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i am a man taking a chance

Monday, July 12th, 2010

I am a man with a heart and a brain. I live in a world where what both of those tell me are often in conflict. I am tired of the news, the economy, money, the wars and violence, hunger, sickness, suffering and pain. Most days it is more than I can handle but ignoring it isn’t the answer. I am tired of the reasons as to why things are this way. My brain says it’s all logical and my heart tells me logic can shove it.

I am a man that is taking a hard look at the world around me. Like most people I don’t like what I see. While I have more than I could ever possibly need in life it still isn’t enough to drown out the noise. The world offers me ear plugs every day but I don’t want them. Something is telling me to listen.

I am a man looking to do something about it. What my ears hear and my eyes see needs to be shared. Doing nothing is the worst thing I could do and helps no one.  I am simply collecting those things and presenting them to you through this site for your consideration because the who, what, why, when and where that TV and media offers us is quite different than what actually is. The motivation isn’t about getting people angry or frightened and retaliating, rather its about having a change of heart and mind and reacting appropriatly so you can be ready for what is yet to come. The bottom line is everything that is happening is about your freedom here and now and for the rest of eternity. 

I am a man of faith in God and His son Jesus Christ. What they offer is the solution to every problem we face. However, don’t be surprised when the term conspiracy is found on this site. The Bible after all is the survival guide and story of the greatest conspiracy of all… the destruction of our planet and you and I. Why I believe this to be true is because I see a world that is constantly getting worse despite the powers that be making ”best efforts” to make the world a better place. So this site is an invitation and an opportunity to have a look for yourself.

I am a man taking a chance…

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everyone believes in a book - a shout out to athiests

Monday, April 19th, 2010
everything that everyone knows or believes came out of a book

everything that everyone knows or believes came out of a book

This is a thought I have been rattling around in my head for a while and I think it has peculated long enough that its ready for sharing.

A lot of atheists that I have heard speak are really critical of the Bible as the source of faith that fuels Christian beliefs. Now I must warn that I am going to be painting with a fairly wide brush in this post as I make some broad generalizations, but even with that said I think my point will stick to the wall quite nicely. First lets assume we are speaking of the kind of atheists that run with the science crowd believing that nothing created everything in the big bang and that we all evolved out of a puddle over the course of the last few billion years. Where does that information come from?

In a lot of cases that information comes out of books. Books that have been recorded through out history as scientists have conducted studies and experiments. Those books have then been leveraged to write other books, some of them most likely translated from other languages over time. Those books have been used to formulate science class curriculum for students. Some books are even made into educational videos for T.V. and used in class rooms and labs to teach other people what science has revealed.

So here is my point. Everyone believes in a book. So many people in the “science camp” believe what science has to tell them without having seen the results of an experiment or study with their own eyes.  That sounds a little like faith to me. They haven’t looked in the microscope, seen the mutation of cells or understood what carbon dating even means but they rest easy that what they are told or what is in the books is true. By definition that is faith. So why does the Bible get such a hard time? Is there such a gap between science and miracles?

We have a book that is full of examples of miracles but for some reason it is such a stretch for billions of individuals to believe. People retort that the Bible was written by men. Well so were science books. Well aren’t science books written by men that had experiences and saw things with their owns eyes? Sure, but the Bible was also written by men that saw with their own eyes and had experiences as well. But didn’t those men have self serving purposes to control peoples thoughts and put their mind in a box? Who actually makes that argument and why? Does Christianity leave some assumptions and expect faith to bridge the gap? It sure does… and after having read a bit on evolution there are some serious assumptions there too. OK, but at the end of all the arguing isn’t religion focused on getting peoples money? You mean there is no money in big science?

To conclude I want to say that this wasn’t intended as a religion vs. science or creationism vs. evolution post but it is the most convenient topic to lean on. The only point I intended to make is that no matter where you stand you believe in stuff from a book written by men or women at some point in history. So take it a little easy if your ripping into a Christian for believing in a book. At the end of the day when all the arguing is done everyone has faith in a book.

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seeing isn’t believing - a shout out to atheists

Monday, October 5th, 2009
not everything needs to be seen with the eyes

not everything needs to be seen with the eyes

A while ago I was surfing around on youtube doing some searches and through various related video links I ended up discovering a youtube show called “The Atheist Experience“. I watched a number of videos and was thoroughly frustrated by what I saw and heard. The hosts of the show are quite rude and smug, often interrupting a caller with a mute button to make their point if they feel the are being spoken over, while having no problem talking over the caller who has no mute button. That aside I want to point out an over lying message that I heard over and over again. No proof, where is your proof, you can’t prove that and so on.

So one night I was quite frustrated by what I had heard and was thinking to myself what could I say to an atheist that would deflate that argument. During some quite time in prayer the following came to me;

Just because you can’t see something does not mean it’s not there. Consider this; one hundred years ago you could have tried to explain to someone what an atom is and people would have thought of you as a crazy person. You could have pointed to a table and said “this table is made up of millions of tiny elements held together by electric charges making it solid.” That kind of truth would have been mocked because it could not be seen. The same applies for Christ. We cannot see him physically, but he is there. In the mean time, like the atom could be seen in the form of a table, we can see the form of Christ in his church which is made of millions of people held together by his spirit making it solid. This is a truth that should not be mocked because we have been promised in time that Christ will be revealed and seen with the eye, but until that day “we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18

As an extension of that line of thinking
There was a time when people thought the world was flat. It was common knowledge and just accepted as the way the world was. Then some grumblings started to emerge about the possibility of the world not being flat, but in fact was round. Anyone who entertained that idea as a possibility was mocked as a lunatic. Well here we are today knowing the world if round because it has been proven so. The idea here is that not everything that is true or real has been proven or revealed… yet. So please consider this when dismissing the person of Jesus or disregarding God as an invention of man. One day all will be revealed, which side of the debate would you like to find yourself on when that day does come?

A couple good Bible verses to end with
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. Psalms 118:8

See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. Colossians 2:8

Let no person shake your faith. Do not let any one pressure you to walk away from your faith if you have it. Let no person stand in your way from exploring it if it’s new to you or calling you to explore it for yourself.

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