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Woke Up by this Girl—I Do Not Even Know Her Name

 

Our Earthly life is most exalted, most sacred, most divine, most religious. However, if the spirit be defiled and corrupted, even a manifestly holy life is not more than gross blasphemy. All hinges on how we keep the spirit, pure or impure. The basis of the dialectic created by jealousy is the gap between action and its realization. One cannot in one’s actions equal what one oneself demands, and so there is in life a permanent dissatisfaction set up by the contrast between action and the realization at which it aims. This impels an individual to further action, and in the effort to close the gap, one needs expansion of action in terms of an ever wider outreach. When self-regarding action passes over into various forms of social action, and these in turn come to their limit in the highest type of moral action—that which aims at the good of all human kind if released and an individual is able to satisfy one’s desires by working hard to earn what they want. However, although this process partially overcomes the contrast between action and its realization, it never does so completely, and the gap reappears at each stage after a goal is accomplished. There is no immanent solution to the problem of action. However, we have seen already that an affirmative solution is demanded, and the demands of action itself point us from the immanent to the transcendent or supraphenomenal (someone or something extraordinary). For it is essentially grace. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

The heart holds the key which opens either the portal of sensuality or that of spirituality. In fact, these different portals do not exist objectively. The Universe is one and the same for the just as well as for the unjust, but they approach it from various points of view and colour it with their own inner pigment. Some are ignorant and selfish, and they interpret life accordingly. Others are simple-hearted and defilement-free, and thus they read the World. Conventionally, a distinction is made between the two Worlds, supraphenomenal and phenomenal, or sensual and spiritual, or Worldly and saintly; in reality this is our own creation. Let us be free from delusion and things will present themselves in their own true colour and form. If God speaks his word in the soul, one must be at rest and at peace, and then the Lord will be free to bless us with his wisdom. God is immanent within the individual, in the sense that human action is already directed beyond the phenomenal order. To will all that we do is already to have the action of God within us. Yet this quest for realization would be a frustrating one were it not that God in turn moves toward us in his transcendence, and human action is supported and supplemented by divine grace. Since action is concrete, the beliefs that arise out of action and the experience of acting are not abstract formulations. It is in action that we apprehend God, but if we try to imprison him in a proposition or prove his existence by logical demonstration, he escapes us. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

Thought and action are never rival principles, but are at all times to be taken together. Action is no bind drive, but always includes thought; thought can attain its philosophical goals only as it remains closely associated with action. Thus, when we reconsider the rational proofs of theism, these proofs are possible only on the basis of a prior affirmation of God that has arisen out of our experience as active beings. To say that one speaks by supernatural inspiration, is to say one finds an ardent desire to speak, or some strong opinion of oneself, for the which one can alledge no natural reason; one that believe a thing only because it may be so, may as well doubt of it, because it may be otherwise. Also, do not always let facts blind one to the truth. Facts can overshadow the truth. The facts we receive regarding gender may not always represent God’s truth regarding men and women. Though a billion dollar industry works to persuade us otherwise, the truth is, the sex is not the highest good in life. The truth is God’s purposes for human beings far exceeds narrow gender stereotypes. Men and women who are born of the Spirit are not limited by human gender-constructs. For this reason, many religious women have, throughout history, fanned into flame God’s gifts within them, much like how Aaliyah was denied a record deal on Star Search, but rose above the limitations placed on the female gender and became a successful sing, actress, model, and business woman. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9

Embracing God’s truth regarding their value and worth, many women of faith are not bound by gender roles. Rather, as God equipped, impassioned, and enabled their service, these strong-hearted daughters of God have pioneered many gospel inroads around the World. As we reflect their lives, let us consider the outcome of their way of life and honor their faith. How often do you take time to simply reflect upon God? If we reflect that the Spirit of God is the only fountain of truth, we will be careful, as we would avoid offering insult to him, not to reject or condemn truth wherever it appears. The Scripture is our sole source of normative, infallible apostolic revelation and all things necessary for salvation and concerning faith and life are taught in the Bible with enough clarity that the ordinary believer can find them there and understand. God is the truth in its absolute fullness. He, therefore, is the primary, the original truth in all truth. The Lord is the architect of truth and the origin of the knowledge of truth in all areas of life. True perception is not a boring task, for while we practice we discover an entirely new World. It can be quit exciting. We can state with small things. True perception embraces the situation, face it with meaning, and welcomes it as an opportunity to choose a greater reality. God is a God who reveals. God himself is true and cannot lie. Therefore, all that he reveals, whether through general revelation in his creation or through special revelation is Scripture is necessarily true. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

