Monthly Archives: September 2010

Sep 28

THE CREATION STORIES AND THE BIG BANG THEORY…

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There are many similarities between The Creation Stories and the scientific Big Bang Theory.

The Big Bang was an event which led to the formation of the universe, according to the prevailing cosmological theory of the universe’s early development (known as the Big Bang theory or Big Bang model). According to the Big Bang model, the universe, originally in an extremely hot and dense state that expanded rapidly, has since cooled by expanding to the present diluted state, and continues to expand today.  Click on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang

 Genesis 1: 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

 2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

 Notice that no time is mentioned.  The earth could have existed for billions of years as it cooled down,  was covered by water, and began to expand. They had no scientific knowledge. They told and handed down their stories in very simple language as it developed over thousands of years, even before writing was discovered.  Notice how the sequence of events in the creation story are logical.

 The rambling tribal gypsies (later called the Jews) began to orally gather their impressions about their tribal gods as they ran into other tribes who described their god or gods.  At times they were enslaved and forced to worship these new tribal gods.  In time they began to believe their tribal god was over all other tribal gods.  They kept adding to and/or changing their ideas about their god until they concluded that their God was the only god and they were his chosen people.  They accepted hundreds of rules, laws, blood sacrifices, etc. until they finally begin to listen to the prophets.  The prophet Micah reportedly stated that the
 
Lord only required three things of them:  
 
“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Mh 6:8)
 
THE ETERNAL ONE DOES NOT CHANGE, BUT HOPEFULLY OUR FAITH CHANGES AS WE COME TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THIS BEING THROUGH STUDY, SCIENCE, PRAYER AND MEDITATION.
 
Then comes this Jesus who is reported to be the Son of the ETERNAL ONE who by his life, words and actions in human form points us to the ETERNAL SPIRIT.  When asked why he had come he is reported to have said in John 10:10:
 
“The Thief comes to steal, kill and destroy; I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.”
 
Coming next time:
 
Near the end of his ministry on earth Jesus reportedly said that the he must leave but would send the Holy Spirit to comfort and lead us to a greater understanding of the kingdom of Heaven (God) and that we no longer had to look for the kingdom because it was already within us.
 
Also, St. Paul talked about dying daily so that the Holy Spirit could lead us daily.   Is that why Jesus stated earlier to take no thought for tomorrow, LIVE FULLY DAILY?
 
 
“The Bible tells you how to go to Heaven, not how the Heavens go.”
 
 
 
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Sep 24

RICH GETTING RICHER – MIDDLE CLASS POORER…

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The 400 people on Forbes magazine’s list of the richest Americans saw their combined net worth climb 8 percent this year. The good news for the wealthy comes as the poverty rate has reached a 15-year high and unemployment remains stuck near 10 percent.

The Forbes 400 list makes clear that a huge amount of wealth in this country is controlled by a very small number of people. Timothy Noah, who reported a 10-part Slate magazine series on the growth of income disparity in the U.S., says the last time the country experienced a similar kind of distortion was in the 1920s.

 ”It ended of course in 1929 with the crash, and after that we had a very long period in the United States where incomes grew more and more equal. That reversed itself at the end of the 1970s, and ever since then incomes have been growing more and more unequal,” Noah tells NPR‘s Linda Wertheimer.

 For his series, Noah defines the wealthy in three categories: the sort-of rich are those who make more than $100,000; the rich — those in the top 1 percent — earn more than $360,000; and stinking rich — those in the .01 percent — make more than $1 million.

 
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Sep 08

GREAT!!! K’S PAIN IS GONE!

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9/8/2010

 FYI. K has gone to see the Neurosurgeon today and have the stimulator installed permanently tomorrow.  Isn’t amazing what they can do now to help people like K with the pain and make it go away. When the temporary one was installed, I will never forget the expression on his face when the pain was gone, in fact it brought tears.

 Thanks for your thoughts and prayers, Your Brother, C.

