What is Divine Grace?

Grace=predestination. Gravity applies to all mass and energy and so likely does grace apply to all spirit, although God obviously designs quantity and qualities of anything. God's will is one and effective in all things. Categorizing, defining things with language is a human activity,that dimly resembles some ways of God. One might compare grace to a video game program design in which all humans are players that pre-determines outcomes and sorts players into sheep and goats . One must be one or the other and the programmer decided who would be sheep or goats and wrote that into the programming code. Believers in the Programmer regard grace as iterations of the lines of code, as it is written.

Astro-Intell Agents Having Trouble Finding Alien Civilizations

In more than 100,000 galaxies no signs of the existence of an advanced civilization have been found (see the S.A. article http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-supercivilizations-absent-from-100-000-nearby-galaxies/ )

Primitive advanced alien civilizations may conceal themselves from predators or be destroyed. There may be a sort of Occam's Razor or Diner's Dilemma progression for survival of the meekest I would think. Yet they may conceal their conspicuous consumption waste energy as dark energy exhaust to expand space-time faster thus throwing off cosmologist's careful calculations.

I would guess that throwing a reflecting-energy collecting emergency blanket around the sun would not be an optimal remedy for increasing 1960s era paradigms for energy use requirements to advance civilizations-that seems something like a poetically ironic oxymoron.

Smarter and bigger breadboxes require more and more energy-even stars and galaxies must be surrounded and digested without thought for energy dieting or food-fuel efficiency ratios. Quality over quantity is what ecological economic cosmologists probably prefer.

image credit: Hubble Space Telescope

The Need for Long-Term Stability in Presidential Economic Policy

The primary challenge facing the American electorate is to bring stability to the U.S. economy. Idealists and pragmatics alike may want a President fluent in ecological economics able to innovate reform yet that just isn't going to happen the next couple of decades. In fact since the end of the Reagan administration the Presidency has been unstable with poor economic or moral leadership weakening the long-term economic stability in the post-cold war era. So what is the best prospect for longer-range stability in the Presidency.

Actually it would be a Walker-Rubio administration for 16 years with Democrats pressuring environmental change 7 years from now. That is the best the country going to get, and its not that bad.

In the Kingdom of God (Where the Lord Lives)

In the 8th century B.C. -Isaiah 49-"6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,

to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a

servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship,

because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and

he shall choose thee.

8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee,

and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee,

and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to

cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

Isaiah Chapter 9- "6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the

government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called

Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The

Prince of Peace.

7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no

end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and

to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for

ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform thishing out of his wings

shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel."

circa 1000 B.C.-2nd Samuel: "Chapter 7

1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the

LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;

2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an

house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the

LORD is with thee.

4 ¶ And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came

unto Nathan, saying,

5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou

build me an house for me to dwell in?

6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I

brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but

have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle."

When the Lord appeared in person, God's local residence was no longer in an ark in a Temple. The Temple in effect was the Lord himself.

circa 30 A.D.-Matthew Chapter 8 "20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath

not where to lay his head."

circa 30 A.D.-Mark 8 "31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man

must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again."

circa 30 A.D.-John 2 "18 ¶ Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said."

Like an empty obsolete building, the Temple of Herod was not where God dwelt after the Lord's ministry. When Jesus was crucified and died, the veil of the Temple was torn asunder. The old covenant was ended finally and the new covenant begun.

Matthew 27 "50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;"

CHAPTER 53

1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the

LORD revealed?

2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root

out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we

shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and

acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he

was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 ¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we

did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for

our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with

his stripes we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to

his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his

mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep

before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall

declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living:

for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his

mouth.

10 ¶ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:

when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his

seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall

prosper in his hand.

11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by

his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall

bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall

divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul

unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare

the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."

Select Messianic Prophecies of the OT

The Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament are sometimes mentioned in church yet little enough known to many Christians. I thought I'd post these passages while reading an OT Theology course. They are quite remarkable. 

8th century B.C. Isaiah 42-"5  Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: 6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images."

Zecharia 13
"1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David
and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness."

"6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine
hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the
house of my friends. 7 ¶ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the
sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two
parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them"

Isaiah-Chapter 11
"1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a
Branch shall grow out of his roots:2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked"

Isaiah Chapter 9-"6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform thishing out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel."

Isaiah Chapter 53" 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he
was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 ¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 ¶ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."

