Bouncing Neutrinos

What Trinity?

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One God. One Godhead: Three persons.

Physics:

Chemistry:

Biology:

Math:

For any other truth claim, there is always The Bible:

"For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities - his divine eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so thet men are without excuse." (Romans 1:20, NIV)

"For there are three that bear record in heaven, The Father, The Word, and The Holy Ghost: and these three are one." (1 John 5:7, KJV)

You cannot write edifyingly about backsliding if you are backslidden.

I cannot write edifyingly.

But Spurgeon did and his words are like cold arrows piercing through my soul…

And God’s words, like a sword cleaving my heart…

       "Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord." 
              — Lamentations 3:40

The spouse who fondly loves her absent husband longs for his return; a
long protracted separation from her lord is a semi-death to her spirit:
and so with souls who love the Saviour much, they must see his face,
they cannot bear that he should be away upon the mountains of Bether,
and no more hold communion with them. A reproaching glance, an uplifted
finger will be grievous to loving children, who fear to offend their
tender father, and are only happy in his smile. Beloved, it was so once
with you. A text of Scripture, a threatening, a touch of the rod of
affliction, and you went to your Father’s feet, crying, "Show me
wherefore thou contendest with me?" Is it so now? Are you content to
follow Jesus afar off? Can you contemplate suspended communion with
Christ without alarm? Can you bear to have your Beloved walking
contrary to you, because you walk contrary to him? Have your sins
separated between you and your God, and is your heart at rest? O let me
affectionately warn you, for it is a grievous thing when we can live
contentedly without the present enjoyment of the Saviour’s face. Let us
labour to feel what an evil thing this is-little love to our own dying
Saviour, little joy in our precious Jesus, little fellowship with the
Beloved! Hold a true Lent in your souls, while you sorrow over your
hardness of heart. Do not stop at sorrow! Remember where you first
received salvation. Go at once to the cross. There, and there only, can
you get your spirit quickened. No matter how hard, how insensible, how
dead we may have become, let us go again in all the rags and poverty,
and defilement of our natural condition. Let us clasp that cross, let
us look into those languid eyes, let us bathe in that fountain filled
with blood-this will bring back to us our first love; this will restore
the simplicity of our faith, and the tenderness of our heart.

I finished Candide last week. My STS classmate, a Comp. Lit. major lent me her copy.

After tons of trials and tribulations and so much suffering, Candide was left with no money, a hag for a wife, bitter friends for company, and a little farm for a house. This is how Voltaire ended his novel:

""All events are linked up in the best of all possible worlds; for, if you had not been expelled from the noble castle by hard kicks in your backside for love of Mademoiselle Cunegone, if you had not been clapped into the Inquisition, if you had not wandered about America on foot, if you had not stuck your sword in the Baron, if you had not lost all your sheep from the land os El Dorado, you would not be eating candied citrons and pistachios here"
    "’Tis well said," replied Candide, "but we must cultivate our gardens.""

Wow.Thanks a lot Voltaire, you just solved the mystery of pain and suffering.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          For the secular thinker life is miserable so just live it. But for the redeemed of Jesus the Messiah:

"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the glory of God. Not only so but we rejoice in our sufferings because we know suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us."

Humanity despairs since it cannot put meaning into pain and suffering, God’s new creation rejoices since they find pain and suffering meaningful - to offer up all of these in humble supplication to Him Who deserves all gratitude to, Who shapes them, cares for them, Who molds them to be the people He wants them to be in the future glory of spending eternity with them.

For those who haven’t come to ask forgiveness in Jesus Christ, they look forward to living; to those he freely forgave however, they look forward to heaven. The non-believer sets his eyes on the grave, the believer sets his eyes on grace.

AWwWwWw…. cute no?

It is inevitable that skeletons hidden in closets would be found.

Sooner or later.

The problem with exhumed skeletons is:

they stink.

