Precision from Chaos?

How often does the average person think about life and all the

wonder it offers? It is decisively low. In the information age, we

have evolved into the modern era with civility and capitalism. We

are so engaged in our day-to-day lives that we never put much

thought into the more profound and meaningful aspects of our

existence.

 

Why are we here? Who are we? What is our Purpose? Does a Creator or

 

God exist? 

 

 

Is this all just one crazy, cosmic coincidence?

 

No one can tell you with scientific certainty-or by virtue of
empirical evidence.  What we do know, is that we have failed to
re-create a living organism when only non-animated material exists.

It would truly be something if chaos is the father of creation. It
would damage morality and our sense of right and wrong is innate
only to our species. If chance is the creator, then you would think
we would not be alone with that ability and left to our own vices.


I hear how some people cling to the first chapter in Genesis. We are a spec amidst a vast universe that is billions of years old, yet Moses wrote that God did all it all in a week some 4-5,000 years ago.

Accordingly, around the world there is record of a great flood that occurred circa 2300 BC.

I am not about to challenge anyone on the real age of our universe.

I simply refer them to the fact that God reconciles time in a much different way than humans. Peter writes that "1,000 years could be but a day for God."

 

An inexplicable "big bang" occurs billions of years ago and somehow

this is what chaos led too? Does that not conflict with the simple

elegance embedded within the physical laws?  

 

Precision from Chaos?

 

 

That seems pretty hard to conceive. It is also beyond our

comprehension to understand a being known as the Alpha and the

Omega, or the beginning and the end, of which, He is neither. He

never had a beginning and He will never end.

 

Ask a scientist to define energy. He will tell you that energy is

eternal. It has always been around and it will always be. It may change forms, but it is every where at the same time. It is what everything that we know in the material world breaks down to on the

quantum level.

NOW...

 

Ask a member of clergy to describe God. He too, is omnipotent, and everywhere at all times. He is in us and around us. He never had a beginning and will never have an end.

 

When Moses asked for his name, he was told by a burning bush that "I am who I am [who I need to be]. In Hebrew, God's name is a collection of four symbols that translate to Yahweh. In English, his name is pronounced, Jehovah. (see Psalms 83:18 in almost every translation)

 

One of the commandments is not to use God's name in vain. A group of transcriptionists charged with the task of rewriting the scriptures elected to remove the holy name in favor of LORD of GOD.

 

 

Of course, if he has a name, Jehovah, then that is contradictory that Jesus was God-incarnate. The different names serves to separate them as independent individuals.

 

Jesus often referred to the Father. "He is greater than I," and "Even the Son of Man does not know the day, but only the Father."

 

Jesus is called a god. He was the first life-form God created and was involved in the process from then on...so, unlike Jehovah, Jesus did have a beginning.

 

 

I am not out to cause contention. I have read every passage in the bible but I am not a religious person. It was an educational goal to know the book from which Western civilization was founded.

 

 

Three hundred and some years after Jesus was killed was it decided that a trilogy exists. A trilogy is common to many religions and was founded, like most of today's religions, in Babylon.

 

By choosing to adopt that as fact, it elevated Mary to a new station as the mother of God. Despite the fact that she is hardly mentioned at all, and that Jesus did not admonish his followers a single instance to revere the holy mother as such. She was a good woman, and beyond the fact that Joseph was a good man, they are barely supporting cast in the Gospel accounts.

 

I also have wondered a lot about why only certain scriptures are important. For instance, as the Apostle Paul wrote, "...Adulterers, Fornicators, men who lie with men...will not enter God's kingdom."

 

Yet religious fanatics are fixated on the part about homosexuality when the same consequences apply to them if they are having sex outside of marriage.

 

The Lord's prayer is a fickle thing. It was the model of how to pray that Jesus shared with the crowd. However, moments before he said those famous words, "...Hallowed be thy Name...Earth as it is in Heaven" he quite clearly says that we should not hope to be heard by our use of many words, or not to sound the trumpets ahead of you in a spectacle to draw attention to your holiness...surely I say to you, they are receiving their reward in full."  He continues, "But do not be saying the same words over like the hypocrites, but speak from your heart..."

 

This leads him to model a prayer for us so that we know what to include, not what to recite. A memorized script has no meaning.

 

Jesus began his ministry after John the Baptist baptized him. It took only three years for the historical figure, Jesus, to change the world and be the founder of Christianity.

 

I don't really care if you believe the bible, or have any interest in religion. I have no ties with organized religion, but I know what the bible says and what it does not.

 

I always wondered who invented the Rapture. There is not a word about any such thing that I read in the scriptures.

 

It seems to me, that in Revelations, John is calling organized religion "Babylon the Great." The belief is that only one true religion exists and I have read how to recognize them.

 

In the Bible, it also warns against traditions becoming greater than his word. But, today, religion is all about rituals and traditions.

 

I took a course that was on the bible. It had little or nothing to do with the Holy Scriptures. Rather, I would have had to learn all about the Canonized Saints and books that were not canonized. The professor did not like me, because I put him on the spot with some very difficult questions.

 

I could feel his relief when I withdrew from the class.

 

This is a draft. Pardon syntax errors and spelling.

 

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