Matthew 8:17, 12:18-21,42:1 refer to Isaiah 53
1 Peter 2:24, Romans 4:25 cite Isaiah 53 in support of Jesus' atoning death
53:10- Jesus was killed with thieves (wicked) and placed in a tomb paid for by the wealthy Pharisee Nicodemus (rich)

Isaiah 49-"6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to
raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a
servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship,
because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and
he shall choose thee.
8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee,
and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee,
and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to
cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in
darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their
pastures shall be in all high places."

Isaiah Chapter 11: "10  And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest
shall be glorious. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people,
which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros,
and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath,
and from the islands of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble
the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from
the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of
Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall
not vex Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the
west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their
hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey
them.
15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian
sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river,
and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over
dryshod.
16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people,
which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that
he came up out of the land of Egypt."

Isaiah Chapter 19-"21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea,
they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. 22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
23 ¶ In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and
the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and
the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,"

Isaiah Chapter 61

"1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath
 anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the
 opening of the prison to them that are bound;

2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty
for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the
spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
4 ¶ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former
desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of
many generations.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the
alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you
the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in
their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 ¶ For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they
shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess
the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering;
and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting
covenant with them.
9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their
offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge
them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my
God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath
covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh
himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her
jewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden
causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD
will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the
nations."

Jesus read Isaiah 61 at the start of his ministry in Luke 4:16 " And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath
 anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath
 sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance
 to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set
at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."
Isaiah 65...Revelation 21 have resonating ideas on afterlife
Isaiah 66 verse 21 about new heaven and Earth

Revelation 21
This could describe a modern high-tech world, perhaps witha cloud of space station-habitats facing the sun with no oceanic travel or communication barriers on Earth-a world that is new in virtue of the new covenant. A world that is new from a spiritual point of view rather than simply material. Isn't the church already the bride of Christ-rather than some sort of future potential relationship that wasn't already established? Isn't the new Jerusalem the new covenant with Israel-Jacob-the saved, or center of God's spiritual kingdom of God that replaced that lost to Roman occupation and destruction?

This new Earth might be one that is developed over time as the kingdom of God increases, keeping with prophecies that are sometimes fulfilled over time rather than instantly like video-game scene flipping.

Revelation Chapter 21
"1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 
]14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 
20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof
24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk
in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for
there shall be no night there.
26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life."

Contexts of Theonomy

Theonomy is a tough word to pin down. Don't some use it to mean a society governed by God's law, or the eschaton ruled by God's law or will as people understand it including teleology? Doesn't it mean more than simply the legalistic social environment and works of traditional first century Jews or better yet, Muslims today living by Sharia? Tillich wrote about theonomy within an existential context, and that wasn't totally plain to me. Jesus has laws of conduct for people to live by in faith comprising Christian ethics, yet for argumentative purposes, say social conduct is entirely grace without temptations arising and with people as virtual automatons with salvation programming installed-isn't that still a God's law (equivalent to his will in some respects) environment of theonomy (where God rules). So that is what theonomy is perhaps-a place where God rules and one is aware of that and chooses to obey rather than sin?

Poems from Archipelago; Transition Space

I read a couple of poems from 'Archipelago Transition Space.

Poetry Train America

Poetry Train America is a large, interesting book by a Princeton-based writer named John E. Wordslinger. I appreciate being mentioned in chapter 18; Alaska poets.
https://www.facebook.com/PoetryTrainAmerica

https://www.facebook.com/pages/John-E-WordSlinger/875794729144160

http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-e-wordslinger/poetry-train-america/paperback/product-21069509.html

President Wants Congress to Vote for Lynch? (singular sense)

After six years of being President of the United States President Obama has asked Congress to vote to give him a Lynch for attorney general. Understandably the Congress may be recalcitrant about Lynching this late in the second term of the first black President except for Bill Clinton who claimed to be the first black President-possibly dissimulating a little.

President Obama must have sort sort of a sense of humor in his toolkit.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/obama-says-cites-senate-dysfunction-in-delay-to-confirm-lynch/ar-AAba7js

The Everlasting Davidic Kingdom of Jesus Christ

Isaiah, Jeremiah and the Lord all spoke prophecy about the near term (as well as the distant). The protoevangelium and the seed of the woman, the Abrahamic promise, blessing upon all the nations, the Davidic promise and an eternal kingdom through the seed of the woman, Abraham's heirs and the House of David, the Lord Jesus Christ descended from David through Mary point to Jesus Christ as the King of kings and Lord of Lords.

