Christians talk about Jesus’ Second Coming, referring to the idea that Jesus Christ, who came once, (the first time,) into the world as a baby in manger, will come again as the Lord of Lords and King of Kings, supreme ruler of all that is seen and unseen, maker and sustain of both heaven and of Earth. It also refers to the idea that he first came as the Son of Man, but will come again as the Son of God, to rule and reign in righteousness and peace forever. Christians believe that at the time of Jesus' return to Earth there will be no mistake about who this person, Jesus Christ, is or isn't.
Christians believe Jesus Christ was indeed the One awaited for by the Jews... Messiah, and they believe they have been granted such salvation because, by them he was obviously rejected, even by those who should have recognized the time of their visitation, but they didn't. (All have sinned and fall short of the glory of almighty God.) No, the Jews,(who did not believe on the one sent by God to the little town of Bethlehem,) like the rest of the religious world, have stories of their own that they believe in. Like many other religious peoples they still await the "one," the one whom they heard was to come, but evidently, (or so they believe,) didn't.
The world is expecting. You can see this expectation in many religions as they look forward to the coming of a great leader upon the Earth, one hailed as a Messiah. This is probably due to the fact that, since the dawn of time, God has said that he would send the seed of the woman to redeem us from our sin in this fallen world. Some didn't keep the story straight, others simply refused to walk in the light of day; either way the end result is this idea... the idea of a "Messiah," a person who enlightens mankind spiritually and "saves" the world with peace, love and his (or her) great wisdom. It's a universal concept that has definitely made the rounds around the world.
Even scientifically minded atheists, like Carl Sagan, find themselves looking for someone or something to be the savior of the world. They search the sky for extraterrestrial space aliens, complete with whirring wheels, their magnificent flying machines, (aka UFO's,) Even they are expectantly hoping that some such beings will be contacted via computer or satellite dish, or land on planet Earth, even teach us technologically secrets about their advanced spacecraft and “be our friends.” Its a scientific dream, but atheists are not the only ones dreaming, and hoping, to find something or someone that will save us from ourselves; no, there is also the religious. There are many religions. All are waiting, hoping, looking forward to the arrival of someone who will save them, something they can see and touch and feel and finally believe in.
Moslems, for example, generally believe that one called the "leader of the faithful," or Madhi, will appear at the end of earthly time, but they do not believe in Jesus the way that Christians do. They do talk about “Jesus”, ( aka Isa or Essau,) and they say he is the son of a woman named Mary, and they believe that he was taken up to heaven... even believe that he will come, again; but they do not believe that when he came the first time he was anyone of particular importance.. In their belifs he is just another prophet. They even believe Jesus was "virgin born" but do not believe he is "Messiah," nor the "Son of GOd". Jesus, as revered as he may or may not be, is trumped by Muhammad who is to them the true and revered, most Holy messenger of Allah, (God.)
In the Bahai faith, the ultimate goal, and hope for all Bahai believers is to see the ushering in of a Golden Age upomn the Earth where the world will be unified under the “Promised One of all the ages.” According to their religious tradition, this person must be a descendant of King David, (of the Jews,) but they reject basic Christian concepts like how this Promised One was Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Jesus, in the Bahai faith, is viewed as only one of many manifestations of God that has taken place here on our planet. He may even be considered one of the prophets of The Divine, but to them, he is not God incarnate. They prefer to look to the coming of one they call "Baha'u'llah."
The Buddhists expect that an “exalted one,” one called "Maitreya," (“the world unifier,” ) or "Tathagata" (the Buddha who will come and bring "universal brightness" ) will someday arrive via the reincarnation of the Great Buddha on Earth again. They believe that it is this One who will lead the tribes and nations of the world into universal peace. Indians tribes and people like the Native American, Eskimo and Mayan also anticipate one “who is to come” from heaven. This one will be so different from them and so filled with light and brilliancy that he may even be white as snow, which is why so many historical white men encounters among these peoples were such that they believed they were being visited by their gods.
