Giving it all so He can give it all

Today I was thinking about my brain vs AI and started wondering how much ability God had provided for mankind, and if he had to withhold some gifts and mental power or something in order to maintain control of His creation.  And this puzzle led me to a realization that I believe is accurate and a great clue about how and why people are included in God's life forever.

Basically I concluded that God really gave it all when he created humans, I mean in general, not in a garden chapter sense, and all of his creative power was spent infinitely on our life and existence as people, with literally nothing withheld.  And his ongoing power and genius that in any way was "saved for later," includes us in that "later" so is still not withheld. So if he creates another world after heaven, his people will still be around to worship him for it.

Pretty quickly, this suspicion had to include Jesus and the cross as the main means that God kept us safe from any potential attempts at domination and rogue escape or disobedience, hostile takeovers, or any other foolish thing that beings have in fact tried to do.

God provided humanity with an all powerful loving king, himself, who died on the cross to finish a system where each of us is dependent on him for forgiveness and a restored status as obedient good people. We will glorify him and treat each other according to heaven's happy standards, and outside of that, people will be in outer darkness and prohibited from ever ruining anything for anyone else again.  The dear cost of love involved and the fact that the sacrifice was his son who is also God, is part of the non-negotionability of it.

So I really think this is a new spin on "nothing withheld." The bible says God did not spare his own son.  But I just want to say that is intrinsically connected to another way that God did not spare himself as a creator.  What else does this mean.  It means predestination.

Three Will

 Ok everyone, today in a writing presentation, we discussed a common theme of free will vs predestination, and I suddenly remembered the third thing in a trio that I thought about a while back.  I was trying to figure out if when you look for a third thing, the conflict goes away, and I do in fact have an idea for a third thing with free will and predestination.  And that third thing would be obedience.  So the idea is that there could be someone freely doing someone else's will. And then the next step would be to see if that trio lines up with the Trinity, and possibly it does.  The Holy Spirit goes where it pleases, God the Father ordains the world, and the son obeyed unto death.  I mean the problem with that is that all three persons are God so God does all three things and there is no need to divide it.  Like the son and spirit also helped create the world etc.  But anyway I look for the correspondence because it helps to see the actual construction of life and the way numbers line up.  And a lot of times, when you have a thing vs another thing, there might be a different way of looking at it and a third middle ground element being overlooked.  Well have a nice day everyone, personally I think I am onto something. They are saying to add this: It does kind of align with Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist theological emphasis.

Jonah and the Whale

 Hello everyone, this is a new worldly monk post about the book of Jonah.  Recently I was thinking about gradual memory loss and wondered if I would ever accidentally talk about “Jonah’s Ark.”  Well that would be embarrassing, but today at a discussion on rest, the speaker compared the Jonah story to a story of Jesus in the boat in Matthew.  Well I thought for a while and reflected on Noah’s ark being a boat story, too, and I discovered something so sweet.  If you think about boat stories, all the animals in the world got included in the story of Noah’s ark.  But what about whales?  They weren’t in that boat because they were in the water.  So God made another story that included a giant fish.  The fish is like a representative for all ocean animals.  And in the story, when it talks about Jonah praying, you can imagine the whale praying and being thankful for its salvation too.  So now I wonder who the new testament boat story included. I will have to go back and look at it.  I think there are a few boat stories.  I mean maybe it is a retelling of the other boat stories.  Well that is all, I believe this is a real biblical teaching of justice.