Easter - A Dream Come True

This blogger is a dreamer, but his reality is far from what can be imagined.  Only Jesus was able to speak of a dream, a place that He called Heaven even though He never was not very specific as to what Heaven was like, but to Heaven He was resurrected from His mortal death.

Heaven, whatever it is like, is the opposite of Hell, and Hell is fully understood here on earth, in a metaphoric sense, but Heaven remains a dream for many sinners. [1]  Jesus by His resurrection merged that dream of Heaven with reality itself.

Keep on dreaming about Heaven.  The more one dreams of it, the closer and more real it is.

Happy Easter!

[1] Many sinners and secularists do not believe in Heaven.  Perhaps they have been in their minds' hell for too long.

A Crucifixion Like No Other

Today is Good Friday.

Jesus was not the only person who was crucified.  "Crucifixion was common in the first century Israel and this fact is well documented in the writings of Josephus." [1]  Indeed, two unidentified and nameless prisoners were crucified on either side of Jesus [2]; however, it was the crucifixion of Jesus that is known around the world.

What is so special about the crucifixion of Jesus that ranks above all the others?  The answer is simple:  Jesus was the sinless  Son of God.

No other person, old or young, who was crucified was free from Original Sin and all the other sins (not that any one of them deserved to be tortured and crucified because of Original Sin and his other sins).  This assertion merely distinguishes Jesus' crucifixion from all others since Jesus was no ordinary man. [3]


[1] http://www.bible-history.com/biblestudy/crucifixion.html
[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+19%3A17-18&version=NIV
[3] Anyone who thinks that there might have been others who were crucified could have been entirely "innocent" or perhaps that Jesus was not completely sin-free is, in this blogger's opinion, destined for Hell unless there is true repentance.

Mind And Heart

It is common knowledge that intellect resides in the mind and love dwells in the heart.  If a smart man has no love [1] in his heart, he is left with emptiness.  If a man is without intellect but has only love to guide him, he is headed to Heaven.

Man's love cannot be infinite.  His is personal and cannot be assigned and as such (unlike God's) it is limited by his time, his innate vulnerabilities and his inability to be everywhere for everybody.  In contrast, his intellect is not inextricably tied to his body and his soul, so that he is able to share and spread his intellect by all possible means of communication.

This year's Holy Week began on Palm Sunday. [2]  In less than a week, the world can remember Jesus and His death on the cross on Good Friday, how He suffered and died out of unconditional love for God, His Father, and for all sinners. Jesus could not have delegated His sinless love to another so that He could watch the crucifixion instead of going through with it, nor could God have delegated God's love to somebody else besides Jesus (God's Personal incarnation) Who Himself is a part of the Holy Trinity, indivisible from God. [3]


[1] Love is not synonymous with desire.
[2] http://catholicism.about.com/od/2016-Calendar/f/When-Is-Holy-Week-2016.htm
[3] "To be sure, it is Christ who is seen, the visible image of the invisible God, but it is the Spirit who reveals him." http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c3a8.htm, section 689.

Dueling Realities

Realities is a most challenging subject for this blogger precisely because his many thoughts do not originate from any reality unless one considers a certain mental state suspended in a day dream a reality.  Whether his ideas on realities can be substantiated as realities is not a question to be answered; rather, by merely putting his amorphous thoughts into words, they have been collectively transformed by the force of sheer will into some form of reality that only the blogosphere has time and space for, and it is in this non-judgmental dimension that his dream-like realities can almost be real.

In this space, life can be seen as having two principal realities: original and artificial; the third is a hybrid of the two, and the rest are their derivatives which are numerous and continuously changing which do not allow for meaningful itemization and classification.

A reality is original if comes from God and has not been altered.  It is artificial if it is a product of man's imperfect imagination, often made worse by his selfish and ineffective ad hoc organization and inappropriate motives, contents and conduct.  A hybrid reality is an original reality altered by exploitation and contamination, and its resultant existence is nearly impossible to eradicate.  A derivative reality is a complicated inextricable mess.  It is pervasive like an invisible mist that envelopes the world's inhabitants from which there is no escape.

Original realities are beyond man's understanding or his ability to duplicate.  They are from God, and only God can change them.  They range from an ordered universe to an ordered planet, and from natural birth to natural death. These realities are accepted as part of existence.

Existing within God's realities has never been good enough for man.  His first ancestors, Adam and Eve, had rejected God's perfection embodied within the Garden of Eden, a place of plenty and eternal youth without suffering and death.  To this day, man has ambitions that are far beyond his acceptance of God and God's gifts; he wants to continually improve upon what he has been given.  He wants his own artificial realities, and has by his God-given intellect continually come up with inventions and improvements that are tainted by his pride and greed, that would eventually lead to his own demise.

