Celestial World Foundation

THE SECOND COMING

2024-07-14T23:49:00.000-07:00

There is a growing sense that prophecy in the Bible regarding 'end of days' is being fulfilled in our time, in this era. But we have to remember that even Christ declared "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." (Mathew 24:36 NIV). Christ himself discusses events of the last days leading to his second coming in chapter 24 in the book of Mathew, not the exact day of his coming but the events surrounding that time. The first four books of the Bible Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John are the four gospel books and biography of Christ seen from different perspectives. The book of Mark chapter 13, and Luke chapter 17 and 21 also discusses 'end of days' but not in the Book of John. Please note that these phrases "end of days", "end of times", "end of the age", and "end of the world" found in a different translation of the Bible has the same meaning.

THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM

I've chosen the book of Mathew chapter 24 to discuss the "end of days" scenario in the future. And as Christ himself said, "no one knows" about the exact date of the prophecy, but gave us signs and similar events to be able to determine the impending day when it's going to happen. At first, he foretold a prophecy about the destruction of Jerusalem: "Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; everyone will be thrown down" (Mathew 24:1-2 NIV, referring to the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem that materialized in 70 AD, 40 years after it was foretold by Christ). Then the account jumped to "end of the age" (NIV) prophecy. Christ intentionally connected the fall of Jerusalem to the 'end of the age' issue, for it was Jerusalem that holds the sanctity of all Israel throughout history, but it will be the same city, capital of Israel, who will reject Jesus Christ when he was executed, not by the Romans, but by the bidding of his own fellow Jews.

When the city of Jerusalem fell from the revolt of Jews against the Roman army, all the remaining Jews fled Jerusalem and all of Israel, hence they were scattered throughout the earth as foretold in Hebrew scripture (old testament, particularly in the book of Daniel- 9:27; 11:31; 12:11), and by Christ himself. Many perished in that tragedy, but for the newly established community of Christians, or followers of Christ, who heeded the warning, fled into the mountains and outside Israel and many were saved. Christ cited in Mathew 24: 15 the book of Daniel in relation to 'the abomination that causes desolation' (read Daniel 11:31) referring to the massive Roman army organizing themselves in camps outside Jerusalem as a sign for his believers to flee away from Israel.

That event happened in Jerusalem in 70 AD has similar repercussion to "end of times" prophecy that awaits fulfillment. Christ uses a lot of parables and figures of speech in his teaching, and it's the same in Mathew chapter 24, but part of it has a literal meaning (please read the whole chapter of Mathew 24). There are reasons why Christ connected the prophecy in the destruction of Jerusalem to the prophecy of "the end of times". Christ is fully aware that Jerusalem will fall in the near future and ascribed himself into the prophecy of Daniel, and by affirming the prophecy in front of his followers, he is not only affirming himself as the son of God who performs miracle but a prophet of God. For the first time, he foretells events that will be revealed before a greater prophecy will attain its fulfillment - "the end of times" prophecy.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE LITTLE BOOKS

We have to understand that the new testament was called little books written overtime by many authors within 50 years span approximately. The first one is the book of James written around 50 AD, 20 years after the death and resurrection of Christ, and the last one is the book of John written around 97 AD. These are estimates considered to be the closes (see: http://www.biblestudytools.com/resources/guide-to-bible-study/order-books-new-testament.html ). Interestingly, the book of Mathew was written around 67 AD, 3 years before the fulfillment of prophecy in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, an ample time for the book to be circulated to provide warning amongst Christians for them to flee the city. During that time, nobody knows if such prophecy will be fulfilled in their lifetime, but many take heed to the words of prophet Daniel and Christ regarding "the abomination that causes desolation" which is taking shape in front of them, and in first century AD, the only fearful thing amongst the people is the Roman Empire and its destructive army gathering outside Jerusalem, hence taking heed, Christians fled and survive the carnage in that event in 70 AD. Halfway through from the death and resurrection of Christ to the prophesied demise of Jerusalem, Christian spirit was spurred to write these little books to strengthen their faith and organization, unaware of the impending destruction of Jerusalem and their exile to different parts of the world, along with it the spread of Christianity. The last book 'Revelation' was written around 97 AD by apostle John in Patmos, Greece, completing the account of these small books the 'new testament' in a hundred years history, from the birth of Christ to the last days of apostle John, and the context of that last book 'The Apocalypse' (Greek) is "the end of times".

THE FLOOD IN NOAH'S TIME

Christ cited also the great flood during Noah's time "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man" (Mathew 24:37) referring to himself. A Son of God in heaven who was sent to the world, borne out of the womb of a woman and become the 'Son of Man', his first coming. Jesus used the account of the flood, not to instill fear among his followers, but to emphasize the importance of being aware, alert, and informed about his manifestation in the 'end of days'.

During the time of Noah, God concluded that mankind became evil, "The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time." (Genesis 6:5 NIV), hence God instructed Noah to build an Ark to prepare for the great flood. The Ark was completed approximately within a 50-year span of time, or within a human lifetime, considering that Noah bore his 3 children when he was 500 years old and received God's instruction to build the Ark, and it was completed when Noah was 600 years old (Gen 5:32, 7:11). During that time, he was said to be walking in righteousness among the people and hence, throughout those years of building a massive Ark, he had been announcing about the destruction of the world, but no one is listening, nobody is heeding. As Jesus indicated, people are living their ordinary lives before the flood came, unaware, "...people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage...[then] the flood came." (Mat 24:38).

THE SIGNS OF HIS SECOND COMING

As indicated, all the signs written in Mathew chapter 24 are literal, and self-explanatory, and can be enumerated in the following:
1. False messiahs, prophets, (verse 4,5)
2. Wars and 'rumors' (threat) of wars
     (verse 6)
3. World war (verse 7)
4. Famines (verse 7)
5. Earthquakes (verse 7)
6. Christian persecutions and death
    (verse 9)
7. Love will disappear because of
     wickedness (verse 12)
8. The world will learn about the good
      news of salvation before the end
      comes.

But someone might conclude that all these events had been happening since the beginning of civilization. And quite right, these events are not particular, they had been a constant part of human history, but the difference is their severity of impact in a single generation, in a short span of time that these are happening at the same time, and that the level of human "evil" had reached to an unpardonable state. The desecration of God's grace in the human soul by killing, mutilation, violence, and abuse - similar to Noah's time. As concluded by Jesus himself: "Truly, I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away" (Mat 24:34,35).

So in a sense, we can ask ourselves, when is the time that these foretold signs had started to manifest? For me, I think, during the second world war where a massive genocide against the Jews had been committed - reflective of the 'abomination that causes destruction' cited in the book of Daniel. And that this generation, children who witnessed the war, still had been witnessing the history of these 'signs', the evil of humans, and nature's destructive phenomena. As told by Christ, all these events shall have its manifestation first before the end will come.

