What is a quantum leap? This is a most interesting term, for while the term "quantum" refers to the smallest realizable unit of anything, like “a photon of light;” a "quantum leap," according to the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia, is a term often used to denote "a sudden dramatic increase or advance." The term implies a very large movement. "Quantum leap" is the idea that moving something seemingly small and insignificant can make a big difference.
The dictionary gives the old adage about the straw that broke the camel’s back as an example of a ‘quantum leap,’ saying that the 'last straw,' (however seemingly insignificant, however light and fluffy by usual standards,) made all the difference in the world to that camel. Point being that in the minuscule worlds of matter, in engineering and science, everything little ounce of matter, matters; and if one very teeny tiny thing is in or out of place, it can make all the difference in the world for the whole system of things.
Contrary to what most people have learned the world of atoms, the “quantum model of the atom is much more complex” than the over-simplified, "traditional model" that most of us people learn in elementary science books. Some of us hang our hats on knowing the simple concept of the proton, neutron and electron… while others unravel things much deeper.
According to Jim Tucek, an enthusiastic student of science on the Internet, complex mathematics is needed in order to understand the “blurred clouds of probabilities around the nucleus” of an atom. In these realms, everything matters.. every little tiny particle, and scientists, like Tucek who work and think within these minuscule realms subatomic particles of “organized chaos” take everything into account. They work hard to find even the statistical probability of the location of a moving electron at an expected, given moment in time.
Creation believing scientists look at these minuscule things and marvel at God’s wisdom at keeping such chaos in perfect order; meanwhile evolutionists’ marvel at how such order comes from nothing but incredible chaos. Meanwhile, all scientifically minded, thinking, reasoning, inquisitive intellectuals move forward in time, counting the particles, unraveling the secrets of the universe like a ball of string, all hoping to see, to understand, maybe even to prove once and for all, who and what man is and discover what is at the end, (or is it the beginning) of the proverbial string.
Ahhh, the string. Enter the “string field theory,” and the "grand unified theory," conceptual scientific theories that attempt, believe it or not, to link all things together as "one." Such theories however are not always spiritual or spiritually minded, for some scientists do not acknowledge or may not realize that such a wonderful being known as God even exists. Others do believe in the spiritual nature of life, but not always are these spiritual theories Christian. Some recognize how God’s marvelous scarlet thread is woven through all of life... throughout all time and space, how this singular thread of God's love and redemption is the very thing that holds the universe together…but they are few and far between it seems. Meanwhile, high minded, supposedly "scientific" man, is unraveling the universe around him, examining what is there. Unraveling the string he builds his own conceptual idea of the "whys" and "hows" of it all, rarely, if ever giving consideration that all this time "God" has been holding on to the end of the string.
No, they do not believe things were created and are falling apart over time, they believe things are getting better and better. Some even believe that order comes from chaos, all by itself.
In The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe (1988) by the Templeton Laureate, Paul Davies, Davie explains that from his point of view as a scientist, the universe is developing an essential, unfolding pattern and order. He suggests it is not going from order to disorder but the other way around. Davies says that virtual particles can and do ‘pop” into existence from nothingness, and that this takes place through something known in scientific circles as “quantum tunneling.” He suggests that this is the manner in which the whole universe popped into existence. (Pg. 141)
Quantum Tunneling?
Davies also suggests, that in the future, upon the universe's demise, mankind might scramble into a new universe of their own manufacture based upon these understandings and scientific discoveries. He is not alone. Alan Guth, professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) also believes there is a possibility that a new universe could be created through “quantum tunneling."
En.Wikipedia reports that Guth says, it would be dangerous, (to actually create another universe) since it would be the equivalent of a 500 kiloton explosion. But to create a universe, all one needs is one ounce, ( a seemingly quantum amount) of high energy and false vacuum. Guth speculates that once false vacuum exists, the evolution of the universe is independent of what came before and says that it would take only 10-37 seconds for such a universe to disconnect from it’s parent. He even suggests that the universe originated from a false vacuum filled with high energy.
