Having just completed the Prayer Experience at Crossroads, I feel the need to share the experience with others. The Prayer Experience is a very intimate journey through 9 different stages, utilizing an audio set as a guide to personal prayer to find freedom in your life. It's the signature element of the last 6 weeks--the Freedom Journey. For the last 40 days, I have embarked on this journey with a number of other young men, meeting once a week to define and express the bondage that permeates our lives. For me, I have always been told the lie by the enemy--satan--that I failed in the eyes of God and other people. Because of this insidious lie, I have lived much of my life consumed by a great deal of anger and bitterness, and even a sense of rejection. Through this journey, I am now realizing that all my anxiety and fears have stemmed from this lie, perpetually whispered to me by the enemy to limit my freedom and enjoyment of life. Now, I realize that God is proud of me, and I'm beginning to see myself through God's eyes. I am of real value to the Lord and others because God created me specifically and most especially to be the person I am. I don't have to be anything I'm not. Neither do you. All of God's gifts to you are yours and especially yours.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. And this is true. We can have real freedom in realizing that God has forgiven us our sins when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Through Jesus, evil has been forever conquered. Once we accept this wonderful news, we learn that God wants us to live fulfilled lives, using the freedom that God bestows on us to nullify bondage to sin.
During my prayer experience, I prayed for friends, family and people around the world who are living in physical and spiritual bondage. I wrote a number of prayers on the whiteboard walls, and I opened three gifts that God gave me to me: 1. Peace.....I have to receive peace from the Lord. 2. Empathy from Jesus for my tribulations and pain. 3. The ability to be persistent.
God spoke to me in a metaphor during this experience, opening up the doors to more spacious places to live in freedom. He said, "Kyle, let me be the wind, and you be the leaves. I'll pick you up and move you, and I'll tell you when to rest." It brings a whole new meaning to the title of this blog, "Where the Leaves Blow." God is awesome.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
A Truth Refined, Not Redefined
One morning, I woke up and admitted to myself that I was, indeed, striving to redefine truth, instead of accepting the refined truth already set out for us to know and understand in the Bible. For years, I spent countless hours cursing what I had deemed to be an unknowable God--the supernatural entity that Alfred Lord Tennyson described as the "one far off divine event to which the whole creation moves." I realized on this particular morning, having witnessed my own pride and insolence reach an ultimate pinnacle the night before, that God was not the problem in my life--I was. I had been systematically accepting the blessings that God bestowed upon me, quickly shoving them to the side, and then began hastily marching onward to my next venture. Forgetting about yesterday's blessings, I became outraged at God's absence in my life when today's trials became overwhelming tribulations. I was a classic hypocrite. Neither a full-time believer or a full-time atheist, and too afraid to commit to one or the other, I walked through life convinced that I had a better plan than God did for my life. How could God allow me to suffer so readily? How could such a loving and compassionate Lord not grant me the wishes in my prayers? Indeed, I did not realize that God was answering my prayers, but doing so in a way that seemed convoluted and unfair to me: I had to suffer in order to know.
Malcolm Muggeridge comments that Jesus' life and death summarily depicts how suffering is necessary to triumph over evil: "Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful, with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness...(Zacharias 205).
So often, human beings blame God for suffering, pain, and evil in this world. We actually believe that we deserve to live happier, more peaceful existences. But, at what point did we discard the most important anecdote in the Bible: The Fall of Man and banishment from the Garden of Eden?
In choosing to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, human beings committed the act which symbolized our insolent propensity to aspire to the power and glory of the Creator. In short, we often think we know better than God, and we find ourselves continually proclaiming on high our own accolades, accomplishments, and greatness. All glory to God descended into a the empty quagmire of self-aggrandizement. Ravi Zacharias argues, "Yet in the condition of our uprightness, we chose to rewrite the laws of God and become the god of God. The response of God was to show that his Word is and was true. We do not violate God's laws without the entailments of brokenness...Desiring that everything we touch become gold, we found that the body could not live on gold...The words of Pascal are true: we are the glory and the shame of the universe" (197). While all this is important and undoubtedly true, especially concerning human nature and its timeless relationship with Adam and Eve's banishment from the Garden, it should be comforting to know that Jesus Christ symbolizes--and most remarkably stands as--our opportunity to return from exile--to be reunited with a loving, compassionate, and forgiving Creator who offers salvation simply through a knowledge of Christ. In essence, Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior, transcends the Tree of Knowledge--taking on its representational form in the Old Testament--and shows us the way back home to our beloved Garden of Eden. The way home is through the Lord, who forgave us our sins through suffering and death on the cross.
