Administration
policy of the post-moral era of breaking bad seems poised to create a
new mass social division to replace the communist cold war moral
choice that was a forced option between the evil empire and all
things of sugar and spice and everything nice. Age of fracture
tectonic plate overlaps of communism and corporatism have negated the
evil empire criterion of the Reagan era and brought the new paradigm
of Nietzsche’s to the for; moving beyond good and evil to planetary
rule by concentrated will of super-wealth.
Alice
Cooper’s brilliant work ‘School’s Out’ lyrically encapsulated
the ethos of meaninglessness of morality that is the guiding fog of
the U.S. Government today. ‘We got no class, we got no principles;
we can’t even think of a word that rhymes’ is the Universe of
business where cool is rich, and power is deep for billion dollar
babies with many miles to go before they sleep.
Russia’s
position in Eurasia is an inconvenient long-term obstruction to land
expansion eastward from investors in the west. Isn’t Ukraine a
starting point for fires of creative destruction to reduce the new
evil empires of resistance to hostile takeover for concentration of
wealth by the godless Supermen of scientific amorality?As the
wildfires burn east they could add more nations to specimen bags of
power reinforced with media mafias of a new Pravda from Boston and
DC.
The
Democrat Party can add more Vietnam’s to tame down resistors to
colonization by godless Superpersons seeking to subjugate. In a
'whores with microphones' media era the public is obligated to tithe
concentrated wealth through networks. Occassionally investors realize
that men must pay whores-not vice versa-and so they must have a
pittance of wages to spend on godless atheist trifles required to
pomp a princess-queen. Women were not always so wicked as those of
the media have become.
As
immoral leadership spreads like a descending cloud of socially
communicable plague to destroy individual private interests and
freedom from tyranny one must wonder if powers breaking bad will
break free some of the United States to go their own ways too, as if
they were little Ukraines seeking to break free from historical
powers that founded and oppressed them.
In
the brave new world a war between those with no morality and those
that believe in any sort of transcendent ethical values; classical
values, Christian values-even Buddhist or Muslim values, appears to
be the contest for Mansoul. When morality has all been blown away so
cold blooded supermen/women and creatures of uncertain sex rule, one
can discern that moral leadership is out for summer.
After reading The
Holy War’ of John Bunyan written generally while he was imprisoned in England
during the 17th century it was natural to make a dead reckoning sort
of comparative systems analysis of the United States in relation to the
situation of the allegorical Holy War. During the past two decades I have
written periodically of the position of the United States within the historian Arnold Toynbee’s
cycle of civilizations paradigm developed in his ‘A Study of History’. In that
work civilizations reach a Universal phase before they fall-spread to thin I
suppose as they follow greed abroad. There are obvious parallels in that
respect between the Roman
Empire, the British Empire and the United States today-especially since the Clinton era of promiscuous globalism. The Holy War
provides a contrasting yet concurring filter to view the position of the United States in contemporary history. The Obama administration seems to have reached the pinnacle of la cage aux folles movement to bog America down in 1960s spawned Darwinian anti-establishmentarianism with the Supreme Court soon to announce if they concur in wishing U.S. states to all be forced to submit to homosexual marriage and I suppose, more legal dope would be up next. Vast public debt deepening toward 19 trillion dollars presently, sending jobs to China and flooding the nation with millions of illegal aliens seem tools for concentrating wealth in survival of the richest cutting edge evolution.
For not only might
civilizations have a secular Toynbean cyclical evolution directed by the lack
of wisdom of politicians corrupted by personal greed and will to power,
civilizations and the people in them as individuals are under the deceiving
power of Satan too. The United States today is one of the leading agents of
Satan for destructive change toward a diabolic society of decay toward a new
world order. Historically Satan is always busy and about his business to leave
the pit of doom where he was tossed by the Lord, and retake the city of Mansoul
that exists in the continent of Universe.
After the Lord
retook Mansoul from Diabolic possession he explained that he left some
Diabolans in the city walls and under the structure in holes to provide enough
danger to the people of Mansoul so they would be vigilant and defend their
virtue in being saved by the Lord and reconciled to faith in God. In the absence
of external challenge people become decadent and corrupted. Toynbee noted that
in the history of ancient Greece; Greek nation states with too soft of life
failed in inter-nation competition when it occurred while those with more challenging
lives thrived. Of course Toynbee also observed that arrested civilizations
existed-such as that of Eskimo-where the external challenges were too great to
develop very far beyond survival and in to a more advanced technical level of
existence.
