is known as ‘extending a class’… it is a process that allows the extension of a concept without damaging the prior integrity of the model. Generally, these extensions are ‘good’, unless the thinking behind them is flawed in some way…. This flaw, if not picked up at the modelling stage, will manifest itself at the development stage by poor integrity with the whole architecture, leading to removal and a rethink (back to the drawing board).  This process is known as ‘iterative design’… one could call it ‘evolution’… or ‘intelligent design’ …. Either way, in the world of copyright and patents… it is all contrived by extensions to prior models and human imagination...

 

Cellular division and extension is not the same as ‘copy & paste’ and is not subject to human copyright law… however it is an incredibly smart way of establishing working standards for the perpetuation of life. If you create something that works, just replicate and extend its structure and behaviour as and when required.  Within each cell we have uncovered a code written in DNA, much like operating code required to activate a CPU.

 

It seems ironic that men have now reached the stage where they can interfere with the DNA coding within living cells to change the process of life to suit themselves and the world. Yet seek no copyright permission to do such things. How does our creator or any creature for that matter take legal action against such behaviour for compensation?

 

Like CPU’s interfering with the coding of other CPU’s or robots modifying the design of other robots designed for a specific purpose at a specific time and place… this interference is fundamentally flawed and will result in future chaos without accountability to a greater good (God) and the environmental factors which wrought their perfect creation.

 

The danger with ‘demi-gods’ and humans is that their creations become exponential and chaotic (Babylonian) without accountability to environmental standards and controls (the nature of Gods law). Our creative successes like the alphabet, Morse, binary, ascii, tcp/ip and the internet have only been possible because men have collaborated and agreed upon standards of operation, open source and ‘free’ access. Imagine how far the alphabet would have gone if the originator of the letter ‘A’ had taken out a copyright and sought licensing fees from anyone who sought to use the letter.

 

We seem to forget this part of the 2^nd commandment, which was the first copyright law:

 

(Exo 20:4 KJV) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

 

Today we see an evil way hell bent on making money from every copied and extended idea on the premise that it was original… also hell bent on obtaining social and financial recompense by legal action against anyone who dare copy or extend that idea….. why?

 

(Mat 12:34 KJV) O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? 

Genetic Engineering

 

(Gen 30:37-39 KJV) And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

 

This is the first reference in scripture of men deliberately changing the environment to effect the offspring of creatures. Jacob discovered that certain branches in the drinking water of the cattle affected their offspring.

 

(Gen 30:41-43 KJV) And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

 

Was this achieved through “witchcraft”, “magic”, “knowledge”, “science”, “religion” or “genetic manipulation”? 

 

It was achieved by deliberately utilising the knowledge of observation – the right and wrong of what Jacob did, needs to be carefully weighed against the deceitful way Laban “enslaved” him for over 14 years for the woman he loved.

 

Somehow genetic engineering, that is not free and natural, is always achieved for and by deception and it is sad to think that humanity pursues such contrived evolution with a view to create preferred characteristics in the offspring of creatures and eventually in its own offspring as if humanity has the wisdom to future proof the ‘tree of life’.

 

In natural selection, free from fear and deception – a naked man when courting a naked woman can see exactly what he is getting. A naked woman can also see exactly what she is getting involved with… and the potential offspring are implicit in the true nature of the pair.  All other free creatures manage to sort out their “genetic” choices without the aid of human contrivance or deception. In nature the males or females are selected in the context of the whole: physical, mental, emotional, behavioural, spiritual and whatever other “als” may exist….. not just in the context of the Chemical or DNA.

 

Every genetic change or alteration made by humanity to offspring, no matter how wonderful the resultant may appear in the short term… is potentially creating a “Frankenstein monster” for the future…  We already know the ill effects of introducing inappropriate though well-intentioned species into other eco-systems. It is dangerous for humanity to manipulate the “cells or DNA” of life, because the “rationale” of humanity can never compare to the pure heavenly motives that has provided the amazing diversity of life on this planet and that, without our aid, brought us into existence. However, all such artificial changes, though “marvelous” are potentially destabilizing and unsustainable.

 

(Mat 15:13-14 KJV) But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Genetic Engineering (Part 2)

 

(Gen 5:2 KJV) Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

 

We now know from our microscopic observations and experimentation on what we call DNA (Deoxyribo-Nucleic Acid) that our genetic material is commonly shared with all living things.  Not only is this genetic material shared, but in common with our current day software models, the historical record of all previous structural and functional changes together with significant extensions are somehow carried in a unique chemical code that we have reduced to common patterns of alphabetic letters of A, T, C & G arranged in a combination sequence of approximately 3 billion or so.

 

What this means is that we are engineered (created) from a common paradigm or model shared by all life. At the genetic level every human being differs only by about 1 in every 1000 letters of this code and as far as we know the closest living relative in a different species is the Chimpanzee principally because we have observed a 95% match in genetic material. Tracing this genetic material through various living organisms we have discovered that the genetic makeup of “Adam” is not that different to the genetic make-up of worms, bacteria and the first forms of life.

 

Though this may surprise some, it does not really surprise me… we have known for years that a human embryo in the womb develops through many fish and lizard like structural changes which mirror this ancestral record.

 

However, though digital technology was an extension of analogue technology and though colour TV was an extension of Black and white TV. A digital computer is not the same thing as a radio, even though they may share a common technological foundation and have common components.

 

To emphasize the dichotomy here… why don’t humans interbreed with chimpanzees or other ‘species’?  Why is ‘bestiality’ considered wrong?  At the genetic level we see that the genetic code of humans and chimpanzees is incompatible, the so called ‘hot spots’ or the points at which exchanges occur in genetic material at the microscopic level between the chromosomes are very different. The interbreeding of humans and chimpanzees would fail and both species would become extinct.  Bestiality is not wrong because of some legal edict, but simply because it is anti-life’s sustainability and therefore anti-God.

 

We now know that the universe consists of 118 or so unique atomic elements used in various combinations, so is it really any surprise that all things consist of extensions of the original source of existence?

 

Though we can observe and name the cellular replication and extension as mitosis and meiosis… what we fail to understand or grasp is the source, perfect power and motivation driving and guiding these observed changes.  Behind every change there is a causal agent, just because the causal agent is invisible to our limited genetic RGB eyesight or unknown to our limited minds, doesn’t mean that the cause doesn’t exist, it just means that we are blind and blinded by our own self-importance and limited genetic perceptions.

 

(Rev 4:11 KJV) Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

 

 

RATIONALISATION

 

 

 

 

Rationalisation

 

(Psa 22:1 KJV) To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

 

When we ask the question “why?” – we seek the root cause of anything…

 

Why does anything exist?

 

We are left with only 4 possible answers:

 

·         It is all an illusion (a dream time)

·         It is all an accident (chaos in space)

·         It is all the product of a creative force (will)

·         It is all a combination of the above

 

Many have witnessed change or the evolution of matter, but who has witnessed the creation of matter from nothingness?  Indeed how can there be such a thing as nothingness, when all existence is contained in somethingness.

 

The origin of species or the origin of matter…. both require an origin and how can someone or something be created from no-one or nothing?

 

·         If all is but a dream, who or what is the dreamer?

·         If all is an accident, who or what moves things to collision?

·         If all is the product of a creative force, then who or what motivates?

 

So humanity stands before the ‘great creative unknown’ and asserts God exists, or asserts that God doesn’t exist or asserts nothing, but carries on living…. but for what purpose and why?

 

Why do you live….?

 

Firstly, because your parents gave you life; Secondly because your body breathes; Thirdly because your body is nourished by matter…. But this is not why you live, this is how you live…. The process that we call ‘life’…. But, the answer to the question why do you live? Remains a mystery….

 

Life is undoubtedly a “gift”…and like any unsolicited gift, it is a “gift of love”.

 

It is the most precious “gift” in the universe, yet we devalue it by asserting that it is ‘just a dream’ or by asserting that it is ‘just an accident’ or by ‘treating it as nothing’ or by ‘treating it as ‘something to be bought and sold’ or worse still as ‘something to be taken’.

 

You live, because of “love” and you die, when “love” forsakes you, or more likely when you forsake “love”.

 

(Mat 27:46 KJV) And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Free Will

 

(Gen 1:1 KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 

Whether the origin of existence comes from an unknown God or from an unknown exploding atom, the origin of our existence remains mere superstition and conjecture simply because the origin remains unknown and is based on mental acceptance (belief) or non-acceptance (unbelief) of ‘hearsay’ and speculation.

 

No-one really wants to believe a lie, since this would be tantamount to self-deception. However, sometimes we choose the more logical (mentally agreeable) or more palatable (emotionally agreeable). Unfortunately, our mind and our feelings often cloud our judgment, in truth, since we tend to believe that which correlates with our personal experience and we tend to choose those things which make us feel better. Why would anyone choose the illogical or the uncomfortable?

 

Whichever ‘concept’ we choose to believe, we choose, either by ‘free will’ or ‘constrained will’, where ‘free will’ is without the prejudice of previous experience (knowledge), and ‘constrained will’ is over-ruled by the prejudice of previous experience (knowledge).

 

Perhaps the greatest delusion of humanity is the concept of ‘freedom’, since all so called ‘freedom’ is governed by the origins of existence… In that, if God is the source of existence then our ‘freedom’ is constrained by God. Equally if an exploding atom is the source of our existence, then our ‘freedom’ is constrained by the unfolding of this explosion.

 

In this sense, we can only be truly ‘free’ when we are true to our inherent nature, that is, when we align with our God given or our unfolding universal form. In this form and alignment, we are in union with the source of our existence and not subject to the resistance (sin) that appears to cause so much pain and suffering.

 

The question remains… where did God come from and equally where did the first atom (matter) and explosion come from?  Since the source of either God or an exploding atom, must be truly ‘free’ being unconstrained and unrestrained, then it seems that the true origin of existence has much in common with ‘free will’. Since if nothing existed, there would be only emptiness, but since something exists, there must be some kind of creative change agent involved (will). So, if the thing we imagined to be the source has a source, then surely the source of God or matter must truly be the author and ruler of our existence and not whatever we imagine?

 

This means that ‘free will’ is our true ‘creator’… being both invisible and intangible, it is for want of another word, ‘spirit’. All other ‘things’ are ruled by their given nature, or by their ignorance, resistance and rebellion to this nature.

 

Is the sun free? Is the moon free? Are the stars free? Is heaven free? Is earth free? Is a tree free? Is an animal free? Is an ant free? Is man free? What of God?

 

All things by nature follow a predestined orbit, cycle or pattern of behaviour… What man chose his penis and what woman chose her vagina, are these not natural gifts?

 

(Mat 6:10 KJV) Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Motivation

 

(Gen 4:6-7 KJV) And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

 

Ignoring the strange grammar for a moment… the question could have been put this way… what on earth are you thinking?

 

The fundamental problem here... is pride (the opposite of humility) … where caught up in his own self-righteousness, Cain believed he could do no wrong. Cain was the older brother. It is impossible to retain the seat of power and be the authority once you admit that you are wrong… so you have three choices: ignore the issue, humble yourself or remove the evidence of your erroneous ways. It is the same religious pride that resulted in the crucifixion of Jesus and the persecution of many other people since, who dared to challenge the authority of the day, whether religious, political or scientific….  When we look at what motivates humanity, we see some common themes:

 

People are generally willing to spend their time & energy working for:

·         The bare necessities of life

o   Clean Air

o   Sustenance (Food/Drink)

o   Their loved ones (family & friends)

o   Their living environment & shelter

·         Social aberrations

o   Permanent dwelling place - unmoving

o   Clothing - other than skin

o   Tools - other than hands

o   Transport - other than legs

o   Usary - selling ones soul to others with interest

·         Psychological aberrations

o   Security/insurance - fear/dangerous times

o   Beauty products - insecurity/low self esteem

o   Information - education for power & mental edge

o   Health & fitness products - prowess for power & physical edge

o   Status symbols - purchasing for power & material edge

o   Entertainment (Sex/Music/Theatre/Art/Fiction/Comedy/etc)

o   Gambling - hope of escape/stress relief

o   Alcohol, drugs & other addictions - escape/stress relief

·         Status aberrations

o   Labour saving devices - washing machines, etc

o   Luxury vehicles - cars, boats, etc

o   Works of art - something exclusively expensive

 

Yet people are generally ONLY willing to give up their time, energy & money for:

·         The salvation of loved ones

·         Charity (love)

Maybe…  with love as our primary motivation, there is hope for humanity, yet…

 

(Mat 15:3 KJV)  But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

Need & Greed

 

(Deu 15:7-8 KJV)  If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

 

Every need of humanity is freely met by life and universal divine order. The air we breathe is provided by sunshine, trees and plants. The water we drink is provided by rainfall, streams and the moisture of succulent fruits. The food to sustain our bodies is provided by the produce of the land and so on. Man does not provide or own the elements of life.

 

What manner of man cannot see this and give thanks?

 

In faith our needs are met, without faith we cheat, we steal and we horde and in so many ways try to fill the hole left in our psyche by the absence of faith in God and providence. Greed is basically taking more than you need, it is theft, and so many people justify it by claiming that they need, what they are really just being greedy and insecure about.

 

In truth, we need so little, the heart and the stomach are little larger than a fist. So more than a handful of anything, is just plain greedy, it deprives others and will usually result in wastage that drops to the earth, like all excesses.

 

Resolving need brings peace and equilibrium to creation, whereas satiating greed brings dysfunction and imbalance to creation, wherever it operates. The point is, one should really be cognisant of the needs of the body for a sustainable and healthy life; equally, one should really be cognisant of the needs of society for a sustainable society, etc.

 

Contrary to myth, natural societies are fundamentally peaceful, since the natural balance is ordered and ensures that peace and productivity is maintained. If you don’t believe me, go into any natural landscape and experience the peace. Creatures only feed when there is a need to sustain their life, they do not spend all their time killing and eating one another. Even sharks swim peacefully around a sea of fish and Lions lay down around the Buffalo, till feeding time. So why is humanity so different, why do desire, greed and lust in their many shapes and forms rule over our lives?

 

Clearly the human mind is the problem, yet not the pure mind of a child, the corrupted mind of an adult that has lost touch with life and seeks to satisfy its ‘sense of being’ or ‘knowing’ through gratification of its senses (the flesh).

 

To fill its eyes with more colours, to fill its ears with more sounds, to fill its mouth with more tastes, to fill its nose with more perfumes, to fill its hands and skin with more sensual experiences, to fill its space with more objects, to fill its libraries with more books, to fill its garages with more cars, to fill its portfolios with more businesses and its accounts with more money… such is the nature of greed and the nature of all pigs... and to what end? Certainly not peace, for the turmoil of such greed, is an exponentially unsustainable and destructive one…. opening the very gates of Hell.

 

(John 8:44 KJV) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.

Will Power

 

(Gen 1:26 KJV) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

 

Without doubt man is the most successful of all his ancestral monkeys, since they have been reduced to few in sparse jungles scattered across the globe or taken into the protective custody of zoos and reserves, while mankind grows to plague proportions. So what makes humankind so much more powerful than their ape like relatives?

 

Firstly, our capacity for virtual ‘knowledge’, which creates our multiple choices, since the more we know the more we have to choose between (and the more confused we become).

Secondly, our capacity to communicate this mental ‘knowledge’ to others of our species in symbolic form through the flesh by gesture, sounds, carvings, drawings, scribes, books, film, printers and digital technology, etc… so that all may ‘know’ more and more.

Lastly and most significantly, is our capacity to “act upon” or “impose” this ‘knowledge’ on the rest of the earth, for good or evil.

 

A ‘strong willed’, ‘passionate’ or ‘extremist’ person is just someone who believes in one thing to the exclusion of everything else, often to the exclusion of what is right and true. In this, humans are definitely made in the likeness of God, since it is the intangible ‘human will’ that drives our actions and it is the intangible ‘spirit’ that drives the ‘human will’.

 

All servants and slaves submit to the ‘will’ of another; Servants willingly, slaves unwillingly, either way - whoever or whatever we serve or follow becomes our God and our religion.

 

All experience, words and ideas are effectively ‘seeds’ sown into the human mind, but only when those ‘seeds’ take root, do they grow to influence the actions of the person.  No seed can grow unless we nurture it and we nurture it by loving, aligning, believing and the power of ‘yes’.

 

It seems to me there is no such thing as 'will power' this is a complete misunderstanding of the workings of the human mind. What we perceive as ‘will power’ is really our capacity to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Our will is simply a logic gate and ‘will power’ is simply the extent to which we either embrace or reject someone or something, whether real or virtual. That is, we can either say ‘yes’ or ‘YES’. It is comparable to the flow of electricity through a transistor. We submit to the ‘Will of God’ by saying ‘YES’ and the size of our ‘yes’ is the measure of our faith. A small ‘yes’ is the size of a mustard seed, but still bigger than a small ‘no’. A big ‘YES’ opens the floodgates by removing all resistance and when ‘the pure spirit’ is allowed to flow naturally through the body, it can be restored again, like a river that flows as opposed to one that has become stagnant and polluted through being blocked by resistance, misunderstanding and twisted mental filters.

 

Ideally, we should say ‘yes’ to what is good and ‘no’ to what is evil, but our relative knowledge confuses our minds, such that we frequently embrace what is bad and reject what is good… and as a consequence, everything is twisted and this is the nature of ‘sin’.

 

(Luke 4:6-8 KJV) And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

 

 

Destiny

 

(Eccl 3:19-20 KJV) For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

 

The above passage is attributed to King Solomon, supposedly the wisest man, who in his latter years became fairly cynical.  It raises some interesting questions about the ‘destiny’ or ‘fate’ of man.

 

The word destiny has been adopted into the word destination, which is the final location of a journey. For the Jews this was always the ‘promised land’ – paradise if you will, the New Jerusalem.  Yet, as long as we continue to change and cause changes, our destiny continues to move. Arriving in paradise is one destiny, but preventing paradise from turning into ‘hell’ in the face of ignorance, fear and greed, is another…

 

And so the ‘destiny’ and ‘fate’ of man and his children are determined by the ‘way’ in which he lives and acts upon the patch of earth that is beneath his feet (his lot).

 

Asking the destiny of any living creature or of any ‘element’ for that matter, we are drawn to the same conclusion… everything has its moment of glory and is then recycled.

 

Water falls from clouds, runs down the mountainsides to the sea and evaporates back into clouds. Trees grow, bloom, fruit and seed, fall and fertilise the earth for future growth.

 

Offspring are nurtured, grow into mature adults, reproduce other offspring and deteriorate into dust, each new generation adapting more easily to the changing environment... It is clear that our God given responsibility is to the here and now, not to some delusional after-life realm….   If you don’t live out the purpose of your life, it is impossible to fulfill your destiny – sure you may achieve some goal, but is a desire fulfilled the same as your destiny. Our ‘glory’ is short lived, everything we create is temporary. Even the greatest civilizations have turned to dust, but ‘life’ remains, the most precious and lasting of all things.

So why are YOU here…. and what is your destiny?

 

The ancient Sumerians believed that man was created from clay to serve the Gods, but the Gods gave up on men, when they became self-serving. Imagine the scientific minds frustration when our world becomes full of self-serving and wayward ‘nano-bots’.

 

If our destiny is to serve God, then what does this entail, since God, being God, is all powerful, so how can we be of service to God, are we simply muses, like pets and toys; dogs fetching sticks, Barbie dolls or remote-control robots? Yet how our toy manufacturers still strive to create the ‘perfect mechanical muse’ and for what purpose? 

 

Or… are we the offspring of God, like those precious organic beings that ‘good’ parents lavish their time and energy upon?  And if so, who teaches the ‘good’ child how to grow, to serve its father?

 

(John 5:30 KJV) I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

 

 

INTEGRATION

 

 

 

Integration

 

(Isa 40:25-26 KJV) To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

 

God is the source and substance of all things and all things are not made equal, they are made integral. There is an insanity that pervades the world today which attempts to establish an equality for all things. How can a man and woman have equal opportunity when they are fundamentally different?  This is delusion. Can a worm fly like a bird or a bird swim like a fish? And so it is men and women are made very different, they have different structure and different function. To try and “normalize” existing design to suit a warped human ideal or standard in an attempt to legalise and place human rules over life, is foolishness.

 

What is necessary is the emancipation of all life, such that each species and person can be ‘free’ to live integrally with the rest of creation and nature according to their natural structure and behaviour. Deviation from this, can only cause stress and dysfunction.

 

Dwarfs are not designed for basketball and giants are not designed for horse riding. To force equality in these sports, can only cause emotional embarrassment and physical damage… so why do some continually try to force round pegs into square holes?

 

We must learn to accept and embrace the ‘form’ we have been dealt otherwise we can never be happy. The key to life’s integrity, union, peace and happiness is love and acceptance not dissatisfaction and striving. It is impossible to remove the dissatisfaction and striving with laws that attempt to impose some kind of delusional equality. Much of this pressure comes from those who have an agenda to exploit human fears and insecurities of not being ‘normal’, ‘beautiful’ or ‘good’ enough. Stop, stop, stop – who said you are not good enough? 

 

Certainly not your creator(s) – lest you would never have made it into existence.  Of the billions of sperm and eggs that fall by the wayside every day, you made it through. You may even have been lucky enough to survive 9 months of safe gestation in your mother. So, the odds of you ever arriving at the doorway of life are way bigger than you ever winning a world lottery…. So be thankful, you won. And as long as you were the product of sexual reproduction and not some asexual interference or experiment, you are unique, you are not a clone and hopefully, integrity kept you perfectly and naturally healthy.

 

Yes there is sickness and there is health and we should try and stay healthy, but ultimately this too is dependent upon our integrity and our inherited alignment to life. Very often the sickness comes from some misalignment or disintegrity, much of which comes from our ancestors wrong teaching, wrong diet, wrong behaviour, wrong attitudes and our sick and sinful society.

 

(John 5:18-19 KJV) Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

Life

 

(Gen 1:30 KJV) And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

 

(Gen 2:7 KJV) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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What is this thing called life?

 

The greatest and most precious gift in the universe and yet the most mysterious and poorly known – why?

 

The Bible gives reference to ‘life’, ‘the breath of life’ and ‘the tree of life’ – at first this is confusing, but looking deeper we see that – a new born baby has life, then it has breath and later it eats and grows… at each stage in the development it can die. Birth, breathing and eating are three separate processes – the first is a gift, the second ignites, the third sustains. Like a wick, flame and oil.

 

There are really only two fundamental parts to all ‘living’ things … A heart (nucleus) at centre and a soul (body) that forms a wrapper, both these parts are fundamentally one. What maintains their unity is the third ‘part’ which is not really a ‘part’ at all, but a flow of spirit, life, blood… whatever you care to name it.  Without this ‘flow’ there is no life or love and that is the truth.

 

The source of our life is the flow of spirit, the heart and soul form a temple only, a body, a building. God does not live in this temple. God cannot live in any temple. The spirit flows through every temple that has its windows and doors open. How else can God be omnipresent? The heart is the alter of God (love), this is where we commune with God. The human mind is like a priest ‘born’ in the temple, it can serve God or it can serve itself. It can be true or it can be deviant. This deviancy is the nature of ‘sin’.

 

Without love and respect for this magnificent 'tree of life', it is endangered. So man was driven from the perfect garden, because of the deviancy that blinded him. This loss, should have brought humanity to repentance (acknowledgment of sin), correction and realisation. It didn’t, so our sin continues to bring unnecessary suffering to all living things.

 

(Deu 30:19 KJV) I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

 

Health is a measure of our quality of life, originally this was not an issue, but as the corruption and pollution of the natural world and our ‘sinful’ activities has increased, the quality of our environment (air, water and food) has become increasingly contaminated.

 

Things that live ‘right’ (in-tune) rarely get sick, sickness comes when the flow of life has been compromised in some way. Even fungi, bacteria and viruses need a suitable living environment, in order to be able to reproduce. We provide this through our ignorant, fearful and greedy ‘ways’ of life.

 

 Unhealthy living things are effectively dying somewhere in their body, wherever the ‘problem’ is.

 

The dying process is actually a living process for those things which thrive in these ‘dying’ environments and their life continues only until the ‘problem’ is devoured or removed.  When ‘sickness’ has no place to live, it also dies.

 

(John 12:24-25 KJV) Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

 

 

Maths of Life

 

(Gen 6:19 KJV) And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female.

 

Sexuality is an amazing and apparently unnecessary thing, many creatures are quite capable of asexual reproduction and it seems, so is God, since God is both singular and all powerful. However that is not the purpose of this chapter and ultimately purpose is what really matters not the title or any other deviations, interesting though they may be.

 

It seems to me that we have become more obsessed with language and the naming of things than we have about understanding their purpose. Does it really matter whether we call a worker in the soil a ‘worm’ a ‘wazzel’ a ‘bivo’ or a ‘spoz’? The word and classification we stamp upon our perceptions of life are simply labels and handles for conversation and so often become obstacles to wisdom. You say potato and I say potarto…lets fight and get divorced, etc..

 

Next time you are at the beach or in the desert pick up a handful of dirt and look at how different every grain of sand and stone are.

 

 

Then proceed to give every unique item in your hand a number and a name and when you are finished, tell me what you know….. 

 

Then pick up another handful of dirt and continue until you have numbered and named the whole beach or the whole desert… Hopefully before you are finished you will realise that you too, without life are just ‘dirt’ by any other name or number

 

Many believe the ‘universe’ is expanding and if this is true, then one has to ask the question what is it expanding with? I suspect that like all singular and all-powerful things, it must be feeding itself with itself and thus creating space with change that we measure as time.

 

As a programmer of virtual things in a virtual world it is possible to create all manner of functions to change one thing into another by the application of rules and logic. The name we give these logic loops is entirely at the discretion of the author and may have no relationship to the function being performed. This is the nature of all functions and the change that we effect can be represented mathematically, such that we can take ONE thing and make it:

 

·         TWO – by DIVISION (/)

·         BIGGER – by ADDITION (+)

·         SMALLER – by SUBTRACTION (-)

·         MANY – by MULTIPLICATION (post division & parallel addition) (*)

 

It is written that God commanded Adam & Eve to go forth and MULTIPLY at a time when the Earth was empty of men. Taking this out of context and applying it to an overpopulated world today, would be a grave mistake. A function out of place and time is a dysfunction.

 

Fundamental economics dictates that whatever we ADD on one side of the equation must be SUBTRACTED from somewhere else. There is only ONE and we are all part and parcel of it. When we understand what each living thing adds and subtracts from the whole, we may get a better handle on what life is really all about and how we should live and die, in peace.

 

(Matthew 11:29 KJV) Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all num

 

After Life

 

(2 Sam 12:22-23 KJV) And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

 

Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries and sources of delusion is the human ignorance and imagination of what happens after death… So what happens to all those things which cease to live or fulfill their life’s purpose? What happens to the eggs that are never fertilized; the sperm that falls short; the flowers that are never pollinated; the seeds that never germinate; the trees that never bear fruit? 

 

The first misunderstanding is the nature of ‘life’… Life is a flow, a continuum, while “birth” and “death” are the significant ends of a cycle, like poles of north and south or positive and negative. The energy at the North pole is the same energy at the South pole, this energy can only be physically separated by something moving faster… or mentally separated, by ignorance…  So ‘life’ is as eternal as God, before and after are constructs of the human mind.

 

The second misunderstanding concerns the nature of the human soul.

 

(Gen 2:7 KJV) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

 

By this God given flow of 'energy' man becomes a “living soul”. A “soul” and a “human life” are synonymous, in the Bible.

 

Like the bolt of lightning and wired electrodes of Dr. Frankenstein, it is one thing to create a “living structure”, but it is another thing to manage its behaviour…  So when the monster contends with its maker, what is the maker to do?

 

(Gen 6:3 KJV) And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

 

It seems the “human soul” can function independently of the “spirit of God”, but is effectively purposeless, lost in imaginings and somehow dying.  I find myself very disturbed by religions that promise an after-life, because they devalue this precious gift of LIFE that we have now. I believe it is for man to live true NOW and let God worry about any after-effects. To live purely for an after-life reward is little different from being covetous now, it merely shifts one’s covetousness to the after-life, this is an evil delusion. A soul in the here and now is worth two gambled on a tenuous after life based on one’s own deluded self-righteousness. 

