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ah, depends, i guess we would have to have a discussion about what "living sacrifice" means first?
it sounds complicated but an easy answer is to blame it on sin. reason being in a perfect world if i shoot a bow facing the wrong way theoretically is should hit the target and never miss. sin is what causes us to miss the target. you guys can get all scientific if you choose to try and explain it. it will end up just like when science tries to show how God created the world."...Complex systems are systems that contain so much motion (so many elements that move) that computers are required to calculate all the various possibilities. That is why Chaos Theory could not have emerged before the second half of the 20th century.
Sigmund Freud
But there is another reason that Chaos Theory was born so recently, and that is the Quantum Mechanical Revolution and how it ended the deterministic era!
Up to the Quantum Mechanical Revolution people believed that things were directly caused by other things, that what went up had to come down, and that if only we could catch and tag every particle in the universe we could predict events from then on. Entire governments and systems of belief were (and, sadly, are still) founded on these beliefs, and when Sigmund Freud invented psychoanalysis, he headed out from the idea that malfunctions in the mind are the results of traumas suffered in the past. Regression would allow the patient to stroll down memory lane, pinpoint the sore spot and rub it away with Freud's healing techniques that were again based on linear cause and effect.
Chaos Theory however taught us that nature most often works in patterns..."
Chaos Theory for Beginners; An Introduction
Ugh...I even went back and looked, but did not find the snip that says just where where is. Perhaps you could just blurt it out.
by that i mean those who Scripture warns about, basically, "many will be deceived," etc. Anyone seeking physical death, i guess, although it manifests other ways too; "wait for Jesus to come save us again, and remove us all to...somewhere, and then life will somehow start then," etc
ah sorry, blame what on sin?
i've heard of this, but i don't get it tbh. Sounds like Bizarro-world to me wadr. No reaping from sowing, etc
might not be clear from the snip, but what he is saying is that Freud began with a bad premise, so i think he is agreeing with you
choose to try and explain what? i'm not sure you are on to the point here yet wadr, but if i get you, that is really only ancillary to the main subject there, i run from needlessly complicated concepts myself, and the author has made more than one disclaimer there too.
hmm, i guess maybe some science, yes, but this science all proceeds from the assumption of a Creative Force, God is assumed, just not defined iow. Still not quite sure what you mean by "it" there, sorry if this is not to your point
ha ok, "the material plane," or "earth," or however you might want to phrase it. Creation. that's the only where there is, see. There is no place called heaven
so then lose the visions and dreams, imo, the imaginations, that Paul so succinctly invokes @ "absent from the body" that no one can even read it lol. "Seek to please God where you are, right now."
I've heard of Christians doing this on the mission field, putting themselves in deliberately dangerous situations in hope they die a marytor. It usually doesn't work the way they think, as God will protect them until he is ready. He doesn't go by our timing.
ha, no kidding, there are missions, and then there are the missions we manifest today, more akin to invasions
Spiritually that is the case, powers and principalities need to be broken. The home front isn't fairing any better though, as different more resistant viruses are gaining ground in the hearts of the people.
That's all good, but I believe you missed my point. It is visions and dreams from God that show interaction without spacetime. In other words, God, without spacetime, has His own ability to have and facilitate relationships. In my own experience, they hold the greater reality.
of course, as they must, kind after kind, "you cannot serve two masters." I am hard on MDs here, Doctors, but after all they could not exist if no one was buying what they were selling, right. We seek Drs to cure us of our self-inflicted ills, but of course the cure is "change your mind," which who wants to do that lol, then i have to go buy real eggs from ppl who are not serving Profit, and pay double or triple, or grow them myself, how inconvenient, etc.
i disagree, and doubt that you could provide an example outside of spacetime wadr. That is what spacetime, reality, Creation, is for.
i scoff at this, but my dreams also seem more real to me than reality, so i get you, ok.