N.T. Wright puts it this way in his concluding remarks of Jesus and the Victory of God: "[Jesus] would embody in himself the return from exile, the defeat of evil, and the return of YHWH to Zion" (651). Put simply, N.T. Wright explains that God embodied himself in the flesh--Jesus Christ--to suffer at the hands of evil, letting Satan do his worst to him, so that not only would our future suffering not be in vain, but so that our sins could be washed clean from our spirits, thereby purifying our beings and existence on Earth.
The refined truth is the story of the New Testament. The New Testament refined the teachings of the Old Testament, as the story of Jesus served as the culmination of the struggle between good and evil on Earth. We can do no better than the forgiveness that the story of Christ offers to us. To put it in a rather juvenile fashion, human beings simply could not make this story up on their own. We're neither compassionate enough or knowledgeable enough to pull a trump card on the story of Christ's life, crucifixion and resurrection. Because God is all-knowing, we neither have to aspire to be so knowledgeable, nor do we have to move toward perfection. However, we do have to be accountable for our actions, and we do have to always remember to serve the Lord before serving ourselves and others. It is through serving Christ first that we can then serve and honor ourselves and others with vehement and powerful love. I like this particular verse to remind me of this, though I fall short quite often: Galatians 1:10--"Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? If I were still trying to seek the approval of men, I would not be a servant of Christ."
In upcoming blogs, I will be addressing the arguments of atheism and even postmodern approaches toward religion. This is a topic that cannot be exhausted in my own mind. It's important to remember that while atheism contends that Christianity is a frivolous belief system, grounded in no fact whatsoever, those folks often fail to recognize that atheism, in and of itself, is a belief system. While atheists claim that no one can prove the existence of God, they on the other hand, simply cannot prove that He doesn't exist. Atheists are faithful non-believers; Christians are faithful believers.
Enjoy your weekend, and may your hearts stay light. And remember, we ought not try to redefine the truth which has been refined in the wonderful news that is Jesus Christ.
--KSR
Malcolm Muggeridge comments that Jesus' life and death summarily depicts how suffering is necessary to triumph over evil: "Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful, with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness...(Zacharias 205).
So often, human beings blame God for suffering, pain, and evil in this world. We actually believe that we deserve to live happier, more peaceful existences. But, at what point did we discard the most important anecdote in the Bible: The Fall of Man and banishment from the Garden of Eden?
In choosing to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, human beings committed the act which symbolized our insolent propensity to aspire to the power and glory of the Creator. In short, we often think we know better than God, and we find ourselves continually proclaiming on high our own accolades, accomplishments, and greatness. All glory to God descended into a the empty quagmire of self-aggrandizement. Ravi Zacharias argues, "Yet in the condition of our uprightness, we chose to rewrite the laws of God and become the god of God. The response of God was to show that his Word is and was true. We do not violate God's laws without the entailments of brokenness...Desiring that everything we touch become gold, we found that the body could not live on gold...The words of Pascal are true: we are the glory and the shame of the universe" (197). While all this is important and undoubtedly true, especially concerning human nature and its timeless relationship with Adam and Eve's banishment from the Garden, it should be comforting to know that Jesus Christ symbolizes--and most remarkably stands as--our opportunity to return from exile--to be reunited with a loving, compassionate, and forgiving Creator who offers salvation simply through a knowledge of Christ. In essence, Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior, transcends the Tree of Knowledge--taking on its representational form in the Old Testament--and shows us the way back home to our beloved Garden of Eden. The way home is through the Lord, who forgave us our sins through suffering and death on the cross.
N.T. Wright puts it this way in his concluding remarks of Jesus and the Victory of God: "[Jesus] would embody in himself the return from exile, the defeat of evil, and the return of YHWH to Zion" (651). Put simply, N.T. Wright explains that God embodied himself in the flesh--Jesus Christ--to suffer at the hands of evil, letting Satan do his worst to him, so that not only would our future suffering not be in vain, but so that our sins could be washed clean from our spirits, thereby purifying our beings and existence on Earth.
