Love to the Seeker

You have to understand, to a seeker, religion is like walking into a crowded room with everybody shouting "come here or you will die!" at the top of their lungs. Merely to maintain sanity, they must dismiss all of these claims as lunacy. For otherwise, which shouting voice is telling the truth? To whom should they go to avoid death? I prefer to stand and smile and when approached say, "I have found bread; come and eat." For the seeker is hungry, and I indeed have found bread.

Three Earths

Three Earths could fit in that storm system!

The Thirst-Quenching Fire

Death to the machine;

The great mechanical dragon must die.

Much has been lost; much permanently;

Already.

Sacred things are gone.

The machine has a will to make us all alike.

We were born to be different, to be unique,

To be beautiful.

In your mind already,

There is a cynicism deep in your heart.

It devourers your joy, and through you others.

Kill it now.

Something was lost,

Already the frame of the world creaks,

In anticipation of something that is to come.

A thirst-quenching fire.

Deosynthesis

A plant is only a good plant as long as it is exposed to the light of the sun. In darkness, it whithers. This is photosynthesis. No matter how much water and nutrition it gets, without this ability to change this life giving light into sugars, the plant eventually dies.

A church is only a part of the body as long as it is exposed to the love of the son. In darkness, it whithers. This is deosynthesis. NO matter how many people and how much money it gets, without this ability to receive the potent love of God, the church eventually dies.

Hang on a Second

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/14/132031645/christian-s-death-verdict-spurs-holy-row-in-pakistan

I know. My first reaction was anger, too. But then I realized (or maybe God told me, I don't know) that they don't need our anger. They already have too much of their own. And, as followers of the way, our anger doesn't change anything; it is our love that really changes things. Religion doesn't change anything either. Pakistan is a clear example that religion makes a poor government. They don't need our religion, anyway. They don't need our doctrine, they need our savior. The Way is not a religion, it is a person. It is Jesus.

Don't get me wrong. Fighting is necessary. There are regimes of terror that need to be toppled, but they are regimes of terror against their own populations. They enslave them in doctrine and fear of hell.

Absence of Innocence

Innocence isn't absence of sin; sin is absence of innocence. Adam and Eve gave up their innocence at the tree in Eden. Christ gave up His precious life to restore to us this same innocence; the innocence of children.

"When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.'"

Mark 10:14

Evolution is Fact

Even secular evolution is neither random or unguided. That would be foolishness. Evolution is a process guided by a mechanism of selection acting against diversification. The question is not whether the process is random or not, but rather who is doing the selection. Naturalists say nature; theists say God. I personally fail to see the distinction; it would seem that from our perspective God's direction would appear as natural. Also, the controversy has nothing to do with this mechanism; it is pretty well empirically established. The question is whether you can establish a link from all current species to a previous common ancestor. This is where I differ from the naturalist as I believe you cannot. I believe God wrote all the kinds of creatures individually using the same design patterns and the same base sequence. God was a programmer. Seeing these patterns the naturalist claim phylogeny where, I believe, none exists. Common design means common origin, but not common original form.

Proverbs 3:5-6