Tag: God
Big questions – Big answers
God knows there are some big questions that need answering, and he is going to answer them. Of course, I don’t know all the questions, but I do know some of them. God even shared some answers with me over the years. What I feel when I think about those answers is that God is good! God is amazing!
Answers to the following questions are coming. One is coming in the Playback. One will come later than that. One will come in my next post.
Here are just a few questions that God is going to answer:.
- 1.) How can we be certain that God is the supreme, most high being? How can we (or even God) be sure that there is none greater?
- 2.) How can we be certain that we (including God) are not the anatomy or part of the anatomy of a larger being? For example, how can we be sure that we and the universe around us are not the central nervous system of some greater being?
- 3.) What is the origin of God?
In my next post, I will be sharing what God taught me about the answer to that first question. I don’t believe that what God taught me is the complete answer, but it is a significant part of it.
If you are interested in trying to figure out in advance what that answer might be, perhaps consider this: If you owned a business and wanted to show others that you are the supreme, most high authority of it, but you could not show documentation to prove it, how would you do it?
The second question is likely going to be answered after the Playback has completed. I don’t know all that God has to offer us on this topic, but I do know that there are at least two people who have hugely significant parts of this answer.
As for the third question, the answer will be in the Playback. Please do not be afraid of the answer. Years ago, I was very frightened of this one. I worried that if I were to ever learn this answer, I would find that it was something weird, bad, or not worthy of God. I assure you, it is not any of those things. The answer is beautiful, perfect, and profoundly spiritual. God wants to share this and much more with all of us. God wants us to know him very well.
God bless you all!
Zee & Zim — G. & Jim
Many years ago, my dad wrote a book. I don’t know its title, and I’m pretty sure it hasn’t been published (not yet anyhow). I haven’t read it (yet!). However, I do know that it is the story of a pair of characters named Zee and Zim. Throughout the book, Zee regales Zim with many, many stories. And finally, later in the book, when Zee has finished with the stories, Zim sets out to share the stories with other people.
I find the names of the characters interesting. First off, “Jim”, which is phonetically similar to “Zim” is a pretty common nickname for a person named “James”. I also find the names of the characters interesting because, back in 2011, when I was a new believer (in God), I often referred to God by the nickname “G.”, which bears phonetic similarity to “Zee”. I don’t call him that anymore, but those of you that listen in on the Playback later will hear that I did refer to him as such quite a bit for about 3–6 months (in my best estimate). Side note: I was doing this long before I ever became aware of the social trend of people calling each other “G.” as an abbreviated term for “Gangster”.
I also find the plot of the Zee and Zim story interesting because this is what God did with me. He spent several years sharing many stories with me and fragments of many others. At this point, I’m just barely getting started talking a little about those stories, but I fully expect that soon I will become very occupied and stay so for years to come, sharing those stories and story fragments.
This is all I have on this topic for now. Hopefully, I will have the opportunity to read the book soon! I have no idea yet if there may be additional interesting content within the story.
God bless everyone!
Recently read books…
- Star Trek: Enterprise – The Expanse, by J.M. Dillard
- Star Trek: Enterprise – Daedalus, by Dave Stern
Currently reading…
- Star Wars: The Old Republic – Annihilation, by Drew Karpyshyn
God is good!
God is not a mathematician.
God is not an engineer.
God is not a scientist.
God is the Creator.
God creates without tools and without design.
God is good!
The Fan
I know some of you are looking for evidence of God’s existence. With so much oddity going on all around us right now, I imagine it is easy to overlook considering the past as well.
I recommend searching your past experiences as well as your current experiences. You may find that some old memories will now make more sense if while you reconsider them, you also think about whether or not God may have played a direct role in those experiences.
I have a few stories of my own that would be very on-topic for this and I would love to share them with you now, but without you first knowing more about my unique circumstances, the stories wouldn’t make much sense. So what I’m going to do is share the story of an experience someone else had a long time ago.
I think he will recognize the story, but just in case he would otherwise wonder if I could be talking about someone else, I’ll say this about him to help. His first name starts with “K” and many years ago, he would often sit on a big rock next to a major thoroughfare near his family’s home, just watching the traffic pass by.
It happened when he was young; middle school or high school age. He was lying in bed trying to sleep when he had a seemingly random thought about an electric fan in his bedroom. It had been running day and night, nonstop for years and he thought to himself, “someday, that fan is going to stop”. A moment later, that fan, which had been running for years, stopped. At the time, it seemed to be an almost-too-amazing coincidence, but he attributed it to just being mere chance and continued to do so for many years to come.
I don’t know how he feels about that event these days, but I can’t help but think that if he is still attributing it to mere chance, that he may feel differently about it upon reconsideration if in addition to whatever he thought about it previously, he also considers whether or not God may have been giving him something to reflect back upon later.
As I write this, I find myself wondering; could there possibly be such an abundance of stories like this out there, that it would be impossible to attribute them as being stories about events of mere chance if we knew how many there are? I don’t know. I want to know though! And I will share mine later when they will make sense.
God bless you!
Not Self-Tricking!
Today, I would like to share some about my journey from agnosticism to eventual belief in God. I tend to think of myself as having had some pretty extreme agnostic views before I came to believe in God.
First off, for anyone who doesn’t know, to be agnostic is to neither believe in God, nor disbelieve in God.