It is interesting to note there are 109 references to “Ghost” in the Kings James version of the Bible and every reference is about the “giving up” or the “receiving of” the spirit of God.

 

(Mat 22:29-32 KJV) Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

After Life (Part 2)

 

(1 Sam 28:15-16 KJV) And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

 

In Samuel Chapter 28 we see “Saul” a lost and deluded king desperate for answers reaching out to a woman with a “familiar spirit” in an attempt to contact the dead prophet Samuel to seek guidance from God. It raises many issues…

 

·         Saul had spent many years killing wizards and those with ‘familiar spirits’, so why the sudden hypocrisy?

 

·         What is a “familiar spirit”?

 

·         How could this woman contact a deceased Samuel?

 

·         And how could Samuel be summoned against his will and against the will of God?

 

The semantics of the 'living soul' and the 'spirit' create much confusion, much like the scientific debate over matter and energy...

 

Ultimately all matter is contained energy (spirit) in a spin. Each drop of water has individuality from the ocean only by its temporal structure and flavour (content). This content being dependent upon the environmental process and whatever is added or subtracted. In the same way that signals can be added to energy waves; a living sensual soul adds flavour to the spirit, a dead body or an empty container… adds nothing.

 

This flavour can be pure (in harmony with God) or unclean (discordant). Since all matter is spirit in a spin, when the container empties, the flavour persists and influences other things. Like radio waves, light and all other forms of EMR – energy at a particular frequency affect other circuits that resonate at familiar frequencies… very low frequencies can cause the human structure to rupture whereas very high frequencies pass straight through.  Microwaves can cook food by accelerating particles. All of this energy is invisible and extremely powerful…. Unfortunately, we tend only to use this energy destructively, because only God (love) can use it creatively.

 

Sensitive people use these ‘vibrations’ to tune into the ‘sprits of the dead’ and whatever else exists in that invisible realm…. Often to their own detriment, becoming obsessed and even possessed by such things. When one considers the billions of people in human history that have died – discordant deaths… this is probably not a good idea. And sometimes it happens unconsciously simply because of familiar spiritual resonance, creating on-going discordance and sickness in the living. Hence the phrase Rest in Peace and why Samuel was disquieted.

 

(Mat 12:43-45 KJV) When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

Are You What You Eat?

 

(Gen 2:16 KJV) And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

 

If we were destined to be what we eat, then men and women in paradise would have become fruit trees… and monkeys would be bananas. That being said… what we eat or take into our bodies changes (evolves) our nature, such that it influences our metabolism and that of generations born from our seed.

 

If I were God, I would NEVER have made creatures that needed to eat to live. I would have made creatures that are activated from the radiance of my being by my will. In much the same way humans have created radio-controlled toys and wirelessly linked devices. Yet even these ‘devices cannot function without some external source of ‘power’; energy flow from electric power stations, batteries, solar cells, etc. And so it is, if our devices require independent sources of power and limited self-control, but are overridden by their owners (gods) as and when required…. Why should organic bodies, be any different?

 

Without ‘power’ and undamaged circuits all our devices are just so much scrap metal, silicon, glass, plastic… and worse still, unreliable and potentially dangerous, until reduced to dust again.

 

Whether you accept evolutionary theories or accept the Genesis ‘tree of life’ allegory, ‘fruit’ is the most perfect food for the human design. It fits perfectly into our hands, fits perfectly into our mouths and provides the best flavours, vitamins and water content of any natural food. Not only this, but in eating fruit we DO NOT KILL, in fact, as seeds are scattered, we GIVE LIFE… Paradise IS a perfect purposeful evolving eco-nominal system.

 

Sure, today, you can go to the local supermarket and buy meat, milk, bread and fruit and you can give thanks to the supermarket chain for your daily bread, but this is the man made compromise for paradise lost – Everything you take off the shelf and put into your trolley, has a price tag and you are now enslaved to a governmental system, ruled by corporations and demi-gods who STOLE land and life, while most were kept busy slaving to save their skin (a mixture of sin and kin).. No other animal ‘lives’ like this, nor can.

 

The bread that you slave to buy from the supermarket wrapped in paper or plastic today is transported from the bakery, after being baked in vast ovens, shaped from massive amounts of kneaded dough, made from water and stockpiled flour, ground from millions of tons of grass seed, transported from farms that harvest thousands of acres of grass, often sprayed, yet often sown in season into the earth as genetically altered ‘seed’ to inhibit natural controls, where it either grows by the grace of God’s light, rain and life’s re-cycled nutrients or by man-made light, watering systems and fertilisers.

 

God is the collective name for the ‘free’ source, substance and provider of all existence including the intrinsic elements of light, rain and earth. Mankind and fruit naturally arrived together; we deny the ‘tree of life’, to our peril. Sold bread is the product of opportunists driving a manufacturing process at the expense of the land and human souls for profit. Whereas Jesus with God, once fed five thousand men, beside women and children with five loaves and two fishes, with little effort, for free… go figure, the nature of a prophet.

 

(Mat 26:26 KJV) And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

Balance

 

(Gen 3:3 KJV) But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

 

In the middle of an atom is something we know as a ‘nucleus’; In the middle of the Earth is something we imagine to know as a ‘molten core’; In the middle of our galaxy there is something we know as the ‘sun’; In the middle of the heavens is something we do not know; In the midst of the garden is the tree of Knowledge.

 

Once upon a time mankind knew and believed the Earth was flat; Once upon a time mankind knew and believed the earth was the centre of the universe; Once upon a time mankind knew and believed the sun was God.  Once upon a time mankind knew and believed that men can be Gods; Mankind continues to kill one another over such knowledge and beliefs, to prove their point, to impose their way and to gain status.

 

At the centre is Knowledge….. eat it or touch it and you can die.  Also at the centre is Life….. eat it or touch it and you can live.  How can two things co-exist at the centre, surely, only one thing can exist at the centre the other must be slightly off centre.

 

(Deu 30:19 KJV) I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

 

Our lives revolve around whatever we choose to centre on and if the centre we choose is off centre to the whole, then our lives will always be out of balance and out of true.

 

(Mat 6:24 KJV) No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

 

Before any thing can be balanced it must be centred.  The centre of anything is usually at it’s heart or that point at which all the opposing forces are in equilibrium.  When something is in balance it is sensitive and reacts perfectly.  Even a feather weighs something on a centred balance but an uncentred balance is insensitive, unreliable and untrue.

 

(Job 31:6 KJV) Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

 

Knowledge is centred  in our virtual world or mind, is always relative to our position in time / space and is based upon electro-chemical sensual stimulation which serves to separate and identify.  Life is centred in our heart, is constant regardless of time / space and is based upon an automatic system which serves to unify and neutralise.

 

When a man is out of balance with life, he is sick; When the world is out of balance with life the world is sick; When a man is in balance with the world, life is sick.

 

(Rom 1:28 KJV) And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

 

 

 

Breath

 

(Gen 2:7 KJV) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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Why is it that we acknowledge the being that provides air and nourishes us throughout our gestation period through an umbilical cord – as ‘our mother’… Yet we fail to acknowledge the being that provides air and nourishes us through our portals – as ‘Our Father’?

 

I am sure that if humanity had to sup air through a straw, it would begin to appreciate the significance of this exchange with our creator and all creation. Yet we have reduced this divine event to a simple word called ‘respiration’ – “The bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation”

 

Is that all it is?  Or is it indeed the whole divine act of initiating and maintaining a living soul…?

 

A new born baby that fails to take its first breath, quickly moves from birth to death, by-passing ‘life’.. Nine months in the making and yet, without breath, it was all in painful vain…

 

Breath is not something to take lightly; it is the fire in our soul… It is the very exchange between God and man that gives life, without it, we are all dead. We should be thankful for each breath, it is the greatest gift, ever received, for life…. But oh, how we take it for granted...

 

Like a candle flame, a mans life is quickly snuffed out without breath… Even the dead can be revived with breath… as long as that breath is a breath of fresh air… that magical substance we call ‘oxygen’ - produced by green plants, through the process known as ‘photosynthesis’ when light falls upon their leaves…  where else?

 

(Acts 17:24-25 KJV) God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

 

Like a candle flame a man’s life burns bright when he is full of ‘oxygen’ – It is not exercise that keeps you healthy, it is breath. Exercise is merely a way to increase the breathing rate, but if a candle consumes the ‘oxygen’ it acquires, then the brightness is short lived.

 

Many people die exercising, few people die breathing…  Indian yoginis learned the importance of breathing exercises while remaining static, such that the fire in a man’s soul could be heightened and enlightened. Facilitating supreme health, concentration and ‘god like’ powers. Indeed, if one measure of our relationship with God is in our life’s breath, then perhaps, we have foolishly filtered God out by our egotistical existence, the same way we filter images and sounds, at will, as desired. So, only desire for God can fix it.

 

(John 20:21-23 KJV) Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Death

 

(Gen 2:17 KJV) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

 

(Gen 5:5 KJV) And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

 

What is death and why does it happen?

 

(Gen 5:6-14 KJV) And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan: And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

 

930, 912, 905, 910, 840 and dropping….

 

There are a number of reasons for this; firstly, as the population increases, the resources if not kept in alignment with the population growth, decrease – resulting in the inevitable need for compromise or change. That is, if a bowl is designed to hold 2 goldfish perfectly, then it can only hold three goldfish imperfectly until something changes to restore the perfect balance again. This change can be positive; ie: expanding the bowl; or negative: ie: shrinking the size of the creatures or the population. The general consensus is that the giant lizards of long ago, became extinct, why couldn’t they just have shrunk with each successive generation, like our age (since the only alternative is culling / killing)?

 

There are 7 Billion 2 legged people on the earth, how many ants are there? How many humans could we fit in, if we were all 5mm tall?

 

(Gen 6:4 KJV) There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

 

Some have said that we start to die the moment we are born… but this is not true, we actually start to live the moment we are born, we only start to die, when our life is compromised or constrained in some way, at some place and some time.  Sickness, like murder has a causative agent, since all things are naturally created to live out their true purpose and then die.

 

In the 1930’s a man named ‘Royal Rife’ dedicated much of his life to creating a microscope that revealed a ‘virus’ that caused cancer, he later went on to invent a frequency generator that could exterminate the virus. He was at first hailed a genius, then later somewhat crucified by political, pharmaceutical and medical agendas for $’s. His work was never replicated and billions have since died, of failed cancer treatments.

 

Death starts in a compromised place and then spreads like a fungal fruit in a bowl of fruit or a fungal cell in a body of cells. 

 

(John 11:4 KJV) When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

Fear & Fences

 

(Gen 3:10-12 KJV) And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

 

The fall of man is encapsulated in this paragraph, it is a fall from ‘faith’ to ‘fear’ – it is an immeasurable distance, with inconceivable consequences. Also in this paragraph we see the first ‘barrier’ used between God and man, it is the body of a woman, used in fear and shame, to protect man from the wrath of God. We still use living creatures as body guards, protectors and guardians…. for fear of pain and we even use this fear itself as a way of protection (eg: Beware of the doG).

 

The second barrier we use covers our ‘nakedness’…. Our early clothes were leaves and stolen skins, but today we have reached sophisticated levels of production of cotton, hemp, wool, leather and man made fibres, etc.. Today the wheels of industry cover our skin, while perpetuating dangerous environmental monocultures, financial empires, enslaving humanity and consuming the earths diminishing resources… What other ‘living being’ steals dead skins off other creatures backs or wears clothes it manufactures… for fear of exposure? 

 

The third barrier we use protects our ‘property’ and consists of wood, stone, mud, straw, glass, brick, concrete, metal and even water moats surrounding the castles of our choice… for fear of man and nature. Yet in our fear, ignorance and greed we have destroyed vast forests of living trees that have taken centuries to grow, destabilising the earth’s water cycle. We have also excavated and undermined vast areas for mineral resources, destabilising the earth’s soil. To what gain?

 

The fourth barrier we use is the invisible power of the intellect and the imagination, leading to the masking of our true identity and the imposition of laws that test and divide for fear of personal or cultural chaos. Yet fear is probably the greatest cause of such chaos.

 

The polar bear wanders the artic as a nomad; it has no hiding place, for it is designed to live day and night in such conditions without fear. It has only two enemies, overheating (global warming) and man…. Or is that one enemy?

 

Our bodies are full of holes that need to breathe and we are covered in fat and hair that comes and goes with nature…  The human body is often considered the temple of God. Why then, do we cover this temple with cloth and then cover this cloth with wood, stone, metal and glass in order to create a ‘temple of God’ acceptable to the fear, ignorance, greed and vanity of men?

 

(Mat 10:26-31 KJV) Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Freedom

 

(Exo 21:2-6 KJV) If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

 

Captive birds or animals that are set ‘free’ seldom live long – because they have often had their natural instincts for life, stunted and twisted in captivity to the human will. All things are altered by the environment in which they dwell…. Manmade environments create real problems that damage our true nature.

 

It is often a matter of perception and balance, since an animal that is fed every day and petted, will happily waste away its life on your doormat, or on your fences. Though you may consider yourself its master, we in turn are mastered by our appetites and pleasures

 

Often we are mastered by our senses, emotions or by our own thoughts and desires that grow like weeds and replicate habitually, to take over our mind space.

 

A ‘pet’ cat, though well fed and provided for, will often resort back to its primal nature to catch a bird a mouse or any small moving creature – and what of humanity?

 

‘Freedom’ is inexplicably bound to our ‘God given nature’ and is only temporarily distorted by human regulations. It doesn’t matter whether you call the creative and sustaining power ‘mother nature’; energy; phlogiston; Allah; Buddha; YHWH; or Baca-doolah.. the point is, our author, is much bigger than you or I, our thoughts, words or deeds…. Have you ever considered… Why…?

 

·         Adam was cast out of paradise (the land where all provision for life, is free)?

·         did God, flood the ‘man made world’ and save only the animals and Noah?

·         did Abraham choose to live ‘freely’ on the land away from the City of Sodom?

·         did the Jews exodus the ‘riches’ of Egypt to go back to ‘hardship’ of the land?

·         didn’t John the Baptist and Jesus embrace the ‘imposed’ Roman way of life?

 

Every great ‘man made’ civilization crumbles, because they are unsustainable and out of harmony with ‘free’ universal forces. America was once a ‘land of the free’ where buffalo roamed freely and the natives, lived the ‘lotto of evolution’ and natural provision without ownership. These days most ‘Americans’ spend 48 weeks a year slaving away to maintain their artificial lifestyle waiting on those few vacation weeks a year, when they can get back to nature and be free of it all.  Can you see the Irony… our ‘enslavement’ to the industrial revolution, the legacy of Rome and the iron age?

 

I believe in ‘freedom’ for all things and ‘free’ trade’… but there is no freedom in a world manipulated and governed by corporations, governments, gangs and organized crime….. only deluded captivity. Some consider ‘death’ the greatest freedom, but this is delusion… there is no freedom in disease, so how can there be freedom when the body that facilitates earthly movement is deceased.  Without life, love and true purpose, we become prisoners of our delusions or someone else’s.

 

(John 8:32-34 KJV) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Freedom (Part 2)

 

(Deu 15:12-14 KJV) And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

 

It has always amazed, though not surprised me, how sinful human nature selectively filters words and laws that it does not wish to hear or heed. The American Civil war between the North and the South was effectively over the abolition of slavery. Yet here we see that if every slave had been liberated in their 7^th year… such a war would never have transpired between brothers and sisters… so who or what is to blame?

 

Without freedom, there can be no justice. Without justice, there can be no peace.

 

Yet, we see a perverse kind of ‘freedom’ proffered by men… it is a freedom that comes at a price… it says… “sell your soul to me and I will feed and clothe you”.  It says… “sell yourself to me and I will pay you a wage”. It says… “join my corporation and I will make you rich”… It says… “All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.”

 

If we do not give up our ‘freedom’, there are many things that would try and steal it from us… in the physical realm… we can be taken captive by brute force or we can be weighed down by our accumulated material baggage, such that when it comes time to move, we cannot. In the welfare realm… we can be taken captive by our need for money, often forced to commit despicable, though legal acts, to earn enough to buy a crust of bread, yet to steal a crust of bread directly would have you legally criminalized. In the emotional realm… we can be crippled by controlling relationships or the emotional accountability of a heavy conscience… and regardless of which form of imprisonment your captivity takes… it really only has one shape…. DEBT and this is closely followed by DEATH.

 

You can be born into DEBT, placed in DEBT by others or you can place yourself in DEBT or just upsize with a DEBT combo.

 

DEBT is a prison… yet it is a prison of our own making. There is no DEBT in paradise. God's balance, by nature, is always managed to zero. Anything bigger than the 'eye of a needle' is sinful in God's heavenly economy. Air is free, sunlight is free, water is free, land is free… life is free…. plants, trees and fruits grow freely…. Men were born free…. so who or what put us in DEBT, if not our sinful ways?

 

Is it for a handful of sinful men to unjustly manage the universe, the earth and the resources of this beautiful planet… or is it the responsibility of a just and selfless God?

 

Every day in the world of men, we see corporation gobble up corporation and in so doing each becomes a slave of the winning corporation… and in the final analysis when everyone works for the ONE BIG corporation and its board of investors… that own all the air, the sunlight, the water, the land and our lives… who will we buy our produce from and to whom will we sell it and to whom will we pay tax?

 

(Mat 17:25-26 KJV)  He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.

 

Live & Let Die

 

(Gen 2:17 KJV) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

 

From my early days I have loved ‘nature’, though not really knowing what ‘nature’ was that I loved or indeed what it was that I termed ‘love’. To me, ‘nature’  was the natural living world I saw all around me… and ‘love’ was my feelings of fascination with life, being alive, free and happy.

 

Yet my love was not one of childish emotional attachment, it was a respect for living things and indeed the whole miraculous process and diversity of life, from the tiniest flower and insect to the larger mammals that filled the beautiful ‘English’ hills, valleys, meadows and forests full of fresh air, sunshine and rain… I recognised very early on, that every living thing is somehow dependent of every other living thing for breath, food and being, in some amazing and miraculous web of life.

 

Yesterday (some 50 years on), I sat and watched a beautifully photographed documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough on ‘Africa’ where a herd of elephants during a drought abandoned a starving calf that was watched over by its mother until it died. The same documentary showed how a bird (a shoebill) living in the swamps on catfish, allowed its older sibling to peck and reject the younger unto death… Is this right?

 

Nature is harsh, but is proven ‘right’ by its sustainability. The earth and any place where we may choose to live, has limited resources, to live without regard to life’s sustainability is to err, be stupid and sinful. Can every sperm be saved and if so, to what end?

 

From a human perspective of objective attachment that overrules the wisdom of nature… we often attempt to preserve every living thing to the detriment of life’s sustainability. And in so doing, we are then forced to make on-going decisions about what should live and what should die. Surely these decisions are best left to ‘nature’, natural selection and the whole evolutionary process that appears to prune the tree of life in harmony with planetary forces (aka: Mother Nature or Father God).

 

Noble parents die so that their children’s children can live… Even in the corporate world, who can be promoted if the hierarchy is static? The growth of life is dependent on a moving cycle and if you cannot keep pace with the cycle, then it is time to drop out or drop off.  This is not to say that if the parents or the environment can carry and sustain their offspring until they are stronger and more capable, that they shouldn’t or vice versa. However, very often we see that the consequences of saving that which should be lost, is greater loss further down the track… to ALL involved.

 

Without understanding the rules of life and our accountability to the whole, we react to events at points in time from our ignorance (little knowledge) consequently disrupting, what is a natural and sustainable process, applauding ourselves along the way… though not realising that our way is flawed by our knowledge, to the detriment of all life.

 

Do not be deluded... In his day, Jesus was a 'Jew', not a 'Christian'.

 

(John 11:47-48 KJV) Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.

Resurrection

 

(Dan 12:1-3 KJV) And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

 

It is interesting to note in the passage above, Daniel refers to many that ‘sleep’ in the dust, the general interpretation is that these ‘sleepers’ are the ‘dead’ and buried, though many creatures do actually ‘sleep’ in the dust. Naturally, the dead and buried are devoured down to the bone, by worms and grubs and generally turn to dust, they don’t sleep. But what is impossible with God?

 

Confusion surrounds the natural processes of birth and death and the resurrection of the dead, because of the miraculous workings of the prophets (men of God):  The first Biblical resuscitation of the dead occurs in ‘2 Kings 4:32-34 KJV’, where Elisha the prophet restores life to the Shunammite woman’s son. In ‘John 11:38-44 KJV’ we see Jesus perform a similar resuscitation of Lazarus, who had been dead for 4 days and was stinking, only this time Jesus commands him to life. Similarly, Jesus himself after 3 days of entombment is also miraculously raised to life again. Yet this resurrection is not about raising the dead, it requires a resurrection through faith (connection) with the living God. Why else would Jesus respond to one of his disciples in this way. (Mat 8:21-22 KJV) And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

 

Jesus was crucified, yet miraculously maintained a connection with life and God. This is vital, without this connection, resurrection is impossible. Like many things in the world restoration is only possible if the integrity remains to enable restoration to its former condition. The foundational structure of man is cellular and dependent upon the elements that surrounds us. Our evolved structure and behaviour is miraculously encoded into a chemical composite of DNA. Fire destroys this. Would Jesus have been wholly resurrected if he had been damaged beyond repair, beheaded or burned alive?

 

We die when we become disconnected from life, from God and the elements that flow through our bodies and give us life. We live again when this flow continues. Likewise, a living tree that takes 100 years to grow can be cut down in 10 minutes, yet who could believe that a dead tree can be reconnected to the earth to produce fruit or be raised again to a special place in the sky? Anyone who has lived would have seen and smelt that a disconnected dead tree roots and decays back into the earth if not ‘magically’ preserved or re-planted in love.

 

The only difference between the dead and the living in Jesus terms is faith and those in faith are connected (as one) through life and do not die.

 

(John 11:21-26 KJV) Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Sustainability

 

(Deu 30:4-6 KJV) If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

 

Looking through the history books and archaeology of humanity we see that it is littered with civilisations that have come and gone. Yet life goes on uninterrupted… within a few months untended gardens become unmanageable and within a few years’ buildings start to decay, the wood rots, the metal rusts and even plastic becomes brittle. Within a100 years every neglected home is buried beneath trees and soil. It is not that nature hates us… it is just that the way we live is in contradiction to life.

 

It is said that the aboriginals of Australia lived on the continent for 50,000 years, this time is almost impossible to establish because they kept no records and didn’t write any history books… all their history and laws were transmitted from generation to generation by mouth. Their cultural tools remained basic and their love and respect for all living things and one another as brothers and sisters was far superior to invading ‘Christians’… who in just under 0.5% of that time managed to push the aboriginals to unwanted areas, splitting up families and exterminating 22 unique mammals and God knows how many other indigenous species.

 

Australia was a well loved and preserved continent for fifty thousand years, but in just 250 years (4-5 generations) European settlement has seen the destruction of vast forests of mighty trees, the plundering of mineral resources, the introduction of ecologically dangerous species, the overfishing and polluting of waterways and oceans, the fencing of most of the continent and the erosion of freedom. Clearly this level of containment and consumption makes life unsustainable… not to mention the politically created inequalities, the underlying poverty, the civilised perversions, prostitution, drugs, the hidden corruption, crime, violence, and the potential conflicts, that are destined to occur as multiculturalism turns to racial hatred…. And to what end?

 

Religion; Law and order; health; wealth; power, money; greed; peace and paradise?

 

The human mind is unbelievable, failing to acknowledge what caused the problems of the old world and changing… it just seeks new and more beautiful regions that it can inhabit, never realising that wherever it goes, the despoiler of paradise is within, not without, so whatever we touch with our flawed thinking and ways… will always be cursed.

 

It is laughable to think that man can boldly go to other planets and befriend alien species, we can’t even befriend the ones we have on earth…. this is just more delusion. And why do we seek to go to other planets?   Because we have all but consumed and exhausted this one….  go figure…

 

(Luke 12:29-32 KJV) And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

The Ten Commandments

 

(Exo 34:27-28 KJV) And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

 

I have often wondered why God didn’t give the law to the former patriarchs – why not Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel) or Joseph – why was the law only given to the Israelites after they had spent 430 years, mostly as slaves, in Egypt? Could it be that formerly, they didn’t need to live by rule or wrote, because they lived in relationship (with love, truth and life). Aren’t external rules only necessary to retrain our distorted nature?

 

Reading through the book of Exodus again, I was shocked to discover that the ‘Ten Commandments’ in the “covenant” were not as depicted by Hollywood or what so many other religious teachers had prescribed to me over the years. Read on:

 

(Exo 34:12-15 KJV)  Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. (1?)

 

(Exo 34:17 KJV)  Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. (2?)

 

(Exo 34:18 KJV)  The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. (3?)

 

(Exo 34:19-20 KJV)  All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. (4?)

 

(Exo 34:21 KJV)  Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. (5?)

 

(Exo 34:22 KJV)  And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.  (6?)

 

Exo 34:23-24 KJV)  Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. (7?)

 

(Exo 34:25 KJV)  Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. (8?)

 

(Exo 34:26 KJV)  The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. (9?)

 

(Exo 34:26 KJV)  Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. (10?)

 

(Exo 34:27 KJV)  And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

 

(Exo 34:28 KJV)  And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

 

(John 8:4-7 KJV) They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Three Ways

 

(Gen 9:19 KJV) These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

 

Three is a significant number throughout scripture and for all of us, since our perception of the nature of all things is to have a 1. start; 2. a middle; and  3. an end; each being relative to the whole sequence or cycle.

 

This topic is more about the nature of our perceived reality: the concepts of :

1. Positive;  2. Neutral and 3. Negative. each being relative to the whole.

 

What exactly are we measuring?  And how can we measure something with nothing?

 

This diagram is an attempt to highlight the problem. Since all measurements are relative to a scale and the instrument of measure.

 

 

Each concept is relative to the whole and by changing the context of the scale it is possible to shift measurements such that what was originally in the scale of black, bad or negative belongs in the scale of white, good or positive.

 

Human truth is relative and on a sliding scale, which is why it is so dangerous…. If accepted blindly or without wisdom.

 

In terms of the human spirit we see 3 main ‘attitudes’  or ‘wills’:

·         The Loving; 2. The Indifferent; 3. The Hateful… We could also represent them as :

·         The productive; 2. The idle; 3. The consuming…

·         The givers; 2. The withholding; 3. The takers…

 

In terms of making these 3 attitudes a way for people to follow…  We formulate our ways with rules into religions such as: 1.Christianity; 2.Zen; 3,Satanism.

 

Often in our formulations we fail to align our way with the way of heaven and earth and this is the real issue…

 

Spirit or energy is impossible to measure, unless one contend with it and the result is a relative bi-product of the contention, it is not a measure of the truth. One can only enter into Spirit and Truth.

 

 

Many people love their neighbours as themselves (in humanism), but unless we place the love of God and heaven and earth FIRST, we have no single higher authority for life or truth to which we are all accountable…. And we will always be lost in our own thinking.

 

(Luke 12:52-53 KJV) For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Love

 

(Deu 6:4-5 KJV) Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

 

This is generally considered the first commandment or law. So, what does it mean ‘to love’ and more importantly, how do we ‘love’ this invisible Lord, our God?

 

Love, in this context, has much more to do with willing and faithful (obedient) servitude than ‘human emotion’, since one cannot serve, unless one has a master to serve and how can one serve a master that one does not know….. or know how to please?

 

The foundation of LOVE must be ‘relationship’ (proximity of heart, soul and body), not religion. Rules and Commandments are for the unruly and the disobedient. And so it is, the child that is raised in love does not need policies and legislation to teach it how to love. Though many need a re-education in multiplication, to realise the value of 1 x 1.

 

(Mat 19:5 KJV) For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be ONE flesh?