Holy War is a
popular term in the Muslim world today as it wars against the whiter and more
prosperous west. It is something of a resonating Toynebean theme that the first
Holy War of the Muslim world upon the west with a broad based Ummayad era
attack on Iberea, Sicily and Turkey brought the Muhammadan movement and
civilization to maturity and a Universal phase before its decline and fall. As
an external proletariat for centuries now becoming an internal proletariat in Europe and the United States it is developing protracted jihad on a
west that is abandoning its historical faith in God and waging an anti-holy war
upon first itself and the world for Diabolus.
Christians in the United States today are declining in numbers though it
is perhaps not yet a crisis. Too easy of a life accelerated with the broadcast
media moral corruption and disruption of individualism has made Americans stop
darkening the doorways of churches with their shadows on Sunday mornings and
instead pursue secular interests. The loss of spiritual well-being precedes the
decline and fall of a civilization too. Europe experienced moral and spiritual crisis
before it had its decline and fall of the 20th century. American
intervention-the intervention of a Christian nation-resuscitated that
continent’s people sort of from their living dead condition for a while. The
unsaved and reprobate are the new generation of living dead. Europe is again in a living dead situation
required I suppose by virtue of the complications of political, economic and
environmental structures. It is very challenging to find niches in that heavily
trafficked environment for the soul to be philosophical and contemplative of
spiritual affairs.
The third world is
said to be new loci for the increase of Christianity. That may be true, yet
Christianity in Europe had millennia to develop without the
broadcast media or Hollywood corrupting the social environment. As soon
as they arise, and as modern technology permeates a society a great conversion
to worldliness follows. It is not reasonable to expect that Africa and Asia will be spared the conversion to worldliness
and control by elite Diabolans that follows.
The U.S.A. as a primary social agent of change to a diabolic
moral condition for the world has internal challenges to its Christian church
that preclude moral revival. One is the hierarchical priesthood that developed
in the dark ages under feudalism. Today that structure provides family oriented
church pastors a small business revenue stream. They are reluctant to change.
Larger traditional churches are losing numbers because of disbelief in the
post-Darwinian era skepticism. They tend to evolve toward worldly feel-good secular
forms of disingenuous worship. The PC USA has homosexual marriages and female
pastors disinclined to reform.
As millions leave
former mainstream churches-5 million in the last few years- some seek a more
emotional worship service with fundamental values. Of the lost 5 million 2 million
moved to evangelical churches perhaps. Evangelical churches have a pre-tribulation;
just a remnant will survive end-times world view well suited for a period of
declining faith in the Lord. Fundamentalist church pastors are glad enough to
let the nation slip toward a diabolic status as they can explain it with their
wrong eschatology and be comforted with job security leading the flock.
The remedy for
declining Christianity is a proper interpretation of scripture on two critical
points. One is Genesis cosmology and the second is end-times cosmology, the
third is a priesthood of believers’ church reformation that sets aside the
feudal church leader model for an egalitarian though theologically disciplined
ecclesiology with the Lord as High Priest.
Darwinianism lies is
in opposition to 12th century science that is used by Christian
fundamentalists to interpret the book of Genesis. Biology isn’t physics of
course, and creation content of Genesis is not limited to biology. I have written about the topic elsewhere and
won’t repeat it here. It is useful to say that words are representational and
that physical cosmology and its mechanics differ from words referring to it.
There is much room for speculating about how the cosmological mechanics actual
existed and one is not limited to dark ages scientific interpretations of
Genesis; God wasn’t limited to such methods.
In end times
cosmology the events of the Revelation have mostly occurred already. In the
first century the destruction of Jerusalem was the culminating act of the
tribulation. The church descended upon mankind as the New Jerusalem in that
period-the place where the Temple of the Old Jerusalem was replaced by God living in temple of Christians themselves. Christianity is supposed to
increase to become a majority of the world though it may take thousands of
years. When there are few Diabolans remaining the Lord will then return to the
Earth (meant land in the ancient Biblical language).
The United States
today with so many wrong ideas forced upon the masses through a profusion of
media is plunging forward through the brambles of good sense like a diseased
bull in a whore house seeking sex slaves for same-sex Satanic marriages in
order to emasculate global population increase, downsize people and concentrate wealth for the rich.
