Priesthood of Believers Paradigmata

 ”Man's sanctification (moral restoration) is definitive, progressive, and final. One God, one covenant law: through time and across borders. The successive covenants of Scripture really record for us a gradual historical unfolding of one overarching covenant, rather than the successive, compartmental establishing of distinctively different capsule covenants” –Kenneth Gentry in He Shall Have Dominion

^{Luther on Priesthood of the Laity}

^{Schaff Vol 7 page 23, quote-Ҥ 8. The Priesthood of the Laity.}

^{“The social or ecclesiastical principle of Protestantism is the general priesthood of believers, in distinction from the special priesthood which stands mediating between Christ and the laity.}

^{The Roman church is an exclusive hierarchy, and assigns to the laity the position of passive obedience. The bishops are the teaching and ruling church; they alone constitute a council or synod, and have the exclusive power of legislation and administration. Laymen have no voice in spiritual matters, they can not even read the Bible without the permission of the priest, who holds the keys of heaven and hell.}

^{In the New Testament every believer is called a saint, a priest, and a king. "All Christians," says Luther, "are truly of the spiritual estate, and there is no difference among them, save of office alone. As St. Paul says, we are all one body, though each member does its own work, to serve the others. This is because we have one baptism, alike; one gospel, one faith, and are all Christians for baptism, gospel and faith, these alone make spiritual and Christian people." And again: "It is faith that makes men priests, faith that unites them to Christ, and gives them the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, whereby they become filled with all holy grace and heavenly power. The inward anointing—this oil, better than any that ever came from the horn of bishop or pope—gives them not the name only, but the nature, the purity, the power of priests; and this anointing have all they received who are believers in Christ."}

^{This principle, consistently carried out, raises the laity to active co-operation in the government and administration of the church; it gives them a voice and vote in the election of the pastor; it makes every member of the congregation useful, according to his peculiar gift, for the general good. This principle is the source of religious and civil liberty which flourishes most in Protestant countries. Religious liberty is the mother of civil liberty. The universal priesthood of Christians leads legitimately to the universal kingship of free, self-governing citizens, whether under a monarchy or under a republic.”-endquote}

^{A priesthood of believers is a correct form rather than a partitioned dichotomy of priests and laity mirroring that of traditional aristocracy-subjects paradigms. Developing an active priesthood of believers church structure with just three ranks of beginner, intermediate and elder will be a challenge and a renewal of reformation.}

^{In the world today the political drift is toward ad hoc neo-imperlialism of class of wealth through global networks. Considering the role of the Christian Church in bringing civilization to the pagan tribes of Western Europe over the course of several hundred years it is not surprising that the Church gained influence among the princely leaders of the various nations. Churchmen were also the transnationalists of the era after the fall of Rome to the Goths with an army of priests. Corruption in human social organizations including the church was of course the rule rather than the exception.}

^{When the Muslim forces of the Abbassid Caliphate attacked Spain, Sicily and Byzantium the church had a role that naturally developed as the faith of the invaded resisting the theocratic war machine of Mohammedan votaries.}

^{With a millennium of defense military operations against the Muslim forces European nations increased their military skill. When the Byzantine Empire decreased in power due to the attacks by Muslims and Huns the church at Rome naturally increased in power and influence. Yet of course sacerdotal corruptions with concubinage and the huge problem of Papal sales of indulgences-papers-granting forgiveness of sins-that brought gold to the Vatican from all over Europe grew as uncorrected problems of the Roman Church leadership. Because some Popes asserted unlimited power over all church and state affairs a reformation was sought by the laity. Martin Luther in Germany and Zwingli in Switzerland led a rectification of the Christian Church to return to Bible basics that the word of God is primary and that the correct ideal ecclesiastical expression is an egalitarian priesthood of believers with one High Priest-The Lord Jesus Christ.}

French Support for Terrorism on Assad Drafted Fundamental Terror Home

French support for development of civil war & terrorism against the Syrian government of President Assad was the proximal cause of the recent shootings of writers and cartoonists in Paris as well as the attack on a Jewish grocery. Frustrated by being blocked from traveling to Syria to fight against Assad in a rebel movement supported by French and Obama administration policy for several years resulting in more than 200,000 casualties the terrorist simply stayed at home and shot people regarded as foes of Islam. Of course there have been substantial broadcast media reports that Muslims are swell people and most don't mean any harm, yet that misses the point entirely that French government support for Muslim rebels and training for Muslim fighters destabilizes the middle east producing a surfeit of trained terrorists, terrorist finance and global terrorist infrastructure.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/11/world/charlie-hebdo-paris-march/

Dividing Europe and Russia is another poorly thought out U.S. policy. For one think a weak Russia probably would remain neutral in any future potential conflict between China and the U.S.A. over anything in Asia. With the decade ahead of supply-side terrorism in the middle east looking north to expand ops in Europe and Russia the wedge between Russia and the U.S.A. over the Ukraine is also a problem.