Mankind is pregnant with this "Messiah" idea.
Here we are, stuck here on the earth, making history with no where to go to. We are fighting wars on every front, remembering the great wars of the past, looking around at humanity's propensity for evil and considering the future, wonderding where all of this will lead to in the end. We are pregnant, and we are groaning, (Romans 8:22-26) yearning to be delivered from our plight. We are looking for the next great thing to come along and give us hope for our future and the future of our planet. We are hoping there will be some kind of miracle... a miracle that will give the world a "Messiah."
Humanity believes in the concept of "Messiah"... yes.... but to believe Jesus is the Messiah, is "absurd" to them. It cannot be proven and besides it seems a tad bit, "narrow minded." So professing belief in broadmindedness, they reject the narrow view of salvation from sin and death through Jesus alone; believing instead that everyone who is religious, no matter their beliefs, is really worshiping the same unseen, unapproachable, mysterious and unknowable "God." In fact, some are so broadminded that they spew out hatred for Christianity because Christians not only say that Jesus is the way the truth and the life, but even that Jesus only, is way to God. (John 14:6)
The bible describes the same humanity as spiritually blind, as men, who in utter darkness grope about... trying to understand. It says they stagger like drunkards, (Job 12:25; Deut 29:26-29; ) looking, searching for answers to life... groping at the mysterious, secret things of God. It tells the reader that God did this, (Acts 17:27,) so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him.
In our searching we have unraveled nearly all the universe, even "tasted" the flavors of the tiniest of particles, the neutrino, and we have come up with many theories, even the Theory of Everything, that is, that everything that is, is held together by one great unifying string.
We have uncovered the undeniable truth that every human being of all nations and races has inherited his or her mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), from one human, living person, a person who lived long ago. and even named that person “Eve,” and told us in our textbooks and television shows how this “mtDNA” has been traced back through time, that it has been passed generation to generation from mothers to their offspring, and this as if it was some kind of ovarian seed. We think we can see, even thought was are groping about. We believe we are close to knowing everything there is know about everything, even God.
And as for Christianity's belief about God, Jesus Christ... and the Bible, we like to say, "Is a nice little religious myth, a story. In fact, it's a completely different reality... one we really do not want to have hamper our "scientific" thinking.
But blessed is the blind man who realizes his need for light. Blessed is the one who recognizes he has a beam called sin, before almighty God. Blessed is he because he asks God for healing from his malady of being utterly blind and naked, wretched, and miserable, and poor, doomed to destruction, living in fear of the unknown and despair. Blessed are the meek and humble, who like teachable children, learn of Him and believe in things they do not understand, simply because God has spoken and said it to be so. Blessed is the humble who receive the gift of God, forgiveness of sin and who, clothed with truth, will enter into eternal life, because of Jesus, the savior of the world...
Messiah.
He will come again, he will return with power and great glory. (Luke 21:27; NIV) And, "every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of Him." (Rev. 1:7)
Neutrinos
A neutrino is a subatomic particle. This means that it is smaller than an atom. These tiny particles, we are told, are produced by the same nuclear reactions that power the Sun, other stars, and supernovae. Nuetrinos are everywhere, they are moving at the speed of light and they seem to be unhindered by mass because they have very little. This means that they can pass through things like your body.
A neutrino has very little mass and no electric charge. Literally, the name, "neutrino," means “little neutral one.” They are amazing things in a world of opposites because they are neither positive nor negative and yet, neutrinos are very much involved in the exchanges that occur between protons and neutrons in nuclear interactions, like the ones that take place in the stars. Types of neutrinos are identified in what is called, "flavors," these are electron, muon, and tau; (tau being the heaviest and the smallest.neutrinos that there are.
These things called neutrinos “were discovered” in the 1950’s when observed in a radioactive decay. Before that, (presumably,) no one knew that they existed.And even thought no one KNEW that they existed, they were there... being neutrinos doing what neutrinos do.