Isaiah 9:6 "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the

government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called

Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The

Prince of Peace."

Jesus spoke of prophecy that would be fulfilled in the generation of his day in the first century, and that the kingdom of God was at hand. The Davidic kingdom in the form the Lord actualized it is eternal. How so then would it not have started in the first century? It continues to increase in numbers today. The pre-trib paradigm is just wrong.

John too as a prophet spoke to the impending crisis of his day. The beast was Nero and the tribulation was the persecution of Christians and impending destruction of Jerusalem. Is their any prophetic tradition, or a preponderance of prophets whom address solely distant events without relevant to people living in their generation?

Kings & Queens; The Big Sleep

Kings and queens and guillotines is one of the best lyrical rhymes in music. It has that zing on a phonetic and paradigmatic axis. As it is in music so it is in the wild kingdom wherein the Lord Jesus Christ is the only king able to survive the cutting-edge test of right to rule over democracy. After all the heads of kings and queens roll and sadistic oppressors are put down to their natural realm of the big sleep just the Lord Jesus Christ remains resurrected and eternal in the kingdom of God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNw95aDW27A

Why Rand Paul & Other Presidential Candidates Will Miss Economic Reality Check

Rand Paul is the subject of much interest in the 2016 Presidential race because he has a different political philosophy with a large portion of libertarianism. Some economists are interested in what his approach might be to address the nation's pressing economic issues. Ron Paul and most candidates for the nation's highest office are unlikely to be anything other than usual classical economic followers because establishment corporate business has all of the money. The sort of candidates that get corporate campaign contributions cannot be for real change.

http://www.economonitor.com/dolanecon/2015/04/16/a-fiscal-program-for-rand-paul-he-wants-to-balance-the-budget-heres-how-he-should-do-it/

Ecological economics is a new style of economic method that to apply would require very highly educated and influential political reformers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_economics

It is difficult to imagine a competent-in-ecological-economics politician with a nationalist bias able to understand national defense well with an egalitarian preference for a far smaller gap between the wealth of the rich and poor who could even get a serious run in Presidential primaries. Consider too the pace of change required to make a difference in national politics as leader of the decreasingly free world.

Venture capitalists want a traditional 3 to 5 year repayment plan from free enterprisers seeking financing. Presidential candidates required to have a 3 to 5 year plan to eliminate the public debt or just to balance the federal budget would be regarded as cranks or anarchists. Getting ecological economic competence in even a little would be even more challenging. Imagine getting ecological economic reform of the nation's economy done within 3 to 5 years! It's just not possible and yet that is what the nation needs.

To meet the decline of the planets ecological health and to promote a sustainable economy simultaneously requires a lot of intellect, education and political persuasiveness. One would prefer an individual to arise who respects individual rights and the free spirit of religiosity and run for office. Business as usual will inevitably prevail to recognize only one of their own stock. The United States tends to diminish its own economic development as globalists exploit it for their own interest of concentrating wealth. If a long term national drought takes hold, if global heating accelerates it may be that catastrophe will become the Occam's economic razor pressing change in a disaster context with less than rational remedies. that would not be good for anyone's business.

Muslims Sneaking Into Europe Drown 12 Christians on the Way

Muslim migrants seeking to become illegal alien to Italy drowned 12 Christians on the same boat CNN reported. That indicates a disposition of modern Muslim immigrants that Europeans might want to take note of. Though perhaps the godless atheists they are safe.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/europe/italy-migrants-christians-thrown-overboard/

Of Sheep and Goats

Since the criterion of election and pre-destination are items of interest to us, it is worth noting that the knowledge people have of God is limited. That is, God has a lot of intell going on that humans aren't aware of, such as who really is or isn't saved and who will or will not become saved (though they are the elect). When Jesus said; "Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand (Matthew 13:13)." it was another example of how those not yet saved do not comprehend who He is. There are a lot of people in that circumstance historically prior to salvation. God knows who eventually will be saved and not of course, yet outwardly it may be challenging to distinguish the sheep from the goats. The statement of Jesus in John 10:26 might have been taken as an admonishment by some. His statement 'Acts 26:14" And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." indicates that Saul had not previously heard or discerned the word well enough to withhold kicking against it. On another related point, what about this- God is unchanging because He is already perfect and all that it is possible for him to be, lacking nothing. Even so he may entail every change that might possibly be, and every item that might possibly exist, inclusive of all possible spatio-temporal Universes in their appropriate phase.

