Epidemiologic Convergence of Individual Behavior as Dipole Moments: Harmonic Optimization of Brokenness with Peace Between Finiteness and Infinity
by
Dallas F. Bell, Jr.
(The
degree of parallelism of the data presented will be synthesized by
the reader based on the proximity to brokenness.)
Pagans
tremble at the rustling of a leaf.1
Martin Luther
Epidemiology2
is defined as the study of the distribution and determinants of
health-related states and events in populations, and the application
of this study to the control of health problems. Epidemiologic
cases3
may include the convergence of foodborne salmonella episodes in the
Caribbean or waterborne typhoid incidences in Tajikistan.
Geometric
convergence4
in computational chemistry5
uses convergence as a function of basis set and the amount of
correlation.
It
is two-dimensional where the larger the expansion of basis set and
the expansion of the determinants the better the result.6
The response of the energy to the presence of a stimuli, where the
stimuli strength is vanishingly small, is a dipole moment.7
In
1951, Edward Simpson drew attention to a simple fact about fractions
that has a wide variety of surprising applications called Simpson’s
paradox.8
This is a phenomenon in probability and statistics in which a trend
appears in several different groups of data but disappears or
reverses when these groups are combined. It is particularly
problematic when frequency data is unduly given causal
interpretations. For example, analyzing the batting averages of two
baseball players. One player may have a higher batting average than
another player each year for a number of years, but ultimately have a
lower batting average across all of those years due to the
differences in time at bats.
David
Hume9
questioned if finite man had the ability to even see causes and their
effects, such as with rain being the cause of the effect of grass
becoming wet. Of course the definition of a cause is the bringing
about of an effect and an effect therefore following an antecedent.
An effect is defined as being the result of a cause.
Peace
is the harmonic optimization10
of the brokenness cycle that resulted from the original sin. The
epidemic of brokenness is inevitable from life circumstances
seriatim11
or by freewill as a daily condition of life to submission with
infinite God. Surveillance12
of the convergence of issues is in incident rates and prevalence.
Incidences are the number of new issues that occur during a specific
period of time in a population at risk for that issue (e.g.
widespread economic hardship etc.).13
Prevalence is the number of people present afflicted in the
population at that specific time.14
The
difference between incidence and prevalence is prevalence is a
snapshot of the population at a point in time of those people with
the issue and those people not afflicted with the issue without
regard to when the issue developed. Editor-in-Chief of the American
Journal of Epidemiology and
professor of epidemiology and medicine at Johns Hopkins University,
Moyses Szklo expressed in an email exchange with Dallas F. Bell Jr.
in July, 2019, that surveillance usually deals with outcomes such as
cancer and infectious diseases. When there is a major event that
results in important emotional problems, these data are correlated
with the event (for example, by examining pre-post rates).15
American
psychologists are using the term of eco-anxiety. It refers to stress
caused by the predictable failure of hyper-vigilant attempts to
narcissistically (see endnote 22) change perceived ecological
problems, such as real or contrived environmental threats and actual
disasters given real or contrived reasons for their incidence and
prevalence. The self-generated symptoms include panic attacks, loss
of appetite, weakness, nausea, sleeplessness, etc. A 2019 CNN poll
indicates 82 percent of American Democrat voters and 14 percent of
Republican voters consider the environmental issue of the historical
changing climate as their top issue.16
Worldwide, government-centric societies encourage youth support for
their environmental doctrine.17
It was written (c. 58-63 A.D.) that men’s hearts would fail them
for fear of things coming on the earth18
before they see the Son of Man, Jesus, coming in a cloud.19
Philosophy
professor at the University of Glasgow, Michael Brady wrote (2019)
that grief when a loved one dies or anguish from shattered dreams
cause reflection and may incline the subsequent view that suffering
can be good. He reasons that suffering is not just a negative
emotion but is necessary for developing wisdom.20
In his 2018 book, Brady explained why suffering is vital for the
development of virtue.21
It
is a given that the well-being of humans for decision making largely
determines the success or failure of enterprises. For example, the
psycho-social policy planning for hypothetical space settlements22
should adequately address such things as thresholds for incident and
prevalence rates in epidemiologic surveillance of expected emotional
issues (e.g. deaths, etc.) and expected biological issues (e.g. the
rapid rate of bacterial grow and mutation on/in genital regions in
low gravity environments, etc.). Additionally, prior suffering
experience of its participants should be considered vital for the
potential development of needed wisdom and virtue?23
Wisdom is the recognition and implementation of truth with the
preeminent virtues of love and justice (see endnote 49).