There is no absolute truth, only relative truth stands.
A very fast jet is travelling, 5 seconds passed inside the jet while outside only 1 second passed; both are true but contradictory therefore relative truth and not absolute truth is identified.
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The false assumption of the argument is positing the same point of reference for both conditions which shouldn’t be the case. If it is night in New York and morning in Manila at the same time no contradiction is reached since the points of references are different. Likewise if high speed jets dilate time inside the jet is a different point of reference than outside and could not negate each other rather support one another and resolving the issue. Be very afraid only if one clock inside the jet noted 5 second has
passed while another only recorded one second did! Be shocked with similar gargantuan magnitude when night and morning occured in New York and the Philippines at the same time! That is the point where
contradiction would take place and not in the former statement where the point of reference was cleverly disguised in its fallacy.

Besides, you cannot persuade me that there is only relative truth in the world because in the first place, you are not even sure if your statement is absolutely true.

But the real issue is not intellectual rather, it is ethical. Humanity attempts to debunk the notion of an absolute truth and posit in its stead only relative truth to have a reason and an excuse for everything it wants to do - because there wouldn’t be an absolute truth to act as the standard whether an action is good or evil in the first place.

But absolute truth exists and our point of reference is God - morally perfect - Who would render judgment to those who sin and therefore deserve His wrath. It is a precious gift then that His Only Begotten Son came to this world to be the one who would take God’s wrath to those who would believe in Him.

Are you willing to bet your life on it?

"Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe in him stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son."
~The Lord

We can only know we have free will if the One who made us said so:

"This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live."
~The LORD

I’d rather believe that I have self worth as a human being -having the capacity to think for myself than fancy myself a puppet when I know I am not; and offer it up in adoration to my Maker who gave me this gift, than to deny the very presence of this gift, depriving not the Giver, nor others, but ultimately myself - since I would not have believed at all.

Answer me please.

Will you believe this?

REFERENCES: (John 3:18, Deuteronomy 30:!9)

"I put these things not in their mature logical sequence, but as
they came:  and this view was cleared and sharpened by an accident
of the time.  Under the lengthening shadow of Ibsen, an argument
arose whether it was not a very nice thing to murder one’s self.
Grave moderns told us that we must not even say "poor fellow,"
of a man who had blown his brains out, since he was an enviable person,
and had only blown them out because of their exceptional excellence.
Mr. William Archer even suggested that in the golden age there
would be penny-in-the-slot machines, by which a man could kill
himself for a penny.  In all this I found myself utterly hostile
to many who called themselves liberal and humane. Not only is
suicide a sin, it is the sin.  It is the ultimate and absolute evil,
the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take
the oath of loyalty to life.  The man who kills a man, kills a man.
The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned
he wipes out the world.  His act is worse (symbolically considered)
than any rape or dynamite outrage.  For it destroys all buildings:
it insults all women.  The thief is satisfied with diamonds;
but the suicide is not:  that is his crime.  He cannot be bribed,
even by the blazing stones of the Celestial City.  The thief
compliments the things he steals, if not the owner of them.
But the suicide insults everything on earth by not stealing it.
He defiles every flower by refusing to live for its sake.
There is not a tiny creature in the cosmos at whom his death
is not a sneer.  When a man hangs himself on a tree, the leaves
might fall off in anger and the birds fly away in fury:
for each has received a personal affront.  Of course there may be
pathetic emotional excuses for the act.  There often are for rape,
and there almost always are for dynamite.  But if it comes to clear
ideas and the intelligent meaning of things, then there is much
more rational and philosophic truth in the burial at the cross-roads
and the stake driven through the body, than in Mr. Archer’s suicidal
automatic machines.  There is a meaning in burying the suicide apart.
The man’s crime is different from other crimes–for it makes even
crimes impossible."

~The Flag of the World, Orthodoxy
~G.K. Chesterton

Up… Down… Up… Down…
Whee?

There is no use crying over spilt milk.