The refined truth is the story of the New Testament. The New Testament refined the teachings of the Old Testament, as the story of Jesus served as the culmination of the struggle between good and evil on Earth. We can do no better than the forgiveness that the story of Christ offers to us. To put it in a rather juvenile fashion, human beings simply could not make this story up on their own. We're neither compassionate enough or knowledgeable enough to pull a trump card on the story of Christ's life, crucifixion and resurrection. Because God is all-knowing, we neither have to aspire to be so knowledgeable, nor do we have to move toward perfection. However, we do have to be accountable for our actions, and we do have to always remember to serve the Lord before serving ourselves and others. It is through serving Christ first that we can then serve and honor ourselves and others with vehement and powerful love. I like this particular verse to remind me of this, though I fall short quite often: Galatians 1:10--"Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? If I were still trying to seek the approval of men, I would not be a servant of Christ."
In upcoming blogs, I will be addressing the arguments of atheism and even postmodern approaches toward religion. This is a topic that cannot be exhausted in my own mind. It's important to remember that while atheism contends that Christianity is a frivolous belief system, grounded in no fact whatsoever, those folks often fail to recognize that atheism, in and of itself, is a belief system. While atheists claim that no one can prove the existence of God, they on the other hand, simply cannot prove that He doesn't exist. Atheists are faithful non-believers; Christians are faithful believers.
Enjoy your weekend, and may your hearts stay light. And remember, we ought not try to redefine the truth which has been refined in the wonderful news that is Jesus Christ.
--KSR
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Stampeding Toward Truth: Ravi Zacharias's "Beyond Opinion"
Marching toward truth is not an easy task. Often times, discovering truth can be painful or uncomfortable. In our "postmodern" society, which is so quick to dismiss truth as ultimately relative and unknowable, it can be especially daunting, if not impossibly discouraging to stampede the truth. As I commented in my last blog, we can seek truth, and we can know it. In fact, the truth might just be seeking you.
Peter Kreeft comments, "If we do not love the truth, we will not seek it. If we do not seek it, we will not find it. If we do not find it, we will not know it. If we do not know it, we have failed our fundamental task in time, and quite likely also in eternity" (Zacharias 168). The most profound part of this statement is that the discovery of truth is cultivated first in human longing or craving for truth. Anytime we seek meaning in our personal lives, we are most definitely seeking truth. We, as humans, have a desire to understand--to comprehend the reasons for our existence, for our trials and tribulations, and ultimately, whether the end of our lives means the end of our beings, both physically and spiritually, or signifies a wondrous new beginning.
Moreover, in seeking truth, it is absolutely necessary to consider the soul--the spiritual realm within us. Without considering the spirit, we dismiss the presence of God within all of us, and more importantly the omnipresence that has a larger, more universal appeal than skeptics of scoffers would like to admit. Put it this way, while Christianity does not always reflect the messages of Christ's teachings in the Bible--often humanizing and corrupting truth with idolatrous rituals, fanatical or hegemonic evangelism, or claims to fame--there is undoubtedly a ubiquitous calling in Scripture for forgiveness, compassion, neighborly love, tolerance and peace that can only be attributed to a most benevolent and altruistic spiritual force within us all. Joe Boot argues in Zacharias' Beyond Opinion:
"As we invite skeptics on this search, we do so in humility and for their benefit, not so that we may pride ourselves on our superior understanding. The search itself purifies the heart, by the grace of God, as men and women are drawn to see and are made capable of understanding the reasonableness of our faith. True faith always seeks understanding. That faith and understanding unite us in love to God in Christ, who is both our way and destination, and gives us a sure and certain hope. That certitude surpasses a confidence in evidences" (177).
