which man is worse off?

It is incredible how much lying is going on all around us continually. We lie to ourselves first and see if others can be convinced of it. We lie because the other persons lies. Of course, we think someone else is lying because, aren't we lying, so then why isn't he lying? This is the danger of calling someone else a liar, we may be nakedly telegraphing our perspectives. We lie without realizing it. The reason is there is a head of foam on everything we speak as it is so that when time fades, lies start popping up out of the suds all over the place. A lie is notoriously difficult to pin down. Perhaps we mis-spoke, or maybe we mis-heard. Then, if we want to box someone in where we want them and they do not want to be, we will hold them to our view of what their words meant. You are saying such and so we will say, trying to control their words with our own. If they can be targeted as a liar then it will cover the hostility we hold for their other view with which we disagree. If we could just play back a transcript of the past 24 hours of our exact dialog, it would surprise us how often we find ourselves lined up in the grey area of possibly telling a lie or some other embarrassment. But of the more deliberate lies of greater magnitude, which man is worse off, the one who tells a lie or the one who believes it?

will my little dog go to heaven?

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit you would stay out and your dog would go in, reputedly from Mark Twain. In heaven the lion will down with the sheep but the family dog cannot because he does not have a soul? There are those who cannot relate to the spirit. They may be the one without a soul. They love the technical, the legal side of things, sort of liking the letter of the law over the spirit of the law. They would paint a heaven devoid! Why do they struggle so hard to create limitations, exclusions, and lack of love instead of the opposite? There is more love in a boy's little dog's bark than the love in some adult hearts. A dog offers unconditional love and is very forgiving. A human should boast of no less.

more to belief than mere agreement

It is easy to say I believe but it may be that there is more to it than one thinks. Just saying I agree with something is not believing. To believe is not as easy as just saying I believe. It must be down into my spirit and that comes from hearing the word of God. It is a continual hearing similar to eating food everyday, I must feed my spirit everyday. Actually our spirit is fed everyday no matter what. Whether it is the mayhem on television or not, our spirits are being fed. But to believe we must actually really believe. Many believe God can heal but they are not sure He will actually do it.

Story illustrating this is told of a man who carried in his arms another man across Niagara Falls in a barrel. He carries one over and comes back to ask another who is waiting wanting to get over the Falls also. Did you see me carry that man over the Falls? Do you want to go too? Oh yes, I want to go too. Do you believe I can do it? Oh yes I can see you can do it. Then get in the barrel. Why don't you take this other person first??????

understanding unseen forces

Words are powerful weapons communicating spiritual force determining our survival success in everyday life. No one actually comes right out and says it but we are all daily engaged in this struggle. It determines the concrete outcome of what is essentially abstract forces locked in fierce battle for the concrete world. In the arena of politics we currently see attempts of the current administration to redefine other governments, hopefully so as to separate friendly forces from unfriendly ones. The single major struggle going on in the world is not over weapons of mass destruction but over words of mass communication. Defining them controls words in the attempt to define their spiritual function. In the scientific community very few voices or positions seem to take any great time to define God. If one says that God is the Creator of Love they will also say God is love. Before we can think about that however, we have to determine the attributes of existence as a very real concept just like we understand gravity to be a very real concept.

Pulpit Talk preaching...

I would rather hear a preacher witness to what he believes than hear him preach to me what I should believe. Everyone persuades themselves. Everyone speaks for their own benefit under their own incentives. Even those who help someone else is doing it because it makes them feel better about themselves. Many assume they will get in good graces with God doing good works. Some get quite satisfied with themselves about it. But atheists do good works, even Al Capone did good works. You do well to believe in God, even the demons believe in God and are afraid.