Tuesday, June 9, 2015

why I don't define my religious beliefs simply by saying Christianity. or any one word religious description.

first of all. my most basic belief, even before belief Christ. is that I need to objectively search, and accept the truth, what ever it is. and do what's right to do, according to that... without this principle any attempt to do right/good/the will of God is doomed to fail. because we live in a complicated reality...
and this is also what the creator said to us himself. in the story of the garden of Eden, the most basic story about his relation to us. he said we ate from the tree of understanding what is good and what is bad. and so he had to put us in this world, to see if we utilize our ability of understanding what is good and what is bad, to choose good. so doing this is what it means to do the will of God. (Genesis 3: 22-24). but a person can only understand what is good and what is bad, by objectively searching, and accepting the truth, what ever it is. so this why I wrote, that my most basic belief, is that I need to objectively search, and accept the truth, what ever it is. and do what's right to do, according to that...
second of all. the most important things the creator had to say, he already said before the gospel(the part about Christ). like what I wrote above. and some other things. and this also what yeshua(Jesus) said himself about himself. he said in Matthew 5: 17-19:
"17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

the evidence shows that the creator/god the father exists.
what I wrote earlier in this blog show that is a fact. by showing the world would have definitely been chaos otherwise. 

ALSO.. he sent prophets (that we know really lived. and about when they lived) that have prophesied many things about places and times they had no way to know what will happened there. THAT CAME TRUE. and these prophets where very good, wise, serious, people. that are in agreement with each other about their beliefs (including about them speacking in yehova's name). so I see them (including yeshua (jesus)) as reliable source of information about who is God. and what did he say to us.

so this is why I believe texts that are words of a true prophet. that is found up to acts of the apostels. because this can only be done by a god. the book "100 prophesies" explain this in great detail(it's somewhat wishful thinking. but it contain the relevant information).

after the gospel, there are many false prophesies (didn't come true, and don't make sense). and a lot of contradictions. and pointless, and nonsense verses.

paul and his successors failed to make even 1 clear genuine prophecy (not repeating previous prophecy) that came true.

they did make many that failed.
that makes them false prophets...
unlike the true prophets before them that made more then 100 clear supernatural prophesies that we know for a fact actually came true. and not 1 failed prophecy...

like for example paul and his successors prophesied that some people living in those times will still be alive in the second coming. which will happen in a short time/soon. they are obviously dead. and the world still exist. so that failed.
it also obviously doesn't make sense that god would finish the world before anyone even received his teachings.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-18
1 John 2:18
Revelation 1:1 + Revelation 22:20

also they predicted that in a short time the devil will be jailed for a 1000 years. and Christ will rule for a 1000 years.
Revelation 1:1 and Revelation 20

that also didn't happen. not in short or even long time...
and we are in the last days.
because prophecies of actual prophets regarding the last days already came true (jesus, ezikiel, Isaiah). so this means we are in the last years of the history of this world.
so there is not even a 1000+ years left for this to happen.
also again it doesn't make sense.
its against the plan of God for this world that people will have no reason or will to do wrong/bad/evil. which is what would have happened if there was no devil and God would be the king of this world.
so I don't except that part. sense yeshua, the man god sent to be our main guide and role model. said there will come false representatives of god and him, after him. and we will know them by their false prophesies. Matthew 7: 15-19 "15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.". because of he said this. I know the books after the gospel are not holy scripture...
they say a lot of true things. because they repeat what was said earlier. but also allot of false things. and 0 prophesies that came true. unlike more then 100 detailed prophesies that did come true up to that point. I do believe that god helped with miracles, the early Christians, to establish Christianity. because it was necessary. but no one there speaks for god. there are only some that wrongfully tried to.  and this was continued by the catholic church, that took away words and pages even from the gospel. to make people not understand God. and this is why the gospel is also not perfect. all of this has made Christianity a distorted religion. a mixture of true and false, like all the other religions in the world. this is another reason why one need to use his own understanding ability to fill the gaps.