CONCLUSION

Chapter 24 of Mathew had extensively discussed issues regarding the "end of the age", it's not an excerpt in the Bible to be afraid of, but an expression of love through admonition, warning, informing and giving a sense of urgency to believers. The citation of Jerusalem's destruction and Noah's flood is not to instill fear but to admonish everybody to heed his word, to be always prepared, like keeping an eye to the "abomination that causes desolation" that had been manifested and had been increasing in its intensity, in the middle east, Africa, and other parts of the world.

Christians are admonished to become "faithful servant" (Mat. 24:45), who is always prepared to serve "food" in its proper time. Fulfilling our role of telling the world about Christ, not about him, but the love of God through him for man's salvation, as foretold that the message (gospel) of salvation shall be told the whole world before the end comes.

There is this danger about fear, and if left unchecked, it will eat into everyone's faith and create a 'domino' effect. Sense of despair will seep into everyone's consciousness if a Christian will dwell into the destructive and negative understanding about the "end of the age", or "end of days" event. Christ foretells about the cooling off of love in the last days as an effect of wickedness, Christians should stand his ground against this evil, it is only this way, by keeping love in our heart, "who stand firm to the end..." are the ones who will be saved (Mat.24:13). It is not about staying away from "darkness", but standing in front of them, and become a "light", like Jesus who came to the world during the dark history of conquest and war by the Roman empire. Jesus didn't come to this world to destroy, he came bearing good news, to make an offer, and many accepted the offer, and he is coming back to fulfill his contract. As apostle Paul expressed himself about Jesus and Man: "the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.” (Romans 8.21)

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COMMUNISM: ORIGIN OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2020-05-07T09:12:00.001-07:00

THE FOLLY OF CCP’S IDEOLOGY AND CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

The coronavirus outbreak was planned and intentionally released based on the prevailing evidence sourced openly. The communist party regime (Chinese Communist Party- CCP) was in the brink of ideological breakdown brought by the Hongkong’s win in political maneuvering by the people and the military pressure in relation to Taiwan when US President Trump declared economic war against China along with the backdrop of protecting Taiwan from imminent invasion by the ‘Red’ army of the CCP (People’s Liberation Army-PLA)

The CCP had taken the word of President Trump’s declaration of economic war literally as an act of war against China and they are needing a retaliatory response that will turn the table in their favor, and one arsenal that they are keeping in their war room is the coronavirus, previously identified also in China as the SARS-coronavirus (96% DNA-similar) in 2013, and was extensively researched by Chinese scientists for unknown reason (if the research is for medical purposes, a vaccine could have been available at the outbreak of the Covid-19 considering that it was very virulent during the SARS outbreak in 2013 in China, but even western virologist in America and Europe was taken by surprised about the Covid-19 outbreak, indicating ignorance about the academic evolution of the Covid-19).

THE WORLD’S VEILED PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF COMMUNISM IN CHINA

People and world leaders around the world for decades had chosen to ‘blindfold’ themselves about what they see in communist China. This shift of perspective that China is ‘good’ was started when they opened up China’s economy, and gradually people around the world are happy that they see development in China and Chinese people became well off over time, along with that is the cheap products they can buy from China. Throughout these decades, the communist party was able to deflect scrutiny about their crime in their own land, namely, the persecution against religious minorities, Tibetans, and their own Chinese 'dissidents’, to the point of killing human lives just to further and uphold the CCP’s communist ideology (see also issues on human organ harvesting that had been gaining grounds in an international investigation).

Because of their so-called success in controlling their own people in China, the CCP and their army, PLA, had focused themselves to take Taiwan and the South China Sea for inclusion in their territory. For years they had planned strategies for the takeover but somehow was thwarted by the US intervention of selling more than $10 billion worth of military weapons in Taiwan and the presence of world's military power in the region - the US, France, UK, and Australia, including the Hague ruling in favor of the Philippines that put legal international justification in sailing contested waters in south china sea.

Last year, because of the tension brewing in the South China Sea and Taiwan along with southeast Asian nations, the world’s military powers had sent their flagship aircraft carriers in south china sea to prevent any conflict and dampened the threat of China’s invasion to Taiwan (These includes the US, UK, France, Australia, and Japan). These provocations according to the CCP are very offensive that one of their military Generals had even publicly uttered of “ramming” US warships in December of 2018 due to interference of the US in Taiwan-China conflict.

Behind this backdrop of conflict along with the recent trade war of China and the USA, Chinese laboratory had started developing their own research in virology after the first coronavirus outbreak in 2013, called the SARS outbreak, with the excuse of studying the recent outbreak and the nature of coronavirus. Fast forward to December 2019, the coronavirus 2, or the Covid-19 outbreak happened.

In the light of evidence coming out from the cover-up of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, and the disappearance of virologists and whistleblowers, the whole world is still refusing to acknowledge that the outbreak is intentional and pre-meditated. It is understandable that world leaders are trying to be civilized in pointing accusations to any country as there is no concrete evidence as to how the virus came to exists. But the CCP regime had the full knowledge unto the virulence of the virus that they even dumped truckloads of soil to every exit road from Wuhan of China in the 1st days of the outbreak to completely isolate the City. And while they are taking complete control in Wuhan, the CCP in WHO is working hard with WHO officials not to impose a travel ban from Wuhan, resulting in millions of Chinese traveling abroad and causing the pandemic that kills more than 200 thousand people at the time of writing this article. Adding to that, Wuhan authorities even organized a party in public, knowing that an epidemic had been brewing in the City, and these people’s families are the ones who came in contact with people who traveled abroad before the disease became a pandemic.

FACTS ABOUT THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK

1. China is a signatory to BTWC (Biological and Toxins Weapon Convention, signed in 1975), but China is prohibiting the world to investigate the Covid-19 outbreak and until this time China is suspiciously blocking all attempts from the international community to obtain all data about the outbreak, especially on Wuhan’s patient zero.

2. The world intelligence offices know that China has kept a biological weapons program under the PLA, China’s military arm.

3. Significant virologists who work in Wuhan laboratory appears to have disappeared, and the researcher of coronavirus in bats and pangolins also have disappeared from February 2020 after tweeting that the Covid-19 ‘could have come’ from Wuhan laboratory. Either she is under the custody of the Chinese military or in hiding as her tweet was the last one.

4. The research of coronavirus in bats and pangolins was the study of transmission from animals to humans in the guise of preventing any epidemic like what happened in the 2013 SARS outbreak. And while China is doing the research, with funding from the international community, the world had kept themselves in the dark about China’s biological weapons development.

