The scientific experiment to prove God.
The experiment is to abdicate your internal throne.
The result is when one either enters Heaven or doesn’t enter Heaven.
The time frame of the experiment is our life, until the point of death when our soul goes to enter Heaven or not.
Abdicating your internal throne is truly giving up, not asking what alternatives one can take to resolve a problem.
By merely asking about alternatives, one assumes that one keeps reign over one’s internal throne. How can I get results to this problem while not giving up power over my self?
Not giving up power over one’s self is a very thinly defined state.
We can deceive ourselves by thinking we are giving up, but we really aren’t. God knows our hearts and minds, even if we don’t.
Our motivation is the key. We can feel good about ourselves when we do good for others – altruism. Like a balloon (or virginity), one prick and it’s gone. Again, God knows our hearts and minds. He knows our motivation for our actions as well as our feelings. Why do we do things for others? Why do we do good works? Is it for the glory of God our Father in Heaven? The minute we think that we are better than someone else because of our good works, we have wasted the eternal gift that God has given us. Our faith is not true, because our works are for our personal good feelings about ourselves, and not given in thanks to God.
Scientific experiment: Giving up and giving to God, i.e. Dropping a drinking glass.
Dropping a drinking glass is when we accept Jesus. By living a “good” life, we still drop the glass. Whether the glass drops and hits the table or continues further equates to going to Heaven or continuing lower to Hell. Until the glass stops falling, both experiments appear (to our narrow view, both in width and depth of time due to our finite wisdom, scope of vision and lifespan) to having the same result: the glass is dropping, much like the law of gravity. Both a person who has given up their life to Christ and a person who leads a “good” life can have an enjoyable life here on earth while they are alive.
It is only when we die, i.e. the glass lands, that we discover the result of the experiment. If we truly abdicated our internal throne, the glass lands on the table (Heaven). If we did not truly give up our life, the glass does not land on the table and our soul does not enter Heaven.
Is God provable by science? The scientific experiment is our life. We cannot know the result before we die. As we cannot know what happens after someone else dies, we cannot know their result of their experiment. Science is proven by repeatable and quantifiable results from testing. The test is our internal life, not our external works. The external works are the glass falling, which can be the same for someone who has truly abdicated control over their life or someone who has not and who judges themselves as “no worse” than the other guy.
When we judge ourselves relative to other humans, we are erroneous, since all humans are fallible and all fall short of perfection.
The Beatitudes tell us of a typical person who abdicates their internal throne. People who are humble and meek, etc. do not typically receive rewards on this earth. Jesus said they will receive their reward in heaven.
Is Heaven full of “vagrants”? Maybe. Those who have nothing may be less prideful of themselves, rather than those who have many possessions or who have achieved many “things” in this life. The recognition that we receive from other people can cloud our judgment of ourselves and may cause us to re-take our internal thrones.
Pride is the sin.
Remember the young prince who asked Jesus how he may follow Him and was given the response to give away all his worldly possessions and follow Jesus. The love of money and possessions was greater than his love for Jesus, and so he did not abdicate his internal throne. His pride of his possessions and achievements got in the way of giving up his throne.
We may not think we are prideful, but it is that last little bit of internal pride and judging oneself against other imperfect humans that is the example of pride. One may have self-esteem, but like the Pharisee thinking he is better than the tax collector, we can fall victim to our own pride. The tax collector’s view of himself as a sinner who is not worthy is the correct example of abdication of one’s internal throne.
The vast majority of the time, we find God when we are plumbing the depths of despair. This is when we have used up our resources and our personal power and we do not get the results we want or expect. This is when many of us ask for help or guidance from God our Father. This is equivalent to worldly children who seek assistance from their worldly parents. As parents, we give our children life and we teach them rules to live by. Then we set them off to live their lives, with their free will. We hope that our children make the right choices and honour their parents and themselves. At some point, the children fail, usually spectacularly, and then they ask for help from the parents. Any advice or answers that we may give as parents may be either accepted, denied, ignored or misunderstood. These 4 responses are what we as God’s children give to God when we pray to Him and ask Him for help.
We may hear and understand His message to us and then choose to ignore the advice. We may hear and understand and choose to heed His words to us. Thirdly, we ignore his message because it doesn't fit in with what we want. Finally, we may not understand His answer to our pleas or we may not hear what He is saying to us because we don’t take the proper amount of time to listen.
If we do not hear or listen to God, we may still choose a path that leads to the same result during the experiment, i.e. the glass still falls during our lifetime, the same as it would if we obeyed His commands, but when the glass hits, it will not hit the table (Heaven). Our result of the scientific experiment is a failure, but we don’t know it until the experiment (our life) is over. People living a “good” life may not exhibit any worse results, either in material wealth or outward appearances, during their life than someone who has given their life to Christ, but the final result of the experiment is drastically different.
If we do not abdicate our internal throne, then we are not truly conducting the experiment in the proper manner and we cannot expect the final result to be duplicated from someone who has given their life to Christ. Remember, the experiment lasts from when we are given the chance to surrender our life to Jesus until the moment our souls arrive at the Pearly Gates and we stand before St. Peter to see if our name is on the eternal roll of names.
Monday, May 26, 2008
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