Secrets of an old tree

God left us hints

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If you were to attend a 3 act play, all 3 acts would be important to attend in order to have a full understanding of the purpose of the play. When we come to earth, we are entering the play sometime in Act 2. We don’t remember act 1 and we’ve even missed a lot of Act 2, and have only fragmentary glimpses of what has occurred since the beginning of act 2. Of course it is difficult to see or understand why we’re here, what our purpose is and what our destiny is after this life. But there are answers. From the beginning God has revealed certain truths through the Holy Ghost and through ministering angels. He has called prophets to teach the truth to others to know how to direct their lives and fulfill our purposes in this life.

Here are certain truths. We existed before this life as literal spirit children of God. He was our Father and he loved us. Our families here on earth are a pattern of Heavenly things, which tells us we have Heavenly parents. We lived and learned and progressed there with Him, but we needed certain experiences and we need a chance to obtain a physcial body in order to be like our Heavenly parents. Gender is an essential characteristic of our premortal, mortal and postmortal existence. He put a plan into motion to bring this to pass, to help us continue in our progression to become more like Him. If you don’t believe me, ponder the scriptures (Jeremiah 1:5, job 38: 4-7). He directed one of His most special spirit sons, Jesus Christ to create this earth (St. John 1:1-10). Once it was created he placed Adam and Eve here. He gave them commandments. He knew that we would necessarily need to be separated from His presence in order to be tested and be able to prove ourselves worthy of the glory that He has. For you cannot enjoy His glory without possessing His characteristics and attributes. Thus, this is an opportunity to learn; a time to be proven and progress. He knew we would fall short, and so from the beginning chose a Savior who would provide an atonement in order to satisfy the justice of the celestial laws that govern His kingdom, and yet also be able to provide mercy to those who have fallen short. This Savior is Jesus Christ. He was the literal son of God, because His literal Father was Our Heavenly Father and his mother was Mary. Jesus fulfilled his mission, worked out the atonement and died. He then rose from the dead and appeared to many – His disciples, several women and Paul states that up to 400 brethren at once. He also appeared to other faithful people in other parts of the world to confirm their faith and preach His gospel – the gospel of faith and repentance, of baptism and enduring to the end (refer to the Book of Mormon). His atonement makes it possible for us to repent and become more like Him. I know that these things are true. God has promised those who seek truth, light and understanding that He will answer if they ask; if they knock. He will answer your prayers through the Holy Ghost, whose fruits are described as love, joy, peace, light and understanding.

Before true faith can be exercised in God, you need three things: first, you need to understand the true nature of God and His characteristics. Second, you need to understand your relation to Him and third, you need to know that the life you’re living is in accordance with His will. You will not be able to exercise faith in Him without these things.

The scriptures can help you understand more about the nature and characteristics of our Heavenly Father and our relation to Him. Personal prayer can confirm these truths. But then you will need to conform your life to the light and truth that you receive in order to receive more. Line upon line. It takes effort and desire and work, but it is possible and it is necessary. As you do so, you will find understanding and peace and purpose, and if you continue in this path, you will one day be able to enter the Kingdom of our Heavenly Father and will be met with the greeting, “well done, thou good and faithful servant”.

If God knew that we would sin, why did he create the world?

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If God knew that we would sin, why did he create the world?Our tendency in answering this question is to look at it from a man-centred perspective: what’s in it for us? Wouldn’t it have been better for us never to have sinned?

But the answer that the bible gives challenges us by taking a God-centred perspective. And it makes us step back and ask an even bigger question:

Why did God create the world at all?
God didn’t create the world primarily for our benefit, he did it for his glory. He created a world that would display his glory most fully and most perfectly. That is to say, every aspect of God’s character could be shown in its most extreme form.

If God had created a world in which no one sinned, what aspects of his character could he have shown? His creative power, his loving-kindness, his provision for his people.

But what about his mercy? Or his justice? Or his wrath?

And would we have seen even his creative power to its fullest extent if there had been no death and therefore no resurrection?

Could we have known the greatness of his loving-kindness if he had not shown it to faithless Israel?

Paul explains something of this in Romans 9:22-23
‘What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory…’

God’s wrath expended against unrepentant sinners demonstrates the riches of his glory, just as his mercy shown to the elect demonstrates his glory.

The tree of life

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Once upon a time, in a land far away from where we stand , there was a tree in top of a hill.

The tree stood tall and strong through every season and war. I hadn't been back here since

8 years ago. The closer i stood to this tree, the more energy i was absorbing, this was strange.

The tree was attracting me , something made me go up the hill like a magnet. As i approach

the tree , right away i notice something carved deep in the tree. Immediately my whole life

flashed before me and was in a state of shock. This is what was written "Still here".

What's so special about that? Eight years ago I was just as clueless as I am today. I had

been looking for this big secret but only found more secrets . I stepped back and looked

at the tree again. The secret had been here all along, but as always life doesn't give you

answers right away, but if you ask you shall find. After this point my life had a major

changing point into the realization of who I was.

So what was it that made that carving so special?

This tree has been here for decades surviving even the harshest winters and there it stands in

front of me again 8 years after.

What do you think I learned?

Biocetrism

2011-11-08T22:13:00.000-08:00

Bio-centrism is a new way of looking at everything we know.

Ponder on this, all and everything that is around you, would it all exist if "you" weren't here?

That's the question that changed everyone's mind and are now finally we can say that we
are in the right track to actually understanding existence itself.

This whole time we have looked upon science and religion to understand who we are without
understanding one simpler concept which is "ourselves". imagine this:

You are walking down a path , you look down and see a caterpillar. I noticed the beautiful
caterpillar crawling away. At this point i wondered how does he view me? Although it is not
even close to my understanding i can assure you they have a different perception of reality
much more different than ours. They have senses to go about it therefore we conclude
they have a sense of reality.

We humans have 5 senses. We use these 5 senses to deal with everyday life. Based on these
5 senses we conclude our reality. These senses make up everything we are and know. We are
a box with 5 holes. We get flow from only these 5 holes, but in life as we learn we can ALWAYS
think outside of the box. If nothing can exist without you , we must conclude that everything
starts with you. Consider the well known two-hole experiment. When scientists watch a
particle pass through two holes, the particle acts like a bullet which goes through one
of the holes, but when they don't watch, it behaves like a wave and can go through both
holes at the same time!

As weird as it sounds, it's true and has been done by many scientists and none are able to give
you the exact answer. Truth is when life is looked at a different perception things are what we
can call "weird". We can not truly explain them , they just are, but that doesn't mean that we can
never learn them.

Time and Space are a product of your mind. It's what keeps you in this reality. Time and space
without consciousness means nothing therefore we conclude consciousness brings both.
Space and time are products of consciousness .

Our future present and past are all interconnected . The future can affect the past , just like the
past can affect the future etc .The quantum principle shows: The is a sense in which what an
observer will do in the future defines what happens in the past.