In the quantum realm of science, people have liked to study neutrinos, leptons, glutinos, bosons, sleptons, winos, zinos, fermions, hadrons, squarks and higgsinos not only for the interesting sounds you get to make when you talk about them with your colleagues, but also because they are elusive, somewhat mysterious things. Besides, the scientific community believes that the secrets of the universe lies in these miniscule and elusive particles waiting to be discovered.
There seems to be a hope in the scientific community that their incredible discoveries about atoms, neutrinoes, dark matter and the like, may lead to even greater discoveries, even the greatest discovery of all… the discovering the true meaning of life, or the discovery of who or what mankind"really" is and where he came from. The hope is tha tone day, someday, mnkind will at last dicover who and what he really is, maybe even find a way to prolong this thing called life, find cures to the diseases that plagues humanity and even never have to die.
No one really knows where this search into the minuscule world of the tiniest of particles will lead us, but many are hopeful that it will lead us on to greater answers about our origins, and the origin of all life on our planet, even maybe the entire universe. Perhaps it will lead us into a greater awareness of how powerful we humans really are and in the end we may even get a closer look at the answer to the most pressing question ever, the question that has plagued man since the dawn of time. That is...who... or what, God is, and isn't.
A neutrino has very little mass and no electric charge. Literally, the name, "neutrino," means “little neutral one.” They are amazing things in a world of opposites because they are neither positive nor negative and yet, neutrinos are very much involved in the exchanges that occur between protons and neutrons in nuclear interactions, like the ones that take place in the stars. Types of neutrinos are identified in what is called, "flavors," these are electron, muon, and tau; (tau being the heaviest and the smallest.neutrinos that there are.
These things called neutrinos “were discovered” in the 1950’s when observed in a radioactive decay. Before that, (presumably,) no one knew that they existed.And even thought no one KNEW that they existed, they were there... being neutrinos doing what neutrinos do.
In the quantum realm of science, people have liked to study neutrinos, leptons, glutinos, bosons, sleptons, winos, zinos, fermions, hadrons, squarks and higgsinos not only for the interesting sounds you get to make when you talk about them with your colleagues, but also because they are elusive, somewhat mysterious things. Besides, the scientific community believes that the secrets of the universe lies in these miniscule and elusive particles waiting to be discovered.
There seems to be a hope in the scientific community that their incredible discoveries about atoms, neutrinoes, dark matter and the like, may lead to even greater discoveries, even the greatest discovery of all… the discovering the true meaning of life, or the discovery of who or what mankind"really" is and where he came from. The hope is tha tone day, someday, mnkind will at last dicover who and what he really is, maybe even find a way to prolong this thing called life, find cures to the diseases that plagues humanity and even never have to die.
No one really knows where this search into the minuscule world of the tiniest of particles will lead us, but many are hopeful that it will lead us on to greater answers about our origins, and the origin of all life on our planet, even maybe the entire universe. Perhaps it will lead us into a greater awareness of how powerful we humans really are and in the end we may even get a closer look at the answer to the most pressing question ever, the question that has plagued man since the dawn of time. That is...who... or what, God is, and isn't.
Quantum Leap
What is a quantum leap? This is a most interesting term, for while the term "quantum" refers to the smallest realizable unit of anything, like “a photon of light;” a "quantum leap," according to the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia, is a term often used to denote "a sudden dramatic increase or advance." The term implies a very large movement which is actually relatively small. A "quantum leap" is the idea that moving something seemingly small and insignificant can make a big difference.
The dictionary gives the old adage about the straw that broke the camel’s back as an example of a ‘quantum leap,’ saying that the 'last straw,' (however seemingly insignificant, however light and fluffy by usual standards,) actually made all the difference in the world to that camel. Point being that in the minuscule worlds of matter, in engineering and science, everything little, every ounce of matter, matters; and if one very teeny tiny thing is in or out of place, it can make all the difference in the world for the whole system of things.
