being out of everything

Ominious cloud at sunset
with a hint of the future.

When the agnostic makes a decision to not decide he nevertheless makes a decision not to decide. It makes no difference at this point why he made this decision, it is still a decision no matter why. This is a decision not to decide. So now we have a decision on our hands not to decide. Not making a decision is a negative position about God which means not recognizing the primary Person reflecting Existence. Most likely fact is that the word-concept God has not even been defined in his head and is in a basket of fuzzy thinking in the corner of his mind. It is like God held a party for life and this poor soul never came because he was not sure where he was, let alone where the party was. So what? Well first of all it is hard to appreciate and celebrate life fully very long if you cannot recognize or affirm it only on your own actions, similar to an existentialist who makes a box for himself he cannot get of he calls No Exit. Secondly, sitting in the back row of a humanist convention is rather like being out of everything. Lastly your spirit may not survive the cut.

sympathy is love

If we love our friends we do well but if we cannot love someone we can clearly see standing right in front of us, how can we love God who we cannot see? Even tho David sinned he was honest with God and God loved him for that. Whatever we do to anyone, even the very least desirable person, we do to God. If this is how we treat God, who is the personified Spirit of Existence, then why be surprised when we reap the harvest of our mouth? 

words are powerful onto creation

Out of the treasure of the heart the mouth speaks. If we want to know how important words are to God, and by deduction our existence, all we have to do is read Genesis where God speaks the world into existence. One must conclude He believed it since His word never returns to Him void. Jesus also speaks, and instructs us to speak. In English translations He uses the word say repeatedly. This must mean something for us if His example has any significance.

know the will of God

God operates by his own rules which are set up to serve our existence. It might be a good idea to accumulate Bible verses which reveal the will of God if it is that we really want to know His will. Matt 7:11 where Jesus speaks about giving good gifts to our children and every good gift comes down from above in James 1:17 reveals His will among countless countless others. To match up these generalities with a specific so that a bitter gift can be construed to be given by God instead is not just bad logic, it is merely self-serving unbelief, and cannot find a parallel anywhere in the Bible. Jesus said that whatever things we desire when we pray, to believe that we receive them in Mark 11:34. W. Somerset Maugham as a child went to bed believing that and because he still stuttered in the morning, he dropped the matter and became a life long unbeliever. This most sophisticated man never grew out of that view even as an adult. Persistence is the bed rock of belief. His belief was brief. Somethings are not accomplished without much prayer and fasting, according to Jesus as he answered His disciples when they asked why they could not heal the child being consumed by a demon, Matt 17:21. Sometimes it is just not yet, but it is never forever until eternity when there is no time. It is a good course to stick with Jesus whether we understand it or not, as for me I choose no other course. The alternative is to involve onself in other spirits of unknown destination.

outside the inside of the cup

The letter of the law of God is a curse and condemns us without the spirit of the law. The law was made for Man not Man for the law. The law serves us, not we the law. Jesus' entire ministry was heavily accented on making this clear....the outside of the cup is clean but inside is filthy. "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree." Galations 3:13

must be OK to die

Based on the data we all had when we were being born, the entire scenario was a bad move percentage wise. What made it critical, unbeknownst to us, was the introduction of time. We had no information to insist we leave the absolutely perfect invironment we found ourselves in, so why leave now, or at all? No information on that at the time. But if you were told you'd be hung upside down and wacked, that you would be faced with hunger and cold, then throw in income taxes and all the other routine aggravations of living, who would opt for that? But it was ok so it must be ok to die? We were propelled light years ahead just being born, so it may be the same going out as coming in. Purpose of the trials of old age may be to make it easier to accept the ending of time. Time fools us all, more especially in the end. So if we withdraw time, introduced at birth, and reverting to the absence of time, we have eternity. It was good to exist. It looks as if it will be even more exciting going forward.