The
sacrifices of God [are] a broken24
spirit:
a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.25
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.26
Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much
fruit.27
Paul
said he was a servant (Greek doulos
meaning a slave in qualified subjection) of Christ28
and died daily with the promise of a resurrection.29
Jesus asked if you call Him Lord (Greek kurios
meaning
the supreme authority),30
why do you not do what He said? Jesus was God (the 2nd
Person of the trinity of Elohim) but His material neurobiology
required Him to pray to Father God31
(the 1st
Person of the trinity of Elohim) and to be filled with the Holy
Spirit (the 3rd
Person of the trinity of Elohim). That Spirit had power to give
Jesus the ability to preach the gospel to the poor and heal the
brokenhearted.32
He modeled the bio-human need to also be constantly filled with the
Holy Spirit.33
At the point of redemption, believers are permanently baptized with
the Holy Spirit.34
The
Apostle Paul said he spoke as a fool.35
To be led by the Holy Spirit is to daily accept ones finite place as
a 'holy fool'36
and in time the act by faith will bear Divine fruit, i.e. order and
peace etc.37
Also to not be led by the Holy Spirit will bear the anti-Christ fruit
of disorder and confusion, God is clearly not the author of that.
This calls for proper introspection.38
That
healthy self-examination39
uses Scripture40
and is necessary to prove one’s justification allowing for the
achievement of the potential state for peace.41
Paul learned that in whatever state he was in to be content.42
He knew how to be abased and to abound, and how to be full and to be
hungry.43
Godliness with contentment is great gain.44
God
will keep the person in perfect peace whose mind is fixed on Him,45
because he trusts in Him. Jesus taught people to generally pray to
God (KJV, Matt. 6:9-13) as follows.
v.9 After
this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
v.10 Thy
kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
v.11 Give
us this day our daily bread.
v.12 And
forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
v.13 And
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is
the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.46
Jesus
maintained the pattern of having an eternal perspective in regards to
the four eternal and connected (stated and implied) truth variables
of prayer: the object of prayer, the action, the space, and the time
frame. David modeled this example (see endnote 46). This and all
specific combination of variables has always existed and is
kinetically activated by intellect. Solomon said there is nothing
new under the sun.47
The
materialistic and therefore dimensionally incomplete E
= mc2
equation48
can be compared to the following equation: the truth mesh of an
intellect’s kinetic energy (with the stated or implied righteous
intent [to be loving (merciful + graceful) and to be just (forgiving
+ redemptive)] or counterfeiting unrighteous intent [to be unloving
(merciless + graceless) and to be unjust (unforgiving +
unredemptive)])49
= the object + the action + the space + the time frame (with the
specific sensed modifiers of color, temperature, texture, shapes,
taste, olfactory and auditory input etc.). A well-known example of
the binary (1, 0) outcomes (1 = max efficiency of expended energy and
0 = null efficiency of expended energy) is the contest on Mount
Carmel of Elijah representing the (1) righteous model50
and the idolatrous prophets of Baal representing the (0) unrighteous
model.51
Examining
one’s own thought process and sensory experience is not to be
self-centered.52
Neither is it to become pessimistic. That belief wrongly accepts
reality as essentially evil. This doctrine is more than merely
accepting the difficulties of entropy for reality (e.g. health issues
etc.). It is not seeing reality with the eternal view of God’s
ultimate perspective of quantum goodness. It rejects harmonic
optimization from brokenness and its peace from the understanding of
how finiteness fits within infinity through justification by God’s
grace53--
fides
viva.54
The
logic failure to not comprehend time by factoring in eternity is
epidemic. Dietrich Dörner55
wrote (1996) Die
Logik des Mißlingens. Strategisches Denken in komplexen Situationen
(The
Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex
Situations). In chapter 5 pages 107-152, time sequences are
addressed. As humans live in tangible space and time, time is
configured linearly and may cause confusion unless analyzed in
retrospect. The incompleteness of spatial patterns, such as a
parking lot, are easy to recognize and to complete based on symmetry
(asymmetry), repetition, etc. But in time configurations, there is a
tendency to treat temporal development as individual events when they
are interlocked.
