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Originally Posted by awareness
Of course "in the beginning was the Word." Cuz without the invention of words there's no chance of it being remembered, orally recorded, transmitted, or utilized between each other (Even monkeys have a body language, but not words).
That's even more true for the invention of the written word, in Mesopotamia some 5,500 yrs ago. (God's word came to man before the advent of written language.)
And God's Word(s) created the whole cosmos. So the cosmos, and even we, are God's Word (DNA & Galaxies both swirl); written in His own hand; with no human intermediary.
So we have two books from God: The Bible and the Cosmos; "by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."
And I think I'm hooked on both Words of God, or all, oral(s) and written(s), that are both, grand and glorious, spellbinding, mysteries to me; that have a firm hold on me, pulling on, like a gravitational force (I will draw all men), it more than seems, my mind, heart, and spirit, or whole being.
Amen Lord. I can't thank You enough.
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One small (perhaps large, I don't know) caveat is that the world system as it is configured puts out a lot of stuff (transmission, communication, signals) not lined up with the throne. So we have to be careful what we take in from the "cosmos". Yes, God can smile at you through a dog wagging his tail and grinning. God can speak to you through your next-door neighbor's kid.
But sometimes the creation around you manifests the result of its remove from God. And sometimes, especially with culture, and even more so with religious culture (see the thread "The Asian mind and the Western mind") that manifestation is tricky, and will suck you in. Suddenly your capacity to hear "the Word" is clouded, and obstructed.
God Himself tells us to look up at the stars, who declare the glory of God (see e.g. Psa 19). Scriptures continually reference creation to make us understand God's heart, thoughts, feelings, and intentions toward us. But Satan, in my view, continually comes into the conversation, and insinuates stuff to "twist" our view. I know I'm sounding like Lee here, but I am also sounding like James ("keep yourself from being spotted by the world").
(And today I like James more than Lee because James said that Godliness was to care for widows and orphans and Lee completely missed that - he even publicly despised it).
Also I differ from Lee in that I posit that much of my writings are also confused, and errant, reflecting my confused and darkened person as much as God's current speaking today. I notice that Paul continually sprinkled his writings with admonitions like, "I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers" (see e.g. Rom 11:25, 1 Cor 12:1, 1 Thess 4:13). For whatever the veil of ignorance has been rent, if at all, has been in recognizing that
a) the world system as it is currently configured is continually striving to distract me from my divine appointment with the Father, and
b) the Word of God, revealed in scriptures, continually points me back.
And I don't have to "understand" the Bible - remember that the disciples were "continually amazed beyond measure" - as much as I understand that I don't understand it. I recently likened Lee going through scriptures to a bulldozer going through a flower garden. I am likewise. But I don't pretend that my perusals have chased the truth down into some corner where it turned and yielded to me. I'm not that smart.
I'm sure this is way off topic.