Contrary to what most people have learned the world of atoms in primary, and maybe even secondary school, the “quantum model of the atom is much more complex” than the over-simplified, "traditional model" that presented in our textbooks. Some of us hang our hats on knowing the simple concept of the proton, neutron and electron… and how the electron and proton orbit the neutron, but quantum sciences today unravel things much deeper. In fact, what we think we know and believe about atoms is oversimplified and probably wrong.
According to Jim Tucek, an enthusiastic student of science on the Internet, not everyone can understand quantum theories, complex mathematics is needed in order to understand the “blurred clouds of probabilities around the nucleus” of an atom. In these quantum realms where scientists, like Tucek work and think within these minuscule realms of subatomic particles of what is thought of “organized chaos,” one must take everything into account and be able to find and work with the statistical probability of the location of a moving electron at an expected, given moment in time.
Creation believing scientists look at these minuscule things and marvel at God’s wisdom at keeping such chaos in perfect order; meanwhile evolutionists’ marvel at how such order comes from nothing but incredible chaos. Meanwhile, all scientifically minded, thinking, reasoning, inquisitive intellectuals move forward in time, counting the particles, unraveling the secrets of the universe like a ball of string; all hoping to see, to understand, maybe even to prove once and for all, who and what man is and discover what is at the end, (or is it the beginning) of the proverbial string.
Ahhh, the string.
Enter the “string field theory,” and the "grand unified theory," conceptual scientific theories that attempt, believe it or not, to link all things together as "one." Such theories however are not always spiritual or spiritually minded, for some scientists do not acknowledge or may not realize that such a wonderful being known as God even exists. Others do believe in the spiritual nature of life, but not always are these spiritual theories "Christian."
Christians recognize God’s marvelous scarlet thread is woven through all of life... throughout all time and space, they know this singular thread of God's love and redemption is his love, the very thing that holds the universe together…but they are few and far between it seems. Meanwhile, high minded, supposedly "scientific" man, is unraveling the universe around him, examining what is there refusing to believe in God or to believe he is accountable to anyone or anything but himself.. Unraveling the string he builds his own conceptual idea of the "whys" and "hows" of it all, rarely, if ever giving consideration that all this time "God" is in control.
No, some do not believe things were created and are unraveling, falling apart over time; they believe things are getting better and better rising up out of chaos, all by itself, maybe even due to their own ingenious plans. In The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe (1988) by the Templeton Laureate, Paul Davies, Davie explains that from his point of view, as a scientist, the universe is developing an essential, unfolding pattern and order. He suggests it is not going from order to disorder but the other way around.
Davies says that virtual particles can and do ‘pop” into existence from nothingness, and that this takes place through something known in scientific circles as “quantum tunneling.” In fact, he suggests that this is the manner in which the whole universe originally popped into existence. (Pg. 141) While saying things move from disorder to order, Davies also suggests, that in the future, (upon the universe's demise,) mankind might scramble into a new universe of their own manufacture based upon these quantum understandings and scientific discoveries. But Dacvies is not alone. Alan Guth, professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) also believes there is a possibility that a new universe could be created through the discoveries we are making in “quantum tunneling."
En.Wikipedia reports that Guth says, it would be dangerous, (It's apparently dangerous to actually create another universe...) since it would result in what would be the equivalent of a 500 kiloton explosion. But it's relatively simple to create a universe. All one needs is one ounce, ( a seemingly quantum amount) of high energy and false vacuum. Guth speculates that once false vacuum exists, the evolution of the universe is independent of what came before and says that it would take only 10-37 seconds for such a universe to disconnect from it’s parent universe.
It's quite amazing really, to see how we have moved so far beyond the standard models of perceived reality, into things few, usually only the most highly educated by the standards of the world can even see, things which must simply be taken on faith by the rest of us. The textbooks are wrong or incomplete, so whatever we think we know, we don;t but don;t worry, there are people, giants among us, willing to let us know how things REALLY are.