5. World leaders, scientists, and the academe had the preconceived notion that China will never attempt to cause an epidemic or pandemic, as the international community view China as an equal and responsible nation, but fail to realize that China is under a communist regime who is always at war with anyone who goes against their ideology and doctrine, and very passionate to carry out by any means to topple their “enemy”, even to the point of sacrificing their own people to attain their agenda.

THE SIN OF IDEOLOGY

There are two sides of an institutional ideology, like nationalism and the concept of a Republic in a nation that benefits society, but there is also the extreme side of ideology in the likes of communism that controls society, either for the good of the society, or, inadvertently the demise of society. The CCP’s communism had followed discreetly the communism of Karl Marx, to the point of total control towards the people that they can applaud themselves as a success in marxism, as opposed to the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republic) of Russia that was dismantled in the 1990s.

The CCP managed to utilize the free market in the world to gain financial wealth in China and eventually became a powerful regime while using their own people as a production line for their wealth, and while Chinese people are working hard in factories, the wealth they have accumulated was used to acquire big companies around the world under the ownership of the CCP members, including to that is the expansion of CCP’s influence to many governments in the world. The CCP in China had been gaining momentum in trying to control the world and their main objective is to topple America as the dominant country in trade and military power (their latest was their silk road program) - a classic communist ideology on fulfilling a self-imposed prophecy of ruling the world.

America was able to sense the pressure exerted by China when they lost most of their manufacturing companies to China hence the election of Donald Trump, eventually, America had made a stand starting in a trade war and then to military influence to the region of southeast Asia. During these trade and military pressure brought to China by the international community, from the USA trade war and military expeditions from the US, UK, France, and Australia, including the retreat of commerce in China causing bankruptcies for consecutive years, there is a valid argument that the CCP intentionally released the virus that caused the pandemic of 2020 due to desperation and an attempt to turn the table by destroying the economy of other countries, especially the USA, as their last attempt to hold unto their power and influence around the world. Or, just a simple propaganda project of releasing the virus so that other countries will call for help that the CCP believed will divert the losing game they have with the US and Taiwan to the support of other countries when China extends their assistance during the pandemic. This propaganda was made obvious when the CCP regime demanded a congratulatory letter from other countries with regards to China’s handling of the epidemic but failed to realize one of their mistakes - banning the flight coming out from Wuhan that eventually killed tens of thousands of people around the world. Either the CCPs propagandist had made a wrong calculation, or they are just severely desperate to cause this pandemic.

This pandemic definitely is a man-made one. This ideology that can control people can eventually kill people as communism removes the fear of God and being replaced with worship on power. When people who possess power without God, their mind and conscience about the welfare of the people is non-existent, and because of this, they can only go forward to feed this addiction of power, even to the point of sacrificing their own people to attain their kind of twisted worship - the power to control.

This is the kind of ideology that prevails during Noah’s time before the flood... and it’s happening again.

The Lost World of Noah

2020-02-26T01:32:00.001-08:00

THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD OF NOAH

The book of Genesis in the Bible mentions about a world before a cataclysmic flood and referred to by Jesus Christ as a shadow for his future event:

" As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man." (Mathew 24:37)

It is notable to see that the divinely inspired Moses didn't discuss the prediluvian era and only written about 'fallen' angels who cohabited with women and fathered Nephilims (giants) who became renowned warriors and 'heroes' (Genesis Chapter 6), then destruction happened because of wickedness, corruption, and violence. The family of Abraham, approximately 420 years after the flood (10 generations after Noah, Genesis 11:10-32) who was chosen to become the ancestor of the Jews and the lineage of Jesus Christ, does not have written records about their past and it was only during the time of Moses that a written record had been established. They probably have oral and some written records about Enoch, great grandfather of Noah who lived before the flood, upon which the Book of Enoch (c. 300-100 BCE) had been attributed to. It was only Enoch who was cited by Moses and other Bible writers (Genesis 5:24, Hebrew 11:5) who is righteous enough to be taken away by God in heaven when he tells the world at the time about their wickedness, and it was believed that Enoch didn't experience death because of the favor God had shown him:

"Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away."

The Book of Enoch had extensively discussed the world of fallen angels called the 'watchers' and the Nephilims who ruled the world, and considering that Enoch had lived for hundreds of years and nearly a thousand year before Noah, it is understood that the pre-diluvian era had grown into civilization for many thousand years and they had a world inhabited by powerful beings who played gods among 'mortals'- the true human beings. These Nephilims are powerful beings as they are descendants of celestial angels whose God-given powers are unimaginable as they are considered engineers and architects of God's creation, direct workers of God in his celestial domain and are 'immortals' according to the eyes of men (one of these angels who was posted in the garden of Eden, a graced planet Earth at the time, was called 'satan' - meaning 'opposer', after rebelling against his maker).

Why The Flood

The nature of this prediluvian world can be understood by reading mythologies found and written around the world. They are the reflection of this lost world on how they lived and will shed light on the details of why God had decided to wipe them off the surface of this planet Earth. The most popular among these mythologies are the stories of Gilgamesh of Sumerian civilization, the god Zeus of the Greeks, Saturn of the Roman Empire, and Shiva of Hindu religion. The common characteristics of these myths are gods and goddesses who are powerful beings with "mortals" as their subjects and the world as their domain. Interestingly, the narrative of these mythologies involved brothers, sons, and fathers who belong to their kind of 'godly' beings who are at war with each other and causes havoc into the world they lived, a description that fits the word of Moses:

"Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence." (Genesis 6:11)

What kind of corruption and violence the world had before the flood that God allowed that civilization to be destroyed? We have to remember that religion, politics, and government do not exist in that epoch as these powerful beings, "men of renown" according to Moses, are the ones who played gods and goddesses among mankind, and that 'mortal' men as their worshippers. It is from these beings, from these "sons" (Angels) of God, and their children (Nephilims) that brought corruption on humankind - first and foremost is idolatry or worship of angels and their children, sorcery, magic, necromancy, and every unnatural practice that humans have learned from these powerful beings. It is an abomination that begets all evil in the human heart that until today, the aura of its corruption is seen in religion, the corrupt practices in politics and in government, the human inclination to greed, and the widespread 'shamanism' around the world.

"Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." (Galatians 5:19-21)

It is from this context that Jesus Christ declared Noah as his mirror for things to come. The "dissensions" and "divisions" evident in today's religion is similar to the worship of gods and goddesses in the pagan world of ancient times. It is not about who to worship that is important as if God is a dictator who will demand his children to worship him, but rather how we distance ourselves from others because of believing something that is different from others is how we became similar to the ancient world of idolatry. These practices around the world today abound in the form of religion, and differences in religion are actually one of the triggers of war, and somehow humanity is not able to bridge the gap on dissensions and divisions even after major wars and even after the holocaust happened, instead, it's becoming wider apart like the issue of antisemitism that had been persisting.

God had intended to create a celestial world where humankind is his children and he is the father, but somehow this plan had been stolen from him and for a while, humanity suffered. But God is not a father who abandons his child, and for that, he paid a dear price in the form of his 'beloved' son who sacrificed his life and the pain that goes along with it to redeem humanity.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16 NIV)

It is also noteworthy that Christ declared the planet earth for God's plan to materialize in his 'Lord's Prayer':

"In this manner, therefore, pray: 'Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."' (Mathew 6-913 NKJV)

This 'Lord's Prayer' is a model prayer that a person should be minding if a person wants to approach God. It contains the will of God that a celestial world should descend on planet 'earth' and be his 'kingdom'. This is the grand design of God and he already partially fulfilled it when he sent his Christ into the world. The completion of his design will happen in the very near future as he repeatedly promised throughout the ages, and this anomaly in his design brought by the 'evil' one will only be remembered as a blip in his everlasting domain.

A Tangible Evidence Of A Celestial 'Technology'

(See illustrations below this page)

One reason why God brought destruction to the world of Noah is the 'abuse' of power wielded by the inhabitants of that era. Apart from the use of magic and sorcery, the use of special 'technology' derived from 'angelic' powers is evident. Throughout this planet earth, megalithic ancient stone structures and monuments are found but researchers and scientists have difficulty defining them as naturally created by men with the use of simple tools. Take for example the granite stone sarcophagus located in Egypt that is chiseled with some type of machinery that only a diamond technology invented today can replicate it (Figure A).

A temple in India (Kailasa Temple) carved out from a granite mountain stone with geometric precision and detail, and as argued, stones cannot be carbon-dated as they lack carbon for the machine to read, hence, their exact date of creation and construction cannot be determined (Figure B).

The Stonehenge located in England that 'experts' believed was made around 3000 BC (others dated it around 10,000 BC), with the edges of some of the stones appeared to have been precisely carved in perfect plane or surface without any sign of carving tools that can be found in prehistoric times, that a bronze age can create a massive monument in British isle with the use of bronze metal is simply impossible, as one scientist put it like carving a wood using a plastic knife (Figure c).

The megalithic stones stacked together and found in many parts of the world, like the ones in Peru indicate the use of complex machinery, and if a machine is not available at the time then surely they are made or constructed by a supernatural power that does not exist in this world (Figure D, E)

The veiled Truth

The truth about the purpose of God for mankind is hidden beneath the heap of lies from people who are supposed to be learned and wise - the likes of priests and pastors, the so-called experts and professors, and others. The Bible offered us knowledge about our past and what to become in the future but religion had stolen it to cover our eyes. God and the nature of the divine being are not the disposals of religion but by God himself. Religion separates God from the real experience of a human being and confined it in the so-called 'Faith', and somehow become the accepted truth into the eyes of a person. When God says that you need to "believe" Jesus Christ to receive his reward of everlasting life, it does not mean you need religion or faith to do that, he simply means that we are living in a lie and to come out from that lie is to embrace his arrangement with Jesus Christ as his means of saving us, and finally accept this arrangement as the truth.

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6)

So what is the truth? No one is able to fully appreciate the truth or no one will be able to realize it if the person is not able to come across the lie first. The lie is us, and our existence in this universe. We may be breathing and living, and even having everything we want, but its a lie. Our life does not last even a hundred years compared to the eternal time that exists in this universe. We are but a speck of dust in this sea of time. We live a life outside of God's favor, and we are oblivious to the reality of our demise because of ignorance of the purpose of life, a life that is borrowed from God and we are not sure if we have the right to keep it. Christ came to rectify this lie and paid a price to it to deliver the truth - our true nature into the eyes of God. The only true thing at this moment of time is that somebody had whispered into our ear... that I heard it myself, he said: 'you are also my son'...

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Illustrations below:

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An Insight To Democracy circa 2020 AD: "The Hand of God"

2020-02-03T03:14:00.000-08:00

The word 'democracy' was first coined in Greece around 500 BCE, meaning "strength of the people" in governing a community, and it took thousands of years to become popular around the world as the choice of government structure in modern times. This concept of rulership has an intrinsic origin unto the need for justice, social order, and fairness among the society in Athens at the time. It is also in the State of Athens, in Areopagus (seat of State Council), five centuries after, that Apostle Paul had declared the "good news" about Jesus Christ among the pagan intellectuals of Greece (please read the Bible, Act 17:16-43). In this context, Paul had mentioned about "every nation", "appointed times", and boundaries of their lands" in his proclamation:

"From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he
marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands" (verse 26)

Apostle Paul, as an inspired messenger, had been declaring to the world about God's 'hand' or influence on every nation during an appointed time, to form nations and even creating boundaries of these nations, and from this inspiration, events had been taking place accordingly.

Recent events in Hongkong and in the UK before the year 2020 had revealed the inspiration of Apostle Paul's words about God's work on nations. Decades before the year 2020 the world had seen a tumultuous history beginning in China's claim to Taiwan, Russia's annexation of Crimea during the civil war in Ukraine, the ideological war of fanatism by the ISIS, and not to include the posturing of North Korea with the threat of nuclear war causing anxiety to the world. Amidst this tension, suffering, and deaths in the tens of thousands, a democratic process had been gathering momentum in Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom.

Scotland, part of the 4 nation Union (the rest are England, Wales, and Northern Ireland), had won the right to hold a referendum with regards to independence from the UK, but the majority of the Scottish people decided to stay in the Union in September 2014 referendum. This exercise of democracy is highly contrasted from the behavior of China and Russia during that time, where dominance and power are becoming the norm in international relations, that even the lives of people had been sacrificed to obtain territory, as what happened in Ukraine and ISIS-held territories. This democratic exercise in Scotland had signaled the world about the importance of gaining the consent of the people on how to govern a nation in a peaceful manner, rather than imposing the power of the government towards the people.

Unwittingly, the Scottish referendum of 2014 had triggered a sense of patriotism to the whole country in relation to the European Union. When the United Kingdom had sensed the burden being imposed by the EU during talks about budget, economy, and immigration, the issue of sovereignty had started to take shape on the side of the UK then eventually the EU referendum on 'Brexit' was born, culminating to the exit of UK tentatively at the end of January 2020. Interestingly, the EU referendum in June 2016, 2 years after the Scottish referendum, was done in a clean manner despite the rumor that the powerful EU will intercept the result. The allegation of manipulation in the Scottish referendum had actually ensured the clean result of the 'Brexit' referendum which is bigger in scope and with far-reaching effect to the world.

