I HEARD A STORY

Ecclesiastes is underrated.

Thank you Thomas . . . I could not agree with your assessment more. So well articulated and understood. The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek "philos" . .love . . "sophia" . . wisdom. Love of Wisdom. But it is love of man's reasoning and "wisdom" . . not God's. This should remind us of Romans 1 . . "21Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankefull, but became vaine in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened: 22Professing themselues to be wise, they became fooles:" . . . Heidegger, Neitsche, Hegel, etc. cannot give up their worship of their own reason . . and they make themselves fools as a result. The must "kill" God to create their philosophies which empties their world of meaning and anything good . . Psalm 14:1 "The foole hath sayd in his heart, There is no God: they are corrupt, they haue done abominable workes, there is none that doeth good." We are all to be thankful to the Most High God that we have faith and are not lost in the desolate world of "vain philosophy" . . . Colossians 2:2-8 "6As yee haue therefore receiued Christ Iesus the Lord, so walke yee in him: 7Rooted and built vp in him, and stablished in the faith, as yee haue bene taught, abounding therein with thankesgiuing. 8Beware lest any man spoile you through Philosophie and vaine deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:" These verses condemn men like Heidegger and Neitsche, whose pride in their own reasoning does not allow themselves to submit to Jesus Christ. . .which is why their "reasoned" conclusions are so dark. They ultimately drove themselves mad by rejecting the Most High God whose existence is obvious. Heidegger (a dedicated Nazi) tried to make himself "right with God" by meeting with a Catholic priest shortly before his death and being buried with Catholic rites. . . out of the frying pan and into the fire. Neitsche died lunatic.

Well, I can say that I’ve been doing better this week. It has been a week for a bit of healing and restoration for me. I kept praying and doing my best to follow the path that God put out for me, and I kept doing better and better. I was also trying all of the health tweaks I could think of, but for some reason this week was definitely a breakthrough in that I no longer have such debilitating symptoms. I may have some more work to do, but I don’t think I’ve experienced such solid progress for some years now. I thank God for all of it. But also, I had some interesting tidbits come to mind while I have been reading and learning about topics that interest me. I’ve been trying to get a handle on Heidegger and German philosophy in general, and one topic that of course comes up is the “death of God,” most famously popularized by Nietzsche. I was reading about Heidegger’s experience dealing with the topic, and started to wonder about it. In what I read, Heidegger seemed to most deeply approach the topic as he got interested in the poetry of Hölderlin. This was after he gave up on the Scholastic metaphysics of the Catholic Church, dealing with God in terms of knowledge by human reasoning, as a result of reading Romans, Galatians, Augustine, and Martin Luther, and began to see that the Christian life was one of personal experience rather than one of human rationality. But as a result also, he discovered that the world of human reason is a much more shabby world than he was brought up in the Catholic Church to believe. Anyway, since being disenthralled and disenchanted by the church metaphysics, he thought this was his experience of the death of God, as he always associated God with the conceptions of God according to human reason. I just kept wondering why he couldn’t profess his belief in God according to the scriptures. It seems like the “death of God” is a common topic among many of his philosophical colleagues. I kept wondering, and I came to the conclusion that these philosophers had such a dreary outlook because they had an ungrateful attitude towards the grace of God and couldn’t see the fruits of God in their lives as a result of their own refusal to follow the commandments. Primarily, the Epistle of John came to mind. I had to look up which chapter referred to having “confidence” before God, but it seems to suggest strongly that failing to believe in the Lord Jesus and love one another will lead to our own hearts condemning us. I began to see how so many of these philosophers, representing great changes in European culture on the ground as well, just simply refused to follow God’s words. 1 John 3 is just a perfect representation of this. I haven’t read the Bible much recently, so I highly suspect the Holy Spirit was trying to teach me something this week. Anyways, sorry for making this so long. I hope your week is also blessed.

I'm hoping to set up a platform to reach younger people. That's why I'm writing these songs. Most young people don't read, so getting them fired up about the 1611 Bible is a stretch.

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