Chakra
is an old Sanskrit word that literally translates to wheel. In the
polytheistic (pagan) traditions of Hinduism, chakra is used to denote
any phenomenon which has a cyclical or circular motion or aspect,
such as it is used to describe the wheel of time (kala
chakra),
the wheel of life (jivana
chakra),
and the wheel of creation (srishti
chakra).
It
is the glory of God to conceal a thing56
for a time as witnessed by the discovery of oil for energy. China is
recorded to have used petroleum as fuel (c. 400 A.D.). Prior to that
era, Iraq used oil as asphalt to waterproof baths and boats. Much
earlier (c. 2285 B.C.), Noah used pitch from tree resin, distilled
from heating wood, to waterproof the ark (Gen. 6:14). After the
flood, bitumen pits and tar pits were known (Gen. 14:10) to be in the
Valley of Siddim (c. 1911 B.C.). The energy of the sun and carbon
dioxide was captured in photosynthesis. With human intellect, energy
from the combustion of fossil fuels, which had no greater purpose,
releases the carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Thereby, the carbon
cycle is completed,57
(T) C 
= ∑.
It
was predicted nearly 2,000 years ago (c. 64 A.D.) that in the last
days scoffers would mock Jesus’ promised return58
and deny there was ever a world flood.59
Finite man’s imagination is evil from his youth.60
Imagination is the process of creating objects or events without the
reality of sensory data, such as idols.61
John Keats’ Ode
to Psyche
is an example of confused62
idolatrous fantasy. Fantasy is the process of mentally imaging
unreal objects and events to avoid or supersede reality.63
Omniscient
God does not have imagination and He scatters the proud in the
imaginations of their hearts.64
Imagination is not a positive option for brokenness and is not to be
confused with creativity or visualization. Intellects have
creativity to produce solutions to problems as conceptual extensions
of mental capability, such as the skilled and cunning builders of the
ancient Jewish Temple.65
Visualization is the process of both thinking (the analytical
processing of real neurological data input) and using memory of real
objects and events from the senses, especially from seeing, to create
concrete ideas (ideas based on reality). For example, Descartes’
analytical geometry combined equations and shapes, where algebra
loops and bends.
If
one loves God he will love his neighbor as his own self.66
That Golden Rule67
formula is, I do ⇔
you do,68
meaning, my rights ⇔
your rights. In the mid-twentieth century, The U.S. Supreme Court
ruled on affirmative action intentionally ending merit based
considerations and voiding the Golden Rule for heterosexual white
males equal rights under the law, my rights ≠ your rights. This
created I do ≠ you do.
The
ancestors of the twelve descendants of Ishmael69
generally live together in the Middle East. They are wild and their
hand is against every man and vice versa70
due to their violations of quantum
justice.71
Simul
Justus et Peccator
is a Latin justice formula by Martin Luther
translated as Simultaneously Saint
and
Sinner (eternal saint ⇔
finite sinner + infinite grace). We are saints not because we
changed into something different
but because our relationship
affinity72
with God changed as a result of God’s imputed infinite grace by
faith alone, as opposed to the Roman Catholic heresy of infused
justification by man’s finite works (eternal saint ≠ finite
sinner + finite works – infinite grace).
