Spirit Gives Birth To Spirit

   Do people outside our religions also have a connection with God?  Can they teach us something about God?  Whether we are Jewish or Christian or Muslim or Universalist or Hindu or pagan or whatever else, I believe multitudes of people from all walks of life, and faiths from all over the world and throughout history, have or have had this connection.  And,  much more importantly , they can teach us facets of belief and practices and concepts that we may not find in our own little tribes.  And Jewish scripture and the Old Testament recognized that people outside our tribes do indeed have a connection with this same God. Yep. It's in there. In the Pentateuch. And Jesus knew it.     Melchizedek, king of Salem, was a mysterious character in the story of Abraham's life in Genesis 14.  He appears just before God's blessing of Abraham.  In chapter 14, Genesis says, "After [Abraham's] return from the defeat of...

    The jig is up.  There's a ghost in the machine. What I am going to tell you is nothing new.  Every human being knows it in his bones.  Kings to paupers to prophets have yelled it in the streets since the beginning of recorded history, and I am quite sure, long before.  Entropy is a thermodynamic principle that happens at all levels of existence. Systems always proceed from order to disorder.  It is the path the universe is on. Entropy is a property of thermodynamic systems that says ordered systems will degrade to disorder to obtain equilibrium.  A glass of ice water will warm to obtain equilibrium with the air around it. Mathematics tells us that the universe and all its particles began as a singularity: everything was one.  Then there was an event and all matter exploded into the universe and, since then, all the particles in it have been expanding and cooling and becoming more distant from each other.  Eventually all partic...