Category: theology

There is a metaphysical reason why seeds grow. Even before seeds and plants in our natural universe, there existed in the spiritual plane, and even the plane of the soul, the principle of sowing and consequence—seeding ideas and events. Seeds grow according to their kind because this follows a law that already existed in Heaven before Earth was ever made.

Part of “proper seeding” includes a stage of semi-death. Seeds “die” in a sense before they can grow. If they are planted before “dying” and drying, then the may rot. But, a seed can be cooked or ruined with poison to a point where it has a “second death” from which it can never recover. A seed that has died its “second death” won’t grow, neither will a seed that has not died it’s “first death”.

Ideas can be “seeded”. We often wait to gain our desire to pursue, learn, or get involved with a thing until after we feel as though we have “missed out”. While many things we might be able to enjoy if we maintain an early work ethic and don’t take opportunity for granted, some things we will never want to pursue until the seed dies its “first death”, making us want to spring up from the ground in pursuit of restoring what came before.

This is all part of the Law of Sowing and Reaping, which existed in Heaven before it governed the chaos of farming in the earth.

Whatever is properly killed and put into the ground will grow back in kind, multiplied from what it was before—it’s the Law. This is why persecuting Christians causes Christianity to spread—not by elementary arithmetic, but in powers of ten. Many governments have faced this dilemma of trying to stamp out Christianity, but only failed because true Christianity—without walls or bureaucracies—is the embodiment of the Creator of nature’s chaotic order.

The Law of Sowing and reaping causes luck, both good and bad, wealth, poverty, joy, sorrow, opportunity, emptiness, and it was even at work during Jesus’s crucifixion just as much as it will be at his valiant return with the resurrected Christians who died their first death.

John 12:24, Galatians 6:7

Stewardship is ultimately “responsibility”. When we take personal responsibility for whatever situation we find ourselves in—not for being placed in the situation, but for the situation itself and our response to it—we gain the personal power in the moment to make a difference. No one can grow big without first being smaller. Growth at any stage is just as valid as any other stage of growth.

If you want more, do well with what you have. All you need is the situation right in front of you. Life is not a horror story, where the answer is not in the room. God made the natural and spiritual multiverse and He put an answer in every room. If you can’t find the answer, keep looking and keep calling on the Creator to illuminate the eyes of your heart to see what answer has been there all along.

You will never move past your current position until you find a solution that has “already” been there. Often times, an evil lie deceives us into thinking that an answer “already” there would be bad or insulting and our inner arrogant pride won’t allow us to accept the truth of “alreadiness”. Swallow your pride and look for the answer under your nose. If you want a bigger and better situation, do well in the situation you currently find yourself in.

Many families, businesses, and nations have gone bankrupt, whether morally, socially, or economically, all because the should-be “responsible” persons deeply believed that in order to have more and move on to the next step, they needed to obtain what they didn’t already have.

“If I only have that car, that house, that business, those tools, a nicer bicycle, a newer spaceship—if I can only get more, then I will finally be just fine.” This idea always leads to covetousness, occasionally theft, and eventually poverty. It is the driving worldview of the “conquering dictator” who believes invading other lands will finally feed his people. Nothing could be father from truth.

Everything belongs to God, even our circumstances. We merely steward our surroundings. Be a responsible steward where you are, only then will God entrust you with more.

Matthew 25:14-30, Luke 16:9-15

Flesh is where our eternal, sentient states of being occur in the natural plane of the multiverse. In the flesh, we work, move, hunger, and tire. While flesh is our main place of consciousness and holds the primary eyes through which we see, flesh is not the seat of our eternal existence. Flesh can be killed and remade, but our lives live on.

Flesh is weak and limited. This serves to teach our eternally transcendent hearts eternal values, such as patience and priority. When we must choose between telling a hurtful lie or going hungry, the source of such questions comes in our flesh, but it is the eternal virtue of the heart at the crossroads of those moral questions. Without the flesh, we would not have these dilemmas to grow our hearts.

The flesh being a temporary existence, separate from yet linked to our eternal consciousness, gives us a way to have one foot in the world of physical work and another foot in the moral realm. The concept of a patriot—who, according to Thomas Paine, must protect his country from its government—is rooted in this dilemma of the flesh. A martyr is willing to lay down his life in the flesh for an eternal cause of principles, freedom, and truth.

Sin and addiction live in the flesh, which we must be forgiven of in the eternal sense and must battle against the temptations of every day. Work we will be rewarded for in Eternity is done through the flesh. Marriage is a union of the flesh, but not the eternal consciousness, hence the marital vow, “…to death do us part.”

Jesus entered the flesh. While morals are eternal and must come from above, we understand, work out the math, and otherwise explain those morals through our flesh. One of the greatest graces given to Humankind and all creation is that Man is given flesh which needs rest, high maintenance, and will one day die on its own. Because of this, the work of devils in our flesh cannot endure nor can our sin. After the first death and resurrection, sin will have no power over our resurrected flesh—it’s the Law.

Romans 7:14-25, 2 Corinthians 7:12, Revelation 20:6

The human spirit occurs at a higher plane of existence than flesh; the soul exists higher yet. Jesus’s spirit is the Holy Spirit.

