August 11b, 2025

Note to Reader

Consider the comments below as a DRAFT. These concepts will be embodied in later writing, but perhaps not explicitly.

Dilemma

A potential for confusion exists as we try to understand divinity and being created in the image of a divinity. Almost no one reading this classifies people as divine. A part of the definition of divinity is “worthy of worship.” To what extent are we mortal humans? To what extent can we do “greater things” as Jesus said?

(Joh 14:12-14 NIV) Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Free Will and Randomness

Recent debates among physicists on randomness suggest that it may be elusive. By this, we mean that not everyone is convinced that random events exist in the universe. A truly random event is one that humankind will never be able to predict. Could there be a variable that unlocks our understanding of prediction? So, for a moment, let us do a thought experiment and say that there will come a day when all events in the universe can be predicted. But does that take away a person’s free choice, to obey God or not? I think not. We must remain vigilant against the temptation to confuse the eternal part of us with the current world, nicely described by science.

The Unborn

If God looks upon the heart, that part of us that is eternal and can be oriented toward God or away from him by our choice, then every human at every part of our existence is in a dynamic state of compliance with God. To state it another way, learn from yesterday’s mistakes and make a plan to do better today.

Here is where Christian music must be reexamined. Is there a future where we will know that music theory fully explains what happens to us when we worship God through it? I strongly think not. Yet there exist some theories that can be reliably demonstrated (for the most part) of the effect of music on us. Now is the time to remind ourselves that we do not use science to understand the supreme Being who created all. Here is where we shift to a more profound topic, inching toward the holy of holies. As you move forward in your faith, does your current understanding of God and the believer allow for an experience in this life that gives you a sense of being a friend of God? Or was that only for Moses?

There is a new tune in the world now that will move some of us forward in our Christian faith, specifically the worship of God. This has nothing to do with music theory, which musicians learn in their study of how music can affect our emotions. Music theory is a product of this world. There is something else going on. There is an interplay between the supernatural, the believer, and this world.

As we listen to one another, we may be gifted a key that unlocks something new to us. Have you considered whether Adam and Eve utilized the gifts of the Spirit as described in the New Testament? Now, let us extricate ourselves from that philosophical question and try to get a sense of the spirit or Spirit which would have been involved for them. HE is the same Spirit for us. The work of the Spirit serves a practical purpose in our world. In Adam and Eve’s world, the Holy Spirit would have also served a purpose, but before the fall, it was probably different from what it is for us.

Are you too busy? Cooperating with nature is your first step toward balance. Receive the gift of the sabbath, it was made for us. Be kind to nature, and I think you will be rewarded. Do not think of God as far away, which is so easy to do when we are operating in negative time (not getting done what we need to when it needs to be done).

Hang in there; you’re exactly where you are meant to be. I can’t emphasize that enough. You are where you are for a purpose. Read the Bible, pray, and congregate in the name of Jesus. For as much as it is up to you, have an attitude of humbleness before God, awe, as if a child who adores their father, their Heavenly Father.

Note to Reader

Consider the comments below as a DRAFT. These concepts will be embodied in later writing, but perhaps not explicitly.

Dilemma

A potential for confusion exists as we try to understand ourselves as created beings yet in the image of a divinity. Almost no one reading this classifies people as divine. A part of the definition of divinity is “worthy of worship.” To what extent are we mortal humans? To what extent can we do “greater things” as Jesus said?

(Joh 14:12-14 NIV) Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Free Will and Randomness

Recent debates among physicists on randomness reveal the possibility of an elusive variable. By this, we mean that not everyone is convinced that random events exist in the universe. A truly random event is one that humankind will never be able to predict. Could there be a variable that unlocks our understanding of prediction? So, for a moment, let us do a thought experiment and say that there will come a day when all events in the universe can be predicted. But does that take away a person’s free choice, to obey God or not as an act of the will responsible before God? I think not. We must remain vigilant against the temptation to confuse the eternal part of us with the current world.

The Unborn

If God looks upon the heart, that part of us that is eternal and can be oriented toward God or away from him by our choice, then every human at every part of our existence is in a dynamic state regarading compliance with God. In other words, we continusously have the opportunity to say ’no’ to God. To state it another way, learn from yesterday’s mistakes and make a plan to do better today.

Here is where Christian music must be reexamined. Is there a future where we will know that music theory fully explains what happens to us when we worship God through it? I strongly think not. Yet there exist some theories that can be reliably demonstrated (for the most part) of the effect of music on our state of mind. Now is the time to remind ourselves that we do not use science to understand the supreme Being who created all. Here is where we shift to a more profound topic, inching toward the holy of holies. As you move forward in your faith, does your current understanding of God and the believer allow for an experience in this life that gives you a sense of being a friend of God? Or was that only for Moses?

There is a new tune in the world now that will move some of us forward in our Christian faith, specifically the worship of God through music. This has nothing to do with music theory, which musicians learn in their study of musical influence on the audience. Music theory is a product of this world. There is something else going on. There is an interplay between the supernatural, the believer, and this world - - when we worship God.

As we listen to one another, we may be gifted a key that unlocks something new to us. Have you considered whether Adam and Eve utilized the gifts of the Spirit as described in the New Testament? Now, let us extricate ourselves from that philosophical question and try to get a sense of the spirit or Spirit which would have been involved for them. HE is the same Spirit for us. The work of the Spirit serves a practical purpose in our world. In Adam and Eve’s world, the Holy Spirit would have also served a purpose, but before the fall, it was probably different from what it is for us.

Are you too busy? Cooperating with nature is your first step toward balance. Receive the gift of the sabbath, it was made for us. Be kind to nature, and I think you will be rewarded. Do not think of God as far away, which is so easy to do when we are operating in negative time (not getting done what we need to when it needs to be done).

Hang in there; you’re exactly where you are meant to be. I can’t emphasize that enough. You are where you are for a purpose. Read the Bible, pray, and congregate in the name of Jesus. For as much as it is up to you, have an attitude of humbleness before God, awe, as if a child who adores their father, their Heavenly Father.

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