Monday, February 19, 2007

"TWO REALITIES, BOTH CAN'T BE RIGHT"

ANOTHER post inspired by my friend who rejects Israel IS ISRAEL.........Hope it makes all of us THINK? Pax...Doubting Thomas

This STATEMENT from World Net Daily inspired this diatribe from me......


It always astonishes me how the international community simply refuses to take the Arabs at their word. Talk about racism!
For example, the Bush administration continues to insist that the “Palestinian” general public wants peace with Israel based on the “two-state vision.”
The “Palestinians” themselves are doing their best to refute that claim, but no one is listening!

MY RESPONSE......


Based on the outcome of Secretary Condolezza Rice's recent Palestinian-Israel Summitt fiasco.....it appears that the MAJORITY of Palestinians DO NOT desire a State of their own existing in peace with Israel. My friend has sent me numerous articles that these are Palestinian Christians that are saying this.

Personally....I don't believe these are Palestinian Catholics or Protestant Christians, because if they are part of the muslim belief that Israel has no right to exist (Like even some of the wacko Rabbi's believe too!.) THEY ARE NOT FOLLOWERS OF YAHSHUA-JESUS. They may think they are but the Body of Christ is NOT Israel...that is the apostasy of Preterism...a lie straight from the gates of hell. In fact....the "world" and islamic desire for the total destruction of Israel and Jews is a fulfillment of Scriptures and probably the most profound SIGN that the Second Coming of the Lord Yahshua -Jesus is VERY NEAR.

It ALL boils down to 2 schools of thought on REALITY...BOTH can't be right.....even though they BOTH claim to believe in the Bible. Those who don't accept the Bible are "on their own" and will have to form their position of REALITY on their own EGO's.

THE FIRST POSITION ON REALITY IS....... (and I suspect that this is un-Biblical)

REALITY is that "The Kingdom of God" is in our hearts and by the eventual conversion of all humans to the teachings of Jesus "WE" will BUILD the "FUTURE" Kingdom of God on Earth. This is the position of Preterist Christians and New Agers. Christians who believe this way are anti-Semitic and are therefore apostates and un-Biblical. There are New Agers who accept His teachings BUT NOT HIM as the FINAL Sacrifice for humanities transgressions. The New Agers who don't even acknowledge His teachings are no different than islam or any of the other false religions of the world. Jesus warned us about these false prophets who would lead us away form the GOSPEL of TRUTH that was "ONCE and FOR ALL delivered to the Saints"...Jude 1:3.....Preterism and New Age (really very "Old Age in new clothes") is APOSTASY...... ANOTHER SIGN of Biblical Prophecy fulfillment that the Kingdom is VERY near. None of this makes since until May 14, 1948....fulfillment of the Fig Tree Prophecy. (why do we "wait" for Biblical Prophecy to be fulfilled? Simple answer.... We do not really "TRUST and Obey" the Lord, like the old Protestant Hymn encourages us to do..BECAUSE...as String Theory reveals...Biblical Prophecy is NOT about what will be..it is about what IS.

Isn't this "Kingdom in our hearts" what Jesus said anyway? YES it is...BUT....it is FOR THE INDIVIDUAL to PREPARE for the "ACTUAL-REAL Coming of the Kingdom." The problem with the illusion that "WE" build the Kingdom which has been "embraced" by New Agers and their misuse and misunderstanding of the Law of Attraction IS the word...."WE"...... Self centered instead of God centered...unless you think your God and if you think you are....God Bless ya and "good luck." satan didn't have much "luck" with that approach so give it a "shot" if you want. Our God YHWH LOVES us so much He has given total Free Will to do as you please! The Law of Attraction is nothing but a new positive look at Karma...you determine your own destiny and you determine the consequences of your own choices. Don't worry.....according to your illusion you have fallen for...you'll keep coming back until you "get it right." Personally....I'll put ALL my eggs in ONE basket....YAHSHUA-JESUS. Hey if we are BOTH dead when we are dead....we won't know we disagreed anyway so who cares? The result is the same but what if I'm right???