Science, Religion, Politics, even Economics is all being redefined for us by the experts. We hear about the Grand Unified Theory and the interconnectedness of all things, we heard about New Physics, NEw Math and the New Age, we encounter the New Spirituality that is emerging, showing us new ways to be human, promising to take humanity on a quantum leap.... a leap that weioll land them... where?
Into a new universe?
Fred A. Wolf, dubbed by some to be “a new hero of modern science,” wrote the book titled, Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Non-Scientists.(1989) While the product description says that the book “entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the early Greeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm., it neglects to say that Wolf guides the reader through all of this to ultimately explain that the human mind becomes the shaper of the universe and each of us is "god.”. They call it, the New Physics.
Wolf, not a Christian, was also featured in a film called, What the Bleep Do We Know: Down the Rabbit Hole (2004) a film that attempted to help the average person understand not only Quantum Physics but also the New Age way of viewing the world. Fred Wolf, also made a film called Ups and Downs in San Francisco, a film exploring the Jewish Mysticism religion of self-mastery known as Kabbalah.
In Ups and Downs, Wolf remarked to colleague Jerry Satinover, “I don't give a da** about top scientists or the scientific establishment at all, I …I don’t care what they think, all I care about is saying what I have to say and I will say it…. What I care about is changing and transforming this planet that we're on - and I believe we have to introduce new thinking. And if it turns out that it's scientifically total garbage I don't give a flying ****(bleep!) It makes no difference to me, because science has little credibility as the only way of seeing the world. It's only one very narrow very limited way.”
The truth comes out once again. People like Wolf, don't care what is true ot not, they simply want to make up their own reality and then promote, project and proliferate their own ideas. Not only that, but any truly scientific thinker who looks at reality and tests to see what it is really mad of, or not, is now labeled, what "Christians" used to be: "narrow-minded."
The New Age way of thinking (without the truth of God) is like having a dot to dot picture to figure out, but instead of following the number system, you make up your own; you simply connect them the way you want to imagine them to be connected. Spiritual man, outside of God’s revealed understanding, will be ever learning and unable to come to the truth. He will only mix natural thought and instincts with every false religion. The end result will not be the picture it was intended to be.
To trust in something that is not what it was intended to be in the first place is a lot like getting aboard a faulty airplane. Faulty theology, like faulty science can builds a faulty plane, bring disastrous results. In the end, the proverbial “leap of faith” it takes to believe in God, (or not,) may be merely the quantitative size of a mustard seed, but what you actually put your faith in can make all the difference in the world.
The thing to remember is “the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.” There are some interesting dot-to-cot pictures being made for our eyes to see, some very fascinating observations people have made about life the universe and everything that exists within in, even the intricacies of it all, speculations about what or who holds it all together and how it all began.
The ultimate questions is, which one do YOU believe in, for "faith, the size of a mustard seed, can move mountains after all. In fact, you can take a quantum leap.
"And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." (Matthew 17:20)
The dictionary gives the old adage about the straw that broke the camel’s back as an example of a ‘quantum leap,’ saying that the 'last straw,' (however seemingly insignificant, however light and fluffy by usual standards,) actually made all the difference in the world to that camel. Point being that in the minuscule worlds of matter, in engineering and science, everything little, every ounce of matter, matters; and if one very teeny tiny thing is in or out of place, it can make all the difference in the world for the whole system of things.
Contrary to what most people have learned the world of atoms in primary, and maybe even secondary school, the “quantum model of the atom is much more complex” than the over-simplified, "traditional model" that presented in our textbooks. Some of us hang our hats on knowing the simple concept of the proton, neutron and electron… and how the electron and proton orbit the neutron, but quantum sciences today unravel things much deeper. In fact, what we think we know and believe about atoms is oversimplified and probably wrong.