 

As the human father of 5, I spent at least 30 years of my life serving my children until they were old enough to function independently. And this is as it should be… I did not have children to serve me, to love me or to look after me in my old age. Neither did I pass laws over them to love me with all their heart and soul. Rightly or wrongly, I loved and cared for them as best I could and shared the hope that they would realise love as the greater part of life. Indeed, when the unity of our marriage failed, they lost faith in this ‘way’… and so it is…. unrealised hopes and dreams, distraction, dysfunction, hypocrisy and conflicting knowledge - ruin relationships, because they all damage faith… for ultimately ‘faith’ is a constancy of love.

 

So, when the father or the father’s love fails, who do we trust and which ‘way’ do we go?

 

In the absence of ‘God’, whatever we serve, whether family, friends, work, play, sex, drugs or rock n roll…. It effectively rules our “time and space” and becomes - our ‘god’.

 

The Greeks described 4 different feelings of love:

·         Agápe – the feeling of closeness in spirit (or heart and mind).

·         Éros – the feeling of desire for physical intimacy.

·         Philia – the feeling of closeness and affection in friendship.

·         Storge – the feeling of closeness and affection in family

 

The problem with ‘feelings’ is they are internal, only the person experiencing them is aware they exist… And even if they are externalised through communication, the recipient often feels otherwise or may ‘feel’ the same… resonating in the moment. Sadly, the nature of ‘feelings’ is that they come and go, as do all who place feelings, before faith.

 

Love (God), can only be realised through ever increasing unity through faith: 1x1x1x… a sharing of all things… above and beyond electrons, quarks and strings.

 

(John 17:22-23 KJV) And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Love (Part 2)

 

(Lev 19:18 KJV) Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

 

The greater part of love is respect…

 

In the Old Testament children are commanded to honour their father and mother so that all may be well with their lives… honour is respect, it produces a humility in the human soul by giving preference to the previous generation. If you cannot give honour and respect to your earthly mother and father, then it is unlikely that you can give love and respect to your heavenly father.

 

Though, if your earthly mother and father have ceased to walk faithfully in the way of love, then it is better to choose love (aka: God) over their ways and this is where respect for parents is usually lost… somewhere along the way… without love.

 

One of the biggest problems with religious law is the imposition of love by wrote and by verbal force…. Since humanity is made in the image and likeness of God, it is easy for us to love because it comes naturally to us as children. However, it is also easy to damage this natural love through the imposition of laws from without.  Forcing anything will usually twist and distort it. The quickest way to destroy the ‘joy’ in anything naturally spontaneous is to force people to do it.

 

It really doesn’t matter whether this force is encouragement in the form of a carrot, or physical punishment in the form of a stick… they are both attempts to manipulate human behaviour by external means and are doomed to fail.

 

Love is a personal responsibility and part of our childlike nature, it cannot be imposed by parents through acts of sensual or emotional blackmail or by beatings.

 

Consider a plant that naturally blooms in the spring… no amount of fertiliser, watering, artificial light or talking to, grounding or beatings will make the plant bloom any sooner or more productively…. What the plant really needs is love. It needs the right amount of fertiliser, the right amount of water, the right amount of light and the right amount of pruning (if any). Anything more or less is either abuse or neglect. The only way we can know the ‘right’ amount is to be in love (harmony) and communion with its nature, its natural design and its natural maker. Love is what is right!  Without love, we err.

 

Being a parent is a huge responsibility, but this responsibility is made lighter when we walk in love with God. Parents are really stewards of their children, they do very little to create them – parents have little control over the creation and replication of their eggs or their sperm, such is our nature and nature is the expressed will of our God.

 

Being a neighbour is also our responsibility, for we are not alone on this earth and unless we spread love, it dies with us.

 

(John 15:17-19 KJV) These things I command you, that ye love one another.  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Love (Part 3)

 

(Lev 19:34 KJV) But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

 

Love is too important a subject not to warrant a few pages… but to the self centered, it is just another 4-letter word...

 

Yet, evil will and words like ‘fuck’, devalue sexual union which is part and parcel of this great gift of love. To the materialist love does not exist, it is invisible, intangible, beyond objective knowledge and all reason…. as is Spirit.

 

Though it is written: (1 John 4:8 KJV) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

 

Love, Spirit and Energy are effectively one and the same, Love is the cause… Spirit is the effect. Love is a constant, Spirit flows. The Holy Spirit flows from selfless Love. Evil Spirits flow from self centred motives other than pure love, ie: ignorance, fear, greed, lust, jealousy; anger; hatred; etc…

 

Love makes things whole, through the flow of the Holy Spirit, which is always good, right and just. Evil is not motivated by love… it is motivated by selfish purpose through ignorance (false knowledge), fear and desire, causing destabilisation thru self-centric bias..

 

Ultimately… what motivates is “WILL” … the will of God is… LOVE.

 

LOVE (aka: God) is the pure and selfless cause and motivation behind all creation and sustainability of existence… without bias… just, balanced, eternal and perfect.

 

To be in the will of God, one must be in LOVE… it is fundamentally a selfless blissful state of harmony with our creator and all creation…  Without submission to LOVE, we are ruled by our submission to twisted motives and evil spirits that we empower in our stupidity.

 

Love is the frequency of God, to be out of tune with Love… is to be out of tune with God.

 

Without LOVE we are like lost wireless devices…out of communion and wilfully choosing our own ‘way’ between:

·         Inventing our own purpose

·         Doing nothing

·         Repenting and re-tuning ourselves...

 

LOVE is the First and Second Commandment!!!

 

Man is made in the image and likeness of God… yet when we fail to love, we fail to achieve our divine likeness…. It is not enough to listen, talk, write or sing of love, we must walk in love… and this requires faith in God.

 

Faith is unfailing LOVE, love never fails, we fail love, without faith.

 

(Mat 24:11-14 KJV)  And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

 

 

Compassion

 

(Gen 1:27 KJV) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 

One day after drinking a glass of coffee laced with honey. A fly landed on the rim of my near empty glass and proceeded to walk around the rim licking as it moved, further and further into the glass, until it lost its grip and fell into the coffee dregs at the bottom of the glass where it struggled for its life. While all this occurred, another smaller fly had also landed on the rim of the glass and moved into the glass but seemed totally unmoved by the first fly’s fate and made no attempt to reach down or rescue this first fly. Moved to compassion I emptied the contents of the glass onto the grass, where this half-drowned fly could recover from its ordeal.

 

Humans are gifted with a capability that is very different from insects and probably from any other creature on the planet – we can show mercy, we can be compassionate and we can love. Without exercising this capability, we are naturally worse off than insects, for we have only 2 legs and cannot fly.

 

This begs the question – how is man created in the image of God?

 

Surely a flying God with an exoskeleton, six legs and immense strength is more capable of superhuman qualities than a fleshy, land bound, two-legged creature?

 

Such a creature without compassion is also capable of immense damage….is this the nature of God?

 

The prophet said: ‘Every important matter which is not begun with, ‘In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful’ is maimed.’

 

The prophet was right, the problem is – it has to be more than just said, it needs to be understood and lived.  The deceptive nature of human thought, words and action makes it easy to feign mercy, compassion and love.  There is no compassion in terrorist bombing. That is like mercilessly pouring hot water on a fly that is drowning in coffee.  We are all in this glass together… only loving action leads to enlightenment, not religious or holy wars.

 

God is all compassionate because God’s giving knows no bounds, all of God’s love is a sacrifice… but it is a sacrifice based on giving. There is no sacrifice in taking, especially in an attempt to elevate oneself in the religious ranks. This is the nature of stupidity (or sin).

 

Man is made in the image and likeness of God at his heart and in his spirit… If we miss this point we miss everything, we miss this precious gift that is ours and ours alone. It is the gift of love. It is the treasure that is buried within us that is greater than all the external trappings the world has to offer that rust and decay… It is what makes us truly human and truly sons of God. How can we aspire to be sons of God, when we deny our Godly inheritance and, in our ignorance, fear and greed – live worse than human flies licking our way to our death by exploiting the living and the dead and for what purpose?

 

(Mat 22:20-21 KJV) And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

Charity

 

(Gen 4:3 KJV) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

 

The abstraction of language (Babylon) and the varying semantics of generations has resulted in much confusion.  Simple words like offering, charity, love and sacrifice are used synonymously and yet they are often used out of context as bait to deceive the gullible.

 

An offering is something that is given and in the case of an offering to God, it is something that is given back to God as a way of saying thank you, it is an act of gratitude. A sacrifice is an offering that you really want or need, but give up anyway (in humility) as recognition to the overarching value or supremacy of the recipient. If we had to measure our attitudes of gratitude, on the one hand we have disposability or a throwing away and on the other hand we have a deep reverence, respect and joy of recognition and a desire to please and thank our maker. Cain and Abel were judged on the attitude of their gratitude.

 

When it comes to words like love and charity, these are intangible or ‘spiritual’ concepts surrounding our relationships which incorporate affection, connection and communion. Indeed the first reference to ‘love’ in the Old Testament is really a reference to Isaac’s affection for a particular food, his tongue and his stomach:

 

(Gen 27:4 KJV) And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

 

In this instance ‘love’ and ‘like’ become synonymous, we love what we value or place value on. And if someone were to ask you, what do you love about it, you would often be stuck for an answer, because often what binds us to other things is ‘intangible’ and beyond our understanding and words or maybe it is superficial and will fall apart if we analyse it too much….  What binds a hand to an arm or an eye to the brain? Clearly such things are intrinsically one…. But when it comes to our relationship with other things… we often struggle for real unity.

 

In truth we all sup air from the same tank, we all drink liquid from the same fountain and we all eat matter from the same trough. And the tank, fountain and trough are provided by an unknown agency and the air, liquid and matter are the substance of our being. Yet the substance is not the activating force, because all these things can exist independently of our being alive. Charity is simply sharing what is not ours to withhold.

 

If you don’t believe me, try holding your breath.

 

Love like God is really the invisible and intangible spirit that binds us as one…. offerings, sacrifice and charity are simply human acts of expression, often in recognition of this love, but more often from feelings of pain, guilt, sympathy or just for show.

 

(Mat 6:2-3 KJV) Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

Faithful and True

 

(Num 12:6-8 KJV) And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

 

How can any man be faithful and true to God?

 

Most men these days do not believe in God, so what, for them, is there to be faithful and true to?

 

Ironically many of these men can be faithful and true to their wives and faithful and true to their children… some are even faithful and true to their football team and maybe as children they were faithful and true to their parents, though this may be stretching a point.

 

So, what does it mean to be faithful and true?

 

It is probably summarised in the message – “love your neighbour as yourself”. Since no man is unfaithful and untrue to himself. Though he is probably unfaithful and untrue to what he may believe at times. Since the emotions and the senses often have more pulling power than the mind. And in this, we find the dilemma of human hypocrisy and our human knowledge-based belief.

 

Belief is mere mental acceptance of some idea, experience, written text or ‘fact’ – and this can change like the weather. Once they believed the world was flat.  Even the devil believes in God, belief is of little value.  It is also easy to believe a ‘lie’.

 

Belief is not the same as Faith, neither is ‘a fact of human knowledge’ the same as Truth.

 

Faith and Truth are inextricably bound. A servant is faithful and true through obedient action, whereas a son is faithful and true through active love for righteousness.

 

Can anyone be faithful and true to an invisible and apparently absent God or father??

 

This is a massive ask of any man, yet the problem is not God’s invisibility or absenteeism. The problem is our blindness, our business, distractions and beliefs (sin) that separate us from the presence and communion of God. Remember…. the Sabbath holy day?

 

WHO if not our “loving God” takes us from ‘nothing’ and makes us sons, providing us with life, blood, air, water, food, family, friends and everything else worthwhile under Heaven?  But, instead of giving thanks, we behave like spoilt ungrateful brats, who deny, complain and live in ignorance, fear and greed…. reducing ourselves to nothing, yet again.

 

(Rev 19:11-13 KJV) And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

Family

 

(Gen 3:16-17 KJV) Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

 

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

 

Because of ‘Sin’ – family was cursed with seven key things:

 

1.    Sad wives

2.    Increased sexual activity

3.    The painful labour of childbirth

4.    The battle of the sexes

5.    Male deafness to female nagging

6.    Hard work

7.    Sad mealtimes

 

So, who had the happiest family life in the Bible?

 

Noah’s wife remains unnamed – this may be because they were one flesh… she is referenced only as Noah’s wife, in the same way one would reference Noah’s arm or leg.

 

Abraham and Sarah waited for years to conceive a promised child, Abraham lost faith and conceived the first ‘Arab’ with his maid and eventually Sarah at 80 conceived the first ‘Israeli’ and the war still rages today.

 

Isaac loved his son Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah his wife, loved their other son Jacob. Rebekah tricked Isaac into blessing Jacob instead of Esau and so Esau was a hunter gatherer in conflict with Jacob who became a farmer.

 

Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. But he was tricked and ended up with her older sister initially though eventually Joseph was born to Rachel after much anguish.

 

Joseph was the dreamer with the coat of many colours, despised by his siblings  and eventually cast into the pit (because he was dads favourite).. who turned up in the court of Pharoh and saved them all later after spending time in prison because of pharoh’s wife, who had tried to seduce him. So we can gather from this that Pharoh’s marriage was not that good either.

 

Family… must be based on trust and trust must be based on truth, if it is to succeed.

 

(Mat 19:4-8 KJV) And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Fear V Faith

 

(Gen 9:2 KJV) And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

 

Seems to me the only difference between a wild animal and a tame one (or a pet) is the amount of fear or faith (trust) they have in another being’s proximity.

 

Any neglected or abused pet goes wild…. till it finds someone it can place it’s faith in, that is, someone who does it no harm and maybe even provides regularly for it’s welfare. And if this never happens - then it stays wild. And what is the nature of wild things? Generally, they live in a spirit of fear and self-seeking, since without someone who cares, they are forced to care for themselves.

 

Without doubt, this fear is produced by trauma, pain and loss… in the Genesis chapter referenced, the whole vegetative earth has just been wiped out and creatures have just become food for Noah and his kin…. So, without fear and flight… all creatures were in danger of extinction like the trusting flightless Dodo.

 

So fear is not necessarily a negative thing… In fact, one of the key tenets to the acquisition of wisdom is the fear of God.  So how can such fear bring faith? Well by fearing God one is brought into alignment with what is right and true – and this is the test of faith and indeed the definition of true faith is alignment with the will of God, as exemplified by Jesus.

 

The same result can also be achieved through love and obedience, the main difference being that fear is imposed, while love and obedience are inspired. And it is much quicker to impose fear than it is to wait for love and obedience to arise in the hearts and minds of the people.  Fear holds the stick, while love holds the biscuit (most times a whole packet).

 

Regimes of fear are short lived, unless the end objective is to bring the populous into an enlightened state of what is right and true. Sadly, most human regimes of fear are designed to manipulate and control for a dictatorial agenda and not an altruistic one.

 

Crossing the line from fear to faith, takes a loving relationship, so that trust can be built and maintained. When relationships break down, they have crossed from faith to fear.

 

The interesting thing is that in ‘innocence’ children have no fear, they are open to faith and are by nature trusting. Animals and angels avoid men, because, unless they have been ‘born again’ and returned to innocence – men, by tainted nature, cannot be trusted.

 

Over the years many men have made attempts to show God that they can be trusted, this normally takes the form of some kind of ‘special’ gift on a raised altar.

 

Men also perform similar acts to gain the trust of women, but armed with such knowledge who is faithful and true and who is just setting a trap with bait, for the unwise?

 

(Mat 10:28 KJV) And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

 

Integrity

 

(Job 2:3 KJV) And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

 

Integrity is a quality of being true to the rules or purpose for which one exists. Integrity is not one thing, it is many things which are combined together to produce a whole thing that cannot or will not be compromised.

 

The integrity of a thing is always more likely to be breached at it’s weakest point.  In human terms this is expressed initially in words by the process of complaining or groaning as the weakest point is placed under stress by either being pulled (or tempted) or pushed (pressurized).  Often the weakness or sensitivity is a consequence of being too focused (out of balance) in a certain area of one’s life.  This focus then becomes the ‘pivotal point’ of one’s life, so anything that threatens this ‘pivotal point’ is met with rejection or hostility. Anything that enhances this ‘pivotal point’ is met with welcome or desire. This pivotal point could be anything that brings a feeling of worth or value to one’s life. ie: Wealth, Power, Friends, Family, even your own flesh.  It is impossible to judge the integrity of something without subjecting it to stringent testing and observation. Disintegration occurs when something is either pulled or falls apart.

 

In the case of ‘Job’ we see a man whose life is torn apart, his children are killed, his body is subjected to disease and his wife and friends abuse him, yet his heart remains true to his God.  So integrity is a heart issue, it is not based on apparent external appearance or opinion. It is the whole heart which holds our whole life together.

 

In fact, many people look like they ‘have their life together’, but when trouble comes, their apparent ‘togetherness’ is compromised because their stability was founded on temporal things.

 

(Mat 6:21 KJV) Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

 

How can we store up treasure in heaven? By establishing in our heart those things which are truly valuable, the qualities that are Godly – Love, truth, mercy, justice, etc, etc.  When these things are established in the heart, the integrity remains, even when the world tempts the senses in all manner of directions, because ultimately the heart either rules or is overruled.  When it is overruled – our integrity is breached and all hell breaks loose.  The highest form of integrity is one that ‘lives’ for the good of all things, not for the good of itself, or for the good of its own, or for the good of some things. It lives for the big picture, even at the cost of itself.

 

(Mat 17:12 KJV) And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.  But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

Interdependence

 

(Gen 1:30 KJV) And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

 

When we look at creation, we see incredible interdependence and it is amusing to hear narratives that express how a particular plant or animal has developed these dependencies in order to survive. If so, we have become slaves of wheat and rice.

 

Firstly, if a plant or an animal had the capacity to control its design then surely it would choose to develop its own independence. Why would any creature choose to survive through dependence, why not just develop cells that soak up the ‘energy’ of the sun and live from that only, wouldn’t that be the ultimate survival initiative?

 

Secondly any creature that is not dependent on any other part of creation becomes an island or an alternative ‘god’, setting itself up in competition with the one true living God.

 

It is our dependence that is proof of a ‘greater ruler’, it is our striving for independence that is proof of our ignorance (knowledge) – such that we seek to be ‘gods’ but fail, miserably – since we all are born helpless, need loving care, breathe, drink, eat, sleep, age, grow frail, die and turn to dust…. Yet still, we fail the simple test of humility.

 

The beauty and magic of ‘life’ is the interdependence of this vast complexity into a self-regulating unity. Even the human body is a mass of cells, held together tenuously and miraculously by their interdependent relationships and activity. We have very little control over this, though some seek to control our evolution. The earth is full of amazing symbiotic relationships between plants and animals, most of them unnecessary, since single cells managed fine, so why evolve? The complexity and ingenuity of solutions is mind boggling and if the lotto of life could be so creative, then men should stop thinking and just let their minds be free, since nature’s designs are truly original, whereas most human designs are mere stolen moments from God’s gracefully free copyright.

 

As we dig deeper with our divisive thinking – we no longer see the love, we see a man with a penis, a woman with a vagina and offspring, we see sperm and eggs, we see miniscule cells, strands of DNA, genetic codes, chemical interactions, atomic particles and quantum energy until our equipment can see no further… and in the process we destroy the beauty, the love, the family and the unity of life by ‘blindly’ reducing it all to ‘nothing’.

 

Life is the most precious thing in the universe and the greatest gift is to be able to relate to others who share the experience; to breathe; to smell; to taste; to touch; to play and interact lovingly and especially to be able to reproduce this precious gift for others. That is it… the whole truth – to live wisely, to love passionately, to reproduce abundantly. Yet without wisdom and love, reproduction creates a living hell of division and violence. That is why the ‘tree of life’ is far superior to the ‘tree of knowledge’ and why the ‘tree of knowledge’ will ultimately destroy all life, because it lives by reducing every living thing to nothing.  Life multiplies in unity (1x1=1); Knowledge divides infinitely (1/1=0).

 

(Mat 6:26-27 KJV) Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

 

Love and Faith

 

(Gen 4:3-4 KJV) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

This is the first reference in the Old Testament where any man; woman or creature shows any kind of interest, respect or gratitude to their creator. This is not something that is requested, this is an act that is spontaneously expressed from some inner recognition and appreciation for the ‘goodness’ of life on earth.  There is somewhat of a mystery surrounding the lack of acceptance of the offering of “Cain’s fruit over the offering of “firstborn of Abel’s flock”, but I strongly suspect it has more to do with Abel’s caring attitude, than God’s preference for meat over veg. Again, God appears to be more interested in the productivity, preservation and on-going ‘multiplication’ of life, than in either Cain or Abel, since we see no intervention when the one purposes to kill the other.

 

The next recorded attempt by mankind to show gratitude to our creator occurs after the world was deluged by God, when Noah with his company were salvaged and in gratitude Noah builds an alter and burns to death some of the birds, he just spent 40 days and 40 nights saving….  Again, there is no recorded request from God for Noah to undertake this BBQ, but the Lord God, either through Noah’s nose or some other olfactory capability, seems to enjoy the smell, we read:

 

(Gen 8:21-9:1 KJV) And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

 

Notice here, God’s only command is “be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth” – no commands here about burning my creatures to try and win my favour.

 

The next attempt to express love for God occurs when Abraham is ‘tested’ and offers up his son Isaac as proof of love and loyalty. Fortunately, this time an intervention occurs and Isaac is spared, which is just as well really, since Jewish History would be very different otherwise…. So how have we expressed love and loyalty to God since?

 

·         Jacob set up a pillar and poured a drink offering and oil. (Gen 35:14 KJV) 

·         Moses insisted the flocks and herds come out of Egypt for offerings (Exo 10:24-25 KJV)

·         God (via Moses) says offer only livestock on earth mounds (Exo 20:22-24 KJV) 

·         God (via Moses) says offer for the Tabernacle: gold, silver, brass, etc. (Exo 20:22-24 KJV) 

·         God (via Moses) says offer for Aaron to wave: unleavened bread, oil and wafer (Exo 29:24 KJV)

·         God (via Moses) says offer for Aaron to heave: a shoulder of the ram (Exo 29:27 KJV)

·         God (via Moses) says offer for atonement: a bullock (Exo 29:27 KJV)

 

And so it goes on and on…. If these offerings did nothing else, they ensured that the Jewish people had to be very caring and productive with their livestock, otherwise they would have nothing to offer…. And maybe that was the whole point?

 

It is a way to 'educate' or 'force' you to care or love... unfortunately it doesn't really work, love must come from within... it cannot be imposed by law from without. It must be shown and copied, it cannot be shoved.

 

(Mark 12:33-34 KJV) And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

Love & Electricity

 

(Genesis 17:1 KJV) And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God ; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

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Trying to prove the existence of ‘God’ is like trying to prove the existence of  ‘electricity’ both are invisible forces of potentially infinitesimal power, yet both are most times passive or static, until brought into existence to resolve conflict (potential difference) and bring peace and stability.

 

In nature ‘electricity’ only exists where there is a potential difference in the chemistry or contextual gravity between two points. What this means is that nature not only abhors a vacuum, it also abhors potential differences that are out of sync with the rest of existence. This is why you rarely see ‘electricity’ in nature, except when heaven and earth bring ionic stability through lightening. Interestingly enough, ‘electricity’ as we now know it, was first recognized thousands of years ago, by the Greeks when noticing the attraction of particles to the solidified sap of a tree rubbed with wool. After much science we have now categorized this attraction into positive and negative forces at work, though we are still not clear on which is the negative and which is the positive, but whatever, we know they work in opposition and attraction to one another. Generally, the larger force has more pulling power than the smaller force and resistance is no longer futile, but quite useful in slowing down the stabilization process.

 

Over the past 300 years or so, humanity has learned how to put ‘electricity’ to the test and to work. Today our world is full of innumerable electronic devices that work miracles of sound, light, colour and working leverage to change things. Like anything that becomes ubiquitous, we now take ‘electricity’ for granted, yet it is the real power underlying so much of our modern world, without which, we would now struggle to survive.

 

There is a strong correlation between the power of ‘electricity’ (whatever it is) and the power of ‘God/Love’ (whatever it is).

 

In nature opposites attract, mainly at certain times, when ones potential is high and the others resistance is low. This mutual attraction usually leads to some kind of union and exchange of fluids. We call the power behind this union and exchange – love – yet it is invisible and intangible – but no less real. Some call the attraction ‘lust’ but this really depends upon the motivating force (spirit) behind the attraction. Lust takes, while love gives. Since potential is relative between two things – high potential is considered positive and low potential is considered negative. Yet without this difference in potential no power can naturally flow from one thing to another, unless the insecure and self serving, force it.

 

Jesus often berated his disciples for having little ‘faith’, recognizing that without ‘high potential’ they had no love to offer those of low potential, where ‘sin’ is equivocal of resistance and results in low potential, sickness and death. Love should be given freely by those of faith to those of little faith, often however, love is extracted from us, by strong needy forces. Neither ‘the power of ‘electricty’, nor the power of ‘love’, can flow where there is resistance – lack of faith.

 

(Matthew 8:26 KJV)  And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith ? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

 

Marriage

 

(Gen 2:24-25 KJV) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

 

Men and woman were designed to be perfectly equal and opposite, to compliment one another and together form a unity… Men did not create women and women did not create men, they are both the creations of an unknown creator aka: God. Now whether you subscribe to the evolution of humanity from monkey like creatures or from dolphin like creatures, it really doesn’t matter… the evidence before our eyes is that men and women are designed perfectly equal and opposite. Yes men have a penis and testicles and women have breasts and a vagina, that’s the truth, only twisted ‘knowledge’ made it a dirty little secret or something that was shameful.

 

Contrary to many religious teachings, men were not designed to rule over women, men and women were created equal and opposite. This power play was the result of a curse, following the fall of humanity from its relationship with God and life, it was not the nature of the original design.

 

(Gen 3:16 KJV) Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

 

The point is, someone can only ‘rule over thee’ if you let them, that is, if you become submissive, insecure, fearful and faithless. It was never a commandment from God for men to rule over women, it was a curse on women that in their insecurity and inclination, they would desire to be loved (served) and give their will over to their husbands.

 

My father was the one who would force me to eat what was in front of me, my mother would often relent and fetch alternatives. Which one of my parents was more Godly?

 

The key here is that women are by nature more embracing and less rigid than men, men are more inclined to keep and make the rules and women are more inclined to yield or circumvent them….  But… is life about serving oneself, serving one another, serving the rules or serving life’s divine purpose?

 

Since it was God who designed men for women and women for men, I have often wondered why the Godly are discouraged from sex and marriage – The real issue here is not sex or marriage, but ‘faith’ and what we truly serve (give our life to), ie: “love”.

 

Jesus never married because he chose to give 100% to his mission, not because he had some perverse aversion to women… Women and sex are strong distractions, which is why he had only male disciples… In a fallen world…. can a man serve his desires, a wife, a family and the truth with his whole heart or will his purpose become derailed?

 

Marriage is only implicit in the Bible when two creatures choose to reproduce and raise offspring… it has little to do with living together with a friend or pleasure, it has everything to do with procreation… that is why ‘fornication’ outside of this commitment is significant.

 

(Mat 19:9-11 KJV) And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

 

Perfection

 

(Gen 6:9 KJV) These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

 

This is the first reference to perfection in the King James Version of the Bible and according to Strong’s Dictionary in translation from the Hebrew it means Noah was tamiym, taw-meem'; entire (lit., fig. or mor.); also (as noun) integrity, truth:--without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright (-ly), whole.

 

The next reference to perfection involves another significant man…

 

(Gen 17:1 KJV) And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

 

Interesting to note here that the term ‘good’ is not the same as ‘perfect’ – according to Strong’s Dictionary in translation from the Hebrew good is - towb, tobe; good (as an adj.) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masc. and the fem., the sing. and the plur. (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adv. (well):--beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ([-favoured]).

