#God's omnipresence

[just-bible-musings]

Personal thoughts/beliefs that would probably get me burned at the stake:

There's no such thing as "original thought." All thoughts come from either God or Satan, we just choose. (BTW, this does not mean "the devil made me do it." Because he didn't make you do anything, you chose to follow temptation.)

Most mental illness isn't illness at all, it's demonic. You're hearing voices in your head? Those are demons. Multiple personalities? Possession. Depression? Anxiety? Satan can toy with your emotions. Call on God for help and get off your fat, lazy butt and do whatever you're supposed to be doing, stop making excuses. Hate me for this one all you want, but my dad is schizo and my mom is probably schizoid (she refused to get diagnosed), and I swear they act possessed. And while I've never been diagnosed because I couldn't afford it, I have had panic attacks and attempted suicide. So, yeah, there's probably depression and anxiety in there. Now I feel better enough that I don't feel like I need a shrink anymore. Why? Because I try to find out what God wants me to do and do it.

The physical world is not real. It's not exactly like the "life is a simulation" theory, although that is the best model for the relationship between this world and "beyond the veil" (for lack of a better term, and no I don't mean ghosts, I mean demons and angels and God's omnipresence that we can't see) that the human mind has ever been able to approximate.

God's omnipresence goes down to a subatomic level. God's not just a figure in the room with you. "...by him all things consist." The further we look into subatomic particles, the more we realize we still don't know how it's all held together. You've heard of Higgs boson? Or dark matter/dark energy? Yeah, that's probably just how scientists try to define God.

God's omnipresence also includes time. It's now pretty universally agreed that time is a dimension of space. So we should apply the principle of omnipresence temporally, as well. Meaning that God exists not just everywhere, but everywhen, as well. God is here now, but He is also present 200 years from now, and 2000 years ago. God doesn't just exist in every infinitesimally small point in space at the same time, but also at every millisecond of time at the same time.

Temporal omnipresence also explains the balance between freewill and predestination. God is 100% sovereign and has the power to do anything, but He will not force us to do something against our will. God already knows whether we will choose to follow Him or not, and He has planned out the rest of eternity around those choices.

Dinosaurs were real, and there's no reason they COULDN'T have had feathers.

Pangea was real, it was broken up during the Flood. Furthermore, the original language of mankind (before the confusion at Babel) may have called the one supercontinent "Atlan" or something of that nature.

Pagans are actually onto something when they talk about things like "earth mana" and the energy of all living things and whatnot. They're feeling God's omnipresence, they're feeling HIS energy radiating from all of creation. But they refuse to believe it's God, they prefer to worship the created thing instead of the creator. I have no idea why.

God can work thru anyone, regardless of whether they accepted Jesus or refused Him. God reveals Himself to us in EVERYTHING, even the most secular, Satanic stories. I'm not encouraging you to engage in unbiblical media, but to stop hating everything just because it doesn't fit with your view of what "good Christians" should engage in. Example: Star Wars was heavily inspired by Joseph Campbell and various myths and legends. Yet Yoda's description of The Dark Side as not stronger, but "quicker, easier, more seductive" is exactly why temptation seems stronger than following Jesus, but it isn't.

This isn't a complete list, btw. I just don't remember the rest right now.

I refuse to argue with anyone over these unless they can provide Bible verses that PROVE my views are wrong. "SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE" ATTEMPTING TO DISPROVE THESE CLAIMS IS, IMO, BUPKIS. Most "modern science" is largely man's attempt to disprove God's existence, and I won't listen to it. I want Bible verses, or there's no argument.

[eternaloptimistsphere]

start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret

[aniconist]

You can always tell when someone’s religion is politics and it’s so painful to watch. That’s not where God is, you will never find peace there

[just-bible-musings]

I sometimes watch and listen to New Age believers and neo-pagans and what they say. I always find it intriguing whenever they talk about 'mana' and 'energy' and what-not. These people can feel God's presence in every single molecule of creation, they simply choose to reject God and "worship the created thing instead of the Creator"- so why can't most Christians do that??? Why does literally every Christian I talk to have at least one area of life where they say "God is not here"???

And if I offended any Christians by saying this... TOUGH.

