Psalms 90:12

[Homework]

“So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom”.

Hi, I’m “Homework”. I’m doing Bible reading in timeline studies, historical, by way of linear symmetry. Issac Newton based the first calculus program on using a substitution of one day for one year with the days of creation being compared rationally to sabbaths of weeks and years rationally in Deuteronomy. There’s an agricultural sabbatical every seven years, of one year, the same as a temple worship day once every seven days. It’s also comparable between forty days and nights on Noah’s Ark and the two periods of forty years during which the Israelites wandered in he wilderness during the mosaic exodus. Newton based his age of the earth on counting Bible history intervals and a verse in Daniel that says a day is as a year to the lord.

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[Fred]

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[Homework]

I’m thrilled to be here. I’ve been sitting at my desk all week with my Bible open, looking for intervals of time which are the same number of units where one is an interval of days and the other one is an interval of years. It’s the basis of adorable calculus and the 16 Meditations by the Philosopher Blaise Pascal.

“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.” Proverbs 27:41

Pascal was a French writer in the 1700s who wrote philosophically about the story of Elijah and the Baal Prophets in history from the time of the Israelite kings. Where Elijah said, if Jehovah is god worship him, but if baal is god worship baal, Pascal stopped and asked, what if you didn’t know the answer? Two candidates for godhood exist, Jehovah and Baal! But you don’t know. You can’t tell who will win either the war with the Assyrians or which alters prayers will be answered, because both outcomes are in the future. He says that if you were totally logical and didn’t know the answer, you’d just bet. Actually make a random bet, meaning gamble, literally flip a coin. If you seriously didn’t know.

 

[Carbon]

I’m thrilled to be here. I’ve been sitting at my desk all week with my Bible open, looking for intervals of time which are the same number of units where one is an interval of days and the other one is an interval of years. It’s the basis of adorable calculus and the 16 Meditations by the Philosopher Blaise Pascal.

“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.” Proverbs 27:41

Pascal was a French writer in the 1700s who wrote philosophically about the story of Elijah and the Baal Prophets in history from the time of the Israelite kings. Where Elijah said, if Jehovah is god worship him, but if baal is god worship baal, Pascal stopped and asked, what if you didn’t know the answer? Two candidates for godhood exist, Jehovah and Baal! But you don’t know. You can’t tell who will win either the war with the Assyrians or which alters prayers will be answered, because both outcomes are in the future. He says that if you were totally logical and didn’t know the answer, you’d just bet. Actually make a random bet, meaning gamble, literally flip a coin. If you seriously didn’t know.

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Blessings

 

[Homework]

I’m starting to unravel the mystery. You’d know whether Jehovah or Baal was God, obviously. If you’d been there when that happened in the time of Jehu and Ahab, you would definitely have known. If you’d read the Bible before you went to the evangelistic seminar, you’d have known, and if you’ve been following along in the pastors sermons you’d know. But is the preacher telling the truth? You can check to see how close he is to the Bible story easily enough by just reading along with the major texts he’s quoting, but what dies he REALLY believe himself???? You could get snoopy and gossipy with your preacher, but that’s not what it’s all about. Man looks on the outward appearance; only God knows the secrets of the heart. So the mystery is the word. A preacher or a teacher can talk about God a lot, easily enough, the person just has to be on a reading level, and have a little personal experience to call on, and be possessed of some inspiration, but you’d get plenty of inspiration just from reading the book. So, does this character in his thirties or so who you see about once a week for about an hour mean Jehovah when he says God, or when he says God does he really mean Baal? That’s what Pascal’s wager is all about. You shouldn’t gamble, because a fool and his money are soon parted. So you being a bright congregant know enough to know that God means Jehovah, but when it comes to preacher, or anyone else in the church or at all, when they say God you don’t actually know who they mean. So, you have to guess. Now you, being a wise philosopher instead of a fool, definitely know that God means Jehovah, but there are a thousand other people in the church. How do you know that they don’t mean Baal when they say God? It’s about the second commandment, actually. How much faith do you have in God, rationally compared to the amount of faith you have that the other communicants belief is that God is not Baal? The lottery is a method of making the other person prove that when he says God, he means Jehovah rather than Baal. By the way, they enforce that. It’s in a federal department.

 

[Homework]

So, as far as knowing what Gods name is in Hebrew, that’s just plumb obvious, you read it in the KJV or the NWT, or whichever version you have probably points out the Israelite pronunciation. But get this:

“I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother or sister “Raca” is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, “You fool!” will be in danger of the fire of Hell”. Matthew 5:22

So, even if you suspect that the preecer creecher up their on the podium with his three piece suit on and his big thick leather bound Bible means Baal when he says God, you can’t tell people that. You have to discreetly test his words against his wisdom by questioning him and observing his actions as he responds, or he can sue you for bearing false witness against him in Titus’ court, like Paul sued Pontus Pilate for false arrest and judicial malfeasance in Titus’ court.

Betcha didn’t know that! Good sober believers focused only on the person f Jesus Christ, and paying no heed to the enormous Roman Army under Josephus massed at the gates against Herod Agrippa and the Maccabees! Or have y’all read First and Second Maccabees? Tis Catholic Apocrypha, I bet you cut those pages out!

 

[Homework]

“For when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus.”

2 Corinthians 5,6

“Therefore be comforted in your comfort: yea, exceedingly the more joyed we were for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.”

2 Corinthians 13:14

Great verses! Paul was happy when he came to the sabbath, too. And he was also happy that Titus answered his epistle. Cool. So are you guys happy for the civil authorities, police, judges, state governors offices…or are they less fun to run into than Titus? Maybe the next outside new government agency is led by Sennacherib instead of Titus.