How did mankind learn to swim? No other creatures swim like us ?
Or. How did our species learn what foods were nutritional and to cook?
Or. Fire. How did man learn the use of fire and to harness its power ?
Many of the things that we daily do like reading or speaking or writing were passed down to us by others .
Imagine the intelligence it took to discern these things from nature!
The point of this "how did" vignette is to foster greater appreciation for our forebears, and for ourselves, by looking at the environment in which we live; at our cars, houses, planes, ships, boats, submarines, bicycles, guns and bullets, bows and arrows, and everything else that was made, outside of nature, itself, our unique species has made & passed down!
We have written sacred scriptures of poetry of ourselves. In these psalms, hymns, proverbs, wisdom books, gospels, testaments, Vedas, Surahs, songs, chants, we ardently wondrously ascribe to divinity, to some deities apart from ourselves, the genesis, apotheosis of all that is, that was, or that ever shall be.
To these deities, to our gods, or to our God, be they (singular or plural: or singular yet plural), we attribute omniscience, impute omnipresence, consign omnipotence, in the sacred pages of our holy books that we worship.
We give our gods cosmic powers, prescience, even personality, i.e. God repented, God is jealous. Our holy books describe our special deities' acts of creation. We sculpt, paint, carve images of them and create philosophy and theology about them, wherein we attribute many facets of mankind to them.
So, how did mankind truly learn to worship? To praise, to pray, to love?
To study, to read to write to speak?
You are a fact of nature and a force of nature. You! So, think on these things for yourself . Look around, sweep around your own front door!
As is said in Philippians 4:8:
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise , think on these things."
Amen!

Tuesday, June 14, 2016
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
How did mankind learn to swim? No other creatures swim like us ?
Or. How did our species learn what foods were nutritional and to cook?
Or. Fire. How did man learn the use of fire and to harness its power ?
Many of the things that we daily do like reading or speaking or writing were passed down to us by others .
Imagine the intelligence it took to discern these things from nature!
The point of this "how did" vignette is to foster greater appreciation for our forebears, and for ourselves, by looking at the environment in which we live; at our cars, houses, planes, ships, boats, submarines, bicycles, guns and bullets, bows and arrows, and everything else that was made, outside of nature, itself, our unique species has made & passed down!
We have written sacred scriptures of poetry of ourselves. In these psalms, hymns, proverbs, wisdom books, gospels, testaments, Vedas, Surahs, songs, chants, we ardently wondrously ascribe to divinity, to some deities apart from ourselves, the genesis, apotheosis of all that is, that was, or that ever shall be.
To these deities, to our gods, or to our God, be they (singular or plural: or singular yet plural), we attribute omniscience, impute omnipresence, consign omnipotence, in the sacred pages of our holy books that we worship.
We give our gods cosmic powers, prescience, even personality, i.e. God repented, God is jealous. Our holy books describe our special deities' acts of creation. We sculpt, paint, carve images of them and create philosophy and theology about them, wherein we attribute many facets of mankind to them.
So, how did mankind truly learn to worship? To praise, to pray, to love?
To study, to read to write to speak?
You are a fact of nature and a force of nature. You! So, think on these things for yourself . Look around, sweep around your own front door!
As is said in Philippians 4:8:
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise , think on these things."
Amen!

How did mankind learn to swim? No other creatures swim like us ?
Or. How did our species learn what foods were nutritional and to cook?
Or. Fire. How did man learn the use of fire and to harness its power ?
Many of the things that we daily do like reading or speaking or writing were passed down to us by others .
Imagine the intelligence it took to discern these things from nature!
The point of this "how did" vignette is to foster greater appreciation for our forebears, and for ourselves, by looking at the environment in which we live; at our cars, houses, planes, ships, boats, submarines, bicycles, guns and bullets, bows and arrows, and everything else that was made, outside of nature, itself, our unique species has made & passed down!
We have written sacred scriptures of poetry of ourselves. In these psalms, hymns, proverbs, wisdom books, gospels, testaments, Vedas, Surahs, songs, chants, we ardently wondrously ascribe to divinity, to some deities apart from ourselves, the genesis, apotheosis of all that is, that was, or that ever shall be.
To these deities, to our gods, or to our God, be they (singular or plural: or singular yet plural), we attribute omniscience, impute omnipresence, consign omnipotence, in the sacred pages of our holy books that we worship.
We give our gods cosmic powers, prescience, even personality, i.e. God repented, God is jealous. Our holy books describe our special deities' acts of creation. We sculpt, paint, carve images of them and create philosophy and theology about them, wherein we attribute many facets of mankind to them.
So, how did mankind truly learn to worship? To praise, to pray, to love?
To study, to read to write to speak?
You are a fact of nature and a force of nature. You! So, think on these things for yourself . Look around, sweep around your own front door!
As is said in Philippians 4:8:
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise , think on these things."
Amen!