When the Lord Was Cut Off From the Light of God's Countenance

Recently I finished reading Thomas Watson's 'Divinity' It is an excellent, classical work. Watson too wrote about God's wrath. I will quote the relevant section below yet would first comment that Paul House (a lecturer in OT Theology) noted that Job and Isaiah 40-48 addressed the 'why' questions a lot-that is why do certain kinds of suffering occur, and of pastoral difficulties in forming replies sometimes. That was in the context of the question of free will, and does mankind have that if God is omniscient. Plainly Jesus as God was not entirely subject to quantum determinism of the steady-state Universe (e.g. walking on water, raising the dead), his will was free though he too was pre-destined to die on the cross. 

That is the question becomes is prescience the same as predeterminism? How can God make himself subject to His own creation? That's a neat trick (I mean this as the highest compliment). I have different ideas than does House on the idea of causality viewing it not necessarily in a linear or tree branching temporal series exclusively because of reading in quantum cosmology of contemporary physics (I am not a physicist or scientist though). I believe God is complete master of quantum wave-particle forms and membranes or monads that issue light and such, and have different ideas than House about creation theology yet I have moved beyond the criterion of theistic evolution quite a bit. On that topic I would say that the simple answers are true such as are presented in the OT. The point was to illustrate the point that everything hasn't an accurate simple-to-understand causal explanation that can fit neatly within human perspective. As House said sometimes one has to just trust God on matters of 'why' as all things for people of faith work for the glory of God...Here is what Watson wrote about the independent experience of suffering of the Lord...Thomas Watson wrote the following of Christ's death on page 135 of 'Divinity'...

“(I.) In the sufferings of his body. He suffered truly, not in appearance only. The apostle calls it mors crucis, the death of the cross. Phil 2: 8. Cicero, when speaking of this kind of death, says, quid dicam in crucem tollere? [How can I describe being raised up on a cross?] Though he was a great orator he wanted words to express it. The thoughts of this made Christ sweat great drops of blood in the garden. Luke 22: 44. It was an ignominious, painful, cursed death.

Christ suffered in all his senses. His eyes beheld two sad objects, his enemies insulting, and his mother weeping. His ears were filled with the revilings of the people. 'He saved others, himself he cannot save.’ Matt 27: 42. His smell was offended when their spittle fell upon his face. His taste; when they gave him gall and vinegar to drink. His feeling; when his head suffered with thorns, his hands and feet with the nails. Totum pro vulnere corpus [His whole body one great wound]; now was this white lily dyed with purple colour.

(2.) In the sufferings of his soul. He was pressed in the wine-press of his Father's wrath. This caused that vociferation and outcry on the cross, 'My God, my God,' cur deseruisti? Christ suffered a double eclipse upon the cross, an eclipse of the sun, and an eclipse of the light of God's countenance. How bitter was this agony! The evangelists use three words to express it. 'He began to be amazed.' 'He began to be faint.' 'To be exceeding sorrowful' Mark 14: 33; Matt 26: 38. Christ felt the pains of hell in his soul, though not locally, yet equivalently.”

Select Parameters of Theology for the Old Testament

The Old Testament comprises a lot of writing compiled over more than a thousand years. Old Testament theology for some seems generally to mean developing a way to address, approach, understand or interpret the Old Testament-as if a particular method was correct rather than just reading the books. The application of a structured hermeneutic to the Old Testament obviously poses certain risks of prejudgment and error. In some respects reading and learning the Old testament directly and letting it speak to-oneself permits the Bible as inspired literature to inspire for-itself directly informing one's own spirit with the living word of God.

Certainly accurate translations of the Old Testament are a concern in-themselves. Contemporaries may emasculate the truthful meaning and use terms of political correctness perhaps to render political offensive passages dead. One might anticipate evolution of Sodom and Gomorrah into cities destroyed simply to end a pitiful slave-condition of homosexuals or the concentration of wealth rather than sexual immorality of homosexuality and pervasive amoeba-like sharing of bodily fluids with everyone. Even so one may set aside the translation concern and consider that one has a decent Bible to move to consider that some insight from trusted, learned scholarship can help to inform one of the nature and circumstances of the composition and meaning of scripture. That might be called theology even though it includes history, philosophy, linguistic, archaeology, cosmology, sociology and numerous other fields of research. One can use theology yet with a certain reserve trusting foremost in scripture in-itself.

It is possible that one may take an overly-academic approach to Old testament writing and perhaps subjectively ossify the content for-oneself with academic technique. While one may enjoy abridging Toynbee or memorizing the Constitution and even deconstruct Shakespeare a little comparing him to Marlowe and his method to play-packaging construction with blank verse workshop apprentices and hired ghost-scriveners under his direction, that would tend to be an over-academicized demythologizing theoretical approach to the Bard of London and Stratford honored with the title though he wasn't Irish. More like some sort of German-ancestry pretender to a stone throne of Celtic muse.

