QUESTIONS ABC
Feb 2 7am
THOSE BOLD check with "all in one"
Those gone to MISCELLANEOUS in ITALICS
now in process of transferring
If there was only one cause for all pain, suffering and death, wouldn't fixing it immediately restore perfect peace?
If we are where our heart is, why are we not in Heaven?
If we could choose, which would we prefer - to gain the kingdom or be it?
If we do not seek first the kingdom, does that mean we are content with mediocrity?
If we do what we can to control our environment, what does God do?
If we had a choice, which do we prefer: being the commander in chief or being commanded by the chief?
If we had the choice, which would we prefer to be - the created or the creator of the created?
If we had the choice, which would we prefer to inherit – money or the kingdom?
If we love only one – wouldn’t that be special? If we love all equally – isn’t that true love?
If we worship what God did not create, wouldn’t that make us idolaters?
In any given moment, are we not all doing the best we can to get as much as we can while we can?
In any given moment, are we not fully committed to what we are doing?
In this universe, is there is such a thing as one and the same?
Is birth and death a gift or a curse from God?
Is free choice whether or not to learn knowledge and die a gift, a test, or a curse?
Is giving fearful for those who believe they lack?
Is God totally, partially or not at all in control of everything going on?
Is God’s gift of birth and death a gift or a curse?
Is God’s perfect peace unaffected by His anger, jealousy, wrath and vengeance?
Is heaven non-dimensional and opposite to our three dimensional universe?
Is humanity becoming more loving and peaceful or more selfish and afraid?
Is it a gift to be born in pain, struggle through life only to die?
Is it not true that being a human requires constant effort, attention and planning? Does spirit need to do anything?
Is it possible or impossible that everything is possible?
Is it possible that we – as spirit children of God - are acting out the mortal scripts we wrote?
Is it possible to experience mortality and immortality at the same time?
Is it within our grasp to learn one thing to know all there is?
Is not everyone doing the best they can to get as much as they can while they can?
Isn’t a physical law that matter attracts matter? If so, wouldn’t the expansion after the big bang be slowing down? Why, then, is it accelerating?
Isn’t it amazing how so many can make sense out of what makes no sense at all?
Isn’t giving fearful for those who lack?
Isn’t it strange the Bible has over 600 “shalt not” commandments yet Jesus teaches only 2 – both of love?
Doesn’t whatever we are attached to in our world prevent us from returning to our Father’s house?
Isn’t our inevitable death caused by Adam wanting to know what his father knows?
Isn’t whatever we do for the benefit of either our mortality or immortality?
Is not our world filled with many problems? What if there is really only one?
Is our script written pre-birth?
Is our “truth” false and God’s “truth” true? Do we know the truth or really only believe it?
Is our world our shopping center where we get instead of having and being all?
Is selfishness unloving and unselfishness loving?
Is the after-life either eternal suffering in hell or eternal peace in Heaven – depending on obedience?
Is the process of awakening through elimination or acquisition?
Is the world changing for the better? What does history reveal? Is humanity becoming more loving and peaceful or more selfish and afraid?
Is there a bigger picture than this universe? If so, what does it look like?
Is there such a thing as one and the same?
Is truth taxes, need, want, fear, mortality, born to die, sickness etc. - or is it something more?
It appears there are many problems but what if there is really only one?
Judge not lest we are judged? How can we not judge?
“Let there be light; and there was light. And God saw the light; that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” (Gen 1:3-5.) Can darkness contain light? Can light contain darkness?
“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” Gen 1:26 and then in Gen 1:27-28 “And God made man in His own image, male and female made he them. And He blessed them” How can the Old Testament God first be male and female, then next be a male - and finally be three in the New testament?
“Physician, heal thyself.” How do we do that? What do we aim heal, the symptom or the cause?
“Sell all you have and give to the poor”? What would that bring us?
To what extent is God influencing events in the universe?
“Those who save their life shall lose it and those who lose their life shall save it.” – (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). How precious is our mortal life?
Under what circumstance, if any, can everything be going according to plan?
Was heaven really created the day after our world??? (Gen 1:6, 1:8 and 1:11)
We can forgive – but can we forget?
We don’t like the thought we are nothing and like to believe we’re something - but can we believe we are everything?
Were we - in spirit - all born adults?
Were we put here or are we where we want to be?
What are the requirements for salvation? Prayer, forgiveness, believing God kills to save, keep holy the Sabbath, do good deeds, tithe, praise, adore, obey all commands, worship and fear God?
What are we attached to, other than the worldly things we do not want to let go?
What are we feeding our soul? What are we feeding our mortality?
What are we nourished by - the love of God or the love of food?
What attributes do we have that mirrors God’s?
What better goal is there to seek than the Truth that sets us free from goals?
“What better love hath a man that he give his life for his brother”? What kind of love has a father who kills his children for wanting to know what his father knows - and what better love has a father than to simply forgive?
What can the will of God produce - other than the inevitable?
What can we give but what we have to give? If lacking, do we not give poverty instead of abundance?
What caused poverty?
What could be more important than to learn how to know the truth that frees us?
What did the lions eat in the Garden of Eden before Adam ate the apple?
What did we inherit from God – something or nothing?
What do loving parents do to their misbehaving children – punish them, kill them, or guide and forgive them?
What do we gain from a God of fear? What do we lose from a God of fear?
What do we gain from a God of love? What do we lose from a God of love?
What do we seek first other than what we want above all else? Isn’t the choice between the kingdom and the offerings of our world?
What does God do?