According to Jim Tucek, an enthusiastic student of science on the Internet, not everyone can understand quantum theories, complex mathematics is needed in order to understand the “blurred clouds of probabilities around the nucleus” of an atom. In these quantum realms where scientists, like Tucek work and think within these minuscule realms of subatomic particles of what is thought of “organized chaos,” one must take everything into account and be able to find and work with the statistical probability of the location of a moving electron at an expected, given moment in time.
Creation believing scientists look at these minuscule things and marvel at God’s wisdom at keeping such chaos in perfect order; meanwhile evolutionists’ marvel at how such order comes from nothing but incredible chaos. Meanwhile, all scientifically minded, thinking, reasoning, inquisitive intellectuals move forward in time, counting the particles, unraveling the secrets of the universe like a ball of string; all hoping to see, to understand, maybe even to prove once and for all, who and what man is and discover what is at the end, (or is it the beginning) of the proverbial string.
Ahhh, the string.
Enter the “string field theory,” and the "grand unified theory," conceptual scientific theories that attempt, believe it or not, to link all things together as "one." Such theories however are not always spiritual or spiritually minded, for some scientists do not acknowledge or may not realize that such a wonderful being known as God even exists. Others do believe in the spiritual nature of life, but not always are these spiritual theories "Christian."
Christians recognize God’s marvelous scarlet thread is woven through all of life... throughout all time and space, they know this singular thread of God's love and redemption is his love, the very thing that holds the universe together…but they are few and far between it seems. Meanwhile, high minded, supposedly "scientific" man, is unraveling the universe around him, examining what is there refusing to believe in God or to believe he is accountable to anyone or anything but himself.. Unraveling the string he builds his own conceptual idea of the "whys" and "hows" of it all, rarely, if ever giving consideration that all this time "God" is in control.
No, some do not believe things were created and are unraveling, falling apart over time; they believe things are getting better and better rising up out of chaos, all by itself, maybe even due to their own ingenious plans. In The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe (1988) by the Templeton Laureate, Paul Davies, Davie explains that from his point of view, as a scientist, the universe is developing an essential, unfolding pattern and order. He suggests it is not going from order to disorder but the other way around.
Davies says that virtual particles can and do ‘pop” into existence from nothingness, and that this takes place through something known in scientific circles as “quantum tunneling.” In fact, he suggests that this is the manner in which the whole universe originally popped into existence. (Pg. 141) While saying things move from disorder to order, Davies also suggests, that in the future, (upon the universe's demise,) mankind might scramble into a new universe of their own manufacture based upon these quantum understandings and scientific discoveries. But Dacvies is not alone. Alan Guth, professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) also believes there is a possibility that a new universe could be created through the discoveries we are making in “quantum tunneling."
En.Wikipedia reports that Guth says, it would be dangerous, (It's apparently dangerous to actually create another universe...) since it would result in what would be the equivalent of a 500 kiloton explosion. But it's relatively simple to create a universe. All one needs is one ounce, ( a seemingly quantum amount) of high energy and false vacuum. Guth speculates that once false vacuum exists, the evolution of the universe is independent of what came before and says that it would take only 10-37 seconds for such a universe to disconnect from it’s parent universe.
It's quite amazing really, to see how we have moved so far beyond the standard models of perceived reality, into things few, usually only the most highly educated by the standards of the world can even see, things which must simply be taken on faith by the rest of us. The textbooks are wrong or incomplete, so whatever we think we know, we don;t but don;t worry, there are people, giants among us, willing to let us know how things REALLY are.
Science, Religion, Politics, even Economics is all being redefined for us by the experts. We hear about the Grand Unified Theory and the interconnectedness of all things, we heard about New Physics, NEw Math and the New Age, we encounter the New Spirituality that is emerging, showing us new ways to be human, promising to take humanity on a quantum leap.... a leap that weioll land them... where?
Into a new universe?