THE STRUGGLE OF 'BREXIT' AND THE WHISPERING OF GOD
The British people might be right in deciding to leave the European Union (a political body, not Europe) due to a sense of patriotism and sovereignty on their side, but there is also a subtle issue on the side of the EU that is gradually creeping in, which is the lust for power. EU is originally designed as an economic integration through EEC (European Economic Community) in 1957, but then it morphed into a political power that is touching all aspects of life among the citizens of all member states that we are seeing today, despite the existence of their own national government. There is even a plan to create a separate military power that the EU commission will have direct control, superseding NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) signed during the post-war era. It is from this context that Russia invaded Ukraine due to fear that the EU will be at their doorstep when Ukraine had signed up with the EU for cooperation in political terms, indicating a military alignment that is feared will usher in an era of war. Because of the EU's expansionism and pursuit of military power, some sectors branded them as 'Tower of Babel', a biblical account of people trying to be god-like but were scattered for their sins.

The EU had tried to manipulate the issue of Brexit forcefully for more than 3 years, to the point of hysteria among opposite proponents but gladly, the will of the people, the power of the majority, and the principles of democracy prevailed when the general election happened on December 12, 2019. This Brexit process of using democracy leading to the general election in the UK is quite interesting as it becomes the precursor in pacifying a volatile Hongkong during the 'umbrella movement' that had a resurgence in June 2019. This umbrella movement had seen the worst in trying to hold the government into account sacrificing even life in their protest and had the prediction from many sectors around the world for mainland China to occupy Hongkong and eventually rip off the policy of one nation, two systems. And from this viewpoint, China will eventually implement its plan that is already in the table to invade Taiwan and end the cold war between the two, so they say, without considering that Taiwan had already prepared itself for war and the US is on stand-by for such eventuality. Hongkong could have been the trigger for a global war if democracy was not exercised, thankfully, the quick response of the Hongkong administration to hold an election and followed it through had staved off a calamitous outcome in the region by preventing China to initiate an invasion in Hongkong in the nick of time.

Insight into these two events in history in Hongkong and in the UK will tell us that the will of the people is the 'hand' of God, and rightly so as we are his image according to him (Gen. 1:27). God's name YHWH (Yahweh, Yehowah, Jehovah, etc) has the deep meaning of "he who causes to become", the only bearer of a name befitting the title "Creator" - as declared by Paul and so shall be.

Ancient Civilizations

2019-12-10T09:15:00.000-08:00

A Lost Civilisation

The discovery of many megalithic structures and cities underneath sea levels dotted along the shorelines around the world, particularly in the equatorial area of the planet, proves the existence of a civilization in a prediluvian time mentioned in Genesis Chapter 6 of the Bible. Interestingly, most of these mega-structures under the sea level have been dated to be 12,000 to 14,000 years old, coincided with the sudden end of the already melting ice age due to a meteor strike unto the planet earth 12,000 (circa 10,000 BC) years ago causing the great flood. Many researchers today had been arriving at this conclusion due to the un-explained formation of these pyramids and megalithic structures found around the world with similar precision on how they were built. Take for example how detailed an Inca pyramid located in Mexico, and several stone structures in Peru compared to the undersea structure of Japan:

Chichen Itza, Mexico

Chinchero, Peru

Machu Picchu, Peru

Ollantaytambo, Peru

Sacsayhuaman, Peru

Yonaguni Monument, Japan

From this fact, we can easily conclude the veracity of Moses' account about the flood and the antediluvian (pre-flood) era of Noah and his family. These unexplained pyramids, megalithic structures, and intricate granite carvings in an enormous size in India, Machu Pichu (Peru), Mexico, and many parts of the world have an origin from the pre-flood time of Noah and his great-great-grandfather Enoch. During this epoch, people had lived for hundreds of years if not thousand, as stated in Genesis 5:27, that the father of Noah, Methuselah, had lived 969 years, as one of the examples. If we add the generation of Enoch who lived 365 years and Noah of about 600 years during pre-flood (Genesis 9:28,29), there are at least more than 2 thousand years of history on their generation, and not to include 5 generations between Adam and Enoch. From these accounts, based on genealogy and age of these biblical characters, we can conclude that there are thousands of human history that had been wiped out during the flood, and this might explain the megalithic structures, including the pyramids in Egypt, on how they were made, from a Civilization and technology that disappeared after the flood of Noah.

The mystery of the Atlantis City

Plato (Greek, 428 BC) had written about the Lost City of Atlantis submerged under the sea, that many researchers today had been looking for. Interestingly, when researchers scoured the oceans around the world for submerged cities, they found hundreds of sites in the Mediterranean sea, the shoreline of India, China, and Japan and they have common characteristics that one can conclude a planet earth civilization that once existed before they were submerged (see link below):

Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History

The Ancient Civilisation, So Advanced, It Has Confounded All the Experts

The actual Atlantis city could have been lost but these submerged cities, especially those ones found in the Mediterranean sea, could represent the Lost Civilization of Atlantis that had existed around the world before the flood. The impact of these discoveries could as well rewrite human history and possibly erased the prehistoric time and be replaced with the Lost history of humanity. Because there are no data existed during the pre-diluvian era, except for hieroglyphs and stone carvings, the academic community has difficulty connecting this lost history to our current academic learning hence the prevailing ignorance on how we came about as a contemporary society in this era. Time and time again, researchers, archaeologists, and scientists are scratching their heads to explain how these megalithic structures constructed during the prehistoric times of hunter-gatherer society.

Humanity now is in a crossroad, the academic world has to decide which way to take in relation to these discoveries and the analytical result of this lost history, and somehow connect this to the Biblical narrative as the truth. These emerging knowledge, despite the prevalence of "fake news" and disinformation in our society, will spread out in intensity and somehow affect the subconscious of the individual, especially those who are acquainted with social media.

"Alien" Is Also Written In The Bible...

2017-06-05T20:57:00.001-07:00

This footage Tells us that extra-terrestrials are here on earth, they are not necessarily aliens, they could be here earlier than us. That shooting light indicates a weapon that is trying to shoot a moving object that suddenly changed course. There is a power trying to protect the earth, they are here on this planet but hidden. This explains why high ranking officials from western countries talk about 'aliens' living amongst us.