 

When we look at creation, we see certain patterns of design which are truly amazing, each creature is perfectly made for the environment in which it is made to live. Sadly, this perfection of design is lost to chaos theory and the theories of genetic mutation by universal trial and error. Yet even to anyone with an open eye and an open mind one can see that somehow and miraculously life did not stop with the creation of a single celled amoeba… somehow the creatures in the water were streamlined for their environment and given fins… no creature or DNA for that matter makes a conscious effort to manifest its existence or its evolution.  Land creatures are given knees and legs, what better way to climb mountains and overcome obstacles… the wheel is primitive by technological comparison.  And lastly the creatures of the air were given wings with incredible maneuverability… With all these creatures there can be no intermediate appendages, fish born with deformed fins don’t evolve they die; animals born with deformed legs, don’t walk they die and birds born with deformed wings don’t fly, they plummet to their death… It is all or nothing, perfection by design or death by deformity.

 

I did absolutely nothing to find myself born as a child of man, I made no conscious effort. In fact being born was easy and breathing came easy and life was easy… For most of my childhood I was at one with my family and environment and don’t even recall being conscious of my existence, all was good, until I experienced conflict and pain.

 

Life was meant to be easy, when it becomes a struggle, something is wrong with life and that something is probably affected by sin and dysfunction, not God. Because God is perfect, so how can imperfection come from perfection?

 

(Mat 5:48 KJV) Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect

Perfection (Part 2)

 

(2 Sam 22:31-33 KJV) As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God? God is my strength and power: And he maketh my way perfect.

 

From a human perspective… how can any man or woman attain perfection?

 

Breaking it down, we see that a human being consists of many parts working together and each part must be whole and integral for the whole being to be perfect and perfectly ONE. To be perfect… we need to perfect each of these three areas: Our heart (the core of our being); Our soul (the surrounding physical body or being); and our might (which is all our energy and activities).

 

Firstly ‘thine heart’ is now the name we give the organ in our chest that pumps blood, which is seen as the essence of life. In scientific terms, blood carries oxygen from the lungs to every cell in the body. Somewhere along the way, the concept of ‘mind’ became a substitute for the Biblical ‘heart’. Can a mind love? The mind is fundamentally a virtual reality or knowledge base of experience, much like a computer. Can a computer love, can a robot?  It is dangerous to let our minds drive our lives, for the mind is driven by whatever the ‘recipe of the day’ is... It is whimsical. The heart pumps consistently, it is faithful. The heart powers self-consciousness via the breath of life, it is not the other way round, without electricity the computer is useless… Scripture often talks about a pure heart, this seems to epitomize a perfect heart, free from the mental pollution that plagues our world.

 

Secondly ‘thy soul’ is now considered some immortal part of man, yet the origins of soul, was the creation of a living being or a body. A perfect body should be strong, flexible, agile and resilient… Yet, the body adjusts to suit its environment and activity, if it didn’t our integrity with life and God would be unnecessary. To maintain our physical strength, we need to be active under the resistance of environmental pressures or greater, otherwise we lose strength. As regards flexibility, this again requires movement and stretching without which we grow stiff in our lifestyle.  Agility requires dexterity of movement, without practice this will not happen. Resilience is dependent upon the overcoming of obstacles, without such obstacles this capability will not be developed. Generations of ‘civilisation’ in the land of spoon fed plenty produce obese children and early death. A perfect body requires perfect diet and a lifestyle integrated with the natural world (environment).

 

Lastly, ‘thy might’ is the forceful application of thy heart and soul that brings change, it is the outworking of passion, energy and effort… It is work, yet with love as its motive, it becomes pleasure. Directing the energies of man to what is right (good) and true, such that our work is lasting and fruitful for life, not a complete waste of time or worse still destructive for life. The perfect creature is an obedient organic robot true to its natural maker. The perfect man is an organic child that is faithful and true to its natural and all-pervasive spiritual father.

 

(John 17:20-23 KJV) Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Proof of Love

 

(Gen 22:10-12 KJV) And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

 

At 100 years old, Abraham watched in awe as his beloved 90-year-old wife Sarah, gave birth to their son... “Isaac” as promised by God. Isaac was a much-loved miracle baby, yet as proof of love, Abraham was later requested to offer him up as a sacrifice.

 

From a human perspective this seems like such a ‘cruel’ thing to do, like giving a child something they have desired for so long, only to make them give it up. Yet, how often do we fawn over the gifts we are given at the neglect and expense of the giver? So, when we behave like this, are we not equally guilty of such ‘cruelty’, in love?

 

Fortunately, Abraham continued in ‘love’ and didn’t cut himself off in anger or despair, for when God spoke again, he listened and Isaac was saved. So, it pays to stay in love.

 

So how do we prove our love for one another and for God?

 

It is easy to say “I love you” or sing praises… but what does this mean and how do we know the true nature of such inspired or deceitful words of “love”?

 

Generally, ‘love’ takes the form of some kind of ‘gift’ – In Abrahams case ‘a child’, since everything we have comes from God, the only way to reciprocate such love, is to give the equivalent in return. A ‘gift’ can take many forms, it can be an object, a plant, a pet, a piece of art, a piece of work or even money -  but whatever the ‘gift’… its value is usually proportionate to the ‘love’ that is being offered as measured by the percentage of expense (sacrifice) from the giver.

 

(Luke 21:1-4 KJV) And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

 

Gifts can be solicited by request, much like prayers or lists presented to Santa. Or gifts can be unsolicited - given as tokens of love from admirers or from loving family or friends that you inspire. The only strings that should be attached to gifts are ribbons; otherwise the gift is not a gift at all, but bait for a trap, which is the cruellest love of all. Love, should never be confused with the givers manipulating desire for your body, your soul or your material possessions. Sad to say, love like truth, must be put to the test. Without this testing – words of love hold little value… and though many may pass the initial tests, love often fails later in life, for love lasts only as long as unfailing faith in something greater than our selves.

 

God’s love is unconditional, but it is also evidential or tangible, otherwise nothing would exist or be maintained. Our love should be the same, because ultimately, this is the only true and lasting love, as ONE.

 

(John 15:12-14 KJV) This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

 

Relationship

 

(Gen 3:7 KJV) And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

 

People often say that love is blind and it seems that when Adam and Even were ‘in love’ with God and one another, they too were blind, since when they ‘fell’ out of love, their eyes were opened…. and world chaos followed.

 

Since ‘seeing’ is a consequence from loss of faith, then the adage ‘I’ll believe it, when I see it’ is contradictory….

 

Religion (faith) should really be about ‘good’ or ‘Godly’ relationship – but what does this involve?

 

·         Love – a unity of being (without love we are alone and separate)

·         Truth – a clarity of being (without truth we are lost and deceived)

·         Life – active being (without the spirit of life we are dead and dust)

 

It seems, that both religion (faith) and relationship require the way of love, truth and life.

 

All religious practices are designed to build relationship (faith), but without ‘pure motive’ these practices become contrived and often contradictory, consider:

 

·         When a man finds a woman attractive, he will make some kind of performance to get her attention – the religious make a song and dance before their god,

·         When a man wants to get closer to a woman, he awkwardly talks to her - the religious awkwardly pray to their god.

·         Couples generally have favourite meeting places for coffee and such – the religious meet in regular places (temples, churches, at altars, etc.).

·         When a man courts a woman he brings her gifts - the religious bring gifts before their god.

·         When a man desires a woman, he begins to obsess and idolise her – the religious objectify and idolise their god.

 

Yet none of this is a relationship, it is seduction and metaphysical foreplay –The sole purpose of these activities is to try and establish some kind of ‘faith’ between the parties, the very thing that is missing… and so often we see these behaviours becoming a mere ‘show of faith’ and like copycat crimes, seem to bait a trap, for gullible victims.

 

These behaviours reflect the corrupt nature of ‘religion’ and not relationship or faith. A faithful relationship is based on a union of heart, soul, mind and body… with another.

 

Relationship requires two becoming one, not two sitting in silence (like couples whose love has died) or two using one another out of insecurity, loneliness or lust (like those that exploit one another to fill needs) and it is not navel gazing, sleeping in company or ‘altering reality’ with alcohol or drugs. We adopt these behaviours because we feel lost and alone…. The only solution to this aloneness is oneness through true faith (et al).

 

(John 17:21 KJV) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Sensitivity & Sensuality

 

(Gen 3:5 KJV) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 

How did Adam manage to see and hear God, before his eyes and ears were open?

 

Indeed, how can any creature, live and function without some kind of sensual awareness of its environment?

 

Without ‘feelings’ we are as stones, neither moving nor reacting, unless moved by some greater external will or power. Yet, with ‘feelings’ we are unstable, moving and reacting to each and everything that we feel and sense through our flesh.

 

(Gen 6:3 KJV) And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

 

The spirit, or will of God, is invisible, because it is the source and substance of our being.  The flesh is a manifestation of this spirit and can only experience manifestation. The spirit, or will of God, is one, the manifestations are many.

 

In the bible we see that the Spirit of God creates Adam who is then divided in two to become Adam & Eve, they are effectively one and the same, yet somehow, they are also individuals. Similarly, each parent contributes a cell (an egg and a sperm) which unite and then divide to become a child with the combined attributes of its parents. This is a miracle beyond our imagining – yet we are involved participants. Again, the spirit, governs this process, the flesh is the manifested outcome. So what does all this mean?

 

Adam was not God, Adam was a fleshly manifestation of God. Jesus was not God, Jesus was a fleshly manifestation of God. You are not God, you are a fleshly manifestation of God. Without the spirit, all flesh is inanimate…. like dust or matter without energy.

 

The danger with fleshly manifestations is that we can so easily get lost in our own sensual experience, losing touch with our creator and our manifested purpose (destiny). Like self-obsessed transistors acknowledging the circuitry, but without integral connection or flow.

 

(John 6:63 KJV) It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

 

The danger with ‘spiritual’ people is that we can so easily get lost in our own “super-sensitive” or ‘insensitive’ experience, losing touch with the world around us (and reality).

 

Every day we witness people taken captive by their own senses, by some new visual, aural, tactile, olfactory aroma or taste. God knows the amount of wars fought and work undertaken by humanity for the retention or acquisition of ‘beautiful’ and ‘tasty’ things.

 

Once I foolishly believed that sensitivity was the same thing as spirituality, it is not.

The holy spirit is reached through our purity by repentance, fasting and prayer and in such ‘purity’ there is a communion with what is right instinctively, without the need for books, learning or leaders…. for the source and substance of our true being… is God.

 

(Mat 5:8 KJV) Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Commitment

 

(Gen 38:7-8 KJV) And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him. And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

 

To the ancient Jews – marriage was the union of men and woman for the procreation of children, indeed it was originally another word for ‘sex’.

 

There are few references to ‘pleasure’ in the Old Testament and it usually referred to ‘the realized “will” of a man or a woman’ as opposed to any kind of orgasmic experience.

 

(Gen 18:12-13 KJV) Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

 

Sarah’s pleasure was not about the joy of sex with Abraham, it was about finally bearing a child after 90 years of waiting… and the sheer miracle.  Abraham was 100.

 

As an aside, remember these commands from Moses:  (Exo 22:22 KJV)  Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

 

And this command, given to the High Priest:  (Lev 21:13 KJV)  And he shall take a wife in her virginity. (This ruling was more about the ‘purity’ of seed, than hot young women).

 

So forgetting the old Testament and the Jews for a moment, let us take a look at Jesus’ perspective on marriage, since he was the originator of the ‘the way’ later to be ‘watered down’ and re-branded as ‘Christianity’ by Roman marketing.

 

(John 2:1-2 KJV) And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

 

Though Jesus attended a marriage (for his mother’s sake), he never actually married and settled down in Roman society, though he may have loved one woman as his wife. Jesus loved both men and women. But he was wise enough to recognize that if you are likely to be martyred for the truth – it is unwise to form relationships that will result in creating more dependents, widows and orphans.

 

Jesus chose men to be his disciples for one reason; he was going to ‘war’ against the ruling world authorities. He needed ‘good’ men to be at his side to spread the ‘Kingdom of God’ in power and peace. He was not anti-women; he was actually being protective and wise. He never chose ‘weak’ men. They were from among the working classes. His disciples were sent out in two’s, to spread the gospel. And like the prophets before them, most of them were murdered. This is not a good ‘career’ choice for any man with family ambitions. How can ‘Christians’ lay down their lives for the Kingdom of God, while divided by the pain they inflict on those who have become dependent on them?

 

(Luke 20:34-36 KJV)  And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

The First Commandment

 

(Deu 6:4-6 KJV) Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

 

The first commandment is actually a statement: “The LORD our God is one LORD” there is not really anything we can do with this, but accept it on faith.

 

The subject of this text is really the second statement – which is actually the first commandment: “And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy might.”

 

My problem with this commandment is I have no idea how to love the LORD my God with all my heart and with all my soul and with all my might. I am reminded of the 70’s classic from Jesus Christ superstar – “I don’t know how to love him” ….. Does anyone?

 

How did Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, the Prophets and Jesus, love God?

 

Breaking it down, we have a number of obstacles… firstly there is the language barrier, the semantics. What do we mean by ‘love’; ‘The LORD our God’; by ‘heart’; ‘soul’ and ‘might’?

 

Our ability to fulfill abstract requests is nigh impossible.  I do not say this ‘lightly’, I have spent many days and nights sitting cross legged, on my knees and prostrate on the floor in awkward prayer reaching out in ‘abstract’ love to my ‘abstract’ creator to no avail. Secondly, the absent intangibility of ‘the LORD our God’ makes any kind of relationship very difficult to say the least. Anyone who has ever considered contacting their long-lost father would experience many of the issues that I have… where are you? Why are you so far away? I’m sorry for whatever I did that made you leave… why don’t you call? This is a very frustrating place to be… often we give up and turn to other ‘real’ distractions. How can we love an absent friend or father? Like a hole in the heart, absence of anything is both disabling and painful…. and will eventually make you sick, if dwelt upon.

 

To love… both parties must be present, either in heart, in proximity or in hand.

 

Since God is ‘spirit’, omnipresent and omniscient… then God is not at all distant and not at all absent. God’s absence is a misunderstanding of the divisive human mind. Even so… how can man love his maker? Turning this around how can anything that you imagine, invent, carve, mould or assemble…. love you?

 

(Deu 30:11-14 KJV) For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.  It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?  But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

 

Surely, the only way anything created can ‘love’ its creator is by being faithful and true to its design and purpose…. Can we really “love God” by sitting in crippling postures, kneeling, prostrating or singing and dancing in the temple … or is “loving God” really about being “faithful and true” to our purposed design like sinless Adam and Jesus?

 

(Mark 2:27 KJV) And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Other Commandments

 

(Gen 1:27-28 KJV) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

 

It occurred to me after writing the first page that the real ‘first’ commandment given to man was “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth….” Yet, this commandment was not given to man per se, it was given to the first man (Adam) and the first woman (Eve).

 

One of the problems with storing anything from a point in time, is that future generations may stop receiving the daily bread from God and start living from stale bread that we stored yesterday, which has probably become inappropriate and moldy.

 

When God commanded Noah to build a boat… It wasn’t a command for everyone. When God commanded Abraham to move to another country, it wasn’t a command for everyone. When God commanded Moses to lead his people out of Egypt it wasn’t a command for everyone. When God commanded Jesus to offer his life on the cross, it wasn’t a command for everyone.  God communes with and commands those who are tuned in. To take a command given to someone else yesterday and apply it as a rule for life today is foolishness. Sure, there may be parallels and common situations, but nothing is identical in time…. Life moves on, as God moves.

 

When we know that a hurricane is coming it is wise to move or take some kind of evasive action… God commands for our benefit, if we turn a deaf ear or contend, then whose fault is it when we lose?

 

Adam was commanded to eat fruit; Noah’s offspring were allowed to eat meat. Adam was commanded to populate the earth, no-one was commanded to overpopulate the earth.

 

Moses made some rules which may have brought managed discipline to the Israelites living in the desert, but can hardly be applied to modern day man… Who today, can sacrifice an Ox, etc…? So are we supposed to pick and choose the commandments from the Old testament that we wish to follow, this is ridiculous…. God and life have moved on.

 

The Two commandments that still remain significant to humanity were exemplified by Jesus…. 1. Love God (and heaven and earth), 2. Love your neighbour (and all creatures) as your self.

 

Coming back to the original question of how do we love God? It must start by loving what God has made (nature), by respectfully playing our reciprocal roles as cogs in this massive organic machine that is life on earth. This is impossible without LOVE. Love requires that we put aside all deluded ‘self’ interest and be obedient to God and the process that sustains this tree of life and keeps things evolving in a ‘good’ way.

 

The alternative, is that we resist as deluded ‘cogs’ out of sync with life and potentially destructive to the whole of creation… which is the very nature of ‘sin’ and why it is important for people to get over themselves… after all… who are you, if not the blood that circulates, the corpuscles that come and go, the air you breathe, the food you eat and the umbilical of life that connects us all as One to earth and heaven?

 

(Mat 26:26 KJV) And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

 

Thicker than Blood

 

(Gen 2:24 KJV) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

 

Being born and raised in England, there was a common expression that: “blood is thicker than water” – the implication being that the blood line of family was closer than that of friendship. As I became older and wiser, I realised that this is neither true nor scriptural, for many of my friends were closer to me than my family and in the Old testament it is written that a man should leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife, who is not of the same blood line and the two become one, by faith only.

 

Thus, every man is supposed to leave his parental family and cleave to his wife, in faith.

 

Another passage that is often overlooked in the Old Testament concerns the definition of Motherhood, for it is written that Eve was considered the mother of all living things, before she ever conceived or bore any human offspring… She was the first ‘mother of nature’.

 

(Gen 3:20 KJV) And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

 

Faith is thicker than blood. Faith is what binds everyone and everything together in love as one.

 

Yet faith is more than belief or believing in a set of rules or values, it is greater than any mindset or language. It encompasses our integrity and our integration with life and every living thing. Only through such faith can we become truly one with all creation and with our creator and enter into heaven (aka: paradise).

 

Sin is the word we use to expose the ‘breaking of such faith’ and this breaking results in the “di-sin-tigration” of creation, our pain, our death and our interminable hell.

 

Faith is not passed on through the blood line, if it were then all the earth’s problems could have been solved by Jesus having children with a faithful woman and exterminating everyone else, as in the days of Noah.

 

Faith is achieved through the realization of God, the removal of sin and submission to the will of God. The Gospel of Jesus is preached to begin this realization process, to bring a repentant heart, to enable the removal of sin by faith and to facilitate submission.

 

Religious acts of circumcision, burnt sacrifices, baptism, holy communion and ultimately martyrdom – have no value without faith. Without faith, there is no life in death and there is no point to any of these religious practices. Your parent’s words and actions do not define YOUR faith… they only define your family mindset (beliefs), which without truth, you are neither free to accept of reject, because you cleave to inherited tradition.

 

(Mat 12:47-50 KJV) Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

The Power of One

 

(Deu 6:4-5 KJV) Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

 

By way of translation from the Hebrew (using Strong’s dictionary).….

Lord: YHVH, yeh-ho-vaw'; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God:--Jehovah, the Lord.

 

God: 'elohiym, el-o-heem'; gods in the ordinary sense; but spec. used (in the plur. thus, esp. with the art.) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.

 

One: 'echad, ekh-awd'; united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:--a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any (-thing), apiece, a certain [dai-] ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together.

 

Love: 'ahab, aw-hab'; or  'aheb, aw-habe'; a prim. root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise):--(be-) love (-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

 

Heart: lebab, lay-bawb'; the heart (as the most interior organ);  bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ([faint], [tender-] heart([-ed]), midst, mind, X unawares, understanding.

 

Soul: nephesh, neh'-fesh; a breathing creature, i.e. animal or (abstr.) vitality; used very widely in a lit., accommodated or fig. sense (bodily or mental):--any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead (-ly), desire, X [dis-] contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart (-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortality, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.

 

Might: me'od, meh-ode'; vehemence, i.e. (with or without prep.) vehemently; by impl. wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; espec. when repeated):--diligently, especially, exceeding (-ly), far, fast, good, great (-ly), X louder and louder, might (-ily, -y), (so) much, quickly, (so) sore, utterly, very (+ much, sore), well.

 

The first Law is that the Lord God is One, the second law is that we are to have affection for the Lord with all our innermost being, all our life’s breath and with all our passion (or words to that effect) …  Observing these laws is greater than the observation of ‘gravity’.

 

Einstein’s faith in a unified field theory is still considered the quest for the holy grail of physics and physicists have now shifted from particle theory to string theory, but the key word here is theory… your guess is as good as theirs and the proof of God is in the evidence of life, not in the proof by concurrence with human mathematical theory…

The named influences of electricity, magnetism and radiating electro-magnetic waves do form a unified field and have equivalence with the X, Y and Z of our three-dimensional reality, but our sense is relative to the Spirit and Will of God omnipresent in the whole.

(Mark 12:29 KJV) And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

Charity

 

(Gen 4:3 KJV) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

 

The abstraction of language (Babylon) and the varying semantics of generations has resulted in much confusion.  Simple words like offering, charity, love and sacrifice are used synonymously and yet they are often used out of context as bait to deceive the gullible.

 

An offering is something that is given and in the case of an offering to God, it is something that is given back to God as a way of saying thank you, it is an act of gratitude. A sacrifice is an offering that you really want or need, but give up anyway (in humility) as recognition to the overarching value or supremacy of the recipient. If we had to measure our attitudes of gratitude, on the one hand we have disposability or a throwing away and on the other hand we have a deep reverence, respect and joy of recognition and a desire to please and thank our maker. Cain and Abel were judged on the attitude of their gratitude.

 

When it comes to words like love and charity, these are intangible or ‘spiritual’ concepts surrounding our relationships which incorporate affection, connection and communion. Indeed, the first reference to ‘love’ in the Old Testament is really a reference to Isaac’s affection for a particular food, his tongue and his stomach:

 

(Gen 27:4 KJV) And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

 

In this instance ‘love’ and ‘like’ become synonymous, we love what we value or place value on. And if someone were to ask you, what do you love about it, you would often be stuck for an answer, because often what binds us to other things is ‘intangible’ and beyond our understanding and words or maybe it is superficial and will fall apart if we analyse it too much….  What binds a hand to an arm or an eye to the brain? Clearly such things are intrinsically one…. But when it comes to our relationship with other things… we often struggle for real unity.

 

Yet in truth we all sup air from the same tank, we all drink liquid from the same fountain and we all eat matter from the same trough. And the tank, fountain and trough are provided by an unknown agency and the air, liquid and matter are the substance of our being. Yet the substance is not the activating force, because all these things can exist independently of our being alive. Charity is simply sharing what is not ours to withhold.

 

Love like God is really the invisible and intangible spirit that binds us as one…. offerings, sacrifice and charity are simply human acts of expression, often in recognition of this love, but more often from feelings of pain, guilt, sympathy or just for show.

 

(Mat 6:2-3 KJV) Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

 

Peace & Power

 

(Deu 13:1-5 KJV) If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death.

 

Peace is the product of changing things for the good of all and Power is the capacity to change things.

 

Generally there are 3 aspects involved.

·         Motive – Why change?

·         Means – How to change?

·         Manifestation – What is changed?

 

From a universal (God) perspective the motive is unquestionable – since whatever the ‘selfless eternal one’ does… is perfect. The means is the unbiased ‘holy spirit’ which like self-balancing electrons invisibly flows throughout the universe; The manifestation is matter, existence, life and us.

 

From a demi-god (or human) perspective our motives are questionable – since we have become selfish temporal beings with imperfect motives, no longer acting out of love, contaminated with:

·         Knowledge & Ignorance – self delusion

·         Pain & Fear – self hiding

·         Pleasure & Greed – self seeking

 

Our means are many and involve the many manifestations at our disposal:

·         Mind - our memory and imaginings

·         Muscle – our physical strength

·         Manipulation – our many skills

·         Materials – our divisive chemistry

·         Mass communication – our many symbols of knowledge

·         Money – our many value systems

·         Machines – our self-serving change agents

 

The upshot of all this is that each demi-god (or human being) – attempts to change ‘the world’ to suit themselves and their own delusions… as a consequence peace is impossible and war is inevitable…. Peace is only possible when everyone can either accept ALL other ways or adopt ONE way in humility and submission.  The danger with the acceptance of ALL ways is the lawlessness that occurs in the absence of natural right and wrong and though many dictators have tried to impose ONE way, all have failed, since the ONE way is to be chosen by love from within, it cannot be imposed by law from without…. Any such imposition is doomed to failure, naturally...

 

(Mat 6:13 KJV) And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Spirit

 

(Gen 1:2-3 KJV) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

 

All communication requires some kind of movement or transmission from a source.

 

The source of the first communication or transmission is beyond our knowledge, but this first movement is the origin of all that we call creation or existence. Indeed one could ask the question… are we the products of this original communication or are we still a communication in progress?

 

Where is the line drawn between the sender, the message, the messenger and the receiver?

 

Whether existence was spoken into being or exploded into being is really irrelevant, because the nature of the ‘way’ it happened, should not be a cause for division among men. The point is… it didn’t just happen, it is still happening and when it stops happening, everything ceases to exist.

 

It is the flow from the source, that is the very life of the universe, the very light (EMR) of life and the very life (DNA) of us.

 

This flow is witnessed in light (fire), sound, wind, water and the earth’s magnetic field.

Each of these so called ‘elements’ have existence and movement because of the origin of existence. At the miniscule level we now know that the whole universe shares so called ‘electrons’. With this knowledge we should realise the immersion of all of existence from the point of origin to its outer reaches in waves like an ocean of ‘ether’, ‘emf’, ‘flogiston’, ‘dark energy’, ‘consciousness’, ‘life’, ‘spirit’, 'I am' or whatever the ‘authorities’ of the day determine to call this invisible, intangible. immeasurable, omnipresent and omniscient self-existent one, beyond our knowing, yet our true being.

 

Union with or communion with this invisible, intangible, immeasurable, omnipresent and omniscient being in operation, is broken by our divisive knowledge and from this divisive knowledge comes our need for alternative communication in the form of many languages and many words created from our personal and sensual perspective, identification and classification of many things, across many geographical locations and many cultures.

 

The main difference between a barrel full of monkeys chattering and a barrel full of philosophers philosophizing… is that men ‘think’ they know what they are making all that noise about.

 

Spirit / God Consciousness is the foundation of our reality, matter is spirit in recursion or cyclic patterns where individuation comes with systemic interaction at points, giving the illusion of time. The fact that human kind with the power of knowledge has determined to divide, name and conquer part of this intangible ocean and learned to capitalize on the self-balancing properties of these natural flows… doesn’t make us ‘wise’, it just means that we have failed to realise the deeper wisdom of silent communion over dysfunctional Babylonian chatter.

 

(Mat 11:25 KJV)  At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Consciousness

 

(Gen 3:6-7 KJV) And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

 

This passage is a deliberate conundrum to evoke a questioning response… how could Adam and Eve see ‘the tree’ if their eyes were not already open and if their eyes were already open, how could their eyes suddenly be opened to their nakedness?

 

What this passage describes is the birth of human ‘self’ consciousness or the ‘self’ delusion of being independent from our shared ‘God’ consciousness or Holy Communion.

 

As “humans” our consciousness of being extends from our exterior to our interior, our exterior determined by our sensual knowledge as the point of contact between our skin’s surface and the rest of creation. This apparent separation is both imagined and delusional, for in truth, the body is full of holes and is in constant exchange with our greater consciousness and being (aka God), via light, air, water and food. It is interesting to note that giving something a name, never really explains what it is, it just identifies ‘it’ in such a way as to make the common experience communicable. We have many names for ‘God’ and they all fall short of the reality, so what is this thing termed… “consciousness”?

 

Consciousness is an awareness of ‘being’… quite where we are ‘being’ seems to depend on whatever is the focal point of this consciousness at any point in time and space.

 

In this respect consciousness, concentration and will power seem to go hand in hand, since unfocussed consciousness is everywhere, whereas focused consciousness is concentrated like the rays of the sun through a magnifying glass, it has the power to change things. We call this concentrated consciousness, the human will, but what is it?