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 Just as sincere ministers and believers search to understand and experience their God, thanks to the committed people in science and medicine, etc. who study the Works of the Ultimate Cause to benefit us in our everyday lives.  I believe that as we share our spiritual energy to those that need it wonderful things can happen.  THANKS TO THE ETERNAL PRESENCE!  You raised a wonderful person named Kevin.  I’m also thankful that we can be open and honest with each other AND FOR LETTING US SHARE IN K’S SITUATION.

 ALSO, THANKS TO ALL MY UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENTS WHO WERE MINDFUL AND CONCERNED ABOUT K.

M.  —————-

8/27/2010

 WOW K!   I ADMIRE YOUR TREMENDOUS COURAGE AND BELIEVE THAT THOSE WHO HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM TO HELP WILL, WITH COMPASSION AND EMPATHY, BE OPEN TO THE ETERNAL PRESENCE THAT HAS ENLIGHTENED THEM TO THIS POINT, WILL SUCCEED.  

Opposite the title page of Darwin’s Origin of Species appears the following quotation:

‘To conclude, therefore, let no man … think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God’s word, or in the book of God’s works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.’

The author is Francis Bacon, and the quotation is from his 1605 book The Advancement of Learning. Here is the classical statement that there are two ways of understanding the character of God, through the Bible, and through the world he has made.

 Sending my energy through the ETERNAL PRESENCE to you,

 Uncle M. (editor@unbiasedtruth.net)

 

Sep 08

BIBLE MORE VIOLENT THAN KORAN? CODE RED ALERT!!!!!!!

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BURNING THE KORAN COULD CAUSE MORE TERROR AGAINST US SOLDIERS AND AMERICANS!
WILL WE ALLOW EXTREME FUNDAMENTALISTS ON BOTH SIDES TO TERRORIZE MORE PEOPLE?
 
(source cited)
In the minds of ordinary Christians – and Jews – the Koran teaches savagery and warfare, while the Bible offers a message of love, forgiveness, and charity. For the prophet Micah, God‘s commands to his people are summarized in the words “act justly, and love mercy, and walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). Christians recall the words of the dying Jesus: “Father, forgive them: they know not what they do.”

 But in terms of ordering violence and bloodshed, any simplistic claim about the superiority of the Bible to the Koran would be wildly wrong.

 In fact, the Bible overflows with “texts of terror,” to borrow a phrase coined by the American theologian Phyllis Trible. The Bible contains far more verses praising or urging bloodshed than does the Koran, and biblical violence is often far more extreme, and marked by more indiscriminate savagery. The Koran often urges believers to fight, yet it also commands that enemies be shown mercy when they surrender.

  Some frightful portions of the Bible, by contrast, go much further in ordering the total extermination of enemies, of whole families and races – of men, women, and children, and even their livestock, with no quarter granted. One cherished psalm (137) begins with the lovely line,

 “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept”; it ends by

 blessing anyone who would seize Babylon’s infants and smash their skulls against the rocks.
 

Read much more at: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/03/08/dark_passages/

 

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Sep 01

DOES ALLOWING GOD TO EVOLVE IN OUR MINDS HELP?

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‘Jesse Bering‘s mother died of cancer on a Sunday, in her own bed, at 9 o’clock at night. Bering and his siblings closed her door and went downstairs, hoping they might somehow get some sleep.

It was a long, hard night, but around 7 a.m., something happened: The wind chimes outside his mother’s window started to chime.

Bering remembers waking to the tinkle of these bells, a small but distinct sound in an otherwise silent house. And he remembers thinking that those bells carried a very specific message.

“It seemed to me … that she was somehow telling us that she had made it to the other side. You know, cleared customs in heaven,” Bering says.

The thought surprised him. Bering was a confirmed atheist. He did not believe in any kind of supernatural anything. He prided himself on being a scientist, a psychologist who believed only in the measurable material world. But, he says, he simply couldn’t help himself.

“My mind went there. It leapt there,”‘

 

For much more to hear or read click on:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129528196
 

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