This has a correlation to the Bible story of 'angels' who are here before Noah's flood. They are considered higher beings who adulterated humans by cohabiting with women and bore unnatural giant Nephilims and then wiped out after the flood. They were shunned from the earth and human contact, and to ensure that this is followed 'guardian angels' were posted on this planet to prevent other beings, who are no longer 'angels', to have another influence on humans (Bible, Genesis Chapter 6). 

But the Bible book of Revelation foretold a war in heaven and the rebel 'angels' lost the war, and because of that, they end up here in the earth creating havoc. Those signs written in that book indicating these events are happening in this era - the real "signs of the times" are here...the thing is, there is a sense that the situation is holding up, which could probably last a lifetime, similar to the time of Noah who built the Ark for at least 50 years before the flood came...﻿

Also, nowadays, researchers are scouring the world for the existence of giants connected to the data found in the Bible called Nephilims. See some of the discussions:

Love

2012-01-01T08:24:00.000-08:00

"...And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love." (1st letter of Paul to Corinthians [chap. 13], the Bible).

The very context onto the whole saga of life is love, not even faith can encompass the very essence of love. It is the very basis of God's creation, and mankind is intended to be the manifestation. Why love is the greatest among everything?, it is because Love is God himself. Apart from his creation that we can see and touch, love is the only thing we can feel in our heart in an exquisite manner, and in different types - towards God, towards family, to others, and to someone special.

We could have hope, or faith - we go to church, we pray religiously, and we practice all kinds of efforts to please God, but we don't have love, or that love is corrupted, then that faith is useless. So love is the measure of everything, what we do to ourselves and what we do to others is the very meaning of faith, or I should say the love of God. So faith or love of God is nothing without love to ourselves and towards others. As Christ himself says about the greatest commandment: "' Love thy God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind as the first greatest commandment', and the second greatest commandment is this 'love thy neighbor as you love yourself''" (The context of 'commandment' here refers to the laws according to Moses which includes the 'Ten commandments', and Christ is trying to sum up all the laws of Moses into two [The Book of Mathew, Chap. 22]). These two commandments are intertwined, an equal measure of love should be given to others as to oneself, and if we do this our love of God is manifested.

God acted first on love when he decided to create human beings, it was his very motive when he thought he wants to create. Not only with human beings that he wanted to share his intricate godly being, but that same human being to have full experience on love by creating an environment, the ethereal world, and the real world, to fully comprehend and experience Love. Love is also the very reason why God didn't gave up Adam when he committed transgression (The Bible, Genesis), not Adam himself but his children, through a special son, Jesus, son of God.

God can disown Adam straight away when he committed 'sin' and can bring him back to dust, and create a new Adam, but he didn't do it. He loves Adam very much (though he has to die because of his transgression) that our God decided to send a very special one, his "only begotten son", in the real world, to replaced Adam as the father of humankind. He can do this by atonement for his 'sin', and redeeming his children to be returned into God's grace, into his 'bosom' (hence his name 'Jesus Christ', meaning: God will save mankind by an appointed one from the ethereal world [heaven]). God's act of love through Christ cannot be measured, as the son of God is described to be 'his beloved son', and the Lord of all creation. The son is the only creation of God, "the only begotten son", who then created everything, including angels in heaven, which made him 'second in command' in the celestial heavenly domain. Jesus then was sent to the world to suffer as a human being, to experience death, only to fulfill God's love, on his lost child Adam. This is why Jesus, when nearly dying in the cross (or stake), after so much suffering had cried out and looking up in heaven, with his tears, had said: "It is done!" (The Book of John, Chap. 19). This context of love is much expressed into the most popular verse in the scripture, John 3:16:

For God loves the world so much that he gave his only begotten son, so that everyone who believes in him will not die, but will gain everlasting life.

But why the need of Jesus to die when Adam is the one who committed the 'sin'?. It's simple, Adam is the progenitor of human genes, and anybody that comes out from that gene is corrupted because of transgression against God, and its outcome is death. To remedy that, a human blood without transgression against God (without a sin) has to qualify to counter-act the transgression Adam had committed, and he has to die - such is the rule in the beginning and it has to be in the end. That's why Jesus was born out of a virgin woman, out from the holy spirit, as the "second Adam", without a 'sin', to finally crushed the ancient 'curse', and free the children of Adam from death by undergoing death himself, even though how painful it is to be - a very unselfish act of love from the son of God.

This is the love of God that came full circle - the saving of Adam by saving his children, and being fulfilled by the son of God, the lord of all creation, to become the father of mankind - the second Adam.

"Love thy neighbor as you love yourself"
To appreciate the very meaning of love according to Jesus is to recognize the circle of love - to God, to others, and to oneself. There is an emphasis on loving others but before anyone can commit to that a person should look to himself first on how much love he has for himself. Loving of oneself can be bad or good, but in general, a normal person has this natural self-love (see wikipedia/Self-love) that he should extend it to love others. On the other way round, we cannot exercise love for others and to our God if we don't have a healthy disposition in loving ourselves. Hence, in order to practice love towards others it is required to look after ourselves first, and how does one achieved this?, in many ways, like by being positive to oneself and avoiding matters in life that causes tension or depression (mental health, e.g., avoiding situation that will lead to suicidal tendencies), acting in dignified manner and not allowing oneself to be treated low (psychological health, e.g., avoiding despair due to separation from a loved one, also bulimia or anorexia), and another one is control of eating habit (physical health, e.g., eating unhealthy knowing it will lead to obesity ). There are plenty of ways to show love to ourselves, because if we don't do this, what's the point of showing love to others if we ourselves do not have it? that is called hypocrisy - we tell people to believe something that we don't believe.

Faith is the foremost display of self-love, although it is directed to God or to other things, it is the very instinct of knowing that you are connected to something good, and somehow keeping you up to your well-being, and that is for yourself. Without this self-love (faith) nobody can also profess belief on one's redemption offered by Christ. Hence, love of oneself is a necessity to save our self, it is a 'selfish' thing, but it's a divine one.

"Thy neighbor"
Loving others is the foremost essence of love. In general, 'neighbor' refers to everybody including friends and families, and it pertains to the general population in the context of God's commandment. We have to bear in mind that the scripture didn't give us any indication about discriminating from friends or families against 'neighbors' that we don't know, hence, the rule of loving others is an equal measure of loving people we know and to people, we don't know. It is only this way we can profess loving our 'neighbor' according to God's will.

Loving our neighbor includes loving people we thought are different like the infirm, disabled people, or the disfigured ones, the mentally ill, the homosexuals, and lastly and especially elderly ones who are often neglected because of their age. This equal measure of love is expected from someone who professes to love God, as God himself didn't discriminate about his love when his son died for each and every one of us. Anyone who has doubt about his love towards others will also have a doubt in God's love - for this is the very meaning of love, to love others.

