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New Creation
If my mind is like the openness of the sky,
Then the thoughts that pass thru it
are as the birds flying across the blue.
But what serves as the sun if we extend the metaphor?
The premise that there is a God,
-- The Creator of the universe --
He is the solar orb that lights the landscape of my mind.
Especially when i dwell on and with Him.
When i desert/doubt Him
Night falls across the sin-enshrouded surface.
The sound of the insects is heard in the darkness.
Sometimes it's as Black (and bad) as the formless Void before Creation,
The deep Darkness of the uncreated premordial Abyss.
Then hope revives and the light of dawn appears in the East.
Bird songs begin as if for the first time.
Edifices build and forms take shape everywhere.
Birds begin chirping as if, yes, for the very first time.
Then the thoughts that pass thru it
are as the birds flying across the blue.
But what serves as the sun if we extend the metaphor?
The premise that there is a God,
-- The Creator of the universe --
He is the solar orb that lights the landscape of my mind.
Especially when i dwell on and with Him.
When i desert/doubt Him
Night falls across the sin-enshrouded surface.
The sound of the insects is heard in the darkness.
Sometimes it's as Black (and bad) as the formless Void before Creation,
The deep Darkness of the uncreated premordial Abyss.
Then hope revives and the light of dawn appears in the East.
Bird songs begin as if for the first time.
Edifices build and forms take shape everywhere.
Birds begin chirping as if, yes, for the very first time.
Published 24th Nov 2015
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25th Nov 2015 10:48am
I agree with you. Society has in general rejected God/ religion yet replaced it with nothing better leaving a vacuum which is sucking us into chaos. Thank you for reading
"Thank you for reading." Do you mean, for writing? Or are you referring to my reading your stuff? Yes, that would make sense.(for i did that for the first time right before your comment.)
Now in reply to your statement, "society has in general rejected God/religion..leaving a vacuum..sucking us into chaos" I think the problem largely is the Supreme Court. It took the prohibition on "establishment of religion" and turned it into a banning of religion itself !! (in government schools). So it's a case of "definition creep." Prayer to "God" as the Creator (no mention of Jesus, Jehovah, Allah), is NOT an "establishment of [denominational] religion" at least in the sense that that phrase was used in the time that the Constitution was written. The acknowledgment that there is (or should be) a God is a given - in the Constitution itself. For the first
amendment is a guarantee of freedom of religion.Which by definition is activity based on that premise: the existence of a Creator God. Since the First Amendment = a recognition of the existence of God (giving God the benefit of the doubt, so to speak), who is the Supreme court to come a long and deny kiddies or their school teachers to right to acknowledge (the existence of) God in the classroom !! By praying the most generic of prayers to Him !!
Finally, another way the Court or the legal scholars have screwed things up is this. The ban on "respecting a religious establishment" was a ban on CONGRESS. Not any other level or arm of the gov't. But somebody has "grabbed the ball and run with it," and now the ban applies to any and all levels of gov't. Which is silly, a silly non sequitur !! Including the schools.
Just because the gov't runs the schools, that doesn't turn the schools into the gov't. Schools are schools, NOT the gov't. Schools have always taught morality-and-God together. Natural and normal. So the first amendment's ban on "Congress..respecting an establishment of religion" shouldn't be used to tamper with children's education. Again, it's a non sequitur !!
On the positive side, all this debate over religion, the culture war, will be forever settled once and for all, very soon. The Second Coming of Christ will clarify things - for all time. And what's the purpose of the SC? To "destroy the Wicked One,"(2 Thessalonians 2.7-8), aka, "the Man of Sin" aka "the Beast" who "makes war on the saints [the Christian nations] and gains power over every..nation" meaning the world (Revelation 13.7). So when the Antichrist takes over the world, its a time, ironically, to rejoice. For it means Christ is on the way, right around the corner !! Yes, when Russia takes over the world via nuke attack on a sleeping America, it will be time to rejoice despite the horror. For the "sudden destruction" (1 Thessalonians 5.3) is THE sign that the Second Coming is "at the door"(Matthew 24.33; Mark 13.29).
If you look up the "at the door" passage you won't find "sudden destruction" right there. So it needs a little explanation. The "sudden destruction" is at the Rapture, rather, at the departure of souls at the Rapture(1 Thessalonians 4.16-17). For, 4.17 and 5.3 are just 4 verses apart. Going over Mt 24.33, we see the Rapture implied in 24.30-31. Where is the "sudden destruction" in this parallel passage to 1 Thess 4.16-5.3 ??
Well, "the stars will fall, the heavens will be shaken"(Mt 24.29) would do it. It conveys fiery destruction,
if you extend the metaphor. Not only do the fiery star-like objects "fall," they fall to the Earth. Fiery destruction coming from out of the sky TO THE EARTH. This explains the Rapture. Souls are departing the world as their bodies are getting destroyed by the "sudden destruction."
