Why would Abraham want to sacrifice Isaac, if not a picture that God would provide a sacrificial lamb? Why would Leviticus condone human sacrifice in Leviticus 27:29, when such sacrifice is unlawful? Except in the context that it meant One Devoted to God? That Being Immanuel? Why would Nehemiah tell the people to eat fat? From what I understand that's unlawful. Unless, it was to establish that the Jews were in waiting for a New Covenant? Why would Abraham be told, "Your Seed shall bless all nations?" Who is that Seed? Jacob didn't bless all nations. Rather, it seems quite clear that by Jacob, all the nations of the world were condemned to die. Why wouldn't "Almah" or "Maid" mean "Virgin"? Don't some words have two meanings? And if they do, wouldn't it make sense that a Virgin give birth to the promised Hier, whose coming would destroy Assyria? Rather than a harlot? I've heard it said that the woman was a harlot, but then that's only if you don't interpret the word "Almah" as "Virgin". What is the "Newly Created Thing" referred to twice in Isaiah? Why does it tell you to forget the old? Who's Soul is to be made an offering for our sins? Who was "pierced for our transgressions?" Why must we kiss the Pure, the One Begotten by God? My Bible says "Son", but you translate "Bar" as "Pure". So, obviously it makes more sense that the word be translated as "Son". Because a "Son" is Begotten. Why are there two everlasting covenants? Why did Jeremiah proclaim a new covenant? Why did Ezekiel say "Arise" to dry bones? If there is not a resurrection? Why did Zechariah name Jesus as the Messiah twice? As, Uzziah tried to reign as both priest and king, and was stricken with Leprosy. Why is "Joshua" in this instance, allowed to reign as both priest and king? Why did Job want a mediator between him and God? Why did Xerxes receive a dream that sounds like God's voice in Herodotus? Why did the conquering of the Aztecs look exactly like the Prophetic campaign of Joshua? Why did at the same miracles occur? Five hundred Conquistadors would defeat armies upward of five to one hundred thousand without any aid. Plagues descended which did not touch the Conquistadors or most of their armies? If the Aztec used inferior weapons, and that's why they were severely beaten, why did La Triste Noche happen? Why, in 1561 in Nuremberg, did two crosses do battle over the eye of the sun, and St. Paul's Cathedral was struck with lightning? Why is there a picture of the Dragon from Revelation on a Hindu Temple, and why does it look like an alien? How did Milton predict Atomic Bombs and the movement of the Universe, and also predict Postmodernism? Why does Orion have a sling and look like David? Why is there a giant figure---looks like a five year old's drawing---that raises up on the horizon in the direction of Orion's sling? Why is there a triangle in the summer, called the Summer Triangle, and there's an arrow at the one point of the triangle, and it points to a cross at the other? Why is the North Star very dim, when it used to be taught that it was one of the brightest in the Nighttime sky? Why does Cassiopeia look like a woman giving birth? Why is there only infinity existing in vacuum? Why does math work, and prove itself in the real world, even out to the most obscure equations? Why are we able to communicate? Why do all of the greatest sages in history come to ideas similar to that of the Bible's? Why do poets like Virgil and Lucretius find truths, logically prove them, and those truths are what the Bible had said? Why is faith called the "Evidence of things unseen, and the substance of things hoped for."? Why did the Hundred Years War and Black Plague follow a time period where a Pope was martyred, and Homosexuality was normal? Why is Christ's law in Matthew 5 - 8 so self evident, if He is not God Come in the Flesh? Why is Isaiah 53 in the Dead Sea Scrolls? Why doesn't the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicles prove Judah was a principality prior to Babylonian Captivity? Why does the Tel Dan Stele give verbatim the most obscure Biblical detail, and it gets it right? How does a feather evolve over even a trillion years? Can a frog turn into a toad, unless God made it so? Why did the Hammurabi's code get established right where the Biblical Genealogies date Abraham? Why did Hebrews worshipped God's Son before Christ? Why were El and El's Son worshipped in Mesopotamia at the time of Hammurabi's Code? Why does Moses line up with the cult of Aten in the Biblical Geneologies? If God were real, why wouldn't He reveal Himself? Why are there miraculous events described in Roman and Greek Historians which directly correspond to places where God would work? Such as Hannibal's invasion of Rome the sun blackened and the shields sweat blood, or the Sacrifice of virgins turning rivers to blood and made a moondog? Are we to believe that didn't happen? Why did George Floyd's monument get destroyed by lightning? Why does the complete History as given by Ancient Astronaut Theorists sound like it was describing demons instead of aliens? Why are