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Since I can only write from my heart I can't really offer more than what you have written here and others have commented.
I have always wondered what a Tempest in a tea pot is like!!! Now a tempest in a kettle would be the water bubbling and boiling and turning to steam which then fogs up my glasses so that I cannot see properly If I am pouring water into my pot or onto the floor... OK this is a serious post...tiptoeing out before I get....Ouch!!!
posted by
Kabu
on July 15, 2013 at 1:14 PM
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I am riveted to this :-) and have just one observation... the universality of that concept of a supernatural realm's existance has been explained as you probably have heard ( or read :-)) by the necesity of all humans to explain things they did not understand... things that either scared them or delighted them... and so at the beginning of time they created many gods and goddeses to rule the many things they feared and admired but as our ancestors "matured" socially, all those gods were too hard to keep up with and the idea of just a couple of beingss capable of controlling the chaos in their world emerged. Usually there was a good god and a bad god... or a couple of each, locked in eternal battle for the souls of men. Here and there enlightened societies were capable to blame all that was happening in their lives to just one god... and they made him creator and controller of all life...all good, all powerful, all knowing, all forgiving. But there were bad things happening too. Bad people existed among them and they did bad things. There was also natural disasters, pain, suffering, hunger and the like so since an all good God could not allow all that if he was also all powerful and all knowing... they created evil... called it diable, satan or his other many names and they blamed him for all the bad stuff. All that I said was just to make the point that the fact all societies have some kind of belief in a supernatural realm does not prove the existance of one . Be well xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on July 15, 2013 at 12:56 PM
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It's all connected - dichotomy and all.
posted by
Pat_B
on July 15, 2013 at 12:26 PM
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Nautikos
You, as educated as you are, wouldn't know God until you had accepted Jesus and had the holy Spirit indwelled in you. The Jews are the most educated people and have won the most awards and prizes for all sorts of beneficial fetes, yet they are hated all over the world. Why do you think that is? It is because they are God's chosen people. The US is coming to the same place because it actually is a Christian Nation. Once you are close to the triune God you will never see the world the same. Education is not all ourside the Christian community, we have all sorts of Scientist in all sorts of areas. It is a truth once you accept the simple first step, as you go you know it is true. You are certainly my Bloggit friend and I love your work. I truly wish you could just take a chance on the Lord the sadness is in the end if you chose the wrong side and it is true there is no refund program.
posted by
Justi
on July 15, 2013 at 10:36 AM
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Oh yes, where we are born into exerts a great influence.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on July 15, 2013 at 9:57 AM
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When I was five years old, my grandmother gave me a child's comic book version of The Bible. I spent a lot of time with it as I was flat on my back in the hospital for six weeks and then more weeks at home. I think that one of the reasons that I like you so much is because you seem to me to be a profoundly educated expounder of the same message. Today's post sure takes me back to the story of the Tower of Babel and the preconditions and post conditions of the era surrounding that incident. 
posted by
TAPS.
on July 15, 2013 at 9:19 AM
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Everything
I am reading along and just pleased as punch that you are sharing a bit of your self in this manner. The word "supernatural" intruiges me. I have found instruction in the Bible that say God/Love is beyond my understanding, Yet the book also instructs to question everything. What a delightful enigma 
posted by
Blue_feathers
on July 15, 2013 at 8:38 AM
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I feel this as contrived as many feel religion is contrived, yet we know through history that Jesus lived, thousands from those days say He made mircles happen, that He even raised the dead, and not just the newly dead, but four days dead, stinking dead. Now we can say this is this and that is that, but what if it is all as they say. He either did these things, or He did not. Many others have claimed to make such things happen, but only one changed the world, and boy, did he ever change the world. This will be a great series Naut.
posted by
UtahJay
on July 15, 2013 at 8:14 AM
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