Obviously the world has environmental and economic challenges yet the diabolic
way of fixing things doesn’t work-that’s a lesson easy to learn from history.
I suppose I must
make a disclaimer here to dispel the notion that my evaluation of the U.S.A. is unpatriotic or that I must be an
idealist about Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea or Canada. Actually I realize that evil is
ubiquitous. It is the diabolic problem acting upon humanity slogging on with
original sin thermodynamics. I simply expect better from the U.S.A. as silly as that may be.
Thomas
Brooks in 'Precious Remedies to Satan's Devices' examines one
particular Satanic device to snare the soul that has wide-spread use
today. One use of the device occurs in the attack upon Genesis in
order to make just-worldly cosmology opulent and desirable in
comparison to parchment of Genesis.
“DEVICE 1: By
presenting the WORLD in such a dress, and in such a garb to the soul,
as to ensnare the soul, and to win upon the affection of the soul.”
Satan seems to use confusion
about the construction of the Universe today as a way to draw people
to faithlessness and frustration with the Bible. Those that wouldn’t
know a proton from a quark leap to faith in electrons and football to
disdain Genesis. The media love that. There is no need for
frustration.
It is true that some theologians
use 12th century scientific assumptions in interpreting Genesis and
limit God a priori to means of construction readily understandable to
the 3rd millennium man. That wish to a void scientific research and
rely entirely upon the theological work of the past to understand
Genesis tends to reinforce secular, atheist, arguments that the
Genesis story is obsolete-when of course it is not; it is the
interpretive paradigms or scientific assumptions shaping hermeneutics
that are obsolete. Though cosmology and physics require intellectual
effort to understand, a theologian should not defend his own
intellectual sloth.
Brooks councils that Christians
ought to have humility in spiritual matters in order not to leap into
error for-themselves. Brooks writes that Christians should not go
beyond scripture. Regarding spiritual concerns I agree. Speculation
about spirit that is not revealed by God can lead to error. The
Universe however is more of a physical concern although it is
possible to infer a spiritual foundation for matter. That question of
how God who is Spirit creates mass that is not something else
(probably) is likely an unanswerable question. It may even be
improperly formed. With humility though it is useful to know enough
about cosmology such that Satan cannot back one into a corner and
dictate one’s hermeneutic to oneself, perhaps requiring that one
have a three or four thousand year old scientific database and accept
that God too is limited to that.
There
is a theoretical cornucopia for considering God's spiritual means of
constructing energy, mass and dimensions. The Bible says that He said
the word and that was enough. One can understand that vibrations of
string theory could have commenced then with particular frequencies
given to strings fluxing an inflation of the Universe with the new
content. particular means might be inferred logical from what Genesis
says to only a limited extent. One also has the material Universe to
consider as a kind of artifact of God's creative impetus.
Scientists
consider only the remnant of creation that is the familiar Universe
of mass and energy, form and substance and extrapolate with theory
from the observable about what makes it work. The question of how it
originated is entangled with how it works. Because science is not
theology it cannot meaningfully address abstract theological
speculations concerning creation. Contemporary M-Theory, Emperor
Theory and String Theory do consider hypothetical meta-physics of
extra-dimensions as if they were mathematicians considering abstract
forms of geometry, algebra, and topology with calculus, yet that has
some verification issues. This is just another of what I
am sure are millions of potential credible methods that God could
create and sustain a Universe that is conformable to Genesis. I will
not strictly correlate the physics to Genesis day-phases herein.
This is just the technical presentation for another theoretical
mechanics outline version 7.1.
Spatial
dimensions add up to time. This is a conjecture about reality and the
construction of the Universe. That is, to clarify, about the content
of how it exists-not a question about if God created it or not. The
Universe outside Wal-mart has some sort of means of being not made in
China. Physicists contemplate an infinity of Universes, Higgs fields,
particles, waves, quantum uncertainty and so forth as content
enabling stuff comprising mass and energy. Cycles of shaping and
forming the play-dough of matter with wonderful illustrations of
stars and galaxies producing wonderful dust, elements and etc.
replete with smart creatures able to think and watch football or shop
at Wal-mart, even listen like programmable fuzzy robots to NPR. I am
not writing about all of that nor making ontological arguments. I
believe God created what is through one means or another. This paper
is more like asking the question; did God use a 9 iron or a wedge to
get the ball into the hole?
