On Sep 23, 6:06 pm, "Lady Azure, Baroness of the North Pole"
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faggotfuck...@budweiser.com> wrote:
> A TRILOGY ON METAPHYSICS AND THE HUMAN SOUL
> (Dedicated to the Honor and the Glory of God)
There is no metaphysics, no god, no soul....they are the terms of
religious dogma to fool the fools.
Are you one of them?
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> A SHORT TREATISE ON THE REALITY OF GOD
> God is the ultimate reality. He has spun the universes into
> existence and has created all other beings. As humans, we too had our
> beginning from God. Like Plato and Socrates, I believe that we pre-
> existed in a spiritual realm prior to being born into this world.
> Unfortunately the church fathers, with the exceptions of Origen and
> Augustine, rejected this view as an overreaction to the heresies of
> gnosticism and neoplatonism that threatened to subvert the Gospel. How
> do I know of this pre-existence? I have very faint memories of a
> spiritual existence before being born into this world. My children
> spoke of this of this existence when they were small. I have heard of
> other 2-4 year old children being able to talk of their own pre-
> existence in the spiritual realm prior to their earthly birth, when
> carefully questioned about it. One couple I know of had three boys who
> each spoke of having been with God and the angels prior to birth
> without any prompting from their parents when they were small.
> Evidently as people age and develop, these memories are overlaid with
> countless earthly memories and are largely forgotten. This pre-
> existence is at the purely spiritual level. The soul is not created
> until physical conception.
> One may ask why are we here and forced to leave that spiritual
> realm. I believe that the answer lies in the fall of Lucifer from
> Heaven along with a third of the angels. It is my own belief that
> human spirits were originally intended to be part of Lucifer's cadre
> in the spiritual realm. Once Lucifer fell, there was no further need
> for our existence in the spiritual realm, since we had been created to
> serve Lucifer in carrying out his heavenly responsibilities. Lucifer's
> disobedience led to our own eventual banishment from Heaven, even
> though we were not involved in his revolt against God. God in His
> infinite mercy has brought us to this world to perfect our redemption.
> He is bound by His own spiritual laws in the eternal realm, but at the
> temporal level, He can rewrite our destiny through His plan for our
> redemption. Had not Adam and Eve disobeyed God, this plan would have
> been much simpler and salvation would have been universal for all
> mankind. When that couple listened to Lucifer rather than obey God,
> suddenly salvation became much more difficult. Man had chosen sides
> and was no longer just an innocent bystander thus bringing
> condemnation on all mankind who was to be born on earth from that time
> forward.
> Man himself had sinned against God and lost his opportunity for an
> easier salvation. To put it in the vernacular, man really blew it. Now
> man's disobedience had to dealt with in a manner satisfying God,
> fulfilling the new parameters now required for our salvation and
> permit our return to the spiritual realm (Heaven) after leaving this
> earthly sojourn. Christ, the second person of the Godhead, came to
> earth in the form of a man to die a sacrificial death for our
> redemption so that by believing in Him and on His death, we can be
> redeemed and made new spiritual beings fit for His kingdom. Through
> Christ, the Holy Spirit creates us anew and we are reshaped into His
> image, no longer designed to follow after Lucifer and his entourage.
> Praise be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit for their gift of
> salvation through the Son's loving sacrifice of Himself on the cross,
> the Father's willingness to send Him and the Spirit's perseverance in
> causing us to believe.
> Some have a difficult time grasping the concept of the Trinity. The
> Trinity is the three distinct, separate, yet simultaneously occurring
> dynamic states in which God exists and through which He expresses
> Himself. It may be easier to understand the Trinity by the functions
> they perform. The Father is the Creator of His creation. The Son
> controls the interface relationship between the Creator and His
> creation. The Holy Spirit permeates the creation carrying out the will
> of the Father and the Son.
