Knowing

The meaning of life is to Know.

Their needs to be a shift of focus about our lives. Conventional/contemporary wisdom (wisdom?) says that life is about quality of life. That's what the world focuses on and tells you it's about. No wonder the world is so miserable. They are going after the wrong goal. The right goal is Knowing. Which can also be translated, loving. And I spell it with a capital K because it signifies something much deeper than just knowing somebody. It is the purpose of life. To Know people. God first, as the creator of all people, and the source of the life of all people, but then other people too.

This might be a difficult blog entry for some of you to swallow, but I believe it needs to be said. The word Know in the Bible is often used to denote sex, as in Genesis 4:25--"And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore him a son and named him Seth." Why? Why wouldn't it just say, "And Adam had sexual relatios with his wife, and she bore him a son?"

Well, I think that it's done on purpose, by God, to show us something...namely, the meaning of life.

Why is sex like it is? Why make something in life tht is so incredibly astonishingly attractive and irresistable? Why make something as good as sex? Why? What's the purpose?

It is because God is trying to tell us something. All of God's creation tells us something about Him, and something about the way he thinks. (See Romans 1:20)

to be continued...

Religion kills

Was thinking today about what sort of things I will allow in my house. I rent out my rooms, and was sorting out how to communicate to my renters what I will not allow in my house and why. Being a christian, I obviously don't allow evil stuff in my house. So then I was thinking about what sort of things I will allow in my house. I came up with a list which included all things that exist in order to have fun, i.e., pets, games, toys, etc. So I began to think about why. It's because there is nothing wrong with these things. There is only something wrong with anything that is sinful. I had the thought that I want to encourage fun in my house as much as is humanly possible. Which made me think logically about God being like me in this situation, only on a larger scale. The world being His house, and us being the renters, so to speak. (This post would have worked a lot better had I children in my house, not renters!) He obviously does not want anything evil or sinful in His house, but He is obviously not against all the things in life that are there for us to enjoy. Because He is only against sin, not fun. He is actually for fun. If you are not sinning, that only leaves one other option--fun.

Which then got me to thinking about how in so many christian discussions you hear people talking about their toys as evil. Or, talking about other people's toys as evil. I mean things like boats, jet skis, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, golf clubs, airplanes, etc. etc. etc. And not just toys, but fun activities, too. Eating, fishing, sports, sex, travel, vacations, camping, etc. All fun things. All things that allow us to enjoy life. Which is what God is for, not against. Which, by looking at the analogy between me, the situation that I just went through, and God, and how His governance of the world must be the same way, only on a much larger scale-- thinking logically, it just confirmed to me again, that religion kills.

Anything masking itself as from God, that is not based on truth and reality, will hurt, not help. It will not bring life. God brings life.

Find out the truth. By having a relationship with the real, living, creator of the universe. That is why you are here, and I gaurantee, that it will lead to fun.

Just trust

God is so big, and so all knowing, and so all caring and loving, and so all powerful/able to do, that the only logical response to Him is trust.