 

Consciousness like ‘spirit’ and ‘light’ is invisible, yet with the aid of the human mind and body it can be directed in such a way as to impose change on the environment. In the same way electricity can be manipulated by transistors, microchips and an array of digital equipment to provide an amazing plethora of logic, sounds and graphic effects. Both are interdependent, the spirit requires a body and electricity requires a conduit.

 

Naturally… a cloud of rain that falls on a mountain would rush to the valley, however its flow can be slowed by digging a winding path that zigzags down the hillside, forcing the water to meander rather than rush to its natural place.

 

It is the man-aged flow of electricity through the equipment that produces the desired result – an unmanaged flow of electricity is soon disbursed, because it is quickly grounded by the universal law of self-balancing cycles and opposites. However, by constraining this equilisation process through a body and managing the flow of this energy it is possible to manipulate this flow to do our bidding, that is, until the energy finds equilibrium in the will of God, as all things inevitably will to maintain universal stability.

 

(Mat 7:21 KJV) Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Forgive us our Trespasses

 

(Gen 3:13 KJV) And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

 

One of the biggest problems with the term ‘sin’ is that it has become so abstract that most of us don’t even really know what it means anymore… consequently we no longer pay it any mind. If Jesus words had been translated as coming to save us from our ‘stupidity’ then he would probably get much more attention these days, since how can he save anyone from anything, they can’t acknowledge?

 

And so it is with ‘trespassing’ – I am reminded of times as a young man in England when I would wander off into the countryside and often come across fenced land that was marked by a signpost that read “Trespassers will be prosecuted” – this is probably the complete opposite of forgiveness. Though I’m led to understand that in the USA such signs often read “Trespassers will be shot” – it is a sign of the unforgiving times in which we live.

 

Trespassing, like gossiping, cheating, debt and sin are basically thinking, saying or acting in a way that takes you into an area where you shouldn’t be. From a social perspective it involves an offence that contravenes social or criminal law. The main problem with human law and signposts of fear, is that the people that erect them have often just taken a stand after their own sin and take upon themselves the divine right to establish their own ways and signposts – but not until after they have established themselves in the land.

 

It is interesting to note that when Adam was challenged over his trespass, he blamed the woman and when Eve was challenged, she blamed the serpent and he wore it, with pride. Neither Adam, nor Eve, nor the serpent, nor Cain who later killed his brother – asked for forgiveness… why is that?

 

Henry Ford is regarded as a genius, yet did ’life’ really need the automobile?

 

The point is, no innocent can know they have done anything wrong until the consequences unfold… many adults believe their acts are harmless or right… it is only when the consequences (fruits) are revealed retrospectively, that actions can be judged.

 

The consequence in each trespass above was the ejection from paradise and the rejection of man. Along with this curse, guilt remained and was passed from generation to generation.

 

Only forgiveness can free man from guilt and any curse that comes from trespassing, gossiping, cheating, debt or sin. The reason for this is that unforgiveness, resentment, blaming others or the inability to admit that you were out of order or in debt… sets up a blockage of pride, which prevents reconciliation and stops love from flowing.

 

Adam didn’t ask for forgiveness and in his pride, became further separated from God as did his offspring. Many of the offerings made in the Old Testament are ‘guilt’ offerings, but without acknowledging sin and requesting forgiveness, such offerings become token gestures, often following human tradition and do not effect change in the human heart.

 

(Mat 6:14-15 KJV) For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Getting Closer To God

 

(Gen 3:9 KJV) And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

 

One of the greatest religious dilemmas is, how do we, mere mortals, get closer to God...

 

Earlier in my quest I made a journey to India in the hope of gaining a greater spiritual insight and though the journey was interesting… all I really came closer to was dysentery and an appreciation of what I had at home. Since God is omnipresent and omniscient, it is naïve of any prospective believer to go looking for God, because God is not the one that is lost…. We are.

 

Since Adam, we have been hiding while God has been seeking us… re-reading the line of scripture above, we see it is a rhetorical one, designed to bring Adam to the revelation of his fallen relationship.

 

I am reminded of my early days as a father when I would play hide and seek with my son, he liked to hide and there were really only so many places he could hide and all of them I knew… I would often call out “Where are you” ... even though I knew where he hid, because this added value to our game… the longer I took to find him, the more his self-esteem grew…. Yet if I left it too long, he would call out. How much are we like that with God?

 

I found a word for this in India, it is pronounced “Leela” … meaning divine play.

 

Whether we like it not, we are stardust and have life only by the spirit of God… Sure we can hide in our sinful fear and denial, but we stay healthy and hidden only by the Grace of God.  Ultimately, if God doesn’t find you before the timer ends, the game will be over… and only you lose… God never loses.

 

So how do we ensure God finds us… do we hide in a cupboard and call out, sit in our room and pray out, go to a temple building and a sing out?  And when he finds us, what then?

 

Seems to me that we sinners enjoy playing hide and seek with God, no-one really wants to acknowledge that God knows where we are, because it spoils the game. Just as knowing the end of a great story from the beginning, spoils the story. The great mystery of life, is its mystery… the truth may set you free, but it also spoils the delusion…. And no-one likes that, do we?

 

We sinners love our delusion and that is our problem and that is what keeps us separate from God. In many ways God is responsible for creating our delusion, just like I was responsible for creating in my son, the delusions in him of being able to outwit me.

 

Many try to get close to God by exercising their body or twisting into contorted shapes, by cutting themselves, by taking drugs and by performing charitable acts.

 

The real distance between us and God is the love of our own delusion, our own sin… separates us, like a naughty child from its father… And so in our deluded will, we go our own way… often never realizing we are lost and the only way back is through self-realization, revelation, repentance and submission to love and the eternal goodness of life.

 

(Mat 7:14 KJV) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Getting Closer To God (Part 2)

 

(Dan 10:21 KJV) But I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

 

It is totally delusional to pray or communicate with something that is not real. For religion to make any sense, God needs to be real or true, either apparent through putting in an appearance or some kind of physical interaction or response to our communication. Many religions speak of submission to God, but what does this mean??? And is it right to submit to an ‘abstraction’ or a figment of our or some other persons ‘imagination’ or are we being asked to submit to a ‘set of rules’ established by our forefathers which are now contextually out of date???

 

If we do not know what it is we are submitting to, how do we know we haven’t just surrendered our will to an enemy or to delusion?

 

Our objective reality is witnessed through our organs of sense, our eyes, ears, skin, mouth and nose… these are our interfaces with one another and life. The reality of God and our communion must be perceived through these organs; otherwise it is invisible, intangible and highly subjective. Yet God, like electricity, cannot be seen, all that can be known of God and electricity are our sensual recognition of its powerful manifestations…. That is, light, sound, matter, change of state and frequency. Using electricity in analogy we know that without potential difference, there is no flow or expression of its existence. God is the author of universal potential difference and life is its manifestation. The flow that we see all around us, is the thing we call ‘life’, this above all other things is proof of God and this above all other things is all we can tangibly love and respect. Life is our truth, Life is our reality, it is not God, it is the expression of God. And without it, God is neither seen, heard, touched, tasted or smelt to exist.

 

The universe is full of many different life forms, but we all share God in common as a source. Some are unaware of our intrinsically spiritual nature, Some are aware of it and others are in denial of it. What matters is that we are all in this together and there is eternity in the spirit, but only temporal function in the flesh. Life forms come and go, just like the evolution of electric toys, but the life of each, is really invisible (spiritual). And just as a signal can be encoded onto varying frequencies of electricity, so can signals be encoded onto the varying frequencies of life. If this were not so, there would be no memory of time or the journey. When one plays a recording, one needs a device, media and content. Our device is the body, our media is the mind and the content is stored signals. Whatever we know is only partial and therefore contaminates and corrupts the whole truth.

 

Many try to get close to God by reading and re-reading scripture, this is a trap and its own form of idolatry. Since written words are just symbols scribed by man, they are not God, wise words are merely pointers to a greater reality. To spend day after day staring and learning all the pointers, misses the point. Any journey must be walked it cannot be just read or talked about. To worship any religious book is a form of idolatry, like worshipping an ordinance survey map or a guide book. When one gets the point, the guide book becomes unnecessary except to pass on to others.  The mere fact that so many people get caught up in religious books simply proves that we have no idea which way we should go. And many books cause much confusion. Scripture doesn’t command us to believe, it commands us to love. We can only get close to God, by loving and living life in a pure (true) way (uncontaminated by human delusion - sin).

 

(John 5:39-42 KJV) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. I receive not honour from men. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

Hallowed Be Thy Name

 

(Gen 2:19 KJV) And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

 

Without doubt humanity has allocated names to every living creature and not just individual names, but vast and complex classification systems for plants, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, insects, etc. Names are given to each species and to each variation. These names also come in various languages, there are ‘scientific’ names allocated in Latin and common names allocated in each native tongue and scribble.

 

And what does all this naming, classifying and labeling of things achieve?

 

Since we made up the names, it doesn’t really teach us anything about the creature or its nature – though often the names we apply have some bearing on the structure and or behaviour of the creature that we may have observed and labeled. Alternatively, the creature is often named after the person who discovered and identified it as unique.

 

Allow me to introduce you to Queen ‘Ant’ and her family:

 

 

And their place in the scheme of things according to LInnaeus

 

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Formicini
Genus:	Formica Linnaeus, 1758

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yet none of this naming or classification provides the true identity of the creature, this would be similar to introducing you as Mr or Ms Homo erectus…

 

It is very de-personalising, or it would be like calling your pet – “dog” or “cat” or your children “offspring”. And so the names we use are mostly classifications, they do not identify individuals personally.

 

Personal identification requires some kind of relationship with the creature in question. Mice are often considered pests not pets, but “Mickey” mouse is a virtual childhood identity that is treated with love and respect, which ultimately, is the key to any relationship and the ‘naming’ of any family, friends or pet.

 

Without Love and respect, the names we call one another and the things around us, will always be impersonal almost tantamount to racism or specism. Nevertheless, giving names to things we can see, hear, touch, taste and smell is a fairly easy task, we just have to imagine and vocalize a unique sound or imagine a unique symbol and scribble it.

 

But how can we ‘name’ things we cannot sense or grasp with our minds? Many have tried, but all our names fall short of the mark and all we do is kill one another over them, in the name of our name (which we call religion). So, who, without a relationship can name God?

 

(Mat 24:5 KJV) For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Hallowed Be Thy Name (Part 2)

 

(Gen 4:26 KJV) And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

 

What does it mean to “call upon the name of the LORD?

 

It is interesting to note that this behaviour is documented as only beginning 235 years after the creation with the third generation of man. I suspect, as always, that men begin to call on God when life is becoming a bit stressful, maybe food was scarce or environmental conditions were such that men generally needed some kind of help… why else would men call on the name of the Lord?

 

Apart from the inevitable whys, no indication is given as to what ‘name’ was called upon, since at no point prior had Adam (man) given a name to God. So maybe this is what was happening… man began to call out to his maker in whatever guttural sounds men could utter or using whatever name seemed appropriate to them at the time to encapsulate the perceived creator of all living things, the elements and the universe.

 

What was more important the name that was being called or the need behind the call?

 

When a baby cries, no loving parent waits for the correct pronunciation of their name before they react … the cry is enough to stir a reaction.  What is generally required is a flow of milk or food or some other relational exchange to restore peace and balance to whatever ails the child.

 

Our universal heavenly father operates in the same way when our need and our cry is genuine and not from some unjust desire, usury or greed.

 

(Mat 6:8 KJV) Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

 

Foolish men may fight over their names in an attempt to elevate their righteousness over their neighbours and by this means take God’s name in vanity, but this is NOT of God.

 

We see that humanity generally has three modes of calling upon the names of things… Firstly, there is the submissive call which is loving and soft usually ending with an ‘ah’ sound which leaves the mouth open… eg: dada, mamma, yehovah, allah, brahma, papa, baba, etc… Secondly, there is the call of the mind which is logical and objective… this is a formal or legal name… eg: Jesus, Mohammed, John, Matthew, Laura, Michael, Sarah, etc… Lastly, there is the call of friendship or familiarity, which is usually an informal name often abbreviating long names or extending names with an ‘ee’ or ‘o’ sound to soften them… eg: daddy, mummy, johnno, johnnie, mat, matty, loz, Lozzie, mike, mikie, sez, sezzie, etc… I mention this, because at one time my calling upon the name of Jesus became very confused when I discovered that his real name may have been isa, asus, jessie or joseph… Jeez… who you gonna call?

 

(John 16:1-3 KJV) These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Holy Communion

 

(Exo 3:4-6 KJV) And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

 

It is something to be in communion with someone or some other thing, but it is something else to be in ‘holy’ communion…. The word ‘holy’ occurs in the King James version of the Old Testament – 430 times and in the New Testament 181 times and of course the book itself is entitled ‘The Holy Bible’… so one can assume from this fact that the term ‘holy’ is a significant one. So what does the term ‘Holy’ really mean and why is it important?

 

From the Hebrew OT - Strong’s dictionary gives: 6944. qodesh, ko'-desh; from H6942; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstr. sanctity:--consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (X most) holy (X day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary.

 

And from the Greek NT: 40. hagios, hag'-ee-os; from  hagos (an awful thing) [comp. G53, H2282]; sacred (phys. pure, mor. blameless or religious, cer. consecrated):--(most) holy (one, thing), saint.

 

When chasing the meaning of words through a dictionary we are often fooled into a false understanding, since words are used to explain words and they point to one another in cyclic fashion… Generally the term ‘holy’ is applied to any person, thing, event, time or place set apart by man for God. A ‘holy’ man  dedicates his life to serving God. A ‘holy’ cow is a sacred animal. Christmas is a ‘holy’ event celebrating the birth of Christ. The Sabbath is a ‘holy’ day. Temples, prayer halls, shrines and worship centres are all ‘holy ‘ places…. Yet adopting the term ‘holy’ does not automatically make someone or something worthy of the term…. KNOWING someone or something as ‘holy’ is not the same as someone or something BEING ‘holy’…

 

Since God is the creator of every natural element in the universe then it is remiss and ignorant of man to only set aside certain things as ‘holy’. What this effectively says is that everything else is ‘unholy’… Biblically, it seems that anything untouched by the human mind, hands or tools is considered pure, natural and holy… whereas things touched by the human mind, hands and tools are somehow contaminated, polluted, corrupted…. In some ways the human definition of ‘holy’ really boils down to human contaminated areas that have been set aside for restoration, decontamination and preservation in order to keep them pure and natural. A ‘holy’ book can only be written by ‘holy’ men and if so, who can interpret ‘holy’ scripture with an ‘unholy’ perspective?

 

It is impossible for contaminated man to enter into ‘holy’ communion, this would be like trying to play a tune in ‘G’ with an instrument that plays ‘B’ flat. Our nature must be changed to re-align our heart, our mind and our activities in faith, before we can enter into Holy Communion. Where the ‘Comm’ represents harmonious exchange and the ‘union’ represents oneness.

 

(John 17:20-21 KJV) Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Holy Holy Holy

 

(Isa 6:3 KJV) And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

 

Searching through the Bible we find many applications of the term ‘holy’ – there is (OT) holy ground; holy convocations; holy habitations; holy Sabbath, holy nation;  holy men; holy places; holy garments; holy things; holy crown of pure gold; holy ointment; holy oil; holy offerings; holy linen garments; holy vessels; holy man of God; holy one of Israel; holy name; holy house; holy seed; holy city; holy one; holy hill;  holy temple; holy heaven; holy oracle; holy spirit;  holy mountains; holy arm; holy promise; holy solemnity;  holy day; holy flesh; holy flock; holy chambers; holy portion; holy oblation; holy gods; holy ones; holy covenant; (NT - additions) holy ghost; holy angels; holy prophets; holy father; holy kiss; holy apostles; holy brethren; holy hands; holy calling; holy scriptures; holy priesthood; holy women; holy commandment; holy conversation; holy faith.

 

These are most of the ‘holy’ examples in the Bible – each person or thing being set aside specially to keep it pure, clean, unpolluted and somehow protected from everyday human behaviour and existence…. One would have to ask the question… Why?

 

Why were grasshoppers, considered clean to eat, while lizards were considered unclean?

Why were the Jews, considered holy, while the gentiles were considered unholy?

 

There has to be some rationale for this ‘holiness’ other than just the words of an old book possibly written from a position of bias, for one nation… The inference of ‘holiness’ V’s ‘unholiness’ or ‘cleaness’ V’s ‘uncleaness’  is that there is a right way and a wrong way to live and behave… encapsulated globally in the battle of ‘good’ V’s ‘evil’ or ‘righteousness’ V’s ‘unrighteousness’… today we still struggle to know what is ‘right’ and who the ‘good guys’ are, because human corruption is insidious…. So what is right and who among us is truly holy, if any?

 

Believe it or not…. not everything we humans eat, read, say or do is ‘good’ for us, for our neighbour or for life in general. By way of example: God given or ‘good’ food generally grows on trees and is full of life. Once this food enters our mouths and sustains our life, it passes through our system and comes out of our anus going back to the earth like all dead and dying things. It is probably not a ‘good’ idea to eat excrement or anything that is dead and dying or anything that crawls over or feeds on the dead and dying. Just because a man can do something, does not mean that a man should do something or that what he does is a good idea… It is usually just ‘stupidity’ or ‘ignorance’ or ‘sin’ that leads him…

 

(Rev 4:8-11 KJV) And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. 

Idolatry

 

(Exo 20:4-5 KJV) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

 

There is no doubt that ‘idols’ are created, firstly by human minds and hands and secondly by human attention and worship. Some may wonder what is wrong with this and why are such ‘things’ the cause of divine conjecture. There are a number of reasons….

 

·         Every idol is a man made replica or twisting of something that God has made, by the human imagination, both of which should not be elevated above their reality.

·         Every man made product is an attempt by man to elevate himself or his works as something greater than the providence of God.

·         Every idol draws attention away from the true living God and life’s created purpose becoming a distraction that preoccupies to the exclusion of what is right and true.

·         Every idol becomes a stumbling block to what is real and true and gives credence to works of fiction and lies.

 

To put it simply – all idolaters are self-medicating addicts. Idols tend to pre-occupy the senses and the mind to the exclusion of everything else… possessing the idolater, which is eventually destructive to their life and the lives of those around them. Idolatry takes many forms… Through hearing and sound, we observe the worship by many fans of their favourite words, rhythms and musicians; Through sight, colour and animation, we observe the psychological effects of artful marketing, evoking hypnotic affects and many happy returns; Through taste and flavour, we observe the worship of food and drink, addictively laced with sugar and salt and all manner of spices, that eventually master the tongue its owner. Through touch and texture, we observe the worship of skin and fur to overrule natural body temperature, to excite and stimulate in addictive and sensual ways.

 

Ultimately all the senses lead to the assimilated experience in the ‘mind’ where the real pre-occupation occurs, since this is the throne of consciousness which can be flooded with ‘feelings’ of joy and sadness, pleasure and pain… measured scientifically as electro-chemical effects named endorphins, etc.

 

Idolatry is a form of mental masturbation which usually occurs because we have lost touch with life’s real purpose. It may start as a form of idle fascination when we are lost, searching or just cannot handle the truth, but eventually it becomes a habit that possesses and passes down through the generations. All idolatry is a turning away from the truth to another and often more appealing one…. an escape from reality, to what we are ‘pleased’ to serve with our heart, soul and mind…. and it all starts with sensual temptation leading to ‘pleasurable’ gratification and a returning addiction in bondage to the chosen idol.

 

(Mat 4:8-10 KJV) Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Innocence

 

(Gen 3:9-11 KJV) And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?  And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

 

There seems to be a ‘point’ in all of our lives where we lose our innocence and begin to develop our independence.  Just what is lost and what is gained remains a mystery, one that I have spent most of my adult life, trying to unravel. For it seems that this is the ‘turning point’ for humanity and God, both in terms of ‘sin’ and as a goal for ‘repentance’.

 

There is nothing on earth so appealing as an ‘innocent’ child or a kitten, a puppy or a lamb. There is just “something” so naturally harmless, playful and trusting, that our ‘heart’, naturally rushes towards them…. with an “aaaah”.

 

Contra-wise there is nothing on earth so unappealing as a ‘mean’ child, cat or dog.

 

The ‘innocent are considered such, because they are sweet and harmless like candy floss, the ‘mean’ are called such, because they are bitter and harmful like poison.

 

It seems OK to be innocent at 2 or 3, but to be innocent at 33 is considered a bit weird, because adulthood largely depends on the loss of innocence and the gaining of independence. In fact, most ‘tribes’ have some ‘rite of passage’ or ceremony to ensure boys pass over from childhood to manhood before they leave their teens.

 

So how can we grow up to become responsible adults, yet retain our innocence?

 

To understand this, we need to grasp the nature of ‘innocence’ – what is it about a child, a kitten or a puppy that makes them so appealing?

 

Firstly, they have NO FEAR (they have implicit faith), they are TRUE to their nature (what you see is what you get), they are GUILELESS (they have no hidden agenda), they are ‘FREE’ yet dependent (they are PLAYFUL yet LOYAL), they are HARMLESS (they cause no pain), they bring JOY (they cause love or endorphins to flow). They are HUMBLE creatures (they don’t pretend to know or be, better than God).

 

In this state we see Adam and Eve before ‘the fall’, that is what was lost along with paradise… and no amount of manmade religion, law, politics, charities, greening or terrorism can return us to that perfect state. We need to change OUR nature and not everything else. Our real sin is our megalomaniac delusion, for we are but dead and dust, without the spirit of God and love.

 

If you have ears to hear, then truly listen and undertake the words of John the Baptist.

 

(Mat 3:2 KJV) And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Innocence (Part 2)

 

(Proverbs 6:16-19 KJV) These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,  A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

 

One early morning while walking through a field, I heard a flock of lorikeets overhead and as I looked up, I noticed they were greedily feeding on the nectar in the blossoms of a tree that had been severely pruned back earlier in the year because of nearby electric wires.

 

What struck me was the apparent innocence and lack of judgment shown by these creatures as I walked passed, despite the fact that humans had severely damaged their potential food source. It seems that ‘most creatures’ just carry on regardless and their only real judgment is expressed in their fear of potential detractors or trust in potential benefactors…. Such is the nature of innocence and perhaps the innocence of nature.

 

All judgment comes from the capability to discriminate or compare the way “things are” to the way “you think” things should be. Since innocent creatures live in the moment, they have no comparative virtual reality or vision of the way things should be, what they see is what they get. All they really get is temporary confusion when things change drastically compared to their memories, then they move on.

 

The opposite of innocent is guilty and to really understand this, one has to ask, what are we innocent or guilty of… and the answer is ‘sin’. A word is just a noise or a scribble without underlying meta-meaning and the underlying meaning of sin is the perception of duality and the illusion of an alter-identity that arrives with the birth of a comparative virtual reality in the mind. Sin is exponential because dualism leads to alter-identity, alter-identity leads to judgment, judgment leads to jealousy, jealousy leads to violence and hate as well as innumerable other pollutions of the innocent spirit.

 

You see, everything in nature is unique and has implicit natural identity, can you imagine what an impossible and futile task it would be to give personal names and alter-identities to every blade of grass, to every leaf on every tree, to every insect, bird, reptile and mammal?  And can you imagine the confusion if every living thing went the way of its own virtual reality captured yesterday?

 

From God’s perspective humanity is like a sea of grass and the only grass that really matters is the grass that grows in its proper time and place, the rest is pulled out and thrown away from time to time.

 

So how does a man become innocent again, somehow he needs to be born again, place little value on his personal comparative virtual reality and trust his greater natural self. The Muslims call it submission, for they say there is no God, only Allah. And what is Allah if not the source and substance of life and love and truth, you and me and all?

 

Jesus was led like a lamb to the slaughter because he was innocent and in total submission and at-one-ment, innocence is a state of being, not a place of pilgrimage.

 

(Mat 18:3 KJV) And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Miracles

 

(Exo 7:9 KJV) When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.

 

As a child I was always fascinated by the ‘supernatural’ and super-powers… and wasted most of my hard-earned pocket money on super-hero comics drawn in beautiful colour cells by the imaginations of canny men.  In more recent times with the advent of cinema, TV and computer technology… many of these colourful cells have been turned into amazing full length animations and feature films.

 

The problem with so much animated fiction is that it makes it difficult for us to differentiate ‘reality’ from ‘virtual reality’ and so…truth becomes fiction, while fiction becomes truth and most of us just become very confused, especially when we have no baseline.

 

As a child I also remember my parents taking me to the cinema to see the original Cecil B De-mille version of ‘The Ten Commandments’ starring Charlton Heston. I was probably about 5 years old and fell asleep and my father had to carry me out of the cinema at the end of the movie…. I missed the whole spectacular and the message of Moses.

 

I have since realized that most of us are asleep to the Miracles that are all around us that we take for granted… the rising sun, a flower, a tree, fruit, a bird, sex, birth, growth, family, and being…..  All these things are ‘true’ miracles of life, so why can’t we see them and why must a man appear with superhuman powers before we even begin to acknowledge the miraculous works of God?

 

The truth is, we are blind or asleep, there is some sort of covering or veil over the human mind which inhibits us from seeing clearly… both Jesus and Mohammed alluded to this many time…. It is a filter of wrong belief or false belief and deceptive mental delusion. Truth is plain to see, but we cannot see it, because our perspective is somehow impaired.

 

Coming back to Moses and Aaron we read of two men that have had a revelation of God and more than this a communion with God, such that some miraculous power of God over ‘reality’ is available to them and shown as evidence to Pharaoh.  As we read on, we see that Pharaoh has ‘Magicians’ who can perform lesser miracles of a similar nature.  All of which is very confusing, because the only thing that differentiates the miraculous from the magical is the semantics and the underlying motive or intent.  The miraculous is normally attributed to God and done for the good, whereas the magical is normally attributed to deceptive men and done with deceptive intent… Though like all semantics, history has shown that ‘magic’ has now become an acceptable form of goodness in the shape of the fictional ‘Harry Potter’ and so our confusion of righteousness becomes more entrenched…. Moses is now seen as a bigger and better magician than Pharaoh’s lads… though not as famous as Harry. The Bible is a very old book, it is a miracle that it has survived as long as it has and yet in the battle and confusion between truth and fiction, it has become an endangered script, being replaced by so many other more titillating books full of fictional magic, human trickery and no accountability

 

(Luke 23:8 KJV) And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.

Miracles (Part 2)

 

(Deu 29:2-6 KJV) And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

 

Despite all the miracles most of the people remain unimpressed and set in their ways. A comfortable lie is always more preferable than the painful truth. Moses set his people ‘free’ from slavery, but like captive birds released into the wild, most just wanted to go back to their cage, where they felt safe. Having worked for the police for a time, it is recognised that most criminals are recidivist offenders… we all tend to operate from what we know, from our programmed memories, from our tradition.  Even 40 years in the wilderness and miracle after miracle couldn’t change their pre-conditioned minds. Often it takes the raising and replacement of a new generation…. Sure, Moses set his people ‘free’…… but ‘free’ to do what? And…. how?

 

Without knowing the answer to these questions, we remain: prisoners of whatever freedom we have. To the people, it really didn’t matter how Moses got them out of Egypt, for all they cared he could have used martial arts, chemistry, military weapons or space aliens… all they really cared about was food and shelter for their families and so it continued…. God, Moses and the miracles that occurred would have been lost altogether if someone hadn’t taken the time to write it down for history’s sake.  Ironically it only takes a generation to distort history and another generation to erase it.

 

And so we come to the Miracles of Jesus.  Today many people regard Jesus as a fictional character, which like the many that came from the stable of DC & Marvel comics – is tantalising, but placed in the realm of children stories for men who refuse to give up their childlike imaginations. Fictional characters are capable of doing anything their authors imagine, so in the land of fiction, Jesus is believable and could do anything.