The
eyes of the Lord are on the justified righteous and His ears are open
to their cry.73
The righteous are to expect fiery trials and not think it is
something strange happening to them.74
Brokenness is the common subdued reaction of an individual to
inevitable cyclical real life situations of vanquishing stress.
Sorrow of the repentant heart breaks the spirit.75
God has mercy by not always allowing for sorrow to be added to
sorrow.76
Judas
Iscariot and Peter each were taught the same things by Jesus for the
same amount of time. Yet the crushing sorrowful guilt from the
aftermath of betraying Him caused the remorseful Judas to murder
himself and Peter to repent.77
The difference was Judas choice to hate Jesus,78
demonstrated by his hypocritical kiss and command to hold Jesus fast,
resulting in his going to his own place in eternal hell79
and Peter’s choice to love Jesus,80
demonstrated by his weeping bitterly, resulting in his going to be
with Jesus the Christ in eternal heaven.81
An eternal perspective of material circumstances includes knowing
that there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one
sinner that repents.82
God’s
strength is made perfect in our weakness. Paul’s path of
brokenness included beatings and being shipwrecked83
as recorded c. 54-55 A.D. He began his journey by saying he was the
least of the apostles (c. 54 A.D.)84
Then, he said he was the least of the saints (c. 60-62 A.D.).85
Just before his execution, he finally exclaimed that he was the
chief of sinners (c. 62-68 A.D.).86
Pleasure may be taken in infirmities and distresses for Christ’s
sake.87
“For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also
that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the
humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.”88
We
are to not be overcome by evil but are to overcome evil with good.89
The grandson of Aaron the priest, Phinehas executed God’s judgment
on idolaters by killing them (c. 1235 B.C.). This stopped God’s
plague and was counted as righteousness.90
David, a man after God’s own heart, killed a lion, a bear, and
then Goliath who defied God’s army and blasphemed God.91
God was glorified by his fighting evil and killing the blasphemer
(c. 1015 B.C.). Even though his family accused him of being prideful
and government leadership forgot him, the people praised God for that
victory.92
David’s
messianic and imprecatory93
psalm94
stated that he was weary of crying and prayed that people not be
ashamed for his sake and people seeking God not be confounded for his
sake. David acknowledged that he would have fainted unless he had
believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
He urged us to wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and He will
strengthen our hearts!95
The
response of our energy to the stimuli of sorrow decreases in dipole
moments. The epidemiologic convergence of individual behavior can
have harmonic optimization of brokenness with peace between
finiteness and infinity. Our souls should bless the Lord and not
forget His benefits. He forgives iniquities and heals diseases.
Youth is renewed like the eagle’s. He executes righteousness and
judgment for the oppressed. He is slow to anger and pities His
children. He remembers we are dust. We flourish as grass and
flowers in a field. The wind passes over and we are gone.96
We are to not think on tomorrow because today has sufficient evil.
Our heavenly Father knows what we need. If we first seek His kingdom
and His righteousness, all things within His will will be added to
us!97
I
keep fighting voices in my mind that say I’m not enough
Every
single lie that tells me I will never measure up
Am
I more than just the sum of every high and every low?
