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Psychology and Theology

Psychology is a non- followers Theology! Psychology is a masquerade of Theology. Psychology points to the greater truth.

Secret Things

SECRET THINGS

 

 

Perhaps  you know someone  that has asked you the question, "What is your favourite Bible verse?" Most Christians have asked or been asked that question. This is impossible to answer for obvious reasons.  As we all have a number of favourites. However when we read about earlier Christians  we can begin to see what they quote often. 

In the case of  the Reformer John Calvin, here is one he quotes a lot.

It says, "The secret things belong to the LORD Our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law." 

( Deuteronomy 29:29 )

This verse is profound, because it remind us of a basic truth. This is a truth that we easily comprehend because we all know of events, people and things that God has not revealed to us.

 There are things about God and His work that we could not understand and many things that, in His wisdom, He has decided to keep from us.

Job, Old Testament saint, learned this lesson. He suffered in many terrible ways and even after God appeared to him, he did not learn why he had suffered. But Job himself says, "Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know"

 (Job 42:3). 

Job's encounter with God made him acutely aware that there were many things that he did not understand, many truths that were beyond his understanding 

In the New Testament, this truth is echoed, by the Apostle Paul

writing "For we know in part and we prophecy in part." Then he adds: "For now we look in a mirror dimly, but then we shall know face to face.  Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

 (1 Cor. 13:9, 12).

There are many things that God has chosen not to explain to us. God knows all and is sovereign in all. But our knowledge is partial. At least until we reach Heaven.Then as my Dear Wife once said, then,even then,we probably won't care.

There are secret things that belong to the Lord. But God, in His kindness, has given us a distillation  of His all sufficient Word.

My thanks to those titans of the faith who have gone before.

Playtime?

( Is it) Playtime ?

 

 

Each person in this world has a significant role to play. Some have greatness thrust upon them. Some are greater than others who desire to work good in this world. Some are evil whose lives contend with God and being. Their fate is deserved as their choice often dictates their outcome.

Most live journeys unlike their elders whose sacrifice almost guarantees their heavenly abode. Many fake their way through life bringing undone their honest selves into ruination. 

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

For ill or good. 

Care with Prayer!

Please pray for my Sister in Law's 🐕. 

May have suspected liver cancer?

Your caring prayer is welcome.

Trump the Titan.

Trump’s Speech & Pardon me ?

Perhaps the easiest understood element is the official mandatory acknowledgement of the two genders or sexes. Laugh out Loud common sense! Transgenderism and Critical race theory gone and terminated.

Also the pardons granted by outgoing President Biden of Anthony Fauci and General M.Milley. This move leads and would support the remarkable admission of widely known guilt of these two men in the Biden Administration.  Surprisingly the pre-emptive pardon of the Jan 6 committee and those who are connected with it.

The Titanic Crash

 

 

 

 The Titanic Crash:( Reworked )

 

If we asked a young university student, what do you think about the possibility of God existing?

 

They might reply, I am only a human being. Every person elsewhere is a human being like me because human beings are only more sophisticated animals. So we're all animals with a bigger brain, opposable thumbs, complex languages and drive to group and succeed together.

Some classic thinkers state that everybody and everything exists in God. That God is in everything, therefore everywhere.

 

Somebody?

 I am a somebody of everybody that exists. So I am that God. Therefore, everything has to go according to my standards and preferences. So essentially, I am that God and so are the other sophisticated animals with whom we negotiate our lives. I know two beautiful girls; they are in love with me and I am in love with them. One is enthusiastic about moving in with me to my house. She is attractive, willing, and able to do everything with me.

The other is attractive and is not willing nor able to move into my house. Why? Because she believes in waiting for Mr Right and has strange ethics and morals.

Now I am a God in my reality and if there is no real God out there, I will assume or take over that role. The first willing and able girl who enthusiastically believes what I believe can negotiate her position with me. Since there is no God,I will do whatever I want and am only accountable to me and her; even so that position is debatable.

Thinking  Almost Pervasive

This kind of thinking goes on in more people's minds than you or I might believe. This kind of thinking begins with the denial or affirmation of the existence of God. It conditions the two basic fundamental views of life which is the anthropocentric and the theocentric  behaviour. 

If Man is the ultimate measure of worth and that there is no God there is therefore no objective right or wrong, then murder, rape and stealing are personal choices. There is no ultimate right or wrong. Everything is determined by individual choice. If enough people think and act the same way, then a group of them can be a society unto themselves and then they can enact and enforce laws accordingly. By their chosen viewpoint.

God and no God are the ultimate two poles of societal division. A theistic or atheistic worldview is the ultimate division of humanity. Two views that exist with a vast gulf more expansive than the North and South poles. The world lies between these two  (and inevitably pushes up against each) pole. No theist can be a consistently believing person all the time because we are human beings with bias and prejudice built and developed in ourselves. We pick up bits and pieces of insight, syncretically adopt principles, fuse them into a whole worldview, and apply these odds and ends characteristically without too much thought to life. So, too, the atheist, who cannot live out the ideals of the atheistic world- view consistently for the same reason.

This is a fundamental dilemma of humankind.

 However it's not really either, but somewhere in the gulf between which exists and plays out in real life.

 

 Why?

There are countless variations within this gulf. So, there is much individual mutation or scope of life- principles within.  It is still basically only a clash of two world views. Every sub world -view is a spectrum of variation between the two most significant perspectives. Within atheistic beliefs, this can lead to pessimism, leads to misery, which brings meaninglessness and despair into the heart and life of the atheist.

We all decide which philosophy or system of thought we will follow, even when we don't call ourselves philosophers. 

God helps Christians( theists) live and reach people everywhere with the Good News of life. Similarly, the atheist, with human help only, spreads his view across the world.

 

 

Veracity?

It's very easy to use adverse circumstances to further one's political career against a political opponent

It's opportunism 

But

There isn't a person alive who isn't tempted to get some traction (with  rising momentum) in their narrative or in some event they desire!

Humans are not immune from following their desires when not mediated by their intellect, wise counsel and societal norms.

As decades go by societal convictions are being tossed aside by vapid preferences and flavour of the season with improper teaching at education institutions--primary, secondary and tertiary. 

Cause?

It's echoes of the prison of the so called sexual revolution of the 60s.

Of which I was a duped "member"

Willing yet unable to break free of the massiveness of deception happening globally at the time.

All three enemies of God were loose and present. 

The flesh,the world and the devil.

The earth is the global warzone!

Mysteriously God was working and preparing for the future outcomes of His Children. 

With a  little reasoning, yet a lot of love.

Opinion by Digital Anvil. 

Miracles

Miracles add colour to a black and white world which has gone dappled Gray.

( Quote: Digital Anvil)

Failing Well contributes to Our Success?

The metaphor for our age is the disappearance of high- monkey bars from playgrounds across the country. We have made it impossible for children to fall very far--and in doing so we have robbed them of the joy of climbing high.

As quoted in the preface of the book,The Upside of Down.

Why failing well is the key to success. By Megan Mcardle.