We exist in a fascinating world.
It's quite amazing really, to see how we have moved so far beyond the standard models of perceived reality, into things few, usually only the most highly educated by the standards of the world can even see, things which must simply be taken on faith by the rest of us. After all, if the textbooks are wrong, or incomplete, what are we building our understanding of reality upon?
Science, Religion, Politics, even Economics is all being redefined for us by the experts and such things as the Grand Unified Theory and New Physics, not to mention New Spirituality are emerging hoping to take us... where? You would think that they are hoping to take those who believe them and their theories, who believe what they do, with them, into a new universe, even a New Age.
Fred A. Wolf, dubbed by some to be “a new hero of modern science,” wrote the book titled, Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Non-Scientists.(1989) While the product description says that the book “entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the early Greeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm., it neglects to say that Wolf guides the reader through all of this to ultimately explain that the human mind becomes the shaper of the universe and each of us is "god.” Point being of course that he believes we and we alone control our destiny. Is this Science or religion?
Perhaps it is both. They call it, the New Physics.
Wolf was also featured in a film called, What the Bleep Do We Know: Down the Rabbit Hole (2004) a film that attempted to help the average person understand not only Quantum Physics but also the New Age way of viewing the world.
Fred Wolf, also made a film called Ups and Downs in San Francisco, a film exploring the Jewish Mysticism religion of self-mastery known as Kabbalah. In it he remarked to colleague Jerry Satinover, “I don't give a da** about top scientists or the scientific establishment at all, I …I don’t care what they think, all I care about is saying what I have to say and I will say it…. What I care about is changing and transforming this planet that we're on - and I believe we have to introduce new thinking. And if it turns out that it's scientifically total garbage I don't give a flying ****(bleep!) It makes no difference to me, because science has little credibility as the only way of seeing the world. It's only one very narrow very limited way.”
The tables have turned. Now the scientific thinkers are what Christians used to be, "narrow-minded." There seems to be a little bit synthesis going on...Adding faith in what they want to believe in, to agnostic/atheistic thinking about the physical world, something completely different emerges, something spiritual, but without the spirit of the true and living God. This is New Age thinking.
The New Age way of thinking (without God) is like having a dot to dot picture to figure out, but instead of following the number system, you make up your own; you simply connect them the way you want to imagine them to be connected. Spiritual man, outside of God’s revealed understanding, will be ever learning and unable to come to the truth. He will only mix natural thought and instincts with every false religion. The end result will not be the picture it was intended to be.
To trust in something that is not what it was intended to be in the first place is a lot like getting aboard a faulty airplane. Faulty theology, like faulty science can builds a faulty plane, bring disastrous results. In the end, the proverbial “leap of faith” it takes to believe in God, (or not,) may be merely the quantitative size of a mustard seed, but what you actually put your faith in can make all the difference in the world.
The thing to remember is “the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.” There are some interesting dot-to-cot pictures being made for our eyes to see, some very fascinating observations people have made about life the universe and everything that exists within in, even the intricacies of it all, speculations about what or who holds it all together and how it all began.
The ultimate questions is, which one do YOU believe in, for "faith, the size of a mustard seed, can move mountains after all. In fact, you can take a quantum leap.
"And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." (Matthew 17:20)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
More on Warren- What is 'Doctrine'?
This verse in particular makes me think of Rick Warren and his “ministry:”
2 Timothy 4: 1-5 “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables.”
A pastor is to preach the Word…. And doctrine is important.
This is what Warren Says about doctrine in an article in Preaching Magazine and article titled: Purpose-Driven Preaching: An Interview with Rick Warren http://www.pastors.com/article.asp?ArtID=3419
by Michael Duduit
Warren speaking: “Now, what is the purpose of the Bible? Well, it says in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be thoroughly furnished unto every good work."
But people misread that verse most of the time. The purpose of the Bible is not for doctrine, not for reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness. Those are all "for this" in the Greek. ‘For this … for this … for this … in order that.’ The purpose is in order that. So doctrine in itself is not the purpose of the Bible. Reproof in itself is not the purpose – correction or training is not the purpose. The bottom line is to change lives: "That the man of God may be thoroughly furnished unto every good work." So every message must be preaching for life change."