Remind
me once again just who I am, because I need to know
You
say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing
You
say I am strong when I think I am weak
You
say I am held when I am falling short
When
I don’t belong, You say I am Yours
And
I believe, I believe
What
You say of me
I
believe
The
only thing that matters now is everything You think of me
In
You I find my worth, in You I find my identity
You
say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing
You
say I am strong when I think I am weak
You
say I am held when I am falling short
When
I don’t belong, You say I am Yours
And
I believe, I believe
What
You say of me
I
believe
Taking
all I have and now I'm laying it at Your feet
You
have every failure, God
You'll
have every victory
You
say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing
You
say I am strong when I think I am weak
You
say I am held when I am falling short
When
I don’t belong, You say I am Yours
And
I believe, I believe
What
You say of me
I
believe
Oh,
I believe
Yes,
I believe
What
You say of me
Oh,
I believe
(The
preceding simplistic yet poignant lyrics are to the contemporary song
“You Say” by Lauren Daigle.98)
1
Lev. 26:36-39; Ps. 53:5; Prov. 28:1.
2
https://www.cdc.gov/eis/request-services/epiresources.html
The
Epidemic Intelligence
Service (EIS) is a 2 year post-doctoral training program for health
professionals interested in practice of applied epidemiology.
3
https://www.cdc.gov/epicasestudies/index.html
4
http://tildeweb.au.dk/au23758/index_ICC3.html
p. 380.
5
See https://SystematicPoliticalScience.com/ends-and-means.html
6
See figure 4.3, pp. 126-127 of
Frank Jensen’s Introduction
to Computational Chemistry
(3d ed.).
7
http://tildeweb.au.dk/au23758/index_ICC3.html
pp. 385,
387.
8
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-simpson/
9
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-hume-causality/
10
For an introductory mechanical
engineering view of optimization see Numerical
Methods with Applications
by Autar Kaw et al., chapter 9, at
http://nm.mathforcollege.com/topics/textbook_index.html
11
Latin term for in series meaning
one after another. Court usage is for matters laid out in sequence.
12
See https://SystematicPoliticalScience.com/data-mining.html
and chapter
3, pp. 41-64, of the 2019 book titled Gordis
Epidemiology (6th
ed.) by David Celentano and Moyses Szklo at Johns Hopkins
University.
15
Special thanks is extended to
Dr. Szklo for his timely and gracious assistance while being outside
of the country.
16
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/441344-climate-change-is-the-top-issue-for-registered-democratic-voters
17
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847326/
18
Perplexity will involve the sun,
moon, and stars with waves of the sea roaring (Luke 21:25-26).
19
Jesus the Christ’s Second
Coming has been prophesied in Dan. 7:13; Matt. 24:29-31; Luke
21:25-28; Rev. 1:7, 14:14.
20
Brady, M. S. (2019). ”Learning
from Adversity: Suffering and Wisdom.” The
Value of Emotions for Knowledge,
pp. 197-214. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
21
Brady’s book is titled Suffering
and Virtue and
published by Oxford University Press. His email exchange with
Dallas F. Bell Jr. during July and August, 2019, regarding
reference(s) that best
address collective societal suffering and virtue development (e.g.
widespread economic downturns, deaths from disease/plagues, etc.,
especially using [epidemiological] math/computational models) is
appreciated.
22
A 2018 poll of Millennials shows over half support Democrat
candidates.
www.vox.com/2018/8/29/17795718/poll-millennial-young-vote-2018-midterms
In line
with a 2017 Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation poll, a 2019
Harris poll now shows over half of American Millennial (aka Gen Y)
and Gen Z demographics (also vote Democrat) indicate a narcissistic
preference for communist fascist governments over capitalist
societies with free enterprise. If consistent, this should
influence their space settlement support for atheist government
dominated efforts over private efforts or even a hybrid of efforts.
23
Thanks is extended to a paper presenter, retired Foreign Service
Officer at the U.S. State Department, on space settlement policy
options at the (June) 2019 International Space Development
Conference in Arlington, Virginia. During an email exchange with
Dallas F. Bell Jr., it could be concluded that it would be
advantageous if there was a greater balance between mechanical
considerations and the reality of psychological well-being.
24
Hebrew shabar
meaning to burst, break or bring to birth.
30
Luke 6:46, see Mal. 1:6.
31
Luke 22:32; John 17:1-26.
32
Is. 61:1-2; Luke 4:1-18.