my understanding and implementation of the will of god. and the words written in the books I mentioned is fundamentally different than that of most Christians or Jews. the differences include mainly:
1. wanting to understand correctly, these words, and the reality in general. and to implement it correctly. which the large majority of both religious and non religious people don't want to.
2. understanding that God always speaks in parables, analogies and metaphors (not just sometimes) when saying something very intense, meaningful and important. because it's the only way to make most people listen to something that intense. without "switching the channel". and this include the book of genesis, and various chapters and verses in the other books that are not to be taken literally.
3. what does God want from us?. this is explained in genesis on basic level and then in the gospel in a more detailed level. so we need to start in genesis. what he says there in the parable of the garden of Eden, is that he wants us to have a wonderful endless life. BUT... sense we are animals that just reached an intelligence, and self awareness, and self control level sufficient for to differentiate between good and bad. and to understand what he says. he demands that we obey him. and choose good rather then bad. what he demands is we to choose good. and he explains what is good.
so doing the will of God, means understanding what is good, and what is bad, by understanding what he is trying to say to us, and any other useful tool for that goal. and then choosing good rather then bad/evil.
4. yeshua is not Elohim/Yehova/god the father. these name are never used in reference to him anywhere in the scriptures. he always calls himself son of man. which means he is a man. not the creator of all man. and he never said he is god the father. believing he is Elohim makes him an irrelevant role model for men. believing instead that he was a man sent by god to be a guide and role model. makes him a perfect role model for man.
he is also a God. Yehova/the father made him a god. in the sense that he gave him ever lasting life. and ability to do miracles. and made him in charge of giving doctrine to people on earth. in his own words and in the words of the prophets.
when he said that he and the father and the spirit of holiness are one. he meant that if a man except one of them. then he except all of them. they are in perfect agreement with each other. and assist each other.
5. understanding that the these book contain some mistranslations. and a few actual mistakes of the writers. and trying to find and understand them
6. the second most important commandment of god is "ואהבת לרעך כמוך" meaning "and you loved for רעך as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18 + Matthew 22:39).
רעך does not mean "neighbor" or "other". it comes from the word רעות which mean a relationship where 2 people are very important for each other. and care a lot about each other.
I think the translator, meant neighbor in the sense of some one close to you emotionally (it's one of the meanings of this word). bad choice of words.
this is crucial to understand. because no one can love as himself everyone. not even close. so people that don't understand this, probably don't implement the second most important thing god commanded them to do... and also end up acting like showoffs when trying to make themselves and others believe that they love everyone so very much, even though they are far from that.
you can also see this is the correct understanding of the commandment by reading what yeshua said
in Matthew 5:43-48
43 “Ye have heard that it hath been said, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy.’
44 But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you,
45 that ye may be the children of your Father who is in Heaven. For He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same?
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even the publicans so?

this necessarily means רעך means the people who love you. not just anyone.
what this mean is that we should care about everyone. even enemies. or not hate people, in other words. but it's ok to love some people a lot more or less then others. and that you must care about your brother, wife, someone you have a strong friendship with, as you care about yourself.

