Sunday, August 9, 2020

Truth? What is Truth?

 JESUS is the truth.  The fact that I'm typing this is also true.  My mom asks "What were doing upstairs earlier?" two hours from now...and I just happen to leave out the fact that I wrote this wAndafulll blogspot post.  Did I lie?  
"It is impossible for God to lie" says Hebrews (ch6v8)
But does God ever deceive or distort?
 Isaiah CH6 9&10 -- which Jesus quoted when speaking of why he'd been telling the truth in a virtually incomprehensible fashion -- seems to indicate the answer to that is yes.  He doesn't say "influence them to pursue ignorance so that they will be excited when Truth resounds."  Nope.  He says "MAKE THEM ignorant" (paraphrase).  If God is commanding Isaiah to let Israel rot, then wouldn't Isaiah be guilty of sin if he had failed?  Yes?  If yes, then God was at work in that act.  Mankind can accomplish nothing without God's help.  God was complicit in this deception.  
But you know what?  I don't give a shit because, as I've ruminated, and possibly posted about on this site regarding, the SPECIFIC sin is not the problem.  The % of sins committed that do not offend God is probably so close to 0.000% that even a 30" LCD display calculator doesn't have enough room for all the 9s needed to completely and accurately reflect the percentage of injustices, private or public, committed against God that result from breaking the law.
God can break the law because He knows what's best for us and the best way to accomplish it.  If he needs to tell the world about the multi-personhood of God's Oneness several thousand years after he could have, that's what he will do.  If a 4th person of the so-called "triune God" (The Bible says nothing about the existence of a trinity) were to make itself known when we get to Heaven, or if God decided to splinter Himself up into a million little pieces and shake hands with everyone (the billion-ity?), whose to argue with that?  And don't tell me "The Bible has everything".  The Bible never had everything.  It still doesn't.  Heaven is not in The Bible.  How could it be?  We have no frame of reference with which to comprehend anything that could be said about it.  God didn't hammer home the consequences of Adam&Eve's sin before the fact to give them incentive to NOT do it, for the same reason.
So, no The Bible doesn't have everything in it.  Not every piece of consolation and affirmation is in The Bible.  The Holy Spirit does speak to His temple and although nothing He says is going to contradict scripture, The Holy Spirit will possibly give you insight into the scripture that is not immediately obvious IF YOU NEED IT, and, possibly, even if you just WANT it badly enough, although God is not obligated or guaranteed to provide everything you want in this present time as a human being on Earth living Life As We Know It.
God is not obligated to do anything for you.  We are all guilty as f--- and some of us, i.e.: myself, are so ffffff (words can't expressssssss; o...) that even if the curtain were pulled back over our eyes and this life faded and we found out that Jesus meant what he said LITERALLY about tossing the hand into fire if it causes stumbling AND IT WAS NOT PERMITTED TO FORSAKE THAT, and, oh, well, I've stolen some stuff through time, even after baptism, and, uh........well, I thought He was speaking in hyperbole, then, you know what?  Who am I to talk back to the clay maker?  I can't.  Jesus' payment for my sins, be it figuratively or not, is my only Hope for eternal life outside of the confines of maxx'd misery.
Arguing with God or second guessing Him is not a solution to anything.
Yes, there's a slim tinsy chance that this Earth is just all random and it just takes care of itself with no cognitive intervention.  Or that one of the Buddahs or some Greek God or series thereof or Krishna or Joan of Arc created the Earth and has been maintaining it.  Apart from the Muslim portrayal of God, which is misogynist and oppressive, and encourages physical destruction and blessings for partaking in that, I am not aware of a view of God(s) that lines up with reality.  Countless people through time and time again have reported supernatural experiences, things that happen that cannot be explained by science.  God made physics.  He can break it and maintain it at the same time or suspend it altogether.  Nobody except madmen who have long been forgotten have made such claims about themselves.  Any other worshipped thing or "person" who has made such a claim has nothing to offer.  God ::IS:: a GIFT.  He is a Hope for a better future.  He is a reservoir of PEACE for those who He delights in, i.e.: those who do His will and WANT peace(!).  No religion on the face of the Earth is both scientifically irrefutable AND offers such a great return on investment.  God commands us to share that gift.  Who doing the will of God and gaining His favor by doing so would be so selfish to let it stop with them??  People say it's about control.  If The Apostles' goal was control, they never attained it.  People had no reason except divine power given to The Apostles by God to be fearful of The Apostles opinion of their actions.  And Paul even went almost his entire ministry living in virtual poverty just for the sake of making it clear that his ministry was NOT a means of brainwashing people to get money from them.  There ARE religious leaders who do that, even "in the name of" God, in contrast to His character and teachings, and of course there are people who professionally teach the word of God, but God even says they shall be held to a stricter standard when they get nose to nose with Him.  It will not be good for those who aren't leading righteously.  It'll be good, to an extent, possibly.  It maybe will depend on HOW FAR off they led their listeners, and obviously the "Church Of" Satan will be exempt from ALL of God's blessings.


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