34
John 3:3-6; I Cor. 12:13.
36
https://cjshayward.com/fool/
37
The Divine result of a Spirit
led act is not like a stopped clock being right twice a day due to
the juxtaposition of time to position or a blind squirrel finding an
acorn by purposeless accident. It is the purposed outcome intended
by God.
38
David related his experience in Psalm 32 (KJV) below.
v.1 Blessed
is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
v.2 Blessed
is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose
spirit there is no guile.
v.3 When
I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day
long.
v.4 For
day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into
the drought of summer. Selah.
v.5 I
acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I
said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou
forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
v.6 For
this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when
thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they
shall not come nigh unto him.
v.7 Thou
art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt
compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
v.8 I
will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I
will guide thee with mine eye.
v.9 Be
ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding:
whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near
unto thee.
v.10 Many
sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord,
mercy shall compass him about.
v.11 Be
glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all
ye that are upright in heart.
39
Ps. 139:23-24; Gal. 6:4; I
Thess. 5:21.
41
Ps. 26:2; II Cor. 13:5.
43
Phil. 4:12; I Cor. 4:11.
44
I Tim. 6:6; Heb. 13:5; Prov. 15:16.
46
The last section of verse 13,
For thine…, is not found in many manuscripts. A shortened version
is found in Luke 11:2-4. It does follow the general pattern found
in David’s prayer (KJV, I Chro. 29:10-13). Compare the following.
v.10 Wherefore
David blessed the Lord before all the congregation: and David said,
Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
v.11 Thine,
O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the
victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the
earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted
as head above all.
v.12 Both
riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in
thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make
great, and to give strength unto all.
v.13 Now
therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
47
Eccl. 1:9, 2:12, 3:15, 6:10.
48
The mass (m)
of a body times the speed of light squared (c2)
is equal to the kinetic energy (E)
of that body. This primitive understanding of variables must be
expanded beyond materialistic dimensions of known knowns if the
finite limit of known unknowns to potential higher concepts, short
of infinite unknowable unknowns to finite intellects, are to be
realized. Beyond a righteous desire to finitely know more of God’s
creative methods for His glory, some unrighteous people harbor the
idolatrous hope, for example theories such as for superstrings, to
infinitely explain all matter and forces in one mathematical
libation.
49
As verbs, love
and justice, with their subsets and their counterfeits, indicate
potential action.
52
Phil. 2:21; II Tim. 3:2.
54
Latin for living faith. Paul
wrote of Abraham’s justification by faith alone (Rom. 4:9-25) from
the beginning (Gen. 15). James also noted Abraham’s justification
by faith alone (James 2:21) which was seen by the fruits of faith in
his later works (Gen. 22). A profession of faith will be confirmed
by works (James 2:14-18).
55
He is emeritus
professor for General and Theoretical Psychology at the Institute of
Theoretical Psychology at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg,
Germany.
57
Time in engineering is T,
carbon is C, cycle is ,
and the sum is ∑.
58
Jesus’ kingdom began with His coming to earth as a human baby.
His kingdom power (Matt. 16:27-28) was seen in His transfiguration
(Greek metemorphōthē,
Christ’s
fulfillment of the law is represented by Moses and the prophets are
represented by Elijah, Matt. 17:2-3; Mark 9:2-4, additionally Moses
represents those that have died Deut. 34:5-6 and Elijah those who
have not experience death II Kings 2:11 and will be called up in the
air on Christ’s return I Thess. 4:13-17), His resurrection (Ps.
16:10, 49:15; John 20-21; I Cor. 15:4), and His ascension (Ps.
68:18; Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51; Acts 1:9-11; Eph. 4:8-10). The last
phase begins with His return (I Thess. 4:13-18).
Note:
Elijah was prophesied to come before God’s day of judgment (Mal.
