Spiritual Thoughts

In God We Trust

More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN Published: April 26, 2009 New York Times

Not often am I driven to comment on other people opinions, especially when it has to do with Religion. Yes, I am happy to discuss my own beliefs and to shoot from the Rooftops – there is a creator and God did come down to earth in the form of a man to lead us into the light.

When the New York Times has such a headline I cannot resist wondering what these people believe and how they can be so sure that they are right and there is no God.

Once I was an agnostic. I was willing to wonder if he existed. Bottom line I was not willing to totally deny his existence.

In my quest to understand, I took the time to read the bible, read various authors discussions looking at the question from both sides of the table and eventually came to realize no matter how deep we go in exploring our Universe and how knowledgeable we become about the subatomic particles and the structure of DNA, we always seem to find that there is still more to learn and that we come to a point where when we turn the next page in our scientific exploration, there are still mysteries out there that with all of our science we cannot explain.

Chaos, so many believe that out of disorder will come order; well, when I look to the microcosm and I look out to the universe what astounds me is the beauty, the majesty and the order of it all. Only an artist could create the Star Nebula, only a composer could compose the symphony of sounds we hear deep in the words at night, only a master craftsman could form such a beautiful universe and build our planet.

What concerns me even more is that without what God taught us through Moses, who first wrote down the ten commandments; and then when Jesus condensed these down to two very simple one – love god and love your neighbor then what?. If we do not believe in God then we are also saying we do not accept that we all must live to a common set of moral standards. Anarchy would rein and the evil would overpower those that have the sense to figure out what God is said to have taught us.

Darwin wrote of evolution. Yet he did not say that all things emerged from the ooze. He simply postulated that species could evolve. With evolution as an understood reality I looked to the first chapter of Genesis and came to accept three things. First the day that is written is not our day. How could it be, the earth did not have day and night until the fourth day? The day that is described in Genesis is not our daysbut God’s day.

In a previous post I spoke to these seven days described in Genesis and found that even evolution is of Gods making. Only someone with his power could set in motion the mechanisms that would allow a bird to evolve and embrace its environment.

Finally, I accept and want everyone to have a voice. What I would also hope is that their voice is what it is. That it is the voice of a minority. Let them speal and be heard, let the majority ultimately decide. let us all remember that we are taught to love our neighbor therefore we must and will love everyone and help them to live with their beliefs in peace as long as they respect the peace.

All I suggest is that the Athiest study history, that they truly understand and listen to the greatest of scientists and are open to change. Stephen Hawkins, probably one of the greatest thinkers of our time recognized that even though he identified that “This Universe” emerged from the “Big Bang” he knew that without a creator, someone to have caused the light. that explosion of matter and energy, could not have been and without someone to establish the constants and help the dust to form planets. Without his intervention there would still be an expanding universe of dust. energy and nothingness.

When the Atheist can finally explain everything then and only then will they are able to say there is not God. Until then as long as we cannot move from that which Newton found, to those principles that Einstein understood, to the new learns that our great scientists reveal then there is only one plausible answer. Our universe, the cosmos and all that we known, don’t know and will never understand are God’s work.

Our Financial Market must embrace the spirit of Social responsibility and avoid the power of the Dark Side

Geithner, as Member and Overseer, Forged Ties to Finance Club

JO BECKER and GRETCHEN MORGENSON – The New York Times Published: April 26, 2009

Did Timothy Geithner help or assist in bringing Wall Street and the world at large to the brink of disaster? A brilliant man yet was the force of the Wall Street lobby able to easily sway the path of the New York Federal Reserve to allow risk that lead to the collapse.

Morals and a solid foundation of right, wrong and mutual satisfaction must return to the market if it is to be the leader of the world. Has the financial market been seduced by the dark side and falls fowl of the seven deadly sins (Greed, Pride, Sloth, Gluttony, Lust, Wrath and Envy)? They in the end should be the machine that assures liquidity and assures the foundation of our economies ability to grow and prosper. Losing their way and focusing on their personal wants and not the needs of everyone is a disaster worth of the fallen one.

I am happy to see Wall Street and the City of London prosper as long as they remember Jesus’ two commandments and embrace them as part of the principles and goals that drive their actions.

Is God the joining of the Earth Father and The Earth Mother into one flesh, that which we call God

This morning my common law partner and I were embraced in the oneness God created to bring man and woman together as said in Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and will join with his wife and they will be one flesh. and Again Jesus says in Mark 10:6-8 But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife.and the two will become one, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Again in Matthew 19:4-6 Matthew once again quoted these words from our Lord Jesus. In each of these passages God, both as father and son state very clearly that Man and Woman will bond and will become one with each other. we can see this as the beginning of what we know as the intimate act of a man and woman when they physically join as one.

Yet we must think deeper than this. Not only does man and woman join as God has ordained they also find deep and lasting enjoyment in this joining of the flesh. For each the feeling and the sense of intimacy is different. For the man, who I can speak for, it is an act that can, in some instances, be overpowering, it is an act that requires work as the man enters and pleasures his wife. It is a demonstration of his power and is work. For the woman, I can only imagine, it is a time when she receives her man within her womb. It is a time where she shares in the intimacy of the oneness and it is a time where the woman cherishes and brings comfort to her husband.

So this oneness of a couple must also be a demonstration of the difference between man and woman. The man is the stronger and more viral participate while the woman is the more giving and receiving participant. Is it in this, God ordained the merging of flesh, that we begin to note the differences God built into man so that he would be the stronger, the one that would go out and work the fields and hunt for food. While the woman is the more sensitive one that focuses on building binding relationships and meets her man in an act of intimacy pleasing to the two, reproductive of the species and most importantly a way of demonstrating her cherishing and giving spirit.

From these thoughts I then remembered, in Genesis 1:26 God said, “let us make man in our image, after our likeness”. This plurality suggests that God is not alone and that he made man in the image of the maleness of God and woman in the femaleness of God. Does this suggest that God is actually two who have joined as one?

Then we read of angels and wonder from where they come. Maybe it is from the joining of the male and female that is God.

Maybe the ancients or the gentiles who believed in concepts of an earth mother is simply an expression of the half of God that is female. Is it these same ancients who saw the powerful images of Zeus and Apollo, were they simply recognizing the maleness of what we know now as the one God, the union of the earth father and the earth mother?