Tag: God
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The Name of God
The name of God in the Old Testament is unpronounceable these days. Modern Jews call God Hashem sometimes. Hashem as I understand it just means The Name. There has been a prohibition against speaking the four Hebrew letters of God’s name since at least the time of Jesus. The word means “I am that I…
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Empty Space
I have a little shrine in my prayer room. It’s a corkboard with names and signs on it with a little private writing and art laying on the chair where the corkboard is propped. The center of the corkboard at the top is empty. It’s a blank space without any names or signs or art.…
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Burden of Proof
I saw it again today. An atheist saying that the burden of proof is on someone else. That doesn’t work for me. It is not someone else’s job to prove me wrong. If I have even a sliver of a fraction of a doubt that I might be wrong about God, it is my job…
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Hail-a Hail-a Infantry
“Hail-a Hail-a Infantry Queen a battle follow me Airborne Ranger’s the life for me Cause nothing in this world is free” “Up in the morning and out of the rack Beaten down by mortar attack The mortars and artillery Are raining bursts around me” “But in my heart I have no fear The Ranger god…
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A Perfect God
In discussions with atheists I am occasionally told that I’m only a theist to my own God and an atheist to everyone else’s. This line of attack does not work well against me. For one I freely admit the possibility of multiple gods, and angels, devils, jinn and ministering spirits which could be confused for…
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Omnipotent
An Omnipotent God has not chosen for me to worship him. I can only choose to worship a God who has given me sovereignty over my own soul. A God like that is not omnipotent. If there is an Omnipotent God then He chooses who does and doesn’t worship Him. That God has not inclined…
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Discovering The Watchmaker
My sense of the supernatural is a personal one. I think that to have a testimony of anything at all one must rely on a sort of private gnosis. Even people who aim to be hyper logical have to base their logic on some axioms that seem fitting. That choice of axioms goes back to…
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Eternal Progression
I have a sense that every day I can improve and that the struggle to improve is worth it. This very often makes me a contrarian. The struggle is real and swimming upstream (as you will) seems more valuable in improvement because it is more difficult. To some degree this is true because fighting the…
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The Right to Offend
I am convinced that the principle of free speech is a heavenly one. It is predicated on the freedom to choose liberty and eternal life (2 Nephi 2:27). It is an essential element in the righteous need to tell the truth. Sometimes the truth offends people, but that offense is not a sufficient reason to…
Latter Day Sinner 