If you should ever forget about me...you loose NOTHING...if you forget about Jesus...you've LOST EVERYTHING>"

The Law of Attraction is VERY real...BUT it is NOT "WE" who manifest this power...it is the Christ living in us. As St. Paul said..."Without Jesus we are NOTHING. Can non-believers in the Gospel of Jesus have these psi-powers and manifest the Law of Attraction? ABSOLUTELY.....that's why it is so dangerous....you conclude that you don't NEED the Sacrifice of Jesus. YHWH God allows the foolish to wallow in their EGO. (John 14:6 is a lie if you believe this nonsense and you better hope it is!)

This is why I propose the Hypothesis of Spiritual Symbiosis. We were NOT CREATED to exist without God...we ARE Symbionts with the Spirit of CREATION (YHWH GOD) and when we live outside of this Symbiotic relation with our CREATOR our 'Spiritual Homeostasis fails" and we are "Spiritually" dead just as the Homeostasis fails for any Physical Symbionts when separated. REMEMBER...satan is able to mimic God and "fool" the EGO centered person........and satan's goal is to convince us that "WE" are GOD and therefore "surely we will not die." he said that to Adam and Eve a real long time ago and we are still falling for this lie today.."hook, line and sinker." PT Barnum knew this just as well as satan..."There's a "sucker born every minute."

When a person responds to the LOVE demonstrated by Yahshua-Jesus on the Cross of Calvary and accepts Him and ONLY Him as His personal Savior.....he or she is "restored" to the original CREATION before the fall in the Garden and their "Spiritual Homeostasis" is re-established and they are a NEW person ETERNALLY alive in Jesus Christ. Homeostasis..the Biological ability to maintain the LIVING process is BOTH Spiritual and Physical and we die if we try to separate them at either level BECAUSE ...String Theory has revealed that THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN THE REALITY BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PHYSICAL.....JUST DIFFERENT FREQUENCY AND WAVELENGHT AND VIBRATIONAL PATTERN.

NOTE: The former Soviet Union's "100th Monkey experiments" and all the pseudo-science experiments that have followed since, inspired by this misunderstood phenomena of the Law of Attraction, is used to support this New Age philosophy....WAKE up SHEEPLE.....monkeys and ALL life are born just like Yahshua- Jesus!..... WITHOUT SIN. Only Homo sapiens inherit the defective DNA of Adam..."Original Sin." That's why God Incarnated..to "rescue" His Creation of Homo sapiens on this planet in the first place..

THE SECOND POSITION OF REALITY IS...... (and I suspect is TRUTH)

I suspect and am even CONVINCED that the "REAL" Biblical explanation of Reality is not even CLOSE to common "religious" explanations including Christianity and Judaism and all it's variations and furthermore I am convinced that the TRUTH of REALITY is definitely supported by String Theory. The commonly accepted explanation of Biblical Reality is really no different than ANY world religion or New Age philosophy. ALL of them separate the Spiritual from the Physical which I believe is a lie straight from the gates of hell itself! They all teach that the Supernatural is the realm of God instead of the fact that ALL the Cosmos is God's realm. The magician, "The Great Kreskin", hit the nail on the head when he said that the "Supernatural was the undiscovered Natural. Wake up folks....GOD is REALITY and He CREATES and works through and within His Creation. His Law of Biogenesis is immutable and ETERNAL by it's EXISTENCE. (YHWH God is manifested in all His Laws...for He is His Perfect Laws and He revealed HIS LOVE in CREATION by hanging on the Cross of Calvary on our behalf.

YHWH God's Laws are ONE....the Spiritual..... Free Will, Karma, Psi-power, Law of Attraction etc. AND the Physical.....Thermodynamics, Gravity, Electromagnetism, Relativity, Quantum and Biogenesis with "Intelligent Design" through His Creation in Recombinant DNA, Hybridization, Protoplast and modified Cloning. Only man tries to separate them. This because man's nature is rebellion to God. I personally believe that anti-Semitism is not just hating Jews and Israel and the Zionists....it's REALLY about hating YHWH God.

The TRUTH is that the Bible flawlessly tells us about who we really are and who YHWH God is....we are God's Children in CREATION...the so called Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is composed of the entire Cosmos and is called the Intergalactic Federation of Star Nations. (and we should probably add Inter-dimensional as well) As the late John Paul II said to a small child....the SV's are God's Children too which make us brothers and sisters with the SV's..THEY ARE OUR FAMILY. Then why don't they stop this cruel insanity going on in the world? Same reason God doesn't. They love us as much as YHWH Himself and will not and cannot violate the Law of Free Will. Gene Roddenberry of the Star Trek Universe called this the "Prime Directive."

