"Vicarious"

“Vicarious”

cji

4/30/18

Jumping into ice cold water

surfing a 80’ wave awesome

sailing clipper ships on the horn

flying the valleys in Nam

fighting in Flanders Field

watching an artist paint

John Browning Moses design

vicarious to experience/live

as real as if there fully

as real as it there fully!

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Some time ago was questioned about my past – my reply, “wasn’t there and we didn’t do anything when we were!” Over the past many have the same answer never going and doing nothing when there. Much of our world also accuse many of the same – telling them they (who they were talking too) that they hadn’t done any of the things that they did. Basically calling them liars – which in another way men/women, clergy, rabbis, press, educators, writers, and so many others have been calling the Savior for over 2000 years. Simply by denying what happened – saying it didn’t happen throwing in Plato and others to validate their religion called Christianity, Judaism, Protestantism, and any number of other names. All claiming – incorporeal – without body – parts or passion. Anything to gain followers – teaching whatever they thought believable – acceptable – and without any Apostles left alive none to continue the truth. Until in the early 1800’s a young boy went to the woods to pray as to what Church to join and was told none!

Why the above introduction? Some questions asked about the Savior: 1) Being crucified – dying and then living again – how? 2) Taking on the sins of the this world – this man who’d never sinned? 3) Born of a virgin birth? 4) Proclaiming to be the Son of God? Intellectually coming up with all kinds of answers and denials – the denials becoming more and more plausible. Especially among those of education – wealth – power and all with much to lose and thus also much to gain. This is eternal importance for the whole world and of course with little exception taking in most all of the world to believe the philosophers and philosophy instead of the Scriptures literally.

Now to what we do day to day. Being doubters when someone answers a question or makes a statement. Thinking or saying you never did that – or you were never there – basically calling the speaker a liar. Yet how many have experienced vicarious events, situations, emotions, fear, love, anger, peace or any other feeling by observation and empathy? If you can why can’t others? My reply – ‘wasn’t there and we didn’t do anything when we were!’

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