Homosexuality
Other people might question this rule in relation to homosexuality, citing the Bible, especially the letter of Paul to Romans (Romans, Chap. 1[26,27]). But we have to understand the context of such written expression in the Bible, and has to be treated in a case to case basis. And in relation to Apostle Paul's letter to Romans, he is referring to Romans who had "gave up natural sexual relations" and had relations with each other. These are men, or women, who are naturally inclined to the opposite sex, but then eventually chose to be with the same sex, hence they are not 'naturally' homosexuals. These are hedonists (for pleasure [Greek Hedone], see also sodomy), who practice all sorts of behavior in pursuit of self-gratification or pleasure in flesh, and it was widely practiced in pagan Roman times when Christianity is outlawed at the time. Hence homosexuality, in essence, has never been discussed in the Bible, for such reference is alien during Roman times. Apostle Paul would definitely understand the case of homosexuality, especially in modern times when it is considered as hereditary or genetic in origin - that means homosexuals have no choice in their sexual orientation, and cannot be blamed on any action they take in relation to that orientation, as long as they are certain that they are inherently inclined to such behavior.

Wrongdoing

How about if somebody committed wrongdoing against you, or you learned that somebody committed wrongdoing to somebody, is that person entitled of love from everyone?. It is interesting to note that Jesus has the last say to such matters. According to Apostle Mathew (Mathew Chap. 5, NIV), he quoted Jesus who said: "If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.". Which is a hyperbole, something to emphasize the meaning of love. We don't turn our other cheek to be slapped, it simply means we go beyond understanding in showing our love, with no retribution, no judgment, why?. As the greatest of all teacher, I'll give Jesus the last say: " You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

The Circle-of-love is very important, it is the template for life, happiness, and joy. And it is also the hope for life...not only for this world but for the world that is coming. And love will be the driving force for its fulfillment, and for everything. Two thousand years ago, Apostle Paul wrote this in relation to love (1 Corinthians chap. 13, The Bible, English Standard Version):

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

END

The Creation

2011-12-05T04:13:00.001-08:00

This might be a very controversial blog that I might create, especially to religious people, it will touch the subconscious of individuals, from different parts of the world.

God exists! (depending on what kind of God that is playing in your mind), how so? just try to look into your hand - everybody should count it with five fingers, then look into the other one, and its the same - five fingers. But look closely, your hand has a form, that is proportionate, from those five fingers in relation to your palm, isn't it beautiful?... but I'm not talking about the beauty of your finger or your hand, I'm talking about what have they created, worked at, had written with words, and what kind of life you have created for all those years. Your hand exists, it's there, but your hand won't exist without something behind it, and it's you, the person, behind the hand...

Each person in this planet is a hand of God, we are moved in common behavior - our conscience, aspiration in life, of justice, and the desire of love, nobody is exempted, except for those people who fall short from the general expectation of society (the good society).

Going back to my main point, the Biblical Creation is not a '7 days Creation', it is the stages of Creation, meaning - an order of Creation. The world is not created within 7 days (168 hours), which is too fantastic for a speck of dust to turn into gold. For a recap, the biblical creation goes like this in summary (by Good News Bible; Collins, The Bible Societies):

The first day: "let there be light"...then he separated the light from the darkness, and he named the light "Day" and the darkness "Night" - This is the 'big bang' where the planetary system was created and stars appear in the backdrop of the dark universe.

Second day: "Let there be a dome to divide the water and to keep it in two separate places"...he name the dome"Sky" - the formation of Earth from dust and ice water that produces atmosphere, the term 'sky' contains the clouds or separate body of water in the atmosphere that produces rain, it took billions of years to form.

Third day: "Let the water below the sky come together in one place so that the land will appear"...and named the land "earth" and the water that had come together is "Sea", "Let the earth produce all kinds of plants" - creation of vegetation - plants will not appear if there is no viable atmosphere. Science also has already established that there is only a single continent on the planet millions of years ago before it moves to several continents, a chilling similarity.

Fourth day: "Let lights appear in the sky...to show the time..." - the creation of time, the precise movement of moon, and the Earth, in relation to the sun to create a 24 hour time in 365 days, this is the stage where a day is created (there is no measure of time yet before this stage, literally, so the first day onward are not literal 24 hours day)

Fifth day: "Let the water be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let the air be filled with birds" - creation of sea animals and animals that fly - this stage corresponds with science that sea creatures had evolved into legged creatures and came out from the sea which corresponds also to the next creation, land animals in the sixth day, and it happened millions of years.

Sixth day: "Let the earth produce all kinds of animal life..."..."And now we will make human beings..." - the creation of land animals and then man - also, science says that man is the latest creature that appears in Earth, and the Cro-magnon man has the earliest time of existence, from 90,000 years, compared to animal creatures that appear first for millions of years.

Seventh day: Rest day - we are still in the 'Rest day' stage, wherein God will find out if his creation will fulfill his wish to 'populate the land' and 'subdue' it. Meaning to look after the Earth, our World, and become his children...if its to happen, that is still to be seen.

God didn't exist if he has no creation yet, it takes created beings to utter such word and to invent worship (belief or faith). He was described to be infinite, no beginning and no end, he is time itself and he is the space in the universe, and he is the very origin of energy (where the infinite atom is created and the building matter of everything), and he is life himself that never dies. Interestingly this life that we had hasn't met its death yet, it passes from one person to another through birth and ageing. Man dies but life persists... and he has personality, for where on earth did we get our personality? our soul? as he says "we will make man in our image" - end.

Knowledge of good and bad (Dec 11, 2011)

This essay is a highly condensed thought on billion of years of creation, it is a creation and I am not stealing ideas from scientists', it happened that science was recently established in our society, and it's fitting that we can use it for this new era for debate. All knowledge is owned by God and can be used for him. Anything good that comes out from the human brain is a product of God-given thought and can be used by anyone who is inclined to glorify God. God is the first democracy, wherein he asked for the first human being to make a choice, by giving a command for two choices: " do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and bad... that if you eat from it you will definitely die!". It is one command but it as a 'dialectic', meaning, God had instilled to the human being the power to reason, and making choices. Why on earth he will tell the first human beings about the knowledge of 'good and bad' if he is not trying to induce the power of reason? or the simple inducement of curiosity?.

The first human Adam and Eve might have thought "what is good and bad?", when they heard it for the first time they already exercise their God-given power of reason, despite not understanding its meaning... as they are fresh as created beings.

