By the Book!

 

What can we learn about Creation from the world's spiritual traditions? What can we know about God, the universe, or our final condition? Are we left in the dark with no information, or do the world's traditional scriptures and traditions give us any clues?

The world is full of religions and their texts, as well as other assorted spiritual traditions. Some of these works have creation narratives. Some teach us insight into God. Some even lay out the endgame for the world and what will come after. According to these traditions, God is awesome! He created the heavens and the Earth and all found therein. In the texts, he is understandably very callous to life. He creates and destroys it. Can give a fate worse than death to those on his bad side, hell...

What about the Universe? The heavens above? The vast starry firmament? Inferred from traditions, it is a vision in God's mind's eye, much like one can have in meditation, daydreaming, or even while asleep in dreams. Only God visualizes on a much grander scale. God practices creation visualization, or causes things to exist by visualizing them into being. To quote the bard, we are but the stuff dreams are made of...

In the end, what will be? Do we perish? Do we die and rot away back to the earth we are made of? Do we go to hell to suffer endlessly for not being powerful enough to escape such a fate? Are we gifted with a utopian plane to dwell in bliss with God? Traditionally, God is taken to be good. In the Bible, God confesses to being Holy! So it is a very real possibility that at the end of our planetary existence we may all live happily ever after, redeemed by God's grace and cleansed by his love, while shown the errors of our ways by his vast creative potential. 

Thus, the religious and spiritual traditions paint a vivid picture in our minds. Compared to a public school education, which leaves us an accidental birth in a universe of coincidences that lead to life and this day. We are not even good stewards of our resources, having no ark emergency plan to provide for our neighbors when disaster strikes, including floods, fires, and famine. We are not even preserving all the life forms on our planet, with the destruction of natural habitats causing the loss of species. We could certainly do much better as well as much worse.

Relationship With God

 

What is your relationship with God? Is God just a myth to you? Or is God someone you worship and pray to? Or is God your oldest ancestor and constant companion on your walk through this life? Have you given your relationship with God any thought?

Many stories of Gods, called myths, have been passed on to us. There are Greek, Egyptian, Oriental, and other myths that have been written down and preserved. Is that all God is to you? Just a modern-day myth? Just a tall tale some people still believe to explain the weather, disasters, and sickness? Is God someone else's explanation for life? 

Is God someone you believe in? Do you worship and pray to God? Is God your explanation for the origins of the Universe and life? Is God the silver lining in the dark clouds in your life? Can God heal your loved ones? Can God provide for you from his kingdom? Is God a living being in your life?

Do you live inside of God, in his mind's eye vision? Is God always with you? Does God see all you do? Does God know your thoughts and still have your back? Your advocate? Is God your companion through life? If we did not have the cross to bear of Adam's sin, would you be with God now in Paradise?

God is either a myth or the most important person we can know as children of Eve. He is either make-believe or can answer our prayers, raise us from death to eternal life, and have a place prepared for us in Heaven. Give some thought to your relationship with God. God is a living God if he is not a myth, and he can make his presence known if you seek him. 

Truth As The Seed...

 

The sower sows the word. The word Truth is an excellent seed. It is the seed of the Tree of Knowledge, which branches out into different specialities. Law and order is one of these branches. In it, Liberty is revealed as the highest law! Theological Cosmology is another branch of the Tree of Knowledge, in which Godhead is taught. We will discuss the Tree of Knowledge, Liberty, and Godhead in the following sections.

Truth is the seed to sow to grow the Tree of Knowledge. Fact upon fact, the seed sprouts and blossoms into the majestic tree. The trunk thickens, and the specialized branches grow. Soon, all knowledge is revealed in the tree's branches: Math, Science, Technology, etc. Language skills and arts are among the many branches. To grasp the Tree of Knowledge's wisdom, sit pen and pad in hand and write all you know to be the truth in any subject. Fill in what you don't know with research.

Liberty is revealed as the highest law in the branch of Law and order. It is a natural law that the framers of a body of law grant all known harmless liberties allowance to the ruled, or the framers violate the harmless liberty of the subjects. Laws are revealed as capable of being tyrannical or, on the contrary, promoting anarchy. In between these extremes, law bodies regulate the realm's subjects. The best bodies protect the subjects, property rights, and liberty to engage in harmless activities.