there so many myths and stories that resemble one another? Why does every civilization, on every continent, have a mythology about a global flood?' If all things are vibrations, and Word is a vibration of air, and Jesus is the Word Who holds all things together,---what, exactly, can science do except prove that Jesus is the Word? Why would aliens demand human sacrifice, if they were not demons instead? Who would ultimately hold mankind responsible for all the suffering it created, if God did not exist? How could a man ever be forgiven without Christ? If sin must be punished, how else could a man escape Judgment unless that punishment were placed on Immanuel? Will you make the decision to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and savior, and will you repent of ALL sin.
Category: Christianity
Why I Cannot Be
Why I can't be an Atheist Is that I believe in good. I believe in evil. I believe in the supernatural. I believe in truth. I believe in a common shared experience. I believe in a moral certainty. I believe in sexual fidelity. I believe in monogamy. I believe in inherent values. Why I cannot be a Muslim Is because the religion teaches its adherents to lie. Frankly, this one concept in Islam is so blasphemous to my ears That in the face of persecution, Muslims are allowed to lie. To me, God's standard is truth. If you were a Muslim, and that God were true You'd almost be compelled to tell the truth. Also, I cannot see myself bowing to a rock; If not for the flawed laws in the Koran The constant prostration to a rock in the middle of a desert Shows to me, at least, that the religion is centered around idolatry And is nothing more than statecraft. Why I cannot be a Hindu--- Though there is no other religion I'd be If not for Christianity, the only other one Enticing to me is Hinduism. But, its myths have bad ideas about charity. It praises the prince who capriciously gives Two mountains of gold to two passer yonders Rather than to the prince who labors For twenty-four hours to give based on the poor's needs. It seems the religion advocates lazy charity; And it also believes in a Manichaeism, Making good equal to evil in strength. Which, I cannot believe either. And the very notion of becoming a god Is petulant, self serving and dangerous. I cannot believe in any religion That would turn its adherents into gods. Thereby, giving authority to men What is unjust to give them Due to our fallible and finite nature. I also cannot stomach Dharma or Reincarnation As if all life were, is about ending it, I find this view horrible and immoral. I think life ought to be celebrated, And rewarded for a good one with eternal bliss. I also find Dharma insufficient And lazy, so as to excuse the suffering of the poor And to excuse injustice, and so tidily chalk it up With reincarnation, giving justice to pointless abuses. Why I cannot be a Buddhist Is because I find no meaning in suffering. There can be no meaning in suffering. To me, suffering is pointless, and is to be avoided. I find the religion's founder to be gross; As he would sit among battlefields And meditate among the rotting corpses. He would sit in graveyards and meditate. He seemed, almost, so inured and disassociated from the world. He, rather than help others, simply bore great grief And I find that kind of inaction pointless And even dangerous, and at the highest degree Buddhism is self serving in every aspect as a religion. Why I cannot be a Shinto or Zoroaster Is the same reason. I cannot believe In an ordering of spirits To where evil ones are given equal weight to good. I cannot believe it, because I believe good is strongest And evil is simply a disfiguration of what is good. Evil is a distortion of the good, or it's something That distorts and therefore, is negative rather than something Positive. I find evil must be destroyed one day Fully, and that it cannot be dualistic Giving equal weight to both good and evil. I believe that good must be stronger than evil And one day destroy it, otherwise, I cannot believe in God, if God is in part equally strong as evil. Why I cannot be a Pagan Is that it is banal to me to believe That many gods and goddesses are warring Among one another. That they are all benevolent And thereby, each having its own aim Wars with the other gods, giving license to one hero And they all vote upon the virtues of man. I find this contradicts the very spirit of Good To say that good is compartmentalized In metaphors about war, love, oceans or hell. That is all Pagan gods and goddesses are To me, are metaphors. And I cannot believe Metaphors are powerful enough for me to believe In and worship---as that's a kind of idolatry which I will never succumb to. I cannot be a Mormon or Jehovah's Witness Because I believe in the Trinity. I find God must exist in Three Persons. Thereby, if One God exists And carries all the attributes of God Commonly attributed to Him, Then God must exist in three Persons. Thereby, I cannot also worship Michael, As both these Arian religions worship him. I believe no angel deserves our worship And that God the Father and God the Son Are coeternal, uncreated And existing for eterniy. Why I cannot be agnostic is Because I know a god exists. Why I cannot be a gnostic Is because I believe we must Do good here upon the Earth. I believe we must abstain from evil. I do not believe we ought to Simply live our lives however we want. I believe we should, Instead, be fruitful, give generously, Abstain from sexual sin and violence. I cannot, again, believe in Dualistic ideas Of a demiurge and aeon. Of a physical and spiritual world; As my entire philosophy on life Is that both the spiritual and physical Exist intertwined, and mutually coexisting; As intricately woven together As God is in the Flesh of Jesus Christ,