The human spirit is emotion or energy. Sometimes the sixth sense is a “gut feeling” delivered from our subconscious as it evaluates past and present circumstances, only providing unexplained conclusions. Part of the subconscious consideration of our “gut feelings” include memories and subtleties, part of those subconscious considerations also include senses that we receive from our own emotions detecting other emotions in the room—from our spirits detecting other spirits in the room.

The soul and the spirit are not used interchangeably in the Bible. While the Bible refers to a human “spirit” when explaining emotions and intangible social atmospheres, a non-human “spirit” refers a consciousness without flesh, and the soul refers only ever to the eternal value, exclusive to a human. This is how the Bible uses the terms “soul” and “spirit”.

The soul is the place of our elemental choices on which our morals are constructed. While morals must come from above, we must choose whether we are willing to adopt those morals. That willingness exists at the high, otherwise unexplainable as much as inexplicable level of the human soul. While the Bible is silent on what specifically the soul is, we know that it is more eternal than the spirit because of the great value placed on the work of Jesus to even save our souls.

In all Biblical logic, some choice in our souls was the basis for selecting which names would be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life and it likely contains our actual, eternal memories. The human brain—merely in the flesh—is not the actual storage of memory, but only a buffer or an “information cache”. Our brains may forget, but our souls do not. While in the flesh of this lifetime, our memories are limited to only what our brains can cache; but the soul could contain many, many more.

These realms cannot be accessed from natural science. Quantum machines may touch the soul and spirit realms, but can only affect—or damage—nature. The spirit and soul are higher—it’s the Law.

Matthew 8:16, Mark 5:25-34; 6:13, John 20:22, 2 Timothy 1:6-7, Hebrews 4:12-13, James 1:21

Worship is an offering, only receivable by God Most High, givable from every realm—spirit, soul, flesh, mind, truth—any realm imaginable. Worship must transcend every state of existence. Once cannot worship God in truth, but not in spirit. One cannot worship God in mind, but not in good deeds done through our flesh. To worship God requires worshiping Him in spirit and in truth and in deed and in mind.

Our thoughts about God and His creation are a form of worship, as our the good actions to bring justice and quality work into the physical world around us. Singing music causes vibrations and harmony in the natural realm as well as emotion in the spiritual realm. But, we can worship God in spirit through silence. The most controversial form of worship is always the spiritual realm because it does the greatest damage to the evil spiritual beings—demons and devils—who live seated in that spiritual realm. Emotions can scare those who don’t learn the self-discipline and responsible stewardship of choosing their own emotions, thus “emotion-phobic” people can often be afraid of worship in spirit. But, just as every human has a spirit, so must every human learn to worship in spirit lest one’s worship be incomplete.

When we worship God, we connect our own existence to Heaven’s, even reaching directly to God’s inmost heart. The love, joy, adoration, good will, praise for deeds well done by His loving hands, thanks, and love of loving Him are all part of the emotions of worship in spirit.

When we worship God in the realm of our deeds, His splendor enters the world affected by our deeds. Just the same, when we worship God in spirit, the spiritual realms of our lives thrive with happiness and power for the angels to work and help us. When we worship God by stating the truth and having right beliefs and a healthy, positive thought life, God’s Heaven comes into our minds and thought life, making is a bountiful place of joy.

Whatever your circumstances, worship God from the midst of them; never wait for circumstances to be what you want first. Worship God first—it’s the Law.

John 4:24, Ephesians 6:18, Colossians 3:16-17

Every structure shadows the base on which it is built, whether area, manner, or strength.

A foundation determines the size and specific location of its building. It thus keeps the building in place, preventing it from wandering or sliding. A castle build on sand will collapse because it is not suited for the ground on which it is built. If you live on a sand dune, don’t build a castle, build a grass hut. That way, when—not if—it falls down, it won’t be that big of a deal. If you can afford a castle, however, buy appropriate real estate.

This Law of Foundations governs other Laws themselves. Every Law in Earth exists as it is because it was made in Heaven first. To pray for God’s will to be done in Earth as in Heaven is to pray for Earth to be aligned with the foundation of its existence: Heaven. Evil sprouts from the attempt to contend with the Laws written in Heaven, hoping to rewrite them. But, Laws can neither be rewritten nor invented by those whose very existence is governed by them.

The American concept of “government of the people” founds the government upon the consent of the people so governed. Government, therefore, rebelling against its people is as much an absurd self-degradation as the evil attempt to change the Laws written in Heaven.

Foundations affect learning. Strong elementary skills will speed up education that follows. Likewise, friendship is built on trust, not excuses and loopholes. Companies, countries, institutions, and families without moral direction always implode. Morals are a foundation.

Bigger, taller buildings need foundations complex, agile, and strong enough to withstand earthquakes and sway from wind. Strength is not brittle; it must be elastic enough to adapt to stress, yet maintain its identity to prove that its original form does not change once that stress is released. Justice must be blind so as to be impartial, but not deaf to the needs of the needy. In this, mercy and grace provide the agility needed to keep justice unbreakable.

Nothing is stronger than its foundation. Structures built atop shaky foundations cannot be re-founded, only condemned, demolished, and rebuilt—it’s the Law.

Matthew 7:24-27, Romans 15:20, Ephesians 2:19-22