Not only that. That sudden destruction is directly tied to the Antichrist, aka "the Son of Destruction"(2 Thess 2.3), the DESTROYER. For we read, "That day [of the Rapture] can not come except the..Man of Sin, the Son of Destruction be REVEALED"(2 Thess 2.3). So the Rapture occurs right as the Antichrist gets exposed ["revealed"] as "the Destroyer." Revealed by the destruction he causes, or is responsible for. SO, the "sudden destruction" is the work of "the Destroyer," the man who elsewhere is called, "the Beast [who] makes war [and gains] power over every..nation"(Rev 13.7). Obviously then, the "sudden destruction" refers to the military attack by which this Destroyer takes over the world. (Pardon my rambling.I had not meant to go on and on.That's what happens when you try to explain something.)
Now in reply to your statement, "society has in general rejected God/religion..leaving a vacuum..sucking us into chaos" I think the problem largely is the Supreme Court. It took the prohibition on "establishment of religion" and turned it into a banning of religion itself !! (in government schools). So it's a case of "definition creep." Prayer to "God" as the Creator (no mention of Jesus, Jehovah, Allah), is NOT an "establishment of [denominational] religion" at least in the sense that that phrase was used in the time that the Constitution was written. The acknowledgment that there is (or should be) a God is a given - in the Constitution itself. For the first
amendment is a guarantee of freedom of religion.Which by definition is activity based on that premise: the existence of a Creator God. Since the First Amendment = a recognition of the existence of God (giving God the benefit of the doubt, so to speak), who is the Supreme court to come a long and deny kiddies or their school teachers to right to acknowledge (the existence of) God in the classroom !! By praying the most generic of prayers to Him !!
Finally, another way the Court or the legal scholars have screwed things up is this. The ban on "respecting a religious establishment" was a ban on CONGRESS. Not any other level or arm of the gov't. But somebody has "grabbed the ball and run with it," and now the ban applies to any and all levels of gov't. Which is silly, a silly non sequitur !! Including the schools.
Just because the gov't runs the schools, that doesn't turn the schools into the gov't. Schools are schools, NOT the gov't. Schools have always taught morality-and-God together. Natural and normal. So the first amendment's ban on "Congress..respecting an establishment of religion" shouldn't be used to tamper with children's education. Again, it's a non sequitur !!
On the positive side, all this debate over religion, the culture war, will be forever settled once and for all, very soon. The Second Coming of Christ will clarify things - for all time. And what's the purpose of the SC? To "destroy the Wicked One,"(2 Thessalonians 2.7-8), aka, "the Man of Sin" aka "the Beast" who "makes war on the saints [the Christian nations] and gains power over every..nation" meaning the world (Revelation 13.7). So when the Antichrist takes over the world, its a time, ironically, to rejoice. For it means Christ is on the way, right around the corner !! Yes, when Russia takes over the world via nuke attack on a sleeping America, it will be time to rejoice despite the horror. For the "sudden destruction" (1 Thessalonians 5.3) is THE sign that the Second Coming is "at the door"(Matthew 24.33; Mark 13.29).
If you look up the "at the door" passage you won't find "sudden destruction" right there. So it needs a little explanation. The "sudden destruction" is at the Rapture, rather, at the departure of souls at the Rapture(1 Thessalonians 4.16-17). For, 4.17 and 5.3 are just 4 verses apart. Going over Mt 24.33, we see the Rapture implied in 24.30-31. Where is the "sudden destruction" in this parallel passage to 1 Thess 4.16-5.3 ??
Well, "the stars will fall, the heavens will be shaken"(Mt 24.29) would do it. It conveys fiery destruction,
if you extend the metaphor. Not only do the fiery star-like objects "fall," they fall to the Earth. Fiery destruction coming from out of the sky TO THE EARTH. This explains the Rapture. Souls are departing the world as their bodies are getting destroyed by the "sudden destruction."
Not only that. That sudden destruction is directly tied to the Antichrist, aka "the Son of Destruction"(2 Thess 2.3), the DESTROYER. For we read, "That day [of the Rapture] can not come except the..Man of Sin, the Son of Destruction be REVEALED"(2 Thess 2.3). So the Rapture occurs right as the Antichrist gets exposed ["revealed"] as "the Destroyer." Revealed by the destruction he causes, or is responsible for. SO, the "sudden destruction" is the work of "the Destroyer," the man who elsewhere is called, "the Beast [who] makes war [and gains] power over every..nation"(Rev 13.7). Obviously then, the "sudden destruction" refers to the military attack by which this Destroyer takes over the world. (Pardon my rambling.I had not meant to go on and on.That's what happens when you try to explain something.)
11th Dec 2015 1:55pm
I enjoyed the introspective nature of this piece. I liked the use of the word "uncreated". It is definitely an unconventional concept, and one that is difficult for human minds to rationalize. Good work.
Thanks for your thoughtful critique. Your noticing of the word "uncreated" is a surprise. Thanks for mentioning it. Since I threw in a part about the Big Bang(or at least the darkness before it) it reminds me that i did an earlier Big Bang piece way back in the year 2000-2001. I included a version for DUP but I forget the exact title. I love the concept of the Big Bang -everything all at once from out of a nothing-sized orifice. Its quite extreme, counter-intuitive. Stunning. But then comes billions of years of like the s l o w e s t progress.(Galactic formation, etc) What a combination.
The fastest and then the slowest, ya see?
The fastest and then the slowest, ya see?
