God is sheer goodness, whereas other things are credited with the sort of virtue appropriate to their natures. And God’s existence can be proved. Nothing greater can be conceived; God is a being the exists and is greater than a being that does not exist; therefore, God exists. Divine personality wholly transcends its finite counterpart. The power that is within you is the power of your word operated upon the law. This power is not so much a will as it is a willingness. We will never have to will things to happen, as we will merely know that they are happening. Thus, we become aware of God as eternal through the contingency of finite things and as holy through the demands of the moral law. The supernatural character of revelation cannot be denied. There is also a purely spiritual experience called mystical. It is possible to have a direct knowledge of divine reality because God is transcendent as well as immanent. Some regard it as the highest activity of ordinary mental powers; others assign it to a special faculty of the soul. Some describe it intellectually as an insight or intuition; others stress its volitional character by calling it a confrontation or encounter. God as a personal being, the Lord of the Universe, whose grace requires the loving devotion of his worshippers is especially significant. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7
The identity of the Absolute God, who is fully personal, both in himself and in dealings with humankind, is a Father, King, and Friend mediated by a knowledge that cannot be surpassed by abstract speculation. There is satisfaction of knowing that we are free mental agents in a spiritual Universe which holds nothing against us, but always desires us to reflect and experience good. No greater good can come to us than knowing that the power is already within us to live, we have the power to create. Not only to create for ourselves, but for others. We have the power to do good, the power to heal, the power to prosper. In addition to a natural knowledge of God, there is a supernatural knowledge revealed by God and received through faith. We are to realize that the power within us is a divine authority, which is answering our every need, supplying our every want, fulfilling our every wish; and we must believe that God does this immediately, right now—not tomorrow but today, because the law of God’s power within us knows no time. God can see all of eternity with one eternal glance. Mind, soul, and the material World flow from God (as rays flow from the Sun) without impairing it self-sufficiency. The World is God (the only substance) under his attributes of thought and extension. Everything follows from his essence by a logical necessity. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7
Things could not have been produced by God in any other manner or order than that in which they were fashioned. All things must have followed of necessity from the given nature of God, and they are determined for existence or action in a certain way by the necessity of the divine nature. In American, we have allowed a class of undocumented people to come here and have so much power that they have immunity from criminal prosecution, they are able to collect financial, education, and medical privileges from taxpayers, they have the power to shutdown our government. Meanwhile, while Americans are obsessed with getting the latest mobile phones, which make corporations rich, we are indirectly killing people in Africa and forcing them into slave labor. People in the Democratic Republic of Congo have face extreme violence, especially over the past 20 years that has killed more than 6 million people. There is in excess of $24 trillion of untapped deposits of raw minerals on this particular 950,000 square miles of land in the Congo, with a population of 63 million. The fighting that is going on is destroying the country, destroying infrastructure, causing physical and psychological damage to civilians, and creating human rights violations on a mass scale. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7
Rape is being used as a weapon of war. Women, men, and children are gang raped (physically forced into unwanted sexual situations by groups of people) and often left incontinent or bleeding to death. Women are kidnapped from their homes and forced to marry their enemies so that is they were to escape, they could not go back home because people would suspect them of being traitors. This is all taking place because Africa is resource rich. There is a large demand for natural resources because Africa still has large quantities of gold, copper, diamonds, silver, coltan (a mineral used in mobile phones), which many parties desire to control for monetary reasons. These Africans make pennies a day to mine the tin, copper, and zinc for our computers and mobile devices and still are malnourished and have no place to live. If they get hurt, they have to work, while being injured, or just lay there and die. The money for the sale of these resources has not reached average citizens. Education, healthcare, the legal system, and roads are left in shambles. These human beings do not even have clean drinking water, nor working toilets. 45,000 people are dying each month because of widespread disease and famine. The duty to warn is felt especially keenly by people of God, and it is a duty shared by others as well. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse from crime. However, if we care about people in Africa, at the very least, what we can do is buy items that are sustainable and last for years, or decades, maybe even a lifetime. We can also buy engineered materials. If we warn the wicked of their ways to turn from it, if they do not turn from their way, they shall die in their iniquity; but you have delivered their soul. The wicked shall surely die. However, the wicked turn from their sins, and do that which is lawful and right, none of their sins they have committed shall be mentioned unto them. And, those who do what is lawful and right, they shall surely live. Far from being anxious to condemn, our Heavenly Father and our Savior seek our happiness and plead with us to repent, know full well that wickedness never was, and never will be, happiness. We must turn away from the adversary, who is the enemy of our souls, and choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all humans. Being American is a privilege. Buying a house in the suburbs and having security is not only a blessing, but it is like Heaven for many people, and that is why comprehensive immigration reform is import. Not only should we be thankful to be American, but we need a system that allows people to legally immigrate to America and enjoy our dream. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7
We who have received a knowledge of the great plan of happiness—and its implementing commandments—should feel a desire to share that knowledge since is makes all the difference here and in eternity. We have a friend within us who is closer than our shadow. We should love the Lord, our God, with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. We must also love our neighbor as ourselves. This is basically the reflective property of equality. If you look in a mirror, what do you see? Your refection! You are seeing an image of yourself. Reflexive means something relating to itself. And that is why we are told to love our neighbor as we love God because we are all his children. And whatever we do to others, we are also doing to ourselves. The reflexive property of equality simply states that a value is equal to itself. The motivation for raising the warning voice is love—love of God and love of humans, animals, all beings, and the Earth. Surely, love would compel parents to warn their closest neighbors—their own children. This means teaching them about the World and the word of God. God is our friend and anticipates our every desire, knows our every need, and governs our every act. God is a friend within our own soul, the animating presence projecting our personality, which is a unique individualization of the living spirit. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7
God within us is the one who units our nature with all of humanity. There is some part of us which reaches into the nature of others, irresistibly drawing them to us and drawing us to them, binding all together in one complete unity. Right now, because of the reflexive property, we are one with all persons, all places, and all events. God continuously looks after our well-being and wishes us to be happy, well, and radiant. God is our eternal guide, intellect, and the essence of understanding. We shall have new and greater experiences and triumph over every defeat because God is an unconquerable hero. God keeps silent watch within us and lifts our consciousness to the realization that you are forever protected, forever safe, and forever perfect. There is a healing presence within all of us. We must seek God, receive a remission of sins, and become converted. We must let the words of God speak concerning eternal life, and the joy of the saints, and let that sink deep into our hearts. In a guilt culture, we know we are good or bad by what our conscience feels. While we should not be overly concerned what other people think of us, we should pay attention to how we feel about the things we do. If can hurt people for fun and without concern, that is dangerous because the only thing a psychopath cannot do is feel remorse. 3.5 million people are stalked in American each year, often nothing can be done until something violent happens. #RandolphHarris 7 of 7