One must be cautious about assuming that an abstract reduction and summary of Biblical text academically brings out a more full or better understanding of the content of the O.T. Each word and each book is an integral part of the whole. I

Consider the numbers; each has a place in a field even of two dimensions. If one makes an abstract of the set of natural positive whole numbers it may comprise a learning tool, yet that tool cannot in any way substitute for the content. While there are innumerable positive whole numbers that one does not know and has never heard of, select abstract concepts allow one to understand the nature of those unknown numbers, and of course one has trust that they really exist though it may be impossible to prove that abstract positive whole numbers really are infinite and do not actually end someplace for some reason-even it is simply at the point of being the highest number that was actually ever reached, of numbers exist only in fact and never actually in theory-that is if numbers are of existential character rather than of a Platonic realistic nature.

Vasimr Plasma Drive-Faster Trip to Mars

A Russian English language news service reported that a Houston company has won a contract from N.A.S.A. to prove a very fast in-space plasma drive engine that may reduce travel time to Mars to something like 30 days. A company video for the rocket engine developer offers a 76 day parameter. However fast it would be a useful tool for sending pre-fabbed aluminum domes or cabins to Mars on drones. 

In the future with wealth becoming so concentrate it may be that the  42% of Americans with less than a third of 1% of the national pie to fight over some sort of lottery may be developed to send the lucky winner to Mars work for leash holders as porters or something.

http://rt.com/usa/246581-mars-39-days-rocket/

http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/FAQ

Iran Nuclear Deal Somewhat 'Flaky'

In political life as in the wild kingdom of computer programming, algorithmic competence is proportionately related to the accuracy of boundary parameters the iterations are intended to address. An example would be that if Iran already has nuclear weapons then the ongoing talks to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons would be somewhat flaky.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/03/iran-nuke-agreement-leads-to-more-wrangling/25242819/

Of course Iranian agents visited Kazakhstan in the 90s to shop for surplus Soviet weapons grade highly enriched Uranium 238 and for quite a while plutonium was kept in an unguarded warehouse outside Moscow on shelves that any could back a pick-up to and one would imagine buy a load and drive away with an accomplice able to pick the single padlock on the door. Even so, even if Iran quietly bought some of the prime Soviet fissile materials and there is no telling how or where that era's stuff may have gone (one would think the Saudis bought some of that surplus being able to afford a spare million or two now and then), the stuff is buried in the desert where only a highly placed possibly retired general and his political controller would know-those guys don't need to inform the next administration of what went on before any more than President Clinton and his councillor Sandy Berger said everything to the G.W. Bush administration or why Berger was caught after the term was up stealing classified material from a secure government facility.

The Clinton administration did sign a deal with nuke develop for food with paramount Dictator Kim of course and that mooning of jom guaranteed the North Korean development of nuclear weapons. Iran is better situated in the Obama deal being allowed to keep more than 6000 centrifuge to continue enriching uranium. It reminds me of a still to make moonshine a little. revenuers never caught on to just increasing the legitimate business opportunities for moonshiners with a promise that they slow down their illegal distilleries-it might have worked.

Nevertheless the United States should show some sort of good faith gesture toward Iran unrelated to the nuclear problem. That nuclear problem with Pakistan loaded with dispersed nukes at undisclosed locations, Saudi and North Korea with nukes and hidden caches of plutonium and highly enriched uranium likely to exist is something the world may need to accept as the way things are for a while. Being on better terms with Iran such that people are free to travel there and do business is a better way to reduce tensions and increase trust a little even between Iran and Israel.

Maybe biological weapons are a bigger emerging problem with all of the technology and skill increasing that might enable advanced bio-designer weapons to cull targeted enemies to the scientists and their political leash-holders. There are Muslims fanatics stupid enough to use them if or when they are provided it seems. Maybe as an apology for the 1953 coup against Mossadegh that ended Iranian democracy the U.S. government  could buy a copy of my book 'Novilistricka Factors' for every Iranian citizen to show they care.

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/garycgibson

Americans Have Wrong Idea About Distribution of Nation's Wealth

Forty-two percent of Americans have just 3/10ths of 1% of the nation's wealth. A video explains some of the facts...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/economic-inequality-it-s-far-worse-than-you-think/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

Students Massacred by Al Shabob in Kenya

I wanted to say a word about the day-long massacre of Christian students at Garrisa University in Kenya. Students ought to say something about student massacres anywhere. Reportedly 147 were killed by Al Shabaab. Prayers of course, yet in some way one might seek to increase education opportunities for Kenyan Christians. Maybe a priesthood of believers approach could draw more the to hear the word.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/Kenya-attack-147-dead-as-Islam…

Parts 1 & 2 of a Theo-Cosmology Comment

I read selections of an essay on theology and cosmology including material from Thomas Watson. Each audio portion goes about 8 minutes. There are 3 or 4 minutes of images without reading after that. Voice over Alaska images.