In the realm of historical events, we find two main schools of thought among believers in Jesus. Those who believe 100% in every word that is written about him and others who doubt much of what is written especially with regard to the miraculous…. among which are: his virgin birth; his perfect timing; changing water into wine; feeding multitudes of people with a few loaves and fishes; discerning attitudes; calming storms; healing the sick; raising the dead; walking on water; his wisdom; his love and his resurrection. Yet, until he was 30 Jesus was an unknown, what took him so long to act? Was he just biding his time, not quite knowing what to do with his life and why didn’t he like so many other children, follow his father’s trade?  Again, we see Moses as fatherless, lost and alone, like many other prophets – men seem to need a close encounter with life’s meaning and their maker, before they can partake in the miraculous… often this only happens in the wilderness or in isolation from the ways of the world. Whatever you believe, how does acknowledging or dismissing Jesus and the miraculous, change the way you live? 

 

(John 6:26 KJV) Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

On Earth as it is in Heaven

 

(Deu 31:28-29 KJV) Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you;

 

Though the perfect ‘will of God’ reigns in Heaven, it does not reign on Earth, because it is overruled (temporarily) by the intrinsically corrupt ‘will of humanity’. Though ‘God’ creates and maintains the “heavens” and the “earth”, ‘humanity’, by its will, chooses to create and maintain its own ‘worlds’ that ride upon, thrash and consume the ‘goodness’ of the earth.

 

How can this be, how can ‘the will of man’ overrule ‘the will of God?’

 

Just as any son, who ‘thinks’ he ‘knows’ better than his father can overrule and overpower his father, so men on earth, in ignorance (and arrogance), fear and greed can temporarily overrule Heaven. That is, until the spirit they have denied, leaves them for dead. The earths’ archaeology is littered with dead and buried ‘worlds’… will this one fair any better?

 

(James 4:1-4 KJV) From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

 

This ‘world’ now asserts that all life is the product of chemistry, amino-acids and DNA, the infinite creativity of God is being undermined by infinite divisive thinking, leaving man to play with the building blocks of life, regardless of the consequences. Creating ‘beasts’ that have not evolved in harmony with heaven or the natural world, but arise from the corrupt imaginations of men, to serve the corrupt ‘will of man’ and not the perfect ‘will of God’… so how will such ‘beasts and bots’ keep peace with heaven and how long before they rebel upon their creators - adding corruption to corruption on earth? If the world’s humanity was naturally evolved (shrunk) to the size of ants, I could fit them all in my back yard, where then, is the over-population problem and which ‘ant’ would interfere with this solution?

 

Fortunately, man has been unable to conquer and corrupt heaven, so it still remains in power, in divine equilibrium and relatively unaffected by our exploits into space and despite our electronic littering of ‘the final frontier’. Heaven is not at war, Saturn does not fight with Uranus, nor Jupiter with Mars – the planets hold their ordained and ordered position, the Sun pumps light from the heart of our galaxy, the moon orbits each month and the earth continues to revolve at approximately 1,000 miles per hour (at the equator). Despite “Chaos theory”, the earth remains stable and at peace while remaining in orbit around the sun each year. Any slight interference with this natural order would drastically affect life on earth. Universal peace is threatened mainly, by the chaotic minds of men.

 

Consider…If all the beauty of life on earth has arrived and evolved naturally in harmony with heaven without the ‘will of man’  then… what eternal ‘good’ are we and our works?

 

Mat 15:13 KJV) But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

Our Daily Bread

 

(Gen 3:19 KJV) In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

 

Few people seem to realize that bread is actually a food from the curse, it is not mentioned in the Bible till after the fall of man and in so many ways its purpose is to remind us of the fall, the curse of work that we have to undertake, while also reminding us of our terminal nature (dust).

 

Unlike paradise fruit…. bread does not grow on trees, it is manufactured from tiny grass seed that must be GATHERED on mass, WINNOWED, COLLECTED into a bowl and then POUNDED into powder (dust), then MIXED with water and BAKED in an oven to produce a product that has a texture that is edible for a day before it becomes hard and dry or mouldy and inedible. You see today, we have to EARN our daily bread, it is not GIVEN.

 

There is work (destructive) and there is work (productive), Jesus worked, but he did not work for money or for bread, he worked to see the re-establishment of Gods kingdom.

 

Most of us today WORK to make bread or money to buy ourselves a little bit of ‘paradise’ and yet in our work and consumerism, we destroy the very paradise that we are working so hard against…. to obtain.

 

·         How much wheat needs to be sown and processed to make a loaf of bread?

·         How much oil needs to be pumped and processed to fuel harvesters?

·         How many forests need to be cut down and processed to make kitchen bench tops?

·         How much iron ore needs to be mined and processed to make knives?

 

Is there a need for processed - knives, bench tops, fuel tanks and bread in paradise?

 

We only process these things because we have lost the way to paradise and are forced to work for our survival. Tiring of our work and the labour cost,  we invent machines to make our lives easier and so it goes on 50 weeks a year.

 

Apart from maybe the 2 weeks a year when we seek escape to unspoilt beaches and unspoilt country where at last we can experience the paradise away from ‘our working world’ which we have learned to tolerate with the assistance of endorphin generating activities, drugs and whatever else takes us away from the day to day mental monotony, where our ‘daily’ bread is WORKED and FOUGHT for in ever diminishing corporate wars for investor profits.

 

Since we are created beings with hands of varying sizes, it would seem fit that we should only hold as much in our hands as we are equipped to carry. In other words, if we are holding more than a handful, then we are being greedy. Each day, we should only hold enough in the hand, for our daily bread.

 

Only humanity lives such a deluded life of excess consumerism and greed, no bird could ever fly freely carrying such excess baggage… and it will eventually, be the death of us.

 

(Mat 6:26 KJV) Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Our Father In Heaven

 

(Gen 27:39 KJV) And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

 

Though human thinking has twisted the concept of ‘heaven’ into a realm that people inhabit after death, they have failed to grasp some fundamentals.

 

No human creates their self, we are all brought into existence by the naturally free forces governing time and space, as are the planets and the stars. This in itself is the greatest miracle… that from heavenly freedom and selflessness – life has been created and perpetuated… and it is truly amazing and worth preserving.

 

The source of all this existence is hidden in the non-existence, above any exploding matter, energy or spirit – these are just ‘words’ we squawk or scribble to symbolize something of which we have little comprehension only capability to objectify and name.

 

The beauty of the words “Our father” is they acknowledge that we are ALL included. “Our” is all embracing – no-one is excluded no matter how ignorant or how evil, how sick or how damaged, we all have ONE father and we are all his children and we are all brothers and sisters… no-one asks to be here, we are ALL here by the ‘grace of God’ and the same holds true for bacteria, ants, tigers, humans, whales and angels – everything that exists.

 

Also “God” – is above and beyond all other forces (brute, chemical, emotional, mental, financial or meta-physical) that would seek to rule, or actually govern your life on earth or in this world.

 

Ultimately the ‘forces of heaven’ govern all that happens on earth, whether people on earth like it or not.  Not one plant would grow, if the forces of heaven didn’t activate through the sun to produce the necessary sunshine and rain. So like it or not and deny it or not, the truth is - Heaven governs the Earth.

 

Since ‘Our Father’ is SELFLESS; ‘Our father’ is LOVE; ‘Our Father’ is JUST; Everything ‘Our Father’ does is PERFECT’ – ‘Our Father’ and all creation is integrally ONE and remains perfectly balanced, like a single body with many parts working in perfect unison for the GOOD of ALL.

 

It has long been acknowledged that nature is ‘self balancing’, but this is simply the nature of “Heaven”… the nature of God, which should also be our nature, for we are indeed, made in the image and likeness of God. In truth, the ‘tree of life’ multiplies, but the ‘tree of knowledge’ divides, fracturing the whole, bringing chaos to all, reducing ONE to zero.

 

There is only room for ONE God in Heaven and ONE God on Earth, the problem with humanity is that they refuse to acknowledge ONE God and continually seek to elevate themselves or elevate their own ‘knowing’ and ‘stuff’ to positions of righteousness. As long as humanity continues to assert itself over one another and over God, they will never repent, this is the nature of sin and sickness. Peace is impossible and war is inevitable.

 

Truth does not need to assert itself, it can never lose, all that fail to see this truth, lose.

 

(Mat 5:9 KJV) Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Prayer

 

(Gen 3:9 KJV) And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

 

This is the first documented conversation between God and man in the Old Testament, up until this point, the entire creative process was dominated by the word of God where the creator and creation were in harmony, as One.

 

Suddenly… God lost contact with Adam and couldn’t feel or find him, how could this be?

 

‘Sin’ maybe the cause, but the effect is the fall of man into a ‘lost’ state of separation, aloneness and expulsion.

 

When faith or trust is broken, this is always the end result. Why would anyone wish to spend time with someone they cannot trust? Though they may call and call upon your name, why would you bother to listen to them, because once you know they cannot be trusted, you know any contact with them is likely to be detrimental or painful.

 

Prayer is man’s attempt to commune with God and though many people do not pray because they do not believe in anything greater than their own mind and experience; many do pray; and many of those, become frustrated because their prayers are not answered.

 

Surely God is not deaf and surely God loves us, the issue is, can God trust us?

 

Winning trust is the key to prayer, and indeed any relationship. Without trust, there is no relationship; no real ‘connection’, no real ‘contract’, there is only a superficial communication or contact and this, often masking deceit and corruption.

 

Since Adam, the ‘sin’ that separates us from God has become a vast chasm and any prayer thrown into this chasm comes back as an echo, not as a prayer fulfilled. The way to  the “Kingdom of God” or “Heaven” is through the establishment of trust (aka: faith).  Jesus built this bridge and put it at hand for all humanity, but few choose to cross.

 

The problem is not God, the problem is the corrupt nature of humanity – we are the ones that need to change, our eternal heavenly father is purported to be the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow. But his human children have all become resistive, distracted, unrighteous, unfaithful and ineffective.

 

Yet even non-believers cry out to God, when their loved ones are suffering or when they are hurting, such is the hypocrisy of humanity and when the spirit leaves the body, all that is left is dust…

 

And they went out, and preached that men should repent.

 

(Mark 6:11-12 KJV) And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Prayer (Part 2)

 

(Gen 4:26 KJV) And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

 

This is the first reference in the Old Testament of men calling upon the name of the Lord, up until this point God has been calling things by name and Adam (man) has been calling things by name… but now men have started calling on the name of the Lord (where the translation for the term ‘Lord’ is given as Yehovah, yeh-ho-vaw'; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah.

 

(Gen 12:7-8KJV) And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

 

Understanding this point is crucial to prayer, since men began calling to the ‘self existent eternal one’ using a common name or sound. As an observation, up until this point in the Bible, all men did was call, much like chimpanzees do to communicate with one another.

 

Later, the first documented reference in the Old Testament to the term ‘pray’, forgiving the language translators choice of words from the Hebrew… is used when Abraham effectively begs his wife to lie on his behalf, lest the Egyptians kill him and run off with her. This begging was an earnest request to save his skin. One has to wonder why he just didn’t ‘pray’ to God to save his skin from the Egyptians in the first place?  And yet after his wife was released by Abimelech following a dream in which he was told the truth, we see Abraham praying as requested of him, by Abimelech’s dream. The Egyptians obviously knew how to pray and this opens a whole other can of words.

 

(Gen 20:17 KJV) So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

 

Having spent many years trying to understand how to pray effectively and most times failing miserably… it seems to me that the most important factor in prayer is to whom or what we are trying to commune with?  Stepping out the front door of any house and loudly calling out “oi” is bound to get some attention… but it is fleeting. Calling out the name of someone may get a more personal response, but even so with or without follow-up it may just become irritating. So, there are several things to consider:

 

·         Our focus (Who or what we are trusting in?)

·         Our message (What we are trying to communicate?)

·         Our attitude (sincere and loving or insincere or aggressive)

·         Our openness and receptivity (faith in a response, even in dreams)

·         Our alignment with God (we need to be in the right place at the right time)

 

(Mat 13:55-58 KJV) Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?  And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

 

The Lord’s Prayer

 

Our Father who art in Heaven

Our produces family unity and establishes identity

 

Praised and revered be your name

Adoration produces an open heart and joy

 

Thy kingdom come and

thy will be done on Earth

as it is in Heaven.

Submission produces obedience and purpose

 

Give us this day our daily bread

Reliance (daily) produces faith and freedom from greed.

 

Forgive us this day our trespasses (sins)

Repentance produces humility and correction

 

As we forgive them that tresspass against us

Forgiveness produces freedom and loving acceptance

 

Lead us away from temptation

Direction produces righteousness and self control

 

Deliver us from Evil

Protection produces fearlessness and faith

 

For thine is

The Kingdom,

The Power and

The Glory

Authority produces accountability and responsibility

 

For ever

And ever

Eternity produces patience and endurance

 

Amen.

Confirmation  produces commitment and reinforcement

 

Thy Kingdom Come

 

(Dan 2:43-44 KJV) And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

 

The prophecy of Daniel occurred some time during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians approximately 600 years (BC) before the birth of Jesus. Suffice to say that after the Babylonian, the Persian, the Greek, the Roman Empire (from 200BC) and after the conquest of many tribal nations around the world. Jesus appeared, with this message and miracles.

 

(Mark 1:15 KJV) And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 

 

At the start of his ministry Jesus called several fishermen, to inspire and teach them how to re-connect with God and live faithful and true. Yet, after he was crucified, these same men returned to their fishing boats, because they followed the man and not ‘the way’.

 

Jesus’ physical ministry lasted only 3 years, but, the message was always more important than the messenger. The gospel message provides ‘the way’ for humanity to realise and re-establish a connection with “God” through the purification of our hearts and minds and the restoring power of love through faith. But what does this all mean and what is the nature of this so called ‘Kingdom of God?’ 

 

Firstly, no creature produces, maintains or ages itself – everything we are and everything that occurs in our lifetime is under the governance of forces greater than our objectified body. In truth, everything lives, breathes and reproduces by the exchange with, provision from and by the grace of God.

 

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus clearly outlines the difference between those who trust in God and those that ruin everything by thinking only of themselves, these are the faithless heathen (gentiles), who live by ‘intellect’ in ignorance (of God), fear and greed in the belief that life is all about ‘self’ gain. Secondly, the nature of the Kingdom of God is perfect, providing an eternally sustainable system that keeps everything in balance and in alignment with the will of God which is both selfless and true. Without prejudice and without bias – without judgement, yet just.

 

The inevitable result of living in the former way will always be a dog eat dog world leading to a hell of competition, violence and war, whether tribal, national or corporate. The envisioned result of living in harmony with the creator is a naturally evolving paradise for all creatures at peace under ONE God as faith and love grow in the hearts of men. The kingdom comes only by men staying true to God, such is the nature and rationale of ‘the faith’ and the reason why prophets have been stoned and Jesus was crucified, because evil is exploitive and will use all its power to stop the Kingdom from coming.

 

(Mat 6:30-33 KJV) Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto

Thy Will Be Done

 

(1 Sam 8:7 KJV) And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

 

This verse is followed by a prophetic tirade of the on-going consequences of electing a man to rule over their lives, instead of being free men. The first elected King of the Jews -Saul, was chosen for his stature not for his faith or fairness and he lost the anointing, because he became lost in his own egocentric power trip (see 1 Sam 15:22-23 KJV).

 

Saul was no-one until touched by ‘God’, but as his pride outgrew his faith, he acted of ‘his own will’ and allowed his relative ‘knowledge’ to rule his actions, ignoring the wider wisdom of God that permeates all things. Saul was then replaced by a young shepherd boy from Bethlehem, who grew from being a ‘yada’ psalmist and player of the ‘harp’ to a great king, who played out the lives of men.

 

(Psa 40:7-9 KJV) Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:

 

So, who these days delights to do the will of God?

 

Anyone who loves the ‘Lord their God’, with all their heart, soul and strength, will seek out the ‘Will of God’ – otherwise their ‘love’ comes from their own thinking – like Saul.

 

Children frequently say they love their parents, but without respectful obedience to the will of their parents, such love falls from a forked tongue, while they go their own way.

 

So what is the ‘Will of God’, why does it escape our ‘knowing’ and why do we rebel?

 

(Mat 5:48 KJV) Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

The ‘Will of God’ is perfect, pure, free and just - because it keeps all existence in balance.

The ‘Will of man’ is imperfect, impure, bound and unjust - because a little knowledge (ignorance) rules our nature and causes us to act from our generational experience.

Surrendering to the will of God is not ‘giving-up’ and doing ‘nothing’, it means compliance, without compliance to a just CEO in unity (love) – order is impossible and chaos ensues.

 

Jesus acted in a way that brought freedom to the afflicted, restoring or removing the cause of imbalance as required. He healed the sick, restored sight, raised those who died before their time, righted wrongs and corrected untruth. He cared for the poor in society because such a social state is unjust. In everything he did, he was ‘good’ because the power of God (as pure love) flowed through him without resistance to those with faith.

 

Men should not be setting up religious or any other kind of faction to fight over. ‘The way’ is the ‘Spirit of God’ within us and without this wisdom for what is right and true, we will always be deceived, dysfunctional, resistive, struggle in our ignorance, war with each other and die in our disobedient sin. 

 

The law (religion) is impersonal and generic, obeying the law does not make us right or righteous. The will of God (love) is personal, since it will vary for each person. God did not ask everyone to build a boat, only Noah. God did not ask everyone to leave their home and country, only Abraham. God did not ask everyone to submit to crucifixion, only Jesus. And so it is, we cannot live our lives from someone else’s book or someone else’s relationship with God, we each need our own relationship with Our Father, our creator.

 

(Mat 7:21 KJV) Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Waiting on God

 

(Prov 8:34-36 KJV) Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

 

Wherever there is need, there is always a need to wait for the right moment before taking action. But how do we know, when the right moment has arrived? Very often we find ourselves hamstrung between our own ignorance and our desire to do the right thing and so we seek some kind of guidance from someone with superior knowledge, skills or who can carry the responsibility of the decision. And so the captain tells his men to hold their aim, until he says “fire”. Sometimes delay results in failure and sometimes premature action results in failure, so success depends upon right timing.

 

When David slew Goliath, his aim and his timing were perfect. So who or what governs perfect timing? Is it just about practice? Though David had lots of practice keeping bears and predators away from his sheep, Goliath was the first Giant he ever practiced on, so how does one explain this kind of first-time luck?

 

The human body is divinely ordered, the heart pumps, blood flows, air is breathed and miraculous exchanges occur between God and man that require perfect timing and if this does not happen, we struggle in our dysfunction, such is the nature of disease.

 

As a man who has sought truth and revelations on life and acknowledged God, I still struggle to find answers. I’ve asked, sought and knocked in many ways. I have prostrated myself on the floor, spent time on my knees, standing with my arms outstretched and even practiced sitting for hours in meditative positions. Sometimes it seems like a performance and most times it is. There is nothing quite so unnatural as sitting cross legged for hours where the least pressure on the limbs causes the blood to stop flowing when prolonged too long… and this in itself creates dysfunction.

 

I am reminded of my daughter’s cat which spends most of its time amusing itself in the garden watching and waiting – It struck me that my relationship with God is like cat and man. Most of the time I do my own thing and God knows how many hours I have spent just watching and waiting for some revelation. Every now and then, when I am doing something else, a revelation comes like a blessing or a pat on the head and I have to stop what I am doing and enjoy the moment. Then there are times when I’ve really needed some divine intervention and have found myself crying at Gods door, this is not something that can be easily faked and the problem is the more independent we are, the more difficult it becomes to cry for help and just wait. In the same way if I don’t open the door when the cat wants, she is often gone to kill a bird or a lizard or pester my neighbours than wait on busy me. And so it is, pride, self-sufficiency and business ruins relationships.  In this technological society where everything must happen instantly, who has time to wait and waste on the wisdom and providence of God, when we can so easily run and ruin our own lives at everyone else’s expense?  Yet... while we refuse to wait on God, God waits on us...

 

(Luke 12:39-40 KJV) And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Fasting

 

(Gen 37:34 KJV) And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

 

This was the response of Jacob when he ‘believed’ Joseph his much-loved youngest child had been killed. It is a response that says, these other things I place value in, are worthless compared to my son.  Fancy clothes, like fancy food and other things that we covet are a distraction to the reality of life and death before God.

 

Ultimately, he have to decide whose side we are on…. The side of the ‘eternal self-existent one’ or the side of the ‘temporal self-deluded ones’…. And sometimes in the face of so much distraction… it is important to STOP and face the truth. Especially, if you care.

 

Only a totally un-caring father or person would carry on with their ‘self-indulgences’ in these circumstances as if nothing had happened.

 

And so we come to the main purpose of ‘fasting’…. It is a way to STOP the mind and senses running after all and sundry in this world so that we can be still long enough to partake of the deeper things of heaven and earth and learn to do what is right and true.

 

In a way it is ironic that we use the word ‘fast’ because it should really be called ‘slow’, since it is the ‘fast’ pace of life that stops us from seeing clearly.  In a moving vehicle one cannot see the ants at work, a flower growing or taste the wind, the slower we go – the deeper we see and when we stop… we can see and feel every subtle movement.  The longer we stay still, the deeper we can go…. Anyone that has ever stared at a complex work of art with interest would understand this… the longer you look, the more you see and everything you see was always there, your mind and belief was just elsewhere.

 

In truth…  Joseph, wasn’t killed he was eventually the one responsible for leading the Jews into Egypt with respect… but in the course of time they were hated for their prolific success, turned into slaves and their children killed…. Until one was miraculously saved in the bull rushes…. yadda yadda… you probably know this story…. aka: Moses.

 

Who when exiled, found God in the Wilderness… because Moses was lost and searching… and after finding God, wanted to save his people…. Unfortunately, not all his people really wanted to be saved… they preferred the captivating world of the Egyptians to the freedom of the Wilderness with God…. And so we read…

 

(Exo 34:28 KJV) And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

 

On would have thought Moses would have starved to death, but perhaps he had sustenance other than bread and water… perhaps fruit.

 

(Mat 4:1-4 KJV) Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Revelation

 

(Gen 4:15 KJV) And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

 

Without doubt the Bible is a book of mystery and intrigue. The Old Testament is full of murder and mayhem and much of it is quite sickening. The New Testament and the words of Jesus are full of mystical theology, love and sacrifice. The Acts of the apostles and much of the writings attributed to Paul are full of religious zeal and a little bit scary. The last book in the agreed set of books is attributed to John, one of Jesus’ closest disciples, so you would like to think it is trustworthy. Like any work of men, the first question should be, can we trust it? And can we trust the mind(s) that created it?

 

There is so much apparent ambiguity and contradiction in many scriptural texts that I am not surprised that many rational people have rejected them, others look for deeper meaning, sometimes reading more into the words than there really is… again the problem is not in the text, but in the viewing minds and the many, many interpretations.

 

The human mind and its works are flawed by its dependence on sensual experience and environmental upbringing (tradition). Unrestrained, like a wild garden of weeds, the mind is capable of generating all kinds of dreams and visions which have little to do with truth and much more to do with chaos. Ultimately only the author of life can provide the truth of our life’s purpose and meaning, if any…  So if you can communicate with your maker  directly, why turn to books written from the imaginations of men, since it is easy to become captivated or lost in the writer’s perspective or fiction. Books can be a distraction to reality and too much proximal reading is bad for the eyes.

 

Truth is straight, it should be singular, sharp, clear and clean, like a razor blade or a sword… if it isn’t then it probably shouldn’t be trusted…. How often have you seen politicians and men caught off guard struggling to smoke screen their lies. No one has to think about the truth, it is what it is and it should fall from our lips without any thought. When we have to think about it, or make up stories we either don’t know, are filtering or are covering with deceitful words.

 

Coming back to ‘The book of Revelation’ – is it a work of true vision from God or the ramblings of a starving and deranged mind?

 

John writes initially to the seven churches in Asia while he was imprisoned on the Isle of Patmos but goes on to visions of the end of the world making this book the scariest and most complex book of all, because, it paints a picture of the future…and ‘if prophetically true’… much should have passed, much could be happening before our eyes…and how much is left?  I give you another attempt to interpret the book of Revelation…

 

The initial text is straight forward and is mostly admonishing the 7 churches: 

1. Ephesus has forgotten love;  2. Smyrna worked against God (blasphemous); 3. Pergamos held the doctrine of Balaam involving idolatry and sexual misconduct (fornication);  4. Thyatiira esteemed a seductive false prophetess;  5. Sardis had imperfect works;  6. Philadelphia is encouraged only. 7.Laodicea has been lost to covetousness.

 

(Rev 3:22 KJV)

 

ONE Truth

 

(Exo 18:21 KJV) Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

 

It is clear from the passage above that there are few ‘men of truth’. I strongly suspect it is because the human mind is easily deceived, not only by its own sensuality and thinking, but also by the sensuality and the thinking of others. Generally, men can be bought either by sensuality or for a price. In ‘covetous desire’ we sell our souls, often having no idea of what we have done, because we have no idea of what truth really is or what we should truly value.

 

Religion and science have a common foundation, which is the quest for truth… if you look back through history you will see that it was religious men that gave birth to science, for only those men that ‘used their time’ to care about life and the world around them could be bothered to take an interest and take notes… which combined with the observation of common patterns, is all science really is.  The key difference between science and religion, is that scientists are supposed to 'observe and document' what is true, whereas the religious are supposed to 'live' what is true. So ultimately the two, should become one... Why aren't they?

 

The spawn of the polarities of religion and science is politics, which exists like a weed in the crevice of our thinking and either exploits this division with evil ‘self interest’ or attempts to placate for the good of all.  Ultimately what we really need are ‘men of truth and love’… but where are they?

 

In the time of Jesus, 2000 years ago, neither the Romans nor the Jews were ready for what he had to share…

 

(John 18:37 KJV) Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.  Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?

 

We now have the internet with access to 'ALL' global knowledge, and the more we think we know, the more we think we understand what is true or truth… and yet... are we really any closer to the truth?

 

1.    How does a male sperm find a female egg?

2.    What causes the formation of a flower, a fruit, a seed?

3.    How does the human mind store memory?

4.    What has any of our thinking to do with the process of life?

 

Sure, there are many speculative answers and through our observations we can explain what is seen to happen, but the how and why of everything is lost to us… in the invisible.

So, whether we call our ‘search for truth’ science, politics or religion… it all suffers from the same delusion, covetousness and misinterpretation. When Jesus spoke of choosing true value in our heart, over stores of material baggage, it was misinterpreted as some desirable afterlife realm… It seems people prefer fiction and fantasy… probably because… the truth challenges our delusions and confronts our temporal and illusory nature with pending death.

 

(Mat 6:19-21 KJV) Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

 

The Bible

 

(Gen 5:1 KJV) This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

 

Just recently I was approached by a Jehovah’s Witness in the street, who asked me: “Do you believe in the Bible?”

 

My answer was that, “The Bible is just a book, I believe in God.”  At the time I knew that not even ‘believing in God’ was sufficient, for it is written: (James 2:19 KJV) Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

 

True believers must shake off their own ‘thinking’ and embrace a pure (holy) heart and mind. And this is where the whole subject of ‘The Bible’ becomes complicated.

 

The Bible is a number of books written by many different scribes over many centuries and consists of many aspects of human nature and the nature of God as observed by men and women and is described in various ways using:

 

·         Allegory & Parables - hiding its deeper meaning behind familiar symbolism

·         History - as usually written from the victors perspective, unless losers survive to tell the tale

·         Accounts of prophets dreams & visions - some true and many false

·         Sinful human behaviour – deception, corruption, sickness, violence, murder, cannibalism, mayhem and war

·         Laws to curtail sinful human behaviour, with accursed punishments for law breakers and blessings for the faithful

·         Poems, psalms and songs of praise

·         Healings, deliverance, miracles and a way to salvation encompassed in ‘love’.

 

So yes, I believe in some of the bible, because some of it is an attempt to symbolically represent the nature of creation and our intangible creator.

 

Belief is not Faith. Faith is alignment, walking with God, not just regurgitating written words. Some men memorise every word in the bible and can quote chapter and verse, but they have not love. Knowing is not the same as loving. The mind is wayward, the heart is constant. For any religion to be effective it must be lived, it cannot be treated as weekend entertainment, social or a mental gymnastic event that re-runs dead works. Where are today’s prophets and the proof of practice (the fruit)?

