A DIRT ROOF CAN'T HOLD ME!

   Leav'in behind these old bones,

Aches and pains in these old bones,

Don't look for me in these old bones,

Cause I'm not there anymore,

Calcified and petrified, mummified and done fried!

Don't matter much to me,

I am where I' supposed to be,

Earthen covers are said to be,

All but certain, finality,

But there is a final proof,

That the Earth's not my covering roof!

I've gone up to the great beyond,

And leav'in these bones in the dirt,

Don't look  for me anymore...

CAUSE I'M NOT THERE!

What we know and what we do not know....

     What we know is this...Sometime in our distant past, a man came  and changed everything. Jesus of Nazareth. History records, and testimony bears witness that something momentous occurred some 2000 years ago.  What we do not fully understand is   how  the man, Jesus that was of immaculate conception, born of a virgin, was sinless, and God's Son, was also the almighty. For he had shown authority over heaven an earth itself, tamed storms, and calmed the seas, cast out Spirit's and ran afoul of human governments and resisted all who thought they had God all figured out.  He shattered all of their  conceptions totally and rewrote the book on current thinking. The first shall be last, the proud and mighty brought low and the meek exalted. The feast at the end of time, a banquet open to those that  the world would despise.  Faith was a hallmark of those trusted with the newly preached good news that life was not merely what we see and grasp on a daily basis. Our treasures were now in heavenly places, governments were rightly disposed to take their place under the Kingship of one who was brutally and shamefully executed before the most powerful empire the world had known.  The Kingdom of God had come. All through Jesus.
     Out of vision and invisible is the Kingdom that awaits, and therefore most do not lay hold of what they cannot see. Death is fear itself, manifesting a terrible hold and limiting how we live our lives. We plan, for the inevitable in ways that show our limitations. All the while  joy slips away and the daily grind before our eyes transfix us to the here and now.
    Yes we must be diligent for ourselves but we must also be there for those who do not know the truths that can be known.  When the Spirit of God unites with man (and women)  things change. And if they don't then the seed has fallen on  rocky ground.
     The heart is truly a mystery, it can be moved majestically by music, Opera, hardened by immeasurable hurt, renewed by Hope and cast away with harmful words. 
     But.....thanks be to the one that broke off the yoke and bondage and took captivity, captive.  Peace Christian.
   

Nicean Council

Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled; without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons; nor dividing the Essence. For there is one Person of the Father; another of the Son; and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal. Such as the Father is; such is the Son; and such is the Holy Ghost. The Father uncreated; the Son uncreated; and the Holy Ghost uncreated. The Father unlimited; the Son unlimited; and the Holy Ghost unlimited. The Father eternal; the Son eternal; and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals; but one eternal. As also there are not three uncreated; nor three infinites, but one uncreated; and one infinite. So likewise the Father is Almighty; the Son Almighty; and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not three Almighties; but one Almighty. So the Father is God; the Son is God; and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods; but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord; the Son Lord; and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords; but one Lord. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity; to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord; So are we forbidden by the catholic religion; to say, There are three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of none; neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone; not made, nor created; but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten; but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is before, or after another; none is greater, or less than another. But the whole three Persons are coeternal, and coequal. So that in all things, as aforesaid; the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity, is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved, let him thus think of the Trinity.Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation; that he also believe faithfully the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess; that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man; God, of the Essence of the Father; begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the Essence of his Mother, born in the world. Perfect God; and perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting. Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead; and inferior to the Father as touching his Manhood. Who although he is God and Man; yet he is not two, but one Christ. One; not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh; but by assumption of the Manhood by God. One altogether; not by confusion of Essence; but by unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man; so God and Man is one Christ; Who suffered for our salvation; descended into hell; rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the God the Father Almighty, from whence he will come to judge the living and the dead. At whose coming all men will rise again with their bodies; And shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil, into everlasting fire. This is the catholic(universal) faith; which except a man believe truly and firmly, he cannot be saved.