My intentions

[James_Lai]

Hello.

I start 10 threads a day Hard to keep up. Too much free time on my hands I guess.

Thank you for your patience with me and thought-provoking and educating conversations.

People say to me, are you genuinely seeking Jesus or are you baiting for a debate? Is your mind open to hear truth or is it closed and there’s no use in casting pearls before your hardened heart? What’s your real agenda?

So I’d like to say that I think I am a true seeker. I also try and analyze what I do and why. What prompts me to research and understand Christianity.

I think my intention is to make sense of this life. Religion offers some answers. Could be true! Worth considering.

Life is short. Have to settle for yourself who you are and where you’re going. Not a trivial exercise, but a necessity.

This is the intellectual side of things. Then there’s inward, spiritual quest… Another big and frankly, fascinating subject. How do you meet God and how do you experience Him, how do you really grow your mystical faculties without self-deception? If any of it is true and valid, of course.

An overarching theme in near-death experience accounts is God saying in His unconditionally loving voice, “You have a mission in life yet to complete, so go back, my dear child”. This is a very intriguing thing for myself, is there a mission for me? Is it generic, such as “practice love”, or is it more concrete, like “raise your children well” or “find cure to cancer”, I have no idea.

Every second of life is so so much interesting! Oh man…

 

[Ophiolite]

I start 10 threads a day Hard to keep up.

I start one thread about every ten weeks.

If you spend much of your time talking it gives you little time for listening. I've very rarely learned anything worthwhile when I was talking, only when I was listening. If there is a God perhaps he gave us two ears and only one mouth as a hint.

 

[James_Lai]

I start one thread about every ten weeks.

If you spend much of your time talking it gives you little time for listening. I've very rarely learned anything worthwhile when I was talking, only when I was listening. If there is a God perhaps he gave us two ears and only one mouth as a hint.

Thank you. I do listen! Sometimes re-reading responses several times. That’s the whole purpose. Learned a lot.

I used to think I had good 60 years of life ahead of me. Lately I changed my perspective in this regard, accelerating my religious seeking and generally making adjustments to priorities. For example, I reconnected to people in my family I practically lost any contact with for a long time.

 

[James_Lai]

I start one thread about every ten weeks.

If you spend much of your time talking it gives you little time for listening. I've very rarely learned anything worthwhile when I was talking, only when I was listening. If there is a God perhaps he gave us two ears and only one mouth as a hint.

I love biology. Symmetrical body and having two of some parts is a big subject if curiosity for me. Brain in two hemispheres of unequal functions and each controlling two latteral sides is one of the reasons for our mind’s contradictory nature… Two-faced Janus, Yin and Yang, even the Lego movie has the good/bad cop character...

I read about experiments on people that had corpus collosum removed or damaged and so signals received from left and right ear/eye were processed completely differently! Same for tasks performed by right/left hand.

So maybe it does make sense how husband and wife walk side by side or on which side of the bed they sleep I guess it works best if the lady’s rational hemisphere is directed at the man, and his emotional side turned towards her, and NOT vice versa A bit of pseudo-science here

Or righty or lefty people, where one of the hemispheres takes a resound dominance… And artistic people (unfortunately) benefitting from alcohol or other drug consumption which suppresses the logical left hemisphere and gives the steering wheel to the creative right hemisphere… Lucky rare leftys: imagination and creative thinking is built-in… Or take people who have equal mastery of both the left and right hand! Jackpot. Harmoniously expressed individuals. Or those who achieved same to some degree by way of sports, arts, dance, yoga etc and of course, combining intellectual and artistic activities…

Well, two ears and two eyes from evolutionary point of view are advantageous due to the abilities for improved spacial locating of sound source location / visual depth perception… Looks more beautiful for preferred selection of partner? Or is that maybe a consequence…

Also so fascinating to learn about co-joined twins. I read about them as they are a unique case of two organisms getting some neural signals (usually peripheral, but in rare cases also central) from one another and also co-controlling a unified body.

I know you meant it figuratively and I got your point!!!

 

[Martinius]

I love your questions. Great topics that spur discussion. You ask about things that I also think about but do not put into my own threads. I'll let you take all the flack. I'll just join in from time to time.

 

[eleos1954]

Hello.

I start 10 threads a day Hard to keep up. Too much free time on my hands I guess.

Thank you for your patience with me and thought-provoking and educating conversations.

People say to me, are you genuinely seeking Jesus or are you baiting for a debate? Is your mind open to hear truth or is it closed and there’s no use in casting pearls before your hardened heart? What’s your real agenda?

So I’d like to say that I think I am a true seeker. I also try and analyze what I do and why. What prompts me to research and understand Christianity.

I think my intention is to make sense of this life. Religion offers some answers. Could be true! Worth considering.