There is, in actuality, more truth--more confidence in an everlasting faith in God--than there is in acknowledgment of the time on one's wristwatch or the correct answers to mathematical problems, such as 10 x 10. For these things--time and mathematics--are merely human constructs set up to give meaning to our earthly lives, but these constructs are most definitely not designed to explain how the Earth and its axis were created (at the beginning of "time) to revolve continuously around the Sun, or how the answers to particular mathematical systems came to be in the first place. What actually exists transcends and mystifies human knowledge of existence. However, our desire is always to seek knowledge, and therefore move closer to God, and thus such human constructs--time, mathematics, and so on--are still of great importance. Boot states, "If we do not depend on Christ, if we build upon another foundation, if we rest on our arguments and abilities, we will utterly fail, for Christ is the wisdom and power of God. He is the image of the invisible God and the repository of wisdom and knowledge" (Zacharias 177).
Conversely, Isaiah Berlin, leading professor at the University of Oxford, argues that Monism (or a belief in one truth) "is one step away from despotism. If you meet someone who believes he knows he has the truth, then he is only one step from being a despot." Michael Ramsden responds to this statement with, "What about a truth filled with grace?....The reason God shines his light of moral judgment into our hearts is not to expose or shame us, but to transform us, because he is a gracious and compassionate God. God's love for us does not exist without judgment because without it, true intimacy and love with him would be impossible (Zacharias 148-151).
In all, it is the role of the Christian apologetics to inform skeptics, atheists, agnostics, and the like that the only way to know God is by first believing that he offers meaning and truth for our lives when we seek Him. But, we first must seek God. We must know Christ fully before we can believe in the power of his salvation and love. Our world can have meaning, but one must relinquish his or her pride first in order to seek God fully. Joe Boot gives a word of advice to fellow evangelists: "Even when people can see intellectually that they are wrong, they often still cling to their opinions simply as a matter of personal pride. We should not presumptuously present ourselves to them as their teachers, but rather as fellow learners pointing to the Teacher" (165).
I have reason to be faithful in Christ, and I have reason to believe that Jesus is the most reasonable path to God. Why? Once you delve into the Word and learn the power for good in Christ's teachings, there simply is no turning back. Are we willing to seek knowledge? Are we willing to admit that there is one reverential and undeniable truth? God loves us, and the path to a life of love and freedom--thereby foregoing the meaningless void we often ascribe ourselves to--is found in the salvation of Christ.
Peter Kreeft comments, "If we do not love the truth, we will not seek it. If we do not seek it, we will not find it. If we do not find it, we will not know it. If we do not know it, we have failed our fundamental task in time, and quite likely also in eternity" (Zacharias 168). The most profound part of this statement is that the discovery of truth is cultivated first in human longing or craving for truth. Anytime we seek meaning in our personal lives, we are most definitely seeking truth. We, as humans, have a desire to understand--to comprehend the reasons for our existence, for our trials and tribulations, and ultimately, whether the end of our lives means the end of our beings, both physically and spiritually, or signifies a wondrous new beginning.
Moreover, in seeking truth, it is absolutely necessary to consider the soul--the spiritual realm within us. Without considering the spirit, we dismiss the presence of God within all of us, and more importantly the omnipresence that has a larger, more universal appeal than skeptics of scoffers would like to admit. Put it this way, while Christianity does not always reflect the messages of Christ's teachings in the Bible--often humanizing and corrupting truth with idolatrous rituals, fanatical or hegemonic evangelism, or claims to fame--there is undoubtedly a ubiquitous calling in Scripture for forgiveness, compassion, neighborly love, tolerance and peace that can only be attributed to a most benevolent and altruistic spiritual force within us all. Joe Boot argues in Zacharias' Beyond Opinion:
"As we invite skeptics on this search, we do so in humility and for their benefit, not so that we may pride ourselves on our superior understanding. The search itself purifies the heart, by the grace of God, as men and women are drawn to see and are made capable of understanding the reasonableness of our faith. True faith always seeks understanding. That faith and understanding unite us in love to God in Christ, who is both our way and destination, and gives us a sure and certain hope. That certitude surpasses a confidence in evidences" (177).