French Muslims seeking to censor free speech may have an ally in British P.M. Cameron who is still seeking to find ways to ban free speech himself (on the Internet). http://rt.com/uk/221879-surveillance-whatsapp-facebook-snowden/

Plainly a stable Assad led Syria was less of a problem for Europe as was a Khaddafi led Libya. Neutrality might have been a better policy when one considers that replacing those governments with Sunni forces inclined toward fundamentalism is a long term problem that will probably spin off terrorism ad nauseum.

The French have fought against Muslim expansion for more than a half-millennia and so have some experience. Charles Martel and the French-Algerian war were far apart in time, yet it twas the same topic people twit about today-fighting against Muslim. Today the French have new tactic though of building up terror forces in the Middle East to attack non-Sunni governments cooperating with the Obama administration in trying to get intermediaries to overthrow Assad in Syria. Theoretically I suppose ISIS doesn't have the historical antipathy toward France as some Algerian Muslim perhaps yet with so many French Muslim there will be those that regard payback as kosher, halal or whatever.

Keystone Pipeline Cancer Reaches U.S. Senate (with video)

A key bill for increasing global atmospheric warming to help doom the prospects for sustainability of human life on Earth has reached the Senate for debate with the prospect of almost certain passage. President Obama in spite of his corrupting fagot-preference policies stands as the sole individual able to veto the legislation designed to kill economic health and promote greenhouse gas emissions increase. Keeping the world atmosphere cool enough to retard sprawling desertification advance coincides with the need to slow sea-level rise as well as the acidification of the world ocean from too much carbon dioxide.

Federal legislative vague and amorphous accounting is common for Wall Street derivatives legislation, quantitative easing, public debt, powers of the Federal Reserve, zero-interest loans of trillions and trillions to the most rich so they can mint 5 times more cash in electronic loans and the environment too. Bunk and ecospheric management incompetence are the standard operating procedures of American government policy designers-anything with more intelligent design wouldn't make large campaign contributions. Besides, two-coated broadcast broadcast media lap-dogs are a paralyzing venom of the rich for reducing democracy to a puppet show. Political defense against ecosphere decay is necessary though. U.S. nationalists can try to take back their environment from globalist doom though the money is in the deep pockets of the rich, well-oiled machine.

In the Senate bum's rush to pass a high-sulfur content crude pipeline where is the accurate environmental analysis of the total carbon emissions increase to the world's single atmosphere that would exist over the lifetime of the Tar Sands Keystone pipe product?

In S.E. Alaska this winter there was just one snowstorm with significant snowfall. This January the temperature is expected to be mostly in the 40 degree range. It is a warm year and as most thoughtful people know the Arctic ice cap is shrinking in size year by year over time. Fall storm surges push on frozen sea surface water farther over the low coastal plain. If the sea level rises much and increased storms occur to push water over an Arctic coastal plain subsiding like low-lying areas of Louisiana after the oil was removed Alaska may lose vast areas of land and much wildlife to global warming and oil drilling floods-yet that would comparatively be a most insignificant impact to the general social interest.

In 'The Final Warning' by the inventor of the Gaia Hypothesis James Lovelock wrote that if current policies continue unchanged human population from a number of  global warming causalities may shrink to 200 million (within 200 years). Personally I think he is overly optimistic about how much time remains before environmental doom caused by too slow to adapt generations of meat bearing skeletons in the U.S. government legislative branch arrives. The Keystone pipeline is regarded by some as the Five-Finger death punch to the heart of the atmosphere from a wild grim-reaping joker.

When Henry Ford invented mass production of automobiles and highways proliferated over the nation about a century ago humanity was economically speaking just moving out of the trees where it had gathered fruits and nuts. It lusted after the red meat of the land and automobiles were the carnivorous predator able to consume the ecosphere, so they evolved quickly to merge themselves as cyborgs into machine cockpits. That creature drinks oil and eats life on Earth tearing it apart like a mechanical T-Rex. The U.S. Senate is the pagan priesthood serving a machine Moloch offering babies of future human sacrifice in order to line their political bank accounts with Federal Reserve issued slim flam money. Global oil and auto producers and parts suppliers are amoeba working to devour life on Earth. Reason for Senate servo-units of the machine is a waste-product excreted in planetary development of the hive.

Some Questions About Mass-Energy Field Universes

I have had some questions about the existential facts of energy and being for all possible Universes in a neo-scientific paradigm. One must use one's imagination of course, yet people like Gasperini have written about paradigms before a big bang or membrane collisions such as Turok and Stein or A Wheeler-Hawking sort of recursion or recurrence. Its all fine stuff-a good way to go about describing a steady-state Universe phase of being. I like the idea of Leibniz that one-dimensional spiritual monads (sort of like strings or branes) get everything started. With Spirit I think its useful to realize that everything material may exist from nothing materiaist- just spirit cutting out a portion for the sentients to exist in as field phenomena.