If the bible is not for doctrine, not for all those things that Warren says it is not.. then what is it for?
If Warren is right, why would Paul tell Timothy to watch is life and doctrine closely?
If doctrine is not taught by the scriptures, then where does it come from?
The Pope? Private interpretation of the scriptures? Joseph Smith... and his?
Ellen G. White? Watchtower Society? Where? TBN?
and I want to know exactly which "people misread that verse." I believe it means to infer "Anyone" who doesn’t subscribe to Rick’s interpretation and who might ACTUALLY believe that indeed the Bible is for doctrine and reproof and correction and instruction in righteousness.
I would even say that in a very SUBTIL way Warren mishandles the word of God to say that it does not say what it says. Such tactics are highly reminiscent of exactly what Satan did in the garden with Eve if you ask me.
Sidenote here about that same article…
Warren says, "In my two-day seminar on preaching, I just keep coming back to, ‘Now let's see how Jesus did it. Now, look how Jesus did it.’ You take the greatest sermon in the world — which is the Sermon on the Mount — and He starts off, ‘Let me tell you eight ways to be happy.’ Happy are you if you do this … You are happy if you do this. Then He talks about anger: don't get angry. He talks about divorce: don't divorce. He talks about worry — let me give you four reasons why not to worry: it’s unreasonable; it’s unnatural. He talks about all of these practical things and then He says, ‘Now, if you put this into practice you are a wise man. If you don't, you are a fool and you’re building a house on a rock.(<--does that seem like an odd statement?!? It does if you know what the scriptures say about building your house on a rock.)
Is building your house on a rock a bad thing or a good thing?
Warren refers to building your house on a rock as a negative thing when actually, it is a positive thing in the scripture because the wind and torrents cannot knock down a house that is built upon a rock.
Warren’s deception is subtil, or is it subtle? Either way it is cunning and crafty.
As for doctrine.. listen to Paul and Peter. Watch your life and doctrine closely.
2 Timothy 4: 1-5 “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables.”
A pastor is to preach the Word…. And doctrine is important.
This is what Warren Says about doctrine in an article in Preaching Magazine and article titled: Purpose-Driven Preaching: An Interview with Rick Warren http://www.pastors.com/article.asp?ArtID=3419
by Michael Duduit
Warren speaking: “Now, what is the purpose of the Bible? Well, it says in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be thoroughly furnished unto every good work."
But people misread that verse most of the time. The purpose of the Bible is not for doctrine, not for reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness. Those are all "for this" in the Greek. ‘For this … for this … for this … in order that.’ The purpose is in order that. So doctrine in itself is not the purpose of the Bible. Reproof in itself is not the purpose – correction or training is not the purpose. The bottom line is to change lives: "That the man of God may be thoroughly furnished unto every good work." So every message must be preaching for life change."
If the bible is not for doctrine, not for all those things that Warren says it is not.. then what is it for?
If Warren is right, why would Paul tell Timothy to watch is life and doctrine closely?
If doctrine is not taught by the scriptures, then where does it come from?
The Pope? Private interpretation of the scriptures? Joseph Smith... and his?
Ellen G. White? Watchtower Society? Where? TBN?
and I want to know exactly which "people misread that verse." I believe it means to infer "Anyone" who doesn’t subscribe to Rick’s interpretation and who might ACTUALLY believe that indeed the Bible is for doctrine and reproof and correction and instruction in righteousness.
I would even say that in a very SUBTIL way Warren mishandles the word of God to say that it does not say what it says. Such tactics are highly reminiscent of exactly what Satan did in the garden with Eve if you ask me.