And I hope no one gets mad about me calling God wild. I don't mean it in a bad way. As someone who came from a pagan faith, the one thing that kept me crawling back to it again and again was me feeling too "wild" for the Christian faith. Like, you can have a deep and abiding love for nature and respect for your place in it, and still love God. I say again, God made us and nature. What's not to love about the home He lovingly crafted in perfect balance for us? Nature is filled with daily miracles!

And He made us in His image. When I see a child jumping in puddles on a rainy day, I see the love for life that God has imbuing that child. When I see someone climbing a sheer cliff face, I see God's strength and tenacity and determination fueling that rockclimber onwards and upwards. So if you are primal and wild, that's okay. You're not some heathen; God made you that way.

[dismas-n-dismay]

And if I don’t get 20 long hair jayvik hair pulling fics for BOTH Jayce and Viktor on my desk by next week I’m taking away everyone’s writing privileges. FEED ME.

Update: I went crazy in the tags with how this would go for them 😭😭

[marzipanandminutiae]

"this old mansion is $20 million, but it's really hard to find a buyer because four spaces inside have preservation restrictions and the rest needs extensive work to convert it back from a dormitory to a house again!"

I know, off the top of my head, at least ten museum workers who make under $35K/year who would absolutely cherish this building and pour their hearts and souls into preserving and restoring it. and they'd make sure it was done RIGHT, too. you want public access for scholars and researchers? guaranteed. they'd fall all over themselves to make it a study center or something

but. they can't do that. because it's $20 million. so it sits there waiting for that rare billionaire who actually cares about something bigger than themself, empty and unrestored

do you ever just want to Bite Things?

[pickl-o]

i like one they need to eventually show up more

[transbutchblues]

the gods have not forgotten you !! they hold you (and all of humanity and all animals and everything else) in their hands !! divinity is everywhere, the world is made of the divine. signs are everywhere and every time you see the moon it’s Selene, every time you walk under an oak there’s a part of Zeus in it, every time you listen to music Apollon is there with you. the gods are overwhelmingly present around us all the time and that’s why sometimes you cannot see them but they are with you, because they are life itself and you are still breathing, you are still alive, you are still with them (and when you’re not anymore you’ll stay with them, the gods of the underworld hold our dead souls) (gods never abandon us)

[yashley]

ashley in c3e25

[zeravmeta]

people simply do not appreciate enough the fact that kama, above all, is kind of a hater. yeah she has an entire laundry list of problems and issues that are entirely justified for him being bitter and snarky but I wholeheartedly believe that even if she did not have a single one of those traumas that kama would undoubtedly still be a little hater.

[apenitentialprayer]

God [...] is as much in this world as he is beyond it — [He] infinitely transcends our world, but is also totally interior to it.

- Pope Benedict XVI (Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, page 55), trans. Adrian Walker

[islam-and-u]

reading about Salafi history is so interesting

what do you mean you were kinda cool (not fully, but definitely some based ideas) but then one dude got a little too into wahabism and so created a whole knew version of salafism which went against original salafism what

what do you mean you were originally a political movement against western imperialism and the authoritarian-esque hiearchies within sufism and spent most of your time preaching for rational discussions and scientific innovation but that was stopped cause OF ONE FRICKING DUDE

idk it's just so funny that the salafi movement's entire point was "lets do stuff from the past" which is textbook conservative but then the stuff in the past was "science is amazing and i love reframing my worldview with every new discovery" which is textbook progressive.

(I do think they're wrong btw, i just think they had a few good ideas sprinkled amongst the weird stuff)

[adhdtsukasa]

curtain call 4*s except rui is foreseeing the past, tsukasa is foreseeing the present and nene is foreseeing the future hit post

[fluffypotatey]

Star Trek Next Gen just so happened to be on tv while mom and I were doing the dishes and I am upset to say that they left us on a fucking cliffhanger just to switch to some other Star Trek spinoff (Deep Space Nine i think was the name)

anyway, seeing Data as acting captain was cool and I think ending the episode off there was fucking rude af how ducking dare you

[lesbianalanwake]

oh my god listening to the beginning of Malevolent Season 5 with the splinters and finger pricking and such...... Arthur watch out! you're gonna get so many diseases! you're not vaccinated enough, and they ain't got sanitation in this time period! you haven't gotten your tetanus shot! Arthur!

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"According to the bible, an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God gets angry and regrets his actions sometimes."