Day: October 22, 2011

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

The Shape of the Soul

A hardened sinner’s soul is as slick, clean, and hard as a billiard ball.  Each sin shrinks it, until its slick, shiny essence finally falls through the cracks.  It lands among the tormenters in the basement. The Loving Programmer has no way to pick up a soul that refuses to be grasped.  He cannot, according […]
Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Another View of Revelation, 18, Concerns the Destruction of Babylon as an Allegory in Which Babylon Represents Each of Us.

Verse 2: “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”   If we, as individuals, let ourselves be ruled by evil, we will fall, our mind having become “the cage of every unclean […]
Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

There are Beings in the Basements of Our Brains

We easily picture three levels of existence. Heaven is the highest level. We, in the teeming midlands of earth, are in the middle. The chaos of Hell is below. Human programs are similarly organized. Our highest levels of thinking are close to God. Our earthly concerns are in the middle. The lowest reaches of our […]