I was agnostic from late 2006 to mid 2011. During that time, I believed that only God could convince me of his existence, but that he would never do that. I believed that if God ever did reveal himself to anyone, it was in the distant past and is not something he does anymore. I thought God’s expectation (if he were real) was that we believe in him without any solid evidence. I felt this to be entirely unfair and not something I could possibly do, even if I wanted to.
Furthermore, I thought that everyone who believed in God was “self-tricking”; that they were in fact believing in God without sufficient evidence. I’m not saying that I thought they were incorrect about the existence of God. I was, after all agnostic, not atheist (Atheist is to disbelieve in God). I just thought that they were somehow believing in God without any real evidence because they wanted to.
Anyhow, self-tricking is not what I’m doing. God made sure that I absolutely know that he is real and he is good.
In 2008, God began to reveal himself to me with great intention. God proceeded very slowly though and I didn’t even become suspicious that God might be revealing himself to me until early 2011. Once I became suspicious, I went on to waffle back and forth time and time again between agnosticism and belief for about six months. I spent the entirety of nearly every day during that time period cooped up in my house alone (or so I thought anyway. I didn’t know about David or Peace-Guys yet), trying, trying, trying to determine once-and-for-all the truth of the existence or non-existence of God.
During those six months, I cried out to God on many occasions, begging and pleading that he please be quick and please be clear with me if he were in fact revealing himself. Still God moved slowly.
Those six months were the most difficult of my life. I was in agony. I was suffering. My hours, days, weeks, months were wrought with intense emotional pain. I needed the pieces to fit together. I needed to know the truth. My need to know the truth grew and grew until It reached a fever pitch, and still God continued to move slowly.
Something I didn’t yet have was even an inkling of understanding about God’s unfathomably great wisdom. It seemed that God was taking a painfully long time to do something that he could just as easily and effectively do in an instant. It seemed as if God were torturing me without any good reason.
Of course, God wasn’t torturing me. What he was doing, was laying a very strong foundation to build upon later. Beginning all the way back in 2006, without me even knowing he was doing it, God was teaching me volumes about himself and a multitude of other spiritual topics.
As God continued laying that strong foundation, the evidence grew from a tiny molehill into a giant mountain and eventually there was enough that I came to know the truth: God is real and God is good.
Years later, I know that I am blessed that God revealed himself in the way he wanted to instead of how I wanted him to do it. It has yielded tremendous benefit for me. I’m not yet detailing the exact events of those six months, but I will later (it may be in the playback too).
God bless you all!
Sharing some of my beliefs
There is something I’d like to share about my own spiritual belief, but I’d like to preface it, so that hopefully people can see why this choice to share is not an easy one for me. I want to be sensitive to others’ beliefs and I do not want to impose my own beliefs. If I knew with certainty whether or not the suggestion of the Holy Trinity is new to you, perhaps it would be easier for me to know if sharing my personal belief is a good idea or not.
I have never seen or visited the world you’ve all come from. I know very little about it and your experiences there. I do not know if you’ve ever even heard of the Holy Trinity prior to coming here. I suspect you have not, although I have no way of being certain.
Here is what I want to share. My belief in God is strictly monotheistic. I believe in God, and I believe in Jesus, but I do not believe Jesus is God. I know Jesus to be the one and only begotten Son of God. Jesus is Christ.
I believe I know why God is teaching us about the Holy Trinity. I believe God has a story to share with us. It is a story which is very personal and emotional for God. It is a story of how things would have been in a different circumstance.
God has shared some of the story with me and I think there are others who know different parts of the story. I am hopeful and optimistic that they and I will eventually be able to work together to assemble the pieces and share what we discover.
God bless you, everyone.
Green Heart.
Big questions – Big answers – 2
December 13, 2023, 5:00 pm
Sidewalk
Santi
Years ago, when I was agnostic, I assumed that if God were real, then of course there is not anyone or anything higher. I suspect most others have had a similar experience. However, I know that there are some people who have thought much, much more deeply than most into many topics relating to God, and they need answers with evidence to questions most of us have never even imagined. Those answers, with evidence, are coming!
Again, I do not believe what God taught me on this topic is his complete answer to this question. I’m sure there will be much more on this topic later.
Putting it as concisely as I’m able, here it is. God has done many things that would force an equal or greater being (if there were any) to intervene and reveal themselves. In many of those situations, they would have to intervene even if they knew exactly what God was doing and why he was doing it.
I am going to use the business owner analogy again, as it makes it easier for me to write about this.
If you were a business owner with need to demonstrate that you are the supreme authority of the business, you might try doing a very, very bad job of setting up and running that business—such a bad job that if there were some higher authority, they would definitely have to intervene.
You could demonstrate it in a way that might appear to be laziness or disinterest by not doing any work at all for a very, very long time. For example, before the business is even set up and ready to run, during a time when a higher authority (if there were one) would expect you to be very proactive and busy, you could spend your time doing nothing or doing things that are very contrary to what a higher authority (if there were one) would want. If there were any higher authority that wanted the business up and running, they would have to intervene.
In the past, after I became a believer, but before I knew God as well as I do now, I would often get a big creepy feeling when considering subjects such as this one. I remember how unpleasant that was, so I will share this truth now for the benefit of those who may be feeling such after reading this article. God is the supreme and most high authority over all. God is sovereign. There is not anyone or anything equal to or greater than God. God is good! God is great! There is no other like God. I know this absolutely!
God bless everyone!
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