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Test & Affliction

By on in Theology

A man of God, who questions his creator. Job asked God why he paid enough attention to him to harm him. When it just wasn’t so. God allowed an Enemy to bring harm to Job (Job 1:8–12).

Affliction

“Remember that my life is but breath;
My eye will not again see good.
“The eye of him who sees me will behold me no longer;
Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

“When a cloud vanishes, it is gone,
So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.
“He will not return again to his house,
Nor will his place know him anymore.

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit,
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?
“If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’
Then You frighten me with dreams
And terrify me by visions;
So that my soul would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pains.

“I waste away; I will not live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

“What is man that You magnify him,
And that You are concerned about him,
That You examine him every morning
And try him every moment?

“Will You never turn Your gaze away from me,
Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?
“Have I sinned? What have I done to You,
O watcher of men?

Why have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden to myself?

“Why then do You not pardon my transgression
And take away my iniquity?
For now I will lie down in the dust;
And You will seek me, but I will not be.”

New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. (1995). (Job 7:7–21). La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

Riddle Me This

By on in Cosmology, Theology

For some reason, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in and out of astronomy and NASA applications, texts and videos. Several of the sort on the iPad, Android, and desktop. Remember, the posts some while back about the Higgs-Boson (God Particle) discovery?

And now just more recently Brian Greene’s Q&A at some notable gathering. Something in passing mentioned to negate any type or kind ‘beginning’ as a theory. That the Universe maybe doesn’t exist with an ending as entropy requires. Where time no longer exists ‘thereafter’, but ‘ever-after’. That time exists not as causal, but in continuity without beginning and without end. A sort of a shadow of eternity, but in a physical form of sorts with just a few dimensions. That we know about at least.

“Let Us make mankind in our image” (Gen 1:26). It is perhaps as to say, “let us make the Universe as our Kingdom or realm”. Or is it to assume the separation an invalid proposition? That we exist as a subset of something ‘more’, different, better. I really dislike the word ‘huge’ as a way to express better or added significance.

More locally, NASA is working on a large-scale entry vehicle to place people on Mars. Tests are being carried out to accomplish that landing. A sort of effort (feat) to demonstrate utter defiance. To explore the surface of a place wiped of life, but an endeavor very much worth our while. To see if life existed there before. Which is really the question and the point of going. Our tower of Babel.

This morning in the shower again the wonder was there about the nature of beings that exist elsewhere. Something inside says ‘they’re’ there (plural), but not as life necessarily as one may expect. Questions about the presence of good and evil, or is it just us? Is it just our story or meaning?

This afternoon during a walk (and yesterday) I’ve been giving too much thought on CME and the idea of a microplasma wave and how to replicate it and put it into practical use.