What if cosmology were a theological subject because everywhere and everything was in God's mind? What if anything anywhere was connected to God's mind by contact, like a subway car getting its power by contact with the third rail? What if, by using God's mind, Godhead could be achieved in assorted degrees of mastery? What if the only barrier to personal Godhead is belief in someone else's monopoly thereof? Pray for guidance from our Heavenly Father if you are unsure if Godhead is shared by God's faithful family members. 

Tree of Knowledge, Liberty, and Godhead, all taught by the truth, developed into bodies of specialized topics. The truth will liberate you from your ignorance to intelligence on any subject you explore. The more branches you visit and study, the greater your knowledge will grow. Until we are restored to the Garden and see the Tree God grew, we must content ourselves with our studies. 

Godless, Giftless, Lifeless Matter, Or...

What is real? Godless, giftless, lifeless matter composed universe? A living God visualized creation that is composed of intelligent, living matter formed out of His mind? One or the other is the choice presented in the science class and religious instruction. Where do we stand in determining which explanation is correct?

Godless as in there is no need for god in the explanation of natural phenomena. Giftless, as in there are no spiritual abilities. Lifeless matter, as in organic matter, is alive, while the particle zoo and chemical jungle are lifeless. Such was the gist of my public school education. No god required. No master mathematician is getting all the force equations just right for life to emerge in the chemical soup. No divine architect is laying out the solar system so that Earth can teem with life. It is all coincidental accidents. No artist creates the beautiful displayed life on the planet we call home. Just random mutations. 

The opposite is what I learned reading scriptures. God created the Heavens and the Earth. God filled the Earth with life. God created mankind in his image. In religious life, there is a God. He bears gifts of the spirit for his creation. Everything exists in his mind, composed of his mindstuff, very alive and intelligent. There are no accidental mutations or coincidental just-right conditions. It is all part of the master plan. Nature shows God's vast creative genius. The force equations show God's intelligent genius. The beauty of life shows God's artistic brilliance. 

Where do we stand? At one time, the flat earth and the geocentric universe were the accepted views. Now it is widely accepted that the world is round and that we exist in a solar system revolving around its star. There is some scientific speculation that the whole thing is a simulation, given the advanced science's computational capacities. Yet pi is still being solved. Infinity is at the door awaiting discovery that it is a living sentient being, not just an advanced computer system. As the Bible said thousands of years ago, we live and have our being inside God. Such is still a very logical explanation.               

If You Have Faith

 

If you have survived the godless, giftless education and information media presentations and have faith, then miracles are possible, prophesy is real, and you live your life safely in Creation. Outer space is the vast mind of God. Jesus is on a mission to save you from guilt, shame, and condemnation. 

Public schools teach the contemporary scientific view that outer space was forged after a cosmic explosion, the Big Bang, and Life is the product of celestial and terrestrial accidental progress to the forms we see today. No God is required. No spiritual gifts. Just physical matter and energy and the fruits thereof. Yet, if you have faith, you can still experience miracles of healing, mass feeding on a few resources, and who knows how much more. Prophets still speak God's words and tell what is yet to happen. If you have faith, you live in Creation instead of in a field of accidents ordered only by physics rules and matter laws. You live in the Kingdom of a living God.

If you have faith, outer space displays a portion of God's vast mind, as exhibited in his Creation of the Universe. You live inside God's mind. There is nowhere outside of God. God is the infinite alive! He is everywhere. God, with his infinite mind's eye, can visualize universes, planets, and life into existence. Natural laws reflect the great intelligent creativity of God. Nature experienced as Creation shows the work of God. God is with you on your walk through mortal life as a comforter and Heavenly Father. God does not want anyone to perish. 

Jesus came to take us home to Creation. He worked miracles and was resurrected to show us the wonders of Creation, establishing that although we are mortal, we can live forever in God's afterlife. We just need to accept his salvation. He does not condemn us. He loves us as family and created us to live forever with him in Heaven. He is the Good Shepherd who is looking to gather his sheep. He is the Heavenly Father who came to save us from guilt, shame, condemnation, and even death. 