Kasparov v Topolov-The Greatest Chess Game

Gary Kasparov's 1999 game against Veselin Topolov is described by some as the greatest chess game ever played. The reason for that is not only the high skill of the two players-each have been at some time World Chess champ, Kasparov's aggressive, risky style reminds one of Mikhail Tal, and against Topolov-another very exciting and aggressive chess player, the game is remarkably tight, efficient and yet wild.

Kasporov's rook sacrifice is brilliant because it is so unanticipated. Very few chess players would even see the opportunity to sacrifice a major piece-a rook, to a pawn, in order to launch an attack on the opposition force king.

Kasporov's king hunt is comparable perhaps to Bobby Fischer's 'game of the century' against Donald Byrne wherein he won the U.S. chess championship at age 13. Fischer makes an unanticipated queen sacrifice to launch a continuous brilliant attack to checkmate the king.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_the_Century_(chess)

Fischer's king hunt was perceived from the start, he made a similar brilliancy in another game wherein he effectively checkmated the opfor queen, yet Kasparov's attack begins mid game and continues with a series of controlled yet wild moves putting him on the thin edge of losing himself. It is for that reason perhaps that it is called 'the greatest game ever played.

The Big O Wants Cuba Off Terror Sponsor List; Replacement?

President Obama wants Cuba taken off the terror list raising the difficult question of where to find a replacement? The Palestinian Entity is a prospect-it has lots of terrorists, and ISIS is a prospect too except its not really a state yet-its something like proto-planet ice dirtball Ceres and not even to Pluto status. NPR is probably having a spring fund raising drive looking for sponsors yet not many think of them as terrorists so that won't work.

What about nations leading the world in production of greenhouse gases  going on the sponsor of terrorism list? Some people do think of global warming and mass human species die-off from desertification and flooding as terrifying-though not those producing coal power plants, fossil fuel engines and etc. plainly.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article18509504.html

On the Topic of 'The Kingdom of God'

  The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel. ~Jesus

 Finding alternative meanings for 'the kingdom of God' and 'is at hand' seems challenging regarding spatio-temporal disambiguation. As a partial preterist I believe the Lord's statement applied on more than one level or in one sense. The kingdom of God is within you ,before the arrival of the Holy Spirit (which may be taken to mean that kingdom of God wherein the holy church dwells) meant that within oneself one would discover the Holy Spirit, or God's transcending presence, if one were of faith. Yet I also think that the kingdom of God reference is distinct from referring to Israel as a nation that is the kingdom of God. Perhaps Jesus referred to his crucifixion and consumation of the new covenant as the particular kingdom of God that was at hand then. Plainly one knows that the atoning work of the Lord providing salvation is eternal (at least in one direction since Christians haven't existed for eternity yet will exist in eternity in the future raising a theological question of how one can have a lesser eternity that doesn't include all possible time of the past-rather like Cantor's transfinite series theories-and since the past only exists in temporality does that mean that Christians reaching eternity have awareness of a time when they were not eternal and didn't exist?)

The differences between temporality and eternity have many paradoxes that I won't try to answer here risking trivializing them or just making errors. On preterism and dispensationalism I have you  read Gentry's books? Preterism is most post-trib while dispensationalism is generally pre-trib. Grammatico-historical hermenutic is another way to find the truth in scripture. One wants the truth in interpreting historical works generally from Cicero to Livy, Caesar, Tacitus,Josephus, Procopius, Plutarch etc. or philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle,Plutarch or even Kant; the new and old Testament contexts are additionally bettered by learning more of the era, language, social context, historical context and in learning how the books were put together, canonized and so forth. Archaeology informs us of more, and the public knowledge of the truth of scripture advances even with insight into science, metaphysics and quantum cosmology-for God has made a wonderful creation with marvelous capacities for construction and change of matter and energy with fields, membranes and etc that cannot be reduced to simple paradigms that are complete for understanding. Nothing surpasses the truth of Biblical Genesis creation accounts, yet learning more about them historically enhances one's appreciations of them. Gentry's 'He shall Have Dominion' explains the rise of Christians to a majority status over time. There are a billion or so today (at least nominally). At some point in the future they may comprise a majority-Gentry showed that scripture seems to indicate that.