What experience is worthy of Truth – deep sea diving or returning to our Father’s house?
What if all our goals are being achieved?
What is our truth? Is it mortality, birth, death, taxes, need, want, fear, sickness and so on?
What is perfection? Can it change?
What is “soul?”
What is the after-life? We are told it is either eternal suffering in hell or eternal peace in Heaven – depending on how obedient we are. Does this make sense? Do we know anyone who treats their children like that?
What is the cause of fear? Is it many things or only one thing?
What is the cause of the need to be healed?
What is the difference between believing and knowing?
What is the opposite of love – hate? Do we not fear those we hate? Might fear, then, be the opposite of love?
What is ungodliness other than being unlike God in every way?
What kind of love has a father who kills his children for wanting to know what he knows?
What makes life worth living – flashy cars, good food, having fun, holidays, etc.?
What makes us happy?
What motivates change but discontentment?
What name do we give to what does not exist? What name to we give to what is everything?
What prevents us from awakening other than our determination to sustain our mortality?
What seeds are we planting in our minds – those that free us from fear or those that nourish it?
What speeds up our awakening to the truth “beyond understanding” more – succeeding or failing?
What was our inheritance from God – impoverishment or empowerment?
What will being rich bring us? “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” Matt 19:24/Mark 10:25/Luke 18:25 Does this mean it is better for mankind to be “poor?” Which do we prefer?
What would it mean if there is no such a thing as an accident?
What would we lovingly give our children – a good education and a long life or a death sentence from wanting to learn what we learned?
What would we miss by discarding mortality to ascend into Heaven and become immortal?
Whatever was is no more except in memory. Is this a benefit or burden?
Which brings us more joy - getting or giving?
Which caused the need for salvation - Adam wanting knowledge or God planting a deadly tree?
Which is better – hope or certainty?
Which is the world contagious of – the virus of death or the virus of inevitable eternal life?
Which do we prefer to listen to - other “masters” or the one within us?
Which do we protect – our mortality or immortality? If mortality, mustn’t we be protecting against immortality?
Which do we seek first, the kingdom or our world?
Which do we value and protect most – our mortality or immortality?
Which of the three gospels were the last words spoken by Jesus when he died: “Father, why have you forsaken me.” (Matt 27:46 & Mark 15:34) or “into thy hands I commend my spirit.” (Luke 24:47) or “It is finished.” John 19:30)?
Which would reflect God’s love more – killing everyone in a flood except a family, killing Jesus to demonstrate how much He loves us - killing everyone in the end except 144,000 selected virgin men - or remove the curse of death He put on all of us?
Which would we prefer – to be nourished by dog food or God food?
Which would we prefer – to do or to be?
Which would we prefer to pass on – an infectious smile or an infectious frown?
Which would we prefer, winning the lottery or knowing the Truth that frees?
Which would we prefer – to be the created or be the creator of the created?
Who and what are angels?
Who but the poor seek to gain?
Who but the thirsty would want to drink?
Who controls but he who fears not being in control?
Who designed our mortal costumes – god or us?
Who do we prefer to learn from - an immortal being or mortal?
Who exchanges belief if satisfied with what they have?
Who expects abundant gifts from God while believing they are sinful and unworthy?
Who gave us gifts of lack, want and fear of not getting - God or us?
Who goes shopping unless wanting more, and who wants more other than the deprived?
Who happily throws away what brings them joy?
Who is free who is attached?
Who is God jealous of?
Who is not doing the best they can to get as much as they can while they can?
Who named everything - God or us?
Who needs to go but he who no longer needs to stay?
Who orders food after just eating?
Who seeks something else when satisfied with what they have?
Who wants to leave but those who have had enough and who would stay but those wanting more?
Who would kill one child as a demonstration of their love to the other children?
Who wrote our mortal scripts – God, no one, or us?
Why be concerned about seven deadly sins when we're all going to die anyway?
Why did God lead us into temptation and delivered us to evil?
Why did God only bless some with talents, good health and intelligence?
Why did God withhold giving his children power, knowledge and eternal life?
Why do men have nipples?
Why do mortals need protection and the immortal don't?
Why do we want to be noticed by others?
Why have all the “shalt nots” been replaced with only two: love and love? Did God change His mind?
Why the need for salvation? What about children? Are defective children more cursed by God than normal ones?
Why was Jesus killed by his own people?
Why would a perfect Creator be angry at his Creation?
Why would God create creatures that can only survive by eating other creatures?
Why would God put His children where they could be harmed instead of living peacefully with Him?
Would we kiss what threatens our lives - or kill it?
Would we rather be or do?
Would we rather be right or happy?
Wouldn’t God need lungs to breathe into Adam’s nose?
“Ye are the light of the world.” (Matt 5:14) All of us? Are not some the dark of the world?
What if?
What if all prayers really are answered?
What if angels were not created from dirt – like us?
What if everything happening in this world is going exactly according to plan?
What if God did not make us in His image and likeness?
What if God really did make us in His image and likeness?
What if God’s perfect creations can change and become imperfect?
What if God’s perfect creations can only be in His perfect image and likeness?
What if God’s will is done?
What if God’s will is not done?
What if man really was created from dirt?
What if nothing happening in this world is going according to plan?
What if the love of God assured nothing could change or affect what He created?
What if the love of God couldn’t sentence us all to death?
What if we really are perfect – even as our Father in Heaven?
What if the Bible is not the word of God but the word of man - claiming it was from God?
What if there is no such thing as luck?
What if we never really had “free” choice?