Part 1

Part 2

Old Testament Laws Were Given to Inform People They Needed a Savior

There were probably several concurrent reasons for giving the Jews laws to live by rightly in relation to God. Throughout the Old Testament we read of mankind's moral and theonomous failures to pass the requirements of perfection; some notably worse than others. Old Testament laws were given to let people know that they all had sin and needed a savior's grace to save them. None could adhere to all of the law, be sinless and acceptable to God-after all they had original sin.

Jesus quoted speaking at the sermon on the mount in Matthew 5-said; 'Do not think that I came to abolish the law, but to fulfill. For truly I say unto you, but until heaven and Earth pass away, not a jot or title of the law shall pass away until all be accomplished. Whoever then annuls the least of these commandments shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven...for I say unto you unless your righteousness passes that of the scribes and Pharisees you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.'

The laws showed the need for a savior, the Lord Jesus is the savior providing a vicarious sinless condition to those of faith, through his sacrifice on the cross. People of faith are part of the kingdom of God in the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Age of Clans, Cults, Secret Societies and Alaska Public Radio

With the rise of the Internet a million flowers of secret societies using global communications bloomed. Even political parties changed form from purely public to semi-private. Like an iceberg where just a small fraction is visible above the surface the bulk of the communication may be visible only to the members admitted to the private realm of communication. One can only imagine the streams of queer community organizing and collusion transmitted to support homosexual activity empowerment and expropriation of marriage become one of the dominating political issues of the era in the U.S.A. That may be an international dark pool for-itself.

I had no practical awareness of the existence of semi-exclusive mass social communications until recently when I was admitted to a private communications groups associated with a public education program I was taking rather automatically. Yes it was on Facebook and yes N.S.A. programs can see through all of those private firewalls to keep the rest of the public out, yet it is still so simple,practical and legal for local, national and international secret societies to organize that I simply believe they must. It is easy to understand that secret societies might be useful in some nations such as Bangladesh where bloggers have been killed by Muslims recently, or in India where some Christians have been burned to death by Hindu militants now and then. It is also understandable that suffragettes might want to have much below the surface political organizing going on it order to remain alive in some Muslim nations, yet it is important to realize that all of that undercurrent organizing can work against the general principle of public economic activity with all players being informed of the salient aspects of economic activity and able to form rational expectations before investing their own time and resources in particular economic work.

Public radio in Alaska has always had something of a cultist aspect to it. It covers a vast state twice the size of Texas with Delaware left over populated by fewer than a million people and exercises a vast, retarding political, economic and social effect as so many ignorant volunteers and mercenary pros from the 48 states are given mass communications microphone exclusive access to the masses with stars and images of Mussolini in their eyes not to mention payola. Development of alternative, modern, democratic means of mass communication with radio is crushed. Tip of the iceberg resource domination swells keep things stupid as the hidden larger player exploit disposable (so far as they are concerned) social and environmental reality. Post-millennialists would not view Earth reality as disposable nor social reality either as a healthy continuum must exist to allow the kingdom of God to increase.

It would be far cheaper to create a unified weather-radio and emergency broadcasting automatic system across the state perhaps combining local transmitters with local wireless Internet routers and even heated public use space geodesic domes pre-fabbed in insulated aluminum packages somewhere so the public in rural villages could use the Internet with their smart phones for free while staying warm, vast expenses go into keeping the bad music and distant national radio programs with shows like ‘Wait, wait, don’t tell me’ on the air.

Radio broadcasters exploiting opportunities for control retard and hinder reasonable economic activity in the state that exceed the parameters of insider power domination through displacement if nothing else. Public radio is a non-democratic cult that could be replaced with innumerable better, cheaper means to enhance public communications to individuals and the masses locally and nationally; and it should be. It would be practical to combine weather and emergency broadcasting automated stations with Internet podcast broadcasts of locally registered communications senders sharing frequency slices. Google plans to launch 4G transmitting balloons around the globe to bring Internet coverage to everyone with a 4G smart phone. I would guess the coverage area may include rural Alaska. Free internet with a 4G card for a web-book would be an improvement for remote hiking.