First Genocide of 20th Century-Armenia-A Warning to 21st

When Ottoman Turks slaughtering more than a million Armenians early in the 20th century such bad government was a trendsetter of genocides to come. One hopes dumb, corrupt government of the Clinton-Obama era doesn't hasten a democide of human life on Earth with global warming, mass species extinction, failure for ecological economic practices and concentration of wealth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide

The genocide of a century ago was the result of bad , corrupt government-sound familiar?

The Clinton-Obama Counter-Reformation Continues

The Obama-Clinton policy of atheist counter-reformation with special support for homosexuality, attacks on religious liberty of thought and action, concern that baptism be given to infants held by homosexuals, abortion, mind-altering drugs and so forth seems to be consistent with global corporatist godless concentration of extreme wealth with degradation of U.S. nationalism and political disempowerment of the poor and middle class.

NPR got involved with infant baptism at 2 am this morning. A pastor in N. Dakota refused to baptize a baby a lesbian couple had. I don't know if they were married or not. The state via their radio people aren't reluctant to politicize religious issues such as this, and that's a shame. The reformers, Zwingli and the Anabaptists had opinions that had real consequence. A godless counter-reformation is what is in progress.People lost their lives, or gave them, for what they beleived was true. The Obama administration people seem to think Christianity is a club that shouldn't be exclusive or for non-homos only in marriage. I believe the sanctification of infants in baptism is fine if its the start of being raised in a Christian home because young people won't remember when they were saved necessarily while adult conversion merits baptism. Though Catholics have a synergistic approach to amillenialism I still regard them as being saved when they have faith in the Lord as their personal Savior in spite of error in various doctrines. Yet not all Catholics are saved if they fall short of the minimal true criteria for salvation. Neither would any actual Christians need to be rebaptized, unless they want to, if they move to a church with a more accurate account of doctrine. PCUSA members for instance, that left the church after if became apostate didn't necessarily need to be rebaptized if they became Baptists, Assembly of God people or whatever.

Why Did Slager Beam Up Mr. Scott?

Findings of fact and conclusions of law are two important procedures of honest legal proceedings. One must ask if a police officer in a fight who becomes tased by an attacking fugitive might has progress concurrent with the racial-political expeditious conviction.The famous video of Police Office Slager shooting Walter Scott starts with the pair facing each other, each bent over at the waste at about a 45% angel straitening up. It appears that Walter Scott's left arm is also in contact with Officer Slager's neck or shoulder and it is immediately withdrawn as he straightens up, rotates around and continues running away. Something small and black like a taser appears on the ground in the instant, in between Scott and Slager, when Scott's arm is withdrawn.

Viewers see the end of a fight or scuffle-not the bulk of it. Starting with the end of the entanglement observers see Scott run away while Slager draws a pistol and shoots at Scott until he drops.

The U.S. Government and the 1% of Wall Street practicing financial incest are a 1 or 2 degrees of separation family of predators that a black anti-white police movement ignores acting while acting as hound dogs trying to tree a coon (white policemen). Economic injustice for the poor and middle class concerning the declining fair apportionment of the nation's wealth is the underlying best explanation for decrepit social conditions supporting crime requiring challenging police work of interdiction. The free enterprises of the Earth are like a water catchment system that is bringing the flow of wealth to the deep oceanic pool of the 1%. Every little stream contributing to the flow pays a percent to the rich that allow the rich to buy or redirect every little stream.

The poor and middle class are increasingly becoming dopey, dumbed-down global villagers watching the 'trickle-past' effect and blaming police for the drought condition. The problem is the Democrat Party power support sucking up wealth for the rich. Hillary Clinton has returned to a race to be the next immoral leader of a Satanically perverted Presidency and become the Democrat Party's most powerful sucking up and redistribution tool to the rich in 2016 giving the business and vacuuming up hopes and financial prospects of the poor. Extreme asymmetric concentrated political power arises with extreme asymmetric concentration of wealth. When large racial minorities believe the race rather than objective class economics is the main problem concerning them as Americans the Clinton-Obama shills for the rich globalists destroying Democracy and replacing it with corrupt Demo-Sukocracy lose political meaning.

