What happened?

In the beginning. What happened in the beginning? Something happened way way back then and "we don't know do we?" Nope the Bible doesn't know and the evolutionary biologists don't know. Something very strange occurred, that we can be sure of. And since we don't have a birds eye view and we're left purely to speculation we'll dull it down into a tame, more agreeable parcel of history 

We'll calmly name it and what occurred authoritatively and let a research group from some university explain it all to us in non religious terms. 

They of course know the truth right or do they? Do they know that some great seismic force didn't materialize a planet in it’s strange orbital course in the abyss of the Heavens. We'll never perhaps know the truth if this short speculative journey ends in the local cemetery or not. I'll die my death, it won't be easy. I'll be scared. I'll run out of oxygen or go without vital fluids and sustenance for a week while my bodily organs shut down. I'll have few visitors at my cheap service and then I'll go lay in that cold earth. I’ll go through the cold Canadian winters joining hundreds of millions, billions more of them pilgrims and former travelers. I'll return to the ages where most who ever were are. 

Maybe there with my rotting flesh I'll realize that behind everything is a genius that can tame and reorder the entire timeline of history. I'll meet the force I now speak to and that speaks to me when the world offers me few friends. I'll know who I'll be talking to on that day because I talk to Him now.

The hour will either prove me right or wrong in my certainty about love and good governing since the prehistoric ages from time immortal. Back there in the ageless abyss of nothing where the great Being exists with His unfathomable secrets. Where does an infinite God live but the alcoves amid universes unseen.

 All my disappointments either way I predict will be long left behind me. If the soil beckons me to a final end I'll rest there, and not hear them perhaps, while busily the blue jays and the sparrows dance in the spring grasses below where the willow tree blossoms its leaves above me.

Pure speculation

Is this a prison this planet? Perhaps this planet is a prison. There likely is an explanation why we’re here for it seems to make sense that there would be an intelligent reason. Perhaps it’s a journey to become better morally that we’re apart of on earth. That might be part of the search and our estimation of what truth is we undertake imperfectly here.

Many ideas bring with them different experiences in life adding to a complicated picture. When out of all those experiences ideas are hostile to one another that is one of the ways perhaps that the plan behind life deliberately prepares for. Maybe out of the confusion the truth is sought, not by everyone, but by some of the people of each time period. Those people might wonder if there is a God and consider morality and what it’s importance really is. They are perhaps the part of every generation that comes along who draws the nearest to the truth and finds a way to move on.

 We wonder what’s important and are sometimes free to decide. We are looking and asking what is relevant. Our behavior requires that the purpose of life be settled. Our determination says it matters for something. We struggle with a need for an ultimate answer.

The truth is not entirely self-evident however. What really overarches our life and what ultimately matters is in dispute. If there is a God with a will for us then that journey discovering Him would be relevant and if there is no God it wouldn’t mater. 

Part of the genius of the uncertainty is that it’s pulling our will between positions. Being in this state of uncertainty some of us are tempted strongly to dismiss morality altogether. We’re tempted to even strive against it and against a Gods very existence. Alternatively we may strive to defend an existing God.

The struggle is part of the unusual freedom we have. It’s curious that we have this freedom but what if it’s an illusion and we’re not really free. When I say not really being free I’m questioning how our minds interact in the world in the pursuit of truth and if we’re ever truly free to judge reasonably right from wrong or truth from error in that “freedom.” True some of us seem to do that, at least they come up with answers that appear better then others. But in truth or in finding ultimate good do we ever have the ability in that freedom to choose for ourselves right. What about questioning freedoms ability to navigate even a partial amount of decisions with insight or to have even a partial ability to be truly free enough to decide something in a fair way.

Morality has extremes too, at one end of the extreme immorality, on the other end oppressive morality. What’s in the middle ground might be where what’s best is. That answer is disputed among man. If all this we’re a part of has an intelligent purpose behind it then that purpose happens, perhaps tactfully, not obviously, through allot of chaos. It’s perhaps through those chaotic clashes of civilizations, ideological struggles, and personal battles for peace and belief that a number of people may find their way elevated to positions of self-awareness.Their truth, maybe not perfect truth, perhaps, despite being not perfect, has a compassion and dignity necessarily cultivated by life by God through human existence. That better self they arrive at might be a valuable discovery and part of a plan.

This is all pure speculation that life puts us here in a prison. It is curiously a home surrounded by insurmountably vast and incomprehensible distances. It is a place where becoming just, fair, kind, humane might really matter for our ultimate escape through life. Who would want a bunch of uncommitted people who were defiant of any form of guidance or conviction about what’s right or good disrupting the better world to come. Here is not that better world. As full of beauty, creativity and genius as the world is this world was not destined for perfect peace or rest. Thrown into the chaos of earth are viruses, plagues, storms, famines, wars, venomous snakes, man eating lions and a total uncertainty where we are. Also however self-evidently this world clearly points to a creative genius behind everything and that power has an ability and capability to do something for us mortal people that is unfathomable and that is unleash unending creativity.