We are all to "work out our salvation with fear and trembling before the Lord of Hosts" which boils down to accepting or rejecting.....John 14:6......"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life...NO ONE comes to the Father except through Me." If you reject this Law.....you are left with " justifying raising yourself" which is impossible so you are faced with rejecting the entire Bible. OH..there are plenty of "cafeteria" style believers who choose and pick what they want from Scripture but in reality..they are as lost as MOST POLITICIANS! REMEMBER....Salvation through Jesus Christ is for the individual to prepare him or her for the REAL Kingdom...the FEDERATION.

Don't ya just love the Law of Free Will...you can just write me off as a wacko Catholic retired Biology teacher who is playing poker with a pinochle deck and thinks "deuces" are wild! If my writing pisses you off...at least you ain't dead yet!


Pax....David..."The Doubting Thomas"Check out my BLOG.....http://thedoubtingthomasjourney.blogspot.com/

Saturday, February 17, 2007

"WILL THE REAL DEITY PLEASE STAND UP!"

They say that one should never discuss politics and religion. I guess I am a glutton for punishment because they are my favorite topics! The following is inspired by a friend of mine who I have been arguing with over our differing views on religion. It was through our discussions that I realized that religion cannot be discussed civilly so, as the Doubting Thomas, I decided to share REALITY instead of religion......see what you think!........Pax...Doubting Thomas

The following statement by my friend set me on this "search for reality quest".......

"To the original point: "Allah" is Arabic for "God".Arabic-speaking Christians use that word every bitas much as Muslims do."

MY BLOVIATED YET SINCERE RESPONSE..........

Yes.....Arab Christians call God "Allah" as I would do too because it is NOT His Name, it is just the generic reference to a CREATOR. (God, Deus etc....all refer to the CREATOR but are NOT His Name.....muslims call him allah....BIG difference! he ain't the CREATOR.)

BUT...the God of the Cosmos..the CREATOR of CREATION "YEARNS" (and COMMANDS) to be called by His REAL Name YHWH. Calling Him by His TRUE Name is TRUE WORSHIP of Him. This Name is not just for Jews..it is what ALL Homo sapiens should call Him no matter what culture or religion. We have names..so does God. How would you like to be called "hey man" or "hey you" instead of your own name? God weeps when we say "hey You" to Him because when we call Him God or Allah (not allah...different person).....it is the same as saying "hey You." We are His Children... (as ALL SV's are...ALL life for that matter and I have a hunch that ALL of God's Creation calls Him by His REAL Name as well...of course in their language.).... AND He is our Father. Now I didn't call my Dad Leonard or Lenny. Nope I called him Father, Dad, Pop or Pa. So...God being our Father...we should LOVE, HONOR and OBEY Him by calling Him ABBA...Father...or what ever word in your language means Father..... OR we shall call Him by NAME in Worship...YHWH!

YHWH is not Hebrew, it is the 4 consonants of the Hebrew written right to left in English letters called the tetragrammaton...(I don't have Hebrew letters on my machine...but it is transliterated "Yahweh" and if your hooked on phonics...that's how His NAME sounds too ....AND IT DOES NOT MEAN GOD or CREATOR or SUPREME Being....His Sacred Name means "EVERLASTING", ETERNAL. ENDLESS." (Cicil B. DeMille set a erroneous precedence when Charlton Heston (Moses) met God on the Mountain and confused "IAM" as His NAME instead of YHWH. When YHWH spoke and said IAM"...He was COMMUNICATING that He was the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel). Most people think YHWH means "IAM"...it DOESN'T. I used to think that way myself.

Some claim that we are never to utter God's Holy and Sacred Name, YHWH. Such are the "legalists" of ALL religions. YHWH does NOT require "legalese, burnt offerings, or sacrifices. He requires our obedience AND the path to that obedience is LOVE AND the "Journey" begins by calling on Him as ABBA...Father in our hearts and YHWH in our WORSHIP of HIS SUPREME MAJESTY.

YHWH is the most powerful "entity" in the COSMOS. I would call Him Spiritual Entity but He has recently revealed to us through His wonderful Gift of the Scientific Method, the String Theory, (TOE=Theory Of Everything)....that Spirit and Physical ARE the SAME differing ONLY in frequency. It was man who separated himself from YHWH God by dividing the Cosmos into a Spiritual and a Physical. The COSMOS and YHWH GOD and WE ARE ONE! The present 30 known mathematical dimensions in String Theory IS GOD...IS CREATION IS YHWH! YHWH IS ALL THAT THERE IS BECAUSE EXISTENCE IS YHWH!