7. I usually don't come to church/synagogue/weekly religious gatherings because at least in the places I've seen around me. what goes in this kind of meetings in 2015 is almost worthless. in some places even abominable.
everybody need to come there on their valuable free time, just to sit down and say nothing. and hear the same one or 2 people, talk and talk and talk, pointlessly, for thousands of hours if someone keeps coming every week. because he/they believe he is so great. and this is the name of GOD!!, HAH!!. Matthew 18: 3-4 "Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.".
and between the endless talk. what do people do there?. pray together, and sing prayers together...
Matthew 6 : 5-8 "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.  Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." 
+ all of the prophets, including yeshua, didn't go to this kind of gatherings. where they all wrong? (rhetorical question)
I only come once in a while to young messianic conventions. just to meet some people that are at least somewhat similar to me in religious beliefs. I used to go every week to gatherings. but I don't anymore. because of this reasons. and I usually don't fit there socially. I might try again a bit at some point.
8. רצח means murder. so the commandment is "don't you murder". not "don't kill".
killing is right when it is necessary, for protection of someone, or something, that needs to be protected. this is both according to God and common sense.
9. I am not against discrimination, of any kind. if it's necessary. I will not eat sand, just because its discriminating it, in relative to food, not to eat it.
what I'm saying is that we all know discrimination is necessary. I just admit it.
if you want an example it is godly to sometimes discriminate. there are many examples. but the most well known and obvious one. is that god created a new ethnic group, from one man(Abraham) and one woman(Sara) so that only they will be his will doers for thousands of years. and at some point ordered them to kill all or most of the people already living in the land(Israel) he wanted them to live in (committing genocide). because it was necessary for his plan of salvation for humanity. and because they where extremely sinful people. doing things like sacrificing children, to their imaginary gods. and refusing for 400 years to better their ways.
10. the holy spirit/ghost is complicate term. that took me also a lot of time to understand. again there is also somewhat of a mistranslation problem. it comes from the "רוח הקודש" witch literally translating means "wind/spirit of holiness". yeshua was the first to use this expression as far as I know.
he is not talking about a ghost. he uses either wind or spirit. I think wind. as a metaphor for something we all personally know, but can't see or smell or taste. so he mean by this term, everything that is holy and that we all know but can't see or smell or taste.
this distinction maters to understand what he is saying...
he is talking about god's commandments, and miracles, and things like that.
for example he said in Matthew 12:32 "And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come."
he means that he can understand how someone might get a bad impression about him. as most people in history didn't even know how to read. and didn't know him, or anyone that know him. so they didn't nececerly know who he is. or understood him properly.
but if someone, lets say someone 22+ in age, to be fair. says something, against something anyone can know is very good and very important for everyone. than that will never be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come. because he/she just can't not know it's seriously wrong.
he doesn't say what will be a punishment for that. and I'm not so sure what qualifies as speaking against the spirit of holiness. but this are some things that I guess are like that:
1. someone saying seriously, that murder, is actually not wrong to do. lets say, because there are too many people on earth. or because most people deserve to die.
2. "there is no good or bad".
3. "I know, god doesn't exist".

12. in Mathew 24 and Luke 21 the writer confuses the events that lead to the destruction of the second temple with the events that lead to the second coming/end of the world. and he describe this event as simultaneous. even though in the same chapter he writes that no one knows when the end will come and that it will come soon after the gospel will be preached to every nation on earth. and as we know 2000 year also past, so... the writer must have been confused about this. the reader must do the effort of separating the 2 very different events described in the chapter.
13. actually believing that I am going to the kingdom of heaven. along with the people I cherish. because god said that will happen if I do actually, put my faith in him. and do close to exactly what he asked for. and I do that. and he proved himself trustworthy. so I don't need to have a significant doubt about this.
14. other things (this blog is a work in progress).

Saturday, May 23, 2015

theory of elements and change

summery video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNu-iYf6p1c&t=1s

THEORY OF ELEMENTS AND CHANGE
The logical argument for existence of god:

First reason: the order

It is possible to prove that it is endlessly unlikely, to be a coincidence, that our world have the next 6 qualities. and even in many ways, for every law of physics that we know:

1. it’s not chaos or chaotic, it has laws, the laws of physics (endless different ways not to be laws).
For example: the second law of newton (a law of physic) determines that the acceleration of body which is subject to a resoltent force is equal to the size of that force divided by the mass of the body.
This law is expresed by the formula F = M x A. Where F stands for force, M stands for mass, and A stands for acceleration.
And the direction of the accelaration is in the direction of the force.
But if this was not by desein it could have been like sometimes its F = M x A x 0.1984 and the direction is to some random direction. And somethimes F = M x HAVE GREEN IS THE OBJECT. And some other time the object becomes an elefent, as a resolt of the force.

