Kingdom Come

“Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.”

Continue reading “Preface: Advance Care Directives”

I do not claim to have the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

I do claim to want to know the truth, and therefore rejecting the religious and social dogma dished out in my upbringing I investigated other options, and have changed many beliefs as additional or contradictory facts forced me to revise, not only my old beliefs, but even my revised beliefs, over the course of my study.

Don’t panic. This blog book is not an evangelical attempt to convert you to Christianity.

Absolutely not.

This blog investigates, by comparing and contrasting with other religious, scientific and philosophical sources, the revelation of a Creator-Sustainer God as given from the beginning of time “to infinity and beyond! in God’s own words, The Bible.”

Continue reading “Foreword: Scientific Research Methodology”

When we meet a stranger we want to get to know better, their personal name only distinguishes them from other individuals in a small group, so we ask about their verbs – “What do you do?”

In other words, what describes your accomplishments or activities. For example, when we read about Napoleon, is it the conqueror Napoleon I, or the listless and alienated Napoleon Dynamite?

Let’s start at the very beginning of the Bible.

Elohim

Continue reading “SECTION I: Who You Are Is What You Do”

The Enduring Mystery of Light 

Defining light is a bit of a philosophical quandary. Light’s true identity…is unanswerable.

It might be better to concentrate on what light does. Light manipulates matter by moving the charged particles in atoms which make up all substance.

In other words, light’s identity is force, exactly as Einstein framed it as e=mc2: 1) energy / charge = 2) mass 3) with the applied force of m2, which is the speed of light squared which is mathematical notation for infinity.

In other words, the true identity of light is the Creator God of the Bible. 

“God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (I John 1:5)

The only philosophical quandary is humanism’s utter rejection of a power or intelligence greater than themselves despite the facts.

Continue reading “1) God Is Light”

“And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

And God said unto Moses…say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.” (Exodus 3:13-14)

According to philosopher James (1890) “Me” reflects self-consciousness observed from a person’s point of view,

“I”, on the other hand, is rooted in one of the oldest branches of philosophy – meta-physics – which simply means beyond what can be observed, examining  the nature of existence and the relationship between matter and mind, therefore is conceptual, unable to be proven by experimentation.

It is profoundly significant that philosophers speculating on the origins of existence correspond to the Creator’s designation of himself as “I am” in stark contrast to physical science whose “Scientists simply don’t know where consciousness comes from, or what it’s made of.”

Continue reading “2) I Am = Universal Consciousness”

John’s gospel’s overwhelmingly Gentile readership is evidenced by his use of metaphorical and euphemistic language understood by Gentiles, and the prominence of Philip, one of the 12 apostles, being mentioned by name 11 times.

Philip’s name alone identifies him as thoroughly Hellenized, undoubtedly by his parents who named their son after the famous father of the even more famous Greek warlord Alexander the Great, predecessor to the infamous Greek warlord Antiochus Epiphanes whose brutal efforts to destroy Judaism reverberate to this day. In the strongest possible repudiation of Jewish identity, this was the equivalent of Jewish holocaust survivors naming their son Adolf. 

The psychological dissonance which that split personality generated may have propelled Philip into hating / rejecting his parents when he chose to follow Jesus as the Hope of Israel, but his upbringing uniquely enabled him to culturally interface with non-Jews – Greek widows, the Samaritans, the Ethiopian eunuch, and outreach in the Gentile city of Caesarea to introduce them to Jesus.

Continue reading “3) The Word = The Force Of Creation”

The doctrine of the Trinity means that there is one God who eternally exists as three distinct Persons — the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Stated differently, God is one in essence and three in person. These definitions express three crucial truths: (1) the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct Persons, (2) each Person is fully God, (3) there is only one God.

This leads to the blood curdling realization that giving the code name Trinity to the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, of the same design as the bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, was claiming the ultimate power of God himself.

“I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. [The god] Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.” J. Robert Oppenheimer

The New Testament contains no explicit trinitarian doctrine. However, many Christian theologians, apologists, and philosophers hold that the doctrine can be inferred from what the New Testament does teach about God.

Continue reading “4) The Trinity = The Singularity”

This sorry excuse of a criticism smears itself, not the Bible.

This defamation of the Bible deceives its intended – obviously ignorant – audience regarding the fact that it is the Roman Empire’s culture – LAUDED by humanists such as this American Atheists Organization – which is responsible for the cruel slavery experienced by subjugated populations over the last two thousand years.

The Roman legal system, NOT the Mosaic Law, controlled the nation of Israel when the New Testament was written, and has been perpetuated into our current modern era by elitists’ exploitation of the masses.

“Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons [i.e. the masters will get what they deserve from the Lord].” (Colossians 3:22-24)

In absolute contrast, the Law of Moses established fair treatment of all individuals in society.

“Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.” (Leviticus 25)

Continue reading “5) Lord And Master = Provider And Protector”