Sidenote here about that same article…
Warren says, "In my two-day seminar on preaching, I just keep coming back to, ‘Now let's see how Jesus did it. Now, look how Jesus did it.’ You take the greatest sermon in the world — which is the Sermon on the Mount — and He starts off, ‘Let me tell you eight ways to be happy.’ Happy are you if you do this … You are happy if you do this. Then He talks about anger: don't get angry. He talks about divorce: don't divorce. He talks about worry — let me give you four reasons why not to worry: it’s unreasonable; it’s unnatural. He talks about all of these practical things and then He says, ‘Now, if you put this into practice you are a wise man. If you don't, you are a fool and you’re building a house on a rock.(<--does that seem like an odd statement?!? It does if you know what the scriptures say about building your house on a rock.)
Is building your house on a rock a bad thing or a good thing?
Warren refers to building your house on a rock as a negative thing when actually, it is a positive thing in the scripture because the wind and torrents cannot knock down a house that is built upon a rock.
Warren’s deception is subtil, or is it subtle? Either way it is cunning and crafty.
As for doctrine.. listen to Paul and Peter. Watch your life and doctrine closely.
The Love of Money
Those in love with the power of money cannot resist the temptation to “do more with less” of it. In a way, this is greed and you know you are greedy when you refuse to do anything with money that does not promise you a greater return.
The opposite of greed is generosity.
Those who are generous are willing to pay the worker his due, and give to the poor and needy expecting nothing in return. These are they who learn to bank their treasures in heaven and come to better understand God’s economic system, to trust in, rely upon and believe completely in the power of Almighty God. These are often they who learn that they can rest in the arms of their God and Savior, and that the value of gold or silver, Dollar, Drachma, Mark, Peso, Euro, or mammon by any other name is nothing stable. In fact they learn that you cannot serve both God and mammon, no matter what the man on the Christian radio says.
The Christian radio advertisement informs me that me that gold is the only thing to keep my family safe through the coming economic meltdown. The message: buy gold now. Funny, Jesus said something about buying gold from him.
Strange voices lurk, even in what is called Christianity… apparently seeking whom they may devour. As a Christian, one must guard their heart from the deceitfulness of riches. But it's a battle. Our thinking is conditioned.
We will quickly hire the absolutely lowest possible bidder for a job that needs to be done, forgetting that other people need to feed their families too. We will walk into a bank and pay exuberant usury fees, or even charge such fees to others, thinking nothing of it, forgetting that God forbid usury and never intended us to deal with each other like that. We will even often flaunt the price tags, (both high and low,) to show what a lot or a little bit of money can buy. But, God's economy just doesn’t work or even add up the way man’s does.
No. In God’s economy, people are valued, not because of what they can and cannot do, but because they exist. In God’s economy you bring nothing to the table, and then he prepares a banquet before you. He even takes two small fish, if you happen to have them, and feeds thousands who have nothing with them. A flask of oil keeps pouring out when none should be left inside.. that’s God’s economy.
In mans economy, everyone must bring something to share with everyone else. If you have nothing, you get nothing, because after all you get what you deserve.In man’s, you are only of value as long as you have a purpose to serve others in the community, as long as tou areorth something... as long as you have...
You guessed it, money.
His blood bought us with a price, a price that was not paid with cash, a price that could never be paid in full any other way. I could never pay, not with money, not with works of righteousness, not even my own blood, but I can trust in God.
"In God We Trust."
No wonder the inscibed it on the American coin. It's a friendly reminder of where our hope is
The opposite of greed is generosity.
Those who are generous are willing to pay the worker his due, and give to the poor and needy expecting nothing in return. These are they who learn to bank their treasures in heaven and come to better understand God’s economic system, to trust in, rely upon and believe completely in the power of Almighty God. These are often they who learn that they can rest in the arms of their God and Savior, and that the value of gold or silver, Dollar, Drachma, Mark, Peso, Euro, or mammon by any other name is nothing stable. In fact they learn that you cannot serve both God and mammon, no matter what the man on the Christian radio says.
The Christian radio advertisement informs me that me that gold is the only thing to keep my family safe through the coming economic meltdown. The message: buy gold now. Funny, Jesus said something about buying gold from him.
