Kingdom Come

Missing link term is frequently used now, mostly by journalists and in popular literature. Specialists understand perfectly that formation of Homo sapience species is a long process, and as evolution is continuous, it is obvious that there were MANY SPECIES between a modern human and our ancestral ape living about 10 mya. These species were slowly, one by one, discovered by anthropologists for the last 100 years. As a result we see not just a link, but a chain of intermediate species.

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Jerry Fodor, the American philosopher [and writer of] What Darwin Got Wrong, the new book he has co-authored with the cognitive scientist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini.

He hadn’t just identified evidence that natural selection was more complicated than previously thought…Natural selection, he explains, simply “cannot be the primary engine of evolution”.

The irony in all this is that Darwin himself never claimed that it was. He went to his deathbed protesting that he’d been misinterpreted: there was no reason, he said, to assume that natural selection was the only imaginable mechanism of evolution.

But rejection of an intelligent designer Creator was and remains a pillar of the concept, so the only other mechanism of evolution is survival of the fittest through intentional measures.

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

“In the beginning God (English) / אֱ-ל-הִי-ם reading backwards in Hebrew to pronounce “E-l-oh-im)

• created,
• said,
• saw,
• called,
• made,

In Hebrew, ם / “im” at the end of a word serves the same function as “s” in English, making the word plural. This opens the door for uneducated or intentionally biased or subversive translators to claim that there was not a singular creator, but multiple gods involved in creation, such as the Anunnaki.

It is true that “eloh-im” is recognized grammatically as the plural of the word eloh in ancient Ugaritic, referencing the creator’s minor gods, and that in Aramaic ʼĔlāhā and later Syriac Alaha, and in Arabic ʾilāh (“deity”) and Allah in Islam opposing the multiplicity of pagan gods with “The Only God”.

However, the Bible itself clarifies the plural “Elohim” as a single individual with the plurality assigned to his attributes of powers – All Powerful / Almighty God.

• “God / Elohim / אֱלֹהִ֜ים (plural noun) called unto him [Moses] out of the midst of the bush, and said…
• Anoki / אָנֹכִי / me, myself (singular noun), expressing emotional intimacy {Honey, I’m home!) in contrast to the simpler Ani /אֲנַי me, myself (classroom roll call – Here!)
  • The God / Elohe / אֱלֹהֵי֙ (singular root of the plural Eloh-im) of thy father Abraham. The [same] God / Elohe / אֱלֹהֵי֙ of Isaac, The [same] God / Elohe / אֱלֹהֵי֙ of Jacob.
  • “Isaac called Jacob…God / El /  אֵל (singular) Almighty / Shadday / שַׁדַּי bless thee, and…give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee;” (Genesis 28:1-4)
• And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon Elohim.” (Exodus 3:4-6)

Continue reading “SECTION VI: 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 “26) 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 “27) 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.

“much people that were come to the feast...certain Greeks among them…came therefore to Philip…and desired him, saying, Sir, WE would see Jesus.” (John 12)

In the brief interview he held with these curious Greeks Jesus used metaphors fundamental and consistent throughout every culture. The currently popular book series made into a television show, Wheel Of Time is a good example of the presentation of universal understanding of good and evil in the world.

“Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light...I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.“ (John 12:12-35)

Light represents and IS the force of good in the world, considered to be “from the Creator,” certainly directly connected to the growth and production of food and therefore life. The antithesis can be nothing else but the Dark which is the direct cause of death. Read “A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race” by atheist Carl Sagan if you doubt this statement.

The Word / Logos was another culturally common Greek philosophical expression.

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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 “29) The Trinity = The Singularity”