God’s Plane and Scale
Mr. Emerson, may I just attain What you said about circles. It makes me first get offended. As is true with all wisdom All truth, we resist it at first. We do not like things to be So simple, nor do we appreciate Patterns we ourselves have not attained. Yet, looking at the mountains The trees, my palm, my fingers My gloves, the rocks, My calves, the cow's horns The lizard's ovular body The worms, the fly's which are Shaped like eggs, The grasshoppers which are shaped Like fingers, the bird's Which are shaped almost ovular The frogs, which when scrunched Are like a little oval The bushes which are ovular too... And cats and dogs and horses when they lie down. I do say I see the pattern as well. And I do believe I have a theory on why. Pi---being infinite, as is the infinite measurement of the curve--- Must inherently be the natural order of geometry. So everything, running off, and smoothing over by rain And evolving over time, Naturally must produce a circle. As, Pi is the natural shape, the natural Number of nature, by which all other things are dictated. Surely, it has its subtle imperfections Making each specimen different, But given the natural shape of all things Are likened to a circle--- And what is straight Often we can assume was man made, How men create things in squares And nature its circles--- I do say it's an offensive little thought. That I hadn't attained it first--- Maybe I equal you in genius For giving an explanation as to why--- Is it the infinite reality of Pi Which causes this? That number naturally representing The geometry of a curve Therefore, randomness must Inherently, be shaped into curves. For, the patterns in nature show That all things, built by God, Are as a curve. Men build in squares And God builds with circles. Because men must shape our environment To order, and God must shape His environment To the natural world toward that infinite Shape, that infinite number Pi. And Mr. Emerson I do not plagiarize you Rather, as you said about great poets Writing in an age where there are few, We take all things and make them our own. But, my solemn task is finding in the past Things which ought to be remembered by all For a better future. Another peculiar thought. It seems that man is the only creation Of God's which is like a rectangle. For, the Golden ratio By which men create and shape their world, Is dictated by the rectangular shape of our body. No other creature is dictated by its rectangular Form. None which I know. For, they are either cones, spheroids Or outright shaped like circles. The Human body, when standing upright Exhibits the Golden Ratio;--- That being Five to two. So do trees, so do bushes, But only human bodies seem to be nature's rectangle Which may be why we prefer them in our creations. But this strange ratio has been told to me By a much beloved professor When describing the Acropolis Which is fitted to our human shape;--- Which does appears in nature;--- Perhaps it is nature's rectangle Which we men are formed closer to---- Yes, it is most defined in our human form. For, perhaps these two measurements The measurement of Pi And the measurement of Phi, Perhaps these numbers are scientific Facts, oblong and shaping the world Through their infinite order. Perhaps Pi is nature's curve And Phi is nature's rectangle Both working together In their infinite measurements As if planed and scaled by God Like the Bible said, "Wisdom was with God when he Planed the Scale of the Earth". For, by observing this order, I am confident that God exists. For, these measurements create Upon the earth, and define all Aesthetic Beauty. That, and of course, Fibonacci's sequence; Which repeats itself through all natural shapes. For some reason, these numbers lay down the law Of how our natural world gets shaped by the Eons of textures and winds, and rains. And, certainly, to have such geometric certainty As this---for randomness cannot truly occur in nature According to these principles--- It must be that an architect, by design Created our world. And as certain as these mathematical principles are Which are observed in everything from trees To mountains, to rock formations And even the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls, So are the moral principles laid down by Christ As certain. Which, Mr. Emerson, Is my scientific foundation for believing in Him.