2. Those laws work anywhere in the universe (endless different points in space).

3. They work all the time, for billions of years (endless different points in time).

4. None of the laws of physics contradict each other, even though some of them are long and/or complicated (endless different ways to contradict each other).
The same kind of nonsense logic as with the example above, but between differrnt laws.

5. it’s in a way that we (or some other kind of intelligent way of life) can survive in it, and even relatively easily if we do things right. This one might be only extremely unlikely and not endlessly, if the 4 other qualities are the situation.

6. No significant outside interference. Its like a city with walls and locked gates. Nothing comes from outside. Or influence from outside

 Examples:







Or a world with laws, but just not meant for us, like: too hot, too cold, too small objects. Only one big object which would have been a black hole, so it would stay like that.
things moving too fast, laws of physics that are not constant, no electricity(the brain works on electricity), no fluids, no water, no gas, no solid, not enough useful materials, no chemical energy, no nuclear energy (this means no light and heat from the sun), no light, and so on...
There are also things that are not necessary for us, but are good like fire, magnetism (it protects as from many harmful things), fuels, clouds, and also the strength of gravity in proportion to mass, fit our needs well, we are not too heavy, even though the earth is very big, and many other facts...

Example for endlessness:











If all the country was covered with dots like this, and every one of this dots represented something completely different, than together they would still be nothing in amount in comparison to endlessness.
But it might help you understand the idea of endlessness.

So, sense this is not a coincident (because of the above), there could be only 2 ways to explain this, either this is by design so that they will create a place where intelligent life can evolve and survive and flourish in. in that case he that legislated the laws of physics can be called GOD, because he designed our universe.
or that it’s not a coincident. Because an endless number of different things/universes/realities/places also exist in an active way somewhere, each with different laws and things, and also an endless amount of them with no rules, but with different things, and an endless amount that are just one big thing, with or without rules or a definition of what it is. And so in that case, it is not so unlikely that our universe exist, because all the other possibilities are also for filed somewhere.
This is the only 2 possibilities because only something active and intelligent can legislate laws like the law of physics.
Something inactive can’t because legislation is an activity, and some thing non-intelligent can’t, because it doesn’t really understand what it’s doing well enough to legislate something so extremely complicated.
 But the second explanation doesn't make sense without GOD, because it means that together, all of those things/universes/realities/places contain everything, imaginable or not.
Because it’s an endless number, of different from each other things that can be anything, because some of them don't obey any rules, and some obey rules, but those rules can be anything, because they are also different from universe to universe. So together they would have contained everything, imaginable or not.
So, There would have been also things that can come here, or affect us here, because this is also in the category of everything, imaginable or not.
And even if there was something trying to stop them, for some reason that is not GOD; there would have been also things that are so, that they are able to go through or over or under or around that thing.
Or that they are so that this thing can’t stop them, or they can disappear in one side of it and appear on the other, or they can affect things here from where they are, and all kind of things like that, whatever. You can definitely see, that there are many things and ways and so on, in that category everything, imaginable or not.



Example: a wall won’t help you against something like this, because maybe it can just go through it like it wasn't there, or maybe it can be in more than one place at the same time, so it doesn't even care about the wall and things like that...
Because it just so happens, that is how that thing is.
Only something intelligent can address all the possible ways. Something non intelligent would be limited in its ability to react.
And also our realty is way way to ordered to be a coincident of something like that. If that was the case, there would at least be some irregularities, some nonsense. We could have survived with some truly tiny amount of nonsense in the order.
But there isn’t any, otherwise it would have been our main concern, and subject of interest.   

Second reason: yeshua Christ the bible the Jewish people and more.