 

If an evolutionist had approached me in the street and asked “Do you believe in the ‘Origin of species’”, I would have answered, “The origin of species is just a book, I believe in the tree of life”.

 

The science is in people, human kind share their cellular and constructive DNA with every other life form. We are the products of an inheritance hierarchy (tree) and the base class at the top of the hierarchy is the product of our intangible creator… Case Closed.

 

And yet, we still treat our brothers and sisters and our fore-species as inferior, so somehow, whether we believe the science or believe the religion, we fail to be faithful to what we know to be true.

 

All that stands in the way is the same thing that has stood in the way since the beginning of the ascent of man. Our detached and deceptive programmed human mind, that clings to a ‘truth’ that has since moved on (because it moves at the speed of light), while we cling to its memory (image) or worse still, carve past perceptions symbolically, in the media of the day.

 

(Rev 22:7 KJV) Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

The Arrogance OF Man

 

(Gen 6:3 KJV) And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

 

Can a worm argue about its situation in the earth or a leaf complain about its location on the tree?

 

So, who is man that he should contend (strive) with his creator?

 

Can any woman boast of her beauty when it is a gift of God, save those who obtain a carved ‘beauty’ at the hands of the surgeon? And can any surgeon boast of his work, when he is but a tailor of flesh, but the grace of God heals?

 

Recently I had the misfortune to spend time in the palliative care ward of a hospital; it is generally the ward that they place patients to die. It is also a ward that destroys doctors, for after so many years training, tablets and treating patients, it is the ward where doctors, patients and visitors are humbled in helplessness before God and the reality of death!

 

So, what are we to do, get angry at the sickness and death of a loved one, blame the doctors and nurses for their inadequacy, curse God?

 

(Job 2:9-10 KJV) Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

 

There are dangerous rumours on earth that God is dead, powerless or a wish fulfilling fairy, none of this is true. Jesus was crucified because his truth was unpalatable to men, not because he was a naughty boy. God blesses and God curses, God like any good father administers justice with mercy, but God also inflicts punishment on those who contend and who flout his rule. Otherwise, he is not God, you are. We die because we are not God, we die because God makes us and the rules of life, not doctors, not intellectuals, not lawyers, not politicians, not men of religion, not even your wife…. God!!!

 

(Gen 3:17-19 KJV)  And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

 

So, how does one recover from such a position, how does one avoid this mistake and the arrogance of man?

 

REPENT….. humble yourself before the rule of heaven and God….

 

(Mat 3:1-2 KJV) In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

 

(Mat 4:17 KJV) From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Context

 

(Gen 1:4 KJV) And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

 

What is good?

 

Apart from God, nothing in itself is intrinsically good. Everything else can only be judged as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ in the context of a desired outcome.  Good and bad are like the opposite ends of a spectrum of intermediate judgments and ‘not bad’ is not the same as ‘good’. The human mind has taken this a step further by extending this spectrum to beyond ‘good’ with terms like ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’.  However, when something is perfect, it is good, nothing can be any better than perfect… it either fits perfectly or it doesn’t and when it doesn’t fit it is bad and when it chooses not to fit, it is evil.

 

And so it is, God and everything that aligns with (or fits in) with God is good, those things that don’t fit in with God are bad and if not corrected, suffer… while those things that choose not to fit in with God continually manipulate things in an evil attempt to justify their displacement.

 

To exemplify the point here: a chicken or fish bone fits perfectly in a chicken or fish, but it does not fit perfectly in the human throat. The bone is ‘good’ for the chicken and fish, because it is in its rightful place. It is bad when it gets stuck in the human throat, because it does not belong there.  At the right time and place, a male penis fits perfectly into the female vagina, this is good. A male penis does not fit perfectly into the ear, nose, throat or anus or a rubber doll. Let me first explain, there is no personal judgment here and there may be no actual harm in behaving like this, but often when something doesn’t fit perfectly there are consequences…. and that is the risk. It does beg the question why anyone would substitute an imperfect way of sex over a perfect way of sex?

 

Think about it…though it may feel good (or at least pleasurable), the pleasurable feelings are simply a poor replication of what is a perfectly natural phenomenon that has been taken out of context.  Though it may be amusing… fundamentally taking things out of context and justifying them is the nature of sin and evil.

 

Everything in nature has its rightful place and purpose or it would not survive, this is the nature of evolution and natural growth in harmony with God.  Bacteria are harmless to humanity in the soil, much like sharks in the sea. But when humanity tampers with the soil at the wrong time and place or enters the ocean at the wrong time and place, then can the bacteria or shark be blamed for our bad timing?  The question needs to be asked who were you listening to or why were you doing, what you were doing at that place and time?

 

The problem with humanity losing context is that it impacts not only the idiots out of place, but the innocents and everything else like a chain reaction or a lie that is compounded with more lies…. This loss of context is generationally exponential and so our perversions and over indulgences grow and impact everything with suffering.  The only alternative is to be good by being faithful and true to the context of our natural form and function as ordained by our creator(s), whether spirit, light, electrons, atoms, cells or mammals.

 

(Mat 5:16 KJV) Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Desire & Dependency

 

(Gen 3:16 KJV) Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

 

Desire is basically an inner need or quest for fulfillment, it arises from a perceived lack of something and is fundamentally a lack of faith and wholeness.  With regard to the passage above we read that because of ‘sin’ a woman suffers, is incomplete without a man and in such a fallen state becomes dependent. Whether we choose to or not, we all effectively become slaves to our desires and so begins our dependency. A whole person (even a small child) can be evoked to desire by the process of temptation, usually involving the flaunting of an unknown and potentially enjoyable experience before the senses of the victim.

 

(Gen 3:6 KJV) And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

 

In the modern world we see this evocation all the time through the media. Desire is being constantly evoked in the innocent human soul by the temptresses of advertising and marketing. Make the bait as attractive and as potentially tasty as possible and the fish will throw themselves onto the hook. However, the definition of ‘tasty’ is a changing variable, because one man’s meat is another man’s poison. There are however general looks and tastes that appeal at all ages. You can tempt most children with colourful sugary lollies and most men with curvy, colourful sweet women.

 

Yet without natural attraction male would not consummate with female and positive forces would not counter balance negative forces. So what is the difference between natural attraction and desire?  The real problem with desire is that it occupies the human mind. Any pre-occupation captivates the human soul and the duration of this captivity lasts as long as that desire remains. In nature, attraction is resolved almost immediately you either eat or not, you either procreate or not… It is always yes or no.…Desire lingers and in so doing distracts from other responsibilities, effectively robbing us of our true purpose and destiny. Lingering desire is the sign of dependency; no man can be free as long as desire lingers in his soul. Dependency turns free men and women into prisoners and slaves. Truth is, if you cannot walk away from it, it is probably already ruling your life.

 

Imagine if you paid $20,000 for a new car and it became damaged, so you took it to a trusted mechanic who told you it would cost $400,000 to fix... wouldn’t you buy a new car?

 

Now imagine if you bought your daughter a cat for $20 and it became injured and you took it to the vet who told you it would cost $400 to treat. what would you do?

 

Our desire for righteous acceptance and our emotional dependency cause us to make many illogical and unwise decisions…. In the guise of love.

 

(Luke 20:46-47 KJV) Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; Which devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

Doubt

 

(Gen 3:1 KJV) Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

 

Without doubt: ‘doubt’… is the most destructive force in the universe… Why is this so?

 

Because ‘doubt’ breaks faith, it is the evil ‘seed’ and the principle weapon of evil.

 

The universe, like any integral unit, is a construct of faith, created in faith and held together as ONE (universal unity) by faith…

 

The most effective way to undermine and destroy any family, relationship or religious group is to sow ‘doubt’ between those involved… hence the motto: “divide and conquer”.

 

The Jewish identity survived, through thousands of years of persecution because of their faith and the traditions that keep that faith alive… and the same is true of all religions and groups joined by a common identity and unwritten behaviors or written articles of faith.

 

Doubt is like the ‘maggot’ in the perfect apple, it’s like the ‘weed’ in the perfect garden, it’s the hole in the human psyche that cannot be filled, it creates barriers that cannot be overcome, it causes delay and ultimately division and destruction.

 

And yet, sometimes it is right to doubt, to challenge ‘hearsay’ and seek the truth... To doubt, doubt is a double negative and therefore positive.

 

What is important is the ‘truth’, not whatever we believe… If what we have believed, is false, then doubt, is a good thing, since it breaks the bond between us and our deceptions, leaving room for faith in what is true and ultimately good.

 

It is always right to seek the truth; it is never right to believe in doubts or in lies or in uncorroborated evidence from untrustworthy sources, or trustworthy ones for that matter.

 

The only way to stop ‘doubt’ from working its destruction in your life is to keep faith. And for faith to be faith, it must exist between one thing and another, since doubt can only be sown in the cracks between, what can be divided. Where faith is strong, unity prevails and doubt cannot take root.

 

I painfully watched ‘doubt’ destroy my family from the inside and was powerless to stop it, since anything that undermines the father, undermines the foundations of identity… my children became lost to me, through doubt… and no amount of love, can fix that...  only the restoration of their faith, can rectify this… My faith, in God and in them, remains.

 

Christmas and Easter may have lost Jesus, but Christ still survives in the traditional celebrations, for those who care enough to seek the truth.

 

(Mat 13:37-39 KJV) He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

Googling God

 

(Deu 4:29 KJV) But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

 

Doesn’t God realize that most of the people in the world these days can be communicated with via mobile phone or the internet – how much easier would it be to just be able to pick up the phone, email or URL God or his angels… as you can your other loved ones?

 

So why doesn’t God have a web-site?  And, why is it that – men always seem to be the ones that do all the marketing and promotion for God? Regardless of the technology used, whether stone, papyrus, paper or magnetic binary ink – God never seems to lift a finger to put anything created in a symbolism that humans can read… It is always we imperfect human beings that symbolize and write these things, which is why ‘the words of God’ are always subject to interpretation, speculation, suspicion and often regarded as delusion.

 

I am convinced that most people have at some stage in their life, sought God. Usually at those times, when either they or their loved ones have been under duress and in need of some kind of supernatural help, usually where human help has fallen short. Sad to say, all too often, help doesn’t come, so damage or death, follow along with our disappointment.  What then?  Do we give up on God, because he failed to show in our hour of need? Let’s face it - what good is a God that doesn’t turn up or that cannot solve your earthly problems – it is unrealistic to expect anyone to place their trust in anyone… so unreliable.

 

And so it is, people generally give-up on God and would rather trust other people or perhaps their pet pals that they can have a ‘real’ conversation with. Why pour your heart and soul out to an invisible God that appears to be inconsistent and dare I say, unfaithful?

 

Ironically, it is almost as hard these days to get human help. How many times have you been left hanging on the phone or been bounced from department to department in search of some kind of truth. And what of Internet search engines – how many hours have you wasted wading through pages of dross for a grain of truth?  And what of large corporations, how many times have you ever gotten to speak to the CEO? Most times you get to speak to the receptionist or a ‘help desk’ - which has often been outsourced to some foreign realm where corporate costs are cheaper and nuances of language difficulties abound..

 

Is God some inaccessible CEO in a heavenly tower? This would seem to be contrary to all the marketing and promotion by his prophets, saints and holy men over the centuries.

 

Given the daily maintenance of the universe, the planets, stars, the earth, the weather, the 7 billion people in the world, not to mention ‘all creatures great and small’ and all plant life – how then does God find additional time to give ‘supernatural’ ‘attention to those most in ‘special’ need?  More to the point, how do we get this special attention from God? Is it necessary to repent, wear sackcloth, sacrifice something, fast for 40 days, contort the body in abject pain, cry, meditate on a mountain top, sing songs of praise, love someone?

 

It would seem so… since, without some kind of ‘process’ that changes the state of our heart and soul, our ‘faith’ seems as useless as our many other devices when switched off.

 

(Mat 21:22 KJV) And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

Memory

 

(Gen 9:15 KJV) And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

 

Imagine for a moment if you had no memory. The ability to read the words in this book would be impossible since every dot and squiggle would be new and meaningless. In fact everything would be new and meaningless, since it is only the continuity of memory that brings a measure of ‘understanding’ to the stream of events and experiences we endure.

 

So what exactly is this continuity?  We call it time; but time is only the way we measure things that we have a memory of changing. If we could not remember that something had changed, the measure of time ceases to exist… all that would be left is space and our consciousness of now, though without memory, would our consciousness exist?

 

The irony about consciousness is that we do not make any conscious effort to become conscious, it happens in the natural awakening of our minds through memory.

 

I have no conscious memory of being a sperm or a fertilised egg or even a developing lizard like embryo… but “I” existed even then as a continuity of being. I also have no recollection of entering the world through my mother’s messy vagina and being slapped into tears by the Doctors. In fact my first memories I can recall seem to occur around when I started school at 5 or 6. Maybe I was just a late developer or maybe, I had no need to remember anything until then.

 

Am reminded of my childhood experiences with magnetic tape recorders, the tape was a complete reel and continuous… the only way to pinpoint or remember where a certain passage was recorded on the tape was to zeroise the cycle counter at the start and write down the relative numbers from the counter for the piece to replay. eg: Beatles – “love me do” @ #012043. These days, our digital technology has ‘evolved’ to such an extent that we can now tag our recordings with labels or pictures and even post them to our friends. It seems that the human mind is somewhat like a multimedia recorder and our senses like brushes that paint tracks on the canvas of life in sights; sounds; touches; tastes, smells and other feelings… Our recallable memories consist of significant tagging that we ‘imbed’ along the way either deliberately with mnemonics or through trauma (pain) or for reward (pleasure). Since the main reason to remember anything is either to avoid it in future or recognise its benefits. Which is probably why, we forget most other things.

 

Our most significant tagging mechanism is our symbolic words and language. The ability to observe and then invent new names to identify and classify each thing observed in comparison to previous observations. This is what makes humans so ‘intelligent’… Yet all this conscious tagging has little to do with the continuity of life and truth… sperm don’t tag, eggs don’t tag and even embryos and little children don’t tag. So how come so many living things can live and reproduce new life without all this conscious tagging, labelling and book keeping... and when did memorising tags (in virtual knowledge) become more important than the music (of real life)?

 

(Luke 17:32-33 KJV) Remember Lot's wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

 

Memory (Part 2)

 

(Psa 145:5-7 KJV) I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works. And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.

 

Without memory we have no concept of time, without memory we have no trace or knowledge of what we do, without memory we appear to be blown along like a leaf at the mercy of the wind.  And yet, we are not leaves we are complex creatures with senses and limbs that are driven along by every God given sensual and environmental message we receive and respond to. Our responses are somehow magically encoded into our DNA generation after generation to ensure the sustainability of life. Our virtual memory has little to do with eternal life; our virtual memory serves only as a contextual record for our current environment and enables temporal adjustments to our generational programming to aid this sustainability.  Everything in our mind is virtual, MEMORY ISN’T REAL, a photograph of a child is NOT a child, such mental confusion is delusion.

 

In so many ways, we know so little about our brains and memory, it is a tool we utilise, but it is not a tool we consciously created. We use this tool to observe and study creation, take measures and make notes – because so much of what we hear, see touch, taste, smell and measure slips past our conscious record, so we feel the need to write it down, lest it be lost forever.

 

Using our tools, we have uncovered different types of memory, short term and long term. Short term memory is like a caching mechanism that best processes 7 + or – 2 items at a time.  Anything more than this, is somehow automatically ‘paged’ out or brought back in to this short-term memory as required.  Good design should naturally fall out of functional requirements – so it is only natural that our computer designs effectively imitate our own functional behaviours (albeit without copyright).  Having worked in IT for many years it seems likely that “real-time” transactions in human life and memory are somehow batched and backed up overnight when processing time is available and the operational user interface is effectively asleep. Again, in the world of IT most large volumes of information from various daytime business sources are often extracted and integrated overnight to a ‘data warehouse’ where the information is often further aggregated to prepare ‘data marts’ in response to future queries for the next day’s business activity.  Could this be what is happening when we sleep and dream?  Is our brain just utilising ‘free’ processor availability and pre-preparing us for tomorrow’s activity from the results of today?

 

Our long-term memories are ‘hardwired’ brain neurons that grow as required (like most of our cellular growth, at night) and amazingly we actually have the capability to program these ourselves by tapping into our virtual world and creating or extending artificial visualisations with associations to things we care to remember. This is a kind of ‘self-hypnosis’ that uses our own “wilful” spatial visualisations such as a landscape or architecture where we can walk and paste our treasured memories or whatever we care to copy from reality. Now known as “mnemonics”, this is a powerful and ancient way to store memories and provides exceptional retrieval capabilities. Somewhat neglected thanks to the industrial revolution, printing, rote learning and reliance on external media memory.

 

(John 16:4 KJV) But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.

Mind

 

(Gen 23:8 KJV) And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

 

(Gen 26:35 KJV) Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

 

The two passages above are given to illustrate the problems with the human ‘mind’ and the cross cultural concepts and the confusion of semantics over a simple word like ‘mind’.

 

In the original Hebrew the first ‘mind’ was translated from the word “nephesh” meaning soul or self, while the second ‘mind’ was translated from the word “ruwach” meaning spirit or breath.

 

Ultimately the terminology used is of little importance as long as the terminology points to the same objective. ie: that place in a human being that is largely responsible for witnessing reality and determining our actions and reactions. Yet it seems there ARE two places within us – the self (‘nephesh’) that ‘thinks’ and the spirit (‘ruwach’) that ‘reacts’.

 

As a general rule if something is ’right’ or ‘true’ or if one is speaking the truth one does not have to think about it… it pours out unimpeded. Likewise, one does not have to think about blinking to avoid an object moving towards the eye at great speed, it is autonomous.

 

We really only have to think about those things where we are uncertain if it is ‘right or ’true’ and so we are momentarily disabled as we stop to search our memory for an answer from our limited experience.  Sometimes this process can be so disabling that it can freeze us in time. A classic example is being captured in the isle of a supermarket unable to decide which brand of soap powder to buy in the face of so many options. Suffice to say we call upon our ‘mind and memory’ when we are lost or lying and unable to react spontaneously.

 

Though our mind is a tool, much like our hands, it has become a tool that has taken over our mode of operation. Just as a television in the centre of a living room, that is never switched off, will take over a family. So the mind, that is never switched off, will take over all our decisions and reactions.  Out of our control, the mind will grab everything that is passed to it by the senses and then filter, judge and manipulate according to its prior parental and cultural programming.

 

The world is full of bigoted and self-righteous people, most believing that what they think, say and do is right. Yet, is it wise to be obsessed, possessed and driven by the mind which is little more than an organic virtual reality machine?  How many people would agree with being obsessed, possessed and driven by everything that comes across the airwaves to their television set, their computer or mobile phone?  Ironically, many people are…. these days…. if not manipulated by narrow minds… manipulated by the minds of media magnates… and their cronies…. with paid agendas to help viewers decide which brand of soap powder to buy… often subtlety between their all-consuming soap operas… J

 

The real you is spirit… living in a virtual world of past or future is stupid… be here now.

 

(Mat 10:20 KJV) For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

Truth V Knowledge

 

(Gen 3:5 KJV) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 

There is a message in the book of Genesis which most fail to see and the reason that most fail to see this message is the purpose of the very message itself.  Truth is ONE… it is the source, substance, integrity and flow of life in all beings….

 

Truth (aka God) and a ‘human being’:

 

When ‘Y’ is the Truth and ‘Y’ is the perceiver then ‘Y’ is the reality, which is the result of  ‘Y’ multiplying itself …..  Y*Y = Y. (inductance)

 

Knowledge is a bi-product of One divided against itself and is the source of all human dysfunction. (disintegration).

 

For Adam’s knowledge was not responsible for his creation, nor the creation of Eve, nor for the creation of all other living things and paradise. However, it was responsible for the loss of paradise and continues to blind us to the truth.

 

Truth (aka God) and a ‘human knowing’ less than God:

When ‘Y’ is the Truth and ‘X’ is the perceiver then ‘Z’ is the reality, which is the result of the division of ‘Y’ by ‘X’….  Y/X = Z. (resistance)

 

Knowing is a process that involves the senses, mainly the: eyes for light; ears for sound; skin for touch; tongue for taste; nose for smell and whatever other instruments we have to:  objectify each thing potentially different from our sense of self…

 

Whatever this thing (z) that we know, it is only a perception created by the collision of our ‘sin’ (x) with whatever it is we measure (y).  Yet our knowledge adds little to the process of life, it is a deluded sense of ‘self’ which if heeded manipulates the process of life in an ignorant way.

 

(John 18:37 KJV) Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Naked Truth

 

(Gen 2:25 KJV) And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

 

Without doubt we all are born naked, since clothing would really impede the birthing process and though many larger mammals give birth to hairy young, our human offspring usually only have hair on their head and are generally presented head first.

 

So why is the human race the only species on the planet that wears an artificial covering? And does wearing coverings made from plants or other creatures skins really make us more civilized… or less civilized?

 

According to the Bible, it all began with ‘knowing’ when we became aware and ashamed of our ‘genital’ differences and hid them. One would have thought the Biblical author could have used ‘climate cooling’ as a more logical explanation for this unnatural phenomenon, but no, ‘flawed thinking’ is blamed.

 

(Gen 3:7 KJV) And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

 

Sad to say, ‘sin’ is exponential, clothing has now become a big business at life’s expense, while nakedness has become an offence and something that the majority cover-over in fear of judgment for not having a ‘perfect’ body. Some even choose to have cosmetic surgery, their shame is so great. So, why do so called ‘intelligent’ people, keep their clothes on while sweating in hot climates?

 

In hiding from the light behind artificial coverings, pale bodies, when finally exposed are far more susceptible to skin damage and cancers, because they have de-evolved out of sync with reality (the truth).

 

(Gen 3:11 KJV) And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

 

Why does anyone who believes in God, continue to wear clothes despite the fact that a perfect paradise for naked men and women was God’s intention, but was thwarted by flawed knowledge (ignorance) and covered over?  Seems to me that a perfect God would provide the coverings for its creatures and to add extra layers to this covering is equivalent to complaining about the provision of God. Isn’t one skin good enough for humanity?  And what about angels, do they wear clothing and if so, what are they hiding? Do they take them off at night and put them in God’s great laundry basket for the overnight wash? Seriously… why bother?

 

Human history is littered with ‘discovered’ naked tribes that have been treated like ‘second class animals’, despite their praiseworthy manners. So, is the real problem our imperfect nakedness or our imperfect knowledge and judgement (‘sin’)? And, why do people repent in sackcloth and not in nakedness, like many of the prophets.

 

(1 Sam 19:24 KJV) And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

 

Jesus wore a covering, I hear you say, this is true, people would have been too shocked to give him the time of day otherwise. For any message to be heard, it must comply with the protocol of the times, as must the messenger. Jesus was crucified because his message was way too confronting. Despite the 2000 years of Gospel preaching, I wonder who can handle the truth, any better today?

 

When the Roman Empire was the Italian centre of fashion… John the Baptist dressed down…

 

(Mat 6:28-29 KJV) And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Polarisation

 

(Gen 2:17 KJV) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

 

Looking back over the first few pages of Genesis we see that whatever God ‘willed’ was perfect and ‘good’, God did not create anything that was considered ‘evil’… yet within this perfect garden there was a tree ‘of knowledge’ to be wary of… (Gen 2:9 KJV) 

 

The real problem with this ‘tree of knowledge’ and knowledge in general, is that it polarises the whole truth with relative values (good v evil). It has the potential to divide universal unity and invoke the reign of ignorant bias, greed and fearful terror.

 

Whether you accept the premise of God, Tao or the big bang theory…. The universe exists, is maintained and orders itself in perfect equilibrium… If this were not so, God, Tao and the big bang would have eliminated all time and space in an instant of instability.

 

Even if you believe that everything is chaotically random like a game of roulette and subject to chance… if the point of the ball’s entry in time and the spin of the wheel in space are measurable the outcome is predictable. Our inability to measure the beginning and end of time and space, does not mean that everything is chaotic… it just means that our knowledge and capabilities are flawed.

 

Universal equilibrium is maintained from its centre to its outermost rim by itself with the aid of ‘invisible’ or ‘spiritual’ forces. Invisibility is the nature of anything that is NOT potentially different to our own nature. The so called “EMF” (Electro-magnetic Fields or Flux) that we measure with our instruments is part of the overall ‘invisible’ flow that maintains this equilibrium. Naming our perceptions, does not explain them, it merely identifies them or the effects we perceive…. The elements of “Water” and “Air” may not be invisible, but are colourless and tasteless and make up over 70% of our physical nature… go figure.

 

The problem with our polarisation of this truth is that we no longer see all as good and God, but perceive good and evil, we judge, we act and we make mistakes.

 

Consider for a moment….. if the whole of life and the evolution of man could occur on the planet Earth without the ‘knowledge’ of man, then what has man’s knowledge of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ really added to the whole process of life and its evolution?

 

Even our understanding of the structure of nature is flawed through our knowledge and polarisation… Are electrons really negative and protons really positive? If this were true, surely they would cancel one another out and who can explain how so many positive protons can be held together in the nucleus of an atom when by our laws: like charges are purported to repel one another?  Positive and negative, like north and south are relative measures of a circular energy measured at points in time, they do not exist in the whole truth of nature, since the nature of reality maintains universal equilibrium in the ‘will’ of God, Tao or the big bang. To control and exploit this free movement of energy is to destabilise universal equilibrium for self-gain, with harmful karmic effect…. Such is the real nature of evil.

 

(Mat 7:23 KJV) And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Repentance

 

(Gen 6:5-7 KJV) And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

 

In the context above repentance is a sorrow that brought on a vengeful justice, this is not always the way with sorrow – often sorrow leads to depression and suicide. Most times in life, we must choose either to support the good life and live, or choose to accept the evil life and die, or sit on the fence with fate (do nothing and die as an accessory to evil), or in this case choose to exterminate the evil before it exterminates everything else.

 

One thing is for sure – Time changes nothing - Movement changes everything!

 

The universe is a symphony of movement, harmonious and orderly. Consider the orbits of the planets, the stars and the flow of light; the consistent seasonal changes across the Earth; the cyclic flow of rain, through streams, rivers and into the oceans; The growth of trees and plants that sway with the passing sun; the flow of blood around your body; the passage of air in and out of your portals, etc, etc… the magical balancing acts of our creator with the substance of our reality (with whatever you care to name it).

 

Imagine this life as a beautiful musical symphony, then, imagine an instrument that is out of tune, that rises to dominate and destroy every other orchestral instrument in a cacophony of noise. Then you begin to understand the nature of the sentence “every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

 

Humanity blows its own trumpet all over the place, but from a universal symphony of peace and love perspective, what real and lasting ‘good’ is all the noise we create?

 

Global warming is upon us, the oceans are nearly fished out and we face the greatest extinction crisis of life on the planet that has ever been faced since the days of Noah and who or what is to blame? Is God to blame, or man?  Is good to blame, or evil?

 

If you are waiting for ‘time’ to heal this mess, it isn’t going to happen, time changes nothing. There is only one answer and that is ‘repentance’ and this solution will either come in one of two ways:

 

·         Evil (sin) must be removed from man to restore harmony with God, again.

·         Man (& Evil) must be removed from the Earth to restore harmony with God, again.

 

So, if you don’t want your whole life to be a complete waste of time in evil, stop what you are doing and don’t just sit there – “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

 

 (Mat 24:37-39 KJV) But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Righteousness

 

(Gen 18:26 KJV) And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

 

As we look across the world, we see numerous yet variant systems of human behaviour and whether these be primarily social, religio-spiritual, political or techno-scientific most are handed down to the next generation by their parents. As a general rule, providing these values have been successful, most children will not deviate far from this traditional programming. And so, different cultural values and behaviours exist in different parts of the world where different climates, environments and conditions prevail.