> Others may ask how does God create worlds and universes, i.e. this
> temporal existence. I believe the new physics gives us an insight into
> God's methods. The big bang which began our universe was caused by a
> large quantum fluctuation. These fluctuations are believed by some
> cosmologists to be power spikes in a tremendous quantum field of
> incredible intensity. Since there are undoubtedly many of these power
> spikes, and at the top of each powerful enough spike is a created
> universe, there are probably many overlapping sister universes to our
> universe in existence at this very moment. They are separated from
> each other only by the different quantum time value that each universe
> possesses. Thus we can not see or sense them nor can they see or sense
> us. You may ask how does God fit into the overall scheme of these
> things. I truly believe that the energy that creates and drives this
> quantum field issues forth from the mind of God even as He speaks the
> Word. All quantum phenomena is created by God. The physical is the
> result of an outpouring of the spiritual, though not in a
> pantheistic way. The beauty of God and His methods is that while we
> may seem far removed from where God is, He is only a prayer away. He
> loves us and cares for us, who believe on His dear Son, and longs that
> all mankind will come to a saving faith in His beloved Son; but God
> wants our love freely given and not given through coercion. He gives
> us His Holy Spirit to guide us and lead us into paths of righteousness
> for His namesake. All that is required of us is simple faith in our
> living Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
> I look forward to the day that I return to the spiritual realm from
> which we have come and can worship, adore, praise and glorify Him
> forever. Our Lord made a way back where there was no way, so that we
> may dwell with Him and enjoy Him forever. Praise be to God that He has
> not left us nor forsaken us, but through His death established His
> plan for our salvation when we come to believe on His shed blood.
> Hallelujah, God is truly great and greatly to be worshiped in spirit
> and truth.
> In awe of the Living God
> Richard E. Franing
>
> AN INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS ONE
> I've decided to take a shot at this one, so you folks need to get
> the stake ready along with the rope, wood and matches because I'm
> about to reveal my pet theory concerning the first chapter of Genesis.
> In second Peter 3:8, we find the following in the RSV version: "But do
> not ignore this fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a
> thousand years and a thousand years is as one day." This is a way of
> saying that God is the creator and ruler of time as well as every
> thing else in this universe and beyond. So even a million or a billion
> years can be as one day or one nanosecond to Him as He chooses it to
> be, since He is beyond time. With that in mind, lets move into
> Genesis. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. I
> think that this represents the start of our universe. The heavens
> representing space and the earth representing matter.The Earth without
> form and void and the Spirit of God hovered above the waters. The
> matter had not coalesced together sufficiently to form large physical
> bodies in space, but had coalesced enough that internal heat within
> the matter was driving off water vapor that may have condensed on the
> surface of that matter. Then God said let there be light. This was
> beginning of nuclear fusion in our universe, along with planet
> building. Where the light hit these protoplanets, there was day and on
> the backside of these bodies was night just as God had commanded.
> Obviously it took billions of our years for our universe to reach this
> stage, but to God that is little more than a blink of the eye. God
> called this time the first day. The morning and the evening being
> whatever time that God wishes it to be or when He wishes it to be. I
> think it highly unlikely He is saying an earthday at this point
> because our solar system had not been created yet, that did not occur
> until the fourth day. On the second day God separated the waters into
> the seas and the sky. Evidently certain planets in scattered solar
> systems had cooled enough for their atmospheres to start clearing
> instead of one big shroud of clouds enveloping these planets from
> their surfaces. During this day God formed the land surfaces upon
> these planets. Again in God's time there could have been another blink
> of His spiritual eyes. Evening could be when He closes His eyes and
> the morning when He opens them again. So ended the second day. (I can
> see that you folks have erected the stake and gathered the firewood.
> You're having a cookout! Right?). On the third day, God brought forth
> vegetation. There have probably been many planets within our universe
> in times past and yet today that have some forms of life upon them.
> This is God's universe, along with any others, and He can do with them
> whatever He so desires. Who are we to limit Him to only caring about
> what happens on our dinky little planet, as important as it is to us?
> Don't get me wrong, God does care about us and this Earth, but We are
> not His only responsibility. Again God blinks His eyes and another day
> is over in His book, even though more millions of earth type years may
> have elapsed.