Why would CHRIST (YESHUA) choose to not have any kind of personal life?. That is no sexual activity. No pursuit of money, or possessions. Never or rarely doing anything because that’s what he feels like doing.
And instead spend his entire life doing the will of GOD, refraining from sin, suffering torture, humiliation, hunger, fear, and other things, And then death by crucifixion.
All of this without a bit of doubt or hesitation.
And how is it that so many quotes of him contains so much wisdom. Even though he said many of those quotes without having more than some minutes or seconds to think.
And why did 12 man volunteer to follow him everywhere all day long for many years Instead of living there lives? And some of them were also killed.
And why would thousands of people believe him?
Remember there was none of the technology you know today, the only means of communication was talking and writing by hand.
And it was in a small area, in a small land.
And how did his mother know to call him “yeshua” (his original name, which after many translations became Jesus in English) which means salvation in Hebrew which is why it is stated in Matthew 1:21: "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins" (so in that sense, he will be salvation for them)

Why all of this unless he was really the son of god? (What this means can be interpreted in more than one way, but he was directly related to god, somehow).
He didn't do it for personal gain, that's for sure, because he gained nothing, but lost everything.

So what else can be possible? The only other option is that he was very much mentally ill, or totally insane in other words. and it made him icredibly delusional about who he is. But this explanation really dosent fit him.
it's possible to see he was not an incredibly mentally ill man, because he was in great mental condition…
he was organised enough to do all this trips and survive even though he didn’t have any income, and was constantly in danger of presecution. at a much tougher time in history. That takes a lot of carfule wording, and planning. Not once, but every day.
He was always reasonable, sharp minded, clever, and objective, he was able to sympathise with other people, connected to reality, and he was fearless and confident. Doesn’t sound like crazy to me.

If there is any mental illness that can make someone believe he is the messiah, than it's what is called grandiose delusional disorder.
Grandiose delusions or delusions of grandeur are principally a subtype of delusional disorder but could possibly feature as a symptom of schizophrenia and manic episodes of bipolar disorder.
Someone suffering from an extreme delusional disorder should experience very severe anxiety called paranoia, yeshua was exactly the opposite of that, and he was always reasonable and apparently almost fearless.
He was not schizophrenic, because these people contradict themselves all the time, or at least allot, and he did not do that.
He was not suffering from manic episodes of bipolar disorder, because he did not believe he was the son of god in some week or month of his life, but all of his life.
Also Mania is generally characterized by a distinct period of an elevated, expansive, or irritable mood state. People commonly experience an increase in energy and a decreased need for sleep. A person's speech may be pressured, with thoughts experienced as racing. Attention span is low and a person in a manic state may be easily distracted. Judgment may become impaired; sufferers may go on spending sprees or engage in behavior that is quite abnormal for them. They may indulge in substance abuse, particularly alcohol or other depressants, cocaine or other stimulants, or sleeping pills. Their behavior may become aggressive, intolerant or intrusive. People may feel out of control or unstoppable. People may feel they have been "chosen," are "on a special mission," or other grandiose or delusional ideas. Sexual drive may increase. At more extreme phases  of bipolar I, a person in a manic state can begin to experience psychosis, or a break with reality, where thinking is affected along with mood. Many people in a manic state experience severe anxiety and are very irritable (to the point of rage), while others are euphoric and grandiose.
Christ was not like that, except from feeling he is on a special mission, but that doesn’t count, because that's why I wrote this to begin with.

On top of that there is also the rest of the bible and the history of the Jewish people as confirmation of Christ words, and God's doings.

There is also the prophesies, in the bible.
The bible contains hundreds of prophesies and sub prophesies which came true. Like the complete destruction of Babylon. And many other prophesies. This is also incredibly unlikely to be a coincident. I will not explain each one of them now. Because this will take to long, and I think, I've written enough good reasons for the existence of god. And so I want to move on to the next part.
the book 100 prophecies explain this in great detail.
There are also other reasons.

The logical argument for lack of existence of god:
God is also endlessly, or almost endlessly, unlikely to be a coincident… so how was he created? And if someone created him, then how was he created and so on.