There is, in actuality, more truth--more confidence in an everlasting faith in God--than there is in acknowledgment of the time on one's wristwatch or the correct answers to mathematical problems, such as 10 x 10. For these things--time and mathematics--are merely human constructs set up to give meaning to our earthly lives, but these constructs are most definitely not designed to explain how the Earth and its axis were created (at the beginning of "time) to revolve continuously around the Sun, or how the answers to particular mathematical systems came to be in the first place. What actually exists transcends and mystifies human knowledge of existence. However, our desire is always to seek knowledge, and therefore move closer to God, and thus such human constructs--time, mathematics, and so on--are still of great importance. Boot states, "If we do not depend on Christ, if we build upon another foundation, if we rest on our arguments and abilities, we will utterly fail, for Christ is the wisdom and power of God. He is the image of the invisible God and the repository of wisdom and knowledge" (Zacharias 177).
Conversely, Isaiah Berlin, leading professor at the University of Oxford, argues that Monism (or a belief in one truth) "is one step away from despotism. If you meet someone who believes he knows he has the truth, then he is only one step from being a despot." Michael Ramsden responds to this statement with, "What about a truth filled with grace?....The reason God shines his light of moral judgment into our hearts is not to expose or shame us, but to transform us, because he is a gracious and compassionate God. God's love for us does not exist without judgment because without it, true intimacy and love with him would be impossible (Zacharias 148-151).
In all, it is the role of the Christian apologetics to inform skeptics, atheists, agnostics, and the like that the only way to know God is by first believing that he offers meaning and truth for our lives when we seek Him. But, we first must seek God. We must know Christ fully before we can believe in the power of his salvation and love. Our world can have meaning, but one must relinquish his or her pride first in order to seek God fully. Joe Boot gives a word of advice to fellow evangelists: "Even when people can see intellectually that they are wrong, they often still cling to their opinions simply as a matter of personal pride. We should not presumptuously present ourselves to them as their teachers, but rather as fellow learners pointing to the Teacher" (165).
I have reason to be faithful in Christ, and I have reason to believe that Jesus is the most reasonable path to God. Why? Once you delve into the Word and learn the power for good in Christ's teachings, there simply is no turning back. Are we willing to seek knowledge? Are we willing to admit that there is one reverential and undeniable truth? God loves us, and the path to a life of love and freedom--thereby foregoing the meaningless void we often ascribe ourselves to--is found in the salvation of Christ.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Direction
It occurred to me--via my most prominent influence--that my blog should have direction. It should have a purpose, so as to attract not just mindless followers, but truth seekers of a specific kind. Guess what! We can seek truth here. Over the next several weeks, I will be posting several excerpts from readings from the following works: Ravi Zacharias' BEYOND OPINION, N.T. Wright's JESUS AND THE VICTORY OF GOD, John Patrick Shanley's contemporary play, DOUBT, and John Bunyan's PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. If you don't recognize it already, the motif of the next few weeks is unDOUBTedly Christianity--the nuances of the religion, the belief system, and the controversy. More than just a posting of excerpts, this blog will take an analytical approach to these texts, inviting comments from any and all readers.
Religion, while it is the root of fiery polemics and unruly activists--often times igniting sheer chaos between opposing theologies--it is most importantly the avenue by which human beings seek meaning in their lives. Without religion and spirituality, we often discover an existential kind of emptiness that is daunting and even volatile. Karen Armstrong's THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION examines the Axial Age--an epoch where nearly all the world's great religions grew into fruition--a time when meaning and truth were being sought with a vehemence. But, do all religions bring us down the same avenue? Do all theologies and belief systems ultimately lead to an identical divine event waiting within the ethereal realms? What exactly is it that sets Christianity apart from other religions, and how can believers make pronouncements of authenticity to Christ, yet evade being deemed ascetic, Christian fanatics? The next few weeks will look at Christianity closely, via the use of these substantial texts. Be on the look out for C.S. Lewis too--in case you didn't know, he has a great deal to argue regarding Christian apologetics.
I hope you'll join in the discussion, as I want this to be a discussion. Even if you disagree with my analysis or the arguments within these texts, I hope to generate a respectful and meaningful dialogue between myself, these authors, and you.
God bless.