Space
and time seem to coincide in expansion. One wonders about the nature
of time and how it differs from space, or if it does; as time appears
to increase like space in another way-a dimension called time where
one can move forward.
If just spatial dimensions are
moving and a conscious observer experiences the intersection of
moving dimensions as time, can time be said to exist externally, or
isn't time just a subjective perception of the observer even though
it is a real experience?
If
none of the dimension sheets intersected there would be no
possibility for the existence of time. Maybe consciousness requires
change of intersecting dimensions and the experience of time to
exist.
It
seems possible that like two-dimensional ants living on a
two-dimensional world-sheet pushed forward by a large finger, it
would not be possible to measure the force moving the entire
dimensional world sheet from outside the world sheet-even if another
world sheet is passing through it, such that there are really just
two one-dimensional world sheets that added together seem to be a
solitary two-dimensional Universal world-sheet. If the world-sheets
have changing topology, of the dimensions generate energy through
inter-dimensional contact, there is still no way to measure the power
of God pushing the world sheet dimensions along their course.
So
as a Christian thinking about this, and about the perennial matter of
what component of the experience of reality is subjective and what
objective, the 'let there be light' matter indicates that light was
perceived by God when it was made to exist. For human beings or other
beings in-a-Universe light would be a way of experiencing an energy
field of a particular sort. Such energy would not appear as light
does to a human though without an observer experiencing photons as
human do, unless of course some other particle or wave in a field
could cause a sensation similar to that caused by photons such that a
human would think of it as light. That energy could be caused when
dimension plates intersect as virtual energy to stimulate Higgs field
quanta, and time could be thought of as discrete, relative positions
within the temporal transition of dimension sheets.
Physicists have a term-concepts
named configuration space and phase space that I can use to refer to
the condition of dimension sheets. The configuration of content and
form of a dimension sheet is static or fixed. When dimension sheets
intersect they stimulate changes, and the changes can be called phase
space. Phase space with energy and matter thermodynamical changes is
an emergent phenomenon of intersecting dimension sheets. I suppose
the relational angles at which dimensions intersect might effect the
phase space configuration (a useful retro-term).
A
question I would have about phase space is to what extent
constructions in phase space are more that emergent phenomena of
time? Would phase space constructions exist in a meta-phase
configuration? Could emergent matter-energy construction in phase
space redistribute content from one dimension sheet to another? Might
dimension sheets change relative size in that event?
Plainly one has no idea how many
dimension sheets could exist or why they should 'in the beginning'.
It could be like an infinite deck of dimension-sheet cards the Lord
used to construct a 'house of cards' of a temporal, expanding
Universe from a singularity of one dimension; increasing until His
purposes are served; perhaps after determining what souls will go to
eternal heaven, and for whom the bells will toll in hell.
One doesn't know what to say about former Speaker of the House Denny Hastert's alleged homosexual child molesting of some kid in the locker room of a high school. The government revealed his paying hush money of more than 3 million dollars. I suppose that sort of leverage got the N.Y. state legislature to cow tow under pressure to queer marriage-quality politicians do those quality things. If homo marriage is forced upon the states that sort of locker room attraction to minors, already promoted by the media and entertainment queer set as normal as part of the Diabolan agenda to send souls to hell, will probably increase. Hastert may be innocent yet the devil isn't and the Devil is large and at work in D.C.-maybe in computer security.
Republican Presidential candidates have traditionally sounded like
intellectual runts on global warming to most intelligent people. With last winter's Arctic ice pack setting a record at the smallest size since satellites began keeping records in 1979 they just sound dopey and provincial in opposing global warming. It is fine to take a stand on select issues for moral reasons, yet opposition to global warming countermeasures is usually done for short-term financial self-interests or ignorance. Republicans need to grow up and appear as if they don't keep their heads where the sun don't shine because it pays good. The public does care about global warming. Democrats get the environment vote because they talk well about it and don't do much as they seek to kiss the a's of the rich to move up the skyscraper elevators to the top of the corporatist ladder with mixed metaphors of political pragmatism. Mitt Romney lost the last election because he said privately to a crowd of 500 with the expectation that no one would tape what he said for posterity, that 50% of Americans are bums and don't wanna work. He did not say that 50% of Americans between them have just 1/3rd of 1% of the nation's wealth. For sure if those lazy sots would just get off their butts they could ride the elevator to the top of the building like Hillary, Barrack and Mitt.