4:5-6). If figuratively, then John the Baptist (the prophesied voice
of one crying in the wilderness Is. 40:3-5; Matt. 3:3; Mark 1:3;
Luke 3:4; John 1:23 preparing the way for the Messiah Mal. 3:1) came
in the spirit/power of Elijah (Matt. 11:14; Luke 1:17), yet was not
actually Elijah (John 1:21-25). Jesus asserted that Elijah had come
as John the Baptist (Matt. 17:10-13; Mark 9:11-13). On some level
John the Baptist did fulfill prophesy. But subsequent to the
transfiguration Jesus spoke of Elijah’s coming as a future event
(Matt. 17:11) even though He asserted Elijah had come. It is
reasoned that the Elijah prophesy will have a second fulfillment as
being possibly one of the two prophesied witnesses in the last days
(Rev. 11).
59
II Peter 3:3-6. The
Lost World
of the Flood:
Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate by
Tremper Longman III
(professor at Westmont College),
John H.
Walton (professor at
Wheaton College), with a
contribution by Stephen O. Moshier (professor at Wheaton College)
was published by InterVarsity Press (2018). It makes the argument
for why Genesis portrays what the biblically described empaiktés
(Greek for deriders, false teachers, mockers and scoffers)
proselytize was a local cataclysmic flood
as a global flood by
considering both Ancient Near East backgrounds and the theological
purpose of the (implied Moses’ intentionally false) narrative.
Christianity Today
also promoted the
book. As the world becomes increasingly dominated by the wicked, as
was the case during Noah’s time (Gen. 6), the redeemed are to do
God’s will for their lives (Gen. 6:8-9) as they look for Jesus’s
return (Greek the Parousia
for presence/coming
of the King, Matt. 24:36-44) and His eternally destroying the
enemies of His kingdom (Ps. 37:20, 68:21, 92:9; James 4:4). God’s
enemies reject Him and the very knowledge of His ways. Eternal hell
is the necessary final limit on their wickedness (Job 21:14; Ps.
9:15-17; Rom. 1:21, 28; Rev. 21:8). The redeemed’s increased
awareness (especially those with high innate problem-solving ability
or IQ’s) from natural ageing will increase the potential for
experiencing suffering during this period of exponential heresy.
The older and the higher the intellect (Eccl. 1:18) the more
scriptural/spiritual tools are needed to cope with suffering (Eph.
6:10-18).
61
Is. 2:20. Infinite God is a
jealous God (Ex. 20:5, 34:14).
62
Hebrew buwsh
meaning confounded
and to be ashamed or disappointed (Ps. 97:7).
63
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44480/ode-to-psyche
66
Lev. 19:18; Deut. 6:5; Matt.
22:37-40.
67
Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31. It is based on God’s first and second
commands in Luke 10:27, which are explained by the Good Samaritan
story in Luke 10:30-37.
68
⇔
means equivalent iff.
70
Gen. 25:13-17; I Chro. 1:29-31.
71
https://SystematicPoliticalScience.com/anaplasmosis.html
https://SystematicPoliticalScience.com/ends-and-means.html
72
An attractive force between
objects that causes them to enter into and remain in combination, as
seen with chemical substances.
78
Earlier Judas, a thief,
hatefully accused holy Jesus of being unjust (John 12:4-8).
80
Later Jesus made a point of His
knowing that Peter loved Him by the order of then feeding His sheep
(John 21:15-19).
83
II Cor. 11:23-33, 12:7-10.
90
Num. 25:1-18; Ps. 106:24-32.
91
Biblical scribes of God’s
words and mitvah
(Hebrew for commandment) bathed before even writing the name of God
and used a new quill each time.
97
Ps. 23; Matt. 6:32-34; Phil 4:19.
98
Daigle did not consider music
seriously until contracting infectious mononucleosis which kept her
out of school for nearly two years. She says that it was one of the
best things that ever happened to her. See her website at
https://LaurenDaigle.com/about/