Fred A. Wolf, dubbed by some to be “a new hero of modern science,” wrote the book titled, Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Non-Scientists.(1989) While the product description says that the book “entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the early Greeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm., it neglects to say that Wolf guides the reader through all of this to ultimately explain that the human mind becomes the shaper of the universe and each of us is "god.”. They call it, the New Physics.
Wolf, not a Christian, was also featured in a film called, What the Bleep Do We Know: Down the Rabbit Hole (2004) a film that attempted to help the average person understand not only Quantum Physics but also the New Age way of viewing the world. Fred Wolf, also made a film called Ups and Downs in San Francisco, a film exploring the Jewish Mysticism religion of self-mastery known as Kabbalah.
In Ups and Downs, Wolf remarked to colleague Jerry Satinover, “I don't give a da** about top scientists or the scientific establishment at all, I …I don’t care what they think, all I care about is saying what I have to say and I will say it…. What I care about is changing and transforming this planet that we're on - and I believe we have to introduce new thinking. And if it turns out that it's scientifically total garbage I don't give a flying ****(bleep!) It makes no difference to me, because science has little credibility as the only way of seeing the world. It's only one very narrow very limited way.”
The truth comes out once again. People like Wolf, don't care what is true ot not, they simply want to make up their own reality and then promote, project and proliferate their own ideas. Not only that, but any truly scientific thinker who looks at reality and tests to see what it is really mad of, or not, is now labeled, what "Christians" used to be: "narrow-minded."
The New Age way of thinking (without the truth of God) is like having a dot to dot picture to figure out, but instead of following the number system, you make up your own; you simply connect them the way you want to imagine them to be connected. Spiritual man, outside of God’s revealed understanding, will be ever learning and unable to come to the truth. He will only mix natural thought and instincts with every false religion. The end result will not be the picture it was intended to be.
To trust in something that is not what it was intended to be in the first place is a lot like getting aboard a faulty airplane. Faulty theology, like faulty science can builds a faulty plane, bring disastrous results. In the end, the proverbial “leap of faith” it takes to believe in God, (or not,) may be merely the quantitative size of a mustard seed, but what you actually put your faith in can make all the difference in the world.
The thing to remember is “the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.” There are some interesting dot-to-cot pictures being made for our eyes to see, some very fascinating observations people have made about life the universe and everything that exists within in, even the intricacies of it all, speculations about what or who holds it all together and how it all began.
The ultimate questions is, which one do YOU believe in, for "faith, the size of a mustard seed, can move mountains after all. In fact, you can take a quantum leap.
"And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." (Matthew 17:20)
"I will ascend!"
I will ascend” is what scripture says Satan declared in Isaiah 14. He said, “I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”
Matthew Henry, (1662-1714) a Presbyterian minister and bible scholar says in his commentary on this portion of scripture, that “ it is gracious ambition to covet to be like the Most Holy, for he has said, ‘Be ye holy, for I am holy;’ but it is sinful ambition to aim to be like the Most High, for he has said, ‘He who exalts himself shall be abased.’”
Matthew Henry, (1662-1714) a Presbyterian minister and bible scholar says in his commentary on this portion of scripture, that “ it is gracious ambition to covet to be like the Most Holy, for he has said, ‘Be ye holy, for I am holy;’ but it is sinful ambition to aim to be like the Most High, for he has said, ‘He who exalts himself shall be abased.’”
A Brief History of Archimedes
Archimedes (287-212 BC) is considered to be one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, mathematician that ever lived. He was a curious and inquisitive man, described as a discoverer, a math hound, and an inventor of many things. His list of discoveries include that of the practical use of a lever.
Archimedes is also credited with being the first to explore the concepts of why boats float, and it is said that Archimedes is the one who recorded the principal for all posterity after observing it first hand in his own bath tub.
Archimedes is also credited with being the first to explore the concepts of why boats float, and it is said that Archimedes is the one who recorded the principal for all posterity after observing it first hand in his own bath tub.
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