A way to help visualize this is to imagine YHWH the ONE and ONLY "Living" Being as "dreaming" or "thinking" or "saying" EXISTENCE into EXISTENCE.....It always WAS and always WILL be. The Gospel of John sure nails this down pretty good......
John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1:2: The same was in the beginning with God. 1:3: All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made."

We have the same problem with His Son's Name.... Is it Savior? ..is it Emmanuel? (God with us) is it Jesus?...His Greek Name? (He was a Jew..NOT Greek!) or His REAL Name..Yahshua? (Actually calling Him Christ is really more OK as He was the ANNOINTED of YHWH God. Christos means "Annointed.") Maybe Jesus would LOVE to be called Yahshua., His REAL Name BUT.....He won't get upset if you still stick to Jesus AS LONG AS YOU OBEY and LOVE HIM! (serve others) AND by the way.....it is in His Incarnation as Yahshua that YHWH revealed His LOVE for ALL His Children...IN THE ENTIRE COSMOS!
(Giu seppe Verdi...one of my favorite opera composers....name is "Joe Green" in English. Would call him Joe Green if you met him? I think not.

So.....do we call GOD "God", "Deo", "Deus", "Dios" or "Allah" or Whatever?.....You be the judge.... We are COMMANDED to call Him by His NAME.....IN THE BIBLE!.........

Malachi 1:11: "For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Hosts."

Now we could worship Him in Name as "Eternal, Endless, Everlasting" in English but we don't call Giuseppi Verdi "Joe Green" so why call YHWH by a translated Name? Ironically...the same applies to Jesus. Why do we call Him by His Greek translated Name? ( Hmmmm....anti-Semitism have anything to do with it? I wonder.) Maybe He would really appreciate us calling Him Yahshua. As I said earlier...He would not love us any less if we still call Him Jesus...that is a translation of His Name but God or Allah is NOT a translation of YHWH's Name. BIG DEFFERENCE. Why? THERE IS POWER IN THE NAME..that's why!
Consider the following too.......

Exodus 3:15: "God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations."

"YHWH is God and YHWH is His Name" and I suspect He means what He says in the above Scriptures.

Maybe Shakespeare is right when it comes to "Roses" BUT I suspect when it comes to CREATION.....He should be LOVED enough to call Him by His Name...YHWH. BUT.....God is generic for Deity...the Creator....a VERY impersonal "CREATIVE Force" that was revealed to be the complete OPPOSITE when He Incarnated as Yahshua. Should we therefore not call Him by His Holy Name YHWH?


Of course...IF the Holy Bible is NOT the inerrant Word of YHWH..then YHWH is NOT His Name. The INCARNATION, DEATH, BURIAL, and RESURRECTION of Yahshua is all a nice story but obviously an illusion. In fact....if the Bible is just a bunch of story's then.....GOD is purely and invention of man. Is that what "atheism" is? The Law of Free Will can sure be "hell" for some.

Hey...if when we are dead we are DEAD...who cares....."ya pays ur money and ya takes ur choice" ....forget about the Bible and go with the illusion of karma and law of attraction. We who believe in YHWH understand that karma and the law of attraction are really rebellion against HIM! There is an "old" saying that says.....It is better to believe in the God of the Holy Bible..YHWH...and die and be DEAD than to reject YHWH and His Incarnation Yahshua and die and find out that your life is ETERNAL and be held accountable to the ULTIMATE KARMA....John 14:6.

It all comes down to.... "do we believe what the Bible says about life and the judgement" or do we embrace the New Age belief (which is really ancient belief in new "threads!") that we ourselves determine our own destiny as in the illusion of the law of attraction and re-incarnation until we "get it right." and there is no such thing as satan and hell. The Bible sure says a lot about satan and hell and it also says ......

