Monday, 10 October 2011

atheists forced to act on faith

We all act on faith whether we notice it or not. Seeing may be believing to some, but believing is seeing when we really believe. Since we cannot prove anything possible for sure or probable for very long, either concrete or abstract, we must take God, Existence, on faith. The reason for that is we do not know everything, despite how it feels as if we do. Each time we learn and know more we find we know more that we do not know that we did not know before. So as our knowledge grows, it grows knowledge about our growing ignorance as well as knowledge. Our knowledge and ignorance expands like the universe expands. But we have to make decisions right now, without all the facts, and that means we make all our decisions on faith, whether we like it or not. We can disagree about it, but even if we agree, it does not mean we have any great faith, since faith is more deep than mere agreement. Fear indicates a lack of faith, and while agreement may escape oblivion in the future, it is not much more effective right now in the present than a lack of faith is. Believing and faith is not as easy as it sounds. Faith must be built on strong foundations. We must work at it every day, feeding our spirit with faith words if it is to increase in faith, the same as we feed food to our decreasing bodies. Our words reveal secrets of our increasing spirit.
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The title of this blog, God is the Spiritual Personification of Existence, is based on the first definition perception of ancient writers in the dawn of our known history.

Today's Supreme Being is not the original definition. First report accepted was God defined Himself as Existence. "I am that I am." He did not create existence, He is the fountainhead of Existence. Therefore, God is not only understood to be a Spirit, but also as the spiritual 'personification' of existence. This is a definition, not a theory.

There are both concrete and abstract forces, the seen and the unseen, such as gravity. There are spirits in bottles, spirits in words, spirits in us. The spirit animates everything, from gravity to emotion, as well as semantically. This blog is about defining the usually undefined term God, not religion, but what is meant by the term God.

There is one blog touching on religion, Church and Faith Pulpit Rock, about Christian atheism found in many churches, which themselves quite often have less to do with God or even religion for that matter, than they do with social entertainment.

The blog linked below, Specific Theory of Existence, takes us to essay attempts suggested by former atheists who are sensitive to atheist thought. They are exploring views relating to seen and unseen physics, the known unknown, with the unknown not yet known.

Other blogs, like Memory Stones about cemeteries, touch on other subjects of passing interest. That link and others can be found below. They are hosted by Spencer Corkum for the Sunset Strollers and the QuokeBlokes. They are not carved in 'stone' but may be continuously edited and updated. Davin Paralee, representing the Paraclete, is Editor in Charge.

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The man with an experience is never at the mercy of the man with a theory, even if it is his own. The Spirit deep within speaks only to each one of us and does not tell us anything about others, or what they are to think or do. We each speak the words we are told by our spirit which cannot be held back, by this our witness is revealed. Words are the fruit of whatever spirit they describe. Words are powerful, they reveal the spirit that drives them. Passersby are welcome to comment in the same spirit as the content posted on this blog.
All things seen come from the unseen and will return there. Since we know so little of all that can be known, in order to make a decision now it must be made in faith because we are deciding without all the facts. There are those who wish to survive the falling away of the body and those who desire slipping into oblivion which is a destruction of that which existed. This too is a spirit and cannot die.
Generalities speak to generalities and specifics to specifics. To intertwine the two is jumping categories, and a fallacy in logic.

An example of what a man says is an illustration of his argument, but it is not proof.