This posting is not going to discuss anything really "New" in the way of broached topics. There is one early Dylan song where he says "This song is just a little reminder". Some of us need to be "reminded" of certain things now and then because for whatever reason it's in most human being's nature to "forget" certain things now and then. Let me lay one on you right now. If James Dobson or Neil Savedra of KFI were doing their own "Sermon on the Mount' a key phrase they would use if they were being honest would be the following. "Ye have heard it said that God hath said that "With God all things are Possible". But I say unto you that All things are Not Possible". Because they have come out and said in response to scripture saying "All things are Possible" that and I quote "Even God can't do the Intrinsically Impossible". We have a bit of a conflict here, a contradiction, if you will. - - Like a hundred and eighty degree contradiction. We have a bit of a reconciliation problem trying to get the two statements to jive - - like a one hundred percent problem in reconciliation. So like when the desciples day to Jesus "If these things you have said are so (just WHAT things are not important here) than how can Man be Saved". Do you remember what Jesus said back? He said "With man this is impossible". You have heard psycho therapists and perhaps even Phil Mc Graw make the statement, "You have control over what you yourself choose to do, but you don't have control over what others do". Now we come to the next question. "Does GOD come under the heading of the "Other"? I believe God would qualify as an "Other" than yourself in most people's thinking unless you are a Buddahists or a Gnostic or something, and most people today aren't that. And it was in one of the St. Peter epistles where he says 'As far as it lies within you" or "as far as it is possible" - - - dwell at peace with all men, or something like that. Are you tracking with me so far? Good. So our problem is to decided or separate out the Possible from the Impossible, since the two things are as it were "Mutually exclusive SETS for you Lisa Simpson types who are into those Ven diagrams or whatever.
Now if something lies with Man to do - - and Jesus himself said it was not Possible for a man to do, then it is not Possible for a man to do. Period. Not hard. Not time consuming. But impossible. It isn't happening. Capish? Good. You people are bright and alert at this hour of two AM in the morning. So now just what types of "Things" fall into the area of "Not Possible' and we ought then, to seek not to exhaust ourselves in endeavoring to do them. Do you want to have a conversation with that which is posessed of one hundred percent "Patience". That's no problem. You can't have a conversation with that lamp that is shining or that end table over there any time you like. You can speak as long as you like and you will never be interrupted or contradicted, if that's what you seek. But the thing is that is something is Living it has Feelings and things that have Feelings - - change from minute to minute, and therefore living things "Exhaust their patience" now and then. Nobody has even proposed that God has "Infinite patience" even though preacher after will chide his congragation for NOT having this quality. So he's really chiding them for having a trait that is specific to that which is Alive. Alive people have feelings and respond to things. You have Agape love with a dead object. And it is in the nature of Agape love for all the Love to originate with you and in the words of Kinko to Clown - - the reciprication factor is completely lacking, if this is what you wish. You've heard the adage "You can talk any time you want to God - - but if you ever get any answers back it's a sign of mental illness". How many of you have heard that. In my esteemed oppinion God does not fall into the catigory of "Things that are alive". One belief of Neil is that things are impossible. Another big adage of Mr Jesus of KFI is that "People don't change". This is a guiding moral principle of his. Which is fine if you're a determinist deist like me. There is no problem at all with this because God doesn't observe the passage of time. Time doesn't exist. Since it's an a prior necessity or "Ontological Necessity" if you're a Rush fan, for Life to be involved in "The passage of time" then to NOT observe Time is in fact to be Dead. Not happening there. So as such it would only be Logical for GOD to say that "People don't change" just as it would be for a color blind person to say "The position of the traffic light changes- - but it's always the same color". Same thing. It's a problem with the Observer and NOT with the thing being observed. Capish? Good. Now tell it to Jesus of KFI. People DO change. Of course one other "little thing" that presents itself as a problem here is that if with God ALL things are predestined- - - then prayer us useless. If you've heard me say that once you've heard me say that a hundred times. You can't pray to get God to change his Will. And neither does God change his Will on his own of his own volition. To quote James Dobson again "This thing lies outside the realm of logical possability for God to do". Certain things are by definition impossible, such as a round square or a four sided triangle. So back to the "desciples question" assuming for the moment that James Dobson is up there playing the role of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount- - "If these things be so - - how can man be saved?" Or stated another way "How can God intervene in our lives with or without our petetioning? If you know that With man - - such and such is Impossible - - then you needn't expend one more bit of effort or energy in endeavoring to do that particular thing. Capish? Good. So to answer the question of "What is impossible" the answer is MOST things. Anything that is NOT predestined to happen is by virtual definition"Impossible" for either God or Man to accomplish. Let's pause and meditate on this Truth for a Moment.
Look at those Tulips at the top of the page. They used to be yellow you know on the original wallpaper. So how did I turn them red, and turn them red without making the sky purplish or anything like that? Some may say "That is Impossible". But I just did it. You see it before your eyes. How did I do it? Only my hairdresser knows for sure. But it constitutes a little object lesson that just perhaps we should not let Preachers such as either James Dobson or Neil of KFI to define WHAT is "Impossible" for us to accomplish. Because indeed there is a logical possabilith they could be wrong. I think we need to pause again and meditate on this Truth also - - - .
I am not one to fault Newt Gingrich's dream of colonolizing the moon. I don't see any real problem with having that one as a goal myself. We need goals and dreams. We need long term things - - goals - - dreams - - purpouses to keep us going, to motivate us in the wagon ruts of life. A rut is nothing but "an open ended grave". You don't "fix a snag" in a vynal record by just letting it snag again and again and hope that one of these times the snag won't happen. That falls under the heading of "Doing the exact same thing over and over and hoping for a different result". But neither should you assume that if you go back to a previous Action that you were disappointed with Before that it is the "Same Action" because logically it is not. Circumstances have Changed - -in ways even you yourself may not even fully realize. May I suggest that those who would expect a repeat performance of the election year of 2012 with what they were treated to in 2010 are "giving up too soon". Even if your record is stuck in a grove, there is no law that says you cant take some kind of proactive initiative to solve the problem. Indeed many preacher's sermons rather than being "patient' and waiting for "things to change" demand some kind of proactive response, and the first one might just be to get Rid of that Preacher. Sometimes you DO need to "shoot the messenger" and get him out of the way, because rather than be part of the Solution, he has become part of the Problem. (Selah)
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