It should be known that addressing adverse individual interactions of police with blacks will not solve the social circumstances that generate macro-social behaviors of a confrontational nature of concern to the racist team. Ignoring the small world incest of media, government and Wall Street where any city on Earth is just chump change away and the local nations of morons outside the incest loop of those inside the governing beltway is dangerous practice reinforcing the decline of democracy, and small scale free enterprise and the rise of oligarchy, institutional corruption, tyranny, wage slavery and end of individual civil rights in favor of class clan and racial privileges with special state preference for perversion in the citizenry. President Obama has led a godless counter-reformation to instill anti-Christian values in the nation for some perverse reason. NPR ran a story today on infant baptism and of lesbians being denied that service by a Christian minister in North Dakota. NPR hasn't competant awareness of the history of the protestant reformation and its struggles with the very complex issue of infant versus adult Baptism. Many people died over the choice they made in the aftermath. The issue involves elevtion and pre-destination, it is subtle and meaningful. The unsaved of course go to hell, yet it is comforting to know they deserve it.

It would be unreasonable to expect a Christian to baptize a child into a reprobate, apostate or atheist home environment as if the kid would be supported in sanctification and justification learning the saving grace as a work in progress. A rightly raised Christian infant may be baptized and forgo adult baptism because he has long been a Christian before becoming an adult. To be baptized again would be to deny that one was already a Christian, yet to be wrongly raised with anti-Christian values that sanctify sin would be wrong too.

Adult baptism is genreally for those converted from a state of non-faith, and that is a good thing although I believe that one is properly baptized when one receives the Holy Spirit through faith. In no case should the tramping federally supported NPR be involved in religious issues and try to coerce people into supporting sin as a Christian article. NPR and federal radio is a kind of above-the-law super-propaganda machine, and an advocate of sin, chaos and confusion through the air. Though the Obama administration may be full of atheists perpetrating the promulgation of sin and forcing evil upon the masses, it should heed the separation of church and state and just butt out of religious issues instead of sneaking around with its Satanic anti-gospel though NPR.

Neither should Democrats distract black Americans for important economic issues that united them across the board with the 50% of Americans with less than a half of one percent of the nation's wealth and the 80 % of Americans that have only 20%. Americans want honest and equal legal justice obviously, yet racism as a primary political issue that misses the positive goals of betterment of all Americans is just daft. The Clinton-Obama administration counter-reformation is depraved, corrupt and an evil trend in American history.

In the beginning, Slager pulled over Mr. Scott in his beamer (or Mercedes) maybe for a broken tail-light. He walked to Scott's car and appeared non-threatening. Officer Slager returned with Scott's I.D. to his car presumably to radio in a check for possible warrants. Scott used that opportunity to look back to Slager's car once before abandoning his car to run as fast as possible away. Scott appears to have had a passenger in the car with him. The question arises-why did he flee? From that point he put himself at risk as policemen would tend to believe that felons would be those likely to try to escape to avoid arrest.

So from the time that Scott set off running until Slager caught up some time passes apparently not captured by video. The next video begins with the end of a confrontation and probably arrest attempt during which both men end up facing each other and a taser or communication device perhaps, is dropped to the ground.

It is plain that Officer Slager did not just get tired after running after Mr. Scott so he stopped, drew his weapon and fired. Instead a scuffle or fight broke out wherein Mr. Scott resisted arrest and possibly tased Slager, or tried to tase Slager. Obviously Scott wasn't tased if he was able to run away again. Could Slager have been tased or partially tased himself and yet been able to continue standing and draw and fire his weapon at Mr. Scott running away?

Would Officer Slager in that instant after being tased have had clouded judgment about weather or not to shoot? His taser gone, somewhat dazed did he instinctively draw and shoot at threat source of pain that resisted arrest? Was Officer Slager usually such a poor shot that he would need 8 shots to hit a moving target? Probably aware that he was being videoed, did he walk lethargically yet methodically, failing to provide immediate first aid, still somewhat dazed?

Those are grim questions they will be asked if Slager can afford competent legal council. Shot in the back is a classically damning phrase that Slager must have been aware of. He would normally be aware of the global focus on white American police officers and the desire of the left to obtain video of police brutality the past two years, and that such an action as shooting a suspect in the back would endanger his own future.