Vision of Prosperity
One day, alighted upon my fortune There came a weary traveler. She had found a wellspring of tales As seemingly old as time, Yet discovered they were new. "What have I found?" She wondered, as tales abounded Among the language of the Saxon. What were these? Rife with mystical creatures, Yet such was the fortune found That it suddenly appeared To this modern writer's Ancient poesy, That it was discovered And thus enjoyed For as long as time was kept.
Like Calculus; A Tanka
One can measure the Sermon on the mount, and like Calculus, measure That Golden Ratio to Calculate and find Jesus.
An Ode on Faith
An Ode on Faith What keeps a man, when Abraham is preached, From imitating him,---in murdering His son?---to, another's life, be the thief? Much the same that allows one, whose reading Of a poet, understand the clever Metaphors, and gives one's knowledge a truth. 'tis what allows a man knowledge; whispers In his ears the meaning of sweetest fruit. There is the literal, which, willing kills, Without concept lays actions bare and bald. The literal reading atheists fill Christian minds, searching deeply for a fault. Yet, we somehow know what a passage means, For that is why faith remains; 'tis unseen. Should man without this ability be, Such man, hell's stone be his foreboding vault.
The Strongest Case For God
The strongest argument against God Is this: People naturally understand right from wrong. I have a way I want to be treated. And I want to treat others that way. I also, want others to be treated well. Therefore, I know this about myself So I want this to be applied to others. Why it fails, is that there are many masochists. There are many sadists. There are many people who enjoy war; Many people who enjoy pain; Many people who enjoy causing others to suffer. It also fails, because what is true for one man Isn't necessarily true for another. What sexual appetite one person has Might be repugnant to another. What desire one person has Might inflict pain on another By mere economics. One in forty women I meet Would rather date another woman Than me. What's even worse Is that one in two will divorce me If I ever took the risk of marrying them. One in nineteen people I meet Are still a virgin. There is also the subject that A baby can be destroyed in the womb. There is also the subject that Some want drug use to go unregulated. There is also the subject that There are blacks who want to segregate the West. There are women who want every man to be convicted of rape. There are men who want pedophilia to be normalized. There are whites who want to usher in communism. There are educated people who are tearing down monuments. It is because of all of this That I stand firm in my faith.
The Strongest Case For God
The strongest argument against God Is this: People naturally understand right from wrong. I have a way I want to be treated. And I want to treat others that way. I also, want others to be treated well. Therefore, I know this about myself So I want this to be applied to others. Why it fails, is that there are many masochists. There are many sadists. There are many people who enjoy war; Many people who enjoy pain; Many people who enjoy causing others to suffer. It also fails, because what is true for one man Isn't necessarily true for another. What sexual appetite one person has Might be repugnant to another. What desire one person has Might inflict pain on another By mere economics. One in forty women I meet Would rather date another woman Than me. What's even worse Is that one in two will divorce me If I ever took the risk of marrying them. One in nineteen people I meet Are still a virgin. There is also the subject that A baby can be destroyed in the womb. There is also the subject that Some want drug use to go unregulated. There is also the subject that There are blacks who want to segregate the West. There are women who want every man to be convicted of rape. There are men who want pedophilia to be normalized. There are whites who want to usher in communism. There are educated people who are tearing down monuments. It is because of all of this That I stand firm in my faith.
