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IS THE UNIVERSE INCLUDING MAN EVOLVED BY ATOMIC FORCE? - 06/22/14

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Susanne

Susanne
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06/18/2014 11:56

To "endow matter with vague spiritual power"

"When we endow matter with vague spiritual power, -- that is, when we do so in our theories, for of course we cannot really endow matter with what it does not and cannot possess, - we disown the Almighty,…"

Yikes! I don't want to "disown the Almighty"--but I'm wondering if I'm doing this with regularity without even realizing it. Can anyone give examples of endowing matter with vague spiritual power?




 
jacob45

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06/18/2014 20:45

Re: To 'endow matter with vague spiritual power'

You started me thinking! Perhaps we should start by not acknowledging matter as matter, but as ideas. That the only thing a Mind can come up with anyhow.



 
Florence

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06/19/2014 06:23

Re: To 'endow matter with vague spiritual power'

Some examples must be when we rely on bank accounts as security, when we believe the heart dictates our life, we must eat three times a day to have energy, we need 8 hours of sleep in order to function.

Christian Science is here to help us move away from these crippling laws that quite frankly appear to disown the Almighty of His power.

That's what I can think of.




 
Andrew

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06/19/2014 07:28

Re: To 'endow matter with vague spiritual power'

How about a church building? A church organization? A human family? A book? Lesson Sermon? etc. Our prayer needs to be constantly "Dear God, open my heart that I may hear what you are telling me today." None of these things can replace this prayer.



 
A T M

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06/20/2014 19:28

Re: To 'endow matter with vague spiritual power'

What am I trying to improve with human theories or personal sense? I find myself failing into habits or modes of thought and action that need to be replaced with spiritual ones. I guess you could say the need to remain totally open to a new idea. I just posted in another forum here that Elisha spoke with Jehoshaphat and told him to dig wells in the desert. That's not in the human playbook of ideas! That was divine.

I am in sales so I must not rely on the old Tony and his ways of business. I am about my Father's business now and the old ways and means don't cut it any more.