Hebrews 9:27: "Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,"

Judgement to what? Re-incarnation is judgement? What's with this Men die once stuff? (OK Sadaam...let's get it right this time and not get yourself hanged again because you screwed up big time this last time?) If there is no separation form YHWH in an ETERNAL place called hell that was made for satan and his followers, and because they don't exist and hell doesn't exist and therefore we keep coming back until we are "right" with YHWH God....what's with this judgement jazz? (HELL was NEVER meant for men...the Bible says it was for satan and his minions) The simple TRUTH is.... Man and his EGO wants his "cake and eat it too." New Age is an ILLUSION for those in rebellion against YHWH God. This Law of Attraction stuff sure is seductive but if you buy into it as TRUTH you deny the Vicarious Death of Yahshua.... Jesus Christ. (I may be wrong...but I suspect that the "unpardonable sin" that Yahshua warns about is rejection of Him. Hmmmmm?"

Now...there are 2 ways to look at this Ancient Anthology called the Holy Bible.....one is that it is a collection of stories about God and the history of His relation with man and is therefore a religious book about Spiritual things and therefore the religious say it is the WORD of God. Because String Theory has revealed that Spirit and Physical are the same ..... the other way to view the Bible, and I believe the correct way, is that it is a history of man and his journey to restore his fellowship with YHWH and His Kingdom AND it is 100% the inerrant WORD of YHWH GOD. There are 2 views of just what is the nature of YHWH's Kingdom. Many say it is a Spiritual Kingdom in our hearts. THEY are correct but it IS for the individual preparing for the real Kingdom which is about to come and SOONER than we think. The World will NEVER have peace until the Prince of Peace..Yahshua returns to Govern His Father's Kingdom on Earth FROM JERUSALEM, ISRAEL......NOT Rome, Not Salt Lake City Not Mecca Not no where else. (Some teach that after we are all converted to this higher realm of Jesus.....then He will come as King of King and Lord of Lords. Why bother coming then?....we won't need Him! That belief is called Preterism and it is an abomination! If we really believe the Bible to be the Word of God...it says He comes to put a stop to all who are destroying eachother and the World and to JUDGE the living and the dead.....not very popular with the New Agers!)

Man was given the Gift of the Scientific Method by His Father YHWH and I believe the 4 most important discoveries as a result of this Gift are..... 2 made over a 100 years ago, 1 made over 50 years ago and 1 made in the last 10 years that revealed the TRUTH about YHWH's Kingdom. 4 great Scientists were the instruments of YHWH that revealed these TRUTHS AND we ignore them...why?...ONE WORD.....RELIGION! These Science Prophets were......Sir Ernest Rutherford who revealed that matter is 99.99% "empty" space in his "gold leaf experiment" (lead to Quantum Mechanics).....Dr. Louis Pasteur who revealed the Law of Biogenesis in his "S" shaped flask experiment. (revealed that Life ALWAYS was and always will be) Dr. Albert Einstein who revealed that "time" is not a constant but is a manifestation of motion and space in his Law of Relativity and finally..Dr. Michio Kaku (and colleagues) a pioneer of String Theory demonstrating that EXISTENCE is entirely composed of tiny vibrating Strings differing in frequency and vibrational pattern and all the combinations there of. BECAUSE of the TRUTHS revealed through this Gift of Science......The Kingdom of YHWH God is a REALITY of ALL of HIS CREATION including those CREATED in His IMAGE that our members of a COSMIC Family called the "Intergalactic Federation of Star Nations." Yes folks...you heard me right....the Star Visitors are our brothers and sisters in the COSMOS...they are FAMILY! AH...but what about the cow mutilations and the alien abductions where people have been experimented on? That doesn't sound like family to me. AH...forgot the Law of Free Will did ya? Gene Roddenberry was a prophet in that his Star Trek Universe had a Prime Directive....DO NOT INTERFERE! FREE WILL is for ALL of CREATION not just man. Then aren't these SV's evil? Some are...the renegades lead by Lucifer-satan who were exiled from the Federation...the fallen angels of the Bible..DEMONS. It is my belief that the "elite" of the planet...the EGO driven "cabal" have made treaty's with these "renegades." (MOST POLITICIANS) They will war against Yahshua and His Hosts at His "Second Coming" The Hosts are Angleic Beings (SV's) and the Dead in Christ who have RISEN and will Reign with Yahshua on Earth. ("The Meek shall inherit the Earth" ...Sermon on the Mount and The World will NEVER end...Isaiah. As President Ronald Regan said when asked about the "enemy"...."Simple.....we win...they loose." The SV's that are our Family will be united with us in YHWH's Federation VERY soon because as String Theory demonstrates that time is an illusion perceived ONLY bt mortals like man, Biblical Prophecy is NOT about what will be..it is about what IS! Time is irrelavant in the Kingdom of God.

