Truth, a street level definition

You can define truth without bringing God into the picture, but you can't defend truth without bringing God into the picture.

You can say truth is empirical fact and persuasive logic. God not needed in that definition.

Then the devil says truth is relative and truth evolves.

Now you need God.

Why is truth not relative and not something that evolves? Because ultimately truth resides in the mind of God, which means truth is objective, unified, and timeless.

How do we access the mind of God?

Via God's self-revelation in the Old and New Testaments, and also via the book of nature.

So you can seek and apprehend truth via empirical discovery and logic, but to defend truth from charges of being relative and subject to evolving you need to see where truth ultimately resides, within the mind of God, the Creator of heaven and earth, where truth is seen in its essence: objective, unified, and timeless.

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Truth is an influence that emanates from the mind of God that you discern with your Holy Spirit and word of God quickened conscience.

Embarrassment and shame

George Will is an old atheist. He's obviously tightly wired, but despite that his petulant atheism (he calls himself an agnostic, so let's say practical atheism) is very commonly derived from his embarrassment and his shame.

His embarrassment is his fear of the world and what the world - man, his peers, etc. - would think of him if he caved or broke for the faith.

His shame is his feeling he gets when he just merely thinks of going against his inner Old Man (made of his fallen worldly pride, vanity, and self-will). This Old Man he has given his allegiance to like a political ideology forged in the heady days of youthful revolution.

This is why the Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

When you fear God alone you don't fear the world or the Old Man within you. This gives you liberty to pursue wisdom; and understanding, truth, and wisdom is found in the word of God.

255 stories from the Bible

This guy has done a good job of listing all the stories in the Bible. It can be a powerful way to read the Bible once you've read it complete already.

255 stories from the Bible

The page is designed a bit 'busy', but basically on the right margin there are 5 PDFs that have summaries of each story (he is good with these and stays close to the actual biblical words) but also gives book, chapter, and verse references if you want to read each story directly from the Bible.

Try #151 to get a sense.

When we do a complete reading all these individual stories kind of get washed out from our memory in the wake...

True definition of neocons

Neocons always want to define themselves in historic political terms. Liberals who got mugged by reality and became conservatives. Soft communists (Trotskyites) who saw the light, etc. Nah... (Maybe the very first generation, but not their lesser spawn...)

The neocons were running a blood-for-money, endless war racket. A neocon DC hedgefund pump-and-dump scheme. Their hedgefunds bought military-related stocks then had 'voices of influence' drum up war (or police action, or even just a troop deployment was enough). Former elected officials, high level appointees, entire newspapers, magazines, individual journalists, pundits, lobbying firms, etc. Once the money was made they laundered it into the pockets of these people of influence through book deals, speaking fees, PAC contributions, foundation contributions, etc. The worse thing they did was influence the rules of engagement all U.S. soldiers were constrained by. Those RofE were designed to get U.S. soldiers wounded and killed. Neocons wanted a dispirited force because they profit from endless war. Their currency is the blood of American soldiers, not to mention the men, women, and children in usually third world areas of the world that they destabilize to create their theatres of war. While all the while they cloaked themselves in the language of patriotism, liberty, constitutional principle, mom, apple pie, baseball, and dogs. They corrupted DC high and wide.

Now they spend all their time on Twitter hating on Trump, the guy who exposed them and upturned their apple cart.

On Genesis 6

This argument shows up the divide between academic oriented Christians and spiritual warfare oriented Christians. The latter know very well that God is referencing angels in Gen 6, and it is not a small matter considering the role fallen angels, demons (the disembodied spirits of dead giants) and hybrid people play in this fallen world, in the history of God's plan of redemption. Satan made several attempts to defile the royal blood line between Adam and Christ. He failed, but he left a lot of damage along the way. It is only half physical/half spiritual phenomena that can carry out plans of evil over centuries (culminating in world tyranny and, they think, victory over God and His elect). What happened before the flood is happening again today prior to the apocalypse. Academics generally have a vain contempt for the supernatural. Sometimes they're unconscious of it.

Dynasties

One thing that happens when I embark on an effort to be in the third state and higher is a new influence or source of knowledge (or just something I need to know) is made known to me.

So I came across a guy who talks about all that we've been seeing in the world lately, the myriad lunacy and evil, and he sources it to nephilim (Genesis 6), yet in a bold way. Not the usual.

I can't endorse all he's about (and also because he wrote his big book prior to Trump's victory - published in 2014 - it is not cutting edge and all that), but overall he's been helpful to step back and see the big picture. Not necessarily things I didn't know or haven't talked of, but seeing the implications.

To get to it it's the extent fallen angels and demons (spirits of Nephilim) and the hybrid humans in their bloodlines are orchestrating all this evil. Only they could carry through such activities that span centuries, for instance. I always say all this stuff is half physical, half spiritual.

Why don't they just do it fast, once and for all? Probably because their own success hastens their own demise. They are doing their evil, but it's irrational because their destination is eternal hellfire. They are mechanically driven to fill out the plan, inexorably, but they like their lifestyles as well. Also the laws of God's theatre of redemption most likely include that it all can't be destroyed quickly before time is filled.

So this guy - Gary Wayne - in youtube videos and interviews and in his book the Genesis 6 Conspiracy simplifies the phantasmagoria of what everybody includes in conspiracy theory into simple Rephaim. The Nephilim came before the flood, the Rephaim came after the flood. What the Nephilim did that caused the flood the Rephaim are currently doing to cause the Apocalypse. Nothing new under the sun. All the family dynasties, royal and otherwise (Rothschild), all the shady people groups (Jews), all the activity that seems to control humanity in stealth, off the radar (Federal Reserve, secret societies, transnational arrangements, etc.)... It's all the Rephaim doing what was earlier done prior to the flood.

The new knowledge in this is 1) it is always enlightening when you can pull the mask off a thousand-faced being and see the one real face behind that mask. The Bible moves us in this direction subtly as it depicts evil in various masks yet gives clues they are all one. And 2) when we are worked up because of such obvious evil and lunacy we need to be reminded all this is part spiritual phenomena. Obviously we need to not be worked up and freaked out by it. We need to have understanding of it.

Then there is only left our response to it. We don't acquiesce to it but stand against it. We don't give ground especially in our inner being. Our mind, our behavior, etc. If we need a big justification for that it is this: the elect of God are to be finally called out of all this sea of confusion, lunacy, and evil; and the already called out elect are to be tempered and forged in this fire.

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I should have added an important point he makes: biblical prophecy comes through the frame (context) of all this supernatural evil. This gives it all biblical reality. It is evil at work, but it is part of the overall plan of redemption. Abomination to God and to us yet a real thing.

This is an interesting point because we can start to see all history as fake. For instance the two world wars were orchestrated by these invisible dynasties so why even take them as real. I.e. why not just see such tragedy as dupes being duped, etc. We can even start to write off American wisdom in her founding in the form of her founding documents and so forth. Why? Because of the Freemasonry and other invisible dynasty evil that is so obvious in the founding. It's like, "They had us even from our founding!" Here we were thinking we were exceptional...

But the point is biblical prophecy speaks of this evil and how it will manifest in this physical world. So the history is real, but a person with understanding will see it biblically rather than in the - for instance - language of patriotism solely, or some other ideological language or narrative put forth...anything but the biblical truth of these supernatural forces pulling the strings...