The corporate world there is not really any global warming going on because it would be bad for business, so drill and spill baby thrill! Zero interest loans for the rich (banks) indefinitely will keep the health economy growing. I wonder if Mitt should be put in charge of cybernet security for the Department of the Interior?
It is a relief to learn from the Rick Perry for President campaign that Sir Hillary Clinton is not the 'anointed one' with the true West Texas sweet light crude dumped upon her head. Though one may hate the Clintons, the Adams family and even the Bushes as insider-predators seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of the lurches of the world, it is too silly to associate the word 'anointed' with recent American Presidents to go unnoticed as more of the ultimate silliness sort of thing.
Finding the meanings of 'in-the-world yet not-of-it', isn't easy. More than one possible way to understand the concept exists. I won't try to discover all herein, however the book I am reading presently-'Precious Remedies' has a section that pertains to the matter. Of the many devices that Satan has used to dupe the soul to sin, one of the more challenging is the example given unto the suffering, poor Christian of the prosperity of wicked men (and women) who follow not the ways of the Lord, prosper and are entirely without interest in God. In theory the Christian is tempted to give up and adapt to the corrupt practices of celebrity debauchees and godless predators of the time. Brook’s comment about what the reprobate or lost lack is very good writing, and I will post a paragraph of that… Page 44 ‘Precious Remedies’; “Yet all this is nothing to what they lack. They lack a saving interest in God, Christ, the Spirit, the promises, the covenant of grace, and everlasting glory. They lack acceptance and reconciliation with God; they lack righteousness, justification, sanctification, adoption, and redemption. They lack the pardon of sin, and power against sin, and freedom from the dominion of sin. They lack that favor with God, which is better than life, and that joy which is unspeakable and full of glory, and that peace which passes understanding, and that grace, the least spark of which is more worth than heaven and earth. They lack a house that has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. They lack those riches that perish not, the glory that fades not, that kingdom that shakes not.” Issues about worldliness and how to be in the world with regard to God are a substantial part of the empirical challenge of human existence. Often the challenge is presented as a choice between worldliness and spirituality yet that criterion is somewhat disingenuous. Obviously it is a difficult to clarify dysjunctive since the spiritual too are in the world and experience all of its demands with those that choose to be entirely worldly and without spiritual interest. I think the phrasing and criterion of the choice is itself in the province of Satan. Christians are in-the-world yet not-of-it. The lost are in-the-world and are-of-the-world. Earlier I have written of consciousness and sentience as being of a spiritual nature different than mass and material for-itself that is apparently not sentient or conscious. The awareness of being in-the-world yet not-of-the-world is obviously like the relationship of mind to being-in-the-Universe-of-matter yet not-of-it. Sentience differs from inanimate matter. When Adam and Eve ate of the tree of knowledge they transitioned apparently from a naïve condition of self-awareness in an Eden of a different space-time composition than the material Universe to a self-awareness of a deeper nature (aware of their own nakedness) with an infinite potential to learn. God commented that they had become as little Gods and relocated them to the containment facility of the Universe where thermodynamic worldliness and consumerism of all matter and energy that exists is an implicit aspect of the structure. Within that Universe-on-fire consuming itself original sin is inherent. Mankind are inevitable drawn toward the energy stream of pure worldliness even seeking fission, fusion and zero-point energy immersion in it-perhaps as self evolving to quantum computers making forms of pleasurable experience for-itself (as an archetype of the human conscious being). Mankind was cast out of Eden to stop them from eating of the tree of life-eternal life as well. With the hungry nature of inquiry and disobedience to God Adam and Eve were cast into an environment resembling themselves with gravity hungering to attract other mass and consume it to a black hole forever ready for more. In-the-spirit of faith in God and the sacrifice of the Lord to atone for the problem of original sin (and subsequent sin) the Christian is set-apart behaviorally and self-consciously from worldly behavior. Worldly behavior that is not reclaimed from the draw toward pervasive Universal thermodynamic field characteristics has abandoned spiritual accountability for-itself and is condemned to eternal hell. It seems as if Satan is always reinforcing aspects of worldliness that usually draw humans to them and uses those attractions to renormalize spiritual inclinations for solely worldly thought and behavior. Worldly behavior is in opposition to spiritually directed. Spiritual behavior may not be supportive of numerous worldly political and social goals of the lost, and the lost may therefore view the spiritual as worldly foes. A Sunday morning of beer drinking, football and wrestling isn't the same as attending a priesthood of believers liturgy. Sin becomes sin only when spiritual law exists Paul observed. Spiritual