Sunday, June 10, 2007

Trusting the unseen

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
By Evan Mehlenbacher
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sometimes I wonder about all the religious beliefs out there, and each person trusting it, even though they may be very different. Sometimes I have doubts that what I trust is really true. Sometimes i think it's all just wishful thinking to get us through this material life, and there really is no God and nothing after death. Some people believe in pearly gates, a hell, a purgatory, a meeting of old friends and family. But who really knows? And who's to say our beliefs are the right one. Everyone is positive that their beliefs are correct, but we can't all be right.

June 24, 2007 at 10:47 PM
evan said...

To anon above,

Some good questions you have! For me, I look for verification in my experience. Sometimes its only a partial verification--like conquering hate between two people hints at being able to conquer hate between countries. But you have to start somewhere.

Also, Jesus' triumph over death gives me great hope. I trust that experience, and trust that the same eternal life he found, I can find too if I follow his way.

June 25, 2007 at 3:30 PM
Anonymous said...

Those are questions I have had too.
You write that you look for verification in your experience. But that's how people get all these different beliefs and are "sure" of it, even though they may be completely opposite or untrue. I know people who believe a certain thing brings them luck, or saying a certain prayer, (which doesn't sound very religious) is the key to everything. You ask how they can think that way and they will answer, "from my experience".
In terms of the conquering death thing, many people doubt that ascension really happened. After all, there is no proof. Then people say, if it were true, how come no one else can demonstrate it? Why would God make it so diffcult to demonstrate ascension?

June 26, 2007 at 5:09 AM
evan said...

To anon above,

Actually, others have skipped death and gone right to heaven, to Spirit, like Jesus did in his ascension.

The Old Testament says Enoch was translated--meaning from matter to Spirit without death in between. Also, Elijah was taken up in the whirlwind. And many assume John, the revelator ascended too.

God did not make ascension hard. We make it hard by believing in material life. When we drop that belief and understand Life as totally Spirit, we ascend as well.

For all practical purposes, we do it a step at a time. Everytime our thought is spiritualized another degree, we've ascended in that degree.

So, keep on rising!!

June 26, 2007 at 10:37 AM

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