Even so, this is an age of fracture where much of the public communications furthers wise guy rave demotic speech with the knowledge that below the surface there are alternative communications Universes experienced only by members of the communications collective. Bluetooth very short range supplemental phone communications have provided a practical upgrade for espionage 'dead-drops' of messages in Starbucks and other crowded places (i.e. a city bus or subway) where spies can transact business communications without sharing to cell phone towers or seeming to be talking to one another.

With Pretty Good Privacy and other high-end encryption programs it is even possibly to lock out the N.S.A. encryption algorithms of the key to decrypting messages are sent securely off line through some means. I suppose one can use a Bluetooth meeting brush for a PGP decryption key exchange now and then and then use the encrypted data securely taking the message off-line to a cold computer before deciphering the communique of course. One can only imagine the bulk of secret business, political and media communications on-going like hidden underground rivers of sedulous avaricious glomming.

It is not necessarily criminal to exploit modern secret communications and blacklisting networks. So long as one does not conspire to commit crimes to is lawful to talk about in private what it is no longer possible to talk about openly-especially since there is such extreme broadcast media bias supporting leftist depravity and concentration of wealth simultaneously. Philosophers would of course tend to disdain such secret societies since they are somewhat existentially introverted, and Christians might be well advised to avoid such concerns because correct Christian practices should be done openly and since there presently isn’t a functioning ecclesiastical priesthood of believers structure there is a lot of room for improvement in that need to be done publicly.

The Homosexual Agenda Leading To Government Apostasy

Partisan homosexual attacks upon marriage and laws supporting Christian and Jewish moral norms that bring state and federal government actions closer to the edge of official apostasy and godless atheist nihilism. In an age where Facebook secret clan pages are as common as the breath of Satanic doom that inspires an insider evil anti-spiritual empire to increase government apostasy is on the rise.

Government ought not compel Christians and Jews to perform evil, godless acts such as aid or abet homosexual marriages or be driven from business. That is a mark of the beast requirement that people be marked with if they want to economically survive. The evil ant-spiritual empire growth should be slowed, delayed, set-aside and eventually rolled back to hell in order to defend civil liberties of individual Americans to be free from state and federal economic terror.

Mankind are something like zombies; spiritual dead though walking upon the Earth. They can of course be cured with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who is the remedy-his body and blood being the only anti-zombie medical anti-dote to original sin. Most people being spiritual dead don't believe it. They are also of unbelief that a causal relationship exist for nations such as when they do egregious wickedness God may correct them. A Nazi Germany may suffer a Dresden firestorm, an invasive imperial Japan a nuclear Nagasaki or a Gay Marriage D.C. a Los Palmas landslide croquet mallet tsunami to devastate the U.S. Eastern seaboard or some sort of comparable disaster yet it can happen. Retaliation to set the loonies back onto the path of moral decency though perhaps yet unsaved within a zombie criterion has happened numerous times before in history.

Defending individual American civil rights means individuals rather than those of collectives, secret societies, government or corporations. Just because clannish communications in the Internet age of fracture allow massive secret political organizations and flash mobbing it does not mean that the U.S. Government should fall prey to the dark side of the force of civil defense and rule that matters of conscious are unconscionable for individuals-that they must kow tow to corruption or be proscribed and blacklisted out of business.

Laws of God still matter. The Ten Commandments are still in effect. The apostle Paul in the book of Romans plainly noted scriptural condemnation of homosexuality. At Sodom and Gomorrah a zombie mob with swollen groins pounded on Lot's door demanding angelic The zombies of the twin cities were vaporized and for looking back Lot's wife was reduced to minerals giving up her water as a pillar of salt.

Paul said that Christians are saved through grace-a monergistic rather than a synergistic method of salvation. Paul however understood the law well and agreed with the Lord that it was still in effect. People often misunderstood it then, and they misunderstand it still-even while some are given over entirely to a carnal mind in flowing as godless atheist vessels of dishonor.

There were probably several concurrent reasons for giving the Jews laws to live by rightly in relation to God. Throughout the Old Testament we read of mankind's moral and theonomous failures to pass the requirements of perfection; some notably worse than others. Old Testament laws were given to let people know that they all had sin and needed a savior's grace to save them. None could adhere to all of the law, be sinless and acceptable to God-after all they had original sin.

Jesus quoted speaking at the sermon on the mount in Matthew 5-said; 'Do not think that I came to abolish the law, but to fulfill. For truly I say unto you, but until heaven and Earth pass away, not a jot or title of the law shall pass away until all be accomplished. Whoever then annuls the least of these commandments shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven...for I say unto you unless your righteousness passes that of the scribes and Pharisees you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.'

The laws showed the need for a savior, the Lord Jesus is the savior providing a vicarious sinless condition to those of faith, through his sacrifice on the cross. People of faith are part of the kingdom of God in the Lord Jesus Christ.