 

With ease of travel and globalization, we see many cultures being transported across the world and producing cultural blurring which results in either conflict, multi-culturalism or assimilation into the prevailing culture. Unfortunately, civilisation is never quite that simple, because we are a complex species and may only conflict, tolerate and assimilate with others in specific areas of our lives. Since most cultural laws define what is right and wrong and most cultures can only survive by upholding these laws… It is inevitable that any specific tradition of right and wrong struggles to survive in a multi-cultural society.

 

There is a lawlessness that is spreading across the world as cultures dissolve, in many ways this is a liberating experience, but this is also a dangerous road that could lead to a return to the dark ages where bullies and violence reign as each group of family and friends with common values (or no values) fight for their share or supremacy or roll over and play dead in nihilistic apathy. So, who or what is right?

 

Since humanity is a product of nature via evolution, heaven and God, then what is right or wrong is not something to be determined or decided by humanity… The rules governing our structure and behaviour are implicit in our nature as predetermined by the creative force(s) that brought us into being…. Our naturally inherited and beneficial survival structure and behaviour is encoded in our DNA.  So it is foolishness to think that there is no absolute right or wrong ways. It is also foolishness to override or ignore these natural ways just because we have the will and imagination to do so. By way of example: Any man that shoved food into his ear would be considered an imbecile. Just because the hole that is the human ear can receive food, does not mean this is its purpose, the ear is incapable of digesting food. No-one would condemn a child that put food in his or her ear, one would perhaps laugh and hopefully correct them. Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.

 

Human beings have been overlooking (blind to) our nature for so long, that ancestral values passed from generation to generation have long overridden what is naturally right and wrong…. So without knowing what is truly right, we err as humans in the food we eat, in our relationships, in our occupations and in our excesses on the planet… Ultimately to our detriment. Without true purpose, all men are like children, without the guiding hand of a good father or mother, lost in a supermarket shoving matter into every orifice, in the hope of finding some kind of satisfaction or just simply crying for help until we give up. Everything has its right time and place in the nature of this reality, but once it has gone wrong, it can only be made right again, by the removal of whatever corrupts it and the restoration of its true nature by acts of righteousness, not apathy or evil.

 

(Luke 8:35 KJV) Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

Sleep, Meditation & Prayer

 

(Gen 2:21 KJV) And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

 

Human consciousness and our capability to sense, reason and intellectualize is a gift, that, like most gifts, we take for granted. In the worst case scenario we use this gift to deny the giver and even to deny our own existence, reducing everything we see, hear touch, taste, smell and love to an abstract particular chemical, atomic and DNA level in the hope of elucidating some profound truth by the process of dissection, only to find, that in our process, we destroy the very thing that we seek to know…. love, truth and life.

 

Our desire for knowledge and our inability to give thanks for the gift and love the giver are fundamental human errors of integrity.

 

We cannot truly know something by pulling it apart, this provides a mere list of its component parts and in so doing we destroy the whole which is greater than the sum of the parts.

 

We can only truly know something by loving it, that is, by entering into a relationship with it and ultimately by becoming interactively one with it. This is the process of realization or enlightenment through faith, which is very different from the scientific process of investigation and experimentation through knowledge.

 

Despite the ‘gentle Jesus’ label – he once made this profoundly unsentimental statement to a man whose father had died:   (Luke 9:59-60 KJV) And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

 

Jesus was calling those living, dead, who did not heed his word… Why?

He also called those with sight, blind, who could not see his words... Why?

 

(Mat 13:14 KJV) And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

 

When we sleep, we disengage consciousness, this is like surrender or switching off and in this state our consciousness drifts, like a ship without a captain, to fateful destinations.

 

When we meditate or contemplate, we consciously observe, this is like reading a book or watching television, we may experience thoughts, emotions and become excited about our observations, but we in no way influence the outcome. Like passengers on the Titanic we may witness the boat sinking, but remain powerless to act accepting our fate as truth.

 

When we pray, however, we consciously send out a signal and listen for a response;  We achieve this in two ways:

 

1.Through communicating with our own mind. This is a bit like a hard-wired network and a limited client (flesh) based interface. 

 

2. Through communion with our spirit. This is like a wireless network and an unlimited server (spirit) based interface.

(Mat 26:40-41 KJV) And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

The Nature of Evil

 

(Gen 6:5-7 KJV) And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

 

From a conscious perspective, without a clear understanding of what is good and right, it is impossible to grasp what is evil or wrong. (see: The Nature of Good).

 

The law is black and white for one reason and one reason only… it avoids the inconsistencies and excuses that can be made in a shades of grey world. The binary system of yes and no works… the multiplicity system of indecision and maybes, always fails.

 

In the God paradigm everything is created at the right place and time with the right structure and behaviour in union with the whole of creation. Where the definition of right is akin to righteous and good…. Indian philosophy refers to this as Dharma.

 

In the scriptural passage above we see that although man was aware of what was ‘good’, somehow he was drawn to what was ‘evil’ by his own imagination, thoughts and heart. The consequence of this was the destruction of all living things on land and in the sky, apart from those which were saved and those living in the waters.

 

So is this just some fictitious story made up to scare the children into being ‘good’ little boys and girls or does it have any educational value that so-called ‘adults’ should heed?

 

Today the concept of ‘evil’ has been undermined to such an extent that even vampires, demons and all other manner of violent, blood sucking and aggressive beings are considered misunderstood or misjudged, even Hitler. To some extent this is true, since every creature in its original (God allotted) space, time and structure, performing its original (God allotted) function is good by nature. Dysfunctions occur via systematic overrides that cause injustice, imbalance and deviant structures and behaviours. It doesn’t take much to take a fundamentally ‘good’ man and turn him ‘evil’, you just have to trample over everything that he loves…. Most times it takes even less than this. For neglect of love, all children turn bad. All pets go wild. All gardens become overgrown. Not to mention the chain reaction effect of even worse evil attention and abuse, in the guise of love.

 

One could argue that it is God’s apparent lack of love that turns men evil. But, witnessing Jewish success, why didn’t Hitler join them, instead of railing against them? Then again, is religious exclusivity ‘evil’ or ‘good’? On the one hand it protects the so called ‘faith’ but on the other hand it fails to embrace the rest of creation with God’s love. Clearly ‘evil’ thrives where love and true faith is absent. Jesus paid more attention to people than the rest of creation, because it is the ‘sin’ in people that is the root cause of evil. Until this root cause is eradicated, symptomatic religious washing is tokenism and scientific research just continues to wrestle with life, truth and love…. Keeping us all hell bound, in our evil ways.

 

(Mark 3:4 KJV) And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

The Nature of Good

 

(Gen 1:31 KJV) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

 

Prior to this verse, there are 6 other verses where each creative act is followed by the affirmation that… IT WAS GOOD.

 

The light (Gen 1: 4); the land and sea (Gen 1:10); grass, herbs, trees and seed (Gen 1:12); sky and stars (Gen 1:18); whales, birds and every creature of sea and sky (Gen 1: 21); all the creatures of the land (Gen 1:25)…. It was all considered GOOD.

 

Thinking about it…. If God is ONE, pure, selfless, just and all powerful… It would be impossible for God to create anything that wasn’t good. It all just fits perfectly in tune… All creation is a free with benefits loving lordship, so where does the ‘evil’ come from?

 

Looking at the nature of our planet, we see a strange but self-perpetual equilibrium of forces from the astronomical right down to the sub-atomic level and beyond.

The phenomenon we observe with our eyes and our instruments of measure still elude our understanding. The base substance of existence is elusive and staggering... our perceived level of sub-atomic particles are purported to travel at lightening speeds. When heated, the tangible objects of our reality change from solid, through liquid to gas and then perhaps to plasma. The ‘strong force’ and EMF integrity maintained across so called ‘positive’ protons and ‘negative’ electrons is ungraspable even though we have learned to exploit ‘natures’ electron sharing and neutron balancing act to our benefit and detriment.

 

From a programming perspective the GOOD-ness of original creation is a measure of GOD achieving OO development - ‘Just in Time’. Establishing a perfect environment and system…. ie: Paradise.

 

So if creation was so perfect….what if anything, went wrong? Or is everything still working OK? Or Is God, like Nietzsche… really dead?

 

Ask any programmer that is still alive, why his system has fallen over and there will be a whole swag of possibilities, the major ones being:

 

·         unexpected and corrupt input

·         exceeded time and space boundaries

·         unhandled error exceptions

·         Interference (hacking) including deliberate destructive attacks.

 

Any ordered system runs to a set of rules and the rules are there to ensure the sustainability and security of the system for the benefit of all users.

Since the rules of the perfect system, must be perfect… It would be foolish to break these rules, for to do so would endanger the whole system and all creation. If this has occurred, then the system now contains much bad, so how can we restore its original GOOD-ness?

 

(Mat 9:2 KJV) And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.

The System

 

 

(Gen 2:4-5 KJV)  These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

 

A ‘system’ is generally defined as “a set of connected things that work together for a particular purpose”. Through observation and analysis humanity has identified and classified many kinds of systems.

 

From a outward perspective we have ‘the solar system’ consisting of the cyclic rotation of the planets and stars around the sun, held in magical ‘magnetic’ and ‘gravitational’ suspension in space providing seasonal variations and our measure of time. This in turn gives rise to our many environmental and living systems, like wheels within wheels in a giant clock.

 

From an inward perspective we have ‘the atomic system’ consisting of the cyclic rotation of electrons around a nucleus, held in magical ‘magnetic’ and ‘gravitational’ suspension in all ‘matter’ providing molecular variations and our periodic table of elements.

 

Observation of these natural systems is harmless and, in many ways, necessary to appreciate our part in the scheme of things. Clearly we have identified many types of systems and each is dependent upon and plays a part in the overall cosmic system. The whole being kept perfectly in balance by the magical sharing of ‘electrons’ or some kind of intangible ‘star dust’ or ‘spirit energy’.  Yet observing nature is not the same as fulfilling nature… does humanity have a part to play in the natural system apart from watching?

 

Despite the pre-existing, perfect, self-sustaining eternal natural system, through the power of will and imagination, humanity has added many new systems of its own devising based upon human rules that are often at odds with eternity. The world or world systems are generally made from limited human knowledge for the temporal benefit of the few, usually a family, a tribe, a nation or a section of society.

 

These world systems take many social, religious, political and scientific structures and behaviours (pecking orders), but can generally be reduced to a few main points… provision of space, sustenance, shelter, sociability, sex, health and education. Sadly, when there is "debt" we compete for resources and fight one another. When there is "plenty" we should be free and at peace, but are not... Those who manipulate the masses and the poor, have a vested interest to enslave with "debt". Any man made 'global system' will only be created in an attempt to bring world domination and control by "law and fear" for the few who make the rules and it is unlikely to include the animal and plant kingdoms, except where they can also be exploited.  Without accountability to eternity and respect for this tree of life, we consume all, leaving only fire to consume us.  So why does humanity continue to look for "a messiah" to lead them in the guise of a king, prime minister or president?

 

The 'perfect' way to work our way out of debt to freedom and peace, is to work faithfully with the productivity of God and nature. The Kingdom of God is a ‘perfect’ system, because it is ruled over by an ‘impartial’ God. To enter into this heavenly system, all we have to do is submit our will to God’s eternal nature and love all things as ONE, our true self. 

 

(John 3:19 KJV) And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

The Tree of Life (Part 1)

 

(Gen 3:22-24 KJV) And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

 

Probably one of the most overlooked and significant passages of the Genesis story… and the main reason humanity was removed from paradise, to keep us from access to the ‘tree of life’… It is also the first reference to ‘Cherubims’ (often interpreted as angels, but some kind of winged creature) and generally referred to in plural). The next reference to ‘Cherubims’ is in Exodus – when Moses models ‘two’ in gold on either side of the ‘mercy seat’ (the lid) on the Ark of the Covenant. (see: Exo 25:18-22 KJV) and later also weaves their imagery ‘cunningly’ into the curtains and veil of the tabernacle (tent). Significantly God is purported to ‘dwell’, ‘sit’ and speak to Moses over the Ark from between these ‘Cherubims’. (Num 7:89 KJV) … Solomon later goes on to make two massive Cherubims from Olive trees and overlays them with gold, carving their images with palm trees and open flowers throughout the wood in the temple and all overlaid with gold.(1 Ki 6:21-30 KJV). We also see King David makes reference to ‘gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims’ (1 Chr 28:18 KJV)… David also says the Lord “rode upon a cherub” (2 Sam 22:11 KJV. This adds another level of complexity since it appears ‘cherubims’ either have some vehicular component apart from their wings or maybe attach to some vehicular component (like horses pulling a Chariot, but with wings). 

 

From  Ezekiel  we have the only real description of ‘Cherubims’ and it is still confusing… where a man in linen (a writer) is requested to go between the Wheels under the cherub and retrieve coals of fire from between the Cherubims, handed to him by ‘the hand of a man’ under the Cherub’s wings. Each of four Cherub was by an identical wheel and these wheels were on their side and did not rotate when they moved, but followed the movement of the head. Each Cherub’s body, back, hands, wings and wheels were covered in eyes. Every Cherub had four faces: the face of a cherub (whatever that is), a man, a lion and an eagle respectively… Interestingly the four together are referred to as one living creature… In the same prophecy, we see the King of Tyrus referred to as a ‘covering Cherub’ who had been in Eden, but is then condemned to ash for his pride. Lastly we read, again, of ‘Cherubims’ (with the faces of men and lions) carved into the temple walls along with palm trees (Ezek 41:18-19 KJV)…

 

So, what does it all mean?

 

There have been many interpretations of these texts, taking Genesis literally would be a foolish mistake, since why didn’t the author refer to a ‘fig tree’ instead of a tree of knowledge and a ‘date palm’ instead of a ‘tree of life’… this is an oversimplification of a deliberately concealed mystery. Many refer to the ‘tree of life’ as the ‘cabbalist’ teachings about the origins and meaning of life. Others see the ‘Cherubims’ as alien beings from another world in UFO’s. In many ways each of these answers is partially true, since the key point of the Genesis story is that the fruit of ‘the tree of knowledge’ brings division and death, while the fruit of the ‘tree of life’ brings universal unity and eternal life.

 

(Rev 2:7 KJV) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

The Tree of Life (Part 2)

 

(Prov 3:13-19 KJV) Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

 

Wisdom is not knowledge. Wisdom, like instinct or gut feel comes from being connected or tuned into the things around us, creation and our creator. Knowledge on the other hand comes through our separated sensual experience of the things around us and often our second-hand experience from symbolic representations (words and books) scribed by other men and women about the things they have observed around them, which we can either relate or refute depending on our own observation and experience (a vicious circle).

 

Wisdom through immersion realizes the truth of the underlying unity of all things, knowledge through division fails to realize the truth because it is consumed with the endless creation of names and forms from a relative human and narrow sensual observational space / time perspective… ad infinitum.

 

Trees in and of themselves are harmless, the human failing was not observing the trees, but the ‘eating’ of their fruit. This is like saying, it is OK to have a gun, just don’t use it. The same is true of knowledge, it is OK to name and know things, but as soon as we begin to ‘eat’ or ‘act’ as if our relative knowledge is the true way to live, then we lose the plot…. Knowledge begets flawed judgement, which begets flawed decisions and our flawed actions, but only if we let “it” rule our lives. Such is the nature of sin and the consequent ‘gun-slinger’ (sinner) mentality that governs the world.

 

So why cast us ‘sinners’ away from paradise and protect the ‘tree of life’ with “Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way ”

 

Was it to protect the tree from us or to protect us from ‘the way’ to the tree… To ‘be flawed’ and live forever, would be an undesirable state. Creatures that are not attuned to the good way of our creator (are evil) and effectively dangerously destructive (demonic) to the unity of this creation (engineered from perfect love and faith).

 

Even with our 8o or so years, of existence one can see how dangerously flawed our sinful thinking is, imagine if we had 900 years to exercise this stupidity.

 

So, the only way to access the ‘tree of life’ is by permission of the ‘Cherubims’ and passage through some kind of trial or baptism by fire to purify us from our sin.

 

(Rev 22:13 -16 KJV) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

The Word

 

(Gen 1:3-4 KJV) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

 

According to the Bible, at the beginning of creation, God spoke… just quite what God said, what language was used or who was documenting the process isn’t really clear, but the evidence of light and the evidence of its goodness should be clear to all. And it is dubious that a single sound (“aum”) could create such diversity from a nihilistic tone, though reflecting on itself in division, harmony is implicit.

 

The spoken word is the vibratory transmission of the will, from a human perspective this vibration is controlled by the use of muscles in the larynx and the mouth – though no-one has ever quite explained how this vibratory transmission is generated and controlled by God (even “aum”). However, this is not surprising really, since how could a child explain how its father can command it, without first dissecting the father to establish where the vibration comes from and what causes it. Yet even so, looking at the larynx and the mouth in great detail and watching every tiny muscle movement, still fails to explain the origin of the sound, for it is hidden in the invisible will or spirit.

 

Yet a word, need not reflect our will, very often the words we repeat, reflect the will and ideas of others. So a word whether spoken or written is merely a way of encapsulating will, without such encapsulation ‘will’ is spirit and invisible – like ‘life’ without a seed or some objective form (nature). Yet it is not the word, the seed or the form that is the source – it is the spirit and underlying will that both creates and changes reality.

 

I am convinced that the greatest evil on earth is the imposition of ‘will’ on other humans and other species. Now it really doesn’t matter whether this ‘will power’ is imposed by command, by collusion, action, or by sensual or psychological seduction – unless it follows the free and holy goodness of God, it is always exploitive (evil). All too often it is undertaken to suit another’s agenda (personal, religious, socio-political or financial) and all too frequently in the name of God, especially when the will has been strengthened by socio-mental acceptance (belief) in this ‘written word’ - scientific, legal or religious.

 

Language and ‘word power’ is the attribute that most differentiates humanity from Chimpanzees and the rest of the animal kingdom; It is that ‘power’ that makes us “like gods on earth”. It is a ‘power’ that allows us to tag, copy and paste ‘reality’ into our memories. It is also that ‘power’ which allows us to create such an enormous vocabulary of words and languages across the planet that we use for good or evil when expressed verbally and physically.

 

How willing would we be… to eat other creatures if they could talk and beg us not to kill and eat them.  God knows even ‘primitive’ tribes who COULD speak, were treated like animals simply because their language was not understood. Wasn’t running in fear enough of a communication?

 

In what language did Jesus perform healing and deliverance? If performed in Aramaic, why should English and German demons respond? Surely it is the will and spirit that is important, the sounds that come out of our mouth are useful only for human understanding. Is this not why worship should be in spirit and in truth and why words beyond ‘yes’ and ‘no’ muddy the will of God with sin? Just as the imposed human ‘will’ can ‘break’ the spirit of a horse, so the imposed human ‘will’ can ‘over-power’ (this does not make it right, this just makes it oppressive).

 

(Mat 7:22-23 KJV) Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

The Word (Part 2)

 

(Gen 11:1-9 KJV) And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.   And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

 

From an anthropomorphic perspective one would imagine that our father would be impressed and happy to see his children all getting along with ONE Language and being constructive. So why is this not the case?

 

That which is pure is easily polluted, that which is polluted is not easily made pure.

 

Our capability for language is what distinguishes us from all other creatures. Most other creatures’ function by direct sensual communion with the environment and like puppets are played like instruments by the strings of the system. The advent of human knowledge in the form of symbolic names and forms equips human kind with the ability to override the puppet master (God).  This occurs because symbolic language creates a virtual reality (imagination) in the human mind, such that instead of responding directly to sensual communion, we filter reality with our own virtual reality and when this is out of sync with the ONE system, we are in sin.

 

So why doesn’t God want us communicating  and being constructive?

 

Firstly, because it isn’t about unity independently of the ONE system, even the Nazis had unity and even evil men love their children. Any thought or will that is not pure is polluted and like a virus, spreads. Our first priority must be living in tune with God and our second priority is living in harmony with one another. This is the way to peace.

 

Secondly, Gods system is perfect, so how can imperfect humanity build on perfection? All human construction comes at the cost and destruction of Gods perfect system. The only constructive thing we can do that has any eternal good, is to work together with Gods perfect eternal system (tree) of life by submission in love.

 

If you think about it, we only think in ‘symbolics’ – symbolics allow us to frame and encapsulate our perceived reality. More than this, humankind has the capability to summon up lost virtual realities from invisible depths using these same symbolics (words).

We call this memory recall and yet, we really do not understand what it is that we are recalling, just that we can call on it by whatever name has been associated with it over our life and maybe even over previous lives or the lives of others. Our memories may simply be sensual recordings on a spiritual medium that can be accessed by anyone with the right frequency and the appropriate symbolic key or index. (aka: Magic).

 

 (Rev 14:8 KJV) And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

 

 

The Word (Part 3)

 

(Gen 15:1 KJV) After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

 

What exactly is ‘the word of the LORD’ and how is it different from the word of Abram or you and me?

 

Firstly, ‘the word of the LORD’ is not a ‘word’ as such, but a ‘message’ – which is a sentence or a series of words strung together in a meaningful way to inspire and activate.

 

Secondly, ‘the word of the LORD’ is usually delivered by a ‘messenger’ or an ‘agent’ of some kind, often an angel, but also in dreams and visions and sometimes by other living beings or spirits.

 

Lastly, ‘the word of the LORD’ is not something contrived from the intellect or knowledge of man, it comes from some divine authority (LORD) and is ignored or disobeyed to our detriment.

 

These days, there are so many words, so many messages and so many books… it is no wonder there is also so much confusion… Which word can we trust?

 

There are also so many messengers… Politicians; Religious leaders; Scientists; Psychologists; Writers; Musicians and Actors…. Whose word can we trust?

 

What we really seek is a ‘true word’, someone true and ultimately the truth…. For only a fool would trust a lie or a liar…

 

Yet it is well known that ‘truth’ is the first casualty whenever or wherever humanity has to justify its actions.

 

To hold a book as the truth is clearly delusional, truth cannot be nailed down without killing it. Truth like light is dynamic and alive… a message that was true yesterday, may not still be true today. All data is intrinsically out of date, because it is static. There are so many words and books that have been written in the past that are now dead works, having been proven misleading and false.  The other problem is books are generally written and published by the powers and intellects of the day and their perspective is often warped by their power, intellect and their time and place.

 

The Bible is not the word of God, the Bible is the word of man attempting to come to terms with the revelation of God, for other men to comprehend. It is also a book of wisdom that outlines the fallen nature of man over many, many centuries. To take any book literally is foolish. Life is more than words and symbolism. No matter what men may think, say or do… ultimately, we all originate in God and return to God, all religious fanatics and atheists share this in common… The real question should be - why don’t we walk in peace with God while we live?

 

Was the ‘word of the LORD’ that came to Abram a general message for all humanity or a personal message to Abram?

 

Clearly it was a personal message, since any kind of loving and trusting relationship must be personal. It is impossible to trust an impersonal message, we only follow such out of social tradition or because of imposed law… Without love, there can be no faith (trust)… only fear.

 

 (Rev 19:13 KJV) And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

Being and Feeling

 

(Gen 1:22 KJV) And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

 

Being ‘fruitful’ usually involves some kind of life-giving productivity, which should result in feeling fruitful, useful, valuable, right or ‘good’…  Contra wise, being ‘unfruitful’ usually results in feeling empty, useless, worthless, wrong or ‘bad’.

 

No doubt there is a strong connection between how we live and how we feel. If we live right, we feel well and if we live wrong, we feel sick. This sickness is the outworking of ‘sin’, since the feelings of illness and pain are symptoms in our life that something is not quite right.  Much like warning lights on the dashboard of an aircraft, they occur for our protection and guidance, to teach us adjustment and direct our behaviour…  We ignore such signals to our peril.

 

Torturers and exploitive people have long realized that inflicting pain is the most effective way to change or manipulate people. It is cruel and evil, yet effective.

 

Likewise, ‘pain’ is all that life and God has to change people from their ‘sinful’ ways… pain and the loss of loved ones (death). In our arrogance, we curse life, God and the universe for the pain and loss, in humility we should be stopping to ask the question – why? Why are we experiencing such pain and such loss?  Could it be that we are living wrong?

 

Without pain or some other kind of signal that gets your attention, you are led to believe that everything in your life is perfect. You may even be perfectly evil, but without some kind of trouble or woe, you would never know.

 

Work is a pain, if this were not so, it wouldn’t be named as such. Yet we have managed to compensate and override this pain of work with pleasure, either by convincing ourselves that whatever we do is useful or by adopting an attitude that fills our spare time between work (our holidays) with sensual delights, and entertainments. These take many forms, but for men start as wine, women and song and soon escalate to sex, drugs and rock and roll.

 

Without this compensation most men would just get depressed or go crazy, since to live in such never ending pain without the hope of change or the capacity to escape occasionally, pain is counterproductive to life, which is why we see so many deviant and destructive behaviour patterns across the so called ‘civilised’ world.

 

People are forced to give their time to work for money to buy their space in this world, work has become a necessary evil, many men resent it, it robs men of freedom, enslaves and demoralizes. We hate slavery, yet without purpose we become prisoners of freedom. The real problem is not slavery or freedom, but the fruitlessness of our lives.

 

Yet we see how sin divides the human soul into being and feeling… we can be bad, but have found many ways to make ourselves feel good, we have even found religious ways to be good and make ourselves feel bad. Neither of these divisions is right.

 

(Mat 12:33 KJV) Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

Amen

 

(Gen 1:2 KJV) And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

 

The whole of our reality is moved by the spirit of God… without this movement nothing is created, nothing changes and nothing lives… Your life is maintained by this spirit as breath. When this movement stops, everything stops… It is ONE movement…. manifested in many. God is the source and substance of all things, which is why, only God is good.

 

Sadly, a schism (separation) has occurred in the human mind between this truth and our perception of reality, placing us in bondage to ignorance in the guise of relative knowledge. This schism (separation) is the underlying cause of all human error (sin). This schism is encouraged and maintained by certain forces who have learned to exploit the schism to their personal advantage (this is the nature of evil). Three of the biggest consequences of this schism of sin that separates us from God are ignorance, fear and greed, these can only be eliminated by truth, faith and love (charity).

 

Alignment is the only way to overcome this schism / separation / sin and this can only be achieved through submission in love (faith), that is, a re-integration with the spirit of God. The process of re-integration is demonstrated by - 'the way' of Jesus through his love, truth and life.

 

To live on earth we only have to love her, everything else is God given, no creature is self-made. All creatures including men and women enter into life as a precious gift of fragile ‘seed’ and our lives are only justified by our ‘fruits’ since this is all we have to offer in life, for any future generation to live from.

 

Fruit is the food of life, seed is the source of offspring. The seed from our fruits should be carefully sown, not carelessly eaten, flushed or thrown away. If every good seed was treated like treasure and invested in good soil, there would be an end to hunger and poverty.

 

There is an economic sustainability in the eating of fruit, the sowing of seed and the growing of perennial trees that flower and fruit for the preservation of life. The nature of plant life transforms light into life and a more abundant, productive Earth. ... but without our love, this is impossible.

 

Sadly over 90% of the world today disregards fruit and eats seed (like birds) …mainly grass seed, in various forms…. wheat, rice, corn or processed as bread, cereal and pasta. Human hands are for picking, sowing, sharing and affection…. not for milling, mining, money, mayhem and murder. We lost paradise through our ignorant behaviour and continue to invent ways to solve the problems we have created, instead of acknowledging our sin. And so, in our desire for more 'bread', we reduce forests to grass, then desert,. dooming ourselves to more weeds, work, fires of war, then extinction for other species and hell for mankind. Unless we turn around or as is written "REPENT!!!"

 

Humanity therefore has 2 clear goals (and commandments), the first is to realign its nature with the one spirit (and love God). The second is to realign its lifestyle for true purpose and start caring now...for 'this' life and 'this' earth (and love our neighbour).

 

(Rev 22:13-14 NIV) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.

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(2 Tim 3:1-3-5 KJV) This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Rev 21:6 KJV) And he said unto me,

It is done.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.

I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

 

 

(Rev 11:18 KJV) And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

 

 

 

 

 

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