Merry Christmas Season!

Tomorrow Advent officially begins with the start of the countdown of the weeks to the celebrated birth of Jesus. The Christmas Season is begun. Time to dust off the list of who has been naughty and who has been nice...
I believe we should keep Christ in Christmas gift giving as a reminder of the potential gift God has waiting for all who believe in His son and His reconciliation to Himself of all who accept His free gift of Himself and His love. You just have to believe to receive and even the Apostle Thomas was allowed his doubts and given a sign to help his faith.
If we have a living God it should be obvious He can convince us He exists. You just have to show an interest and it seems the rest you can leave to Him... Faith comes from hearing and personally, like any houseplant, I am planted in the source of hearing about God Jesus, the Bible, and have it on audio book format which I love to spend time listening to. So I hear the Word of God and find my belief getting stronger and hope someday I can believe with the seem innocent belief I had as a child, and later as one who did not have the dark night of the soul realization I have yet to meet the Living God as a "being" in my life that I know as a friend, let alone the great eternal King of His Creation, the Heavens and the Earth He made.
I have lived aware that the world treats religious belief the same as a child's belief in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, and the Easter bunny. As I have covered in my post about doses of godhead I hinted that even with phenomena like God talking to one, or Angelic visions, these can be treated as delusions and hallucinations, and you, as prophecy said, can be treated as mad. There is no convincing unbelievers you are not crazy if you have religious experiences so forget about proving anything to anyone else. They might even say you are causing them to hallucinate if they end up sharing a vision with you.
So, seek and find God with fellow believers and God can do the rest... Christmas season would be a wonderful time to go home to Jesus. He is available 24/7/365 and it is not a long distance call because He is always with you where you are. We live inside Him!

The Sacred "Bull"!

I have dreamt of utopia, heavens, and hellish realities too, in my active imagination. My favorite dream is the scene I still cannot shake. It is the potential truth, about the astral plane environment of my recorded birth, over half a century ago, and the worship of god that goes on there. There is something so very simple about it, and it explains the origin and continuance of worship, and interest in the occult reality, some choose to spend there lives participating in.
This scene is that as humans grew aware of being, and their living in a world full of illusions, some of them thought that it may all be a deliberate illusion, somewhat like reflections, and the dreams experienced sleeping, even so very long ago. The reflections and dreams perhaps what Plato was referring to in his Cave of Shadows analogy.
Once reality was no longer what seems to be, but is what it really is, no matter what we think it is, then the stories of what it could be, and what types of "Beings" it could be from, started to be told to entertain those so indulging in around the campfires at night, the shadows cast by firelight to remind them it may all be "smoke and mirrors" wishful thinking and daydreaming.
These stories, passed along from generation to generation, were slowly picked favorites from to hear again and again. The favorites of these stories, the tales about the loving gods and their eternal gift of life to share with good people, became the origins of religions, which were only shrines, to those who knew the texts as stories, where people hoped and prayed that their "sacred bull" might be true.
In time the shrines and the stories became all some uninitiated knew. They became the believers.  Life without end with the loving god, as a reward for a good life, became the story believed real. In time this belief launched holy wars, witch hunts, and the great hate of those believing other, as well as those not believing, for their angering god with their disbelief.
I do like to believe in a holy god, and his love, and his gift of eternal life, but I do not know if it be true or just an inherited load of "sacred bull"... It is very possibly the explanation of our illusion filled scene that we are created, but that is not yet proven or disproved. A comforting story. A nice hopeful dream, but like Cinderella, and other such wonderful tales, not necessarily based on real truths. I believe because dreaming is not harmful, and it is a wonderful hope filled way to think of what the ultimate explanation of our illusion filled life's origins may be as well as what comes after it is like.

Have A Happy Thankful Thanksgiving...

What if it is true there is a living God that created the Heavens and the Earth and all therein? What if there was nothing that existed that was not created? Even if no one could believe the truth of creation, like any other fact of life, it would still be the truth...
No one has to believe 1+1=2 for it going to be true forever! Creation, the fact that everything but God is created does not change for any one's unbelief, blasphemy, or even heresy. There simply is no way to make the truth a lie. This is true no matter how many times we try to forget the facts, create our own stories as the children of the Creator, and choose to live in these constructs without any apparent knowledge we did anything of the sort...
Children can inherit a story from their parents, and choose to live in it with their family, as easy as screen sharing on a computer video game! Whose story are we living in as heirs of the belief there is no need of God to explain our experiences, just observation thereof and the documentation of the observed? Does a play by play commentary on the universe in motion really tell us anything about where it came from or how it all started?
Until some scientist proves there is no possibility God exists, or His children with godlike powers, I will believe the reports of our ancestors that a living God called Abraham out of Ur to do a great work through Abraham of reconciling His creation to Himself. I will not condemn anyone for not sharing my view but thank God for their free will even if they do not use it well.
We live in a nation that allows religious freedom and so I was raised tolerant of other religions. As I read and grew in knowledge, I began to see that The God of Abraham is worshiped by many different religions and that God the Creator too is worshiped in many religions as well. I cannot judge who is worshiping the right way or who is worshiping the wrong way. I just do not have the experience of God telling me anybody worships Him the right way and the rest are all wrong.
So as Thanksgiving Day approaches I hope you will at least consider maybe someone special to us all, our Lord God Creator, made the feast and its fine things long before we started celebrating this Holiday. I hope you will be able to whisper a little thank you to God, just in case He exists, and you are just lost in a life you inherited, without much belief in a living God, but rather stories by very  imaginative and superstitious ancestors, these times called myths and legends, given as the explanation for our inherited Religions.

Next Time You Look Into The Mirror...

The next time you are looking into a mirror remember as it reflects your image you are supposedly seeing inside your brain a reflection of an external reality reproduced from the sensory information flowing into your head. What you are experiencing is nothing more than a virtual reproduction to modern views.
Yet this too is only the best explanation to date of the phenomena experienced by humanity. Therefore it is what is commonly believed. A world out there, external reality may only be a construct being shared and agreed to acceptance as real by parties consenting. In other words it may be a created allusion to a world only existing in shared heads consenting to participate in an illusion of life in an external reality instead of theater of the infinite mind.
Imagine what would be the limitations of an entity as big as all outer space and in possession of all information achievements of everywhere existing. A Great "Godhead' I find such would possess as a result of such immense size and knowledge. How to make contact with an entity we would be living in and the creations of is my quest for life taken, holding such knowledge as I do...
Think about it. Outer space a living entity. Everything inside it. Everything in it created. What would you call it? I call it God with the Great Godhead.