The preacher on the big Christian TV network tells me that if I am broke it is not God's will for my life. God wants me to prosper. Not only that, but if I have debt on my credit card, that I am unable to pay--- then it is a good thing I turned the TV to this program today. One preacher said, "'Some of you are wrestling with debt that you cannot pay off. God told me this morning to tell you to … sow a seed on the credit card that you want God to pay off…. Get Jesus on that credit card! Make a pledge on that credit card!'" (See TBN's Promise: Send Money and See Riches... Los Angeles Times, September 20th 2004;William Lobel Times Staff Writer)
Strange voices lurk, even in what is called Christianity… apparently seeking whom they may devour. As a Christian, one must guard their heart from the deceitfulness of riches. But it's a battle. Our thinking is conditioned.
We will quickly hire the absolutely lowest possible bidder for a job that needs to be done, forgetting that other people need to feed their families too. We will walk into a bank and pay exuberant usury fees, or even charge such fees to others, thinking nothing of it, forgetting that God forbid usury and never intended us to deal with each other like that. We will even often flaunt the price tags, (both high and low,) to show what a lot or a little bit of money can buy. But, God's economy just doesn’t work or even add up the way man’s does.
No. In God’s economy, people are valued, not because of what they can and cannot do, but because they exist. In God’s economy you bring nothing to the table, and then he prepares a banquet before you. He even takes two small fish, if you happen to have them, and feeds thousands who have nothing with them. A flask of oil keeps pouring out when none should be left inside.. that’s God’s economy.
In mans economy, everyone must bring something to share with everyone else. If you have nothing, you get nothing, because after all you get what you deserve.In man’s, you are only of value as long as you have a purpose to serve others in the community, as long as tou areorth something... as long as you have...
You guessed it, money.
His blood bought us with a price, a price that was not paid with cash, a price that could never be paid in full any other way. I could never pay, not with money, not with works of righteousness, not even my own blood, but I can trust in God.
"In God We Trust."
No wonder the inscibed it on the American coin. It's a friendly reminder of where our hope is
The Value of Money
Money is power and with the power of money, a person has the power to great things. They can build buildings, churches, hospitals, schools and even programs to feed the hungry. Money can “do” a lot of very good and noble things, but there is one thing it cannot do. It cannot save someone, nor can all the works money can buy and do. Money is shelter, but not a savior.
It astonishing how money rules the minds of people. It is as if we human beings are so quick to forget God. Even Christians, who are human too, can be swayed in mind to forget that God is the owner of cattle on a thousand hills, maker of all, even the sustainer of all. It's notable how quick we are to bow to something if money is involved and why is this? They say, it's not the money, but the love of money... and that it is love of money, that is the root of all evil.
It's not inappropriate to have money or nice things, but it is inappropriate to have a “love affair” with worldly gain, after all, God wants our undivided affection. He wants us to know on whom we depend, and in whom or what we do ultimately trust. You can be certain... it is not money. It's God.
God? He is not some sort of egotistical maniac, but he is who he is... God; and he knows that the only way we will be safe from harm is to realize our need and take refuge in Him.
Money? It is not going to buy you life when the life you have now is spent. When you are dying, it will not preserve your soul.
The word says, “Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor. (Eccl. 7:12)
It astonishing how money rules the minds of people. It is as if we human beings are so quick to forget God. Even Christians, who are human too, can be swayed in mind to forget that God is the owner of cattle on a thousand hills, maker of all, even the sustainer of all. It's notable how quick we are to bow to something if money is involved and why is this? They say, it's not the money, but the love of money... and that it is love of money, that is the root of all evil.
It's not inappropriate to have money or nice things, but it is inappropriate to have a “love affair” with worldly gain, after all, God wants our undivided affection. He wants us to know on whom we depend, and in whom or what we do ultimately trust. You can be certain... it is not money. It's God.
God? He is not some sort of egotistical maniac, but he is who he is... God; and he knows that the only way we will be safe from harm is to realize our need and take refuge in Him.
Money? It is not going to buy you life when the life you have now is spent. When you are dying, it will not preserve your soul.
The word says, “Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor. (Eccl. 7:12)
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