It's a strange paradigm shift, but before I was Christian I was an atheist. I was exposed to so many Kent Hovinds, Ray Comforts, and Joel Osteens that I genuinely hated Christianity.
These people follow an afterimage, and often a material centric idol of prosperity, the authentic Christ finds you in strange places that only a skeptical eye and an ecclectic mind can take you.
I know for a fact that I won't convince you, that isn't up to me, nor should it be.
My first mystical experiences hit me like a freight train when I was 27. Seems to be around this age where things of the sort start. I might aswell have been AronRa up to that point (surprised he still makes videos, and I appreciate that he atleast tries to read the material).
Late 20's seems to be where you start reaching into the bottom of the bag and find that there really is no bottom.
I still personally like his foundational falsehoods of creationism series.
As for matters of Heaven, it is difficult to explain - but think of a hierarchy of that energy organized by category of its logical expression as a narrow but infinitely fractal golden string. Hell is a free-radical densification heat-death across the strata of all meta. You may continue to partake of what others call the "samsara", but it results in nothing but noise. It will keep happening. It is always happening at all times.
The reason we are as important as we are is because we broke the code and obtained for ourselves the perfected jewel of biochemistry with the advent of language (language is more than spoken or written word, and it is alive) and chronicle, and began to frame context as we had recursively become its frame - every possible outcome was/is already present as we continue to explore them (It's easier to understand these things, even people, as events). Aesthetic theories would have it that beauty is essentially the sublime given a set of rules and it is in this way that we are both a rising beast and a fallen angel; simultaneously made in his image as we rose to his image, becoming the highest assembly and expression of those rules and given liberties within their subsets, within which another genesis occurs. We have always held the germ of divinity.
Every word we speak contains all-potentiality, therefore, we align it with the highest virtue with hope to achieve heaven. Just like a flower is hardcoded by its genetic expressions to reach for the sun, we reach towards his similitude.
It's a strange paradigm shift, but before I was Christian I was an atheist. I was exposed to so many Kent Hovinds, Ray Comforts, and Joel Osteens that I genuinely hated Christianity.
These people follow an afterimage, and often a material centric idol of prosperity, the authentic Christ finds you in strange places that only a skeptical eye and an ecclectic mind can take you.
I know for a fact that I won't convince you, that isn't up to me, nor should it be.
My first mystical experiences hit me like a freight train when I was 27. Seems to be around this age where things of the sort start. I might aswell have been AronRa up to that point (surprised he still makes videos, and I appreciate that he atleast tries to read the material).
Late 20's seems to be where you start reaching into the bottom of the bag and find that there really is no bottom.
I still personally like his foundational falsehoods of creationism series.
As for matters of Heaven, it is difficult to explain - but think of a hierarchy of that energy organized by category of its logical expression as a narrow but infinitely fractal golden string. Hell is a free-radical densification heat-death across the strata of all meta. You may continue to partake of what others call the "samsara", but it results in nothing but noise. It will keep happening. It is always happening at all times.
The reason we are as important as we are is because we broke the code and obtained for ourselves the perfected jewel of biochemistry with the advent of language (language is more than spoken or written word, and it is alive) and chronicle, and began to frame context as we had recursively become its frame - every possible outcome was/is already present as we continue to explore them (It's easier to understand these things, even people, as events). Aesthetic theories would have it that beauty is essentially the sublime given a set of rules and it is in this way that we are both a rising beast and a fallen angel; simultaneously made in his image as we rose to his image, becoming the highest assembly and expression of those rules and given liberties within their subsets, within which another genesis occurs. We have always held the germ of divinity.
Every word we speak contains all-potentiality, therefore, we align it with the highest virtue with hope to achieve heaven. Just like a flower is hardcoded by its genetic expressions to reach for the sun, we reach towards his similitude.