Perhaps we are a planet of rebels who defied the path to fairness and the great good who knows that ultimate good. Now we stumble and stagger through an uncertain world in an uncertain place. If we come to understand God and His nature and adapt ourselves unto His will we might then escape. The sentence for not finding Him who knows but it may be many life times spent stumbling. In that search for truth ideas will plot against us. Rebellious other prisoners will quell and stifle out hopes and attempt to rob our peace and jeopardize our escape. Whenever we think we have an easy road ahead of us toward freedom forces will make it near impossible for us to win our freedom.

What is paradise like?

What is paradise like?

 

I think in paradise the lives that were lived here on earth will be known absolutely. People who were troubled, poor, and emotionally wounded will be identified. Peoples short life, hardships, and terrors will be identified. Whether they died from one of many plagues, from hunger, war, murder, or ideologically cruel oppressive factors it will be known. If their death was from an illness brought on by unsanitary conditions, because they had no health care, or from poverty, it will be noted. Then people will receive eternal compensation in love, joy and unending experiences in unlimited and joyful creativity.

 

In paradise each life may well be examined with a magnify glass. The real expert there, who is capable of absolute and perfect discernment, will be competently able to retrace every moment in time of each persons life. Every wrong decision, every misunderstanding he/she came to, every experience that brought out the worst in the person will be noted. Every bad example shaping his/her identity leading him/her down an unhealthy path to follow will be noted. All things will be seen clearly in the light.

 

Mercy then shall be distributed. Yet mercy won’t be according to human measurement, which always sees only the accomplished as deserving good. This mercy will be fair and understand the human condition in all it's complexity.

 

If another human voice, while here in the land of the living, objects to this and wants to challenge it and prescribe another antidote we then might ask is their prescription truly fair? What if that antidote for acceptance into paradise only allows safe passage for those who succeed at discovering a better way for themselves? is it a way, a path, that is really open to everyone everywhere or just rumored to be such? Suppose it’s true that the people that succeed and reach paradise do so only by arriving at that “supposedly only saving answer?” Then are the conditions the other people knew who didn’t reach that insight in their journey irrelevant to what everyone’s fate will end up being in the end? Can there be no fairness and compensation for those who grow up in other cultures for instance?

 

It seems by the doctrines presently held that there is no fairness. So then I ask this: Why for fairness sake then is the better way (where everyone is fairly understood) not the better of the two ways? Why can’t that option where love understands: mistakes, misleading ideas, confusion, ideological persuasion etc. be more obviously the plan and real nature and true character of God for the world?

 

Jesus is good and I don’t think discounting His teaching, friendship, His life, and death for sheer hopefulness on a fairer plan makes any sense. Yet neither do I think that the belief that 9/10th of most of humanity has no hope is any clearer belief.

 

I then decide to stick with Jesus and dispense with the narrow road to life. All through history there have been atrocious horrors inflicted on mankind. Religious wars were carried out as part of these doctrinal horrors. Today if modern society and modern laws didn’t intervene I’d be disemboweled for heresy for suggesting I dispense of the narrow road verse by the “God fearing people.”

 

I don’t think I’m totally discounting it but I am saying we don’t truly and totally understand it in our modern world.

 

Thought needs to be more forgiving and accepting of differing ideology effecting our troubled humanity. The human person is not a perfectly insightful agent capable of often even making the right decisions. Therefore I ascribe more mercy to Gods plan and defy the people who preach the Gospels as only saying Gods love will only reach in the end a few of the saved.

 

In paradise there are probably no valiant warriors on display rewarded for acts of brutality and murder either. There in paradise love is probably more clearly seen for it's self and it's true ways. If that be the case then love is the prime mover and is the ultimate voice of reason there. Love would detest violence, and that power of love, by it’s nature no doubt, spews the violent there out of it's mouth like sour wine. Love instead would likely embrace, like the Holy scriptures and Jesus teachings on earth: mercy, fairness, kindness, and forgiveness.

 

In paradise the idea of love as a name only gets it’s power there attached to and understood as belonging unto God. Here on earth we think we have some authoritative insight into love in our discernment. If we do why do we pass such terrible judgments on other human beings fates? We are not properly qualified to condemn people or even to condone anyone. Our sights should instead have compassion on human beings struggling with many different ideas.

 

Ideas themselves are never clear to the masses. The truth is in continues dispute. Truth rests on this assurance here or that assurance over there or over there. People then, mortal man still on the earth that is, decides "unfairly" the fate of other mankind.

 

I wonder if in paradise God decides there to play no games. There in paradise instead God opens Himself up to full view. Love is no longer seen through a haze but becomes fully and marvelously appreciated for all who live there. Hope is no longer a fleeting changing perspective. It is there that we know that there is nothing that can hurt us and that God is good.