Kingdom Come

The ancient definition of father was not exclusively or even essentially sperm donor, or even head of a family, but a leader empowering subordinates to perpetuate his expertise.

• “Jabal was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.” Think the ranchers in the American West 
• “Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. (Genesis 4:20-22) the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals…to give thanks and to praise the LORD.” (I Chronicles 25:1-3)

The (in my view) phenomenally relevant television show Breaking Bad demonstrates this concept to a society that has lost touch with this reality. 

Walter White identifies so strongly [AKA I love it!] not only with the innate ability of a former student Jesse, but especially his rebelliousness and independence, that he exerts his heretofore untapped great knowledge and skill into making Jesse in his own self-image as a heretofore unrealized superlative and therefore rightly wealthy chemist.

“For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth / teaches by demonstration him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these.” (John 3:35)

A biblical example of a father who loved his son and raised him up in his own image is Abram.

Continue reading “7) Father Perpetuates Himself In His Children”

The Sixth Sense was one of 1999’s biggest hits, earning six Academy Award nominations, including best picture because “the reveal just blew your mind” – the key fact that was actually present from the beginning and throughout every event, that the viewer missed – due to false preconceptions.

For example, one comedian jested that the multiple occasions over time of a wife apparently giving the cold shoulder to her husband is such a common marital experience that it never occurs to the viewer to question it to be anything else. Even at the Revelation, because it is such a shock, the viewer is given a quick review of those events to overcome any doubt that the Revelation is indeed consistently true.

The biblical account is no different. In order to “get” the revelation of any mystery story one must accept the facts presented at the beginning of an account, then surfacing throughout the development of the plot, until the ultimate revelation:

“He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God / Lifegiver, and he shall be my son.” (Revelation 21:7)

More on this point in the relevant post, for now just recognize that praying a prayer accepting Jesus as your savior doesn’t do squat to guarantee eternity in heaven. It’s not up to us, it’s God’s decision.

The Hebrew scriptures don’t describe the creation of the original sons of God, they simply state their existence in heaven prior to the creation of earth / mass from which mankind was made, when it was just being plotted out. (Plotted. Get it?)

We can change the order of the phrasing without changing the truth:

“when I laid the foundations of the earth…all the sons of God shouted for joy.” (Job 38:4-7)

“All the sons of God shouted for joy…when I laid the foundations of the earth.” 

This establishes these sons of God as pure hyperdimensional energy beings. In modern science this is known as cloning. A clone is a group of identical cells that share a common ancestry, meaning they are derived from the same cell. In biology these are called “daughters” rather than sons, but offspring nonetheless.

Continue reading “8) Son = Accepted By The Father Into His Family”

Every human is forced to trust that persons, places and things will perform as expected. At a minimum, we go through the activities of our daily life trusting that our past experiences will be replicated as our present condition merges into the unknown future minute by minute.

“In God We Trust” became the official motto of the United States when, as the country became ravaged by the Civil War, religious sentiment grew stronger. A Reverend M. R. Watkinson appealed to Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, to add the phrase to all U.S. coins with the argument that “This would place us openly under the Divine protection.”

Not true.

The belief that proclaiming a condition brings it into existence is magical thinking. Common in young children but considered psychotic or New Age religion in grownups.

Trust is formed by neurological connections in the brain through interactions with those who prove to be trustworthy over multiple encounters over time.

Erik Erikson, a developmental psychologist, researched the importance of trust development infancy. He noted that when caregivers are a consistent source of comfort, food, and affection, an infant learns trust. The baby develops a belief that others are dependable and reliable. If caregivers are neglectful the infant learns mistrust. The baby then develops a belief that the world is an unpredictable, undependable, and possibly a dangerous place.

We’re forced to trust others whose superior

1. knowledge of facts that we don’t know
2. can lead to understanding of the root problem
3. with wisdom of which option
4. is the best action 
5. to resolve the problem.

Continue reading “SECTION II: In What Do You Trust For Your Unknown Future?”

Death is the biggest crisis we’ll face in life. The most important information, guiding our values and behaviors during our lifetime, is what happens after this lifetime.

Since science does not have the tools to explore this condition, any information about this is typically delegated to religion. But there are over 4,000 religions in the world offering hope for a quality of spiritual existence after death of the body, severely limiting the credibility of any one of them.

As there is no consistency in the multiple religions or even denominations of religions claiming to be  based on the same source, this study does not include religious beliefs. This blog-book investigates the claims of the source document, not religions or religious leaders spinning off from the sourcebook.