Son of Scylla
So, David had sowed a seed---a king, And that King was Solomon. So did Satan once sow a seed,--- And that seed was Death. By the rape of Bathsheba Came into the world Solomon. By the rape of Scylla Came into the world Death. Why does God choose one man And another man He hates? All do their crimes,--- Yet one is destined to heaven But the other is destined for hell. It is an offensive thing, This cross. Great offense That two men, having lived one life One could be sent to paradise; The other sent to hell. I suppose that is the very breadth of it. Two men, exactly the same, One finds God While the other, he will not. What divine messenger spreads God's Word, It is to one eternal life So to another it is eternal damnation. What separates the two, in All likelihood, Is the beating heart. Two men live perfectly symmetrical lives, All which determines grace or gory pain: It is that beating thing beneath our chest. Keep it good, unstained, Though one had done what David had done, One will still see eternal life.
Atlas
I stood, with the heavens on my shoulder. If I could get a man to look up The earth should be saved. However, I had committed offenses Against man, and as the preacher Does, I held above me the pillars of the earth. The mountainous daggers above me The sinner's abyss below me. I, I stood with the heavens upon my shoulder. "Look up! Look up! There is a God, "There are His angels, and His Cherubim "And his Seraphim, and His Archangels, "And Messengers, and His Nethanim, "And Cherubs, and those sleeping in the grave. "There is a world beyond our own. "If you'd just look up, "And unburden the heavens from my shoulder "And hold them with me "The earth might be saved." The men stood, saying, "There are no heavens. "There is only the earth. "The stars are falling, "But we do not perceive them. "The heavens are shaking, "But we do not want them to be. "Terrible misfortune has come upon us all "Yet we, we wish to live like we always had. "Believing in great mysteries about ourselves. "For we are too preoccupied with the things of this world "To even look up, and see the stars have fallen. "To even look out, and see the seas are raging "Over their perpetual bounds." I looked upon them. "Men, men, countrymen, "Do you not see that I alone bear the pillars of the Earth? "Do you not see that I alone bear the heavens on my shoulder? "You have taken the Gorgon's head "And have petrified me. "For I can but stand, and ache, and stiffen my nape "Against an unwise generation as yourselves. "You do not see the disasters among you, "You deny the glorious reward on high? "What, what do you seek? "If I alone bear the heavens on my shoulder, "And you do not look up, "It will come crashing down on all flesh, "And I will but be a grain of sand "Weighed in the measure. "It would all fail, "And I will be dead, and you so with me." They say then, "The sky is falling, says the preacher. "Has he not always said this "From days of old? "Has the sky fallen? "No, I say it hasn't." To wit, the preacher gave one last breath One last desperate straight of his back And bore those heavens strong. Then, he collapsed under the weight of the heavens. The men stood in awe, "Has the Christian Preacher fallen under "The weight of his own prophecies? "None of his ill foreboding came true." There came a voice thunderous from heaven, "Love has departed from the earth. "Men, seeking to be like the beasts "Have succumbed to their primordial pleasures. "Thus, your own hell will be by your own hands "That none, for a thousand generations, "Shall know what love is, "Or know what it is to have peace. "None shall know what it is to have joy "Or even know that there is a God. "This preacher has come to be with good men "And gracious women, "Who have all suffered, "But none so bad as the tyranny "Man had created when he said to God, "'Depart, I never knew you.' "Man wishes for God to depart, "God shall depart, and all the good things "With Him, while this preacher sleeps, "And shares in conjugal vows with his Creator."
B. K. Neifert 