Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, July 11, 2016
"VAIN IMAGININGS?"
"VAIN IMAGININGS?" NO WAY!
Everyday is a day of thanksgiving.
The biggest bang is opening your eyes with a reasonable portion of your renewed health and strength.
Einstein said imagination is greater than knowledge. Ebbing with still challenging relativistic knowledge , his work was replete with imagining. From the iconic e=mc^2 to displacing Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity.
But, why simply stop with physics or mathematics ? Why not extend the aphorism further into the outer limits of demonstrable probity, should such there be, imagination being infinite.
Why not imagine God? Why not imagine the cosmos? Why not do it?
"Vain imaginings" are only "vain" to those who do not allow themselves to imagine. These are they who contend with themselves, against themselves.
The power of imagination is explained at the Tower of Babel in the Book of Genesis 11:6. There, "The Lord said, 'Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: now there is nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do.'" That's power!
There is nothing vain about imagining nor about human imagination! Do it!
Although the Apostle Paul suggests in 2 Corinthians 10:5 that we: "Cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ," Jesus says:
"Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' doubting not in his heart, but believes that what he has said will come to pass, and it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours ." Mark 11:23-24.
That is purely imagination applied!
Imagination is of the heart and knowledge is of the brain. Man is both! Matter & spirit; heart & brain.
Therefore free both! Be both in God!