Religion, while it is the root of fiery polemics and unruly activists--often times igniting sheer chaos between opposing theologies--it is most importantly the avenue by which human beings seek meaning in their lives. Without religion and spirituality, we often discover an existential kind of emptiness that is daunting and even volatile. Karen Armstrong's THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION examines the Axial Age--an epoch where nearly all the world's great religions grew into fruition--a time when meaning and truth were being sought with a vehemence. But, do all religions bring us down the same avenue? Do all theologies and belief systems ultimately lead to an identical divine event waiting within the ethereal realms? What exactly is it that sets Christianity apart from other religions, and how can believers make pronouncements of authenticity to Christ, yet evade being deemed ascetic, Christian fanatics? The next few weeks will look at Christianity closely, via the use of these substantial texts. Be on the look out for C.S. Lewis too--in case you didn't know, he has a great deal to argue regarding Christian apologetics.
I hope you'll join in the discussion, as I want this to be a discussion. Even if you disagree with my analysis or the arguments within these texts, I hope to generate a respectful and meaningful dialogue between myself, these authors, and you.
God bless.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Calling all mindless followers.....
It's 9:21, and I am contemplating a second cup of coffee, but more importantly, I'd like to comment on the staggering differences between the female species and her counterpart, my kind. To me, it seems that the real distinction is in the female's inability to comprehend why the male is so inclined to adventure and the male's inability to fathom a cocktail event where ceaseless chatter is overlapped by incessant giggling and gossip. Give me another sip of beer and it's on to the game, but with the female, they are contented to analyze/dissect/discern meaning from previous interactions with the enigmatic male, or what's more, their cunning and contemptuous competitors of their own breed. Nobody dislikes a female like her female nemesis, making her competitor all the more desired for gossip and slander.
On the other hand, the male can be very simply defined as a paleolithic rogue, tuning out all chatter like turning the dial from static on the radio. The male cannot--at least most of the time--make sense of female speak, as often feminine speakers overlap sentences (speaking at the same time) while still carrying the conversation further not hindered or disturbed by interruption. The man, I think, is fundamentally inferior in intelligence in this regard, incapable of processing information and shifting cultural vernaculars at such incredible speed. Instead, the male considers the conversation superfluous, often not even picking up that the conversation is, indeed, concentrated on his pathetic and mindless disposition. Crack open a beer. What's the score?
In essence, the female is complex, interwoven with intelligent design, while at the same time tapped into crucial emotional sensibilities, while the male is undoubtedly interwoven with thoughts that add up to this: the game is on today, what will I eat?.....maybe I can have a beer later?.... isn't there a game on tonight?......tomorrow I'm going golfing.......and I hope I can skip church. She won't let me.
Until next time, dear reader.
On the other hand, the male can be very simply defined as a paleolithic rogue, tuning out all chatter like turning the dial from static on the radio. The male cannot--at least most of the time--make sense of female speak, as often feminine speakers overlap sentences (speaking at the same time) while still carrying the conversation further not hindered or disturbed by interruption. The man, I think, is fundamentally inferior in intelligence in this regard, incapable of processing information and shifting cultural vernaculars at such incredible speed. Instead, the male considers the conversation superfluous, often not even picking up that the conversation is, indeed, concentrated on his pathetic and mindless disposition. Crack open a beer. What's the score?
In essence, the female is complex, interwoven with intelligent design, while at the same time tapped into crucial emotional sensibilities, while the male is undoubtedly interwoven with thoughts that add up to this: the game is on today, what will I eat?.....maybe I can have a beer later?.... isn't there a game on tonight?......tomorrow I'm going golfing.......and I hope I can skip church. She won't let me.
Until next time, dear reader.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Introduction
Good evening fellow bloggers and miscreants. This is my introduction to a blog which will most surely consist of philosophical musings, ill-advised humor and what will soon be deemed as complete and utter irreverence. My goal is to use this forum for expressions of self-prescribed wit, while also entertaining the idea of a coherent theme every now and again.
I will comment on readings and writings from several unrenowned authors, including myself, while also commenting on the rather mundane aspects of an existence that seems more and more to fly in the face of teleology.
Einstein said, "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
Reynolds says, "I want to know God's plan for the universe and will not rest until I have all the details!"
Cheers!
I will comment on readings and writings from several unrenowned authors, including myself, while also commenting on the rather mundane aspects of an existence that seems more and more to fly in the face of teleology.
Einstein said, "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
Reynolds says, "I want to know God's plan for the universe and will not rest until I have all the details!"
Cheers!
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