If you want to believe, read the Holy Scriptures and learn about God, Creation, Salvation, and God's many promises. We are the heirs of a rich scriptural legacy written by inspired men for generations. There is no need to suffer a godless life on your own in a giftless reality. Read the Good Book. Live in God. Grow in faith and receive faith's many blessings.   

What if Christians...

 

What if all who worship Jesus Christ as the Son of God harmonized like a Heavenly choir singing? What if all worshippers of the God of Abraham united in their faiths, recognizing each other as fellow believers? What if all the worshippers worldwide who worship God Creator agreed to accept that if there is one Creator, we all worship in our ways the glorious majesty?   

What if all Christians worshipped their own way and recognized others' worship of their Lord Jesus in different fashions? What if Christ could be worshipped in Songs or Psalms? What if the length of one's Bible did not matter as long as the message remained the same? What if Christians recognized each other's saving graces instead of their differences? What a lovely choir and sweet incense our worship and prayers would be! Instead of a catfight between the Church brides of Christ, perhaps they should learn to share Jesus as much as they share the gospel message.

What if worshippers of the God of Abraham acknowledged each other as fellow worshippers of the God that called Abraham out of Ur? What if instead of casting dispersions on each other as madmen, minus a testament, missing the actual book of God, being too late to be accepted, or even being too different in beliefs, we all stepped back and acknowledged each other as believers? Many of us close our scripture collection with our own books instead of gathering like fans every work credited to Abraham's God to see for ourselves what is in it. What if we united as the people who worship the God of Abraham?

What if all worshippers of God, accepting that there is one Creator, agreed to allow God variety in how it is worshipped? What if we let God have more than one name, one book, one religion? What if we recognized that we all worship God, the Creator? What if having a temple to the Creator was seen by all who worship the God Creator as commendable, a step in the right direction? What if being fellow created creatures was a good foundation to start interfaith harmony?

What a different world it would be if Christians, fellow worshippers of the God of Abraham or God Creator, all recognized each other's humble walk of faith. We could get along much better without bringing attention to our differences. We could become friends instead of calling each other in error and needing to change our evil ways...      

A New Telling of the Fable...

 

What if, in the beginning, there was a naturally brilliant infinite mind due to all space existing sentient to its content phenomena, including knowledge? What if this great, vast, infinite mind learned to create by visualization? What if everything in existence was created except for the mind and natural phenomena that caused it to be? What if even our god-heroes are made for their roles and necessary performances? What if creations and heavens are two sides of the same coin of the acts of God?

What if the beginning was in a state of grace-caused knowledge? What if intelligence is the natural state of mind? What if nature was a vast infinite all-container that everything happens inside of? What if the only natural existing items are perpetual time, infinitesimal dimensions of space-filled infinite all-container, visualization ability, and sentience of the all-container to itself? What if knowledge development started as quickly as making observations, associations, and symbolic representations of these? 

What if it became apparent to the mind that its will was done, and as quickly as visualizing, it could create anything it thought up? What if, throughout the ages, it learned to compose fiction, tell stories, and entertain itself along with its omnipresent audience of co-creators? What if, once upon a time, it created our universe and the Earth? What if it filled the seas, land, and air with lives? What if it made a couple tend to the vast zoological gardens in the image of intelligent, tool-abled, state-of-grace beings contrasted to educated? Not gods or beasts. 

What if everything that exists is thought to be by the mind or its hosted beings given intelligent life? What if this is the apparent truth to all-seeing co-creators existing from the period of grace before creating times and ages of tales being told? What if, on Earth, we needed a god-hero after a fall from a grace-filled mind to suffering humanity? What if this god-hero was just what humanity needed? What if he could heal the sick, feed the hungry, raise the dead back to life, and resurrect himself? 

What if a few thousand years later, humanity wrote this entire narrative off as a likely story, a fable, of course? What if humanity was struggling to spread the word of the love of the god-hero and his gifts to suffering humanity in the mission fields on Earth? What if the intelligent lives not in a state of grace slowly thought up a lifeless, godless universe over their heads as the centuries of explaining things without recourse to a creator went on? What if that takes us to this day?