laws intervene in worldly behavior that causes cruelty and destruction to human beings and the human spirit. It's probably not a coincidence that spiritual law intended to draw the human spirit back to a transcending trust in God also discourage human behavior that is destructive to the self and others. Sin labels behaviors that cause the destruction of the self, of others, and of spiritual awareness of God and his will for humans to be in a right relationship with him. His perfect goodness requires perfect obedience and order, yet that liberates, for God is absolutely good, right and just. For a human to be in-the-world and to be only worldly is fundamentally to be a raw savage, thermodynamically immersed animal without moral reservations. Even worse than that, the thermodynamic animal with no good whatsoever, given a human level sentience intelligence quotient, has the capability for unlimited lies, dissimulation, deceit and wickedness, believing it has no transcendent moral authority (God) to be concerned about, if it even thinks that far. It is free to develop itself and its technology through innumerable permutations of ‘progress’ until it becomes a quantum computer Cyborg or whatever. None of that direction is good for humanity , yet humanity with a majority saved through the grace of the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus and God the Father would have better prospects empirically and existentially in a post-space/time dimensional sort of way. Just God has the wisdom about how to address the thermodynamic and sin criterion ultimately, and just God knows how mind as spirit with physical being characteristics to support it can exist for eternity without burning everything up applying entropy transformations to make practico-inert substances and event-processes. Being in-the-world yet not-of-it means that Christians have a deeper spiritual awareness of the creation that God made (the Universe and its content) as good, since God made it as an event-process in a thermodynamic stream, and God is good creating good. With God tempering the problem of original sin to a subdued level through the salvation of the Lord a better humanity may be able to negotiate their existence in the thermodynamic Universe with better Christian ethics and social relationships enabling safer progress through the shoals of materiality transitions from organization to disorganization of inherent energy and mass. It is a paradox that as society prospers through the grace of the spirit and as society generally achieves a better condition it has sometimes become entirely worldly again, drawn toward attractions of the spiritless realm of thermodynamic content as an end-in-itself. Practico-inert manufactures and evolved objects permuting form and content through blind chance (rather than the Queen of Heaven in this century) seem opulent seductive and irresistible.. The human experience today has massive common social thought and beliefs disseminated through electronic media and replicated micro-socially as monkey-see, monkey-hear, monkey-do. The oppressive pressure of incorrect or inadequate intellectual criteria assaults individuals including Americans in continua of corruption. Plain worldliness as conscious applied philosophy and religion is an existential oxymoron of form since awareness of the world only arises with sentience that is a basic spiritual phenomenon differing in character from the forms of inanimate worldliness. Mass social worldliness devoid of regard for the problems of sin directs the course of social progress toward worldlines with enhanced prospects for mass destruction, materially speaking. Regardless, worshippers of blind chance thermodynamic primacy speak of comfort and safety while Godly ethics are deleted from their concerns. Even so, people cannot be saved by spiritual laws that are externally structured. Such laws can only bring the soul to awareness of sin and inability to adhere to all of the laws of God they need to exist as God would have them exist. Only the sacrificial love of the Lord and faith in the Lord given by the spirit of grace that writes the laws of God upon hearts can draw the Christian along correct paths in this world and beyond. Only in transcending spiritual trust in Jesus Christ can the grace of God reach into the individual’s life and bring him into the sole project transcending space and time and move him from the city of man in-the-world into the city-of-God in the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is forever transitioning to eternity from the temporal, worldliness of the Universe. Its phase changes may be sudden, or it's descent from heaven as a new Jerusalem may be a gradual evolution of change. Phase change ordinal actualizations inferred from scripture often cannot be made with certainty. The kingdom of God is within, because God transcends worldly constructions and appearances of mass and energy in any temporal Universe, and God knows where those that are of His flock are. God is within the heart of every Christian, and every Christian is in the kingdom of God, that is, where God wills it to be, when and how. The choice is not really between worldliness and pure spirit someplace else metaphysically speaking. Some people would be worried about giving up security in the world and relying upon faith in spirit. About that the Lord said that those who save their lives would lose them. The choice is between a thermodynamic worldly alienation without spirit, or faith in the living God of spirit and truth. Faith in the living God provides Christian ethics incidentally that better human society and technological-environmental utility.