God is the God who creates. He is the Maker of Heaven and Earth and all that is within them. This fact is closely related to the first, because God reveals certain things about himself through creation. In order for us to correctly see that revelation about God in his creation, we have to accurately grasp the nature of what the Lord has created. If we misread what is actually there, we will misrepresent God. It is also worth observing that God’s creation is real and not an illusion, and God created human beings with the ability to learn about and have true knowledge of what the Lord has created. This ability was impacted by the Fall, but it was not completely destroyed. Scripture regularly assumes that people have the ability to learn about creation. Humans are expected to draw true conclusions about God and reality based on our observations of creation. There are in Scripture stories that do exceed the Fables of Poets. Such as the conversation between Eve and the Serpent, and his questions as to how out of only one rib a woman’s whole body could be built, and what language Adam spoke in the first hour of his nativity in naming the animals. As we have learned created things are what they are because God willed them to be a certain way rather than another. When we learn something about creation that corresponds with what God actually made, we have learned something true. God is the source of these truths by virtue of the fact that he is the Creator. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

The serpent has a sweet and persuasive song about love, and it took over Eve’s mind. He got deep in her heart by touching her emotions and took control of her. He made her change as he became part of her. He told her they could get married and have two kids and she could still be a good woman. Eve quickly gave the serpent her heart and soul, she said it meant nothing to her. The serpent’s love pulled Eve deep into a spell. It spent her mind around like a carousel. She did not know where it was coming from, she never knew she could love him so much, and things just happened. True love took hold of her. Time stood still. The serpent would appear at the worst and even the best of times. Her heart was no longer her own, she could not control her emotions and passions. No longer a faithful girl with a good heart and good intentions—she never wanted to leave her house, but there were no preventions because she was deep in his hypnotic spell. Once, Eve had the purest heart and the finest attitude, but the serpents love had taken over her. When she went home, she could not understand how Adam looked the same as the picture by their bed. The suspense was pounding and clouding up her head. His body was exactly the same, he slept in the same place, but she did not know who he was. Then she realized that there had been a stranger in her house. It took her a while to figure it out. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9

However, she knew Adam was someone else because of the way he touched her, and the way he treated her was not as passionate as the shape shifting serpent. The serpent used to adore her, but Adam ignored her. She demanded, “Show me who you are! I do not see your shadow around when you walk. You are leaving no kisses. Goodbye with no words. If these walks could talk, they would have nothing to tell. So what could it be? Is there someone imitating me? Could she be taking my place. Adam, look me in the face and tell me that I am wrong when I say there is a stranger in my house.” The serpent adored Eve. And she asked Adam where they first kissed. He did not know. He did not know her and did not initially taste the forbidden fruit, until Even told him how much she loved it. However, after Eve convinced Adam to have the forbidden fruit, he had changed so drastically that she was convinced the he was not who he said he was. “Adam, you have to be someone else,” Eve said. However, she did not realize she has been tricked by the serpent. She has become like a bird without a song as her lonely tears fell. Then God cursed the Serpent, the Woman, and the Man, and expelled the Man and Woman from the garden and thereby from eternal life. God is the one who has decreed whatsoever comes to pass, and this is the basis of historical truths. When we learn something about history that is in accordance with what actually happened, it will spin our head around like a carousel because God decreed it. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

As used in the scriptures, to atone is to suffer the penalty for sins, thereby removing the effects of sin from the repentant sinner and allowing him or her to be reconciled to God. The Savior was the only one capable of carrying out the Atonement for all humankind. Because of the Savior’s Atonement, all people will be resurrected, and those who obey the gospel will receive the gift of eternal life with God. As descendants of Adam and Eve, all people inherit the effects of the Fall. In our fallen state, we are subject to opposition and temptation. When we give in to temptation, we are alienated from God, and if we continue in sin, we experience spiritual death, being separated from the Lord’s presence. As far as we know, we are all subject to a temporal death, at this time, which is the death of the physical body. The only way for us to be saved is for someone else to rescue us. We need someone who can satisfy the demands of justice—standing in our place to assume the burden of the Fall and to pay the price for our sins. The Savior has always been the only one capable of making such a sacrifice. From before the Creation of the Earth, the Savior has been our only hope for peace in this World, and eternal life in the World to come. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

Some people, like the hedonistic leaders and the savage fake news media, might try to conceal their sins by torturing and blaming someone else for them, thinking they can force someone to atone for their sins, and the can be saved. However, that is not true and it may damn them to hell for all of eternity. “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats (offered without repentance),” reports Isaiah 1.11. The Savior already redeemed all people from the effects of the Fall. All people who have ever lived on the Earth and who ever will live on the Earth will be resurrected and brought back into the presence of God to be judged. And although we are redeemed unconditionally from the universal effects of the Fall, we are accountable for our own sins. However, if we repent and stop sinning, we can be forgiven and cleansed from the stain of sin at our doors. The souls is corporeal and is the form of the body. It is separable from the body both in life and at death. It possesses unity, and its function is to vivify the extended matter of the body. It is a type of law that is far superior to the exegeses of ancient text. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9

