May 20, 2010
Role Playing
I recently watched a crime drama on TV and the plot centered on a people who were into spy and intrigue role playing. The company Spy Ventures tried to make the game as authentic as possible, but the participants got caught up in real life when one of the spies was actually murdered. One role playing character was then arrested and thrown in jail on suspicion of murder. He wasn’t overly cooperative with the police until he finally separated fact from fantasy, “What? You mean I really am in jail. This isn’t just part of the game?” I can imagine something similar happening to folks who never get around to accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior. ‘What? You mean I’m really in Hell?’
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Gail;
-----Thank you. I love your blog because you so often give me new terms into which my developing perceptions of life and the Word fit well. Satan is that company, and his deceit is the game being played. Had Adam and Eve not agreed to play his game, all of the physical creation would not have become conscripted into it as a company asset. But since they did, creation’s very nature has been changed from that of maintained, perpetual existence to the nature of ongoing decay and eventual destruction. Those who refuse to play by company rules know this.
-----Company rules say self-survival, on the individual scale, and survival of the species overall are supreme. They point to the predator/prey interactions of nature as evidence, and they dig into the dirt for old bones to show it has always been that way. Since everyone has been given no more than five senses that only detect stuff of the physical universe, this company rouge plays quite well. But only to those who follow the rules.
-----For, in a manner of speaking, man has a sixth sense for detecting stuff having no physical substance. Certainly he can not touch, taste, smell, hear, or see this non-physical stuff itself, but he can its effects upon what does have substance. So by doing what a good spy does, he gathers that evidence, analyzes it, and ponders it carefully outside the rules of the game. The Bible is the most compelling piece of physical evidence for the existence of something nonphysical. Its very existence demands it came from somewhere as much as the oak tree demands the historic reality of a germinated acorn. And its prophetic accuracy insists that this origin was not from the mind of man. Therefore, the sixth sense of reason will not function properly unless the Bible is studied as thoroughly as have been the old bones.
-----And if the Bible is the key to unlocking the knowledge of reality through reason, wisdom is the use of the key. Wisdom is accepting the implications of evidence regardless of any desire to disbelieve them. Foolishness is accepting desired beliefs regardless of any evidence disproving them. So wisdom trains desire while foolishness twists evidence. Both are as much from the sixth sense as normal vision and dyslexia are from the visual sense. But only one leads to reality.
-----Biblical rules say survival is imperative through God who is the supreme antithesis of self. Of course self survival is imperative, but the rule of the Bible does not price it to be the destruction of another (although it did price it to be the death of Christ.) The Bible points to the predator/prey interaction of nature as a breach of reality to be corrected. Indeed, it speaks of heaven and the earth being folded up like an old garment and set aside, of them fleeing from the face of God, of all the stars falling upon earth, and of the elements melting away with fervent heat. Those who have attached themselves to this physical place by the foolish rules of predatory fantasies will certainly get their object of attachment - a wadded-up, fleeing lake of fire.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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