It is a fact that the Bible is the single most trusted collection of revelation of spirituality, history, future predictions including the end of the world, and life after death. Despite massive culture shifts from hunter-gatherer to high tech societies it has remained relevant over the past 3,500 years since Moses compiled even more ancient documents into the multi-national Hebrew Torah, developed into the monotheistic faiths of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

I did not set out to prove or disprove the Bible. I just wanted to satisfy myself that my decisions about it were informed, not contaminated by dogmatic religious beliefs or rejected due to religious corruption.

Continue reading “9) Knowledge Or Ignorance Of Death?”

Stephen Hawking is a genius physicist and “one of the most important scientists and public intellectuals of our time, if not all time.” 

But despite being a top ranked scientist among scientists, Stephen Hawking does not base his choice of belief system on evidence.

Note carefully that Stephen Hawking’s choice of belief is made to resolve his emotional response to the concept of an afterlife. As he states, he is grateful to conclude that there is no afterlife.

This is understandable, since he spent his entire adult life struggling with a severely debilitating physical disease, experiencing, in essence, the misery of a disembodied soul as postulated to be the condition of the afterlife.

But is someone’s emotionally disturbed coping mechanism a viable basis on which to base belief directing your own life’s choices and plans for your own soul’s fate after death? 

Continue reading “10) Endless Or Pointless Existence?”

Hyperdimensions – having more dimensions than observable by humans.

Material – in philosophy, the view that everything is caused by physical processes.

The choice would seem to be obvious. The conviction that there are parts of reality that can’t be observed by human senses – like, say, things way off in the distance, or things really tiny – is intrinsic to all scientific investigation. Aristotle articulated it as the logic that ‘nothingness’ cannot “be”.

The birth of modern science is the transformation it entrained in our conception of space –the concept of empty space where ‘nothing’ can “be”, asserted by Galileo during the Renaissance in the 1600’s.

From Physics Forum online: The “fabric of space” is not made 0F anything- it is just space itself.

This is not a scientific finding. It was obviously impossible for Galileo to go up in space to prove his claim, not to mention it is, obviously, impossible for science to prove the existence of nothing. This a philosophical argument deriving from humanism’s postulate that there is nothing that humans can’t perceive, ergo understand, ergo control, ergo no Higher Power than humanity.

But further scientific developments in the 1900s beginning with Albert Einstein’s quantum physics determined that what humans perceive as solid matter, i.e. mass, is due to humanity’s perceptual limitations. In reality, the atoms that form objects and substances that we call solid are actually made up of 99.99999% movement, a form of energy.

Einstein elegantly explains how energy can be perceived as solid substance in his famous mathematical sentence E=mc2, i.e.

Energy become mass when acted upon by c² where c = the speed of light, the absolute upper limit of speed in our universe. Squaring it, i.e. multiplying it by itself cannot not realistically become meters² per sec² so is not a velocity but instead the crucial factor that unlocks one of the greatest secrets of the universe – the infinitely pervasive and powerful force outside the bounds of the laws of nature. 

This alone defines Creator God of the Bible.

And to further confound the sciences’ neat but kindergarten level classification of reality into energy OR matter:

Continue reading “11) Hyperdimensional Or Material?”

Why Religion Matters: The Impact of Religious Practice on Social Stability 

When policymakers consider America’s grave social problems, including violent crime and rising illegitimacy, substance abuse, and welfare dependency, they should heed the findings in the professional literature of the social sciences on the positive consequences that flow from the practice of religion.

• The strength of the family unit is intertwined with the practice of religion.
• Churchgoers are more likely to be married, less likely to be divorced or single, and more likely to manifest high levels of satisfaction in marriage.
• Church attendance is the most important predictor of marital stability and happiness.
• Religious belief and practice contribute substantially to the formation of personal moral criteria and sound moral judgment.
• Regular religious practice generally inoculates individuals against a host of social problems, including suicide, drug abuse, out-of-wedlock births, crime, and divorce.
• In repairing damage caused by alcoholism, drug addiction, and marital breakdown, religious belief and practice are a major source of strength and recovery.
• Regular practice of religion is good for personal physical health: It increases longevity, improves one’s chances of recovery from illness, and lessens the incidence of many killer diseases.

The overall impact of religious practice is illustrated dramatically in the three most comprehensive systematic reviews of the field.

• Some 81 percent of the studies showed the positive benefit of religious practice,
• 15 percent showed neutral effects,
• and only 4 percent showed harm, seen generally by most Americans of religious faith as a mispractice of religion.

The Protestant Reformation is a vivid example of how religious transformation could set in motion institutional changes leading to profound consequences for nation-wide economic and political development.

Continue reading “13) Reformation Or Retrogression?”