有世界,其他人,你自己和你自己的身體。我們大多數人認為這是理所當然的。但是,我們怎麼知道?更多,我們怎麼知道我們知道?是什麼讓我們確信我們在這裡閱讀的任何想法的真實性以及我們在生命中所經歷的任何事實?如果一個想法在我們的思想中肆虐,它會去哪裡?當我們思考,學習,夢想和感受時,涉及什麼過程?當然,大腦並沒有插入我們的每一個印象。那將是本世紀的蕭條。大腦根本無法同時處理那麼多的感官輸入。但是,它同時這樣做,它也會將它接受的幾條消息轉發到它們的適當目的地。當我們看到熟悉的東西,我們之前已經知道的東西,我們就會認出來。這意味著我們正在做一些事情。我們再次認識。什麼是首先認知?這意味著大腦開始行動,我們的經驗成為存儲在大腦中的信息的一部分。認知是我們用來描述大腦的各種心理或智力功能的詞 – 組成大腦的功能。#RandolphHarris A

世界、他の人、自分の自己、自分の体があります。私たちの大部分はそれを当然と考えています。しかし、私たちはどのように知っていますか?さらに、私たちが知っていることをどのように知っていますか私たちがここで読んできたアイデアの真実と、私たちが生涯経験したことの現実を確かなものにするものは何ですか?アイデアが私たちの心の中で競争するなら、それはどこに行くのですか?私たちが思考、学習、夢、感情を感じるとき、どのようなプロセスが関与していますか?もちろん、脳は私たちの印象のすべてをつなぎません。それは世紀の渋滞です。脳は単に同時に多くの感覚入力を処理することはできません。しかし同時に、それは同時にそれが受け入れるいくつかのメッセージを適切な宛先に中継している。私たちが以前に知っていた何かをよく知っているとき、私たちはそれを認識します。それは我々が何かをやり直していることを意味します。我々は再び認識している。最初は何を認識していますか?それは、脳が活動に入り、私たちが経験した経験がその脳に保存された情報の一部となったことを意味します。認知とは、脳のさまざまな精神的機能や知的機能(心を構成する機能)を記述するために使用する言葉です。#RandolphHarris B

Hay un mundo, otras personas, tu propio yo y tu propio cuerpo. La mayoría de nosotros damos por sentado. Sin embargo, ¿cómo lo sabemos? Más, ¿cómo sabemos que sabemos? ¿Qué nos hace estar seguros de la verdad de las ideas que hemos estado leyendo aquí y de la realidad de todo lo que hemos experimentado en nuestra vida? Si una idea corre por nuestras mentes, ¿a dónde va? ¿Qué proceso está involucrado cuando pensamos, aprendemos, soñamos, sentimos? Por supuesto, el cerebro no conecta todas nuestras impresiones. Esa sería la locura del siglo. El cerebro simplemente no puede procesar esa cantidad de información sensorial al mismo tiempo. Sin embargo, lo hace al mismo tiempo que también retransmite a sus destinos apropiados los pocos mensajes que acepta. Cuando vemos algo familiar, algo que hemos conocido antes, lo reconocemos. Eso significa que estamos haciendo algo de nuevo. Estamos conociendo de nuevo. ¿Qué es cognizing en primer lugar? Significa que el cerebro entró en acción y una experiencia que tuvimos se convirtió en parte de la información almacenada en ese cerebro. Cognición es la palabra que usamos para describir las diversas funciones mentales o intelectuales del cerebro: las funciones que componen la mente. #RandolphHarris CЕсть мир, другие люди, ваше собственное я и ваше собственное тело. Большинство из нас воспринимают это как должное. Однако, как мы знаем? Больше, откуда мы знаем, что знаем? Что делает нас уверенными в истине любого из тех идей, которые мы читаем здесь, и о реальности всего, что мы испытали в нашей жизни? Если в наших умах проносится идея, куда она идет? Какой процесс задействован, когда мы думаем, учимся, мечтаем? Разумеется, мозг не подключается к каждому из наших впечатлений. Это будет лог-джем века. Мозг просто не может обрабатывать так много сенсорного ввода одновременно. Тем не менее, он делает это в то же время, что он также передает своим соответствующим пунктам несколько сообщений, которые он принимает. Когда мы видим что-то знакомое, то, что мы знаем раньше, мы его узнаем. Это означает, что мы делаем что-то снова. Мы снова познаем. Что такое познание в первую очередь? Это означает, что мозг начал действовать, и опыт, который мы стали частью информации, хранящейся в этом мозге. Познание – это слово, которое мы используем для описания различных умственных или интеллектуальных функций мозга – функций, которые составляют ум.