Exodus 20:2

You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.

Some Christians hold that the Cross/Crucifix in churches is a graven image, which it often is or possibly a cast or molten image and so you should not bow down to them.

This implies the hall of worship should be empty of any and all graven images.

If you follow this logic it implies we should not have them. This is the Why and How some of us stopped having crosses or any other graven image in churches.

http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/why-doesnt-my-church-have-statues-and-a-crucifix-like-the-catholic-church

If you want revival PRAY!

Pray for your family,

Pray for your friends

Pray for your neighbours

Pray for you coleagues

Pray for you competitors

Pray for your enemies.

Pray for the world

Pray that God's Kingdom comes in you life your families, friends neighbours, competitors and enemies lives and for the well being of the whole world

Pray for understanding pray for clear vision of god's vision pray that his love can flow through you.

Pray for love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Pray for the holy spirit in your life and so you can be in his.

Thy will be done thy kingdom come in my heart, our hearts and the hearts of all.

Amen

Why the Universal set is a paradox and yet has to exist.

A paradox is something that is neither true nor false. e.g. This is false. If that statement were false then it must be true. If it were true then it must be false.  Both ways around it contradicts itself. It is neither true nor false it is in fact the simplest paradox.

Mathematicians know Russell's paradox means you cannot have a Universal set of everything in mathematics.  Otherwise it causes paradoxes.

According to naive set theory, any definable collection is a set.

Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.

If R is not a member of itself, then its definition dictates that it must contain itself.

If it contains itself, then it contradicts its own definition and so cannot be contained in the set R.

This means the set R is invalid in mathematics, which as a search for consistent truth excludes paradoxes. This is why mathematicians use a more complicated definition of sets called ZFC set theory which includes the axiom of choice. This theory enforces the exclusion of paradoxes and in the process excludes the Universal set that is the naive set U that contains everything, even itself

Mathematics restricts itself to all the self consistent beliefs to provide some very useful tools such as counting and fractions and percentages that can be relied on to give consistent results every time.

So the Universal set is quite correctly excluded from mathematics because if mathematics allowed paradoxes it would not be at all useful in science or accounting or the running of our daily lives.

From a philosophical point of view it is hardly surprising that the Universal set includes paradoxes, because the naive set of everything that exists has to include paradoxes because paradoxes exist.  Paradoxes are just as real as numbers and as easily logically defined. 

However, both mathematics and philosophy are based in words. Words do include paradoxes and Russell's Paradox as a part of the naive philosphical Universal set which is a philosophical not mathematical concept.

The Universal set may not be useful in mathematics but it is useful in finding an abstract definition of God.

The Universal set Contains everything so it is omnipresent.

The Universal set Contains all knowledge so it is omniscient.

The Universal set contains all possible outcomes even the ones we might call fictional or paradoxical. So it is omnipotent.

The Universal set Contains the creation of time and the whole of time until beyond the end of the Universe.  So it is eternal.

The Universal set Contains the foundation of the Universe and can be called the foundation of everything if not the creator.

The Universal set contains all life and so it is alive in the same way a city is alive or a snail with hard lifeless shell and lively hiddden body. If you take extremes as Issac Asimov did it leads to Gaia, Galaxia and on a much bigger scale the whole of existent abstract and physical being alive.
The Universal set is a paradox.  Paradoxes are based in words not numbers.  Words are symbols used to share meaning.

Words are only useful if you have some knowledge and know some one to share it with.

Lying is abusing the symbols to not share meaning.  This effectively stops lies from being words.

The fact that the Universal set shares meanings implies that it is by and large benevelont. However be aware of the anger of God if you know of his word and do not respect it, the Bible repeats over and over the stories of various kings and cultures that have died and disappeared because they did not fear God.

Yet another paradox of the God of Love. If you love him and let him lead you in life you find love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control.  These can help you even through illness, imprisonment torture and death. It is inside you, mind and soul.


The Universal set is a paradox.  It shares the meaning that the Universal set cannot be contained by mathematics.

The Universal set also defines all the primordial features of God. It is omnipresent, omniscient, the creator, eternal, omnipotent, it is alive.

On the positive side of this This does have an effect on the laws on Thermodynamics.  As we can build sand castles so may God.  It may be that he just has not yet or we have not recognised them as his work. Although that is one of the promises of the second coming. We get to live in heaven or hell for all eternity.

An eternity without sex

There is only one reason for sex and that is to replace our perishable bodies.  If we lived for ever there would be no need nor I suspect desire for sex.

If your eternal soul living in Paradise lives for ever, why would you want children? To replace yourself and inherit the earth after your death? As your eternal soul will last for ever and creating children just leads to over crowding. There is no point in having sex or even sexual organs in Paradise.

God made our earthly bodies for a life followed by death. So our children can inherit the earth and their children after them.  This is the fallen creation where everything is corrupted and death was let in. Our sexual organs hormones and desires are created for life within the fallen Creation.  To replace us with new generations.

