I suppose that, from reading my posts, anyone would conclude that I love God and that I am on His team. Let me ...again... state my own position.
I remember when The Holy Spirit came into my life, and I thought, "WTF!", because I had read enough fantasy books to know that I was supposed to fall down in awe and say, "Oh, God has looked at me! Glory, hallelua!". Yeah, He had... or The Holy Spirit had. Looked down on me. I hated that.
Would have been disappointed if God had been the same, and for a while I thought so, then He started getting involved, independent of THS, and challenging me with statements like, "Behold, I am The LORD, the God of ALL flesh, is there anything too hard for Me?", and so, after initial hesitation, I pointed out something which I had not even bothered to look twice at... scientific "proof" that God could NOT have made the world as and when He said He did.
Picture Him with arms folded and looking right back at me and saying, "So what are YOU going to do about it?".
I thought, "Hell, no, this has NOTHING to do with me, its Your problem, not mine. Besides, I would have to wade through ALL the prejudice, all the deeply ingrained theories and stereotypes, AND I would come under fire from ALL sides; theological as well as scientific, AND people would expect me to be saying Hallelua, pay tithes and such as well as go to church...et.c."
That was around the time He told me to be myself.
Personally, I hate people. OK, I am indifferent to people, and I hate only those who stand in my way, offer me advice and try to do things to "get me to be grown up". In fact, I hate these people so much I have decided that I will do everything in my power just to make sure I NEVER do anything in any manner that is expected of me.
Now,God tells me what my ...end ...will be. Knowing Him as I do, that means while it is not "nothing for nothing", I still am expected to do SOMETHING to 'justify' His attention. So...I have. I have taken the form book, and torn it up, and thrown it away. I ask myself, why crack an egg with a teaspoon when a 14 pound hammer can make so many more 'unpredictable' side effects happen? I mean...the point is to 'crack' the egg, right? Whatever comes after will be nothing that anyone can have foreseen, which suits me just fine, because at this present moment ALL I am interested in is proving that God created the world as and when He said He did. I am NOT interested in controlling the other outcomes, or being in control. To me, control is weakness, a desire to be in charge simply because one can not handle the thought that having things just happen without your contribution will result in outcomes that are unfavourable.
I live for unpredictable outcomes.They give a flavour to an otherwise "flat" life. So, I have decided that, instead of going out there, begging cap in hand, and asking people to be reasonable so that I can NOT destroy their way of life, I am now spitting on my hands, biting the edge of my tongue and hefting the long handle of the 14 pound hammer and just slamming it down on the egg. It should be more interesting THAT way, because, whichever way things go, my destiny is secure, and whatever I go THROUGH, I will go THROUGH, but the rest of the world will probably NOT weather the storm so well.
So, now, I guess the point to it all is this; I am going to start with every "valid" reason why it is impossible for the earth to be less than four and a half billion years old...starting with mathematics...and why it is "impossible" that Adam and Eve were the first humans...according to genetics, archaeology and evolution... and why the nearest galaxy to ours is several "billion light years" away, meaning that it is impossible for there to be any validity in the assumption that angels could traverse the distance between heaven and earth in a twinkling of an eye, so to speak.
Of course, to explain ALL these things I have to tear down the commonly held assumptions, and well, as I said, there will be some egg spilt somewhere, and some will end on some faces, but, then, that is NOT my concern. Listen, I TRIED to care, but the truth is, when it comes right down to it all;
I really do NOT GIVE a F**K what happens to other people!
I remember when The Holy Spirit came into my life, and I thought, "WTF!", because I had read enough fantasy books to know that I was supposed to fall down in awe and say, "Oh, God has looked at me! Glory, hallelua!". Yeah, He had... or The Holy Spirit had. Looked down on me. I hated that.
Would have been disappointed if God had been the same, and for a while I thought so, then He started getting involved, independent of THS, and challenging me with statements like, "Behold, I am The LORD, the God of ALL flesh, is there anything too hard for Me?", and so, after initial hesitation, I pointed out something which I had not even bothered to look twice at... scientific "proof" that God could NOT have made the world as and when He said He did.
Picture Him with arms folded and looking right back at me and saying, "So what are YOU going to do about it?".
I thought, "Hell, no, this has NOTHING to do with me, its Your problem, not mine. Besides, I would have to wade through ALL the prejudice, all the deeply ingrained theories and stereotypes, AND I would come under fire from ALL sides; theological as well as scientific, AND people would expect me to be saying Hallelua, pay tithes and such as well as go to church...et.c."
That was around the time He told me to be myself.
Personally, I hate people. OK, I am indifferent to people, and I hate only those who stand in my way, offer me advice and try to do things to "get me to be grown up". In fact, I hate these people so much I have decided that I will do everything in my power just to make sure I NEVER do anything in any manner that is expected of me.
Now,God tells me what my ...end ...will be. Knowing Him as I do, that means while it is not "nothing for nothing", I still am expected to do SOMETHING to 'justify' His attention. So...I have. I have taken the form book, and torn it up, and thrown it away. I ask myself, why crack an egg with a teaspoon when a 14 pound hammer can make so many more 'unpredictable' side effects happen? I mean...the point is to 'crack' the egg, right? Whatever comes after will be nothing that anyone can have foreseen, which suits me just fine, because at this present moment ALL I am interested in is proving that God created the world as and when He said He did. I am NOT interested in controlling the other outcomes, or being in control. To me, control is weakness, a desire to be in charge simply because one can not handle the thought that having things just happen without your contribution will result in outcomes that are unfavourable.
I live for unpredictable outcomes.They give a flavour to an otherwise "flat" life. So, I have decided that, instead of going out there, begging cap in hand, and asking people to be reasonable so that I can NOT destroy their way of life, I am now spitting on my hands, biting the edge of my tongue and hefting the long handle of the 14 pound hammer and just slamming it down on the egg. It should be more interesting THAT way, because, whichever way things go, my destiny is secure, and whatever I go THROUGH, I will go THROUGH, but the rest of the world will probably NOT weather the storm so well.
So, now, I guess the point to it all is this; I am going to start with every "valid" reason why it is impossible for the earth to be less than four and a half billion years old...starting with mathematics...and why it is "impossible" that Adam and Eve were the first humans...according to genetics, archaeology and evolution... and why the nearest galaxy to ours is several "billion light years" away, meaning that it is impossible for there to be any validity in the assumption that angels could traverse the distance between heaven and earth in a twinkling of an eye, so to speak.
Of course, to explain ALL these things I have to tear down the commonly held assumptions, and well, as I said, there will be some egg spilt somewhere, and some will end on some faces, but, then, that is NOT my concern. Listen, I TRIED to care, but the truth is, when it comes right down to it all;
I really do NOT GIVE a F**K what happens to other people!