Man's artificial realities range from inventions of primitive weapons needed to hunt for food to having new and advanced weapons of mass destruction. [1]  The hybrid realities include genetically modified crops that are causing the collapse of bee colonies. [2]  Examples of derivative realities are the still unknown long-term effects of consumption of genetically modified foods, the constant undercurrent of stress in living in a corrupt and terror-filled world that is unstable economically and geopolitically.

In the midst of all these noisy and growing man-made realities caused by man's missteps and miscalculations out of greed and pride, God remains at the center, a source of strength and stability, a place of peace.



[1] Does it not amaze anyone that man can go to the moon, explore outer space, destroy the world in minutes but is still unable to rid the world of diseases and disease-carrying vermin?
[2] http://naturalsociety.com/37-million-bees-found-dead-canada-large-gmo-crop-planting/

Duty And Sacrifice

Duty is defined here as the work one is obligated to perform based on contract; sacrifice is defined here as the efforts that one gives in the performance of work beyond the call of duty.

Man pays upon the completion of duties enumerated under a contract; God pays for the work done beyond one's call of duty. [1]  Conversely, when man shirks, he is repaid. [2]


[1] God's graces are immeasurable just as one's sacrifices are unquantifiable.
[2] Repayment is undesirable.  Nobody wants it.

A Refrain: "A Saint In Hell - Is That Possible?"

An entry entitled "A Saint In Hell - Is That Possible" was posted on April 28, 2014, on this blog.  Unfortunately, the You Tube video that was cited is no longer available.  It showed Angelica Zambrano who was a little girl at the time giving a fast-spoken and convincing testimony in her native tongue (with a voice-over in English) about a vision she had of John Paul 2, a former pope and a recent saint, in Hell.  Having been a popular pope for decades, it is not surprising that Angelica Zambrano's vision was not to be believed by most.

That John Paul 2 could be in Hell is not entirely out of the realm of possibility now that there is corroborating evidence.  BBC News had been shown "hundreds of letters and photographs that tell the story of Pope John Paul II's close relationship with a married woman [Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka], which lasted more than 30 years." [1]

There is no need to elaborate further on a man who is supposedly the Vicar of Christ and a saint who without any compunction possessed the the love and the heart of a married woman to the exclusion of her husband, Hendrik S. Houthakker [2].  Whether the former pope and saint had sexual relations with Mrs. Houthakker is irrelevant since "anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." [3]



[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35542708
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_S._Houthakker
[3] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A28

A Southward Papacy

In this blogger's opinion, this papacy is not headed northward toward Heaven but in the opposite direction.

Recently, the pope dispatched over a thousand "new hand-picked 'super confessors' to forgive those who have sinned so badly that they can only normally be pardoned by the pontiff himself." [1]

"In a bid to win back the hearts of people who have left the Catholic Church, the 'missionaries of mercy' will hear the confessions of the worst of all sins - from attempting to assassinate the pope to spitting out blessed bread and wine in Church [or anywhere else].

"Since the 12th century, those guilty of these so-called 'reserved sins' had their cases evaluated by a secret tribunal in the tiny Vatican city state before they were sent before the pope, who would determine an appropriate penance.

"Now, 1,142 priests and monks from around the world have be [sic] given the power, for the Vatican's Jubilee Year, to forgive sinners in their flocks - and possibly fellow priests as one of the special sins is breaking the seal of confession." [2]

One can view this as a charitable act by a forgiving pope, but this blogger sees a pope who is full of himself and who has overstepped his bounds by delegating a serious responsibility, including the forgiveness of sins of desecration, that has been in place since the 12th century to 1,142 priests and monks.  The fact that for some 800 years such sins are only to be evaluated by the pope underscores the weight and magnitude of their gravity.

Expanding the power to forgive such grave sins, even if it is for a limited time, to 1,142 priests and monks when the power to do so ought to be vested in the pope alone would appear to dilute the degree of their seriousness 1,142 times. Satan must be ecstatic.

To add to Satan's delight, "[t]he Catholic church is telling newly appointed bishops that it is 'not necessarily' their duty to report accusations of clerical child abuse and that only victims or their families should make the decision to report abuse to police." [3]  So now the Catholic church is officially an accessory after the fact [4] to priests and monks who have abused children sexually [5].

How can this pope be considered as the Vicar of Christ when his actions serve Satan's interests?  This blogger believes that he cannot be the Vicar of Christ and that whoever he truly is, he is leading the papacy to Hell.


[1]  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3441058/Pope-Francis-sends-1-000-new-hand-picked-super-confessors-forgive-sinned-badly-normally-pardoned-pontiff-himself.html
[2] Ibid.
[3] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/10/catholic-bishops-not-obliged-report-clerical-child-abuse-vatican-says
[4] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/accessory_after_the_fact
[5] "In most states [in the United States], child abuse [including child sexual abuse] may be charged as either a felony or a less serious offense depending on the circumstances."  See http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/child-abuse-penalties-and-sentencing.html