The theory is that our reality or the part of reality we are aware of.
Is made of at list 2 eternal elements, and at list one eternal principal.

The first element is the one that is not changing.
its what gives the meaning to things. so I called it the meaning element.
Things that are of the meaning element need to be in a specific way to be them.
for example: Possibilities, concepts, definitions, rules/laws, and also ideas and emotions, but not what we fill; the meaning of them.

The theory presumes that everything always existed in the form of meaning element existence.
 
The second element is the one that experience changes. so I called it the changing element. it has no meaning by itself. but it becomes things according to the meaning of things of the meaning element.

the one principle is, that the changing element constantly experience changes according to the meaning of things that are of the meaning element. but only according to some things. at any given situation. 

For example:
You can break a chair, right. But you can't break the idea of a chair, or the possibility of something that a human can seat on that is not very much bigger than a human. It’s just not something changeable in my opinion.
Ideas and other things, of the meaning element can effect the changing element. like the idea that you need to wake up tomorrow, can cause that you will put an alarm, to wake up.
And the law of gravity pulls objects together and all the other laws of physics also work all the time to make things happen. But they are of the second element, because they are laws, they don't have weight or size or shape or color or speed, and so on... only meaning.


But not all the things from the second element can affect everything or even anything from the first one, all the time or at all.
For example:
If I or you, take some papers, and start writing imaginary laws of physics, like for example that the weight of an object is determined by how green it is, And that once a week the universe turns into a huge hamburger.
The laws described on those papers will not actually be applied on everything that is of physical existence, as the laws of physics are, and will not cause that this things will happen.
But the laws of physics on the other hand, do actually determine what everything that is of physical existence (mater, energy, time, space, light, antimatter, and more), must do.

Another example: the possibility of using electricity is constantly affecting the reality these days. But the possibility of conquering the world, while using only cucumbers as a weapon is not.
Because the first one is relevant to the current reality and the other one is not.

so for those reasons I said that the one principle is, that things which are of the changing element constantly experience changes according to the meaning of meaning elements things.
but only according to some things. at any given situation.

The theory is that in the beginning of our reality. GOD, only existed in the meaning element, like everything else (the possibility of him existed).
Then, the one principle started to work.
Which means. That Different meaning element things, that were capable of causing change, upon changing element things, in that situation, did so.
But that resulted in a new situation!.
because they changed the situation.
So in the new situation, Different meaning element things, that were capable of causing change, upon changing element things, in that situation, did so.
But that resulted in a new situation!.
because they changed the situation.
So in the new situation, Different meaning element things, that were capable of causing change, upon changing element things, in that situation, did so.
And so on, and so on.
this process continued on and on, until at some point, something that had a will of his own, and was intelligent, got a chance to make a change, when he did, what he did, was to make the situation so, that only he can be a reason for further change, and so he became GOD.
I don't know have he did that, or what he did afterwards. But apparently it required some thought, because otherwise something non-intelligent would have done that earlier. And he is smart enough to create everything that we know, so he is smart.

One idea is that maybe what he did was to create a situation where each meaning element thing (Possibilities, concepts, definitions, rules/laws, and also ideas and emotions, but not what we fill; the meaning of them. And some other things that also need to be in a specific way to be themselves) has as much influence as the meaning element thing that is the opposite of it in meaning.
For example: yes and no, backwards forwards, growing shrinking, going from a to b and going from b to a, happy and sad, and so on.
But he didn't balance himself.

Why should you believe that this theory is true?
Because it solves this problems that result from the facts in the beginning:
1. How come the laws of physics exist, and are as if they are meant for us?
2. the prophesies and miracles that happened. also the fact yeshua Christ was not crazy.
3. If GOD(yehova) is the answer then how was he created?
The answer to this question must result in something that could actually create almost everything we know, and that might have some reason to do that. Also the answers must make sense, and fit with the facts we knew for surety.

Written by noam burde.