This is true to human history, according to records, that our creator had given us a 'blank sheet' in our brain hence pre-historic times is a society of cavemen, until they developed into community wherein archaeological evidence starting to appear. This took thousands of years until they become a society and developed their own government or ruler-ship. Human civilization, according to God's plan, is not a ready-made one, it is now apparent that we have the perfect human form but not the perfect life, or know how to live the life he gave us. Initially, we only have the conscience given to us as instinct, and some other form of instinct, but they are very basic. It's up to the human mind to develop himself and figure out what is the real destiny of humanity. God has a plan, but that plan is relative, it's up to his creation to come up to something that he desires, that's why he gave us 'free-will' (see the Bible, philosophy, and other written books), and in no way, he will alter the course of humanity unless we fall short of his expectation, which is, regretfully, it happened ( this is a different subject that I wish to elaborate, please read my article Love).

How about the phrase "if you eat the fruit of knowledge of good and bad...and you will die". Does that mean that knowledge will result to death?. Not at all, this only contradicts his desire for humans to have free-will, that means deciding according to the knowledge they gain in their course of life. So where is 'death' fits in the story?. We have to remember that God put that 'tree of death' associated with the knowledge of good and bad alongside with the tree of life, in the same 'garden'. Bible scholar will say this is a test for the first human to follow God or not, which they fail, which I also agree. But why it is associated to the knowledge of good and bad? Is there more meaning to it than what can we understand?. In this point of view we have to realized that our creator is not only God of the past and of the present, he is also the future - and he knows the future based on the things he sees at present, he is the ultimate 'oracle'. So when he said knowledge of good and bad will result to death, he is also saying that without him, and if human being decided to live by their own and setting by themselves what is good and bad (making laws), the result will be an imperfect world, and will result to large portion of human death - WAR.

Freewill and Sin (Dec 22, 2011)
The other issue associated in the "tree of 'death'" and the "tree of life" is choice (the exercise of free will), upon which God had asked the first humans "Adam and Eve" to have nourishment in the tree of life but not on the tree of knowledge of good and bad, which he means self-determination or government of man. God didn't just make a test towards the first humans, he implicitly asked them not to touch the tree of 'death', so they are informed on what it is and its implications, and its only a matter of choice for them to decide what to do. It's a simple instruction from a father towards his children and telling them what will happen, but sadly they made a wrong choice, with the help of a deceiver.
The story of the deceiver ("snake," "Satan"- meaning "opposer", a rebel angel) is partially to blame because it was Eve who was deceived, who then enticed Adam to follow her. Adam, the father of human being, on the other hand, is well informed as he knows God for a long time before he realizes that he is alone (see written scripture, Genesis - the Bible), and that God eventually created Eve for his company, and hence Adam has no excuse to be deceived, as he is well informed about the will of God. In the end, after he committed the act of transgression towards God, when he was confronted, he denied he was at fault and mentioned Eve who offered her the 'fruit', putting blame on Eve, and eventually to God which he said "the woman you gave me...". Adam, naturally, as the head of the family, has to take the blame, and that means to accept the penalty of death, and a state of having "sin", not for him alone but for his family. It is not instant death that they have to go through, but the dying of life, a consequence of falling out with God, hence the story of shunning them away from garden of Eden, a place where the 'tree of life is located', which is actually a figurative place, it is a human state, where God's grace is flowing towards his children, and life is everlasting.

This short story about what happened at that time is the very basis of the human existence at present. It is a biblical story but its the only story we found from historical events supported by manuscripts and historical people (Moses, the author)...and we don't have other stories around the world that can match the originality and authenticity of such events, and every detail of the story matched the logic of any man who can come across to such events.

The Human Wisdom

2011-11-24T09:50:00.000-08:00

The human mind is so vast that our science considers it as another universe, with a different kind of vast space into each individual, and 95% of it is still to be discovered, not by somebody else but the person himself.

The human brain is a physical matter comparable to a mega-computer that contains millions of gigabytes or even billions. I believe this is so due to the power of human reasoning, that any mega-computer can't break through. Reasoning is the level that any machine cannot make a cross-over, that makes their limitation absolute.
95% against 5% is a ratio denoting a general accepted truth from an informed public, not necessarily a scientific data (scientific research is using 2-3% margin of error, arriving to 98-97% as the scientific truth), so how did I arrived to 95% 'undiscovered' part of our human wisdom?. It is actually a metaphor for the potential of our human brain and intelligence, for what more we can do in the future, as science says that every individuals lifetime utilizes only small portion (average 5%) of their brain capacity, how much more if we have longer life, if we used more than what we can at present, does that mean we have more in life than what we are seeing now?...we have to start imagining, I think we have to, to know if there are more to life than what we see in this lifetime.
A practical analogy is given to us by science itself, anthropology is coming now to a conclusion, that our recent 3000 years history is an explosion of human civilization, compared to ' tens of thousands' of stagnant human history. This is also comparable to the 'hockey' stick (being used by climate change proponents), that for a prolong period of time, throughout thousands of years of human history the human brain is stagnant, and at the end of the timeline (end of the stick) there is a sudden spike of human activity, of human brain activity, in writing and in inventions, so much so that this last 100 years it is considered an extra-ordinary leap in human history through inventions in technology and scientific discovery.

So what am I arriving at?. I'm saying that there is a big 'leap' in the human wisdom, that our untapped 95% brain capacity (capability) is starting to open its gate, and what we have at the moment is only a trickle of it, from this past 3000 years...
This 5% capacity of our brain (or 10% as commonly described), is being debated, refuted, and debunked by other scientist, as they call it the 10% myth of our brain.

The problem at present is that all scientist agreed they haven't fully studied the brain and there are more that are needed to learn, and if you ask them how much more data and understanding they can extract from the brain, and surprisingly they don't know the limit of learning or data they can have from our brain (or our mind). So I believed we can presumed that at present learning the brain or our mind is an indefinite one, not sure when will it end, so to point out an argument, it is plausible that our brain still has 90% unused (or I should say capacity/capability that is still to be tapped).

My other argument to this as well is that for thousands of years humans existed, it is only this last 10,000 years that the human brain had flourished into writing, inventions, and social organisation. From those tens of thousands of years the capacity of the brain is so simple that if we bring our present technology to them, in the past, they won't be able to understand or recognized such technology, they will definitely consider it as alien to them, and will consider such technology as something that came outside of this world, not realizing that it is a product of the human brain that came out from the future.

This is what I mean the 5% (or 10%, depending what context of metaphor you want to use) capacity of the human brain, in the past, even in early prehistoric time, we have the same size of brain as the prehistoric man, but that same brain, overtime, it produces astonishing development of knowledge and technology only within thousand of years, how much more if we wait several thousand of years?, what more can our human brain produces during that span of time?