I thank my friend for offering the following Scriptures that he used to prove whatever point he was trying to prove.....some irrelavant religious point of view...NOT reality. HOWEVER.... those Scriptures certainly supports the Federation and I do indeed THANK him!.......

"This is not religion folks...this is REALITY. ".........

Job 19:25: But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. 19:26: After my skin is destroyed, Then in my flesh shall I see God.

Revelation 19:10: I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look! Don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. (An Angel...SV) Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy." (The Intergalactic Federation of Star Nations.)

Praise YHWH!

Pax....David..."The Doubting Thomas"Check out my BLOG.....http://thedoubtingthomasjourney.blogspot.com/

PS: For all who read this and think me a "fruit cake" I have no problem with that and in fact I don't blame you...BUT..I sure am in good company with the likes of Galileo, Columbus etc.....they were called "crazy" too! (10 years ago an Irish Physicist at MIT (Dr. Bell?) demonstrated what Einstein predicted and called "an all too SPOOKY phemomena"....Quantum Entanglement. The Irish Physicist still can't believe he's not crazy!

Sunday, February 11, 2007

"A Road Map to Peace that might Work?" NOT

I am proposing a new peace plan for Palestine and Israel....they get Jerusalem and the Jews get Mecca..fair trade I'd say! (havn't run it by YHWH yet.....hope He has a sense of humor!)

To my clueless friends..this is satire......DT

Thursday, February 08, 2007

"Hypocrisy in a Joke"

Sometimes jokes have more wisdom than the Dali Lama! (and not sure he has very much) But this little quip has a lot to say about hypocrisy......DT



THE PREACHER'S SON

An old southern country preacher had a teenage son, and it
was getting time the boy should give some thought to choosing
a profession. Like many young men, the boy didn't really know
what he wanted to do, and he didn't seem too concerned about it.

One day, while the boy was away at school, his father
decided to try an experiment. He went into the boy's
room and placed on his study table four objects:
- a Bible,
- a silver dollar,
- a bottle of whisky and
- a Playboy magazine

I'll just hide behind the door", the old preacher said to himself",
and when he comes home from school this afternoon, I'll see which
object he picks up. If it's the Bible, he's going to be a preacher
like me, and what a blessing that would be! If he picks up the
dollar, he's going to be a businessman, and that would be okay,
too. But if he picks up the bottle, he's going to be a no-good
drunkard, and, Lord, what a shame that would be. And worst of all,
if he picks up that magazine he's gonna be a skirt-chasin' bum."

The old man waited anxiously, and soon heard his son's footsteps as he
entered the house whistling and headed for his room. The boy tossed
his books on the bed, and as he turned to leave the room he spotted the
objects on the table. With curiosity in his eye, he walked over to inspect
them. finally, he picked up the Bible and placed it under his arm. He
picked up the silver dollar and dropped it into his pocket. He uncorked
the bottle and took a big drink while he admired this month's Centerfold.

"Lord have mercy", the old preacher disgustedly whispered,
"he's gonna be a Congressman!"
---

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

"RE-INVENTING THE WHEEL"

Every generation has its' own philosophers, mystics, sages etc. Essentially, they all re-hash what came before. Nothing really "new" or "Earth shattering" has ever occured...save the INCARNATION. Maybe some of the "old" guys really did have the elusive Gift of Wisdom and it might be prudent for us to heed their messages. The following quotation is so familiar yet is PROFOUND and it behooves us all to ponder the message.....Pax....Doubting Thomas....


This is a quotation from John Donne (1572-1631). It appears in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII:
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

"APATHY LIVES BUT WHO CARES"

There all kinds of things we can choose to do that HURT ourselves and others, HOWEVER......THE WORST THING you can do is NOTHING! History indeed repeats itself and will continue until the hearts of men are changed and the ONLY source of that change is recorded in John 14:6 and the Prophecy of Revelation in the Bible.
Heed the message or settle back in comfortable Apathy as we did during the RISE of the 3rd Reich and be part of the RISE of the 4th Reich which WILL come if apathy lives!


Click on the title for a bone chilling glimpse of REALITY......Doubting Thomas