What One Reads

When reading the Christian, or Hebrew scriptures, it is important to pay attention to complete sentences. For instance of one quits reading in the middle of Genesis chapter 1, and verse 1; then GOD appears to be inactive. This is not true and to quit reading in mid thought, formulate a theory as to why GOD is inactive is both inaccurate and wrong. 

http://biblia.com/bible/asv/Ge1.1

GOD created, in the begging, and creation is anything but an inactive activity.

Truth As A Method Of Study

How shall we study truth then? There are many methods of studying anything, studying nothing, or studying everything all at once. Scientists, unless they are environmental scientists, use a method of study in order to arrive at a conclusion without speculation.

If our method is the same type that the popular news media uses, then we shall have no conclusion at all. We will arrive at a lot of speculation but a conclusive conclusion will not be forth coming. If our method is the same as the one used by environmental scientists, we will have the conclusion before hand, and then our study will prove our predetermined conclusion. If we use the much older scientific method of applying what we know to what we do not know, then we will arrive at a conclusion. However, it may be a conclusion we had not counted on. It will be a conclusion devoid of preconceptions and speculation.

Out method, then, should be the last one. A systematic searching of the facts, as presented by GOD, beginning with what we know or do not know about the Being, and our relationship to that Being.

Truth, A Grand Central Purpose Of Discussion

The purpose of this discussion is the study of GOD. There are some areas that we will not be discussing. We are not becoming mired in the discussion of “is there or is there not” a GOD. We would have this discussion if we were talking philosophy, which we are not. As tempting as it might b to take on the different flavors of religion, and then possibly where religion gets it wrong. From this we shall refrain, because in our study of GOD the philosophical is but a rabbit hole.

Neither are we going to have a comparison, one religion to another. Again, this is just a rabbit hole, going all over but serving no useful purpose. In both of the statements we understand that Atheism, is one of the religions we are not discussing. In all of the above notations we have some presuppositions. We presuppose cretin things because presuppositions allow for a narrowing of the discussion at hand.

This discussion is not about religion, the Latin word for realign, because religion requires faith. Faith is not the topic of this blog; the study of GOD is the topic, and not any particular GOD. Every culture has, or has had, its own GOD. Discussions of primitive peoples, and what beliefs they held, is to miss our point. So does the idea of myth systems, both in general and in the specific narrow view. The idea of what others in the pre modern, modern, and postmodern age believed goes in the wrong direction altogether.

What we are after is truth. Not the truth as others, or even ourselves, wish it to be, but truth as it actually is, the raw, unadorned, non-varnished, truth. While, in our quest for truth, we will be using the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, this blog is neither an endorsement nor a refutation of the same.

Truth then, is what we are after, not what God is or is not and, definitely not what I believe is truth or a lie.