Life is short. Have to settle for yourself who you are and where you’re going. Not a trivial exercise, but a necessity.

This is the intellectual side of things. Then there’s inward, spiritual quest… Another big and frankly, fascinating subject. How do you meet God and how do you experience Him, how do you really grow your mystical faculties without self-deception? If any of it is true and valid, of course.

An overarching theme in near-death experience accounts is God saying in His unconditionally loving voice, “You have a mission in life yet to complete, so go back, my dear child”. This is a very intriguing thing for myself, is there a mission for me? Is it generic, such as “practice love”, or is it more concrete, like “raise your children well” or “find cure to cancer”, I have no idea.

Every second of life is so so much interesting! Oh man…

Nothing wrong at all with asking questions ... however .... best to study the bible for yourself (don't know how much you do that). All of us are called to do that.

By study of His Word is the main vehicle in which He communicates with us/Him.

Through it one develops a closer relationship with Him.

That is .... He will speak to you through it.

 

[James_Lai]

Nothing wrong at all with asking questions ... however .... best to study the bible for yourself (don't know how much you do that). All of us are called to do that.

By study of His Word is the main vehicle in which He communicates with us/Him.

Through it one develops a closer relationship with Him.

That is .... He will speak to you through it.

I read it every day

 

[eleos1954]

I read it every day

Glad to hear it my friend ;o)

My He bless you through your study. Amen.

 

[com7fy8]

I think my intention is to make sense of this life.

Rest and trust the LORD. He can give you understanding, but the best of life is beyond comprehension - - - though we can simply experience and enjoy God and loving.

How do you meet God and how do you experience Him, how do you really grow your mystical faculties without self-deception? If any of it is true and valid, of course.

We can trust God to keep track of us And yes it is wise to know we can fool ourselves . . . all the more "reason" to trust God to make sure And even though certain words and ideas might be true, they are talking about realities; so we need to know what the different realities are, and stay with all the good we have in Jesus in His love and sharing with one another as His family > we need to be with each other > we can be God's message to each other > examples and samples of all He means by His word. He includes us in helping one another to grow in Christ

An overarching theme in near-death experience accounts is God saying in His unconditionally loving voice, “You have a mission in life yet to complete, so go back, my dear child”. This is a very intriguing thing for myself, is there a mission for me? Is it generic, such as “practice love”, or is it more concrete, like “raise your children well” or “find cure to cancer”, I have no idea.

You can read and feed on how our Apostle Paul would have loved to leave this world to be with Jesus; however, he understood he was needed here > Philippians 1:21-24.

First Jesus wants you to share with Him > notice in Mark 3:14 Jesus wanted the disciples so they could be with Jesus . . . not only to send them out to preach! And He wanted them to discover love with each other . . . as His family. So, I see this means we need to not let a calling get us isolated with ourselves and our own activities and self image

And in this sharing you discover more and more all He desires to have you doing. You are like a baby; little baby has no clue - - even about what life's choices are, never mind actually choosing and doing something in life. But a child grows and matures to become able to know and understand things he or she can do. There are so many things you can not tell the child, in advance.

And even God can't tell us . . . I mean, so we fully know all the details and what it will be like. But with God our Creator, we keep discovering how He is creating with us in His love.

 

[Clare73]

Hello.

I start 10 threads a day Hard to keep up. Too much free time on my hands I guess.

Thank you for your patience with me and thought-provoking and educating conversations.

People say to me, are you genuinely seeking Jesus or are you baiting for a debate? Is your mind open to hear truth or is it closed and there’s no use in casting pearls before your hardened heart? What’s your real agenda?

So I’d like to say that I think I am a true seeker. I also try and analyze what I do and why. What prompts me to research and understand Christianity.

I think my intention is to make sense of this life. Religion offers some answers. Could be true! Worth considering.

Life is short. Have to settle for yourself who you are and where you’re going. Not a trivial exercise, but a necessity.

This is the intellectual side of things. Then there’s inward, spiritual quest… Another big and frankly, fascinating subject. How do you meet God and how do you experience Him, how do you really grow your mystical faculties without self-deception? If any of it is true and valid, of course.

An overarching theme in near-death experience accounts is God saying in His unconditionally loving voice, “You have a mission in life yet to complete, so go back, my dear child”. This is a very intriguing thing for myself, is there a mission for me? Is it generic, such as “practice love”, or is it more concrete, like “raise your children well” or “find cure to cancer”, I have no idea.

Every second of life is so so much interesting! Oh man…

Well, I suggest that until God is no longer just an option to you, but an absolute necessity for which you are willing to pay a personal price, you will pretty much remain where you are.

Because he is about submission, dependence, governance, father/sonhood, trust, faithfulness, provision, magnificence, wondrousness, otherness, love, joy, peace, security and all things working for your good.