"I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to the Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it." John 14:12-14 

Nothing can be covered

Everything shall be known 

For nothing is hidden that shall not become evident, nor anything secret that shall not be known and come to light. Luke 8:16

worshipping our benefactor

 When Jesus tells us what God wants us to do, whatever it is, I want to do it because whatever God wants us to do is always for our own benefit. My reason is that if one values their own personal existence, as I do, then I listen up because I believe God Himself is the fountainhead of existence. Always, I want to be where Jesus is.

strong minds and weak minds

 

Knowledge of the known is not all

Listening to Jesus 

Jesus is talking in Manna. He "walks and talks with me" in a beautiful place that He has brought me. Faith is built by reading and speaking while belief is easy and instant, like a mustard seed. 

It helps not to be too rich. Rich, for example, as a well to do man who already thinks he has afforded his own heaven. But also there is the educated man who is burdened by too much seen-knowledge of unsophisticated education that falls behind the unseen truths because he cannot keep up with the growing knowledge of his expanding ignorance.

All his worldly knowledge creates so much doubt it magnifies belief only as far as the believable . I suspect that even the knowledge taught in a seminary has educated professors out of a belief in God. Does meaning actualize belief? 

John 17:1

High Priestly prayer

Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said

high priestly prayer
John 17

 "Father, the hour has come, Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him."

My mother used to read this entire chapter every morning on rising. I recall her reading it, sometimes out loud. I was a caregiver and an atheist at the time.

Early draft of Jonah and Jesus

Definition of our terms

These are the most critical issues in this central false question did Jonah's whale swallow whole the entirety of Christianity? 

This question should be answered because many Christians attending church every Sunday do not believe the Jonah story which is an Old Testament forerunner of Jesus Christ and the crucifixion itself. If a person cannot believe the Jonah story then what about the Jesus story?

Interruption, since all essays here are under constant editing, and because this is a large topic I am going to publish  all early drafts, including typos, to keep things moving. This may be my last hurrah. One never knows when the blow may fall. Everything at all times is subject to change, just like all the other "completed" entries throughout all these blogs.