Ninety-nine percent of the energy of the first field in the void was drawn from virtually nowhere until nowhere became energy exhausted. Complying with the initial field over-all strength as total quanta it collapsed unto itself as charged particles attracted to the missing spin-matrix in particle pairs. The second law of thermodynamics with its nature of increasing disorder in a finite field over time was conserved. From infinite Spirit with impossibility of disorder it was elemental to issue field content morphing into particle pairs with evolution through cycles of beingness structures leading to general sentience.”

What do you think kept the infinite quantity of Universes you can see in the mystery bird's eye view of things from collapsing under some kind of attracting neo-gravitational field themselves into what-the mother of all singularities?”

What about dimensional status of the Universes? Do all have the same number and kind of dimensions regarding micro and macro? If they have differing quantities and quality of dimensions can they collapse or change if they can collide with dimensions from intersecting Universes? Are dimensions all local to a particular Universe or do they extend from any given Universe throughout all possible Universes to infinity?

Across each Universe the shape given to it by neighboring Universes embedded in a sack energy field draws mass along the space-time down-slope to terminus energy pole. Photons with no mass just drift around the circumference of a Universe and the mass falling down-slope even as disorganization increases over all along principles of the second law of thermodynamics.

Alternatively, mass could Universally be settling toward another dimension though remaining within four dimensions of normal space-time.

Materials Technology Will Change Space Exploration and Settlements

Considering the advances in materials technology it is amusing to consider how space ships, stations, mobiles and planetary and moon buildings may change from the present general non-adaptive finished and ossified product. It is easy to imagine slowly building an extra igloo on Earth out of urine (not that anyone would of course), yet it is simpler and more practical to consider building Martian ice structures in shadowed craters from Martian ice or raising structures from metals that turn liquid and then harden in the desired shape. Space ships too could be made of such transformative materials that could go so far as to be burnable as fuel for ion engines over the course of a long journey.

http://www.finditwestvalley.com/index.php/science/3-d-pop-up-silicon-structures-transforming-planar-materials-into-3-d-microarchitectures-h45396.html

Mankind's efforts to colonize space create a greater platform to give glory unto God. Human beings venturing into the expanses of space may have more time to contemplate God's glory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1uumEkfj4A

I believe there may be actual concept of using 3-D printers of the future to produce edible potatoes for baking with a new kind of material. One wonders why a future Mars settlement cannot be built without human hands-on such that it would be ready for arriving travelers from Earth? The moon should be a good place to experiment and develop remote construction technology. Some kind of competitive prize could be offered by the Federal Reserve for building one at low-cost. The Fed may need something from space to help its balance sheet one day.

Innumerable approaches to pre-fabricating adaptive housing on Mars including deposition of building panels for double-walled Martian regolith insulated dwellings exist. The innovation of new ways to sprinkle exteriors with micro-tech solar cells or exploit Martian and lunar materials for solar cells covering for dwellings has barely started to be explored I would think.

http://taylor.research.yale.edu/

http://www.arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/ateme-workshop-presentation_FINAL%201%2030%2013.pdf

http://www.nist.gov/tip/proj_briefs/upload/tip_project_brief_090033_10h003.pdf

http://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/project-profile-low-cost-metal-hydride-thermal-energy-storage-system

Evolving Evolution as a Political Phlosophy

Evolution theory has become used as an all-purpose excuse for the deletion of social morality as meaningful in recent times. As a pragmatic way to overstep existing social boundaries a political leader need only say that his position is evolving. Evolution is a scientific theory rather than a political philosophy however, so one must wonder what effect upon existing political philosophy that evolution applied as political philosophy has; is it consistent, logic or simply a first-order method of obfuscating political philosophy?

Does evolution imply progress? Is evolution a synonym for social progressivism? Isn't it just as possible for natural selection to evolve species extirpation when it over-consumes planetary resources as it is to produce an ecological economic genius for leader? There are numerous questions about the validity of evolution as a political philosophy too easy to raise.

Evolution is often used to negate human social judgments and even meaning as having any sort of value. It is of course often a way of expressing disbelief in anything spiritual though the philosopher G.W.F. Hegel developed the philosophical paradigm of dialectical evolution that Karl Marx and others of a material inclination later used to negate the existence of spirit. Evolution as a kind of progressive natural selection of mass to produce sentient beings is taken for granted by some evolution as political philosophy theorists perhaps, while Hegel originally intended the entire steady state Universe mass-energy field to be a development of Absolute Spirit realizing itself through historical evolution (in modern terms).

