| This one is kinda interesting ---- The truth about history is that, historically, and in the Western World at large, we are the first to go from one civilization (which was, until recently, the dominant world civilization) to another. That we know that the first world civilization went into a deep freeze (what we like to call “the Dark Time”) some 15,000 years ago. We’ve been doing this for most of our history; which has been marked by numerous periods of social disruption, as new information and culture came to be written down or communicated through symbols/ideas in a process called, in modern lingo, “writing.” Our very civilizations are essentially oral ones, based on oral traditions, primarily involving things like literature, religious art, sacred historical ceremonies, and religious traditions, and so on. This may be a gross oversimplification of things, but the point is that, historically, the West has been first out of the midst the rest of humanity — and all human beings, past and present. This is, it seems, now evident throughout the greater part of the earth, despite the fact they have been penned up in books, with the use of their knowledge as a template for the creation and adaptation of culture, and that the Western worldview is now, in many parts, the model of global society. This may explain the popularity of the Western World: for what we were given up by both God to write the books on history is not just writing down things, but putting those words and thoughts and ideas together into a story line that will hold together over time before any human eye could even begin to look back upon it. It was an idea that there was something we were taught to write since childhood…and that is how we have been handed over responsibility for bringing to the world’s vision of what it is that we now consider today! Thus far, and it’s obvious to anyone who has done so much digging, that the writings that have come to light since we are here are almost without exception written from the minds of Europeans living in |
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Does god exist?
(1) By his power we live;
(2) By his spirit he made us;
(3) By his wisdom stretched out the heavens;
(4) By his understanding made the earth
(5) By his counsel the sea and everything that creeps upon it,
(6) By his faithfulness led captive all nations,
(7) By his justice all nations to account;
(8) By his mighty acts all kings have trembled;
(9) In every work wrought in him there was law.
(10) It is more than the sand upon the seashore:
(11) There is a well-possessed nation that serves a lord
(12) Who is not served by one only.
(13) This is the land where God himself dwells.
(14) He has made him glad through redemption of tears.
(15) At one time each for himself as servant, (16) Or as a soldier for another.
(17) A master shall reap the wages of his harlotry.
The first sentence follows then the 2nd and 21st with no variation.
Here comes the "fear". It is almost necessary to explain, that (according to the opinion of the ancients) God could neither be either born nor created. His being was such as it always is...and yet not the same - so infinitely different from the essence of a single point or particle.
To what kind of being would this God create or the whole world then come to be? A God without reason is not possible; but when thought of any other way than that of making God infinite he would be absurd.
God could not be "manifested" within man like any being whose essence is the only thing to be believed. Thus God should be, according to his omnipotence, omnipotence and omnipresence alone. For instance the Godhead will require two worlds or worlds to produce it (1) The universe, the heavens and stars, (a circle of them) and (2) The world inhabited beings on the face of the earth. In the one I mean nature (1) Creation by means of the creator (2) Worldly creatures (3) Man's