This is one reason, I believe, the Muslim idea of paradise with many virgins given to every man just does not add up.  In the first place there are not that many virgins in the second place in a perfect heaven there would be no need for sex.

We Christians imagine God The Father and the angels as mainly masculine figures, when in fact God the Father does not need a wife as he is everything there cannot be a wife outside him. He has to be a sexless God.

We as the Churh are described as the Bride of Christ.  That does not mean we are women. That refers to the love shared with him. He loves from the inside out and the outside in.  It is the intimacy of his love for us and our love for him that is being expressed.  The closest to which we can understand on Earth is the love of husband and wife.

Modesty and morality

The Bible and the Koran both tell us to dress modestly.  The material world advertises sex as love, which it is not.  Lust is a selfish desire to fulfil one's own desires.  Love is the desire to serve the needs of others.  In a loving marriage both can exist together.  The Materialist world quite literally advertises the opposite.  The fastest route to power for a young person is their sex appeal.

Looking at the gyrating hips of a pop star is looking at an Idol (Idolatry) and is lustful.  There is no desire to do the pop star any good, it is just a desire for sexual gratification with said pop star.

Immodest dress leads to immoral thoughts in undisciplined people.  Muslim's, to my mind wrongly, put the blame for the immoral thoughts on the person who is immodestly dressed.  I put the blame squarely on the lack of self-discipline.

Having said that self-discipline is something that takes time to learn, which is why being modestly dressed is important in both books.  Lying on a beach almost completely naked is being immodestly dressed.

It provokes in a lot of Muslim minds an implication of immorality, whether there is immorality there or not.  Given that 94% of Britain’s are not religious the immorality could be very real.

I write this not to excuse the attacks in Tunisia but to explain them.  If you want to stand out as a Christian; dress modestly, even on the beach.

Remember that Pop Idols and Fashion models and film stars are mostly Satanists, whether they know it or not.  They want people to worship them and not God.  Some say I feel possessed when on stage.  Quite probably they are.

Give trust a chance

Why do physicists think mathematical equations rule the world when politicians have proved that lies do a much better job?

Logical equations mean nothing to nations, unless you’re counting the economy or soldiers and have not miscounted.

Have you seen the lesser spotted gecko?  He may be hiding because neither did the cat.

Have you seen the lesser spotted God?  Does not mean he is not there. It just means that you have not spotted him yet.  May be he thinks you’re the cat?

An army is useless if you do not know where the enemy is, which is why terrorists are such an economical fighting force.

Knowledge is mightier than the gun but only when the woman with the gun does not know where you are and that you are an enemy.

Economists get it right 20% of the time.  Astrologers 50%.  Guessing is as good as numbers.

Sharing knowledge means sharing trust. Give trust a chance!

Practical use of the Word.

The Word is used for sharing knowledge.

The simplest way of sharing knowledge is currently the internet.

There are two ways of distributing knowledge one is called pulling that is going to Google or any other search engine and typing in what you want and it returns the information ususally in the top 2 or 3 items in your list this is very effective at getting the information you want.

The second way is pushing information.  This is usually used by advertisers and quite often is for information you do not want but get any how as the price you have to pay for using a free service.

The loving way to share information is to pull information and make all information pullable.

This means instead of plumbers advertising their services you advertise that you need a plumber and the plumbers pull the available work.  This does not just go for plumbers if you want any service you need to advertise that you need that service then people who provide that service can search for new work.

This not only restricted to individuals it could be companies requiring services or it could be scientists with scientific problems such as the extinction of bees needing unkown solutions.

These problems with unkown solutions need engineers or other scientist to search through these problems and think of a solution for them.  It could easily be the same scientist or engineer who comes up with a proiject to solve the problem.  This will create new projects which often need funding

So you advertise that you need funding so entrepreneurs can choose which projects they want to fund and a new business is born.  Those entrepreneurs can be corporations individuals or multiple individuals or whole communities.  It is a genuinely democratic way of choosing which project gets funded because anyone can choose what they want to invest in and invest in it assuming the projerct gets enough backers to actually take off.

I would like someone to set up a website based on this idea and I need a lawyer to work on the legal aspects and it will need financial backing to start it.

I would like it to be a non-profit co-operative organisation that is owned by the members and people who invest in it get back there money partly as a % of their investment and partly as a per capita basis.  This is to cover the cost of connecting poorer members.

Members can get money for advertising on their web-pages and from investing in ideas.

Any would be profit is reinvested in expanding the internet using sustainable power and Compressed Air storage to spread the gift of the Word to as many people as possible.

This may not seem the best way to feed the poor of the world but people in China are already displacing people in the west by taking them on in this virtual world and working for less money.  All it takes is a connection and some education which comes free on the internet and hey presto anyone in the world can do a lot of the computer jobs to day.

Yes it does mean there will be more competition but there will also be more opportunities too.