Obviously impartial review of police killings-something like an external affairs bureau staffed with ordinary people of a public nature providing information to the public about its findings, would provide more transparency. Also evident is the political nature of the current movement to capture police shootings on video. The mayor of North Charleston swiftly fired Officer Slager so he would not be liable for lawsuits or political damage to himself for keeping Officer Slager in the employ of North Charleston. That raises the question of weather or not Officer Slager will be able to afford competent council to for self defense. Perhaps even the police union will through Slager to the mercy of media piranha and the courtroom on his own. No one wants involvement with the premise 'I've got your back' premise for former Officer Slager since the meaning given it by Officer Slager..

The shooting of Scott running away appears damning. Slick professional sounding analytical videos has already appeared on Youtube with characters of the belligerents starting with Scott running away and Slager shooting Scott in the back. Slager needs eight shots to hit Scott once? Was Slager really that bad of a shot or was he a little fogged by an electric jolt to his brain? What is missing from the analysis is the truth-a confrontation and physical conflict occurred in which the men were face to face with Scott's hand appearing to be on Officer Slager-though the background in the real video footage is blurred and the background is too similar to the foreground in color.

Former Officer Slager has been tossed to media vampires and the Universe of Youtube all alone to provide a defense that no one in the media has an interest in hearing. Obviously Slager shot Scott yet the actual explanation for why comprise the difference between a justifiable police taking of life, manslaughter and premeditated murder. Once again a police officer in a dangerous field situation experiencing a felon resisting arrest (after the fight and possibly after the first flight Scott became a felon if he wasn't already) used a gun and took a life. It is important to understand why that occurred however, and to keep legal justice on an objective and impartial rather than a racial footing.

Just because there are hundreds of thousands of felons and blacks with hatred of police and cameras to make videos of the unpretty interactions of police with felons on-the-street it would not be wise for the public media to swiftly take a side of bias against truthful and accurate law enforcement. For their own self-defense policemen will need to get their own cameras on to document interactions when making arrests. Rather than police oppression of blacks symbolically as a reason for pervasive black youth poverty, the problem is just the concentration of wealth. About 50% of Americans share not even as much as one half of one percent of the nation's wealth.

Racial bias against white policemen will not solve the problem of police violence against blacks. In fact statistically if blacks or Hispanics were exchanged for whites the quantity of violence might increase. It is statistically low as I understand it already. The solution to police encounters with millions of sometimes hostile multi-cultural youth is more in breaking up the cult of concentrated wealth to reallocate quality employment and job security for the poor than in the interaction between police and criminals. Citizens with good jobs and with low unemployment in their social environment do not need to flee crime scenes and can afford to throw money to lawyers for defense. Usually they do not even get involved in the scummy sort of crimes that produce police violence-instead they move up and steal money through non-violent white collar crimes if they steal at all.

President Obama signs permanent, deep tax cuts for the rich into law, gives zero-interest loans to rich banks and none to the poor or middle class and comparative poverty increases for the majority of the people of the United States. In all that it is the police that take the heat from the cesspool of social corruption fueled by government incompetence and corruption that strikes out like dogs barking up the wrong tree on the immediate establishment contacts who oppose drugs and violence (that is where democrats have not legalized illegal drugs use). Creating a better society and restoring the ecosphere to health cannot occur with the spiral of decay created by chic globalization media in support of the most rich. Change should occur, yet the political competence to bring about change is in very short supply.

Troubled American blacks should make no mistake-President Obama's policy's have supported the global financial incest of the rich, not an egalitarian tax policy with economic free-enterprise pluralism. The financial incest will establish the same networks, the same corporations, the same franchises all over the world-; one small world with one race like mountain gorillas with one gene pool. That global incest will continue until the elite, incestuous 1% can start f'ing with real aliens. The 1 % have an idea that they are not transforming the planet population into homogeneity, but they are wrong. Still, ecological economics will still remain unknown on Earth in the Presidency after N.A.S.A. has found life on other planets within 15 or 25 years as N.A.S.A. has said is likely.

The rich own the sycophant broadcast media that propagandize, agitate, blow smoke up the a of the poor and middle class dupes they seek to program, divide and subjugate as wage slaves. That special above-the-law and legal structures over-the-rational-boundaries power of ubiquitous politically corrupting broadcast is an effective smoke-screen for the rich to use while they channel all wealth unto themselves.