Natural selection sometimes is understood as meaning the selection of the  best as in  producing a champion.  In evolutionary contexts it may just indicate species and/or individuals naturally selected to survive disaster and  mass  species extinction. The  natural selection of market forces to create  solutions to environmental challenges is therefor a disaster itself  creating  a solid prospect  for  social  failure to  intentionally determine  and implement  remedies to ecospheric challenge and decay.

A small mammal species named purgatorius  hypothetically was the best  natural selection to survive the global cooling and mass extinctions of 65 million years ago. Social reliance on market forces and natural selection to get world human population through the tight spot in the environmental  Hourglass ahead is not likely to produce  a better  result than  for the dinosaurs of that  day. Spiritual freedom rather  than decadent  evolution  as political philosophy is the best and perhaps the only way to get through this  anthropocene era.

The Realms of Absolute Spirit that Hegel regarded as evolving material reality could be taken as something akin to the process that the neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus took to be an emanation of substance in forms by the Intelligence authorized by the One (Spirit). Contemporary brane theory like the atomic theory of monadology that the philosopher and mathematician Leibniz invented along with calculus (simultaneously with Newton) could be readily regarded along Hegelian lines of spirit actualizing through forms of energy that entangle as matter to create stars, molecules, elements and so forth. In short evolution has numerous paradigms in which it might be regarded, yet that of political philosophy is one of the most challenging to take seriously.

As a political philosophy evolution is something of a negation of political philosophy as meaningful. When hard-won political systems like democracy and civil rights of mankind theories are largely set aside as secondary or even ancillary fabrications of phenomenal history within evolution it is very easy to lose those rights for the masses. 

One too easily can discover the concentration of wealth and power as well as that of elites returning to positions of social dominance with the help of evolution as a political philosophy. The natural selection of the best or the rich almost requires no support when power for its own sake become its own political and philosophical justification. Laws may evolve to subjugate the law abiding to rule by elites of supermen above the law. Anti-democratic, sardonic yipcasters may condition citizens to provide voluntary extra tax payments to support quasi-governmental agencies until the proles have nothing left. Evolution as political philosophy may readily be exploited as a tool of social corruption.

If-world population increase stops at ten billion for-the standard of living for all to be equal to that of the U.S.A. today would need to increase 25 times. The elites may evolve a mass population reduction to deal with that and let themselves survive as the most fit. In a way it is the natural evolution of evolution as political philosophy. Similar ways of thought prevailed in some elite circles in the1920s.

The world would be a better place socially if the majority of humanity evolved a belief in God and sought to reflect his glory.

G.O.P. Party Prospects 2015

With the Republican Party majority taking control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress in 2015 it is worthwhile to briefly consider their prospects for reversing the Obama doctrine, or if they will even wish to. President Obama gave the rich more than Mitt Romney possibly could have. Democrats would have opposed such policy instead of reaming them.

President Obama's economic policy made permanent the Bush II tax cuts and assented to ooddles (billions or trillions?) of zero-interest loans to banks enabling banks to manufacture maybe 5 bucks for each fiction buck loaned by the Federal Reserve since they need only keep 20% or so as deposits. Borrowers repay real dollars and interest for the fiction money, so the President effectively gave billions or trillions of dollars and permanent tax cuts making the idea of bank robbery laughable comparatively.

The Federal Reserve QE3 policy has helped the Fed Reserve buy 4.5 trillion in obligations that were once deemed perhaps unfairly 'toxic' from the Treasury. At least banks able to mint money from thin air with the President's help are quite an improvement over the primitive gun, mask and bag era of money for nothing.

What remains for the Republican party to desire—a roll-back of the Nixon health care plan renamed Obamacare? Perhaps stopping the increase of U.S. public debt at 19 or 20 trillion dollars would be reasonable except the Fed policy to toss fiction money around may not always work. What would happen if economics had to be done with real rather than play money is ponderable and a problem for economists instead of out of work house painters.

One might think that the Republican Party would build a saltwater desalinization moat with locks and berms along the Mexican border pumping seawater up from San Diego to create jobs and border security yet the President would veto that an it is an election year in 2016. Republicans want some Hispanic votes too and Marco Rubio as V.P. candidate might not be enough to put Ralp Nadir III or whomever over-the-top.

All of that Obama doctrine of enriching the rich and concentrating wealth coupled with a foreign policy of isolating Russia, investing in China and creating a European super-state of the Eurozone leaves little for Republicans to wish for except perhaps for more and expanded Obama economic doctrine requiring the Eurozone to issue zero interest loans to the 1% of the 1% and quantitative easing to toss in a sweetener. Ecospheric conservation and restoration is off their radar screen and Wall Street seems to have signed off on the Obama homosexual marriage doctrine and even godless atheistic evolutionary repression of spiritual freedom since the President has the Fed cornucopia with the quantitative easing making a sham of balanced budgets and traditional domestic investment.